Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "The Hill" channel.

  1. Herd immunity wouldn't happen the disease would just rattle around for years what's just as bad and just as alarming the 2 mill dying is the explosion in pre-existing conditions for the survivors of the disease. With SCOTUS ready to rule against Obamacare ..........
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  2. White 60+ and devout christian everyone else doesn't count. They live in a bubble
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  3. Trump is too weak and McConnel doesn't want it
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  4.  @l.w.paradis2108  I'm 64 male with asthma and mildly overweight, Ive had my shots the death rate among the group I belong to is over 10% and was at the start of the pandemic 20%, my mother's neighbour who is 74 contracted covid while on a cruise last year after recovering he was diagnosed with dementia while the virus isn't directly linked it appears to have accelerated the onset. If your happy eating a takeaway pizza which is stuffed full of chemicals refined flour salt and sugar then a vaccine is a breeze
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  5.  @tonalharmony9266  you really need to kick for the cabal delusional stuff, I'd recommend getting some factual information streams the right wing media has descended into a cesspool of fact free conspiracy theories pushed by lunatics.
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  6. I work in IT the work the last 12 months is off the charts, all I can say is after the money I've made in the last year then I'm a Yang supporter UBI is the only way forward If you have a basic income you can move forward with dignity and be productive in all manner of areas, robotics and tech are going to swamp the traditional workspace. This idea that people are lazy is a crock of shit you'll get a couple percent on the fringes but most people just want to have a bit of dignity in thier life
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  7.  @timayjust  first there not opening the border the chart with the really low numbers is pandemic related there's an increase over Dumps numbers but not statistically that significant. What's more problematic is the US population growth for 2020 down to 0,03 lowest on record with people leaving the labour market through old age and death your going to have to find labour from somewhere
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  8. Yea but he lied on TV to millions with a straight face with an alternate reality based view not of this planet. I watched a hearing the other day where a GOP representative was trying to convince everyone Fracking was green and good for the planet. There are real problems that need dealing with and having a party enmeshed in its own alternate reality claiming Biden is going to ban meat doesn't do the country or their supporters any favours.
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  9. He's currently being sued for not paying his bills for the last four years of rallies if I were any city hosting one of these I'd want my money up front.
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  10.  @mikerodrigo5597  so why didn't the Senate Intel committee take it up given they pawed all over Hunters finances and had access to the big Bannon Rudy reveal call me a sceptic but two of the most untrustworthy people in Trump's orbit had thier fingers on this. I would imagine the Senate wouldn't touch it because as soon as an IT specialist got hold of it the metadata would throw up all sorts of issues given Bannon and Rudy are stupid, if you copy move alter data there's a trail, source email code shows all sorts of stuff and all I saw was some pdf copy.
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  11. How can it be screwed up he's only been in office 7 days?
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  12. Since the riot the GOP are loosing thousands of registered Republican party members who are switching mostly to independent
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  13.  @johnvalerian8440  before the pandemic the US had 14% of its population in poverty plus a huge chunk living paycheck to paycheck, I've not seen official figures for 2021 but it's been a disaster for so many. The poverty trap in the US is systemic there is no way of getting out of it once your in you have to forward borrowed for rent and food you are trapped with only a sliver of hope getting out. In purely economic terms your shooting yourself in the foot by not pulling as many in society out of poverty as possible if you do not and pursue Austerity it just creates more poverty and reduced demand more small businesses go under and larger firms contract that in turn recycles itself into an economy that is on a contracting spiral. You also have a huge increase in social issues such as homelessness crime increases as people become more and more desperate just to put food on the table despair takes hold drug use goes sky high etc.
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  14. It's looking more and more likely that he's patient zero for the WH outbreak he's been on meds longer than they are prepared to say.
