Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "MentisWave" channel.

  1. The Heritage Foundation puts something like this out every election. I don't know why the Democrats decided to make it a huge thing this election.
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  2. Wait. Commies complaining about not owning a house when they don’t believe in private property has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen recently.
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  3. You're seeing this all over. It's quite fascinating to watch. I don't know why when they blamed the violence during the "Stop Jewish Hate" on white supremacy when it was clear who was doing the violence didn't clue them in.
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  4. It's very strange they identify with the iceberg.
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  5. My parents were immediate gratification types. I watched them spend money they couldn't afford to spend constantly. They wanted a house, but couldn't save up for it. They had 4 kids. They even blamed us for it. My father told us one time if it wasn't for us they'd be rich. Meanwhile they bought a new car every 2 years and would drop $500 (this was in the 80s so that was A LOT) on crap for themselves. We would do without while they blew every cent they could. I wore my brothers hand-me-down clothes until I finally developed bobs and couldn't fit in them anymore. It made me the complete opposite. I'd do without so my kids could have something. The youngest never even realized how poor we were. The oldest figured it out. We're living proof that that attitude leads to wealth and better outcomes. We're very well off now and it's because we were very careful and never went for immediate gratification we couldn't easily afford. Even now, we can afford our house payment and 2 car payments but we don't do it because if something happened it could put us in a financial bind. Delaying gratification doesn't mean you dely it on everything. It means you dely it on something that could create future problems. If you can't dely gratification, you don't even think about that.
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  6. Tariffs only work when they're targeted. Japan, for example, has a 10% tarrif on the rice the US imports to them. It's to protect their own rice producers. Otherwise, the US could flood their market with cheaper rice, destroying their local rice farmers, and then jack the price up because they're now dependent on the imported good. Essentially, what China has done in the US. If the maple syrup guy in the example put their prices up to match the Canadian one, they're bad at business. The price might increase, but not to match the Canadian one because if theirs is cheaper, they'll get increased demand and make more money. Whereas if they increase to match the Canadian brand, they wouldn't make as much as they would if they kept it cheaper because they'd price out some of their consumers. As long as regulations are cut along with the tarrif, it also opens up the market for a new company to form to fill in the gap because it's created an opportunity.
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  7.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Ignore the ignorant tankers. Remember they believe they’ll be writing poetry as their job after the revolution.
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  8. Mexico is pretty much a failed state. A mayor just got assassinated a couple of days after taking office. Outside of major cities like Mexico City, the government has little to no control. The reason the tourist areas are relatively safe is because the cartels run a lot of businesses in them and that would hurt them.
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  9. Exactly! That's why they're called breadtube. Bread lines are good says Bernie.
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  10. The problem with the statement of, "every person supports abortion, immigration, and LGBT rights" is they confuse their definition of those things. They are correct, but not what it means in their head. Most people support immigration, but not illegal immigration. Most people support LGBT rights, but not privileges above everyone else. Same with abortion. Most people support abortion, but not without strict limitations. Edit: There's a reason the boat wasn't rocked much under Roe. It enforced limitations. The Hobbes decision removed them and that's when it got crazy.
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  11. It's been explained by people way more involved in education than me how it happened. It's because moderate and conservative college educators didn't promote like minded people behind them. Instead they just did whoever they thought was best regardless of ideology. Where as far leftsist promoted and pushed based only on ideology. Thus they were able to get a majority of high positions within academia.
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  12. I’ve never haggled at a small store. An individual selling a product maybe, but not a store. They already are working with extremely thin profit margins. Small businesses make up 99% of the market so what you feel like is true simply isn’t. They’re responsible for employing 61+ million workers. It’s probably because you think of small businesses as just a store. They’re not. Edit: Haggling is expected in certain parts of the world at open markets. It’s not really a thing in the US because unless it’s a handmade unique item, you can simply buy it somewhere else.
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  13. ​ @Apostate_ofmind  While trying to distance herself and calling herself a change candidate. Her entire campaign was mixed messaging and word salad. I said when they removed him it was to try to save the rest of the ticket. That whoever they put in was intended to lose so it wouldn't be anyone with a possible political future. That they raised and spent over $1 billion on it is the insane part.
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  14. ​ @Levelingwithgods  Dev is not right-wing. He has not hated Trudeau for years. He literally supported him in every election he was in. He defended what Trudeau did to the truckers. He calls himself an "enlightened centrist" whatever that is. He also supported Biden and Kamala. Considering you know absolutely nothing about Dev, but spoke with such authority, you're opinion about anything else is immediately discarded.
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  15. They did that character so dirty. He went from having so much potential to being the joke side character.
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  16. I've experienced this. My husband's pay increased. It threw us into the next tax bracket, but just barely. By the time the money was taken out for taxes, he was bringing home less than before. We're avoiding reaching the next tax bracket like it's the plague.
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  17. ​ @1685Violin  There were, but they were different. They were more about we allowed Russia to elect a president. This time there's no plausible deniability with how overwhelming it was. Even the MSM is saying the American voter gave him a mandate.
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  18. Oh, they did. You weren't supposed to suggest that black guy at Harvard got there due to affirmative action. That also was considered racist even though you could tell the ones that did because they didn't perform very well.
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  19. ​​​ @Levelingwithgods "Your (you're) punishing the vice reporter (key word) for her opinion on a vtuber." Yes because she's a reporter which means she's bound by ethics and a duty to the public. Just like I'd punish, see they get fired, a teacher that was teaching students incorrectly. Free speech is not freedom from consequences of that speech. If your job is a reporter which means reporting news as unbiased as possible to inform the public, if you do it poorly there are real world consequences. Like said vtuber losing sponsors for a fan posting a picture on Twitter. You should be held responsible for the consequences you caused. Freedom of speech simply means the government can't arrest you for anything you say. It doesn't mean society doesn't have any standards of acceptable conduct. Edit: You're attempting to argue that someone can stand in front of someone screaming in their face and nobody can do anything because "free speech". Yeah, that's not how life works. Or even arguing that a parent can't go to the school board to get a teacher fired who just screams at the top of their lungs all day instead of teaching because it's their free speech.
