Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "The Young Turks"
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Usually TYT sees through red herrings that are set up by the power elite to restrict our freedoms and impower those whose career advancement depends on stirring up hysteria then offering a solution that is exponentially more harmful than the problem.
In this case TYT fell for the same old dirty trick like some county bumpkin at the county fair.
When they were first soliciting public opinions on a more restrictive pain medication legislation, everybody with any real knowledge on the dynamics at play here knew this would only result in a major increase in the use of heroin and a corresponding increase in the cash flow of a number of international criminal and terrorist networks.
Are you so blind as to not have a clue that the intention of the super restrictive regulations regarding the prescription of pain meds for chronic conditions set up barriers to both the sufferers of such pain and the doctors who wish they could help them.
When this new restrictive legislation which makes it impossible for people with chronic pain to have a regular recurring prescription, without continual visits to their doctor, one for each prescription, and enrollment in pain clinics, which will offer a number of alternative therapies, the vast majority of which will not help the vast majority of sufferers.
Use you head, this is just the next, "War On" and the only ones who are going to benefit from this criminal scam, are the bankers who wash the illegal profits of the rapidly expanding heroin market, the criminal, terrorist, and the NGOs that use it for an alternative source of funds for black ops so dirty that even black ops command can't tolerate the illegalities involved, like Reagan did in Iran/Contra. Let's not forget the directors of programs that will see a renewed influx of funding despite the restriction on marijuana being shown for it was (pure lies and folly that alienated at least three generations from the American mainstream),this really doesn't equal the folly of the present situation, or the total suffering, death, and vast corruption that the billions of dollars in additional profits for international organized crime will have on our society at large.
They already have enough power to rouse up all this hysteria over what is just a bulge in population entering an age were it is just natural to seek a little analgesia. In Canada you can buy codeine over the counter without a prescription, and they have a huge appetite per capita for codeine preparations, and you can just see how decadent their society is compared to ours.
Instead of acting like a bunch of ignorant dupes in this matter why don't you do some real investigative journalism and uncover the payoffs to legislators by the interests who want to restrict the sale of strong analgesics thus driving millions into the heroin market, which will cost them much less than a legal prescription, but of course has many more risks, all most all of which stem from its legal status.
My own doctor predicted a wave of suicides as the new legislation when into effect. In this he was correct. The people who, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, still believe that the government is looking out for them in this matter. It isn't, this is a program that from the very start, seemed designed to produce crime and death by overdose, and of course the suicides of people who will not take responsibility for their own pain management, and get out on the street or under the net, and buy some heroin when the new system throws insurmountable obstacles in the face of the pain sufferer.
Society is once again the victim of the power elite pulling off the same old tricks in this same old matter. Like marijuana the initial restriction of the sale and use of opium in Western Civilization was in Great Britain, when it was restricted at the bequest of behind the scenes manipulation of the legislature by the distillers interests. The distillers who traditionally served the needs of the miners and factory workers so that they could remain somewhat oblivious of their pain and hopelessness of their situation. Opium was more effective, far less harmful physically so far less harmful that it is usually unbelievable to people whose thoughts on the subject have been subjected to the propaganda currently in circulation regarding this matter.
Really, how can you be so irresponsible and stupid?
You did not even look into this matter at all, you just read and then commented on a press release by some official or official sounding organization. Are you gonna be part of the solution or continue to be the unknowing dupe of forces that profit from victimizing people who are desperate to just not be hurting so much that they would in many cases rather be dead than face another day of agony. . . . No only an unsympathetic, psychopath who was incapable of any degree of empathy, or who possessed not a nanoparticle of intelligence, would be the ignorant supporter of such a regressive and draconian policy as the one we now have, and which you don't even seem to know about.
Fu*k all the people responsible for the new wave of criminals they have helped create, not to mention the incalculable suffering by the innocent victims of your idiot legislation, the stupidity, and failure of which was proven and predicted by every useful and successful drug policy ever enacted (see Portugal, Switzerland, and the new freedoms being passed in South America. In every case decriminalization worked, largely eliminated the street crime associated with heroin addiction and the cost to maintain a habit. This cost is actually pennies but for the illegal nature and resulting inflated prices that the various criminal and banking organizations profit so greatly from.
So thanks for making what is already a colossal and devastating problem just a little bit worse.
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When the boomers were teenagers and in their early twenties, if someone expressed an opinion on TV, the station had to provide free equal time for those with opposing or divergent opinions. That is how far our society has devolved, and nobody even noticed. It used to be illegal for a cop to search your car, or enter you house without a warrant. Now it's ok to kill you if they get scared. This has become a shit country since the shit-heads have taken over. Of course they made it very comfy for the shitheads, and very profitable too. The entire conservative movement is merely a regressive reaction to the positive conscious societal evolution that was taking place in the sixties and early seventies. It started with Reagan and disco, and that was enough for people who never really were hip except to fit in, to no longer be ashamed of being regressive or superficial assholes. Now finally perhaps this transient delay in human evolution can be transcended like the degenerate speed bump it is, in the long term view of the golden destiny of mankind, which the shitheads have diverted into stupid shit like yachts with trees on them, trillions of dollars worth of weapons, or empty houses and apartments all over the world. Time for some reeducation for these shit-heads.