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  15. Biden's 22 years of taxes are publicly available and the Senate Intel committee had access to the Guiliani / Bannon scoop call Mr a sceptic but these two aren't what you may call reliable. By the way the Senate committee also got hold of all of Hunters tax information and bank records the laptop story is bogus is there some real info that's been hacked maybe is there a load that's made up probably
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  16. Debates are pointless Trump just lies 24/7 its like verbal garbage he has no policies anyway
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  17. Tesla is about the safest bet on the planet at this point in time it's stock price has fuk all to do with cars it's move into grid is what's powering the price
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  18. Congress have a 2 Trillion bill on the table for ratification and signing guaranteeing 600+ till Dec so what are they supposed to do just hang around till DT figures out he can't exec order the crisis away. Pelosi can call them back at any time as can Mitch for the Seneate The ball is in DT's court and you know how stubborn he can get, he's been off on his Mussolini rants recently
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  19. There's 22 years of his publicity available taxes information that say otherwise
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  20.  @mikerodrigo5597  Good reason for that the data is probably compromised as someone who works in IT digital fingerprints speak louder than words. And Rudy and Bannon are imbiciles their origin story is false.
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  21. If there was enough will in the GOP they could cut the debt tomorrow by putting forward a plan to plug all the tax loopholes, remove tax giveaways approve a global corporate tax minimum with NO TAX INCREASES spare the hot air
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  22. What difference does it make what he says? If the Roberts court start to make law and policy from the bench then the Democrats have a perfect right to use whatever means they deem necessary, McConnel started this by picking only Federalist society extreme right wing judges and trying to remake the bench to rule in favor of conservative corporate thinking for 4 decades. The ACA is the tip of the Iceberg
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  23. He thinks everyone that matters is over 60 and is a religious nutter oh I forgot white as well
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  24.  @tiggerwoods100  that's untrue past a certain disposable income wealth in a majority is accumulated, the current system has the wealthy pay way less in taxes in % terms of total income compared to every one else. You've also a screwed up system where the Federal government is having to subsidise business with various programs because they pay poverty wages.
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  25.  @tiggerwoods100  And you completely ignore purchase taxes and the huge tax breaks on unearned income plus the Federal subsidy of the poor. The lower and middle class subsidise the rich end of.
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  26. Unity is a two way Street the Washington branch of the GOP just say no all the time and go on Fox claiming Biden is banning meat. If they started telling thier voters the truth and stopped going down on all fours and kissing DJT s ring-piece it would be a start
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  27.  Smeagol Gollum  He's signed an executive order for 15$ for federal employees and contractors and Bernie is going to push it through reconciliation.
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  28. He can't destroy Biden he doesn't have any policies all he did was try and crash and burn the debate Trump was like a spoilt petulant child all you wanted to do was shout at the Orange idiot will YOU STFU
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  29. I've got shares in an EV company through a bundled multi asset fund in my pension it's not a controversial choice check your pension you probably have too. A Federal program will implement a standard and also promote at the cheap end Tesla's don't need it but the model T of tomorrow does. Taxi's and light commercial vehicles are another group, this isn't aimed at the luxury market. As an aside economists regard every dollar spent on infrastructure as getting 95cents in the dollar return this will be no different tax cuts provide 24cents in the dollar. All final mile deliveries will be done by electric vans UPS and others are converting thier fleets now
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  30.  @marieclark3119  You know I got to thinking why all the antagonism, why make up lies about Joe and fuel a culture in Right wing media that makes it impossible for any GOP reps to ever compromise or agree to anything. I looked up the inflation thing in more detail as well as the job numbers mostly coz my pension portfolio and savings is mostly in Tech which is my area of expertise. The inflation figures were comparing March this year with March last which where highly abnormal due to the shutdown of the economy, there are ongoing supply chain issues and other stuff but there are some real anomalies in prices lumber for instance anyways my main sources for financial news is Reuters Bloomberg and the Financial Times anything they say on Fox or Fox business needs flushing down the toilet as do anything the GOP currently spout.
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  31. The steroid Trump is on is reserved for cases with Covid pneumonia, it's going to be some time before he's A/ not shedding a bucket ton of virus and B/ he gets an all clear on his lungs. Instead of him pretending to be macho man he needs some serious rest if he pushes it to far he'll get a lung full of fluid again.
