Comments by "daryl foster" (@darylfoster7944) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. She lost in 2016 because she's even more unlikable than Trump.
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  2. "I look at another American, and I want you to be fed." Open up your wallet bro, and feed that hungry American. Nobody is stopping you. What you really want is for somebody else to feed that hungry American, while you sit back and approve.
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  3.  @patton3338  not offended at all. It's actually comedic that they're so absolutely clueless, which was Rogan's point.
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  4. Jabs. The v-word should be used for those that actually work.
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  5. And he's also done more to remove child exploitation content in six weeks than previous management did in six years.
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  6. Some of them are still lost. I see those face diapers daily.
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  7. Also, it prevents socialization. Kids learn social skills partly by seeing facial expressions. That's how people communicate. And it instills fear of a virus, and fear of other people.
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  8. Her definition of hate and misinformation is anything with which she does not agree.
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  9. That's an insult to used car salesmen
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  10. The welfare state is a demotivator. Handouts, including payments in kind, have reached such a level that the income of the bottom quintile is now equal to that of the second quintile from the bottom.
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  11. Same for the face diaper mandates. No effect.
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  12. Covid proved that
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  13. It's whatever the woke types want it to mean. Their language is as fluid as their alleged gender.
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  14. There are enough laws on the federal books. This should be a state or local issue.
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  15.  @candyc.3163  pretty???
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  16. The Peter Principle rears its ugly head
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  17. My wife asked me how someone gets a job at the post office, and I told her you have to know someone who already works there.
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  18. Only when it's directed at them.
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  19.  @jankarlsson8341  I'm no Trump fan, but how did he make your life miserable from 2016-2020? Please name one thing.
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  20.  @NZVideoGuy  but it can't be the jab. Those deaths were all mere coincidences.
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  21. Their feelings don't care about facts.
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  22. Probably? Bet on it.
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  23. Every major city is blue. Doesn't matter what state it's in.
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  24. He won't need to, if Twitter steals YT's viewers.
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  25.  @timothyschule3831  I think about 20% really liked it, 20% hated it, and the other 60% just went along because it was too much trouble to bother.
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  26.  @booch326  they pull into the parking lot with the diaper already on. I'm always tempted to ask them if they plan to wear the stupid thing for the rest of their life, but sadly, a lot of them would probably say yes. The brainwashing is complete. It's a mass psychosis.
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  27. Dunning-Kruger
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  28. Back in my day, it was sticks and stones... People today have such thin skin.
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  29. It was decent. Amazing is a stretch.
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  30. Well, at this point, at least 90% of what the federal government does is unconstitutional, so reversing course is an impossibility. The majority of Americans favor big government, and are ignorant of/apathetic to the debt, so the outrageous spending continues.
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  31.  @tyayasgur  I believe that roughly half of voters vote strictly party line.
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  32. "Anyone who watches the movie would have no idea." Except for "her" Adam's apple. Do they put a prosthetic over the neck to hide it?
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  33. Except for the short term after effects lol
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  34. I don't think the medical profession is too concerned with ethics anymore. Witness the last three years. They either willingly participated, or were silent for fear of losing their job.
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  35. FDR was an invalid. I'm more concerned with his lack of coherence.
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  36. Unfortunately he was elected only after the situation became so dire that people were willing to say, wtf, we have nothing to lose at this point. It was a Hail Mary that happened to be the right choice, probably by dumb luck.
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  37. Surprised that CNN allowed him on. Probably won't happen again.
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  38.  @DizGuys  Exactly. Civil disobedience. The lockdown would end instantly.
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  39. I wonder what a Covid do over would be like with the dissidents not being silenced.
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  40.  @crocodilegrundee4514  YT censorship is disgusting.
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  41. Who knows what's happening to all these weapons we're sending. It's hard to imagine that Zelensky and his cronies aren't pocketing something.
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  42. I think it was Hayek who called it the "fatal conceit".
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  43.  @taliabraver  they think TikTok is the real world
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  44. Newsom probably in 2028. Mr Reparations himself.
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  45. Click bait
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  46. Anyone who has had Covid, or anything else, repeatedly in a span of just two years needs to do some serious work on their immune system. I haven't taken the magic potion, and haven't been sick once, after going to stores, restaurants, sporting events, etc hundreds of times. Also haven't had a cold in almost ten years. The last two years have demonstrated the epidemic of unhealthiness in the U.S., and globally as well.
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  47. The actual quote is “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
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  48. If he's lucky. I wouldn't be surprised if he was fired.
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  49. Throw in Agriculture, HHS, and all of the other alphabet soup into Ron's list. And shrink that $858B defense budget by quite a bit.
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  50. I think it's called virtue signaling
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  51.  @randallsimmons391  it's more like we convinced them to let us be there. And whether they want us there or not is irrelevant. It's unnecessary for defense of the U.S.
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  52. Isn't that heterophobic?
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  53. It's unfortunate that it takes a situation of absolute desperation before people will abandon their idiotic, failed policies.
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  54. When your only concern in life is staying alive, then you might as well be dead.
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  55. She's not a doctor, but she stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
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  56.  @nickyalousakis3851  it's progressive for the criminal. For the rest of us, not so much.
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  57. It does to Democrats
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  58. But they act like the majority are gay, when it's in fact a very small percentage of the population. I think there's probably an inordinately high percentage of gays working in the entertainment business, and they seem to believe that the content should reflect their demographics instead of those of their viewers.
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  59. 1% seems high to me
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  60. No, it was a constitutional republic
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  61. Anyone born after the 1960s has lived with the nanny state their entire lives. It's like a drug; they don't know how to survive without it.
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  62.  @TeamHans  and feminism. And transgenderism.
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  63. Elon won't stoop to their level. He has more important things to do.
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  64. All throwing pizza simultaneously
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  65.  @kinjunranger140  there are almost three million federal employees, with an average salary of $106k plus benefits. That's roughly $450B, hardly a pittance.
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  66.  @JimmyJimmyRiddle  I would recommend the book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care
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  67. Isn't that a mall store?
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  68. Where does the doctor come into play? Do they not have an ethical responsibility to say no, in certain circumstances?
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  69. To not be able to open a bank account, you have to have over drafted your account repeatedly or done something similar, so as to completely trash your bank credit.
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  70. Still true today
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  71. George Carlin — 'Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.'
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  72. Conspiracy theories have a way of turning into reality
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  73. Interest rates weren't kept low for over 10 years because of excess inventory. They were kept low so the government could borrow and spend like drunken sailors.
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  74.  @debanydoombringer1385  also, the quality of the employees tends to drop off as the hiring inflates.
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  75. I don't agree with this woman, but we have active duty military personnel in 178 countries.
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  76. Like "safe and effective". Funny how I don't seem to hear that much anymore.
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  77. And it hasn't appreciably affected the poverty rate. Who could have guessed?
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  78.  @artstrology  that's temporary. User engagement on X has increased, and it functions much better than before.
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  79. RFK won't fix health care. We need a free market solution.
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  80. Also, might have something to do with paying a lot more taxes when you're older. When you're in college, it's easy to be in favor of spending other people's money.
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  81. Maybe it should be a Seinfeld episode
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  82.  @243SUGARCUBE  that's temporary. Wait until she makes a fool of herself debating.
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  83.  @nathanielalgernon975  yeah, that's a great strategy. Vote based on skin color. I'm sure 90% of black people will vote for Harris for that reason only.
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  84. I love the line from Atlas Shrugged: "There's no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it."
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  85.  @4TIMESAYEAR  like free donuts if you got the vax? When 80% of the Covid deaths are fat people. It would be comical if it weren't so pathetic.
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  86. Safe is a euphemism for butt hurt, when someone says something that upsets their narrative. Liberalism used to mean tolerance, but they have become very intolerant.
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  87.  @ronwatford7331  you're arguing semantics. The majority of the population lives in cities. Elections are decided by people, not land masses.
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  88. Those three companies do not own 88% of the S&P 500. They have a total of $21T under management, and that's not just stocks. They have cash, bonds, real estate, and probably some other stuff. The value of the S&P is $37T.
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  89. The immediate concern is to rid the Congress of the Democratic majority in November. Then Biden becomes a lame duck. He is not going to win in 2024, no matter what, in fact he may not even run. His own party is already turning against him.
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  90. The second question is, are they constitutional? Even if the department of education were bringing value, I would still want it to be abolished.
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  91. "health care" is a widely overused and misused term. There's very little care that's actually about health. It's more like medical treatment and experimentation.
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  92. No, cut the work force. X fired 80% of its employees, and it's working just fine.
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  93. And balancing the budget
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  94. Jimmy "turn down your thermostat" Carter
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  95.  @bricaaron3978  my method is more restrictive than yours. I say you pay $100 tax, you get 100 votes. You pay $1 million, you get 1 million votes. I'm not sure about the feminism part, but social welfare seemed to begin shortly after women got the right to vote. They are the driving force behind government handouts.
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  96. She's promising free stuff. People will always vote for that.
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  97. Not sure it's less important, it just has a different type of value.
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  98. It reminds me of the scene in Midnight Express, in which the inmates are walking the wheel, and the main character starts walking in the opposite direction.
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  99. The hotel will be completely trashed by these people. Then the hotel owner will have to file insurance claims or chase the city for damages. Also, what if none of the hotel owners want to participate in this madness? Will they be forced? If I owned a hotel, I sure as hell wouldn't do it.
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  100.  @user-om4wm4ky9h  what should we have done? Absolutely nothing. We should have left both of them in Russia to serve out their terms. You break the law in another country, you pay the consequences. Her excuse that she packed her cannabis inadvertently doesn't ring true.
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  101. There are a lot of those going around: transgenderism, DEI, climate, Covid
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  102. Tesla has built 2234 supercharger stations in 12 years. That's an average of 186 per year. The government is averaging 3 per year.
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  103. If his kids were actually jabbed, then he's just a first class idiot. The risk/reward is so heavily skewed toward risk, you would have to be completely lacking in reasoning ability in order to subject your kids to the magic potion.
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  104. It may have been a pandemic, but that pretty much ended in May. It's now endemic, like flu. The number of deaths each month is comparable to a bad flu season, like 2017-18.
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  105. Most politicians accomplish very little. America succeeds in spite of them, not because of them.
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  106.  @hectorgodinez  the government raising kids. I'm sure that worked out great.
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  107. I saw a statistic recently about people at college, I think it was from 2000 to now. The number of students and professors has increased by a single digit percentage, but the number of administrators has risen by 87%.
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  108.  @1320crusier  technically they don't infringe on others' rights. They get the politicians to do it for them.
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  109. Vote with your feet
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  110. It will work until it doesn't
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  111.  @bricaaron3978  "they don't even look good on paper." Exactly. Decades of empirical evidence demonstrates that they're an abysmal failure. Unfortunately he's never read a history book.
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  112.  @Elenavkuznetcova  more like a sheep
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  113. There are plenty of people who still believe in face diapers, and would gladly put them back on if so ordered. The people in that room look middle aged, not like students.
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  114. They're not going to teach the Bible in school for obvious reasons. That belongs in other venues.
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  115. Pronouns too
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  116. The sadder thing is that both parties think that more government meddling in medical care is going to solve anything.
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  117.  @guntertorfs6486  no it doesn't
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  118. Trump never even pretended to be a fiscal conservative. He approved reckless spending at every turn.
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  119.  @robertdouglas8895  It's Omicron, not omega, but it's hard to keep track of all those Greek letters. Taking responsibility for one's own health takes effort. Easier to blame others. Funny how none of these psychotic germophobes wore masks pre-Covid. If they're so effective, why did I not see these hypocrites with their faces covered? Apparently it's ok to kill Grandma with the flu.