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Bernie $ VS Bloomburg $
Apologies to those who took arithmetic in elementary school. I know you already know this -- even so you may not be able to envision the difference in these fortunes and this explanation may help.
Bernie has a stack of two million one dollar bills that he wants to give to Judy.
Bernie is old and can only give her one dollar each second.
If Bernie is wearing a catheter and doesn't need to go to the bathroom and can hand Judy dollar bills 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: how long will it take Bernie to give Judy his two million dollars?
answer: There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hours and 24 hours in a day:
Therefore Bernie can hand Judy 86,400 dollar bills every day. So he can give her $86,000 per day.
So it would take Bernie just about 23 days and three and a half hours to give Judy two million dollars.
(since $86,400 goes into $2,000,000 a little over 23.15 times)
In twenty three days Bernie could hand Judy his two million dollars, one dollar at a time, if he can stay awake,
and he can, cause he is a vastly woke dude.
How long would it take little Mike to hand Judy his 60,2 billion dollars one dollar at a time?
Mike is also old and wearing a catheter, is being fed intravenously and attended by his personal medical staff.
Through the wonders of modern pharmacology and a neural implant he purchased, Mike can also stay awake.
But due to age Mike can also only hand Judy one dollar bill per second.
So Mike, like Bernie can give Judy $86,400 per day.
There are 6,759.26 ($86,400) in 60.2 billion dollars so it would take Mike six hundred and ninety six thousand seven hundred and fifty nine days to hand Judy his 60.2 billion dollars. That's 696,759.26 days.
That many days equals one thousand nine hundred and eight years and a few days short of eight months.
So it would take Mike 1908.93 years to hand Judy all his money (that we know of).
Bernie would be broke in 23 days.
Mike would be broke in 1,909 years.
Who is the oligarch?
Addendum: Please note that since Mike is a capitalist who profits, not from his labor or producing goods but by investment, his wealth will actually be increasing by more than $86,400 per day because of profits on his fortune. So in reality, no matter how many thousands of years he spends handing Judy his money, he would never be able to do it and would always have more to hand her each day than he did the day before.
Addendum PS: Old Jewish wisdom: "Every time somebody makes something for nothing, somebody else makes nothing for something." In Bloomburg's and the other billionares cases this "somebody else" is you and everyone else. If you don't understand this you are truly blind and will never understand why wealth is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and you are being robbed in ways you neither understand nor can do anything about without a fundamental paradigm shift in our laws, government, and cultural world-view.
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You make the common mistake of equating being stoned on pot with being drunk on booze. Does drinking coffee make you a worse driver? -- No it doesn't -- it is a drug, it has psychological and physiological effects (for those of you who still think there is a distinction there) yet only an idiot would think that drinking coffee causes traffic accidents.
All recreational molecules are not equal. All of their effects are not equal. Some drugs will actually make you able to drive better in some situations. The entire Nazi blitz of WW2 was an intoxicated action with the troops on a amphetamines handed out by their COs. Why do you think that athletes preform better under the influence of certain drugs? Everything is a drug. My words are drugs that are now bringing about an emotional and intellectual effect in you, anger is a drug. It is much more dangerous to drive angry than stoned on pot.
But leave it to the simple minded to reduce everything to the simplistic modes of thinking that they use out of laziness and habit. Then drugs are drugs (except for the coffee, chocolate, sugar, natural flavorings, environmental contaminants, news reports, books, thoughts, environmental toxins and having to deal with imbeciles on a regular basis.)
Didn't you catch on yet. Almost everything that politicians say is a lie to increase or maintain their power. It goes no further than that.
Also the worst people to put in charge of things in the role of a leader are the people who really want to be the leader. They will lead you straight into their own bespoke form of insanity. Wait and see. . . .
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If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again you woke puddin' heads. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies.
The facts:
The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department.
The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla.
The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually.
Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it.
That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months.
An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months.
She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79.
On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79.
Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla.
On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla.
Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1.
Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock.
On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19.
Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla.
On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla.
On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock.
On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla.
Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla.
. . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob.
On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85.
She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla.
On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock.
Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96.
She became a millionaire working as a receptionist.
Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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No you don't.
There never was a prescription that is written "as needed", you dumba**,
that's just the instructions on how to take your meds that the drugstore prints on the bottle.
If you take that bottle and try to get it refilled without a visit to your doctor, or your doctor lying about a visit and they will tell you it cannot be refilled.
You will have to either have a housecall, be active in a pain management program and visit there before it is refilled, or go to your doctor's office or an emergency room -- every time you need it refilled.