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  20. I've seen a leftist challenged in a debate to not reference a Marvel movie or Harry Potter in their response to a question and they immediately referenced both.
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  21. I also can relate. I got put in remedial reading in 3rd grade while I was reading Shakespeare at home. My grandfather collected anthologies of classical writers. He had Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare, etc and I'd read them and understand them for the most part. This was before they'd split the class up into groups of different reading levels like they do now. I was bored out of my mind. That teacher hated me for some reason and enjoyed announcing to the class she was putting me in it. Edit: I was only in it a few weeks, but stuff like that seriously messes you up when you're young.
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  22. IQ is potential. Take me as an example. Heck, most of my family. We all range between 130-150 IQ. None of us have been scientists, have invented something, or done anything special. My oldest is 160+ IQ. He works in operations at an oil refinery. My IQ is 138. My contribution is being a stay at home wife and mother. We've all preferred hands-on type work. So we've all been farmers, ranchers, gardeners (I'm a master gardener and enjoy design), carpenters, etc, and very knowledgeable in those areas. When we do find something that piques our interest, we'll read everything we can find on it. Studying and learning about it like we're getting a masters degree in it. We end up with vast amounts of knowledge in various areas outside whatever we've chosen to earn money doing. We've all been creative in one way or another. Both of my sons are musically gifted and could have gone into it professionally. I'm into fabric art and crafting and work at expanding my skills in areas adjacent to that. My mother loved interior design and all forms of decoration (cakes, knicknacks, ceramics, etc). Both my grandfather and father loved woodworking and building things. Those are the skills we'd work on and master outside work. Continously improving our skills in them. That's basically what the majority of higher IQ people do because it's not about making money. It's about learning and improving our knowledge and skills in whatever area we enjoy. Sorry for the book, but I was trying to sort of explain in detail using my own high IQ family as an example of how it typically functions in the real world.
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  23. ​​​ @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  If you're libertarian like you claim, you know what you suggest is in violation of the NAP. So why did you even try to insinuate he meant that? Why are you taking what someone you don't knows statement in the worst light possible and to the far extreme? Everything else they listed was to work within the system. To take the last one completely out of that context is extremely disingenuous. Edit: It's also well within libertarian values to allow a community to enact rules they agree upon. It's understood if you don't like them, you're free to leave said community. How is the population of a state voting to enact rules they wish a violation of that? I'll also close with it's odd to think it's not a violation of the NAP to end the life of baby just because it's in the womb. It's okay to commit violence against them apparently.
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  24. ​ @EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts  They hate capitalism. The economy is the the eventual. The culture is the way to get there. It's Maoism. He was the first to use culture to inact communism rather than class. They absolutely still talk about class, but understand the friction in capitalist countries comes from culture because of the upward mobility it allows in the class system. The destination is the same, the path is just different.
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  25.  @danmorgan3685  The USSR was very nationalistic. I don’t understand what you think that proves. Even as they sent Russians to mingle into the populations of the countries they took over, those Russians saw themselves as superior because they were Russian.
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  26. Owning land has always been an investment. That's why it factors into your net worth. It has intrinsic value. Nobody "convinced" anyone of this. It's been understood since Kings granted land as a reward. You're going to need to first prove that it's artificially inflated. Prices started going up during the pandemic. Not just to, but because mass migration began out of certain areas into other areas. NYC and really all major cities houses have always been more expensive because there's very limited land. Add in zoning and massive, unneeded regulations, and it skyrockets because each regulation adds expense to the building process. The migration I mentioned is still taking place. As people move from one area to another, it creates scarcity in the new area driving up prices because the need is bigger than the supply. Prices will drop as either new houses are built or the migration slows. The idea that it's everywhere is also false. My 25 year old purchased his first house last year for $70,000. It's about the size of our first home which was $50,000 20 years ago. Given inflation, that's not a huge increase. Edit: His house also has an attached 1 car garage which increases the value by $5,000-$10,000 which ours only had a carport. So it's not really more expensive than our first house. Given inflation, it was probably even a bit cheaper. Too many people want houses that are over 1,500 square feet too which the bigger the house, the more expensive it is. Since that's what the market demands, that's what gets built. Our first home and his first home were both around 1,000 square feet and over 50 years old which decreases the value/cost.
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  27. They're not even anarchist because socialism requires government. Massive government. I do feel like acknowledging there's such a thing as libertarian socialist isn't a good thing because they're completely opposite ideologies. You can't reject the foundation principles of an ideology and still get to claim that ideology. They know saying they're libertarian sounds good because of the association of it with freedom so they're just using the label to confuse young people unfamiliar with the principles behind it.
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  28. ​​ @DudeTheMighty  You mean concensus. I don't believe there's such a thing as appeal to consequences. Language generally requires a concensus on what a particular sound means or it isn't language. It's just a sound. While meanings of words do change over time, it requires a consensus for that change to occur. If I followed your logic I could go around saying the sky is red. When someone corrected me that it's blue, I could simply say they're incorrect because words change over time. Meaning no one could ever be incorrect no matter what words they choose to use and we'll no longer be able to communicate. Which means civilization and all our achievements would become lost. This idea you have that an appeal to concensus is bad when it comes to language just tells me you don't understand what you're talking about. Edit: Also, even if a new usage of a word emerges, the old definition still applies. It doesn't magically erase the old meaning. Then you look at the context it's being used in to determine which definition is being used. I guess you hate the dictionary and everything ever written since you're trying to assert concensus is bad.
