• Another Covid study is disturbing

    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 09:02:12 2023
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 11:30:51 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:22:44 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.
    Base-rate fallacy.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02837-3/fulltext

    "In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in
    highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur
    among vaccinated people. For example, if a population is 99% vaccinated against a hypothetical virus and 51% of infected individuals have been vaccinated, the base-rate fallacy (falsely) implies that the vaccine is ineffective at preventing infection. Of course, if the vaccine was truly ineffective, we would expect about 99% of infected individuals to have
    been vaccinated."

    Wow.... so 7% makes a vaxx effective. Thats a helluva of an argument.

    I'd call that Stephen's definition of effective.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Sun Feb 26 13:22:42 2023
    On 2/26/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    Base-rate fallacy.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02837-3/fulltext

    "In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often
    described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in
    highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur
    among vaccinated people. For example, if a population is 99% vaccinated
    against a hypothetical virus and 51% of infected individuals have been vaccinated, the base-rate fallacy (falsely) implies that the vaccine is ineffective at preventing infection. Of course, if the vaccine was truly ineffective, we would expect about 99% of infected individuals to have
    been vaccinated."

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Sun Feb 26 11:50:57 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 2:31:33 PM UTC-5, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.


    BTW https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html

    and for some reason there is no NYT paywall on this:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/politics/china-lab-leak-coronavirus-pandemic.html

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  • From Trevor Wilson@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 06:31:30 2023
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW

    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.


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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Sun Feb 26 16:58:58 2023
    On 2/26/23 1:30 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:22:44 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.
    Base-rate fallacy.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02837-3/fulltext

    "In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often
    described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in
    highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur
    among vaccinated people. For example, if a population is 99% vaccinated
    against a hypothetical virus and 51% of infected individuals have been
    vaccinated, the base-rate fallacy (falsely) implies that the vaccine is
    ineffective at preventing infection. Of course, if the vaccine was truly
    ineffective, we would expect about 99% of infected individuals to have
    been vaccinated."

    Wow.... so 7% makes a vaxx effective. Thats a helluva of an argument.

    That's not how you measure vaccination effectiveness and you skipped
    over the base rate problem.

    https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween1april2021and31december2022

    "The ASMRs are not equivalent to measures of vaccine effectiveness; they account for differences in age structure and population size, but there
    may be other differences between the groups (particularly underlying
    health) that affect mortality rates."

    ASMR = age-standardised mortality rates

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Sun Feb 26 15:45:20 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 15:47:06 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 2:59:01 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 1:30 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:22:44 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.
    Base-rate fallacy.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02837-3/fulltext

    "In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often
    described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in
    highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur
    among vaccinated people. For example, if a population is 99% vaccinated >> against a hypothetical virus and 51% of infected individuals have been
    vaccinated, the base-rate fallacy (falsely) implies that the vaccine is >> ineffective at preventing infection. Of course, if the vaccine was truly >> ineffective, we would expect about 99% of infected individuals to have
    been vaccinated."

    Wow.... so 7% makes a vaxx effective. Thats a helluva of an argument.
    That's not how you measure vaccination effectiveness and you skipped
    over the base rate problem.

    Just going by your reference. Perhaps you should screen them before linking.

    ScottW

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  • From Trevor Wilson@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 11:12:46 2023
    On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW

    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor
    choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/

    So, the choice was between a man who is clearly too old, or a man who
    cannot tell the truth. Ever.

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better than Trump.
    The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for dumping Trump. Had
    Trump been elected, Putin would have had a much easier job of invading
    Ukraine.

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  • From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 16:53:30 2023
    Clasp your hands and join Brother Shmoo in prayer!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.
    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    There you go again. Everything is about your crack-brain religion.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Sun Feb 26 16:32:25 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor
    choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW

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  • From Trevor Wilson@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 11:55:44 2023
    On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.

    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor
    choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW

    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will
    kick Trump's arse.



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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 26 22:03:40 2023

    So, the choice was between a man who is clearly too old,

    Trump's not too old

    or a man who
    cannot tell the truth. Ever.

    Lying Biden.


    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better than Trump.
    The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for dumping Trump. Had
    Trump been elected, Putin would have had a much easier job of invading Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS
    Let's have a fact check:
    Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat Administration (Obama)
    Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a Republican Administration (Trump) Russia invaded the Ukraine during a Democrat administration (Biden)

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 09:40:34 2023
    On 2/26/23 5:47 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 2:59:01 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 1:30 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:22:44 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.
    Base-rate fallacy.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02837-3/fulltext

    "In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often
    described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in
    highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur
    among vaccinated people. For example, if a population is 99% vaccinated >>>> against a hypothetical virus and 51% of infected individuals have been >>>> vaccinated, the base-rate fallacy (falsely) implies that the vaccine is >>>> ineffective at preventing infection. Of course, if the vaccine was truly >>>> ineffective, we would expect about 99% of infected individuals to have >>>> been vaccinated."

    Wow.... so 7% makes a vaxx effective. Thats a helluva of an argument.
    That's not how you measure vaccination effectiveness and you skipped
    over the base rate problem.

    Just going by your reference. Perhaps you should screen them before linking.

    That would be good advice for "slaynews" as well. From the original
    source, already cited:

    Statistician’s comment

    "Today’s data are not as a measure of vaccine effectiveness as many
    other factors can affect mortality rates."