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  120. And trust them in a crisis, no less. They have trouble fixing potholes.
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  121. In California, they paid people to snitch.
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  122.  @donnahankins8451  that's what empires do
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  123.  @mjones4083  unless their Covid tests, after they were jabbed four times
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  124.  @bobby123321bvbv  technically, unless you live in a swing state, your vote is meaningless.
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  125. I'm not aware of any politicians, at least in the Uniparty, who are advocating for smaller government.
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  126.  @Micloren  Exactly. This leviathan didn't spring up overnight. It's been slowly expanding for a century.
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  127. In 1960, the majority of black kids had two parents in the home. Now the majority do not. There have been active efforts to make men superfluous.
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  128. It's the same ones who put a Ukraine flag or a selfie with face diaper on their Facebook page.
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  129.  Sick_Pencil  but what did they die fighting for? Probably not freedom and democracy. They were mostly thugs who wanted to unseat the thugs who had the power.
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  130.  @eddarby469  what allies are we defending? England? France? Don't think there's a threat of them being invaded. Your imperialist, policeman of the world view is nonsense, and in addition, we can't afford it.
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  131.  @eddarby469  military should be defunded. Then it can serve its actual purpose of defending America, not $hitholes on the other side of the planet.
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  132. Joe was just keeping some on hand in case Hunter dropped by.
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  133. Should change the name to New Woke City
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  134. The only way to vote is with your feet. Pointless to do it at the ballot box when you're outnumbered 80 to 20.
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  135. What is the time period for these cuts? If it's done in 2-4 years, then it's valuable, but if it's spread out over 10 years or more, it will have little effect.
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  136.  @jt-rex6972  teaching and HR. Those are the two professions that the mostly female activists pursue, in order to back door push their agenda.
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  137. Especially true for women. Single women are overwhelmingly liberal, but a much higher percentage of married women are conservative.
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  138. That's like buying two of something when you only needed one because you got a 10% discount.
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  139.  @FJBandtheHOherodeinwith  Each lawyer may request the dismissal of an unlimited number of jurors for cause. Each request will be considered by the judge and may or may not be allowed.
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  140. Then the kid's parents will probably hire a lawyer and file a discrimination lawsuit
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  141. Obamacare premiums are highly subsidized if your income is low.
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  142.  @jeronp420  what's your definition of asylum? Someone coming from a poor country is not asylum.
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  143.  @JohnSmith-ux3tt  not all, but far too many
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  144. Even Australia, which was CCP lite for two years, has dropped its jab requirement to enter the country. Over 130 countries have dropped their requirements. Why the U.S. continues to enforce the jab mandate is beyond baffling. It must be political, to appease the covidiots in the party.
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  145. There aren't too many examples of government solving problems. If it did, it couldn't justify more funding.
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  146.  @eddarby469  that's why they're called entitlements. A kind of innocuous word, that disguises what they truly are. Happy holidays to you.
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  147.  @eddarby469  I think the stock market crash had something to do with putting the kibosh on SS privatization. I don't know how you convince the public that the debt is a problem. Even this recent bout of inflation doesn't seem to have convinced them that money printing is bad. The dilemma is that most Americans are feeding at the public trough in one form or another, and they don't want to give it up.
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  148.  @kevinrattigan6535  the inmates are running the asylum
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  149.  @Earthad23  their feelings don't care about facts
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  150. Tariffs aren't really pro-American, and both parties support them.
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  151. D deficiency is a worldwide epidemic, but it didn't get much airplay, even as those who were deficient were dying from the bogeyman virus at a much higher rate.
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  152. It's the driving force behind the equality of outcome narrative. Jealousy is a powerful emotion.
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  153. It's more like cackling than giggling
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  154. "where any crazy agenda coming from the top accepted by everybody without questions". Witness the last three years.
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  155. They certainly don't seem that interested in wellness. It's much more profitable to treat the chronically ill.
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  156. If you're sick, stay home. If you're really sick, go to the hospital. All the rest of it was pretty much noise.
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  157. There is a place. It's called California.
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  158. She means non-hispanic
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  159. I would also imagine that it's getting harder to attract employees.
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  160. The problem is, the lunatics in charge don't seem to comprehend how wealth is created.
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  161.  @reubenmcmurray4377  but each year, those repayments are a larger and larger percentage of the total pie, thus reducing the potential productivity of the nation.
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  162.  @shiroi5672  the vast majority of people who vote have chosen big government. They've decided that big, intrusive government is their salvation. That's why many major issues today are contentious, because we're deciding them by political means instead of civil. Whenever politics is involved, power becomes the most important commodity.
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  163.  @JamesBond-qv2ht  smaller government
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  164.  @Supsboredrn  but the subject they were discussing on the TV program was specifically about school shootings, and that is what he was addressing.
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  165.  @MrPGC137  I thought the same, but I doubt that N Korea would let him in
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  166. in N Korea, the government distributes cookbooks to the little people, detailing different ways to cook dandelions.
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  167.  @yt.damian  it's like potholes. When your country is poor, and all of the roads have potholes, that's just the way it is. But when you're wealthy and the roads are in good shape, everyone complains about the random pothole.
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  168. If the anthropologists are right, our distant ancestors all had melanin, so I believe we can all claim some "blackness" in our family tree.
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  169. Yeah, that daily sugar fix might have had something to do with it.
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  170. Ultimately the problem is big government, which hands out money to science. Hence, science, like many other areas of our lives, has become politicized.
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  171. Ultimately the problem is big government, which hands out money to science. Hence, science, like many other areas of our lives, has become politicized.
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  172. I like the WHO. They have some great songs.
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  173. Don't worry, it never did.
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  174. Politicians do what the majority want. In places like California, the people wanted lockdowns, jab and diaper mandates, so that's what the governor gave them.
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  175. When it comes to spending, there's only one party, the Big Government Party.
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  176. Our Congress critters were applauding him when he came begging for money a couple of weeks ago. Pathetic.
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  177.  @uncaboat2399  back in ancient American history, Presidents actually used to veto unconstitutional legislation.
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  178. Well, SF is proposing to make many of its black residents into millionaires.
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  179.  @samhilton4173  sorry, posting it 32 times doesn't make it so.
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  180. If the harm had been done last week or last year or even last decade, then it would have some legitimacy, but not two centuries ago. Half the people alive today probably have a distant relative who was oppressed, jailed, persecuted, or even killed. All of them could make a claim to reparations of some sort.
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  181. There probably won't be any money left to run the city after he and others receive their $3M. The City of Tampa doesn't have a printing press. Then there's that pesky little moral issue about forcing people to pay for something that occurred two centuries ago.
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  182.  @thenn869  then you're not listening very carefully
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  183. I disagree. That bill exists because it's exactly what the people want, at least the vast majority. Americans are in love with debt. They are in love with big government, and now we have one party, the Big Government party. How many Americans are eating at the public trough? Almost all, in one form or another. If people really wanted smaller, less intrusive government, they would vote Libertarian. Even after this recent bout of inflation, they still can't connect the dots that it was trillions of dollars of printed money that caused the inflation.
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  184. That's biblical nonsense
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  185. Could be one of the kids. Some of them think they're cats or dogs.
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  186. Searched how? Do they have drug sniffing dogs?
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  187. Clapping? They were cheering. But then, not really unexpected from a NYC crowd. They were for forced jabs and face diapers.
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  188. I borrowed a small amount 45 years ago to finish my senior year, and it was from a bank, not the government. My parents had to co-sign the loan, and I paid it back. I think kids today are taking loans with the expectation that either the loan will be forgiven or they will simply default.
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  189.  @PissedOffCanuck  he's very polarizing to many, even to some conservatives. And some of his policies are bad. From an economics perspective, he isn't really a conservative. I don't understand the love affair with a politician. As far as I'm concerned, if politics is at the top of anyone's priority list, then their priorities are mixed up.
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  190.  @sherryridlen9357  don't understand how your comment relates to what I wrote
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  191. @kinjunranger140  that's roughly 7% of the budget. What's your definition of a non-pittance?
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  192.  @JimmyJimmyRiddle  I'm sure the NHS has its own set of problems.
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  193. @klj2382  it can't be run like a business because a business has a profit motive. There is no motive to cut costs if there are no consequences for overspending. The only solution is mass layoffs, and liquidating of government property. You tell every government department that it has a year to remove 20% of its workforce, non-negotiable, and that wages on the remaining 80% will be frozen. If they don't like it, they're free to leave.
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  194. Cato has been promoting an initiative that would be modeled after the Base Realignment and Closure commission. There would be an independent, nonpartisan commission whose spending recommendations would become law within 45 days unless the House and Senate pass a joint resolution to disapprove of the reform package. As such, the reform package would be enacted by default after presidential approval and without members of Congress being required to vote on it.
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  195.  @eeddieedwards3890  yeah, that's an option too. Either way, didn't go over too well with voters.
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  196. Covid proved that.
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  197. I think ramen is even cheaper
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  198. Are you projecting your opinion on others?
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  199. Each lawyer may request the dismissal of an unlimited number of jurors for cause. Each request will be considered by the judge and may or may not be allowed.
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  200.  @jeffpowell8308  the fetus being a symbiotic life is a fact. Each woman has to decide for herself what that means. That's what I mean by nebulous.
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  201.  @jeffpowell8308  this is a nebulous issue, and probably always will be. An independent human life vs a symbiotic life. Everyone has their own definition.
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  202. Brilliant!
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  203.  @iamkesha.  it's working better, because the employees who stayed actually want to accomplish something.
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  204. Climate change is largely nonsense. Watch the Tom Nelson podcasts if you're actually interested in the science.
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  205.  @bricaaron3978  I agree with your last statement. As for land taxes, wealthy people own the majority of the land, so they would still pay the majority of the taxes. That was also true in the 18th century, so the Founding Fathers were knowingly excluding many people from the vote. In today's society, is a homeowner considered a landowner? Some would say no, since they have to pay property taxes in perpetuity. My argument, right or wrong, is more about a person's say in government being proportional to the amount of tax they pay.
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  206.  @bricaaron3978  I didn't mention that, but I've given it a lot of thought. Clearly there are issues with one man, one vote. Perhaps we should get votes in proportion to how much taxes we pay.
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  207. There is a shortage of housing due to zoning restrictions and all sorts of heavy handed building regulations. Interest rates on credit cards are high in order to cover all the fraud and deadbeats who default.
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  208.  @MarkNOTW  CO2 does not trap heat. CO2 absorbs outgoing radiation, and converts it to heat, which is transferred to the upper atmosphere by convection.
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  209. Obamacare premiums are extremely low if you have low income.
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  210.  @tranquilitybase8100  It's called freedom. You can surrender yours if you would like. There's more to living than just staying alive. How long will you tolerate being stepped on? Is five years too long? How about 10? 20? By the time you and the clown politicians feel safe, your life of misery will be over, and you'll be lying on your death bed wondering why you squandered your precious little time on Earth.
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  211. Economics is clearly not their forte.
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  212. The Peter Principle at work
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  213. What could be wrong with handing people $25k to buy a house? That couldn't possibly have any negative consequences.
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  214. More like Peanut
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  215.  @beverlythompson7046  I would pay for her ticket
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  216.  @Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms  exactly. Kim Jong Un lives extremely well.
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  217. Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor
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  218. They changed the definition of vaccine.
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  219. I like Italian dressing on my word salad.
