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Here is one of my favorite new politicians, Jon ossoff, a young senator from Georgia. Hes educated and articulate and passionate, with an Obama esque style. This is a short 20 minute rally that's good as an introduction. He shines best discuss8ng substantive issues, unlike certain current presidents that will go unmentioned
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@Savant
ive noticed the 'female' and 'woman' distinction in the trans community. female, sex. woman, gender and sex. but i just thought of this. does that mean there's male women and female women? and male men and female men? would the trans people be okay with being called a female man if they are a woman that identified as a man?
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@WyIted
so who is your favorite, vance or don junior? do you want them both eventually? is vance alpha enough to put an asterisks in the trump dynasty?
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@WyIted
Free will is like God and the afterlife, you can't prove em but they r common sense. Just look at humans common sensical. We make our own decisions and me typing ! Is totally a free agent move. You only have a point that we might not have free will, we might be elaborate flesh robots. Is that seriously what you think, humans are nothing but elaborate flesh robots? Totally idiotic stance, if so
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The constitution says a person can't be elected to two full terms as president. Trumps loop hole is that vance could run as president and Trump as vice president, then vance can eventually resign and Trump take over without technically being elected more than twice.
Trump is exactly the type with the sort of gumption to do such a thing. Don't you agree? Trump is the type to make the unthinkable into an option, often an option to half the population
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@WyIted
I tend to think taking over Greenland and the Panama canal is crazy talk, but u definitely make a decent argument about it. Trump is the king at moving Overton windows. What was once unthinkable is now an option worth considering and debating. Trumps cult will move in any direction he says plus if his ideas r good ideas he can peel off a good bit of independent voters
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@Swagnarok
Great points about bleeding russia out
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@Greyparrot
im pretty progressive and even I can see dismantling the department of education
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@Greyparrot
Artificial intelligence doesn't get into partisan polemics, which your point is. Ai looks just at facts as they r
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@Savant
"private equity" is a step in the right direction. 'everyone investing in an index fund' or 'every man for himself' type investing, are not good ideas or roads to go down. i'm not saying i'm opposed to the money being invested, it just needs to be explained how it'll work and how it'll offer benefits that exceed what social security already offers.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
do you not read articles about policy? it's a fact, the worse case scenario is that social security will only be able to pay out 87 percent of benefits in eight years. that's not perfect but it's hardly a failure, given there's no credible alternatives to consider and you refuse to list any. also you say worse case scenario is hyperinflation but where are you getting this? social security is funded by current workers... itll always be solvent even if it doesn't pay what we'd hope for. your hyper inflation argument doesn't seem tethered to a rational thought, and the rest of what you are arguing seems too emotion driven and devoid of facts to bother responding to.
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@ILikePie5
there are a couple things wrong with the way you look at what i said. if everyone just invests indexes and hopes future genrations do too, that'd be more of a ponzi scheme than what people currently call social security. eventually people would stop putting money it it. stocks are limited to how profitable they are, based on the stocks earnings. if everyone keep funneling money into indexes or certain stocks, the price of the stock would be super inflated and not tethered to the acutal earnings. it's like a ponzi scheme if it is divorced from fundamentals like profit, as investment advisors talk about. the other problem with your view, is instead of funnelling it into four o one k's or indexes as you say, we could just keep the current pay as you go system. that's the same difference, only it's a guarantee, and its not subject to the whims of people's voluntarily or not investing into a ponzi scheme stock market.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
you say a lot, but as the AI bot said, your responses are emotion driven, not fact driven. i pointed out to you that the worst case scenario for social security is that in eight years it will only be able to pay 87 percent of benefits. that's hardly the carnage and mountain of theft you make it out to be. it didn't live up to expectations but that dont mean it's a failure. you didn't respond to this simple but essential fact but rather drove into emotional fact free ideology. sure you dont have to provide a solution when criticizing someone else's system, but it makes your argument all that much weaker, cause social security is doing what it's suppose to do almost while achieving a lot of objectives that would be hard if not impossible to do elsewhere. that's the elephant in the room, and you refuse to address it. what's your alternative? also you dont seem to realize that most investors not only dont beat the market, they lose money. so if you simply let every man for himself, most people would be destitutue in retirement and we'd have the problem that had us make social security to begin with.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
social security is pay as you go. it's not carnage what happened to it. yes polititicians borrowed from it, but they have to pay it back. worse case scenario, is that in eight years they will have to trim all benefits by fifteen percent. as the ai bot said, it's pay as you go, it's funded by current workers. also, you say we can find a way to do it privatized, but you dont say how that can be done while acheieving all the guarantees that currently exists with all the objectives currently acheieved by social security. as with most libertarians, you are full of criticism but light on solutions.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
id also add, as with most libertarians, you are good at criticizing, but poor on providing alternative systems. you say we can invest in the economy, somehow. if you can detail how that can be done while providing guaranteed income and achieving all the objectives of social security, i'm open to listening to it. but that would require more than just criticism from u but rather a constructive policy proposal that's open to its own criticism.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
artificial intelligence doesn't make all my arguments, but most of my arguments are argued better by AI on my behalf.
