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[Russ16]

The founders wrote the constitution as a limit on government, they didn't believe your rights came from the government, they believed those rights existed outside of any government.

Correct. The bill of rights was intended to codify the rights that exist for all humans. Everyone in the world has the right to free speech, bear arms, etc. what makes America great is our ruling document outlines their rights and attempts to raise that the government does infringe upon them. Others are not so lucky.

 

[Brent in Az]

The founders wrote the constitution as a limit on government, they didn't believe your rights came from the government, they believed those rights existed outside of any government.

I am well aware of the constitution and bill of rights, even if many politician's, AG's, continually try and trample on them.
All people in this country are afforded equal protection under the law, regardless of status.
The exception to this are those illegal aliens caugh immediately at the border. If you take a deep dive into it, you will see what I mean.

 

[YancyW]

I am well aware of the constitution and bill of rights, even if many politician's, AG's, continually try and trample on them.
All people in this country are afforded equal protection under the law, regardless of status.
The exception to this are those illegal aliens caugh immediately at the border. If you take a deep dive into it, you will see what I mean.

I know exactly what you mean.

 

[mutedblade]

In fairness, had you moved that many times among civilian geographic regions and networks, you would have had very much the same experiences. Because of liabilities, no doctor ever fully trusts the findings of another. All will want there own testing and few pay much attention to previous medical records except for very specialized treatment requirements.

3 moves and my wife has had 3 doctors to my 10+ for primary care givers. Her treatments did not change one bit either. Don't for a second expect me to believe that if I went to a civilian Neurologist that I would have seen 43 different ones in 11 years at the same facility. Every time I go to the VA neurology department, I see a different resident that is not actually a neurologist. I finally had to get others involved so that I would have a little bit of continuity in care. It's shameful that it takes political pressure to get the VA to do it's job. I'd take Tricare over this nonsense every single time.

 

[Red Leg]

3 moves and my wife has had 3 doctors to my 10+ for primary care givers. Her treatments did not change one bit either. Don't for a second expect me to believe that if I went to a civilian Neurologist that I would have seen 43 different ones in 11 years at the same facility. Every time I go to the VA neurology department, I see a different resident that is not actually a neurologist. I finally had to get others involved so that I would have a little bit of continuity in care. It's shameful that it takes political pressure to get the VA to do it's job. I'd take Tricare over this nonsense every single time.

I actually am not arguing with you. I have no use for the VA. We are Medicare and Tricare for Life and would not trade it for anything. However, when we moved here from Virginia, from a medical perspective, it was like moving to a different planet. None of our new doctors were particularly interested in medical records. But yes, now with Medicare and Tricare we do not even require referrals.

 

[flatwater bill]

Now that the onion is being peeled further, we can see how USAID saved the NATO war machine. The National Security Archives, held at Geo Wash Univ, are also opening further. The nefarious arm of the CIA (via USAID's Regime change dept) funded NGO's that feverishly worked in Ukraine to initiate a Russian attack. It took years. Read it for yourself.....I especially like the conversations about choosing the puppet govt for Ukraine. Can you imagine a democracy where the CIA chooses your politicians? And this was BEFORE the so called "Revolution of Dignity". Which was essentially a CIA initiated coup.
Now, the 47 times that the US State Dept uses the words "unprovoked", "Premeditated", and "full scale".....the usual propaganda words, rings hollow. Ask yourself, did you fall for it? Did you repeat it here? Did you believe that Putin woke up one morning, had bacon and eggs, and said, "F'k it, I'm gonna invade Ukraine"? And did the MNM EVER lie to you? Did the CIA ever initiate a coup or a war? Much of the World will be on the wrong side of history in this one. And more proof is on the way
"The best way to bring folks together, is to give 'em a REALLY good enemy".....The Wizard of Oz in the movie, Wicked..............FWB

 

[John Wasmuth]

I actually am not arguing with you. I have no use for the VA. We are Medicare and Tricare for Life and would not trade it for anything. However, when we moved here from Virginia, from a medical perspective, it was like moving to a different planet. None of our new doctors were particularly interested in medical records. But yes, now with Medicare and Tricare we do not even require referrals.

One thing I was told by the VA was to make sure I signed up for Medicare as soon as eligible due to the fact that on any given day congress can yank funding from the VA.

 

[Dragan N.]

One of the reasons the US has enormous leverage should it have the sense to use it against Putin in the pending negotiations is the scale of Russian casualties. Interesting article on the facility where they are processing the hundreds a day that aren't left to rot. I highly recommend the imbedded videos.