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  220. The first $13M of an estate is tax exempt, so unless your father is extremely wealthy, there won't be any tax owed.
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  221.  @tjthomas01  Undocumented immigrants cannot get most state and federal public benefits, but these benefits are still available to their citizen children. For example, if you are an undocumented immigrant, you are not eligible for Food Stamps, but you can apply for Food Stamps for your citizen children.
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  222. We shouldn't be giving anything to anyone, foreign or domestic.
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  223.  @06barcafan10  you were wasting your time. Performance and efficiency are not a part of government in any way, shape, or form. Their goal is to spend as much as possible, so they can get more the following year.
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  224.  @PigNathe  you want an answer, or was the question rhetorical?
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  225. I'm surprised Motel 6 is only $80 in L.A. I would have expected double or triple that.
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  226. A lot of the mental hospitals that used to exist were shut down due to budget constraints. So if a crazy person is deemed to not be a threat to others, they are put out on the street. As for the drug addicts and alcoholics, if they choose to live outside, then load them onto buses, drive them outside city limits, and drop them off. They can live and defecate in nature.
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  227. The air travel ban was supposed to expire in January, but for some unknown reason, the administration extended it another three months. It has to be purely political, because there is zero scientific basis for this nonsense. Canadians and Mexicans crossing by land are not being checked.
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  228. The petition was immediately condemned as right wing, which is the equivalent of getting the left to admit that they don't support the first and second amendments. Elon is playing 3D chess with the left.
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  229.  @susanjones7734  money for American citizens? You shouldn't be getting money either. This argument about who deserves to eat at the trough is an empty one. Nobody should be receiving money from the federal government.
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  230. Oppenheimer looks pretty good
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  231. Monty Python and Benny Hill both did skits dressed as women, and they were pretty f'n funny
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  232. Pork. Lots of pork. And then there's the additional $50B in weapons to Ukraine. They didn't even bother to hide that. Now we're going to be funding a 10 year proxy war with Russia. Afghanistan 2.0
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  233.  @edross2826  I think she's on the short bus.
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  234.  @julylynn  but it's not a riot when you change the definition to "social justice". Words like pandemic and vaccine also got new definitions.
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  235.  @theophrastus3.056  you can look at the state of government housing (the projects), and see that it didn't turn out well. They're all taken over by drug gangs, who then extort money from the people who live there.
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  236. How about government spending lower? Can't keep cutting taxes and increasing spending.
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  237.  @zaknefain100  I wasn't trying to make a political statement either. It is a fact that single women, which is largely a 18-40 year old demographic, vote almost exclusively Democrat, and the ones that go to college tend to be in areas of study in which the professors are about 90% liberal, such as social sciences, marketing, education. So their exposure, indoctrination, whatever you want to call it, is much greater than for men.
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  238. But she's not a diversity hire. Absolutely not.
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  239. There are a few politicized screeching baboons that still watch them.
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  240. The Creature from Jekyll Island
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  241.  @PaulStringini  +1000 on your comment. The virus is trivial at this point, with all of the scared little pussies having gotten the shot. The fear psychosis that has enveloped the country, the planet, is the only clear and present danger. The willingness of these thugs in charge to violate our rights without a second thought is straight out of North Korea. I never thought I would live to see the day that free societies would shit on their own citizens.
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  242.  @dugnice  and most likely they were infected by another recipient of the shot. Look what's happening in Israel. Shots, boosters, mass compliance, and their hospitals are full of the so-called protected.
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  243. That's what these tyrants and bullies can't seem to comprehend. Freedom is more important than ALL other considerations. A society can survive a virus. It can't survive the loss of freedom. Once gone, it will never be regained. The thugs in charge value safety over freedom.
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  244.  @signsofplay  you're assuming that some guy would actually want it
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  245.  @mitchelsnodgrass7028  all I can say is, read the history. Secession wasn't just about slavery, it was also about states' rights and tariffs. Also, Lincoln didn't free the slaves until two years after the war started, and it only included slaves in the seceding states, not in border states. The amount of collateral damage that was done as a result of the war was immense. The South was basically destroyed for decades. 2% of the population died in the war, and another 5% were injured.
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  246. He hasn't done anything yet
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  247. What are they feeding those kids? Soda and junk food. And the parents are obese because they eat the same crap.
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  248. I assume you meant guns
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  249. Why wait until after birth? They can just grow them in a pod, like in the Matrix.
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  250. But the extremists don't want him in their club. Showing true hypocrisy toward their inclusivity doctrine, they reserve the right to decide who belongs and who doesn't.
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  251. @@therealgoody it's always a good idea to let the government decide who and what is essential, as history shows us.
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  252. A year or two ago, you couldn't go an hour without hearing "safe and effective". Nowadays, not so much.
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  253. And the sad part is that he was the best the Dems could offer.
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  254. Ultimately, the state of the economy will decide the election, not some political speech. When the economy sucks, incumbents lose.
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  255.  @joevarga5982  the inflation we've experienced the last three years is built in. Neither Trump nor Harris can roll that back. If Harris is concerned about future inflation, then she should do something about the deficit spending. Handing out loans to people who can't pay them back is not a solution. We've already tried that with student loans.
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  256. The fans don't care either. All they want to see is the best players.
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  257.  @dougsimmons3768  it's commensurate
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  258. Escape from NY
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  259. At the top of his platform will be reparations
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  260. Liberal logic. Now there's an oxymoron.
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  261. Many asylums across the country have been closed over the decades, as states and counties tightened their budgets. Any patient that was deemed to not be a threat to others was put out on the street. Many of the homeless belong in the nut house. The rest of them should be loaded onto buses, driven to the edge of town, and dropped off.
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  262. A real life Atlas Shrugged
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  263. Gavin "reparations" Newsom
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  264.  @LilyGazou  CEOs work incredibly hard. You have no idea. The amazing thing is that we can even find people to take that job.
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  265.  @phillipmcneely8384  what a load of crap
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  266.  @thebluelunarmonkey  yes,the flying spaghetti monster has a big plan lol
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  267.  @bertblue9683  that's not true. The average size home as of 2021 was 2273 sq ft, so there's no way a starter home is larger than that.
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  268. They want the future. Summer is just a starting point.
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  269. Envy is one of the hallmarks of the left
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  270. If gender and sex are not the same, then mutilating one's body to have them match seems quite hypocritical. The people supporting the ideology don't seem to have an explanation for this particular piece of illogic.
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  271. Sociopaths are never sorry
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  272.  @dangeroreilly2028  Kim and his buddies eat steak and caviar, and drink fine wines.
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  273. Do sheep wear nose rings? This girl resembles one.
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  274. Maybe educated in the sense of having memorized stuff, but not in the sense of being able to think.
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  275. The Asch conformity experiment was another good one showing how easily people will go along with the crowd.
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  276. It's not really a matter of time. They just don't care. The Republicans gave up on fiscal responsibility decades ago. Now we effectively have one party, the Big Government party.
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  277.  @TheFirstTriplefife  thanks for clarifying. iPhone global market share is 23%, certainly a minority, but not a "relatively small few". I think some people don't leave Apple because once you're enmeshed in their ecosystem, it's a pain in the a$$ to switch.
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  278. @@nathanrobinson862 for last fiscal year, Florida ran a $22B surplus. Did it occur to you that spending is up because the population is increasing?
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  279. Equality = equality of opportunity Equity = equality of outcome
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  280.  @guntertorfs6486  government meddling in medical care is counterproductive and inefficient. American doctors have plenty of freedom on how they treat patients. Americans with insurance don't pay an arm and a leg, have no clue where you got that idea. They pay a deductible of their choosing. A higher premium equates to a lower deductible. Your system relies on rationing, and wage and price controls. Europe's entire philosophy is to support the lowest common denominator person, at the expense of everyone else.
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  281. @Solid Snake those were the sheep who took the jab
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  282.  @yew2oob954  what does that make you?
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  283. The people of the Western world are to blame. They have supported big, intrusive government for decades, thinking it was going to be their salvation. A benevolent overlord that would come to the rescue to solve their problems and make life fair. Now the end result is a highly politicized society, in which issues are addressed by whichever group has the most power.
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  284. Like when the BBC "journalist" interviewed Elon about hate speech on Twitter, but couldn't give an example.
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  285. Instead of jacking up wages artificially, why not address the problems that are causing the high cost of living? Like all the zoning and building restrictions, that drive up the cost of housing. And the governor's stupid policy, driving up the cost of energy. In the last four years, California's local oil and gas production has declined by 29%, primarily due to state and local energy policies shutting down production.
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  286. You can apply that comment to Covid, or many other things the government has done. People completely clueless of what's being perpetrated.
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  287. Ah yes, the so-called experts. The ones who told us that everyone was at risk. The ones who told us that masks work. The ones who told us that taking the magic potion would eradicate the virus. Unfortunately we still have many who take these experts seriously.
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  288. Get politics out of sports. If I want politics, I'll turn on one of those Sunday morning news shows.
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  289. You mean the ones who major in gender studies?
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  290. That's not very much. 100 people die every day in car crashes. The most serious problem in the U.S., by far, is big government.
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  291. Yes
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  292. And endless proxy war with Russia. Didn't we try that already in Afghanistan?
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  293.  @tylerberks2756  your comment is so wrong that I can't bother to refute it
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  294.  @tylerberks2756  taxes and regulations have been reduced, but welfare exploded.
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  295. Is that actually a room full of face diaper wearers in 2024? You couldn't fix stupid back in 2021, and nothing has changed since then.
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  296.  @johnhood9567  not likely. The book was written in 1950, and he has been acclaimed as an excellent, accurate historian. He doesn't deny that Jesus existed, although it's not 100% certain that he did. He doesn't make any mistake in his analysis. He simply points out that religion uses supernatural myth to enforce its principles, because it's the most effective means of controlling the most people.
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  297.  @johnhood9567  if I had the answer, I'd be extremely wealthy, however, a made up, supernatural entity isn't a good enough explanation.
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  298. I've been reading a lot of history about the times that different religions developed, and how they were used as a way to control behavior. In those times, religion and the state were viewed as a single entity. Historian Will Durant has a good description: "The historic function of Christianity was to re-establish the moral basis of character and society by providing supernatural sanctions and support for the uncongenial commandments of social order; to instill into rude barbarians gentler ideals of conduct through a creed spontaneously compounded by myth and miracle, of fear and hope and love. There is an epic grandeur, sullied with superstition and cruelty, in the struggle of the new religion to capture, tame, and inspire the minds of brute or decadent men."
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  299.  @pionmol  it didn't come out of nothing. Energy turned into matter.
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  300. I think it was Carlin: "the planet will be fine, it's the people who are f'd"
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  301. That was hideous
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  302. The people running the country were elected by people who support these views. Politicians are just carrying out the will of the voters. Unless you have a way to deindoctrinate the masses who think that shoplifting, homeless drug addicts, reparations, etc are good things, then the insanity will continue.
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  303.  Sick_Pencil  yeah, certainly a lot of wars fought over religion. Funny enough, the Muslim sects can't even get along with each other.
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  304.  @forresthunt9573  the vast majority already have relatives here. Coming here by yourself is virtually impossible.
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  305.  @alexjones7845  I never specified an actual number that should be allowed, but I don't understand an arbitrary limit. If people are going to come here and be productive, then they should have an opportunity to get in. If you don't have relatives already living here, it is virtually impossible. Getting in can take many years. That's clearly part of the reason for the illegal immigration.
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  306. True, but we need massive immigration reform. It is virtually impossible to enter legally.