    It's possible your source didn't make the mistake and that's something
    you brought only by implication. We won't even go into where "7%" comes
    from.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Mon Feb 27 08:50:54 2023
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:55:48 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England. >>>>>
    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor
    choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW
    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will
    kick Trump's arse.

    Perhaps.....he's far more anti-wokism than Trump was.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to Art Sackman on Mon Feb 27 11:21:38 2023
    On 2/27/23 12:03 AM, Art Sackman wrote:

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better than Trump.
    The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for dumping Trump. Had
    Trump been elected, Putin would have had a much easier job of invading
    Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS
    Let's have a fact check:
    Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat Administration (Obama)
    Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a Republican Administration (Trump) Russia invaded the Ukraine during a Democrat administration (Biden)

    Post hoc fallacy.
    More fact check here:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine

    No need to invade if there's a plan to take over by stealth with Trump's
    tacit approval.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 11:16:27 2023
    On 2/26/23 5:47 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 2:59:01 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 1:30 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:22:44 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/26/23 11:02 AM, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England.
    Base-rate fallacy.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02837-3/fulltext

    "In the context of COVID-19 vaccines, the base-rate fallacy is often
    described as the illusion that vaccines are ineffective because, in
    highly vaccinated populations, the majority of COVID-19 cases occur
    among vaccinated people..."

    Wow.... so 7% makes a vaxx effective. Thats a helluva of an argument.
    That's not how you measure vaccination effectiveness and you skipped
    over the base rate problem.

    Just going by your reference. Perhaps you should screen them before linking.

    That would be good advice for "slaynews" as well. From the original
    source, already cited:

    Statistician’s comment

    "Today’s data are not as a measure of vaccine effectiveness as many
    other factors can affect mortality rates."

    It's possible your source didn't make the mistake and that's something
    you brought only by implication. We won't even go into where "7%" comes
    from.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 27 09:45:34 2023
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:21:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 12:03 AM, Art Sackman wrote:

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better than Trump. >> The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for dumping Trump. Had
    Trump been elected, Putin would have had a much easier job of invading
    Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS
    Let's have a fact check:
    Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat Administration (Obama)
    Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a Republican Administration (Trump)
    Russia invaded the Ukraine during a Democrat administration (Biden)
    Post hoc fallacy.
    More fact check here:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine

    No need to invade if there's a plan to take over by stealth with Trump's tacit approval.

    You're so full of shit you manage to disgust me...again.

    From your link
    "Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border."

    A region that Ukraine didn't control then, doesn't control now and hasn't run for years.

    Is that taking over all of Ukraine? Would you even consider a peace deal for creation of an Autonomous Donbas to avoid the worst war the world has seen since WWII?
    GMAFB....your stupidity and disregard for human life is repulsive.

    and then finally, "It’s not clear what became of the effort, if anything."

    You know what became of it? Russia launched a full scale invasion. Hundreds of thousands are dead and untold numbers of the world are on the precipice of starvation if Ukraine ceases to be the food source they were pre-war.

    This is way beyond your petty political hatreds....but you don't care how many die while you sit on your fat ass and lie.

    One thing you can say for sure....Manafort did more to try to avoid this war than Biden did. Too bad no one was listening to him.

    Consider this....the UN, EU, Nato and the US all backed creation of an autonomous Kosovo to end war.
    Is that precedent really all that much different than what Manafort was pushing?

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 13:16:14 2023
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:21:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 12:03 AM, Art Sackman wrote:

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better
    than Trump. The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for
    dumping Trump. Had Trump been elected, Putin would have had a
    much easier job of invading Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS Let's have
    a fact check: Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat
    Administration (Obama) Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a
    Republican Administration (Trump) Russia invaded the Ukraine
    during a Democrat administration (Biden)
    Post hoc fallacy. More fact check here:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine


    No need to invade if there's a plan to take over by stealth with Trump's tacit approval.


    You're so full of shit you manage to disgust me...again.

    From your link "Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of
    Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border."

    A region that Ukraine didn't control then, doesn't control now and
    hasn't run for years.

    Because of Russian interference.

    Is that taking over all of Ukraine?

    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    Context:

    https://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/18088560/ukraine-everything-you-need-to-know

    Would you even consider a peace deal for creation of an Autonomous
    Donbas to avoid the worst war the world has seen since WWII?

    The "Mariupol plan"? Discussed here:

    https://davidwarsh.substack.com/p/the-mariupol-plan-six-years-later

    "It matters because, not for the only time, Trump’s political instincts
    were canny, reflecting the unarticulated preferences of many American
    voters, perhaps a majority, to live in a peaceful, if imperfect world.
    Had Trump been able to do a deal with Putin along the lines of the
    Mariupol plan, many Ukrainian and Russian lives would have been saved.
    Trump almost certainly would have been re-elected, American democracy
    would have been further damaged, perhaps irreparably. Things turned out
    as they should have, at least until Russia invade Ukraine.."

    GMAFB....your stupidity and disregard for human life is repulsive.

    I didn't invade and what you propose would have been appeasement.

    and then finally, "It’s not clear what became of the effort, if
    anything."

    You know what became of it? Russia launched a full scale invasion.
    Hundreds of thousands are dead and untold numbers of the world are
    on the precipice of starvation if Ukraine ceases to be the food
    source they were pre-war.

    Sounds like Russia's fault, not mine.

    This is way beyond your petty political hatreds....but you don't
    care how many die while you sit on your fat ass and lie.

    Says you.

    One thing you can say for sure....Manafort did more to try to avoid
    this war than Biden did. Too bad no one was listening to him.