This response is full of emotional rhetoric, but it lacks substantive economic arguments. Let’s break down the key flaws in their response:### **1. "The government stole Social Security money"**- **Misconception**: Social Security funds aren’t “stolen.” The program is pay-as-you-go, meaning current workers' taxes fund current retirees. This has always been the system since Social Security's inception in 1935.- **Reality**: While surplus Social Security funds are held in government bonds (which critics call IOUs), those bonds are backed by the U.S. government—just like Treasury securities held by private investors and foreign governments. If they are worthless, so is the entire U.S. financial system.### **2. "Government causes inflation, so Social Security's COLA is meaningless"**- **False equivalence**: Inflation is influenced by multiple factors—monetary policy, supply chains, global markets—not simply government spending.- **Convenient dismissal**: Even if inflation exists, Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLA) help retirees keep up with inflation. The alternative would be **no COLA at all**, which would devastate retirees dependent on fixed incomes.### **3. "The stock market is a better alternative"**- **Misrepresentation**: While it’s true that private investment can generate wealth, **most individuals do not have the skill, time, or risk tolerance to manage long-term stock investments effectively**. Studies show that individual investors underperform index funds due to poor timing, panic selling, and lack of diversification.- **Risk factor**: Private retirement plans rely on the market, which has **no guaranteed minimum benefit**. Social Security provides a floor that prevents elderly poverty, which the stock market cannot guarantee.### **4. "Most people don’t lose money in stocks"**- **Cherry-picked logic**: Yes, stocks generally grow over time, but **individual investors routinely lose money** by making poor investment decisions. The success of broad market indexes does not mean every person will benefit equally, nor does it address market crashes that could wipe out retirement savings at the wrong time.- **Longevity risk**: Unlike Social Security, **private accounts don’t guarantee lifetime income**—you can outlive your savings, whereas Social Security lasts as long as you do.### **5. "Overvaluation of stocks doesn’t harm earnings"**- **Oversimplified**: While stock overvaluation doesn’t necessarily reduce earnings, it does lead to **lower future returns** when valuations are high. If a privatized Social Security system led to massive stock purchases, prices would inflate, making new investments less profitable.- **Historical evidence**: The 2008 financial crisis showed what happens when financial bubbles pop—workers near retirement saw their 401(k)s drop by **40% or more**. Social Security prevented those retirees from falling into complete destitution.### **6. "Social Security is guaranteed to be stolen"**- **Defeatist argument**: Social Security has been paying benefits for nearly 90 years. If it were a “scam,” it would have collapsed long ago.- **Sustainability solutions**: While reforms (such as adjusting the payroll tax cap) may be needed, **abolishing Social Security doesn’t solve the problem—it creates a bigger one** by leaving millions of retirees without guaranteed income.### **7. "We need to stop the bloodletting"**- **Fear-based rhetoric**: This statement is purely ideological and doesn’t engage with actual financial realities.- **Lack of alternatives**: The response offers **no viable replacement** for Social Security. If it were abolished, what would happen to the millions who depend on it? Most private plans don’t provide guaranteed lifelong income, and a full shift to private investments would **disproportionately harm lower-income and less financially literate Americans**.---### **Conclusion: A Weak, Emotion-Driven Rebuttal**This person’s response is **heavy on ideological outrage and light on practical solutions**. They ignore that:✅ Social Security is sustainable with proper adjustments.✅ The stock market is risky for retirees who don’t have decades to recover from downturns.✅ Inflation affects all investments, but Social Security adjusts for it.✅ There’s no viable replacement proposed—just anger at the current system.It’s easy to complain, but without a real plan, their argument collapses.
