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Originally posted by bob ramberg:
Is there any truth to the rumor that Pete Hegseth is suggesting or supporting the idea that women should loose their right to vote?

What's your problem?

This now open's up a whole new tool box to go after these clowns and their benefactors. No longer can local DA's and pliant police chiefs take-up blocking positions to investigations.

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1968475343238443241

Sorry Para, just looking for info to try to refute someone's claim.

I suggest that you take greater care in how you phrase your questions.

If you were to tell me that you thought for even a split-second that that horse shit had the slightest possibility of being true, I'd be compelled to call you a genuine idiot.

You are correct. In retrospect it could be construed that I actually believe that nonsense. Sorry for the heartburn.

Go thou and sin no more

Trump says he will designate ANTIFA a terrorist organization.
Better late than never.

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Originally posted by corsair:
This now open's up a whole new tool box to go after these clowns and their benefactors. No longer can local DA's and pliant police chiefs take-up blocking positions to investigations.

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1968475343238443241

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Originally posted by bob ramberg:
just trying to get some ammo for my nightly point counterpoint with she who shall not be named.

Why bother? Make her prove any claims she makes before you'll even discuss it. Just keep telling her its BS until she can find a video of him saying it. Then ignore her except to ask if she has found it yet.

With antifa now being designated a terrorist organization... What are the ROE for normal civilians like me if I am accosted by them?

Serious question.

Years ago I had decided that if they blocked my path while driving a motor vehicle, I would simply run them down while trying to minimize the damage to my vehicle. The wife was told she was to do the same thing.

If they tried to enter my occupied vehicle, well then they were going to get shot (castle doctrine in Ohio permits this).

Now, if I am walking down a public sidewalk and they accost me, can I use any force necessary to continue my journey or is there a duty to retreat?

Or is the terrorist tag just something they are going to use to enhance charges and look for increased sentencing options?

I think there should be severe consequences including a real fear of law enforcement AND THE PUBLIC inducing grave bodily harm on them if they decide to continue associating with antifa and acting like animals.

And yes... there were large BLM/antifa demonstrations here in Columbus, Ohio, they just did not produce the large scale destruction that the media wanted to show because it was not violent/bloody enough compared to other cities.

With Antifa being designated a terrorist organization, the lawful powers to be can focus on disrupting their cash flow from (conceivably) foreign govts., corporations, foundations, and billionaire whack jobs who think Karl Marx had the greatest mind of all time. It will wither away.

Still not tired of all this winning!

Interesting questions regarding how civilians can respond to encounters with terrorist groups…if we caught Al-Qaeda or ISIS cells placing IEDs along travel routes (roads, bridges, sidewalks, etc) can civilians directly engage in order to stop the threat to life or merely call 911 to report it? Would the same response apply to responding to Antifa members?

^I'm thinking you have to dial 911. We are not deputies nor militia.

https://www.newsmax.com/world/...dkt_nbr=010502ax4gzl

Trump, Starmer Sign $200 Billion Tech Deal During UK Visit

President Donald Trump met U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday, the final day of the U.S. leader's state visit to Britain, with tech investment, steel tariffs and potentially tricky talks over Ukraine and Gaza on the agenda.

The two leaders signed a "tech prosperity deal" that U.K. officials say will bring thousands of jobs and billions in investment in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and nuclear energy.

Newsmax correspondent Alex Salvi reported the investments between the world leaders may be estimated at $200 billion.

Starmer is touting the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the U.S. at the start of a business roundtable attended by tech bosses including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Starmer said the ties come down to leaders who respect each other and genuinely like each other, leaning over and patting Trump on the shoulder as he addressed reporters.

Starmer added the deals and investments that they are announcing break all records. He called it "the biggest investment package of its kind in British history by a country mile."

Trump echoed his comments, saying the U.K. and U.S. have an "unbreakable bond."

Trump also noted if he had not imposed tariffs, his country would only have a fraction of the investment it is currently seeing.

Trump also told a business reception during his state visit to Britain that the U.S. "will have regulation but it will be sane regulation."

The president said the countries' "historic agreement on science and technology partnerships will create new government, academic work, and private sector cooperation in areas such as AI, which is taking over the world."

It includes a U.K. arm of Stargate, a Trump-backed AI infrastructure project led by OpenAI, and a host of AI data centers around the U.K. American firms are announcing 31 billion pounds ($42 billion) investment in the U.K.'s AI sector, including $30 billion from Microsoft for projects including Britain's largest supercomputer.

British officials say they have not agreed to scrap a digital services tax or water down internet regulation to get the deal, some details of which have yet to be announced.

The British government is learning that when it comes to deals with the U.S. administration, the devil is in the detail. In May, Starmer and Trump struck a trade agreement that reduced U.S. tariffs on Britain's key auto and aerospace industries.