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  29. ​ @PropagandalfderWeiße ​ Cities naturally are like that generally speaking if there's no zoning laws. Look at Europe. Especially in cities where the old roads still exist. It's very walkable, and they were that way before urban planning existed. Shops tend to be where the people are. Especially shops that carry everyday goods. The only city not like that is LA. The problem with it today is there's no guarantee you'll work anywhere near where you live and it's impossible to plan that. The problem people had with the 15 minute cities idea were the fines and stuff if you left your zone. Because they were introduced to stop all driving within cities for climate change.
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  30.  @GurrasGarage There’s plenty of sources that show Stalin believed himself an amazing military leader and refused to listen to his generals during the first part of the war. It’s why their number of dead was extremely high. Only after he relinquished total control did the losses drop and the tide took a drastic turn.
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  31. Oh no! Choices are evil!
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  32. ​​ @thelordofcringe  They've said it's going to be about how she's been oppressed and her struggle on the topic of Ciri. She also can't be a Witcher according to the lore. I get it if you don't care about those things, put people calling it out aren't "woke." After the total destruction of lore over the last 15 years, people know it when they see it. They've literally ignored and broken the lore so they can put a strong, independent woman as the main character. It's called pattern recognition.
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  33. Yep. Most women play flash type games. I play one myself at night as I go to sleep. I also play real games.
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  34. They love DEI and say it's great while being offended if you say they're a DEI hire. They've got to either embrace it or let it go.
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  35. That's why it said a credible source. Then they choose whichever "source" aligns with their belief. If your source is based on a good study, they'll reject it based off of where it came from. Even if it came from an institution they'll use when the results align with their beliefs.
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  36. ​ @gmodrules123456789  It actually doesn't. If you look up why we pasteurized milk, it says it's because it gives a longer shelf life. It also is honest and admits the process destroys a lot of the vitamins and minerals we get from milk. They do add a bit back, but not as much as is lost. That's why you'll see "with added vitamin D." Because it's in it naturally which is why we drank it, but the process destroys it. We would have died out as species hundreds of thousands years ago if raw milk was extremely dangerous. Europeans and other groups where sunlight isn't as strong as other places started drinking it to replace what they lost from lack of sun exposure. Obviously they didn't know that's the process that was occurring. Just that they felt better when they drank it. Vitamin D deficiency causes a lot of issues like decreased energy and increased muscle pain.
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  37. ​​​​ @makhnothecossack4948  It's a result of them. When the government is responsible for the people's ability to survive through government programs, the government has to take as much money as it can. In this case, if the value is what the government sees as better than the average, they take the extra value away. It's twofold. It takes the monetary excess value away and makes it to where you don't want the advantage because you're punished to the point that it puts it out of reach monetarily. It disincentives getting better things. Edit: Stupid grammarly
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  38. ​ @andrehashimoto8056  The EU is about more than just goods. It's to push them to go back to free speech and to stop going after political opponents. I expect some tarrifs to remain because he's trying to trade them for income taxes. At least that way I can choose how much I pay in taxes by choosing to purchase an import. I guarantee yearly I wouldn't buy $40,000 worth of taxes on imported goods but I'm forced to pay it out of our paycheck every year.
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  39. ​ @saysikerightnow3914  On the FAA website they said they were prioritizing disabled. Listed sight impaired, speech impediment, etc as what they were seeking because they had too few disabled in the department. We do know it was under staffed that night. Significantly so. Which means absenteeism and how people being out is covered policy wise needs to be looked at. Unfortunately there's a Union. Even though I'm fairly pro Union, I'm 100% against them when it comes to government workers. This is a good example of why. It allows the worker to have too much control when other people's safety is involved. Creating worker benefits that might directly jeopardize safety. Like absentee policies. Because it's a Union, it's very difficult to address them until the next contract negotiations.
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  40. ​ @dwwolf4636  I really hate the no true Scottsman. It's how communism works in practice. Therefore it was communism.
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  41. ​​​​ @spacefun101  Here's the difference: The US imports $ 600 billion worth of goods from the EU. The EU imports about half that in US goods. It's to make a deal to more evenly balance the imports and exports. We get them to accept more imports, forcing open their markets. The more we export to other countries, the more manufacturing required to meet that new need. It's not hard. Considering there's an almost 50% difference in trade because the US has open markets and they don't, a 10% tarrif is tiny. That's what he means by trade deficit. Edit: I'm surprised people don't seem to know only the US has low trade barriers and every other country is very protectionist. It's also hilarious watching those protectionist countries complain we might be becoming like them. You want open access to our market? Then we get open access to yours.
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  42. I’ve explained to so many people that inflation doesn’t mean higher prices. When a single item increases in cost nobody is yelling “Inflation!!” So clearly that’s not inflation. Inflation is when you see an increase in every sector of the economy and that can only be caused by money printer go brrr. I think my favorite part was Warren having a Congressional inquiry on Kroger because they’d increased prices.
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  43. ​ @zachb8012  That that was the only thing Trump "lied" about that Biden pushed back on was hilarious. It also showed Biden's massive ego he likes to pretend he doesn't have. He got pretty lively on that.
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  44. I'm in Oklahoma. We turned everything red. Even the cities. Natives voted overwhelmingly for him. So far, we're missing a lot of the blame game being levied at minority men.
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  45. ​​ @TheWolfgangGrimmer  I wish Trump had appointed more constitutionalists. If Thomas and/or Alito retires, they need to be replaced with one. They're a strong voice. If we lose that faction, the decisions won't be as well rounded. Edit: Losing the DEI hire would be the best thing for the court, but no way that will happen.