That is the new Federal law, and apparently between yourself and TYT you know nothing about it.
Nevertheless, you managed to make an ass of yourself, by such narcissistic pride of your ignorance.
I actually thought such instant karma was reserved for the far far right, who shoot themselves in the foot almost every time they shoot off their mouths.
Just like you did.
Though they seldom have the perception to be able to realize it without some assistance. Then they get all touchy because another one of their mistakes is to equate ignorance with stupidity.
While it is certainly not true that all conservatives are stupid. Far, far, from it.
All of them are ignorant of just how untrue the facts they base their opinions on are.
For instance, some males on the subcontinent are very conservative regarding the practice of sati, and many of these same conservatives are capable of extreme mental vigor and problem solving abilities, a man can be highly competent in abstract metaphysical cognition, or higher mathematics, and still think that it is a nice tradition for a wife to throw herself, or be thrown by relatives onto the funeral pyre of her husband. Sort of like the people who can honestly lay claim to an IQ higher than a moron, and still support Donald Trump's bid.
Haven't these people ever seen a conman before.
Bernie = statesman
Trump = conman
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Politics sucks ass. Isn't it apparent to everyone by now that our political system is an archaic artifact? An artifact based on humanities inability to escape it's bestial warlike nature . . . :campaigns, winner take all victories, leaders who neither lead (excepting the advancement of the concerns of their patrons) nor have the wisdom to make intelligent impartial decisions on the issues of the day. This political web of deceit is a self-perpetuating parasite that warps collective social culture and is itself continually warped due to shameful self-interested exploitation by those who control the economy through control of debt manipulation. Interests and principalities that spew false narratives which have contaminated every aspect of our expectations of daily life, and our future aspirations (or lack of them).
I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Far more efficient alternatives, that would benefit the whole of society and reduce the corruption that is not only a systemic disease of our political system, but is now the very sinew, marrow, and circulatory system, of a body politic that has done everything possible to free itself from both morality and justice through legislative and legal complexities, technicality, outright lies, and all manner of fuckery.
It is time to evolve folks. Like a cool pool on a hot day, once you take the plunge it's refreshing and rejuvenating, but before you take that plunge there is hesitation and a resistance to a state change. And we must change the state of our state unless we consider moving into the future by looking through a rear-view mirror and stepping on our own dicks every step of the way while perpetually bitiching about it to be some kind of desirable human prerogative. Because as it is, it will never be able to meet our real human needs or provide anything more than updated reruns of the same old conundrums.
If human culture and civilization is to advance it must evolve to a higher state, a higher system of state, which will nurture higher states of mind in the populace, not continually drag it back by aggravating the primal survival instinct in a technological environment wherein this instinct is counterproductive on numerous levels.
I suggest to you that a body politic based on a NeoConfusian Techno-Meritocracy would not only be vastly superior for the state of the state, state of the economy, state of human advancement, and our collective state of mind, that any comparison to the present drunken-knife-fight-in-a-gilded-bordello that passes for our government would be comical.
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Yep, there is lots of that going around. You have my sympathy. I know what it's like to live in pain, and I know what it's like to die in pain, as I watched a beloved great aunt die of leukemia, in agony, while her care takers and sisters refused to give her the pain meds that her doc had prescribed, because they were afraid she would get addicted. Can you imagine the stupidity, they knew she was dying and they were afraid she would get addicted. That shows you how brainwashed the previous generation was, but now the government is taking up the stupidity slack.
I don't have time to look into it, but if you do, I think you will find that it was not Obama who got these laws passed. There was a period when the CDC was accepting testimony and suggestions on pain meds, but I think congress passed the law.
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Dan Dennet and some of his atheist associates have been backing the hypothesis that a course in comparative religion, taught at the high school level, would quite painlessly lead to lots less true believers. Personally I believe it would be more effective to teach it during grade-school then again in a more sophisticated form in high school. This would allow kids to ridicule the various lies of other religions in the fun yet direct way that only kids have. Then as they get the influx of hormones and become teens, they can turn this sense of irony and humor on their parents religion, should they be so unlucky as to be stuck with some kind of fundamentalist parents.
It is really too bad that humans generally equate a native sophistication and depth of their quite physical limbic system, with what they refer to as "spiritual" and about which, similar to the dynamics of the more recent use of the word "consciousness" anyone can say any kind of nonsense and there is a good chance no one will call them out on their ignorance.
Here is a fun fact to confront a true believer in the Bible with.
For all intents and purposes, the current actions of ISIL are near identical to the actions taken by the ancient "Israelites" I think the man's name was Joshua, and if memory serves, when he moved against his neighbors, the Israelites would slay all the men, sell the women into slavery, and take the virgin girls for brides. And of course take their land and possessions, but sometimes the madness even extended to killing all the animals.
They, like ISIL, said that God told them to do it.
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