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  32. Not according to focus groups the 20 seconds at the end sunk him completly and Tim buried the hatchet. Why was Vance there not Pence? Because Vance will say and do anything to gain power including breaking his oath of office.
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  33. @derecksmith4799  he chose Vance because he's a chameleon who will do and say anything + he came with millions of dollars from the Venture capitalist Bros Teal and Musk who think that A/ they can manipulate Trump And B/ DJT IS So effing senile he'll last a year tops before Vance the Billionaires puppet takes over
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  34. DT's mental health has been deteriorating, he was several levels mad in the recent Ingram interview. He's been on total meltdown tweet storms of late his paranoia is getting really bad as well.
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  35. The system he's calling for is mirrored in China, there not really communist the leaders come from the party elite.
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  36.  samford hikes  the election wasn't stolen DJT lost because of his incompetent handling of the pandemic on top of being extremely unpopular due to him being a race baiting xenophobe with a white nationalist agenda. The guy was the Laziest POTUS in history with 300+ golfing days watched TV and tweeted most of the days he was supposed to be working and he had the morals of a slug pardoning scores of white collar criminals.
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  37. They have a plan to turn it into an open cast mine and screw over the fishermen by polluting the area with toxic waste.
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  38. Getting people to vote is stuffing the ballot box? All the GOP run on these days is fear, in multiple red states there are insane voter roll purges, closing of polling station in urban areas, in Texas use of the police to raid a Latino voter advocacy group.
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  39. Seems like a minimum wage hike and including the food sector in it would have improved the playing field for everyone. A lot of places have been getting away with no fixed hours as well
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  40. As far as I'm aware nothing has been banned the Estate has withdrawn some titles I presume because they weren't selling. There a private company I thought Conservatives were all about the free market are they going to force the books to be published? The nothing burger of nothing burgers don't the GOP have anything better to talk about?
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  41. For God's sake anyone who's looked at renewables has Tesla stocks, the company isn't just a car company it's a power company and nothing government does is going to slow it's rise it's about 7 years ahead of its rivals in software development it's developing mesh networks for load balancing. Its got giga Berlin giga Texas giga shanghai the company is the cutting edge across Europe and Asia for fuk sake get out more
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  42. Not according to focus groups the 20 seconds at the end sunk him completly and Tim buried the hatchet. Why was Vance there not Pence? Because Vance will say and do anything to gain power including breaking his oath of office.
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  43. Trump doesn't have any policies is running up a huge debt amplified by tax cuts for the rich and covid and the GOP sit there with their head in the sand about climate change. The climate change issue is infuriating the US is on the cusp of being a world leader in renewable technology, it would drive a revolution in power and transport just look at TESLA and renewables are cheaper than coal the latest battery technology will make short term gas generation stations redundant.
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  44. A complete stream of bullsh1t from JD from the off Fact check him and everything he said falls apart
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  45. @severinlourenco8355  your welcome to your alternative reality You do know people can check both sides claims off the Internet in 30 seconds And I'd put myself down as a moderate who expects higher standards in public office than those shown by Vance, the 2020 election was not stolen DJT'S data integrity guy Cribbs said it was the most secure election ever and Barr said so too Yet we have a senile old man barking at the moon and a slick slimeball who will say anything to prop him up
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  46. It's a progressive curve as you get older and you add various Co morbidies. There's been a general improvement on survival rates with the more that's been learnt but Agent Orange is Obese 74 disgustingly unfit ( the lazy goat doesn't even walk playing golf) has high cholesterol (the stories about trying to get more veg in his diet) probably has hypertension has a bad diet and suspected heart problems. He's also been rumoured to have taken uppers in his Apprentice days. This is more like a 1 in 10-15 if it's gotten hold on the plus side they caught it early but if he's been on oxygen it's because it's got into his lungs and will take some shifting, my guess is he'll be debilitated for weeks if not a couple of months, if he try to be macho about it and not listen to the doctors advice it won't end well
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  47. What you thought he could lie as well as Trump? Maybe it's his willingness to break his oath of office? The 20 seconds at the end buried Vance why was Pence not their
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  48.  @SquidFox9  He claimed Violent crime was up, it is down refused to contradict Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election most Americans support draconian abortion laws, they do not He claimed Harris is some quasi Russian border Czar, this is as cynical a lie as you can get. Housing is unafordable and there is a shortage because of migrants, this is blatantly not true, the housing shortage started back after the banking crash when there was an oversupply. Claimed bipartisan support for universal tariffs, this is a lie.