    Biden was an out-of-office VP, while Manafort was in debt to Ukrainian oligarchs and in constant contact with a Russian intelligence figure
    while running Trump's campaign.

    Consider this....the UN, EU, Nato and the US all backed creation of
    an autonomous Kosovo to end war. Is that precedent really all that
    much different than what Manafort was pushing?

    No one was bribing a candidate for president to enact it.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/manafort-worked-with-russian-ukrainian-on-peace-plan-before----and-long-after----criminal-charges/29714137.html

    https://www.rferl.org/a/manafort-ukraine-kilimnik-court-filing/29698726.html

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  • From Trevor Wilson@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Feb 28 06:53:12 2023
    On 28/02/2023 3:50 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:55:48 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>>>> On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England. >>>>>>>
    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor
    choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW
    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting
    population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will
    kick Trump's arse.

    Perhaps.....he's far more anti-wokism than Trump was.

    ScottW

    **DeSantis has been described as Trump, but with a functioning brain. A dangerous combination indeed. At least Trump is a moron.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 27 15:50:19 2023
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:21:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 12:03 AM, Art Sackman wrote:

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better
    than Trump. The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for
    dumping Trump. Had Trump been elected, Putin would have had a
    much easier job of invading Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS Let's have
    a fact check: Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat
    Administration (Obama) Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a
    Republican Administration (Trump) Russia invaded the Ukraine
    during a Democrat administration (Biden)
    Post hoc fallacy. More fact check here:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine


    No need to invade if there's a plan to take over by stealth with Trump's tacit approval.


    You're so full of shit you manage to disgust me...again.

    From your link "Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of
    Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border."

    A region that Ukraine didn't control then, doesn't control now and
    hasn't run for years.
    Because of Russian interference.

    Yup, not a great situation but it is what it is.
    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed but still some civilians
    remain. The Ukraine soldier said some are just too old and poor to leave and others are waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with disgust but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic Russians in Ukraine who
    want to be part of Russia.

    Is that taking over all of Ukraine?
    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    Which is why there is war. I fully blame Russia for resorting to war....
    but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some kind of agreement to avoid war
    because you hate Trump is f'in nuts. It's sick and you're deranged.
    And as you point out...the wasn't the only one.

    ScottW

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Mon Feb 27 15:53:06 2023
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:53:14 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 3:50 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:55:48 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England. >>>>>>>
    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor >>>> choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW
    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting
    population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will
    kick Trump's arse.

    Perhaps.....he's far more anti-wokism than Trump was.

    ScottW
    **DeSantis has been described as Trump, but with a functioning brain. A dangerous combination indeed. At least Trump is a moron.

    Trumps policies were widely supported. His mouth and tweets...not so much.

    You're the moron for not being able to see between them.

    ScottW

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  • From Trevor Wilson@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Feb 28 11:07:53 2023
    On 28/02/2023 10:53 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:53:14 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 3:50 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:55:48 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>>>> On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England. >>>>>>>>>
    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted.

    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor >>>>>> choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW
    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting
    population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will
    kick Trump's arse.

    Perhaps.....he's far more anti-wokism than Trump was.

    ScottW
    **DeSantis has been described as Trump, but with a functioning brain. A
    dangerous combination indeed. At least Trump is a moron.

    Trumps policies were widely supported.

    **Obviously, not widely enough.

    His mouth and tweets...not so much.

    **His lies seemed to go down well with a large number of American morons.


    You're the moron for not being able to see between them.

    Between what?


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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Mon Feb 27 16:18:17 2023
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:07:56 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 10:53 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:53:14 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 3:50 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:55:48 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England. >>>>>>>>>
    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted. >>>>>>>
    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor >>>>>> choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS.

    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW
    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting >>>> population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will >>>> kick Trump's arse.

    Perhaps.....he's far more anti-wokism than Trump was.

    ScottW
    **DeSantis has been described as Trump, but with a functioning brain. A >> dangerous combination indeed. At least Trump is a moron.

    Trumps policies were widely supported.
    **Obviously, not widely enough.
    His mouth and tweets...not so much.
    **His lies seemed to go down well with a large number of American morons.

    Most people can tell the difference between talking shit
    and actual policy action and the results thereof.

    For example, compare the state of the border with Biden in office
    to Trump. There is actually no comparison. In fact, Biden just
    announced he was reimplementing Trump policy to bring the border back under control.

    So you get all spun up about Trumps shit talking and the rest of us will consider more important things.


    You're the moron for not being able to see between them.
    Between what?

    I rest my case....you are dumb as dirt. Go back to sleep.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 18:43:33 2023
    On 2/27/23 5:50 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:21:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 12:03 AM, Art Sackman wrote:

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better
    than Trump. The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for
    dumping Trump. Had Trump been elected, Putin would have had a
    much easier job of invading Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS Let's have
    a fact check: Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat
    Administration (Obama) Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a
    Republican Administration (Trump) Russia invaded the Ukraine
    during a Democrat administration (Biden)
    Post hoc fallacy. More fact check here:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine

    No need to invade if there's a plan to take over by stealth with Trump's tacit approval.


    You're so full of shit you manage to disgust me...again.

    From your link "Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed
    “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of
    Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border."

    A region that Ukraine didn't control then, doesn't control now and
    hasn't run for years.
    Because of Russian interference.