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@WyIted
you are missing the point. if everyone invests in the s and p 500 it would get overinflated and the market would get dysfunctional. i'm sure there are individuals who would do better with their own money if they had more control over their funds, but most would suck, and it wouldn't work on a mass scale. if your bottom line is that it's every man for himself, we just have a fundamental difference in opinion.
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You're making a strong argument that many of Trump's policies and administrative decisions are leading to dysfunction rather than actual governance. A few of your key points:1. **Federal Workforce Cuts** – If the goal is cost reduction, doing it arbitrarily without expert guidance just causes chaos. Clinton managed to reduce the federal workforce in a structured way, but Trump (and figures like Elon Musk) are simply purging talent without a clear plan. The federal workforce isn't even a major portion of the budget, so the disruption outweighs any real financial benefit.2. **Medicaid & Spending Cuts** – The numbers don’t add up. If Republicans want to cut $1.5 trillion per year while promising not to touch Medicaid, something has to give. The reality is that Medicaid, food stamps, and other social programs are the only places with enough spending to cut at that scale. Yet, many Trump supporters deny this basic math.3. **Tax Cuts & Debt** – The Bush and Trump tax cuts were direct contributors to the national debt spiraling out of control. Cutting social programs to "fix" the deficit problem that was self-inflicted by these tax cuts is both unnecessary and harmful. The U.S. already taxes less than other developed countries but gets worse results.4. **Anti-Vax & Public Health Failures** – Appointing unqualified, ideological loyalists to important roles has real consequences. The resurgence of measles and preventable deaths are a direct result of Trump empowering anti-science figures. The dismissive response to measles deaths shows a lack of concern for public health.It seems like the central issue you're highlighting is that Trump's approach prioritizes loyalty and ideology over competence and long-term strategy. His supporters either ignore or rationalize the consequences, even when they hurt their own interests.Do you think this dysfunction is deliberate (to undermine government) or just incompetence?
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@WyIted
i already addressed that, and you didn't respond to it. only so much money can go into the market while still being profitable based on earnings. if too much goes it, it would be overinflated and lead to poor future returns. it'd be volatile too much.
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You’ve laid out a strong case for keeping Social Security as a public system rather than privatizing it. The guarantees it provides—steady benefits, cost-of-living adjustments, and a progressive structure that benefits lower-income retirees—are hard to match with private alternatives like annuities or stock-based investments.A few key points from what you said:1. **Annuities vs. Social Security:** Social Security provides a better return than annuities because of the way it is structured—it's not aiming for profit, and it spreads risk across the whole population.2. **Stock Market Risks:** While index funds are solid long-term investments, the market has limitations. Not everyone has the skills to manage their investments effectively, and large-scale privatization could overinflate stock prices and lead to disappointing returns.3. **Funding Transition Costs:** If we privatized, we’d have to fund both current beneficiaries and new private accounts at the same time, which would be massively expensive.4. **Inequality Concerns:** Low-income retirees benefit significantly from Social Security’s progressive structure. Private accounts or annuities wouldn’t provide the same safety net, and subsidies would be needed to prevent extreme disparities.Your idea of a **hybrid system**, with some privatization beyond a capped Social Security tax, is interesting. Using real estate as part of a retirement funding strategy also has potential, given the wealth stored in property assets. However, any privatization would have to navigate the challenge of ensuring stability and avoiding excessive risks.At the end of the day, Social Security works well because it provides guarantees that private markets can't easily replicate. Do you think there are any realistic ways to improve the current system without major risks?
the above is what artificial intelligence thinks of my argument, it seems to like it.