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  46. Show me anyone in power saying that. Most people point to Melonie. She's not in power and simply said she doesn't like it. At no point did she say it should be legislated out. On top of that, everyone points to the Satanic Panic which wasn't from the right. Every person trying to ban things and suing were Democrats. They especially love to point to Thompson. Who they label as right-wing simply because he's Christian. Except he ran against Condelesa (sp) Rice for AG of Florida as a Democrat. Christian does not equal right-wing and people need to stop trying to put them all into a collective. You're guilty of doing what leftists do with every group. Look at left-wing politicians. Almost all of them are religious and Christian. Biden who's been trying to legislate taking away property from one group and giving it to another is Catholic.
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  47.  @manolgeorgiev9664  They've called for the exact same "decolonization" in the US while cheering that as "decolonization". You did not watch the video because that's pointed out. I guess they can later say "Just kidding bro" and you'll believe them.
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  48. I think after the attempt and the people calling him that said how glad they were it wasn't successful woke a few up. Not anywhere near all, but a few. It was hard to square that circle.
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  49. He's a mathematician. It's kind of like Neil DeGras Tyson lecturing you about political theory. The only thing I listened to him on was him going over the different writings. It just saved me time so I didn't have to read them myself. Unfortunately, some people that did go ahead and read some of them said he was wrong about parts. Which means I will need to read them myself so it didn't save me time and instead wasted it. Edit: Not that I don't enjoy reading and learning. I do very much. It's just those works can be such a slog and tedious to get through. Some of them are so pretentious it oozes off the page.
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  50. The idea that I’m supposed to like my leader’s personality or approve of their private life is weird. It should be strictly about policy. If I could have a beer with them is irrelevant. It’s been so long since we’ve had a President that’s not shy about expressing strength people don’t know what to make of it.
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  51. You mean like the lab leak? No! Say it ain't so!
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  52.  @yusufisnotlost  How is that different than China or several other countries? They aren't isolated from information from the outside world like North Korea. People didn't know any other rule but monarchy and tossed it several times. I seriously don't understand why you think that's a legitimate argument for the support. Given that they watched Hamas dig up their water pipes to make rockets out of rather than care that the citizens had water in a desert makes your argument worse. Governments were overthrown for far less. They certainly would lose support over it, but not there.
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  53. ​ @GallowayJesse  It's not hitting as hard in every area. If you live where flocks weren't destroyed, or at least not a lot were, you're egg prices won't be as high. Just like milk and beef prices. Almost all of California's cattle were lost to bird flu, but if you live close to where beef is plentiful, the price won't go up much. Just remember everything sold in the grocery store has to cross state lines. Since I live in a state surrounding Texas, my beef prices haven't jumped up.
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  54.  @MysteriousStrangerVA True! Holy crap it’s insane. The Indian guy that was the one on his staff that uncovered the unmasking and spying that took place on his campaign said they had no idea it was as big or as deep at it is. Knowing something exists and knowing everything about it are two separate things.
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  55. I would say many Muslims still suffer that condition.
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  56. Poor people aren't taxed in the US. They get back everything they pay in by a refund. I know. I was poor.
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  57. I don't know where you're at if you're even in Canada, but that's always been the case. At least when I lived near Vancouver in the late 90s. Which is why I really don't care. Since I lived there, I'm also aware the whole they're the most polite people on Earth is also a lie. They were some of the rudest people I'd ever had the displeasure to be around. Especially once they found out I was American and southern because Hollywood movies are real life apparently. I am glad the news there has admitted that if they didn't have the US to provide defense they wouldn't have the social programs they do. As a person whose tax dollars pay for that protection, I have no problem protecting our industries from other countries. It's something we never should have stopped doing. Especially since every other country engages in it. I'm glad since Trump was in office in 2016 I've learned that when I was taught in school that we engage in free trade with our allies it was only us doing so.
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  58. ​ @Ghalion666 ​ Why did you bring up Tim Pool and feel a need to defend him? Nobody mentioned him. Certainly not the op.
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  59. This is a participation trophy mindset. There's a winner and loser. There's no tie. There's no "nobody won" when it comes to a debate. There's a winner and loser. No matter how bad they may both be, one of them walks away the winner. Edit: Like a foot race, no matter how slow both competitors might be, one of them crosses the finish line first. Trying to say, well it was close, is just cope.
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  60. Make yellow journalism illegal again!
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  61.  @Adam_Zielinski  An open relationship isn't polygamy. Polygamy is still a closed relationship. You're comparing apples to oranges. In an open relationship none of the things you're claiming are a plus happen. Nobody you're having a brief sexual relationship with is going to join their financial resources with the couple. They're completely outside the 2 person relationship. Where as in a polygamist relationship all parties are in a committed relationship just with each other. In an open relationship, there's only a commitment between the 2. Edit: Also joining finances into a giant pool in a polygamist relationship is usually avoided. That's because unless everyone is making the same amount, it creates resentment that their money is being spent to support the others. Just more jealousy. On big purchases like a house or something that they all benefit from, sure, but not day to day expenses.
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  62. ​​​ @dubstepXpower  No because the billionaires will have to sell all their assets to give the money to the government. They're not saying seize assets. They're saying taking money they don't have. Edit: Even if they seized their assets, that's not going to pay for anything. They'd have to take out a loan against those assets and pay it back with interest. Meaning it wouldn't change anything. That's what billionaires do. They take out loans using the value of their assets as collateral.
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  63.  @davidmays8974 It’s great. Do you even remotely understand this is a libertarian area of the internet? We don’t believe 99% of the government should exist. Everything except the military should be privatized and even it to an extent. The power should be with the state or local governments. Edit: The President of Argentina is a good example of what most of us believe and want.
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  64. Noooo. Really?