The president and first lady Melania Trump were feted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at Windsor Castle with all the pageantry the monarchy can muster: gold-trimmed carriages, scarlet-clad soldiers, artillery salutes and a glittering banquet in a grand ceremonial hall.

British officials have festooned the trip with the kind of superlatives Trump revels in: It's an "unprecedented" second state visit for the U.S. leader, featuring the biggest military honor guard ever assembled for such an occasion.

On Thursday it is Starmer's turn to welcome the president to Chequers, a 16th-century manor house northwest of London that serves as a rural retreat for British leaders.

After bidding goodbye to the king and queen at Windsor — Trump called the monarch "a great gentleman, and a great king" — Trump flew by helicopter some 20 miles (32 kilometers) to Chequers, the prime minister's official country retreat. He was welcomed on the doorstep of the house by the prime minister and his wife, Victoria Starmer.

Trump's British hosts want to celebrate the strength of the U.S.-U.K. relationship, almost 250 years after its rocky start in 1776. Trump will be welcomed by a ceremonial honor guard complete with bagpipers — a nod to the president's Scottish heritage — and shown items from the archive of wartime leader Winston Churchill, who coined the term "special relationship" for the bond between the United States and Britain.

There's also a lunch of Dover sole followed by key lime pie, and a display by the Red Devils army parachute team.

To coincide with the visit, Britain said U.S. companies had pledged 150 billion pounds ($204 billion) in investment in the United Kingdom, including 90 billion pounds ($122 billion) from investment firm Blackstone in the next decade. Investment will also flow the other way, including almost $30 billion by pharmaceutical firm GSK in the U.S.

Talks on slashing duties on steel and aluminum to zero from their current level of 25% have stalled, despite a promise in May that the issue would be settled within weeks.

The British Chambers of Commerce said failure to cut the tariffs would be "greeted with dismay" by the British steel industry.

Starmer wants a successful state visit to balance weeks of bad news that saw him lose not just an ambassador but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner — who quit over a tax error on a home purchase — and a senior aide. Fourteen months after winning a landslide election victory, Starmer's government is struggling to kick-start Britain's sluggish economy and his Labour Party is lagging in the polls.

Leslie Vinjamuri, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said the trip was likely to be "a difficult visit for the prime minister, much more so than for the U.S. president."

For Trump, "this plays well at home, it plays well abroad. It's almost entirely to President Trump's advantage to turn up to Britain and be celebrated by the British establishment," she said.

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I’m sure I’m not the only one who has seen leftists trying to claim the status of the United States has declined on the world stage in the last 7-8 months. Claiming that the Russia/Ukraine War still raging means that Trump lied. That the Israeli/Hamas war still raging means that Trump lied. No. Those two just proved tougher to bring to conclusion than he originally thought. The President in his joint press conference with P.M. Starmer specifically called out Vladimir Putin and his unexpected recalcitrance in ending the war. Ignored by the Left are the 7 conflicts/wars that the President HAS resolved. The trip to the UK demonstrates emphatically that American status has improved tremendously since the POTATUS left office.

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^I'm thinking you have to dial 911. We are not deputies nor militia.

We are all actually both of those things. We may not do it as our primary occupation, and we may not enjoy a few specific laws that offer additional protection, but we all otherwise have the same abilities under the law.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...AqZwv1gzN2ym7mjuY%3D

US Seeking to Regain Control of Bagram Air Base in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan: Trump

The United States had withdrawn its troops from Bagram in the summer of 2021, shortly before the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.

The United States is actively working to regain control over Bagram Air Base in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said in remarks on Sept. 18.

U.S. forces relinquished control over the major air base in 2021, during the force drawdown from the country. The United States handed over control of the base to the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which collapsed in August 2021 as the Taliban seized control over the Afghan capital city of Kabul.

Speaking during a press conference in the UK on Thursday, Trump suggested that the current Taliban authority in Afghanistan needs things that the United States can provide, and may be amenable to a deal allowing a renewed U.S. presence at the key base.

“We’re trying to get it back, because they need things from us. We want that base back,” Trump said.

The president stressed the potential strategic significance of a renewed U.S. presence in Afghanistan, including as a strategic counterbalance to China.

“One of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons,” he said.

I would argue that I am Militia as a1abdj indicated.

If I came across someone claiming they were ISIS and that they were going to harm me, I would probably take them at their word and take action until they were no longer a threat to me, my family, my friends or my community. I would not be in fear of "the law" in this situation.

How is this antifa terrorist designation, their words or their actions any different?

For the record... I am not going out "hunting", but is there any difference between the 2 now? Assuming of course that the designation has been made legally through all of the various .gov filings and whatnot (not sure how that works, but I am sure I can find out online).

Notable in DTs press conference from the UK was his statement for all the world that the 2020 election was stolen. He's said it many times before, but to me this was a little different to say it on a world stage.