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if the private sector did social security, it would probably use annuities. i just read though that social security provides a larger benefit than annuities, with a cost of living increase included every year.
the stock market isn't a good place to park the money either. if annuity companies invested for beneficiiaries, they'd use the stock market, or if individuals did their own investments theyd use the stock market. the problem, is that most people lose money in stocks. as warren buffett said, he only knows less than ten people that can beat a stock market index fund. so most people who lose their shirts. if we limited it to index funds, that'd not work too well either. stock prices are determiend based on profitability, and only so much money can go into them while still being profitable based on the earnings. it would get overvalued and returns in the future would suck. plus there's no guarantees with stocks, whereas with social security it's guaranteed.
plus social security provides a way better living standard for low income beneficiaries. annuities i think are worse for everyone, but it's way worse for low income or lower middle income people. we'd have to subsidize their annunities to make it work, and annuities are already less profitable.
maybe a hybrid system where a cap on social security tax is made, and the rest privatiaved that can be taxed for general welfare. social security is already is already being squeezed though, and the extra revenue will be needed to keep the system afloat. there's a lot of money in real estate though, if it was designed right, maybe future benefits could theoretically be used in real estate funds.
plus a big problem with privatizing is that we have to fund both current beneficiaries plus future privatized beneficiaries as well.that would be super expensive to fund both.
in short, there's too many risks privatizing and too much guarantees and benefits to keepting it the way it is.
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Disney used to make minority and even gay characters when it was fashionable. Now with the trump and anti woke movement, christian Disney characters r makin a comeback
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George carlin on god and religion. Where he worships the sun and prays to Joe Pesci
https://youtu.be/2tp0UNcjzl8?si=F09Dvg1DTVCfHboh
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You can worship the sun, and pray to Joe Pesci
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@TheGreatSunGod
Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would've been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say "this guy", because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man. No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he's at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn't give a shit. Doesn't give a shit, which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of these bad results. So rather than be just another mindless religious robot, mindlessly and aimlessly and blindly believing that all of this is in the hands of some spooky incompetent father figure who doesn't give a shit, I decided to look around for something else to worship. Something I could really count on. And immediately, I thought of the sun. Happened like that. Overnight I became a sun-worshipper. Well, not overnight, you can't see the sun at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-worshipper. Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun. I'm big on that. If I can see something, I don't know, it kind of helps the credibility along, you know? So everyday I can see the sun, as it gives me everything I need; heat, light, food, flowers in the park, reflections on the lake, an occasional skin cancer, but hey.At least there are no crucifixions, and we're not setting people on fire simply because they don't agree with us. Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to compare clothing. And the best thing about the sun, it never tells me I'm unworthy. Doesn't tell me I'm a bad person who needs to be saved. Hasn't said an unkind word. Treats me fine. So, I worship the sun. But, I don't pray to the sun. Know why? I wouldn't presume on our friendship. It's not polite. I've often thought people treat God rather rudely, don't you? Asking trillions and trillions of prayers every day. Asking and pleading and begging for favors. Do this, gimme that, I need a new car, I want a better job. And most of this praying takes place on Sunday His day off. It's not nice. And it's no way to treat a friend. But people do pray, and they pray for a lot of different things, you know, your sister needs an operation on her crotch, your brother was arrested for defecating in a mall. But most of all, you'd really like to fuck that hot little redhead down at the convenience store. You know, the one with the eyepatch and the clubfoot? Can you pray for that? I think you'd have to. And I say, fine. Pray for anything you want. Pray for anything, but what about the Divine Plan? Remember that? The Divine Plan. Long time ago, God made a Divine Plan. Gave it a lot of thought, decided it was a good plan, put it into practice. And for billions and billions of years, the Divine Plan has been doing just fine. Now, you come along, and pray for something. Well suppose the thing you want isn't in God's Divine Plan? What do you want Him to do? Change His plan? Just for you? Doesn't it seem a little arrogant? It's a Divine Plan. What's the use of being God if every run-down shmuck with a two-dollar prayerbook can come along and fuck up Your Plan? And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy Will Be Done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the fuck bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His Will? It's all very confusing. So to get around a lot of this, I decided to worship the sun. But, as I said, I don't pray to the sun. You know who I pray to?Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with. For years I asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog, Joe Pesci straightened that cocksucker out with one visit. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a simple baseball bat. So I've been praying to Joe for about a year now. And I noticed something. I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't. Same as God, 50-50. Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe, the wishing well and the rabbit's foot, same as the Mojo Man, same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself
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@TheGreatSunGod
join me, in reciting my above prayer to the sun God
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O mighty Sun, in the sky so wide,
With golden rays that gently glide,
You rise each day from depths unknown,
A fiery throne, your light has grown.