    Yup, not a great situation but it is what it is.
    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed but still some civilians
    remain. The Ukraine soldier said some are just too old and poor to leave and others are waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with disgust but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic Russians in Ukraine who want to be part of Russia.

    Not enough to justify an invasion. The ethnicity of the Russian state
    isn't so clear cut as all that either:

    https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-russian-people-and-national-identity/

    Is that taking over all of Ukraine?
    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    Which is why there is war. I fully blame Russia for resorting to war....
    but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some kind of agreement to avoid war
    because you hate Trump is f'in nuts. It's sick and you're deranged.
    And as you point out...the wasn't the only one.

    Manafort was not on a mission of peace, unless you think selling out
    Ukraine to the Russians is an acceptable alternative. If that's the
    game, the Russians dropped the ball by refusing to honor earlier
    agreements which led to Ukraine giving up its nukes, an example no sane
    country is likely to follow now.

    For an example of leadership in service of preventing war, read the
    Politico oral history:

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-oral-history-00083757

    "As [President Biden] said multiple times, this is bigger than even
    Ukraine itself and the Ukrainian people. It goes to the very principles
    that are at the heart of trying to keep peace and security around the
    world — the notion that one country can’t simply invade another, that
    one big country can’t bully its neighbor, that one country can’t try to erase another off the map. Those principles have been so important since
    World War II to try to prevent another major conflagration. If we allow
    them to be violated with impunity, then we open a Pandora’s Box to
    would-be aggressors around the world."

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to As if I on Mon Feb 27 18:10:10 2023
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:43:37 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 5:50 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 9:21:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 12:03 AM, Art Sackman wrote:

    You guys made your choice and Biden is doing OK. MUCH better
    than Trump. The Ukrainians can thank the US voting public for
    dumping Trump. Had Trump been elected, Putin would have had a
    much easier job of invading Ukraine.

    He might not have invaded Ukraine with Trump as POTUS Let's have
    a fact check: Putin invaded Crimea during a Democrat
    Administration (Obama) Putin did not invade the Ukraine during a
    Republican Administration (Trump) Russia invaded the Ukraine
    during a Democrat administration (Biden)
    Post hoc fallacy. More fact check here:

    https://www.propublica.org/article/lets-recall-what-exactly-paul-manafort-and-rudy-giuliani-were-doing-in-ukraine

    No need to invade if there's a plan to take over by stealth with Trump's tacit approval.


    You're so full of shit you manage to disgust me...again.

    From your link "Manafort and Kilimnik worked together on a proposed
    “plan” for Ukraine that would create an Autonomous Republic of
    Donbas in separatist-run southeast Ukraine, on the Russian border."

    A region that Ukraine didn't control then, doesn't control now and
    hasn't run for years.
    Because of Russian interference.

    Yup, not a great situation but it is what it is.
    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed but still some civilians
    remain. The Ukraine soldier said some are just too old and poor to leave and
    others are waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with disgust
    but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic Russians in Ukraine who want to be part of Russia.
    Not enough to justify an invasion.

    As if I said it was.

    The ethnicity of the Russian state
    isn't so clear cut as all that either:

    Really? OMG....then again our ethnicity isn't so clear cut anymore now is it?

    https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-russian-people-and-national-identity/
    Is that taking over all of Ukraine?
    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    Which is why there is war. I fully blame Russia for resorting to war.... but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some kind of agreement to avoid war
    because you hate Trump is f'in nuts. It's sick and you're deranged.
    And as you point out...the wasn't the only one.
    Manafort was not on a mission of peace,

    Prove it.

    unless you think selling out
    Ukraine to the Russians is an acceptable alternative.

    Obama sold 'em out. I don't see the difference.

    If that's the
    game, the Russians dropped the ball by refusing to honor earlier
    agreements which led to Ukraine giving up its nukes, an example no sane country is likely to follow now.

    IIRC, we also made agreements to don't seem to be honored.



    For an example of leadership in service of preventing war, read the
    Politico oral history:

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-oral-history-00083757

    "As [President Biden] said multiple times, this is bigger than even
    Ukraine itself and the Ukrainian people. It goes to the very principles
    that are at the heart of trying to keep peace and security around the
    world — the notion that one country can’t simply invade another, that one big country can’t bully its neighbor, that one country can’t try to erase another off the map. Those principles have been so important since World War II to try to prevent another major conflagration. If we allow
    them to be violated with impunity, then we open a Pandora’s Box to would-be aggressors around the world."

    And this is "in service of preventing war"? I'm going to call that a big fat fail.
    Seriously stupid assertion....

    ScottW

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  • From Trevor Wilson@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Feb 28 14:11:01 2023
    On 28/02/2023 11:18 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:07:56 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 10:53 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:53:14 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>> On 28/02/2023 3:50 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:55:48 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote: >>>>>> On 27/02/2023 11:32 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 10:45 am, ScottW wrote:
    On Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 11:31:33 AM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 27/02/2023 4:02 am, ScottW wrote:
    https://slaynews.com/news/covid-deaths-fully-vaccinated-government-study-finds/

    92% of covid deaths were fully vaxxed people last year in England. >>>>>>>>>>>
    ScottW
    **Your failure to understand logic and reason is duly noted. >>>>>>>>>
    Trevor awakes from his slumber (or stupor)!

    Check out your countries newscast video I posted. Ol' Joe has them in tears.

    ScottW
    **Sky News? Yeah, sure. They're so impartial.

    NOT!

