About time to put this thread on ignore.

Well it does give me a break from working on taxes. And my mother’s taxes.

Yeah you still have to pay taxes when you’re dead.

He was being hyperbolic. Then you made it literal.

I disagree.  #7 was the one that brought it up even though Peter did not say it.  Or was Peter denying it that was going to far.

Reminds me of Trump being accused of rape and when he denied it he was accused of slander.  Sometimes you just can't win.

I get that you are stooping to his level and that’s perfectly fair.  But the baby killer thing is stooping below his level.  Just my opinion. You are free to disagree.

Also nit picky disagreement about him abusing every poster here. I don’t recall him ever abusing me. Not even once.

Nor me.

I can't post my real name.  All of my service records are classified.

Exactly what a commie spy would say.

Ummm…. How does anyone know joe is what he says?

lol.  What do I say I am?

Here is another nail in your delusions, you made up accusations out of whole cloth about me

No one is making up accusations out of whole cloth about you.  There is no whole cloth to be found.  You are a complete figment of your own imagination.  You are the only one making up stories about you.  Some of us just don't believe you.

Oh, I guess you like his politics so it makes everything else true.

If you are talking about me, my politics are a lot like yours.  I'm just not an asshole about it.

  I’m a veteran.  I find it disgusting when anyone starts smearing vets. 

Equating an insult to #7 as an insult to all veterans is like equating an insult to Hillary as an insult to all women.

If indeed #7 is a veteran, which I have seen no proof of, he does not deserve the default respect I have for real veterans.

You don't get the respect due a veteran when you claim to be one behind an anonymous screen name.

It's refreshing to hear the other side of the story.  We've been fed Z's and FJB's side nonstop for over a year.  Now we can hear the other side.  There's propaganda on both sides, half truths, and outright lies.  But to censor one side in favor of the other is a hallmark of a totalitarian regime.  Critical thinking must be suppressed at all costs.  Blind obedience is required.

The hallmark of war and of conditions necessary leading up to war is both sides must paint the other as the absolute face of evil, and then dehumanize them. This is necessary to morally justify slaughtering them.  This must involve the distortion of their motives, including the rejection of any understandable motives, otherwise you risk empathizing with the enemy, which is problematic if you are trying to kill them.  Of vital importance is upholding this to your people, otherwise they will not support your war efforts - they will resist sending their sons to be killed.  Hence propaganda is the only information each sides allows.

Thus, one side of the story is never the whole story or the complete truth when people are at war. The censorship done by the country at war may not necessarily be the hallmark of a totalitarian regime. The U.S. engaged in propaganda in the two world wars without being totalitarian.  But where I agree with you is this:  A country not at war engaging in censorship on behalf of another country, especially one that is not even a formal ally, is a sign of creeping totalitarianism.  Rather than allow U.S. citizens to participate in an informed decision whether or not to support Ukraine, the Biden regime (Uniparty, MIC) is making the decision for us (to the benefit of their own bank accounts) and censoring information to manipulate us into agreement (which is working on the low IQ portion of the population).

Combine that with a lot of other outrageous and overt tyrannical behaviors, this regime is indeed lurching toward totalitarianism. The biggest clue is the corruption of elections - their goal is an ironclad hold on power, with elections becoming but a sad, rubber stamping formality.  Just like Russia, ironically. Maybe that’s why they don’t want us looking too closely at that country.

I don’t. Jim, why do you not want Putin to tell his side?

There have been plenty of English language translations on the Internet of Putin and the Kremlin's views and public goals. If Carlson wants to spread them beyond the wonks who read that stuff that's fine with me. I simply state that he is engaging in propaganda, not journalism.

At his noblest Carlson may be attempting to promote non-interventionism. An excellent goal - but the whole point of non-intervention is to remove foreign war triggers. Promoting non-intervention after wars start often seems to yield worse results than fighting them to win.