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  65. ​ @Eddie_of_the_A_Is_A_Gang  They didn't say anything about the government controlling prices which means the government setting the price. You're talking about a country with 1.4 billion people that is a socialist country with child labor and very little regulations or worker protection. They're exporting goods for less than they're paying to import the raw resources that makes them. It's like when Walmart moves into an area. They carry specialty things that are found in small local businesses and they will sell them at a loss. This is to drive those shops out of business limiting where you can purchase those goods. Once those shops close, they jack up the price or even stop carrying them all together. That's what China does. By providing something at a loss because it undercuts competition, it destroys those manufacturers. You're confusion is you think it's for monetary gain. It's for securing a position of control. If they as a country supply a lot of goods, especially key goods, it gives them huge leverage over that country. Just like Germany relying on Russia for its natural gas. Russia simply threatens to turn it off in the winter and allow Germans to freeze to death to bend the German government to it's will.
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  66. It takes longer than 2 years to gain citizenship. She would have gotten permanent residency status, but not citizenship. That takes roughly 10 years because it's quarters worked based. My husband is an immigrant and recently got his citizenship. We were married and lived in his country for about a year before we moved back to the US.
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  67. The best thing is to treat an opinion piece as just that. Someone’s opinion, not fact. Too many people think opinion pieces are the same as a news piece and they are not. It’s a totally different standard. An opinion piece can be nothing but lies with zero consequences because it’s their opinion. A news article is supposed to only state facts. I took a couple journalism courses and that’s journalism 101. It’s why so many “news” organizations now are almost all opinion pieces with very few news pieces.
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  68. That claim only works if you ignore every other race. Democrats lost across the board. This was a message to the party, not about a single individual.
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  69. ​ @UnhingedJessie  That's why the voter roll purges are so important. You can't have more votes than registered voters. Doing that makes what you're talking about impossible to do.
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  70. I didn't watch the full thing, but from what I have seen, Ethan was doing well in exposing that Hasan is a bad person which was his goal. I don't care for either, but I'll pick Ethan over Hasan.
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  71. Especially after the week before they were calling the videos of him deep fakes and claiming he was doing cartwheels behind the scenes.
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  72. There was huge enthusiasm gap last time too.
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  73. ​​ @MommaOcco  It's fine. It seemed to be coming from a genuine place. It wasn't really you as much the response right beneath it. That was a bad response to your confusion. Nobody expects everybody to be as deep in the weeds as some of us.
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  74. ​​ @guinea_horn  By universally do you mean worldwide? There just so happens to be one. It's based on where you sit percentage wise to the average. Hence why it's lower (below average), middle (within the average), and upper (above the average). Then it's broken down even further. Lower middle class (low end of the average spread) and upper middle class (high end of middle class, just below upper class). I sit currently in the top 8% of income. That makes me upper middle class. I have been in the lower 20% of earners which was in the lower class. How much you spend has no bearing on your class. It's what you make.
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  75. More people die waiting for care in Europe than the US. Usually waiting for cardiac surgery. The US has better results than Europe that's time based. They use a broken hip as the measure. In the US it's less than 60 days from it happening to being fully repaired. It's closer to 30. In Europe it's close to year or over. The reason they use a broken hip is because the faster it's replaced, the better the outcome. Life expectancy has more to do with diet and not being obese when it comes to Europe. Just attributing it to healthcare is disingenuous or means you don't understand there's a lot more involved.
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  76.  @TheKeksadler  I'm sure you can search it. Lots of videos laughing at him about that.
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  77. ​@Orangnus There were 2 planes. They likely confirmed seeing the other plane that was still a decent distance away. It's kind of hard to see a plane almost directly below you. Even IF they saw the plane, it's still on traffic control because they obviously were too close and it's their job to tell them that and direct them safely away. I'm not understanding this desire to let the people responsible for controlling how each aircraft moves completely off the hook. This is one of if not the most dangerous corridors as far as traffic goes. Controlling and directing it is what pilots rely on to prevent collisions. Relying on depth perception isn't going to cut it.
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  78. ​​ @tomtomtom6970  So it's better to watch industry be shipped out and lose good paying jobs for cheap crap that breaks or wears out quickly? It's better to risk a country we rely on for important goods exercise influence over us? Like Russia threatening to turn off the gas supply during winter to strong arm Europe? I'll take short-term pain for long-term gain. That's how me and my husband have been successful. Changing jobs means a short decrease in pay with a later increase once you worked your way back up. Edit: When Reagan was elected everyone understood it was going to be rough for a couple of years when the economy was hard stopped and restarted. This won't be anywhere near that, but we can't go on as we stand now.
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  79. It's why I don't ever want to hear about how great UBI would be. We tried it and it did exactly what anyone with an above lukewarm IQ knew it would.
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  80. ​ @adriant240  You give yourself away with "the money stolen" bit. It's not "stolen." They agreed to that pay. Stop taking agency away from people. The poverty level globally is $2 a day. If they're making more than that, they'll be considered well off. To you $3 a day is ridiculously low because you're looking at it from where you live. To them it's decent. Taxes are not for "redistribution." They're to provide services to the population that they use like roads, police, fire, military to protect citizens from outside invaders, etc. Redistribution is socialism at minimum. Communism at maximum. My father-in-law is a multimillionaire. He's extremely frugal. He worked hard his entire life to reach the level he did. Who the f are you to decide he doesn't deserve it? Me and my husband will retire as multimillionaires because we worked, skimped, and saved for decades so we'd have enough to not have to worry about burdening our kids. Hopefully having some left over to make their lives a little bit better. You don't get to decide we didn't do enough to be worthy of what we made.
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  81. ​​ @Tyler-rj7bq  Wrong. That's a bigger one. $25,000 is all first time homeowners. How is the federal government going to know if your grandparents ever owned a house, even if briefly? That's not recorded by the federal government. It's state and local records. Which means it's going to a be a free for all or a new agency created to collect that information from other governments. Edit: Hint: Who will the government know 100% didn't have homeownership in the US at any point in their recent family history?