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  307. The flying spaghetti monster had nothing to do with it. Trump won because the Democrats didn't show up to vote. Straight facts, no divine intervention required.
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  308. Most people aren't reasonable minded and smart. Politics is about who can manipulate the most morons.
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  309.  @KA-wu2kt  isolationist? You're not serious. Would you like a list of all the conflicts with which we've been involved since WW2? It's a really, really long list.
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  310.  @rosessonata8326  yes, it's irrelevant, because we shouldn't be there
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  311.  @theefleur  the sons are not responsible for the sins of the fathers, or in this case, great, great, great, great, great grandfathers
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  312.  @eddarby469  your view of history needs a refresh
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  313. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged. Rand knew about the evil abusing the virtuous in the name of equality.
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  314. I saw a video which discussed the "common knowledge" problem. It's not enough to have people whispering amongst themselves that something is stupid or patently untrue. That just makes it public knowledge. In order for something to become common knowledge, you need what's called a missionary to stand up and announce it to the world in such a way that it becomes obvious to virtually everyone. The classic example is the Emperor's New Clothes. It wasn't until the little girl declared that the emperor was naked that all the adults could finally admit the truth.
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  315. Or greedy people. All wars generate wealth for those who know how to play the game, whether it's BLM in the race wars, or the military industrial complex in Ukraine.
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  316. Click bait is now the standard for all YT videos
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  317. The bulk of the inflation was caused by Covid money printing, which occurred under both administrations. The effects of the money weren't felt until 2022.
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  318. Trump was ok, but the "fact" is that things were better prior to Covid. Then government shutdowns and reckless money printing caused high inflation. Both parties supported and voted for that spending, although more of the actual spending took place under Biden's watch. As for immigration, the border certainly needs to be controlled better, but we also need major immigration reform. Part of the reason so many people try to come here illegally is that it's virtually impossible to get in legally.
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  319. The Chinese are attempting to prolong the inevitable, which is to let a virus run its course. Australia was dumb enough to try emulating China for far too long, but eventually it gave up. It is a lunatic policy enacted by lunatic leaders, with no end game possible.
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  320. The media pushed the authoritarian crap from day one. They were the primary tool of the mass formation. You think they're going to speak out against the narrative that buttered their bread for two years?
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  321.  @MS-ns2pj  I don't know. The guy currently in the White House is mentally unfit.
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  322.  @MS-ns2pj  not a hard choice. Carter's solution to the energy problem was to turn down your thermostat and wear a sweater.
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  323. A leftist since birth? Is that a genetic condition? Sort of like being born Christian, Muslim, or some other religion? You were indoctrinated by your parents, and it took you decades to think for yourself. The concept is baffling to me, taking on the beliefs of family members without question.
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  324. Really? Who's questioning the $4T budgets, and $31T debt?
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  325. He said the elites tried to tell us what to think and it didn't work. Really? Witness the Covid mass formation.
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  326. Our leaders don't lead anything, they follow. The majority of Americans want big, unconstitutional, intrusive government that will give them something for nothing, or at least the perception of something for nothing. They elect politicians that promise to give them what they want. If people wanted small government with low taxes and regulation, then they would have had it.
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  327. If the Democrats realized how stupid some of their ideas are, and the Republicans realized how stupid some of their ideas are, then we could elect some Libertarians, and roll back the nonsense of the last 100 years.
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  328. You have to be an ass kissing scumbag to reach that level. It's not some random happenstance.
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  329. They borrowed one from the Jimmy Kimmel show
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  330. Your taxes and medical care plan suck
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  331. Hunter's coke
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  332. So the kid can't memorize 7+6?
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  333.  @brocklastname6682  exactly. Trump approved the outlandish spending, just like the guys who came before him, and the guy who came after him.
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  334. The American people don't want a guy with that philosophy. They want to suck at the teat of big government. Yes, from a theoretical standpoint, you could shut down many of the alphabet soup of government agencies, and fire tens of thousands of useless government employees, but there would be an absolute uproar.
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  335. Or at least felt sorry for
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  336. It is mental illness, psychotic delusion. Period.
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  337. And the lefty wacko crowd was actually cheering. I swear, we are now living in bizarro world.
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  338. Personally, I got my advice from band members.
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  339. It's about taking control away from parents. It's that "it takes a village" mentality when it comes to raising kids. The experts claim they know what's best. These are the same idiots who recommend the jab for infants.
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  340.  @arscheerio  YT has deleted dozens of mine
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  341. Or the virus from wet market conspiracy, that was disguised as a "fact".
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  342.  @lolalashy6522  you are clearly a fanatic. Trump was an ok President, with plenty of bad policies, but certainly better than the current senile one. If your life revolves around politics, then your priorities are mixed up.
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  343.  @freya8133  your comment is nonsense. Democracy isn't hanging on by a thread. Trump lost, and he left the White House. Plenty of idiots voted for Biden, who is senile and incompetent. You're yet another person buying into the red team/blue team bread and circuses.
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  344. Virus came from wet market. Masks prevent spread. Jabs prevent spread. Inflation Reduction Act reduces inflation. Those are just a few off the top of my head. Of course, these theories are touted as "facts".
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  345. Tesla makes better cars. Better performance, features, safety, lower operating cost, and constantly updated to be even better. F the "save the planet" thesis. It's just a better value for the money.
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  346. At least there will be fewer bots
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  347.  @humaneleaguelancPA  what next? They're coming for your gas stove, then your ICE car, then they'll limit your airline flights. The slope is getting slippery.
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  348. New Woke City
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  349.  @ericwiese7479  why does he have to do that? There's all kinds of info readily available about what's wrong with health care.
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  350. Not to mention $1.1T in debt interest. Can't default on that or we're done.
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  351.  @susancohen8009  government is not a business, and it's not run like a business.
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  352. Leftists have redefined many words, like woman.
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  353.  @scottb4579  depends on your definition of socially liberal. My definition is freedom to do what you want, as long as it doesn't harm others. It doesn't mean government handouts.
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  354. When either party demands that the insane government spending come to an end, then there will be some actual conservatism.
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  355. The bar for being a conservative has gotten pretty low. When the conservatives stop agreeing to spend money like drunken sailors, then I'll be convinced that people are waking up.
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  356. The majority of people are either stupid or willfully ignorant. Their decisions are based largely on emotion. Covid proved that in spades.
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  357. The Libertarians are the center. Both wings of The Big Government Party are extremists.
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  358. The state governments had something to do with influencing the last election. Governors and other state officials unilaterally changed voting laws, without the consent of their legislatures, which is a violation of the Constitution.
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  359. Bad actions have bad consequences
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  360.  @trulymental7651    your comment was probably deleted, or you're probably a woman???
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  361.  @trulymental7651  your comment was probably deleted, or you're probably a woman???
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  362. The Romans relied on a dominant military, and the ability to replenish their coffers with plundered wealth.
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  363. I think she was attempting to say that they're trying to figure out which technologies to subsidize, in their misguided attempt to pick winners and losers.
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  364. What is a potential lie? And what specific crimes has he committed?
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  365. Where's the Captain?
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  366. The woman says "I don't know what's next for me". I can tell exactly what's next for her. Obesity.
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  367. Electric cars that go 300 miles, cars that infrequently crash when the driver decides to not pay attention as instructed, and rocket ships to the ISS and deploying Star Link.
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  368. Yeah, those dumb Libertarians, who people laugh at, had the last laugh.
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  369. Drugging kids, like how many millions are taking stuff for ADD or ADHD or whatever?
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  370. That $50B a year that Biden wants to confiscate from billionaires won't put much of a dent in the $1.7T deficit that Biden and Congress have racked up. And there's no reason to believe that they would apply that money to the deficit. They would simply spend an extra $50B. This is about punishing the wealthy.
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  371. What is this deadliness to which you refer? Everyone knows it's safe and effective.
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  372.  @the1joyster  these congress critters are violating the constitution from their first day in office. They're simply giving the people what they want, which is big intrusive government.
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  373. Or better yet, the politicians should stick to their constitutional powers. It's not how long they're in office, it's how easily they violate their oath. If they actually did only the things they have the authority to do, they would spend most of their time doing nothing. But that's on the voters. They choose to elect people who wipe their a$$ with the constitution.
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  374. Grocer margins are extremely low. Harris is just using the evil corporation argument to con the ignorant.
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  375. Young people don't want to be farmers.
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  376. And who's going to teach them?
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  377.  @MarkNOTW  but it's not trapped. The earth is an open system. Heat escapes to outer space. The notion of CO2 warning the planet is not supported by science.
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  378.  @svenl.3314  your science is bad
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  379. The temperature isn't going up by 5.4 degrees this century. Lomborg focuses on the economic cost/benefit, but why try to justify the economics of something that isn't going to happen?
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  380. The Democrats lost because they didn't show up to vote. 14M fewer votes than last time. If half of those 14M showed up, Harris would have won. Most elections are decided on the state of the economy, and since, generally speaking, Democrats are wealthier, they didn't feel the economic pinch to the same degree. 2020 was an anomaly. I believe that the Democrats had record turnout because they were panicked by Covid, and Trump was the scapegoat.
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  381. In Communism, the government owns everything. Democrats still believe in people owning property, but they reserve the right to redistribute it to others.
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  382. In Communism, the government owns everything. Democrats still believe in people owning property, but they reserve the right to redistribute it to others.
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  383. In Communism, the government owns everything. Democrats still believe in people owning property, but they reserve the right to redistribute it to others.
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  384. In Communism, the government owns everything. Democrats still believe in people owning property, but they reserve the right to redistribute it to others.
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  385.  @dudsummon3803  The vulnerable were vaccinated months ago.
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  386. Or they move to Florida, where you can still actually live your life.
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  387. Abortion is a peripheral issue in this or any election. There is a tiny percentage of people who will vote this as their primary concern. The high price of food, energy, and rent is what will decide the election.
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  388. Kelce was doing tv commercials for the jab. We know what he's all about.
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  389. That's the hive mind mentality in a nutshell. It's better to belong than to think for yourself.
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  390. "We're still living in a pandemic", as he stands in big crowd without his face diaper. How long before that line is no longer accepted as valid? 10 years? 20 years? Are they waiting for the death count to reach zero?
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  391. The people of NYC would miss them. 7 of 8 New Yorkers believe the Times' propaganda.
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  392. She's also promising a handout to buy a house. That's a good way to attract dumb people.
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  393. All politicians lie
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  394. Gabbard left the Dems because she no longer liked their policies
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  395. More like a cackling hen
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  396. Actually immigrants commit fewer crimes per capita than American citizens, however that's not really relevant. People shouldn't be allowed to enter illegally, whether they're law abiding or not.
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  397. It's about $7-11, a lot less than a tank of gas.
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  398.  @carywhozawhastit2024  don't make excuses for your ignorance
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  399.  @carywhozawhastit2024  newer tesla battery packs last hundreds of thousands of miles. There are used EVs for sale. Do I know someone who personally bought one? No. People are struck by lightning. Do I know someone who was struck by lightning? No. Completely irrelevant. EVs are cheaper to maintain than ICE cars, far fewer parts.
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  400.  @bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953  When autonomous driving is perfected, you won't need to own a car. You'll call a ride on your phone. Owning a car is massively wasteful. It sits unused virtually all day.
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  401. There's no used market? That's why used Tesla's are selling above their new sticker price. And ICE cars catch on fire far more often than EVs. Educate yourself instead of regurgitating some nonsense you read on Twitter.