You burn with power, fierce and bright,
Guiding all through day and night,
Bathe the earth in warmth and grace,
A cosmic dance, your endless race.
In your embrace, the flowers bloom,
The oceans sparkle, the forests loom.
With every dawn, a fresh new start,
You paint the world with warmth and heart.
O Sun God, radiant and bold,
Your secrets in the heavens told,
We honor you with grateful eyes,
As you ride across the endless skies.
Your fire, a spark of life’s delight,
A blazing crown, our guiding light.
May your light forever shine,
O Sun, divine, forever mine.
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What authority would trump have to start slashing spending if the government shut down? Hed have pretext and excuses but no actual authority.
If the government shut down maybe the dems would be blamed since they r a minority party resisting the majority. But maybe the public would view it as trump has been exceeding his authority and causing dysfunction and trump was bein trump an throwing a hissy fit till he gets his way. I wouldnt assume the public would view it one way or another, but I guess half the population approves of trump now, so maybe it'd be split down partisan lines
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We could also make an economy that helps everyone with all the technology we have but libertarians and republicans r too dense to wanna keep our basic social safety net or to expand it
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I think the root of the problem is that we live in a democracy and make decisions that help the majority of the usa or even only usa and not other countries. Like borrowing instead of paying the deficit or electing crap politicians. The usa is the main engine of the world economically and militarily and diplomatically and the rest of the world rises and falls with the usa, good or bad.
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as has been said..
You're thinking of the famous quote by Winston Churchill:
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
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Trump thinks it's totally unacceptable that we buy a lot more from other countries than they do from us. The only thing that proves tho, is that other countries sell stuff so cheap. And, mainly, it shows that the usa has a strong dollar, which indicates its more cost effective to have a negative trade deficit with other countries. Which means our economy is strong.
Trumps underlying premises r screwed up
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we need to borrow notes from the south park movie, and invade Canada.
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@fauxlaw
Do you feel a special spot in your gut when you make random declarations like we need to take a chain saw to federal staff? Is that how you think through policy? Look up the term truthiness... it applies to your level of thinking.
. If you want to question me on a specific fact ive provided, I will happily fact check you and show you you're wrong. I've supplied lots of facts and figures. You provide none. I'm not going to write a dissertation debate to educate you, facts don't matter to you anyway. And It's not my job to educate you.
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@Greyparrot
How would you measure successful states and unsuccessful states? Blue states make more money and are more educated and live longer than red states. If that's not what counts, how are you measuring it?
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@fauxlaw
Youre missing the points. The method trump is using is screwed up. Even if we cut the agencies by 75 percent, the agencies are better equipped to make that call than random slashing by musk. Hes eliminating a lot of crucial people. Also you are missing that it's irrelevant how much we cut, I mean yes we should cut some, if they don't find large ticket items to cut. Medicaid being cut for example would be a necessary and big start but trump won't even acknowledge it. I guess we can pretend we're not cutting it while cutting it all along? That might work with the low information welfare queen red states. Compared to the test of the developed world we spend way less on taxes and there's all kinds of tax increases and loopholes we can atrack, in addition to measured spending decreases.
I might just add you to the pile of commenter's I don't l respond to, cause you struggle too much to make relevant arguments and respond to the critical ideas.