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  82. Honestly? At this point, it's highly unlikely. She has to take every swing state except one if she takes Pennsylvania. If Trump takes Pennsylvania, it's pretty much an automatic win for him or 2 other swing states.
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  83. Did you not watch it? He explained how taxing the rich isn't a tax on the rich but everyone else. If they're 20% they'll just increase their pay by that much or increase the price of good. Making the tax affect others instead of them. The government doesn't really care where that 20% comes from as long as they get it.
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  84. That doesn't negate it. Both of those things you're enjoying now. Neither is something you've delayed having. The equivalent would be saving up for the downpayment on the house or spending your money as soon as it hit your bank account. Those that can't dely it will never save for the downpayment. Edit: That $70 isn't going to make a difference on the huge amount owed on the house. It's not spending most of what you have for immediate gratification. That $70 isn't going to drain your account to the point you can't pay your house note. So you are indeed still delaying gratification in exchange for a longterm goal. You're not exchanging immediate gratification for longterm gratification. You're just spending what you can afford without putting your longterm goals in jeopardy.
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  85. I don’t think they are similar. I know they are and in far more ways than that they neglect the individual. That honestly never came to my mind when viewing the two. It has been really odd seeing that the commies have convinced liberals that nationalism is bad.
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  86. ​ @Earenzel0  Which is funny because that's mostly local and state government. Not federal.
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  87. ​ @ForProfit-x100  I mean Jesus was angry at the Rabbis for adding random things into God's law. He makes it pretty clear humans will add things for their own benefit into religious texts. It's one of the reasons I ignore a lot of what Paul wrote later. Especially because a lot of preachers won't differentiate between when he was speaking his personal opinion about something or declaring it was from Jesus. Paul makes that distinction a lot, but I rarely if ever hear a preacher do the same.
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  88. That's a lovely fantasy you've got there for a time that never existed. Homeownership was 44% in 1940. It's 65% now. How was that better than today exactly? 21% fewer people could afford to own a home. Edit: You want to go back to a time period the majority could never afford to own their own home?
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  89. That was a small aircraft. Unfortunately carrying a sick child. So not the same. It was no where near landing or other planes so likely a problem with the aircraft. Edit: Plane crashes always happen in 3s. So there will be one more or already was one.
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  90. They pay taxes on what they bought the house with. Technically they don't actually have much money. It's unrealized wealth. Its sitting there, invested, building businesses. If they sell that stock, they pay capital gains plus income tax. They pay sales tax on everything they purchase. Since what they buy is more expensive, they pay more. They pay business taxes too. Yes, they pay taxes. Just not so much income tax because they technically don't have one. Edit: You pay income tax, they pay business tax.
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  91.  @CantusTropus  There are much more common ones that occur today when it comes to roads. When a new housing development is being built the roads in it are built by the developers. This is especially true in HOAs and road maintenance is included in your fee. The city doesn't just put in a new road. Even in cases where the city does provide the work, the developer pays the city for it. Just like if I purchase a piece of property that doesn't have gas and electricity already run to it, I have to pay to have them added if it had a dirt road and I wanted it paved to protect my vehicles, I would pay for it to be done to my property. Edit: Developers pay for it because a dirt road decreases the value of the property. It directly benefits them to do it.
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  92. It depends on the policy. Some will have almost immediate effect and some won't have full effect for 10 years. Some will have a good short-term good effect, but bad long-term impact.
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  93. Independent is heavy in favor of Trump. It's at about 60% support.
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  94. That tape was so hilarious. Anyone that knows anything about groupies knew exactly what he meant. I grew up in the 80s and the women bragged about doing that back then. They’d sleep with the ugliest, nastiest roadie to get to the guys on stage.
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  95.  @N4chtigall This is usually what happens. People see what jobs are growing, everyone goes to get that degree, they all graduate, and over flood the market. If you’re doing a degree based on those projections you have to pick one with substantial growth not just a bit of growth and that’s shown consistent growth.
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  96. Apparently, agreeing to have his baby seems to be the only thing he honestly cares about. I don't think Trump can do that.
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  97. ​​​​ @Touma134  Then you have no principles. Centrist means the middle. The compromise between the two positions. If you're always searching for the compromise, you have no real opinion of your own beyond there being a compromise. The problem with your attempted claim about how everyone else is you're putting it into political party positions which is no different than the person blindly standing in the middle. That's not a principled position. I lean right. That does not magically mean I blindly follow a party regardless of policies. It means when I look at an issue MY principled position will lean to the right. It has nothing to do with your attempted smear that if you're not a centrist (compromising) then you blindly follow one of the two parties. We're called independents. We make up 40% of the voting public. The parties split the 60%. We're who decides elections. Edit: Maybe you don't understand that centrist is no different than saying Republican or Democrat or whatever parties you have. It's a political ideology of compromise between the two. Most people here are right leaning libertarians. No party really represents this ideology. While we may vote one party more often than another, it's based on our own personal principles.
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  98. ​ @dansmith1661  Ethan agrees with him about Isreal vs Palestine so that's irrelevant when it comes the two of them.
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  99. ​ @billbadson7598  Women agents are fine to guard children or a small woman. Maybe a little person, but not a full grown man over 6 feet tall.
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  100. I figured up how much of our 401k we'd lose by the time all taxes were taken out. Including income tax if everything she proposed went in. 80%.
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  101. ​ @frogking5573  A training flight shouldn't take place in the most dangerous corridor in the US. There are plenty of bases it can be done from and completely different areas in that vicinity to do it. I don't think some people fully understand how incredibly dangerous this corridor is.
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  102. You don't get it. It's the wrong people price fixing! Only the government knows what's best. Edit: My autocorrect is being so wrong today.