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  402. The numbers don't add up. If you charge a 60kwh battery pack, the electricity will cost roughly $7-11, and it will get you about 250 miles. If you own an ICE car that gets an average of 25 mpg, you will need to purchase 10 gallons of gas at a current cost of $40-50.
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  403. When you're at home, you charge in your garage. Tesla has a massive supercharger network that is expanding rapidly. You can find them on every highway.
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  404.  @haroldfarquad6886  The renewables crowd is living in a fantasy. Elon Musk estimates it will take 300 Twh to power the planet with electricity. Even if we could do it with solar, it will take decades to build the battery capacity. We will need nuclear and natural gas for a long time.
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  405.  @haroldfarquad6886  what's wrong with natural gas? We have centuries of supply.
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  406. What exactly is the impact of solar on the environment?
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  407.  @panchovillaMSK  I'm talking about sales. The percentage is rising exponentially.
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  408. Except that it's not 1%. BEV sales have surpassed the 5% mark in the U.S., and it's in the double digit percentages in Europe. 85% of new sales in Norway are EVs. New technologies follow an S-curve, which means the growth is exponential, not linear.
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  409. 95% of the battery material is recyclable. If a battery pack has a 20 year life, only 5% of the packs have to be recycled each year.
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  410. This is why Newsom wants to run for President. He knows that cities and states can't afford this insane plan, but the Federal government has a printing press.
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  411. The sons are not responsible for the sins of the fathers. Probably half the people alive today have distant relatives who were oppressed, enslaved, etc. Let's do a 4000 year analysis of human civilization, and pay money to all of them. Her argument is nothing more than thinly veiled theft.
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  412. College kids aren't convinced by facts, only feelings
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  413. The one thing that nobody is mentioning is that the Democrats lost because they didn't show up to vote. Those people didn't swing to Trump. Trump got over 2M fewer votes than in 2020. They simply didn't vote. My theory is that the record turnout for Biden in 2020 was due to Covid. The pandemic was at its height, people were panicked, the economy was a mess, you couldn't buy toilet paper, and the MSM convinced voters that it was all Trump's fault.
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  414. @nancyjanzen5676  the tariff is only 2.5%. The shipping cost is more than that.
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  415. The cost of living was lower because Covid hadn't happened. $6T of spending from both Trump and Biden caused the inflation.
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  416. The "people" put him in office, so they must like the ideas that he represents. They tolerated his virus tyranny, except for a small minority. If he is reelected, then the citizens will get exactly what they chose.
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  417. Maybe he's a closet gay
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  418.  @michaelgomez3044  many articles from the last week seem to indicate otherwise.
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  419. She has the black vote for sure, which Joe didn't necessarily have.
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  420.  @jtjones4081  survive, yes. Thrive, not necessarily. We can limp along in stagnant, no growth mode like the Euro countries.
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  421.  @piperp9535  first of all, that $75B isn't going to come from taxes, it's going to come from a printing press. There's a reason why we're running $1.5-2.0T deficits. Second, Ukraine funding has already exceeded $100B.
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  422.  @jeronp420  99.9% of the people streaming across the border are not political refugees. They are simply poor people trying to escape their miserable country.
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  423.  @jeronp420  asylum seekers? These are mostly just poor people trying to leave their sh1thole countries. That's not asylum.
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  424.  @jeronp420  asylum seekers? That's a tortured definition of the word. Asylum is for people who have been tortured, imprisoned, threatened with bodily harm. The people streaming across the border are simply poor people wanting to leave their sh1thole countries.
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  425. Ayn Rand repeats that theme that work isn't just about material wealth. It's about using the power of the mind.
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  426.  @marylee2732  Yes, let's live like people did 500 years ago. Sounds like fun. Good luck with that.
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  427.  @Undomaranel  why should you receive a bonus for doing what you were paid to do? I hear the same nonsense from people who recently retired, complaining because they didn't receive some big financial sendoff. Their company employed them and paid them a salary to do a job. Why should you or they get extra simply because you showed up? I don't get this attitude. Your employer owes you exactly what they agreed to pay you, and you accepted. If you didn't like your compensation, you were free to go somewhere else.
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  428. You received thousands of dollars in stimulus money, just like everyone else.
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  429. Lab grown meat? Try insects.
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  430. It's only a matter of time before they go begging to the Feds for money. It's like a real life version of Atlas Shrugged.
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  431. Are they forced to participate? Isn't that like a taking of private property for public use?
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  432. I wouldn't participate if I were a hotel owner.
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  433. I think the more accurate number is about 1/3.
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  434.  @AndrooUK  13% of American adults have taken an antidepressant in the last 30 days. Apparently we have a lot of people who can't deal with daily life.
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  435. Twitter has gone off a cliff? When Elon took it over, it was burning cash like a furnace. Now it's almost cash flow neutral. Facts don't care about her feelings.
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  436.  @madierose  individualism is what makes America great.
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  437. She is really freaking annoying to watch, like nails on a chalkboard.
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  438. The American people voted for the status quo, so they're getting what they asked for, big government. The average American either doesn't understand the effect of debt, or they simply don't give a damn. Until they're willing to give up their addiction to the nanny state, the ship will continue toward the iceberg.
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  439. The Biden administration
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  440. Canadians and Mexicans are legally crossing into the U.S. every day by land, and they're not being checked for the jab. For some reason, the mandate is only being applied to air travel, and it was just extended to April 10, no rationale given. It has to be political, to appease the covidiots in the Democrat Party.
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  441.  @Designingtransformation  maybe the info I read was incorrect. I was led to believe that they weren't checking anymore. Hopefully the April date for ending this nonsense will not be extended again.
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  442. I read that land border crossings from Canada and Mexico were no longer being checked for the jab. The restriction is for air travel. Have you tried crossing by car?
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  443. He's also trolling the whole left. It was immediately condemned as a right wing petition, which is the equivalent of getting the left to admit that they don't support the first and second amendments. Elon is playing 3D chess with the left.
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  444. Yeah, I always vote based on a politician's voice. lol
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  445. Nader was a nut
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  446.  @bmatthews15  that's a slippery slope. Sooner or later, the bans affect something you want and like. Some vocal minority will determine that it's not in your best interest. That's called tyranny.
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  447. Why? He's not conservative, and he's sure as hell not libertarian.
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  448. I don't see how the government can legally ban advertising for a legal product. The FDA is 65% funded by pharma. How about we end that little arrangement?
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  449. Other countries are run by even more radical leftists than we have here. His executive order to ban advertising would face constitutional challenge.
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  450. Your prayer and 80M votes will get him into office. You're wasting your breath with that prayer stuff.
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  451. The rest of the world is insane.
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  452. The FDA is 65% funded by pharma, but even if it were 100% taxpayer funded, it would put zero dent in the budget deficit, if removed. If you want to balance the budget, then cut the military by 50%, and wean people off of handouts.
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  453. No, it's mind boggling that it's disallowed in other countries, but then, they let incompetent government run medical care, so the ban is not surprising.
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  454. You guys are even more radical than the radical left in the U.S. No thanks.
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  455. Climate change is apparently now the cause of every problem on the planet. What a convenient excuse.
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  456. Climate change is the de facto excuse for every problem on the planet.
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  457. "they need to be settled elsewhere. It's a big country." Classic NIMBY. Maybe the desert would be an acceptable location for them.
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  458.  @susanjones7734  federal government isn't responsible for roads and schools, in fact it's responsible for very little. Should be cut by about 80%.
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  459.  @robhulson  left vs right, blue team vs red team is a distraction, it's bread and circuses for the largely uneducated masses. Freedom doesn't need to take sides. The Libertarians are the only rational ones left. The rest of society is run by extremists.
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  460. I've heard of getting into your role, but that would be the real deal
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  461. It will come with a strap-on
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  462. Politicians gain power by manipulating idiots. That's true throughout history.
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  463.  @julianisaac6004  always politics, which is ultimately tied to dollars. You're right, there are certain groups, like unions and gender/race fanatics that leadership won't piss off.
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  464.  @julianisaac6004  Catholic males were persecuted by Protestants when they came to the U.S.
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  465. The left sees everything through the lens of race and gender. It's become so tiresome and pathetic.
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  466.  @J.B-p9o  and a heavy dose of amphetamines right before the start
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  467.  @zarlok5294  no, actually I'm old, but your sarcasm escaped me.
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  468.  @zarlok5294  asylum seekers lol what planet are you living on?
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  469.  @eddarby469  some people care about the border. Nobody cares about the deficit or the debt. Nobody. If they did, the Libertarians would have received more than 1% of the vote. In fact, Americans love debt. They love it in their personal lives, and they love it when the government prints money. The Republicans haven't even pretended to care about debt since before Bush Jr.
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  470.  @diverseratman  well, the FBI told the media not to print the Hunter Biden story. You can decide if that was nefarious.
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  471. The Dems don't want the border closed. Those are future Dems coming in.
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  472. The debt has to be serviced, otherwise we default on our obligations. The issue is not making the debt larger, thus containing the debt service at current level. Another issue that is never discussed is that trillions of the debt is in short term instruments. As that debt is rolled over in this higher interest rate environment, the debt service increases even more.
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  473. The solution is to cut the size of government. Good luck selling that to Americans.
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  474. Ron Paul gave the facts for years, and nobody listened.
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  475.  @plastifiedmetal5682  we've had some pretty boring dudes as President in the country's history.
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  476.  @alexbrown5110  what will the U.S. do? Something stupid. What should it do? Nothing.
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  477. By "find more money", you mean print more money.
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  478.  @alexbrown5110  money to Ukraine benefits America? lol. It benefits the MIC.
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  479. We haven't given them a trillion yet, but give it more time.
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  480.  @lr9010  nonsense. You can live easily on $52k if you're single.
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  481. UC Berkeley? Now I know where she got her wokeness.
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  482. Did she somehow subliminally sneak in an answer to the question, and I just didn't hear it? Do you need special earbuds, or maybe play it backwards?
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  483. "everyone who menstruates". That is so cringe.
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  484.  @morbward8281  that's not power. She has no legal authority to enact anything.
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  485.  user-hy7vi5do5v  what power does the VP have?
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  486. Only through the passage of time
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  487. Harris is irrelevant. The election is Trump vs not Trump.
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  488. I didn't know you could charge your phone on a bus.
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  489. Not sure what she's selling, other than price controls and housing credits.
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  490.  @galloper1  it worked for Biden. He literally disappeared the last month or two before the election. This election is Trump vs not Trump. The reason Trump won in 2016 was because Hillary was even more disliked than he was.
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  491. The elites need to be starved out, literally. Shut down the gears of society. Refuse to deliver food. See how long these mfs last on an empty stomach.
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  492. They've hijacked our military to support this goon. What a disgrace. And the American people keep voting for these imbeciles.
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  493. They're essentially useless, which was actually known pre-Covid. That's why nobody wore them. I've read mask studies that have been done in the last 20-30 years, and they're largely inconclusive. The masking was done out of desperation. The people in charge probably figured it would give the masses peace of mind if they believed that they were protected. Air circulation is more effective.
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  494. And these obese people whine about the cost of medical insurance.
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  495. He travels by himself because nobody can stand to be with him.
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  496. No matter the hair and makeup, he stills comes across as an effeminate gay man.
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  497. If we had limited federal government as intended, the issue of some states forcing their beliefs on the rest of the country would become moot. Politics is power, and government is force. That was the point of the video.
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  498.  @killazilla44  not really. Almost all homeless are either mentally ill, drunk, or addicted. The mentally ill should be in a hospital, and the drunk and addicted have mostly chosen to drop out of society. They have no desire to work.