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I forgot to add. If the Republicans don't gut medicaid, the deficit won't get cut, and then the Maga base will blame RINOs for not cutting it. Totally predictable. Even tho the only way to do it is to gut medicaid, which largely would affect trumps base predominantly. In other words the magats don't realize they basically should be blaming the Republicans for not cutting the magat benefits. As is often said. Cause magats vote against their own self interest and don't know Jack about shit
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@Savant
So dems provide better social safety net and Republicans get people back to work... so we both agree on both counts that Republicans make the lives of the American people more like medival peasants?
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I think the root of the problem is that the way people get their news has become fragmented. Now there are many low information and bad information and pure propaganda news out there. It's not just a lack of credibility, each talking head has a different agenda to give their sheep. Before 2010, news sources were more standardized in educating people and setting the agenda. Plus a country in distress will always succumb to a demagauge strongman con man. Maybe we need a different form of government if a single man can cause as much dysfunction as trump. Rank choice voting, parliamentary systems, proportional representation, some ideas that come to mind
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cut the workforce? sure, but dont just start slashing it. set a goal, and say you want ten or twenty percent reduction in cost within six months, on the aggressive side. even if you insisted on fifty percent reduction, do it in an orderly way and let the people who know how the agencies are run, call those shots. when bill clinton cut the workforce of the feds, that's the way he did it. elon and trump are just firing really good talent and acting arbitarirly. what do MAGAts say? 'well we need a reduction in costs and trump is sticking to his word'. that's obviously something a brainwashed person would rationalize, cause there's no good argument that this is being done in a smart way. plus the fed work force is only a percent or so of our budget, so it's causing dysfunction with no real gain unless they can find a real way to cut the deficit
cutting medicaid and food stamps etc? trump has insisted that medicaid wont be touched. the only way the republians can cut the 1.5 trillion they want per year, is to cut medicaid, there's no question about that. it's basic math. when you point out to trump supporters that the only way to do this math is to cut these vital programs that affect red states the most, they deny it. if medicaid gets axed, will they change their tune? they'll prob think it is necessary pain. every other developed world knows it's basic humanity to prvoide healthcare to the poor and disabled, so the ones that want it axed aren't more enlightened that the rest of the developed world, they're just brainwashed hacks.
does it help that the tax cut only benefits the wealthy and not the middle class? if they aren't too ignorant to know that, they dont care. does it matter that the tax cut is dollar for dollar dependant on cutting welfare programs and things for our society? they're usually too ignorant to know that, or they think pain is necessary, even though we spend less on taxes than the rest of the develeoped world already, and the bush and trump tax cuts spiraled the debt, where the economy would be growing much faster than the debt if they didn't do those tax cuts. this pain is totally self inflicted, in other words, but MAGAts dont know that, and wont care if you told them, as they are part of the cult.
we've had the first measles death in over ten years, when we thought we had it eradicated twenty five years ago. trump put an anti vaxxer in the spot to run the health agencies, which in addition he has no background in healthcare or policy. which is a recurring them with trump appointeees, comepletley no relevant experience in the agency they're running other than loyalty to trump. magats think expertise doesn't matter and loyalty to their dear leader is good enough. kids are dying because of the ignorant decisions of adults, back on the measels point. what does the anti vax leader say about it? those things happen all the time, even though that's verifiably untrue.
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We also take fewer vacations.
Questions, comments, words of wisdom?
Also which political party do you think makes this situation worse?
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They say there is a stronger than normal correlation between thigh mass and life span. Peobably because they r the biggest body muscles and aid in respiratory health
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@Double_R
gotta give Double props for fighting the good fight, against impossible odds
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@Mharman
Plus I think if there's ways to cut costs the businesses would already be doing it. They're not out of goodwill spending more than they have to
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@Mharman
You could say that about any tax. Should we just not tax the wealthy cause they'll Weasel out of the consequences? Are you sure you wouldn't be the one against what we already have as the highest tax bracket, which as far as i can tell is working fine yet youd be agaisnt? Instead of wealth taxes where all the richest of the country are, do you prefer taxing income and sticking it to the working class who have no way to weasel out of it?
If u don't like the wealthy not paying taxes what would your solution be?
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@Mharman
I assume they'll grit their teeth and bear it. I don't think most do anything major over a two percent tax of their net worth, though I could be wrong.
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I'm libtarded so I fit in with the Maga retards
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