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  103. ​​​​ @matrinezkevin11492  Latino is just short for Latin America or South America, which was mostly Spanish colonies. It's basically anyone from South America that's of Native descent. Hispanic refers to anyone who's from a former Spanish colony, which includes those not on the American continents. Hispanic can be any race whereas Latino is going to be Native or mixed with Native. That's why on forms you have Hispanic (white) and just Hispanic. Edit: The reason it's not mezio (sp) is because those tribes extended into the US and the legal language trying to differentiate between the ones that are and aren't would get confusing. So original South Americans are simply called Latino because for a very long time South America was just called Latin America.
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  104. ​​​ @nappyk96  I'll just say it was allowed because everything is getting yeeted. Edit: Allowed rather than planned. That allowance might have well been set as a trap and then it was incompetence.
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  105. ​ @MentisWave  That's what I'm thinking. It's the only thing that logically makes sense.
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  106. It's from guilt. They had something others didn't and are made, usually through education, to feel guilty for the privileges their ancestors worked for them to have. This is why you've seen a breakdown in the appreciation of standing on the shoulders of those who came before. Their work is made irrelevant because obviously they did something bad or participated in a bad system to get what they had that they were able to pass down and it was somehow at the cost of those they surpassed. It's a really odd way of looking at success. Instead of something to strive for, it's something to criticize. Edit: It's really twisted once you understand the guilt is to make sure they don't succeed so someone, most likely less educated or competent, can take their place in the hierarchy and power structure.
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  107. I hate that! So many idiots were spouting that to the few of us speaking against The Patriot Act. Just because what I'm currently doing isn't illegal doesn't mean they won't make it illegal.
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  108.  @thethrashyone  This is right/left on the US political scale. The European one is different. In the US there is no "right" as there is in Europe because all political parties are liberal because the only government it's ever had is liberal. Where as in European governments there have been many, many different forms of government. From a purely liberal perspective right is less government and more freedom and left is authoritarian. It goes back all the way to our Founding and the compromises between Jefferson and Washington with Adams.
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  109. ​ @authenticallysuperficial9874  No it's not. At the founding it was land ownership because that was the only way to prove citizenship because there was no federal or state ID in place. It's constitutional because it's literally IN the Constitution that you need to prove citizenship.
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  110. I'll never be a Republican. I am conservative in my own views about a lot of things, but I don't believe my personal views should dictate how anyone else lives. Christianity is about personal choices and the consequences of them. It's a very individualism religion.
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  111. I'm sure he'll find a Wikipedia entry to site. I'd say he won't sleep with you, but he probably would.
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  112. I don't know if we can call it that though. He clearly wants this. Which honestly makes him far more dangerous to me than what they try to make you believe about Trump.
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  113. The needing someone young is a silly argument because as President you want experience. Especially dealing with certain things. It's why for a very long time nobody would even look at a candidate that didn't have military experience because they're Commander in Chief. They need to have dealt with foreign governments for example which is just not something that you're going to find in younger people. They need to project strength, which Biden never has as much as he likes to physically threaten people. There's just so much they need to have some type of experience in, it's not something you're going to find in hardly anyone under 50 at least. Even then, they'd be considered extraordinary. Edit: I should note it's extraordinary for today. In the past when we were dealing with being involved in actual war and things there would have people with a lot more experience at a much younger age. I also like Vivik and see him having a future but he needs to be more well known first.
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  114. ​@makhnothecossack4948​ Are you referring to when an entire new economy had to be created because all the manufacturing jobs that used to be relied on were sent overseas? The problem with repealing that legislation was Congress failed to rework To Big To Fail legislation. Glass-Steagall had pretty much already been destroyed by court decisions and amendments to it over the decades and was already extremely weak. It was replaced by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. I also find it odd why people blame the government for individuals being dumb and taking out flexible rate loans. Too many people taking those so they could afford a bigger loan and therefore house isn't the responsibility of the government. If you're too ignorant to understand the risk of such a loan, you probably shouldn't be trying to get one in the first place. It's never been the responsibility of someone else to protect you from your poor decisions. That said, the TBTF needed to be reworked under the new regulations and wasn't. Meaning by legislation Obama couldn't let them fail. Which is the complaint most people have with what occurred afterwards. Edit: Complaining about the nuclear family which has been a thing since 1300s Britain and the term to define it coined in 1920 as suddenly becoming a thing in the 1970s shows how little you actually know about what you're claiming are these massive ills brought on by a certain group. Nuclear family just means the parents are married and both in the home. A concept that's exsited in almost every civilization. Including tribes. Especially since having both parents in the home began to decline in the 70s and has continued to decline.
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  115. France. France tried taxing anyone making over $1 million I think it was 75%. It didn't last long because they just moved their money out of the country.
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  116.  @xenophon5354  I have never heard a libertarian say that society can't be coercive. In fact they advocate for smaller like minded groups because it's easier to maintain the same values in smaller groups than larger ones. It's like when I see people conflating what would be allowed in private with what would be allowed in public. The covenant is to define what will be allowed in public while maintaining individual freedom on private property. That prevents it being in the larger society and society can absolutely shame them and disassociate from those that choose to violate that. Edit: It's why the state in the Constitution had so much more power over an individual than the federal government and local government even more so. It's so people were free to create rules and laws that the communities wanted and people could move between them to live somewhere that they agreed with the rules instead of having to live under ones completely different from their own values. We're seeing people remember that today as the population move out of certain placed and flood into others. It's separating itself as it was always intended to. It's why the Constitution says these United states instead of the United states. We were never intended to be one.