    Look, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Joe Biden was a poor >>>>>>>> choice for POTUS. Trump was/is an UNTHINKABLE choice for POTUS. >>>>>>>
    I'm going to defer to your expertise in "unthink".

    Right now...unthinkable is leading in the polls.

    ScottW
    **That merely tells me just how moronic the majority of the US voting >>>>>> population is. Assuming you are not lying. In any case, DeSantis will >>>>>> kick Trump's arse.

    Perhaps.....he's far more anti-wokism than Trump was.

    ScottW
    **DeSantis has been described as Trump, but with a functioning brain. A >>>> dangerous combination indeed. At least Trump is a moron.

    Trumps policies were widely supported.
    **Obviously, not widely enough.
    His mouth and tweets...not so much.
    **His lies seemed to go down well with a large number of American morons.

    Most people can tell the difference between talking shit
    and actual policy action and the results thereof.

    **Trump managed to talk shit (which most of his moronic supporters
    believed) and actually do VERY poor public policy.


    For example, compare the state of the border with Biden in office
    to Trump. There is actually no comparison. In fact, Biden just
    announced he was reimplementing Trump policy to bring the border back under control.

    **Trump was responsible for some of the worst policy in US history.


    So you get all spun up about Trumps shit talking and the rest of us will consider more important things.


    **Trump was responsible for some of the worst policy in US history.



    You're the moron for not being able to see between them.
    Between what?

    I rest my case....you are dumb as dirt. Go back to sleep.

    **Trump talked shit and enacted bad policy. AND he promoted racism and division. He was the worst POTUS in history.

    Well, almost the worst:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/presidents-ranked-worst-best/4/


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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to Trevor Wilson on Mon Feb 27 21:29:44 2023
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 7:11:05 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 11:18 am, ScottW wrote:


    Most people can tell the difference between talking shit
    and actual policy action and the results thereof.
    **Trump managed to talk shit (which most of his moronic supporters
    believed) and actually do VERY poor public policy.

    Yet you can't name it.
    Taxes down
    Unemployment down
    Wages Up
    Isis caliphate eradicated
    Nato defense commitments up
    North Korea quit testing
    No Russian invasions or annexations (unlike Obama or Biden)
    Illegal Immigration dramatically reduced
    And all the covid crap you complained about are now proven futile and harmful.

    So What have you got Trevor?

    So far...**
    Which to me means nothing. Even your stupid survey has nothing specific.

    ScottW

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 22:49:56 2023
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 12:29:46 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 7:11:05 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 11:18 am, ScottW wrote:


    Most people can tell the difference between talking shit
    and actual policy action and the results thereof.
    **Trump managed to talk shit (which most of his moronic supporters believed) and actually do VERY poor public policy.
    Yet you can't name it.
    Taxes down
    Unemployment down
    Wages Up
    Isis caliphate eradicated
    Nato defense commitments up
    North Korea quit testing
    No Russian invasions or annexations (unlike Obama or Biden)
    Illegal Immigration dramatically reduced
    And all the covid crap you complained about are now proven futile and harmful.

    So What have you got Trevor?

    So far...**
    Which to me means nothing. Even your stupid survey has nothing specific.

    ScottW

    You forgot number one, the most important Trump accomplishment,
    He kept Hillary out of the White House.

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to ScottW on Mon Feb 27 22:51:50 2023
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 12:29:46 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 7:11:05 PM UTC-8, Trevor Wilson wrote:
    On 28/02/2023 11:18 am, ScottW wrote:


    Most people can tell the difference between talking shit
    and actual policy action and the results thereof.
    **Trump managed to talk shit (which most of his moronic supporters believed) and actually do VERY poor public policy.
    Yet you can't name it.
    Taxes down
    Unemployment down
    Wages Up
    Isis caliphate eradicated
    Nato defense commitments up
    North Korea quit testing
    No Russian invasions or annexations (unlike Obama or Biden)
    Illegal Immigration dramatically reduced
    And all the covid crap you complained about are now proven futile and harmful.

    So What have you got Trevor?

    So far...**
    Which to me means nothing. Even your stupid survey has nothing specific.

    ScottW


    And also three very good Supreme Court judges and lots of great lesser Federal judges.
    And served Big Macs in the White House.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Feb 28 10:29:38 2023
    On 2/27/23 8:10 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:43:37 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 5:50 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:

    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed but still some civilians
    remain. The Ukraine soldier said some are just too old and poor to leave and
    others are waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with disgust
    but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic Russians in Ukraine who >>> want to be part of Russia.
    Not enough to justify an invasion.

    As if I said it was.

    It leads to Putin's justification Ukraine isn't a separate country
    because there are Russian speakers in it.

    The ethnicity of the Russian state
    isn't so clear cut as all that either:

    Really? OMG....then again our ethnicity isn't so clear cut anymore now is it?

    Anymore? When was the US an ethnic state?

    https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-russian-people-and-national-identity/
    Is that taking over all of Ukraine?
    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    Which is why there is war. I fully blame Russia for resorting to war.... >>> but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some kind of agreement to avoid war
    because you hate Trump is f'in nuts. It's sick and you're deranged.
    And as you point out...the wasn't the only one.
    Manafort was not on a mission of peace,

    Prove it.