Geolocated: Processing 1000 dead a day.

WhereIsRussiaToday lifts the lid on Russia's casualty logistics disaster.

whereisrussiatoday.substack.com

We have Zelensky who claims that 200,000 Russian soldeiers have been killed. We have DeepStateUA which claims that 850,000 Russian soldiers have been "eliminated". Eliminated, to me, would imply killed. Then we have Western propagandists who take these numbers at face value and parrot them.

The article you posted claims that Russia has suffered over 850,000 casualties (killed and wounded) and that Russia has about 500,000 troops in Ukraine. If this were true you would expect the Russian army to be facing a critical manpower shortage. Yet it isn't.

The Ukrainian military on the other hand is facing a critical manpower shortage especially among its infantry units. Its so bad that specialties from the air force, air defense units, artillery etc... are being sent to infantry units.

Transfer of Ukrainian Air Force personnel to infantry continues despite scandal

The Ukrainian military command's plan to throw high-skilled Air Force personnel into the infantry was said to be halted when the practice gained nationwide attention, followed by a condemnation from President Volodymyr Zelensky. Soldiers, who spoke to the Kyiv Independent on conditions of...

kyivindependent.com

Lacking manpower, Ukraine resorts to harsh means to force draft dodgers into combat

A U.S. official said Ukraine should consider dropping the age of military conscription from 25 to 18. It's a stark acknowledgment that Ukraine doesn't have enough troops to fight the seemingly endless volume of Russian soldiers, especially now that they're being bolstered by North Korean troops...

www.pbs.org

‘Everybody is tired. The mood has changed’: the Ukrainian army’s desertion crisis

Some of those abandoning the frontline say the longer the war goes on, ‘the more people like me there will be’

www.theguardian.com

Yet the Green T-shirt tells us that the Ukrainian army has only suffered 40,000 KIA and that Ukraine has over 900,000 soldiers in its army. So why is Ukraine facing a severe manpower shortage then? Something here smells awfully fishy....

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Something here smells awfully fishy....

Maybe it's those North Korean troops?

 

[Dragan N.]

No, It would have been preventing it. I have gone through this a dozen times already in this interminable nonsense and will not again.

Simply, the vast majority of the military support we have provided has been in kind. No dollars exchanged hands. We have hundreds of Bradley IFVs and M1 tanks moldering in desert storage. They will never ever be used by US troops again. When we made the decision to provide Ukraine with thirty tanks and 80 Brads, we could just as easily provided 300 tanks and 800 Brads. When we gave Ukraine 6 HIMARS launchers, we could have provided them with sixty. We could have started training their pilots for F-16's over two years ago. We did none of those things because the feckless Biden response was led by a national security advisor whose only real expertise was election law. In spite of that, the Ukrainians have fought the Russians to near collapse almost achieving what is in our critical national interests. But, with Vietnam and Afghanistan as backdrops, I suppose it is appropriate that we abandon them now and once again seize defeat from the jaws of victory - a defeat our grandchildren may pay for very dearly.

300 Abrams and 800 Bradleys would have had very little impact on the outcome of this war. The biggest problem or shortcoming of the Ukrainian armed forces was that they did a piss poor job constructing defensive works and fortifications. Another major problem was poor leadership and their obsession with PR stunts i.e. Krynky and Kursk. These are all issues that the Ukrainians could have fixed in-house.

But off course all the Green T-shirt can do is shift the blame to his Western allies and blame them for not giving him enough aid. Nothing like shifting blame to someone else. Off course Western war hawks fully support his blame shifting and lack of accountability...

 

[Tanks]

I am well aware of the constitution and bill of rights, even if many politician's, AG's, continually try and trample on them.
All people in this country are afforded equal protection under the law, regardless of status.
The exception to this are those illegal aliens caugh immediately at the border. If you take a deep dive into it, you will see what I mean.

No disagreement there. However, the AOC video etc. were for those that were not caught at the border.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Illegal is just that illegal! So if I steal a million dollars or murder a few folks, it’s not illegal if I don’t get caught. Wow!

 

[Red Leg]

We have Zelensky who claims that 200,000 Russian soldeiers have been killed. We have DeepStateUA which claims that 850,000 Russian soldiers have been "eliminated". Eliminated, to me, would imply killed. Then we have Western propagandists who take these numbers at face value and parrot them.