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  499. About 25% are mentally ill, and most of the rest are addicts and drunks. Governments decided to close down a lot of the mental hospitals, so those patients wander the streets.
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  500. California—a great enclave of wealth, power, and global influence—has both the highest homeless population and the highest poverty rate in the nation. For over two and a half years, Cato’s Project on Poverty and Inequality in California, led by senior fellow Michael Tanner, has explored how the state's government policies intended to help the poor actually keep them trapped in cycles of poverty.   It’s clear that addressing California’s out-of-control housing and homeless crises will require significant policy reform, and Cato is proudly leading the charge on this discussion. In October, we released a detailed report containing 24 specific recommendations for policy reform, addressing housing and homelessness, education and the workforce, criminal justice, welfare reform, and barriers to economic inclusion.   To better understand the crisis facing millions of Californians, our team has traveled to the state more than 20 times—not just to the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles but also to Central Valley and the High Desert—and built an ideologically diverse coalition of over 150 business and political leaders, academics, activists, and philanthropists. The team has also spoken with and listened to Californians living in poverty, from victims of mental illness and drug addiction who were abandoned by the state to graduate students and actors who were priced out of their own homes.     Cato has worked across partisan and ideological lines to discern the regressive regulations holding the state back. Top political players, including former San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, state senator Melissa Hurtado, San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, and Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, have given their support by acknowledging the necessity of building an economy that works for all Californians.     With the culmination of the project, Cato met with numerous local and federal policymakers, business leaders, and journalists to discuss recommendations for the state. Key takeaways from the project have already been cited by the San Francisco Public Library and have appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News. State Senator Syndney Kamlager, who represents south Los Angeles, stated at the Sacramento policy conference that “I took notes and intend to work closely with Cato on criminal justice reform.”    Many of the solutions presented in the final report are policies that Cato has been advocating for years, such as removing hurdles that prevent the growth of charter schools, repealing unnecessary occupational licensing laws, reducing barriers to entrepreneurship and economic entry, and ending exclusionary zoning. It is through these proposals that California may become what it has always said it was—the true land of opportunity.     Cato will continue working closely with policymakers, journalists, and business and academic leaders by offering liberty-based solutions to California’s government imposed inequality. As the project comes to a close, Tanner’s team will use the framework developed for California as a model to influence better public policy in states throughout the country.
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  501. He left out the part about how to pay for it. Fortunately, S.F. and the state of California don't have access to a printing press. If they did, Newsome would have been making full use of it. If he ever ends up in the WH, he will break all time records for creating money out of thin air.
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  502. Not really. Trump's economic policies are crap. He's just better than the senile fool currently inhabiting the WH.
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  503. Not really. Trump's economic policies are crap. He's just better than the senile fool currently inhabiting the WH.
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  504. The Libertarians are the only sane ones left. Red team/blue team has gone off the deep end.
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  505. Until after Floyd's funeral. Then Covid quickly retook the headlines.
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  506.  @JWH91969  We'll have to agree to disagree on the threats. As I said previously, cut the spending first, then when it's under control, you can think about lowering taxes. 47% of Americans don't even pay federal income tax. As for schools, that not a responsibility of the federal government. The Dept of Education should be abolished. As for kids being self reliant, that's not the job of government either.
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  507.  @JWH91969  We're spending far too much on military. There are no threats on the horizon. Other countries should be paying for their own defense instead of freeloading off of us. Lower taxes don't lead to less government, just bigger deficits. Reagan preached small government, but ended up caving in to Congress. The way to have smaller government is to spend less. It's so bloated that you could cut every department's budget by 20% and nobody would notice the difference except for all the dead weight that would be fired.
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  508. It's moot, not mute, but all drugs should be legal.
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  509.  @alvaroflores8831  the problem is that when you give up your rights for security, you're often not more secure, and you rarely get those rights back. From forced lockdowns and masks to forced vaccination is a very easy leap, and I fear that the people will go along with it. The cost of the lockdowns has far exceeded the cost of any extra deaths. When political decisions are being made, the costs need to be weighed against the benefits. It is a harsh reality that there is a dollar value to a life. Courts and insurance companies make this calculation every day. Saving lives at all costs sounds great in the abstract, but in reality it has done horrible damage to society. Your right to control your own health hasn't been compromised. You can simply stay in your house until you feel it's safe to come out.
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  510.  @daviddyson7359  You could argue that the 6% who allegedly died while healthy is even lower. If you look at the CDC website on pre-existing conditions, it lists 8 conditions that are at increased risk. It highlights "that are" in bold. Those are the risks that they're counting in the 2.6 comorbidities stat. Then they have another list of 12 conditions that " may be at risk". And I would add another, vitamin D deficiency, since multiple studies have shown a correlation between deficiency and bad Covid outcomes. I think it's safe to assume that a decent percentage, probably a majority of the 6% had one of those maybe conditions. So the number of truly healthy people who died is a few thousand out of 330 million.
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  511. No, you should play it safe if you're scared, but others shouldn't be forced to be scared. Old sick people die. They die from heart disease, cancer, flu, and Covid.
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  512. Word salad is all I hear
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  513.  @zaknefain100  it is prevalent in the fields that are dominated by women. 60% of college students are women, and they overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
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  514. Why should we ban advertising of a legal product?
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  515. I thought they hated Vance because of his beard.
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  516. Trump says a lot of dumb, grandiose things. He's a showman. He's not really economically conservative, either.
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  517. And the Covid thing too
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  518.  @lynallen5414  please enlighten me. What was it before?
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  519. Well, this pledge is also a form of indoctrination. Only little kids are instructed to say it.
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  520. I'd be more convinced if Trump would attempt to stop the crazy spending. He shows no signs of being a fiscal conservative.
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  521.  @scytaleghola5969  if you believe the "safe and effective" narrative, there's not much hope for you. Maybe some day you'll bother to escape the mass formation, and learn the actual facts. Make sure to keep your face diaper on.
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  522.  @scytaleghola5969  define victimized? Someone telling you that you're a man or a woman? And there are no haters on the left? People that called others "granny killers" for not taking an untested medical concoction? Who called for them to be rounded up and put in camps, or even executed? I don't recall those people being removed from social media.
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  523.  @ExtraordinaryLiving  It's a mass psychosis of fear, and tens of millions have been swept up in it. They would rather exist than live. Their obsession with safety and a risk free existence has paralyzed them. Even after being vaccinated and saved from their fear of dying, they still can't let go. They're determined to bully every single person who doesn't agree with them.
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  524. I've been asking that question daily since the shot became available. I stupidly thought that the Covidiots' hysteria was about dying, but now that their threat of dying has been removed, they refuse to get on with their lives and leave the rest of us the f alone. They've become bullies and tyrants, driven by fear completely out of proportion to the actual threat.
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  525. Kareem was a hell of a player, but he really should shut the f up. Another obnoxious do gooder thinking he knows what's right, willing to trample the freedom of others to promote his agenda.
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  526.  @VoicesInDark  why would a blind person care what she's wearing?
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  527. "she and her"? More like "it".
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  528.  @mitchelsnodgrass7028  your comment about conservatives thinking today that blacks are better off as slaves is so idiotic that I'm done with you.
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  529.  @mitchelsnodgrass7028  there is a reasonable argument to be made that Lincoln should have let the South secede. Also, Lincoln wasn't that concerned with the rights of blacks. His primary goal was to save the Union.
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  530.  @beverlyhill9947  notice I said the word "most". And your choice of Lincoln is questionable.
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  531.  @mitchelsnodgrass7028  first, Congress is gridlocked. Little chance of them doing anything. Second, less is better. When you use the word "productive", it shows me that you don't understand the negative impact of virtually everything the government does. We survive in spite of it, not because of it.
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  532.  @Claudialupperocd  logical, but I've heard of cases in which it's actually a coworker of the trans person who takes offense at the use of a third person pronoun.
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  533. I is a first person pronoun
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  534.  rogerjamespaul5528  Damn you're busy with all of these pastes.
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  535. But does she swallow? Inquiring minds want to know.
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  536.  @MrSirMang  that type of voting is multi-generational, sort of like following your parents' religion. The funny thing is that the parties have kind of flip flopped. The Dems are the party of the elitists, and the Republicans are more for the common man, at least that's how they're portrayed.
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  537. Sucks like a vacuum
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  538. It's way past time for people to tell the idiots in charge to f off.
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  539. Some of it is the woke ideology, but I think a big part of the red wave, or whatever you want to call it, is a realization that the government class has been living at the private sector's expense for far too long.
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  540.  @ts9332  car batteries are about 90% recyclable, but solar panels and wind turbines are basically zero.
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  541.  @williamreichold1545  wtf are you talking about? I'm simply stating a fact of why the Democrats lost. I'm not sure why you're taking it personally.
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  542. @SThompsonRAMM_1203  I don't discuss who I voted for, but Trump got fewer votes this time than in 2020, so if some Democrats switched over, that means that some of his 2020 base actually deserted him. The Democrats got 8M fewer votes, which means it simply wasn't important enough for them to show up.
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  543.  @msimon6808  he got elected because the Dems didn't show up to vote, and my statement still stands, he's done nothing yet.
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  544.  @Noconstitutionfordemocrats1  yeah, name calling is an effective strategy. I thought that was a tactic of the left.
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  545.  @Papadoc1000  21 for drinking, and cutting off one's genitals is a bigger decision
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  546. What do they know about anything? Virtually nothing. Hence, the manipulation.
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  547. Actual gender dysphoria, not this social contagion crap, afflicts about 0.01% of the population, most of whom are very young males. Prior to 2012, there was no scientific literature on gender dysphoria arising in teenage girls. Now there are schools in which double digit percentages of teen girls are identifying as trans. It is similar to the anorexia/bulimia craze of years past.
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  548. Not likely. Do you get to sue the state after a jab injury?
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  549.  @terwya  he keeps getting reelected, as you call it, because liberal citizens keep voting for him. It's not some mystical event, like winning the lottery. If the people where you live are overwhelmingly liberal, then perhaps you should consider voting with your feet, and move somewhere else. Also, that scumbag Newsom had to sign the bill. He's considering a run for the Presidency. Now that's a scary thought.
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  550. The end goal of liberal government. Hillary said "it takes a village", and she meant it. These arrogant bastards think they can manage your life better than you can.
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  551. You can have ethics and morals without religion, but all of these modern movements (wokeism, Covid fanaticism, climate change) are all secular religions. They are substitutes for traditional religion, because people want to belong to a group that shares their beliefs.
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  552. She is right about executive power, but it's not just Biden. It's been done by both parties, going back decades. The Congress has relinquished its responsibilities because it makes them unaccountable. They can let presidents issue all these executive orders, and then not have to take the blame for the consequences. The unofficial wars, Covid mandates, and all of the other nonsense.
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  553. The thing is, we had proven protocols for dealing with a viral outbreak, and we tossed them out the window in order to emulate China. The group think of a mass formation took over common sense. What worries me is that millions of people learned nothing. If/when another virus comes along, they will repeat the same failed policies and expect a different result.
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  554. It's torturing the language to call the jab a vaccine
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  555. Punishment seems like a pipe dream. How about reparations for the jab injured?
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  556. They don't have a great track record. They were pretty good at mailing out those stimulus checks that helped cause the 10% inflation, although they did manage to mail some to dead people.
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  557. Discussing politics or religion with co-workers is a bad idea.
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  558. People could vote libertarian, but that won't happen.