    It's in the Mueller Report.

    https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/

    tl/dr: motivated by money, not peace

    "By that point, there was no longer any question over the party’s
    allegiance to Moscow. Yanukovych and his closest allies had fled to
    Russia as the uprising against them intensified, and President Putin
    guaranteed their security even as he moved to punish Ukraine’s new
    leaders for turning their backs on the Kremlin. In the spring of 2014,
    Russia sent troops to occupy and annex Ukraine’s Crimea region. It also
    sent weapons and fighters to spark a separatist rebellion in Donetsk and
    other parts of eastern Ukraine, fueling a conflict that killed thousands
    of people between 2014 and 2016.

    Throughout this period, Manafort continued to get regular updates on the
    crisis from his close associate in Kiev, Konstantin Kilimnik, a dapper
    and eloquent English-speaker who studied at a Russian military
    institute. In an interview with Radio Free Europe in February, Kilimnik
    said that Manafort was open to returning to Ukraine “if there is a
    serious project that is pro-Ukrainian and can bring peace to this country.”"

    Yes, that's what Kilimnik says. He's not disinterested.

    unless you think selling out
    Ukraine to the Russians is an acceptable alternative.

    Obama sold 'em out. I don't see the difference.

    Obama was forced to accept what happened. Trump planned to do it.

    If that's the
    game, the Russians dropped the ball by refusing to honor earlier
    agreements which led to Ukraine giving up its nukes, an example no sane
    country is likely to follow now.

    IIRC, we also made agreements to don't seem to be honored.

    Tankie talk! Yes, departing the JCPOA was a disaster for protecting our interests.

    For an example of leadership in service of preventing war, read the
    Politico oral history:

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-oral-history-00083757

    "As [President Biden] said multiple times, this is bigger than even
    Ukraine itself and the Ukrainian people. It goes to the very principles
    that are at the heart of trying to keep peace and security around the
    world — the notion that one country can’t simply invade another, that
    one big country can’t bully its neighbor, that one country can’t try to >> erase another off the map. Those principles have been so important since
    World War II to try to prevent another major conflagration. If we allow
    them to be violated with impunity, then we open a Pandora’s Box to
    would-be aggressors around the world."

    And this is "in service of preventing war"? I'm going to call that a big fat fail.
    Seriously stupid assertion....

    Biden's strategy prevented Russia from justifying the invasion with lies
    and unified the European response that Putin counted on dividing.

    See how the "quote what I want you see" works? There's a ton of stuff in
    the article that shows how short-sighted your "preventing war" post hoc nonsense is in blaming Biden for Putin's decision.

    National security advisor Jake Sullivan: "I was determined to ensure
    that we had done everything we possibly could think up to first try to
    head this off, and if we couldn’t put it off, put ourselves the Western
    world and Ukraine in the best possible position to deal with it, and to
    put Russia in the worst possible position to succeed."

    I guess ceding Donbas outright was off the table for Biden but not for
    Trump.

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 28 09:09:54 2023
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 8:29:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 8:10 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:43:37 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 5:50 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:

    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed but still some civilians
    remain. The Ukraine soldier said some are just too old and poor to leave and
    others are waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with disgust
    but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic Russians in Ukraine who
    want to be part of Russia.
    Not enough to justify an invasion.

    As if I said it was.
    It leads to Putin's justification Ukraine isn't a separate country
    because there are Russian speakers in it.

    Stop giving credence to Putin.

    The ethnicity of the Russian state
    isn't so clear cut as all that either:

    Really? OMG....then again our ethnicity isn't so clear cut anymore now is it?
    Anymore? When was the US an ethnic state?

    What exactly is "an ethnic state"?
    A single ethnicity? Multiple ethnicities?
    In any case....we're on track to no majority ethnicity and no common language.


    https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-russian-people-and-national-identity/
    Is that taking over all of Ukraine?
    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    Which is why there is war. I fully blame Russia for resorting to war.... >>> but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some kind of agreement to avoid war
    because you hate Trump is f'in nuts. It's sick and you're deranged.
    And as you point out...the wasn't the only one.
    Manafort was not on a mission of peace,

    Prove it.
    It's in the Mueller Report.

    https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/

    tl/dr: motivated by money, not peace

    Is your piano teaching solely motivated by money?


    "By that point, there was no longer any question over the party’s allegiance to Moscow. Yanukovych and his closest allies had fled to
    Russia as the uprising against them intensified, and President Putin guaranteed their security even as he moved to punish Ukraine’s new
    leaders for turning their backs on the Kremlin. In the spring of 2014, Russia sent troops to occupy and annex Ukraine’s Crimea region. It also sent weapons and fighters to spark a separatist rebellion in Donetsk and other parts of eastern Ukraine, fueling a conflict that killed thousands
    of people between 2014 and 2016.

    Throughout this period, Manafort continued to get regular updates on the crisis from his close associate in Kiev, Konstantin Kilimnik, a dapper
    and eloquent English-speaker who studied at a Russian military
    institute. In an interview with Radio Free Europe in February, Kilimnik
    said that Manafort was open to returning to Ukraine “if there is a
    serious project that is pro-Ukrainian and can bring peace to this country.”"

    Yes, that's what Kilimnik says. He's not disinterested.

    Sounds like money wasn't Manafort's sole interest...

    Once again, you're all over the map. You make an accusation.
    Then quote something that doesn't support your allegations while
    strutting as if it does.

    The rest of this is pure BS. If you think the US and Nato is behind Ukraine driving Russia out of Crimea and liberating all of Donbass while refusing
    air power, long range weapons and any strikes on Russia directly....
    you're an idiot.