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  49.  @SquidFox9  The worst thing he did and continues to do is gaslight and memory hole the effect of adding 4 trillion to debt in corporate tax cuts and it's impact when the country hits a severe economic event. Pretending that rapid monetary expansion doesn't add fuel to the inflationary fire and promising to make the same mistake all over again.
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  50.  @SquidFox9  Maynard Keynes developed the economic multiplier theory. Very act of tax and spend has an economic multiplier. The Trump tax cut has a long term economic multiplier of 0.2 for every tax dollar given in a tax cut it generates 20c in additional economic activity in taxation loosing 80c. The investment in the space program to go to the Moon had an economic multiplier of 7 for every dollar invested it produced real growth leading to increased tax revenue long term of +7$ These are 2 extremes but something likea generic federal worker has a multiplier of 0.8 meaning you'd need to sack 5 to save 1 workers salary. We have 50 years of varying data on this.
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  51.  @SquidFox9  The bulk of the Trump economy was the tail of the Obama legacy the big change the tax cuts gave the economy what we term as a sugar high, a short term boost before your insulin levels crash and you get a sugar low. The fortune 500 companies spent 3.5 trillion in that short period till Cov doing share buy backs artificially boosting the stock price, handing out dividends and boosting CEO pay. All the time the economic multiplier of 0.20 was adding 80 cents in the dollar to the debt.
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  52.  @SquidFox9  The results where -3.6% GDP and +2 million unemployed over 4 Years the worst economic performance by a President since Hoover? also -200,000 manufacturing jobs. A tax cut agenda which expands the debt in unfunded tax cuts is a boom / bust agenda. The rapid expansion of the money supply onto debt without expanding GDP added between +2-3% inflation to the post Cov recovery. It's a 1 trick pony and does nothing for long term economic growth which is why his 4 year numbers were so bad.
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  53. It has to be so to break through the noise and create a conversation about social infrastructure. The right wing media echo chamber will denigrate and lambast any Biden initiative thier entire role in life is to make Republican supporters as angry as possible and to try make Biden fail even if it hurts them. This also sets the tone and while it may have no impact in Washington it creates space to talk to state and local leaders
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  54. Republican registration is down to 25% of which only 3/4 are Trumpers. Indipendant voters make up the biggest block at 40% And Democrats gained to 32% Trump has never been popular his final day's has sealed his fate
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  55. Stopped what?
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  56. How salty can Krystal get?
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  57. The FBI were swamped with information, they didn't sort the wheat from the chaff and focus and build data on likely and known groups. A good few of the organised groups are going to be prosecuted for Sedition how does a new nebulous terrorist designation help? It's not like people don't know who the hardcore are
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  58. how can the democrats pack the courts? there not in power which senator ass-hole Cruz said they'd keep a supreme court seat open for 4 years if Hillary got in? get out of here whiny hypocrites the lot of them
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  59. Companies don't pay tax if they don't make any money and also get jenerous forward tax write off provisions when will zombie trickle down finally die how many reports on the subject that basically say 'it doesn't work you muppet' does there have to be.
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  60. So a laptop happens to come into Rudys hands that's from a Trump supporter with impaired vision from a state/place Hunter doesn't live and the masterminds of this big reveal are Rudy (a known drunk and wack job who's been cavorting with Russian and Ukrainian Oligarchs as well as Borat) Steve Bannon (under indictment for fraud stealing from gullible Trump supporters) and chief Trump bootlicker Hannity. The story of where the data came from is bogus and how much of the data is even real? a clip I saw had texts with a Russian carriers mark where you'd expect t-mobile or something How it was found was a lie how much of the rest of it is?