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  559. The election is Trump vs not Trump. It could have been Newsom or anyone else in place of Harris, and it wouldn't matter.
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  560. I think Reagan and Clinton were both better.
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  561. Kamala was annointed without winning any delegates. That seems pretty undemocratic.
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  562. Trump is damaged goods. He needs to walk off into the sunset.
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  563. Mass stupidity sure is a thing. There's no other word to describe the people being discussed in this video.
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  564. Let's hand the murderer a few million in reparations. That should make everything right.
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  565. "safe and effective"
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  566.  @jeffjohnson3411  inflation was 15% during Carter, and gas was barely available, so Obama and Biden don't have any record. The U.S. had record oil production in 2023, but prices are higher due to significantly higher demand in China, the Middle East, and Latin America. Oil is a global commodity. U.S. prices don't exist in a bubble. As for inflation, that was caused by $7T in Covid money printing, some of which occurred under Trump, and some under Biden.
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  567.  @joevarga5982  the inflation of the last three years was caused by $7T of Covid money printing.
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  568.  @joevarga5982  what, what, and what? $7T in Covid money printing is what is responsible for the inflation. That money is permanently in the system. We are not going back to 2021 prices. Yes, deficit spending involves money printing, which causes further inflation. Harris mentioned helping small businesses with loans from community banks. Banks don't just hand out money because the government wants them to, which means those loans will probably be government backed. Then when they're not repaid, taxpayers will be on the hook, just like with student loans. Try reading and comprehending before you criticize.
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  569.  @jimmyscoggins2209  Kroger eggs are currently $2.69.
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  570.  @jimmyscoggins2209  Kroger, and I don't waste my money on organic. Big scam.
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  571. I just bought eggs for $2.79. where are you shopping?
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  572. I don't doubt the crime statistics she's reading. My only question would be, how much of that crime takes place among the immigrant groups themselves, vs among the general population?
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  573. I don't care if this is taken as racist, but black people have a propensity for yelling when they're trying to make a point. They can't seem to discuss in a normal tone of voice. Somehow they think their argument will be better if it's louder.
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  574. She's going to hide in her basement, a repeat of Joe's strategy four years ago. There are two types of voters, for Trump and against Trump. She is irrelevant.
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  575. Or you can vote them out
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  576. Was she even a good bartender?
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  577. She can't include herself, otherwise her argument falls apart.
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  578.  @MikeEWard  the numbers or her arse?
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  579. White non-hispanic is 60% as of the last census
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  580. She's talking about white non-hispanic because she doesn't want to include herself in the counting.
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  581.  @davidrenton  be woke, go broke
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  582. She had a little too much caffeine
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  583. I've also seen a poll showing that a third of young people think favorably of communism. That's scarier than these polls.
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  584. You had millions who always vote Democrat, even if a chimp is on the ballot. Then you had the fence sitters, who simply voted against Trump, not for Biden. And there's the continuing issue that California and NY have an outsized impact on elections. Republicans have to win almost every other state that matters.
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  585. The blue states won't die until all of the wealthy conservatives leave, and take their money with them. Then the wealthy liberals can pay 25% income tax to support everyone else.
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  586. Government doesn't create any jobs. Never has, never will.
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  587.  @freebird1ification  "they will never allow it". Who is they? The people of this country won't allow it, because 99% of them vote for politicians who perpetuate the bloated waste. If "they" wanted small government, then they would vote for candidates who are willing to dismantle the system.
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  588. Certainly 25% of government employees at all levels could be removed, and we wouldn't even notice.
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  589.  @mystey1   @mystey1  the biggest flaw in the system is that we allowed the politicians to trash the Constitution. We wouldn't be having all these arguments about who should be fixing this or that, because 90% of the federal government wouldn't exist, so there wouldn't be much to fix.
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  590.  @mystey1  the biggest flaw in the system is that we allowed the politicians to trash the Constitution. We wouldn't be having all these arguments about who should be fixing this or that, because 90% of the federal government wouldn't exist, so there wouldn't be much to fix.
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  591.  @mystey1  the biggest flaw in the system is that we allowed the politicians to trash the Constitution. We wouldn't be having all these arguments about who should be fixing this or that, because 90% of the federal government wouldn't exist, so there wouldn't be much to fix.
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  592.  @5Cats  I add comments that initially appear, and then 10 seconds later they're gone.
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  593.  @crocodilegrundee4514  he believes that only the wealthy got tax cuts, which is plainly false.
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  594.  @mawk80  sorry, "most" people don't agree with your socialist beliefs and climate alarmism.
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  595. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  596. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  597. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  598. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  599. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  600. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  601. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  602. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  603. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  604. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  605. @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  606.  @mawk80   @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  607.  @mawk80   @mawk80    Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  608.  @mawk80   @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  609.  @mawk80   @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  610.  @mawk80  Trump cut taxes for everyone, not just the wealthy, and I can infer from your comment that you believe that the wealthy don't pay their "fair share", even though they actually pay the majority of the taxes. I can also infer that you believe in the myth of climate change.
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  611. Still remember him eating out with his friends during the bogeyman virus, while the state was shut down. Scumbag is too nice of an insult for him.
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  612. I think he meant that there weren't trans people and shoplifters everywhere, like back home.
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  613. If the security guy attempted that in a blue city in the U.S., he would be arrested and charged with assault.
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  614. I think they've now raised taxes on the rich to a maximum of 14%. When the middle class leaves, it will probably increase to 25%.
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  615. Basically feudalism
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  616. Or as an alternative, they are loaded onto buses, driven to the edge of town, and dropped off. They'll quickly learn to build a shelter out of sticks.
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  617. They live in gated communities with security. They are immune to the results of their actions. It's modern day feudalism.
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  618. Stupid me. I used to think that relativity was something Einstein discovered. It's actually a political philosophy that there's no right and wrong, just feelings.
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  619. Perception is reality
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  620. In the past 18 years, 22 states have closed or merged 62 state psychiatric hospitals. The number of state psychiatric hospitals has decreased from 254 to 195, a 24% reduction. Patients, who were deemed to not be a danger to others, were put out on the street.
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  621. If scumbag Newsom becomes President, he's going to try to spread the California model.
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  622. Piss in it, at the very least.
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  623. Only 18% of shopping is done online, although that number is increasing.
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  624. The majority don't expect a different outcome. They are voting to continue the current outcome.
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  625. No, the voters voted for the politicians to make it that way.
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  626. Smells like that in Philly too.
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  627.  @apatheticallyconcerned6574  the main problem is one man, one vote. Americans should get votes proportional to how much tax they pay. Currently we have millions of people paying zero taxes who vote for the candidate that supports the largest handouts. It's legalized theft by deadbeats from productive members of society.
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  628. There's little a President can do on his own, except for executive orders, which have been abused for decades. The President's main job is commander-in-chief. Also, he's supposed to veto unconstitutional legislation (good luck with that happening).
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  629. Trump has run big companies, and he doesn't give a sh1t about reining in government spending. He was just as reckless as those before him. The Republicans don't even pretend to be fiscally conservative anymore. They think cutting spending from an 8% increase to a 6% increase is being conservative.
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  630. Libertarianism doesn't sit well with Americans. They want big government, spending money it doesn't have, so that they can feed at the trough.
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  631. We certainly have to get illegal immigration under control, but we also need massive reform of legal immigration. It is nearly impossible to enter the U.S. legally, which is part of the reason for the waves of illegals.
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  632.  @nathanshackelford7812  banking is inherently evil. Where did you learn that nonsense, from your socialist professors? Businesses couldn't function or grow without banks, and last time I looked, businesses provide jobs.
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  633.  @joerevere937  source: show me your data. You are all the same. No evidence, just copy/paste crap. It's like hottest summer ever, source: ABC news
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  634.  @simeonharman4589  every medical organization in the world? Now who's talking in absolutes? Just because a doctor is willing to perform a surgery for money, doesn't make it right. Mutilating one's body is mental illness.
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  635. And mutilating kids isn't cruelty? As for your nuance, calling out stupidity doesn't require nuance.
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  636. $221k
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  637. If you're already unhappy/depressed, it's not logical that mutilating your body would lessen the depression.
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  638. Like the "summer of love" in one of those west coast dystopian cities, where they were burning down buildings.
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  639. You have reason to be skeptical because it's not true.
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  640. It's Seinfeld's bizarro world
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  641. I think it's a she
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  642. Not likely. Wonder what his kids think of him. If I did that, my son would tell me to get mental help.
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  643. There might be, if they're judging on a three week time horizon. Give it a decade or two, and the statistics will not paint a pretty picture.
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  644. Rock and Roll owes some of its roots to "black" music, so I guess it must be racist.
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  645.  @Ron_the_Skeptic  it's difficult to identify mental illness
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  646.  @Supsboredrn  in general, people are really bad at evaluating risk. If they were really that worried about their child's safety, they would make them wear a crash helmet in the car.
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  647.  @briane173  I've noticed that many liberals, not all, use shouting as a debate tactic. Somehow they must think that it makes their argument better. As for legislation, let's keep the federal government out of it. Law enforcement is a state and local issue. If parents are willing to pay extra taxes for armed security at schools, then that is their choice.
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  648.  @memcc8663  I understand that natural immunity doesn't mean you can't get it again, but for someone who never gets sick to claim that they got it three times in two years seems rather suspect, especially if you were symptomatic all three times.
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  649.  @Mellownius  Not sure what you mean by "at least three times". Was it three or more than three? Your body should have developed some immunity, especially within such a short time span, and considering that you don't normally get sick. Seems strange to me. Also, you can get the human dose of IVM from India.
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  650.  @G360LIVE  not true that "most" are asymptomatic. In the initial strain, it was allegedly 40-50% that were asymptomatic. And who cares who had it and who didn't? We don't keep track of who had asymptomatic flu. Case counts have been the worst single stupidity of this whole two years. Just a way to prolong the fear mongering and the useless public policy.
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  651. Was that a real clip?
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  652.  @coleossal2544  she's a WEF puppet, just like Trudeau
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  653.  @yt.damian  my point was that people tend to complain about little things more, when they have it good, like this guy.
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  654.  @bricaaron3978   @bricaaron3978  "they don't even look good on paper." Exactly. Decades of empirical evidence demonstrates that they're an abysmal failure. Unfortunately he's never read a history book.
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  655. Her parents are dropping $200k for this outcome? It gives new meaning to flushing money down the toilet.
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  656. She could get a job in HR
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  657. What's with the face diapers? Are they trying to remain anonymous? They can't still be in the virus cult in 2024.
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  658. Columbia doesn't care. It received $200k .
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  659. It's all part of the plan. Leftist radicals have been infiltrating the education system for decades.
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  660. What's with the face diapers? Are they trying to be anonymous? Surely, in 2024, these clowns can't still be scared of the bogeyman virus.
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  661. Forget about Gaza. They couldn't find Omaha Nebraska on a map.
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  662. I don't think your deity is going to save America, or anything else.
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  663. Depends whether they're all talk, or whether they plan to actually do something.
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  664.  @chernobylshery885  weapons of mass destruction. The alleged pretext for the U.S. to invade Iraq.
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  665. Mass formations have existed throughout history, and there's no reason to believe that we've become immune to them, as Covid demonstrated.
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  666. Chimps get along with each other for the most part, but occasionally they kill and eat other chimps. This potential behavior has been with us for a long time.
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  667. It's called mass formation, and has occurred many times throughout history.