The article you posted claims that Russia has suffered over 850,000 casualties (killed and wounded) and that Russia has about 500,000 troops in Ukraine. If this were true you would expect the Russian army to be facing a critical manpower shortage. Yet it isn't.

The Ukrainian military on the other hand is facing a critical manpower shortage especially among its infantry units. Its so bad that specialties from the air force, air defense units, artillery etc... are being sent to infantry units.

Transfer of Ukrainian Air Force personnel to infantry continues despite scandal

The Ukrainian military command's plan to throw high-skilled Air Force personnel into the infantry was said to be halted when the practice gained nationwide attention, followed by a condemnation from President Volodymyr Zelensky. Soldiers, who spoke to the Kyiv Independent on conditions of...

kyivindependent.com

Lacking manpower, Ukraine resorts to harsh means to force draft dodgers into combat

A U.S. official said Ukraine should consider dropping the age of military conscription from 25 to 18. It's a stark acknowledgment that Ukraine doesn't have enough troops to fight the seemingly endless volume of Russian soldiers, especially now that they're being bolstered by North Korean troops...

www.pbs.org

‘Everybody is tired. The mood has changed’: the Ukrainian army’s desertion crisis

Some of those abandoning the frontline say the longer the war goes on, ‘the more people like me there will be’

www.theguardian.com

Yet the Green T-shirt tells us that the Ukrainian army has only suffered 40,000 KIA and that Ukraine has over 900,000 soldiers in its army. So why is Ukraine facing a severe manpower shortage then? Something here smells awfully fishy....

300 Abrams and 800 Bradleys would have had very little impact on the outcome of this war. The biggest problem or shortcoming of the Ukrainian armed forces was that they did a piss poor job constructing defensive works and fortifications. Another major problem was poor leadership and their obsession with PR stunts i.e. Krynky and Kursk. These are all issues that the Ukrainians could have fixed in-house.

But off course all the Green T-shirt can do is shift the blame to his Western allies and blame them for not giving him enough aid. Nothing like shifting blame to someone else. Off course Western war hawks fully support his blame shifting and lack of accountability...

The Russian propagandist emerges again! It must be an odd state in which to dwell as a blindly supportive follower of one of the more murderous dictators and regimes of the 21st century. Then again, you may have some allies participating in this discussion.

I am offering my operational and strategic assessments based upon a lifetime as a professional soldier. You will pardon me if I find your analysis and opinions trying to explain three years of abject Russian military failure as little more than a form of copium.

Russia is indeed approaching a million total casualties in this war. Your hero hiding behind the walls of the Kremlin has scoured Russia's subject peoples, his prisons, the African continent, and even gone on his knees to North Korea to keep from involving the Dutchy of Moscow in this 36 month catastrophe. Perhaps they will awaken eventually as they did during Afghanistan. Or, perhaps, the new American administration will throw Putin a lifeline. Whatever happens, it will be nothing that Russian arms were able to resolve.

I am absolutely certain that had adequate levels of armor been available two years ago it would have made a tremendous difference in exploiting the victory in Kharkiv Oblast as the Russians mob was fleeing headlong in defeat. It would be a game changer even now as Russian generals unimaginably launch attacks with drabs and dribbles of barely trained men riding into battle on Chinese golf carts. I know of no respected professional soldier in the West that hasn't come to view the Russian military - army, air force, or navy - with anything but professional disdain. Isn't it even a little curious to someone like you that the mighty Russian war machine can't even eject Ukrainian forces from Kursk?

Moreover, you are so blinded by your loyalty and voluntary ignorance that you can't even realize you are actually making my point. The truth is that this rag tag Ukrainian Army, led by this pathetic President in a T-shirt, drawing on a population one fourth the size of "mighty" Russia, has brought that nation's military to an absolute standstill for three years. That rag tag assembly of troops without adequate modern combat systems has utterly destroyed Russia's pre-war modernized ground forces, driven the Black Sea Fleet from the Black Sea, and driven Russian air power from the Ukrainian air skies. Those are undisputable facts. Pretty amazing for the pathetic force described in the articles in which you try find solace. I wonder what comfort the wives, parents, and children of Putin's mad sacrifices will find as the scale of this fiasco gradually becomes known.

 

[YancyW]

The Russian propagandist emerges again! It must be an odd state in which to dwell as a blindly supportive follower of one of the more murderous dictators and regimes of the 21st century.