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  61.  @moonraccoon1388  The push by the GOP to repeal the ACA is down to getting rid of the underlying tax that funds it. They don't give a toss about healthcare. Same with social security its all about reducing employers tax
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  62.  @moonraccoon1388  you don't get it do you for Trump its all about reducing the payroll tax for his businesses. The GOP are all about big business and screwing as many tax breaks from the system as they can
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  63.  @moonraccoon1388  He can't think beyond his own self interest, he is completely incapable of dealing with branches of government and treats executive orders as whims of the king. There is no deal he can make with Congress because he completely refuses to negotiate. Just look at the bunch of incompetents grifters and toadies he has around him, Kudlow as an economics adviser (2 bit Fox TV pundit divorced from reality) or Betsy Design Vos who's trying to dismantle public education and make it all private the list is endless.
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  64. Inflation is a product of supply and demand, during the pandemic you couldn't give oil away if you average it over three years and don't just compare it to a pandemic year it's running at an average of > 3% There are also global supply chain issues, living in capitalist system the government can't just appropriate resources to cure it overnight. Senator Kennedy knows that he's highly educated and has a degree from Oxford he just plays dumb for the plebs to rile them up make sure they don't get a living wage and have to work 3 jobs just to get by.
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  65. "I've been paying my own way" pass the sick bag if he said that today everyone would just vomit
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  66. New York have control of the pandemic, it's about mitigation strategies to reduce the death toll till a vaccine arrives. Masks social distancing and an aggressive testing regime. Solve the health crisis and the economy will recover trying to plow through with huge levels of sickness just depresses it further and further, Germany have quarter full sports stadiums it just takes a plan and effort.
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  67.  @art-gx7qp  why would people want to go back for 2/3 dollars an hour plus tips on a casual contract? There was a minimum wage proposal but it was tanked by the GOP
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  68.  @art-gx7qp  people don't not work because of unemployment benifits they have more self respect than that. How about a living minimum wage so the argument is moot?
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  69.  @art-gx7qp  one that pulls you out of all federal programs including UB Why should govt keep subsidising poorly run businesses.
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  70. If you want to deal with the migrant caravans they need dealing at source with the originating country with a political solution approved on a bipartisan basis. There's no one size fits all solution and that encompass stopping companies hiring on the fly and a proper pathway to citizenship
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  71. The USA is in a much better position? Britain is in a half in half out state and cases have surged to 4,000 so things are being pulled back to make sure they don't explode and deaths were 25 TWENTY FRIKIN FIVE not greater than 1000 per day day in day out
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  72. Trump runs on issues? news to me
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  73. The company I work for has already said the long term is a mixed model with remote and a reduction in office space to hot desks only. Your only going to be in the office maybe 1 day a week at most if you want to and for some it will be as little as 1 day a month
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  74. 200k dead of covid no plan from Trump except herd immunity and packing the court to strike down the ACA and invalidate pre existing conditions provisions. His one policy is to kill off payroll tax Ergo social security Do his supporters actually know what he's done and is doing and the ramifications of his policies which will lead to a total economic collapse and a depression that will last decades?
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  75. The Colorado joke is dumb as an example they have drive through voting as well as unrestricted mail in and hundreds of drop boxes, they rank second in voter accessibility. As for which of those twenty somethings is the most racist the GOP bar is so low its hard to tell
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  76. Are they deliberately doing a Biden add for responsible Govt and listening to the scientists?
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  77. The most startling example of the Democrats mindset as opposed to the Republican was in the use of the defence production act Trump used it to force meat packing plants open that were riddled with Covid giving the companies a waver against prosecution so the didn't have to shut down when covid cases got out of hand Biden used it to force a drug company rival to pitch in resource to double production. The ppe fiasco with Kushner was about to be repeated with the vaccine with winners and loosers holding the doses as hostage against blue states
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  78. There's waste in everything unfortunately but putting infrastructure say out to the private sector and having private self interests (lobbying etc.)mushrooms the cost. There's also the lack of enforcement just look at the subsidies given to the broadband sector who promised on their grandmothers life they'd improve rural broadband but hey ho
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  79.  @DEEPSTATE000  engage in petty or small scale swindling Which is why he's being sued by multiple cities for not paying his bills for the last four years of rallies, if I were a venue I'd want my money up front. The guy is a Con man his last grift was to put a recurring donation box buried in small print to sting his supporters without them realising, they had to refund over 100 million dollars, in any other country he'd be banged up for fraud.