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  668. Maybe a twisted form of reasoning, to justify an emotional response. There was no actual scientific reasoning associated with Covid, in fact, those who attempted to present reasoned arguments were ignored or vilified.
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  669. Some doctors bought into the nonsense about jabs and face diapers, just like other people. Some thought it was nonsense, but didn't want to lose their job. A small minority were willing to speak out.
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  670. The Covid mass formation was predicated on fear, not reason. That how all mass formations work. Identity a perceived threat, propose a solution that allegedly deals with the threat, and then make an enemy of anyone who doesn't agree with the solution. There is no reasoning required. It is based entirely on emotion.
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  671. Politics is all about manipulating morons. It takes a certain type of character to go down that road.
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  672.  @danahedenstad9829  someone said, it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled. Some of it may have been selfishness, but I think that many just didn't want to admit that the Covid narrative was mostly lies and unproven "science". It was a case of The Emperor's New Clothes.
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  673. The Ache conformity experiment is another good one.
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  674.  @TestEmailAmer-ll3tf  no, we aren't going to give back land. Possession is 9/10 of the law.
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  675.  @vincenzobenn  I took a walk yesterday for 30 minutes, and I actually saw three people in their cars, with the face diaper on. In freaking 2024! Blows my mind the level of brainwashing and delusion that took place.
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  676. The history of man is that people take power by manipulating morons, whether it's politics or religion, it's about telling people what they want to hear.
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  677. You don't need God to have a moral code. It's just that the people who created organized religions realized that it was an effective tool to enforce behavior among uneducated, easily manipulated morons.
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  678. We just witnessed it with the bogeyman virus. Is this going to be a regular occurrence?
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  679. Because the 1% scream like two year olds, and they would rather cowtow to the screaming than simply ignore it.
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  680. Joe is getting paranoid in his old age. Nobody is launching nukes.
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  681. How about if we flush the party down the toilet, and have all the Republicans vote Libertarian? Unlike the Republicans, the Libertarians actually have principles.
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  682.  @warrenamos7178  North Korea
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  683. Oh yeah, that Hunter Biden thing, that might have affected an election.
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  684. Well, you should do a little more research, comparing China's per Capita income of twenty years ago to today. Then you would realize that your statement is nonsense. Also, the U.S. did the exact same thing with the Industrial Revolution, spewing massive amounts of pollution for over a century. When I was a kid, the river near my house caught fire because of toxic chemicals. We've only had clean air and water for the last 40-50 years. Look at photos of L.A. from the 1960s.
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  685.  @JackSparrow-gg4vl  Your ignorance is only outweighed by your refusal to learn something that might alleviate your ignorance. Have a nice life.
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  686.  @JackSparrow-gg4vl  I'm not going to waste my time refuting your incorrect statements. Go look up the economic concept of comparative advantage.
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  687. Those cheap goods save American consumers a lot of money
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  688. The people who work at Apple are not slaves, they are paid employees
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  689.  @micfail2  According to the latest data on smartphone market shares in the US, as of December 2022, Apple has the biggest piece of the pie, with 55.79%. In other words, more than half of all smartphones sold there are manufactured by Apple.
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  690. iPhone has 56% market share in the U.S.
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  691. China is building coal fired power plants as fast as they can
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  692. Start producing? Have you been living under a rock? China already makes millions of its own phones.
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  693. How is he CEO? Because he's a good manager. Who cares what he thinks about climate change?
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  694.  @algernoncalydon3430  I don't understand your comment. Americans get exactly who they vote for. They vote for the person who promises the most free sh1t, and now we have a bloated government that has accumulated a $31T debt. If Americans wanted smaller government that would leave them alone, they would vote Libertarian. Last time I looked, the Libertarians got 1% of the vote, so that's a pretty good indication of what people want. Oh, and China just locked people in their houses for three years. Great country.
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  695. Americans voted for the government, so they get what they asked for.
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  696. Billions, not hundreds of millions
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  697. Utter nonsense
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  698. Not likely that Tesla will make a phone, but what if it's made in China?
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  699. Actually that's incorrect. iPhone has a 56% market share in the U.S.
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  700. And your solution is what? To nuke every country that you don't like?
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  701. Apple has zero tolerance for forced labor and it is prohibited by our Code and Standards. Looking for the presence of forced labor is part of every supplier assessment, and any violations of our policies carry immediate consequences, up to and including our termination of our business relationship with a supplier.
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  702.  @jessesutton7985  I read all of your comment, and it's nonsense.
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  703. Making money is the point of a business. Find me one businessman who stays in business by losing money.
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  704.  @bmardiney  Tesla and SpaceX is enough, not to mention Boring and Neuralink
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  705. He has enough on his plate already
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  706. Tim Cook is just a manager. He doesn't own Apple. And you've never in your entire life purchased a product that was made in China?
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  707. What does China's poverty have to do with our recession? They're totally unrelated.
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  708. About a third of their new car sales are EV, but they're also building coal fired power plants at a record pace, so it's a mixed bag.
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  709.  @dm3199  that's a lie
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  710. You know Elon makes cars in China?
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  711. "in it for as long as it takes". How many post WW2 quagmires have we ended up in, based on that inane policy? It seems like the MIC is running foreign policy.
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  712. I was in PCB, and there were houses going up all over.
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  713. It's the hurricane insurance that is really costly. Supposedly an average policy is $2400 without hurricane insurance, but $4200 with hurricane insurance.
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  714. Maybe they're waiting to vomit
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  715. Who cares if they're living in the woods. That's where they belong, not sleeping and defecating on the sidewalk.
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  716. You're never going to stop drugs from coming into the country. We've spent trillions trying to stop it for 50 years. Not to mention all the money spent to lock up drug offenders. The War on Drugs is an abject failure.
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  717. The experiment has been run many times in Russia, Cuba, China, Venezuela, etc. I think there's sufficient empirical evidence.
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  718. The Democrats' bench is Gavin and Michelle. A scumbag and a racist.
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  719. Isn't Gavin trying to bring criminal charges against him for flying some immigrants to California?
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  720. "a piece of paper they shouldn't have took out". Sorry, I don't take anyone seriously when they use grammar like that.
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  721. Probably when every non-white person receives $3M in reparations
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  722.  @guntertorfs6486  you don't know what highest quality even means. Also, your entire medical industry leeches off of American innovation.
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  723. 60 years old with blue hair???
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  724. They don't
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  725. I'm interested in diversity of shampoo, so I can find my brand when I go shopping.
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  726. I think he talks out of his ass a lot.
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  727.  @Mark-hc8ek  according to a recent survey, 1/3 of young people look favorably at communism. That is the ultimate group think.
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  728. Earn more money if you want to eat steak.
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  729. Biden also cancelled leases for drilling on public land. The world also issued sanctions against Russia.
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  730. A huge percentage are living with their parents at 25 or even 30 years old.
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  731.  @4uRicki  no, our problems can't be explained by superstitious nonsense.
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  732. Your second idea might accomplish something. Your first idea is useless.
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  733. Authoritarian leaders? I thought he was on that list.
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  734. I don't know why anybody would believe anything said by anyone. The Vietnam War was to prevent some mythical domino effect. The war on poverty was supposed to end poverty. The war on drugs was supposed to end drugs. There were weapons of mass destruction in evil hands. The financial crisis was limited to subprime. The jab was going to stop Covid. It's a neverending blather of crises, bogeymen, and "expert" solutions.
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  735. Politics is about who can manipulate the most morons
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  736. Unfortunately, deficit spending is not the concern of a lot of taxpayers, as the guest claimed. If it were, then it wouldn't have continued nonstop for the last 40 years. The average American doesn't give a crap about debt. They are content with big, obtrusive government, as long as their particular cash cow isn't affected.
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  737. It's the big government party. Red team/blue team is just bread and circuses.
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  738. Fauci wants every kid injected. That tells you all you need to know.
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  739. More like delusional
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  740. Is anyone still wearing the diaper? If so, I don't know whether to feel pity or just laugh.
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  741. A useless diaper or a vitamin D level of 50. I think I know my choice.
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  742.  @Bostonceltics1369  holy crap, there are so many mask studies available, not just from the last two years, but back much further, virtually all showing efficacy as inconclusive. If a mask is such a great idea, why weren't you wearing one prior to 2020? You wore one because someone told you to wear it. I wear a seatbelt because it significantly reduces my chance of being seriously injured, and also because I have no control over the stupidity of other drivers. A mask provides me no significant benefit, and I have control over my own health. The stupidity of others is not an issue. For a healthy person, Covid risk is minimal, and chance of serious illness is virtually zero. If you're wearing a mask because you have serious health issues, then maybe there is a benefit. If you're wearing it because you can't get over your germophobia caused by two years of media fear mongering, then yes, you're suffering from a psychosis.
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  743.  @Bostonceltics1369  cloth proven useless in multiple studies. Surgical maybe 10% efficacy if you're lucky. And many of the people who wear N95 don't wear them properly. You're certainly welcome to cover your face for the rest of your life if it relieves your psychosis or germophobia or whatever. I couldn't care less about protecting myself because it's simply not a concern in my life. My vitamin D level will protect me better than any mask.
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  744. Same delusion they were in from spring 2020 until two weeks ago, when they finally decided to drop the bogeyman virus emergency status.
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  745. Even if there were hate involved, the crime should be prosecuted, not the intent.
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  746.  @baileyhatfield4273  people choose to eat the crap. Nobody puts a gun to their head.
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  747. Yes, judging by the size of the average American, food is definitely high on the list. 😁
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  748. People have always voted the economy, and incumbents lose when it's bad.
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  749. He exposed the leftist media's collusion with government, and called out Fauci as a lying pos, so they're no longer his friend.
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  750. Most of the people he removed weren't productive employees, they were social justice adherents.
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  751. The left loves you until you step outside their hive mind. Then they become viciously intolerant.
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  752. Only one word necessary: delusional
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  753. The #2 is a good way to describe her
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  754.  @troyjollimore4100  the Republicans have overspent when they were in charge of the White House and Congress. The best scenario has always been gridlock. As far as taking decades to roll back the spending, it wouldn't take that long if the American citizens were on board. In fact, the majority are ok with reckless, unconstitutional government because it gives them something for nothing.
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  755. Agree with most of your commentary, except the part about Republicans and the Constitution. If they were big believers in the Constitution, we wouldn't have a $4T budget.
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  756. You're not serious. The entire west coast is liberal.
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  757. The mass formation sucked in men and women, young and old. Relentless fear mongering and half truths convinced them they were in mortal danger. Once they bought into the narrative, they gave politicians the authority to do whatever it took to relieve their fear, including violating the rights of others.
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  758.  @mindfulstoic3095  or maybe there are a lot of leftist, college indoctrinated young women who are poison to be around
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  759. Hate to nitpick, but when you have a realization, that's a light bulb going on, not off.
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  760. And vodka tastes like sh1t
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  761. Can't Commiefornia take your kid away if you refuse to recognize their gender? They're labeling it child abuse.
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  762. She didn't answer the question "How is it economically viable?" Liberals who are in favor of having other people pay for their pie in the sky utopia never are able to articulate the means for pulling it off.
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  763.  @psychcowboy1  there's nothing wrong with greed, as long as laws aren't broken. What does that have to do with stupid government policy?
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  764.  @nonyadamnbusiness9887  robots are coming, really soon.
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  765. Do you understand how voting works? First, illegal aliens can't vote. Second, popular vote is meaningless. All that matters is winning most of the swing states.
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  766. It's polls. The "poles" are in Poland.
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  767. Libertarians are the only sane ones left. The left/right has gone off the deep end.
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