It's well understood that certain sects of Islam preach violence, both toward westerners and muslims who do not believe in that sect's particular teachings. One might think of this as building on the basic violence in Islam, and carrying it about three steps further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb#Al-Qaeda_and_Islamic_Jihad

Three basic themes emerge from Qutb's writings. First, he claimed that the world was beset with barbarism, licentiousness, and unbelief (a condition he called jahiliyya, the religious term for the period of ignorance prior to the revelations given to the Prophet Mohammed). Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya. Second, he warned that more people, including Muslims, were attracted to jahiliyya and its material comforts than to his view of Islam; jahiliyya could therefore triumph over Islam. Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan. All Muslim – as he defined them – therefore must take up arms in this fight. Any Muslim who rejects his ideas is just one more nonbeliever worthy of destruction.[118]

Whether the kinetic energy of the main spar of an aircraft wing hitting steel I beam at a given speed is a matter of the basic equation e= m*v^2, which means at impact there is a certain amount of heat. It certainly is plausible that the beams would be cut.

Usually when someone says "the transcript is not completely accurate" it's for practical reasons like people talking over each other, words that are not clear, etc. Nothing to get paranoid about, standard phrases.

When Trump says in that phone call "I'd like to ask you a favor..." that just plain does not come across like strong arming the other person. The Ukraine president has confirmed this.

But you say you know better. Thanks for your concern, but I'll take the word of the Ukraine president over your word.

It's a no brainer that you are completely misrepresenting the facts in pursuit of your agenda of the moment. Here is the current state of free food for schoolchildren.

https://www.fns.usda.gov/nslp

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day. The program was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946.

Program Fact Sheet...

https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/free-school-lunch-breakfast-every-state

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP), which is administered by the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), served nearly 30 million lunches to students every day on average in 2018, and almost three-quarters of those were provided either at no charge or at a reduced price. In the same year over 14 million meals — 85 percent of which were free or reduced — were served daily through the related School Breakfast Program, which advocates say can have an equally powerful effect on students’ health and academic success.

One large metropolitan area I drive through, somehow that Beto cult had got signs in the yard or windows of a third to a half of the houses. Now they are mostly all done and forgotten.

I was struck with the massive size and required funding for that campaign. Never seen anything like it. Of course it was money coming in from some manipulative source like Soros.

It would be interesting to take 100 random recorded conversations between national leaders and tabulate how often each mentioned things he would like the other to help him with. Basically, it would be every single conversation, wouldn't it?

I think it's quite the opposite. Give inept leaders to socialism, get catastrophic economic results. This is at the least, a flaw of socialistic systems.

It's been noted before, numerous times historically. EG, Russia and their famous "Five Year Plans."

It does seem that way. That now even people who believed the fake news lines, like who only watched the CNN/MSNBC type of stations, would now have to face that set of facts.

For them to face their spoon fed indoctrination in propaganda and anti-Trump lies is too much, of course, to expect. One step at a time.

Really. You know, the transcript is public, and there is nothing there to support your claim (bolded).

Perhaps you are implying that his mentioning Biden was inappropriate because Biden is a potential adversary in the upcoming election?

Well, maybe all his conversations with foreign leaders should be secret, fully encrypted, and with no ability for them to be decoded. Would that work?

From your link on Houris ... Personally I find these descriptions weird and offensive...

Muhammad al-Bukhari (810–870):
...everyone will have two wivesF from the houris, (who will be so beautiful, pure and transparent that) the marrow of the bones of their legs will be seen through the bones and the flesh.

— Muhammad al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 54 "The Beginning of Creation", hadith 476)[33]
[People who enter Paradise] will not urinate, relieve nature, spit, or have any nasal secretions. Their combs will be of gold, and their sweat will smell like musk. The aloes-wood will be used in their censers. Their wives will be houris. All of them will look alike and will resemble their father Adam (in stature), sixty cubits tall.

— Muhammad al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 55 "Prophets", hadith 544[34][35]
[note 2]
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Nishapuri (821–875):
Muhammad reported that some (persons) stated with a sense of pride and some discussed whether there would be more men in Paradise or more women ... and every person would have two wivesG and the marrow of their shanks would glimmer beneath the flesh and there would be none without a wife in Paradise.

— Al-Tirmidhi, Jami` at-Tirmidhi (Surah Waaqi’ah, 35–37).[38]

A houri is a most beautiful young woman with a transparent body. The marrow of her bones is visible like the interior lines of pearls and rubies. She looks like red wine in a white glass. She is of white color, and free from the routine physical disabilities of an ordinary woman such as menstruation, menopause, urinal and offal discharge, child bearing and the related pollution. A houri is a girl of tender age, having large breasts which are round (pointed), and not inclined to dangle. Houris dwell in palaces of splendid surroundings.

Ah, a "Hunter Biden investigation" wasn't exactly what Trump requested of Zelensky, and I rather doubt that's what this is really about.

But regardless of that detail, I'm good with whatever Zelensky's investigators come up with. And it's nice to know that you agree there's nothing wrong with Trump's request.

Unlike the Dems who would impeach him for such a request.

Yeah, that could be garbage. Might not be, but could be.

Hey, I've got a great idea! How about if Trump just asks Zelensky politely to look into the whole thing a bit?

We'd get the straight story then.

I've answered your assertions, no need to discuss further.

And there you have it. A bunch of hypocritical stern moralizing about how the House can break their traditional rules, but the Senate cannot.

Wrong on that, buddy.

I think this is accurate. The big money corporate interests need to have a front runner who vomits the socialist line for the little victims of oppression, but who actually will be their puppet.

There's no obvious person for that except Biden.

Neither weird, kooky or sincere Socialist qualifies. They all seem to be lying the wrong way.

Interesting you would say that. I just heard Mitch McConnel Fox News say that if Trump was "impeached" with the Pelosi method he wouldn't pay any attention to it. Sorry, I didn't pay enough attention to it to have an exact quote.

And there we are. Hypocritical stern moralizing about how the House can break their traditional rules, but the Senate cannot.

Wrong on that, buddy. Gamble on that outcome, you are going to lose, and lose bad.

Correct as to the House.

And the Senate will have the sole right to try.

BUT IS NOT OBLIGATED TO!

No hit squad is needed against Dead Joe.

There are a hundred types of technology that must be developed before humans go to Mars or the Moon to stay.

Those are either being worked on or they are not. If one believes Musk vision, then give him money for rockets, those technologies will be ignored or relegated to the back of the priorities.

And Where does that get you?

We've had rockets that were perfectly capable of getting us to Mars since Apollo. The delta-V thrust to Mars is less than the Moon.

That's correct, and I don't see why people are arguing with you. No right-winger has even claimed the House could not have impeachment hearings against Trump, or whoever. That's part of their job.

But the specter of a small cabal in the House hijacking that Constitutional right has many glaring problems, and few if any advantages, either long or short term.

50 million - 50 billion per person is a reasonable projection.