I am offering my operational and strategic assessments based upon a lifetime as a professional soldier. You will pardon me if I find your analysis and opinions trying to explain three years of abject Russian military failure as little more than a form of copium.

Russia in indeed approaching a million total casualties in this war. Your hero hiding behind the walls of the Kremlin has scoured Russia's subject peoples, his prisons, the African continent, and even gone on his knees to North Korea to keep from involving the Dutchy of Moscow in this 36 month catastrophe. Perhaps they will awaken eventually as they did during Afghanistan. Or, perhaps, the new American administration will throw Putin a lifeline. Whatever happens, it will be nothing that Russian arms were able to resolve.

I am absolutely certain that had adequate levels of armor been available two years ago it would have made a tremendous difference in exploiting the victory in Kharkiv Oblast as the Russians mob was fleeing headlong in defeat. It would be a game changer even now as Russian generals unimaginably launch attacks with drabs and dribbles of barely trained men riding into battle on Chinese golf carts. I know of no respected professional soldier in the West that hasn't come to view the Russian military - army, air force, or navy - with anything but professional disdain. Isn't it even a little curious to someone like you that the mighty Russian war machine can't even eject Ukrainian forces from Kursk?

Moreover, you are so blinded by your loyalty and voluntary ignorance that you can't even realize you are actually making my point. The truth is that this rag tag Ukrainian Army, led by this pathetic President in a T-shirt, drawing on a population one fourth the size of "mighty" Russia, has brought that nation's military to an absolute standstill for three years. That rag tag assembly of troops without adequate modern combat systems has utterly destroyed Russia's pre-war modernized ground forces, driven the Black Sea Fleet from the Black Sea, and driven Russian air power from the Ukrainian air skies. Pretty amazing for the pathetic force described in the articles in which you try find solace. I wonder what comfort the wives, parents, and children of Putin's mad sacrifices will find as the scale of this fiasco gradually becomes known.

Not wanting to be associated with the poorly vailed propaganda you were replying to, it seems the general consensus in Congress is Russian dead is in the 250k range, with probably double that in all other causalities.

 

[Northern Shooter]

Not wanting to be associated with the poorly vailed propaganda you were replying to, it seems the general consensus in Congress is Russian dead is in the 250k range, with probably double that in all other causalities.

250K is what Zelenskyy quoted in the news yesterday, but I also think he said 350K the day before.

 

[YancyW]

Illegal is just that illegal! So if I steal a million dollars or murder a few folks, it’s not illegal if I don’t get caught. Wow!

No, but you have a right to speedy trial, be tried by a jury of your peers and right to legal counsel when you are caught. You also are not allowed to be tortured or suffer cruel and usual punishment.

 

[YancyW]

250K is what Zelenskyy quoted in the news yesterday, but I also think he said 350K the day before.

Propaganda clearly flows both ways.

 

[fourfive8]

"Houston, we have a problem". Absolutely tone deaf about citizenship! We are witnessing either an alternate universe in the Twilight Zone of gaslighting or truly have entered Crazy Town.... Heaven help us if these are even minority views about definition of what it is to be a US citizen and what the US Constitution is all about. Those holding these wacky views are clueless about how insulting this is to those who have worked so hard in trying to legally become US citizens. Pissed, damned pissed!

 

[Pondoro]

We europeans are bewildered after Vance´s speech in Münich.. Do Trump and his people now see Europe as an opponent instead of an ally..? Europe to be excluded from Ukraine peace talks...and YET we are expected to provide security and peace keeping troops in Ukraine..?? And I bet we are expected to rebuild Ukraine.. So..Russia is supposed to keep the 18% they have occupied without providing anything to rebuild..? Congrats Mr. Putin..your aggression indeed turned out succesful..!

Vance also attended a meeting with Alice Weidel, leader of the right wing german AfD party.. AfD is, at least, bordering on being neo-nazi..

 

[YancyW]

"Houston, we have a problem". Absolutely tone deaf about citizenship! We are witnessing either an alternate universe in the Twilight Zone of gaslighting or truly have entered Crazy Town.... Heaven help us if these are even minority views about definition of what it is to be a US citizen and what the US Constitution is all about. Those holding these wacky views are clueless about how insulting this is to those who have worked so hard in trying to legally become US citizens. Pissed, damned pissed!

What rights do you believe are given to you by the constitution? I believe the answer is zero, I concur with the founders that my rights exist with or without it, they are inherent to me. They wrote the Constitution to restrain the governments ability to infringe on those rights, not to grant them to me.