If you think about it a bit, you can understand why the move to Climate Change. It's the only way they can attack oil anymore since the truth was learned about how much oil we actually have.

More C02 in the air simply means more plant growth that turn it back into oxygen.

A study published around 2016 found that more CO2 was greening the planet (other studies have noted that desert areas are shrinking - including the Sahara - projected precipitation changes are adding to the possibility that the Sahara desert may bloom again. The opposite of an apocalyptic result.)

From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.

Complete article on the NASA web site:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

Do you think Manchin and his backers prefer Trump to another Biden administration?  Or do they seriously think Manchin could win such a 3 way?  I’m thinking it would hand it to Trump and they know it.

   A 3 way splits and dilutes the vote.  This is what cost GHWB his re-election and what got Clinton re-elected.   With RFK, Jr in the mix, the vote could actually dilute and give Manchin the WH.

And why does the DNC want to keep Biden?

  The DNC is now owned and operated by the radicals. A puppet president, especially one that is mentally deranged, is perfect for them. 

   They won’t be able to do that with RFKJr?  I gather not, from my take on him. Unless he’s fooling me.  He seems a bit anti-establishment.

 Correct.  This is why the DNC has their knives out for RFK,Jr.

He barely registers on my radar but based on that interview, he clearly does not understand Trump’s base.

As for debates, I’m interested in hearing Trump vs Ramaswamy although at the same time I don’t want to because I don’t want them to destroy each other.  I don’t care what the rest of them have to say, including DeSantis.

I agree with you. The Feds should have never been involved in state and local matters, but the reality is THEY ARE and the states and cities RELY on this funding.

And politicians of all colors have pounded the idea that the government at all levels is the savior of all things bad.  The federal government is in charge of the country so all the country's ills must be cured by the federal government.  The proletariat has been conditioned to rely on the federal government as a "safety net" and for retirement and for health care and child care and education and jobs and security and on and on.  Don't like something?  Ask a federal agency for to regulate it.  Local and state governments are abdicating their responsibility to their charges in favor of someone "in Washington" fixing things.  Not my problem!!  Vote for me and I'll get the federal government to do stuff for us! We see this most clearly with the abominably stupid "popular vote" programs.  Michigan (and other states) has made itself irrelevant by allocating its electoral votes according to a group of states' popular votes.  Yay big government.  Yay big brother. 

"Another Republican supporter of Ukraine aid, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that it’s been money well spent. The aid, which equates to 5 percent of the U.S. military budget, has helped take out half of Russia’s military, he said." Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/27/lawmakers-russia-rebellion-weapons-ukraine-00103913

As to fears of creating an enemy of Russia - hint: when was NATO created and why?

As to corruption: name your sources and the nature of the corruption. Lucifer never did. How does the corruption you documented compare to, say that which occurs in the U.S. or Russia? A few days ago Zelensky visited Snake Island in the Black Sea which is mostly controlled by Russia. As an allegedly corrupt leader with allegedly vast wealth he seems to live dangerously.

One person who never gets criticized on this forum, indeed is rarely mentioned as existing when the subject of Ukraine comes up is Putin. Why do you suppose that is? Is he just a helpless misunderstood benevolent dictator of which the less said the better? No doubt a pawn of the Military Industrial Complex.

I’m in Nashville for work and don’t have time to do a research paper, but here’s the cliff notes.

Don’t use the fallacy that being anti-interventionist means I’m pro-Putin.

Night Witches?

Found it in watch it again: "The Attackers".  "On the Road to Berlin" was pretty good. "T-34" was outstanding.  "The Dawns Here are Quiet" is also outstanding.

Well I guess I’ll go ahead and close my tab that has the response to the locked thread ready to post.  I guess Little Joe is right, it was going nowhere anyway.

I like having my own, named thread. Such an ego boost! Lol!!!