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  80. Super sketchy creepy and Immoral! The next GOP Presidential nominee then
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  81. Who cares about a teleprompter gee wiz he can read, oh I forgot Trump struggles to read
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  82. Cohen in his new book says Trump micro manages everything which explains why the messaging is all over the place, bankrupts businesses bankrupts his own campaign
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  83. He moved the deadline to September to enable an orderly withdrawal in conjunction with allies, NATO is fully on board with the timetable its going to be next to impossible to stop as the US would have to triple its commitment to shore up he NATO shortfall if they reversed course. Its a done deal
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  84.  @RobertoPerez-rq4ck  it's a done deal nato have started pulling out as well.
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  85.  @freedommatters3176  you need to foxsplain that it's gibberish
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  86.  @freedommatters3176  Anti free speech? they let you spout foxsplaining conspiracy shit. Wars are extremely complex once you start one, Bush screwed up the middle east good and proper, Afghanistan is a mare to extricate from compounded by ISIS I don't envy anyone trying to sort it out but you need something akin to a plan
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  87. Of course he is Rudy Guiliani minister of propaganda just pulled another hard drive of incriminating evidence out of his pants, there there it will soon all be over
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  88. There are multiple possible side effects from covid. Aside from it getting into your lungs there are numerous reports of it causing mental issues heart swelling kidney problems. Typhoid Mary Don needs a full indipendant medical before he's allowed out the WH
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  89.  @michaelmaye9360  Yea course they don't - Gutted the voters rights act Citizens United And you have to read the latest piece of partisan crap coming from Thomas on religious rights. There not even remotely impartial how did they get 4 votes for canning DACA its non of their F%$£" business its up to congress and the senate to pass the law
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  90.  @michaelmaye9360  Then why didn't Trump use an executive order to reverse it? Its got fk all to do with the courts
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  91. This is dumb if she wants to engage about infrastructure then talk to the Biden administration instead she's and the rest of the GOP are generating a Streisand effect, people are looking at the proposals and thinking well I'm for that oh and that and yes that's a good idea. The dumbest of arguments here is against improved broadband because it helps rural GOP voters and the expansion of EV charging helps rural areas and social infrastructure for elderly care helps the mass of dumb boomers that vote GOP.
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  92. The large number of politicians you have is to ensure you have a functioning democracy, while its imperfect it's better than the current GOP vision which appears to be for 1 party rule in that there pushing a theory that need better quality of voters not everyone voting. Bit like the Chinese communist party system where the elites are party members who choose thier leader.
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  93.  @phj1757  Without order there is Chaos, taxation and a small amount of indifference and incompetence in public servants is a small price to pay.
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  94.  @phj1757  democracy isn't under assault from socialism or people who are Liberal. Communism only exists in text books the assault on democracy is from the right supported by the fossil fuel industry and far right billionaires such as Murdoch who pump out propaganda at a horrific rate. Theres a reason why DT was known as Benito Trumpollini
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  95. Do they not have a clue on how the America First name is historically tied to anti-Semitism?
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  96. It wouldn't have made any difference, 2 days On Trump is back on go to school crowd together don't wear masks it will go away someday, and even having him say this crap he's indoctrinated 35% of the people that now think it's fake
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  97. He's been putting stuff in the wrong column for decades and NY will be handing him a big bill + the IRS 80 mill he has to pay back + the 1/2 a billion he owes to god knows who So he's broke then
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  98. It's a K shaped recovery I work in the tech sector and aside from working remote were brimming with work, we've had ten years of growth/evolution in a year the uptake in distributed and cloud + support is off the scale. The problem here is two economies one that is roaring and one that has collapsed even when the pandemic is over this isn't just going to right itself
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  99. Soft nepotism is legal in the US what's new
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