    ScottW

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Feb 28 11:48:24 2023
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 12:09:55 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 8:29:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:




    The rest of this is pure BS. If you think the US and Nato is behind Ukraine driving Russia out of Crimea and liberating all of Donbass while refusing air power, long range weapons and any strikes on Russia directly....
    you're an idiot.

    ScottW

    True enough, but to put things in perspective, that's only in
    54th place on Steve's list of idiocies.

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Tue Feb 28 14:20:35 2023
    On 2/28/23 11:09 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 8:29:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 8:10 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:43:37 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 5:50 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109
    wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:

    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed
    but still some civilians remain. The Ukraine soldier said
    some are just too old and poor to leave and others are
    waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with
    disgust but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic
    Russians in Ukraine who want to be part of Russia.
    Not enough to justify an invasion.

    As if I said it was.
    It leads to Putin's justification Ukraine isn't a separate country
    because there are Russian speakers in it.

    Stop giving credence to Putin.

    Recognizing his tactics isn't "giving credence to Putin."

    The ethnicity of the Russian state isn't so clear cut as all
    that either:

    Really? OMG....then again our ethnicity isn't so clear cut
    anymore now is it?
    Anymore? When was the US an ethnic state?

    What exactly is "an ethnic state"?

    One defined by the ethnicity of its population. You'll remember from my
    recent cite the distinction between a Russian state and a Russian ethnicity.

    A single ethnicity? Multiple ethnicities? In any case....we're on
    track to no majority ethnicity and no common language.

    English will predominate for the foreseeable future.

    https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-russian-people-and-national-identity/

    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report

    but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some
    kind of agreement to avoid war because you hate Trump is f'in
    nuts. It's sick and you're deranged. And as you point
    out...the wasn't the only one.
    Manafort was not on a mission of peace,

    Prove it.
    It's in the Mueller Report.

    https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/


    tl/dr: motivated by money, not peace

    Is your piano teaching solely motivated by money?

    No, predominantly by the wish for world peace.

    "By that point, there was no longer any question over the party’s
    allegiance to Moscow. Yanukovych and his closest allies had fled
    to Russia as the uprising against them intensified, and President
    Putin guaranteed their security even as he moved to punish
    Ukraine’s new leaders for turning their backs on the Kremlin. In
    the spring of 2014, Russia sent troops to occupy and annex
    Ukraine’s Crimea region. It also sent weapons and fighters to spark
    a separatist rebellion in Donetsk and other parts of eastern
    Ukraine, fueling a conflict that killed thousands of people between
    2014 and 2016.

    Throughout this period, Manafort continued to get regular updates
    on the crisis from his close associate in Kiev, Konstantin
    Kilimnik, a dapper and eloquent English-speaker who studied at a
    Russian military institute. In an interview with Radio Free Europe
    in February, Kilimnik said that Manafort was open to returning to
    Ukraine “if there is a serious project that is pro-Ukrainian and
    can bring peace to this country.”"

    Yes, that's what Kilimnik says. He's not disinterested.

    Sounds like money wasn't Manafort's sole interest...

    Power, lifestyle, desire not to be killed by oligarchs.

    Once again, you're all over the map. You make an accusation. Then
    quote something that doesn't support your allegations while strutting
    as if it does.

    That map being Eastern Europe. Manafort was working behind the scenes to
    help Russia gain control over Ukraine or portions thereof. Also, I don't pretend there's no contrary information or argue as if it doesn't exist
    while hiding it.

    More Mueller, quoted in Slate:

    Several months later, after the presidential election, Kilimnik wrote an
    email to Manafort expressing the view—which Manafort later said he shared—that the plan’s success would require U.S. support to succeed: “all that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from [Donald Trump].” The email also stated that if
    Manafort were designated as the U.S. representative and started the
    process, Yanukovych would ensure his reception in Russia “at the very
    top level.”

    The rest of this is pure BS.

    Considering the article is dated October, 2017, it's doing okay. Here's something more up to date:

    https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-prepared-two-puppet-leaderships-163500462.html

    Sourced from Ukrainian Pravda.

    If you think the US and Nato is behind Ukraine driving Russia out of
    Crimea and liberating all of Donbass while refusing air power, long
    range weapons and any strikes on Russia directly.... you're an
    idiot.

    That stuff is covered in the Politico article, too. Do you propose a
    direct attack on Russia supported by NATO and the US?

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  • From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 28 16:55:31 2023
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 12:20:39 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/28/23 11:09 AM, ScottW wrote:
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 8:29:40 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 8:10 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 4:43:37 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:
    On 2/27/23 5:50 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Monday, February 27, 2023 at 11:16:18 AM UTC-8, mINE109
    wrote:
    On 2/27/23 11:45 AM, ScottW wrote:

    I was watching a video of Ukraine fighters in a small town
    that is under attack by Russian forces. The town is destroyed
    but still some civilians remain. The Ukraine soldier said
    some are just too old and poor to leave and others are
    waiting hopefully for the Russians. He said the last with
    disgust but it does show that there are pockets of ethnic
    Russians in Ukraine who want to be part of Russia.
    Not enough to justify an invasion.

    As if I said it was.
    It leads to Putin's justification Ukraine isn't a separate country
    because there are Russian speakers in it.

    Stop giving credence to Putin.
    Recognizing his tactics isn't "giving credence to Putin."
    The ethnicity of the Russian state isn't so clear cut as all
    that either:

    Really? OMG....then again our ethnicity isn't so clear cut
    anymore now is it?
    Anymore? When was the US an ethnic state?

    What exactly is "an ethnic state"?
    One defined by the ethnicity of its population. You'll remember from my recent cite the distinction between a Russian state and a Russian ethnicity.
    A single ethnicity? Multiple ethnicities? In any case....we're on
    track to no majority ethnicity and no common language.
    English will predominate for the foreseeable future.

    https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-russian-people-and-national-identity/
    It would be like this:

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-internal-strategy-document-details-kremlins-plans-take-control-belarus-report
    but to denigrate Manafort for trying to come up with some
    kind of agreement to avoid war because you hate Trump is f'in
    nuts. It's sick and you're deranged. And as you point
    out...the wasn't the only one.
    Manafort was not on a mission of peace,

    Prove it.
    It's in the Mueller Report.

    https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ >>

    tl/dr: motivated by money, not peace

    Is your piano teaching solely motivated by money?
    No, predominantly by the wish for world peace.
    "By that point, there was no longer any question over the party’s
    allegiance to Moscow. Yanukovych and his closest allies had fled
    to Russia as the uprising against them intensified, and President
    Putin guaranteed their security even as he moved to punish
    Ukraine’s new leaders for turning their backs on the Kremlin. In
    the spring of 2014, Russia sent troops to occupy and annex
    Ukraine’s Crimea region. It also sent weapons and fighters to spark
    a separatist rebellion in Donetsk and other parts of eastern
    Ukraine, fueling a conflict that killed thousands of people between
    2014 and 2016.

    Throughout this period, Manafort continued to get regular updates
    on the crisis from his close associate in Kiev, Konstantin
    Kilimnik, a dapper and eloquent English-speaker who studied at a
    Russian military institute. In an interview with Radio Free Europe
    in February, Kilimnik said that Manafort was open to returning to
    Ukraine “if there is a serious project that is pro-Ukrainian and
    can bring peace to this country.”"

    Yes, that's what Kilimnik says. He's not disinterested.

    Sounds like money wasn't Manafort's sole interest...
    Power, lifestyle, desire not to be killed by oligarchs.
    Once again, you're all over the map. You make an accusation. Then
    quote something that doesn't support your allegations while strutting
    as if it does.
    That map being Eastern Europe. Manafort was working behind the scenes to help Russia gain control over Ukraine or portions thereof. Also, I don't pretend there's no contrary information or argue as if it doesn't exist while hiding it.

    More Mueller, quoted in Slate:

    Several months later, after the presidential election, Kilimnik wrote an email to Manafort expressing the view—which Manafort later said he shared—that the plan’s success would require U.S. support to succeed: “all that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from [Donald Trump].” The email also stated that if
    Manafort were designated as the U.S. representative and started the
    process, Yanukovych would ensure his reception in Russia “at the very
    top level.”
    The rest of this is pure BS.
    Considering the article is dated October, 2017, it's doing okay. Here's something more up to date:

    https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-prepared-two-puppet-leaderships-163500462.html

    I'm supposed to read this? F'in hypocrit.

    Sourced from Ukrainian Pravda.
    If you think the US and Nato is behind Ukraine driving Russia out of Crimea and liberating all of Donbass while refusing air power, long
    range weapons and any strikes on Russia directly.... you're an
    idiot.
    That stuff is covered in the Politico article, too. Do you propose a
    direct attack on Russia supported by NATO and the US?

    No, I don't. And I'm not stupid enough to think that US policy is to restore all of Donbas
    and Crimea to Ukraine control. You do that and I can almost guarantee there will be no export
    of grain from Ukraine through the Black Sea for a very very long time without direct Nato
    involvement.

    Sometimes doing the right thing is usurped by the harsh reality of the consequences.

    ScottW

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  • From mINE109@21:1/5 to ScottW on Wed Mar 1 07:16:17 2023
    On 2/28/23 6:55 PM, ScottW wrote:
    On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 12:20:39 PM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:

    Considering the article is dated October, 2017, it's doing okay. Here's
    something more up to date:

    https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-prepared-two-puppet-leaderships-163500462.html

    I'm supposed to read this? F'in hypocrit.

    The URL, along with my description of the source, has the info I wanted
    you to see.

    Sourced from Ukrainian Pravda.
    If you think the US and Nato is behind Ukraine driving Russia out of
    Crimea and liberating all of Donbass while refusing air power, long
    range weapons and any strikes on Russia directly.... you're an
    idiot.
    That stuff is covered in the Politico article, too. Do you propose a
    direct attack on Russia supported by NATO and the US?

    No, I don't. And I'm not stupid enough to think that US policy is to restore all of Donbas
    and Crimea to Ukraine control. You do that and I can almost guarantee there will be no export
    of grain from Ukraine through the Black Sea for a very very long time without direct Nato
    involvement.

    Sometimes doing the right thing is usurped by the harsh reality of the consequences.

    Here's an alternative view:

    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/22/ukraine-crimea-russia-putin-red-line-00083857

    "Rather than viewing the peninsula as a Russian appendage, an increasing
    number of experts and policymakers have begun arguing that restoring
    Ukrainian control of Crimea may be the key ingredient for any lasting
    peace — and that, increasingly, only Ukrainian sovereignty over the
    region will guarantee stability not only in Ukraine, but in Europe overall."

    Not a "consensus" but "views have clearly begun to shift, especially
    among the expert community, which increasingly views Ukrainian efforts
    to retake Crimea as both feasible and necessary."

    Maybe too optimistic, but the conventional wisdom of a Russian Crimea
    forever is being challenged.

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