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  117. ​​ @LWoodGaming ​ Even if there were charging stations available everywhere, EVs still can't travel the same distance in the same amount of time. That's not even getting into losing half their charge if the temperature isn't perfect. Anyone claiming they're exactly like gas powered is either lying or ignorant. It was tested. A person drove cross country in each, and the EV took almost twice as long. If I'm planning a vacation to Colorado to go skiing, I'd be better off renting a gas car if I own an EV. Edit: I could get into the resale issues that you don't have with regular cars, too. Another huge disadvantage people gloss over or ignore.
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  118.  @dibberz-v1z  Yes it was. It combined Maoism with postmodernism. That was done in the US. It's been in colleges since the 90s. It's not supported because it's mainstream. It's mainstream because it worked it's way through the institutions and captured them to force it into the mainstream. It was seen in colleges but ignored thinking the real world wouldn't let it get far. We were wrong. Nobody anticipated these people getting high end jobs within business and governments to be able to push it onto the rest of us.
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  119. 6:37 Oh my God! Those people are claiming Fox did what the "reporter" actually did. I ran into so many people on FB like that starting in 2014-2015. It's why I never use it and don't have Twitter.
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  120. ​ @gonelucid  But Trump is including him. I gotta say, him reaching everywhere looking for like minded people when it comes to the government is refreshing.
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  121. ​ @proudlymartinkay  That's funny. Since that's been making the rounds several are now questioning if what was claimed about 2020 was true.
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  122. I avoid reddit like the plague that it is, but I did hear about it.
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  123. That is the stupidest economic theory I've seen in awhile. A country can't go bankrupt because it can just print more money. Just ignore Greece and several other countries that have gone bankrupt.
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  124. Not voting for the lesser evil. I'm voting for who I believe will do a better job and who's policies will better benefit me and mine. If I only vote for someone someone who 100% shares everything I believe, I'd never vote. Even in local elections.
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  125. It's because only by creating division can the revolution happen. Never forget that's the end goal.
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  126. ​​ @MentisWave  This! I've seen so many trying to say they all got their new marching orders when the truth is, it was so obvious they couldn't continue to deny it if they wanted to save any integrity they have left.
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  127. Lifetime earnings? So I pay them when? And given that taxes fluctuate how am I supposed to know what I'm going to owe? You've got to figure possible future inflation, downturn or upturns in the economy, possible future skill increases, etc. Yeah, no.
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  128. The immigration issue is going to keep a lot from voting. They're very upset about what's happened in big cities because they've enjoyed immunity from it until now. They can't bring themselves to vote Orange man bad, so just won't vote.
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  129. ​ @doriXslurr ​ As a lawyer, he should have been aware that was eventually going to happen. A court decision that's spun a right out of whole cloth won't stand forever. The left's holy RGB warned Democrats every time they were in a position to pass it into law of that fact. Unfortunately for them, it was too good of an issue for fundraising so they didn't. Now that it's back at the state level it's been funny watching it no longer be as big a driver.
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  130. ​​ @bezceljudzelzceljsh5799 ​ Canada has tariffs on US imports. For example, on milk, it's as high as 230%. It's a progressive tarrif, so the more imported, the higher it gets. Obviously nobody imports enough to reach that percentage, which is the point of it. It's to protect theur dairy industry. Canada engages in protectionist tariffs, but for some strange reason Canada doesn't think the US should be allowed to do the same. Every country engages in this practice against US industries, but we're supposed to just put tiny more symbolic ones. I don't think most Canadians are even aware they're doing it. So I'm trying to be educational in my engagement with them on this topic. That's why the president is saying reciprocal tariffs. If Americans were running around complaining and hating Canadians for decades over these tariffs, I'd understand the reaction. Instead, we've tolerated them and it doesn't impact our relationship, but if we dare engage in reciprocal tariffs, the world is ending and we're the worst people ever. Edit: This is why milk is so much more expensive in Canada and why Canadians near the border will cross to buy it and gas. If they weren't in place, we'd import a lot more. Making your milk comparable in pricing but also destroying your dairy industry. So you're own country isn't working in your best interests if that interest is cheaper goods.
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  131. ​ @BurgerofMan  As I said in my other post, it's not new. Canadians have always hated the US as long as I've been engaged with the population. Except Obama. They treat him like a king whenever he visits.
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  132. Not my pig. Not my farm. Ya'll elected him.
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  133. Thank you for explaining CEOs aren't just sitting around collecting a pay check. I've been around a few and it's insane the amount of time they devote to business. Way more than their workers as much as they think they're doing more.
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  134. He usually does. He'll say Trump's policies are clearly better, but that doesn't make them perfect or the best ever and some of them are bad.
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  135. I'm glad they're figuring it out. It took 2 years for them to take my illness seriously and another 2 years until I started getting some relief. It took 15 for my diagnosis to be official. Hang in there!
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  136. ​​ @VladLad  Nothing is guaranteed. Every person with a 401k is an investor. The rich aren't buying up land. Nobody except Gates. Blackrock was buying newly built subdivisions that they'd already invested in. The bids people were getting were from realtors looking to flip houses. I was purchasing a home during the height of that insanity. Almost every house we were shown that was turnkey ready was owned by a couple of realtors. We were having to bid against them on houses that needed a bit of work. If you'll look on the market now, you'll see several houses that were gutted because the renovation wasn't completed. It started to cost too much for them to turn it around quickly and make a fast buck so they abandoned it. Flippers are the problem. Edit: They bid anonymously because a lot of people won't sell if they know that's what it's being bought for.
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  137. She's obviously going to take New York. The question is by how much. Considering the governor race was pretty close, most likely not by as much as people think.
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  138. ​​ @gmodrules123456789  More business tax revenue. It also increases the number of people with higher paying jobs making them able to purchase more, including other imported goods. Only extremely high tarrifs would incentivize opening production in the US so that will only be on targeted goods. A 5-10% tarrif isn't going to do that. If that study was correct and my prices would only increase $ 1,200 a year, that's way less than I pay in income taxes. The reason it can replace my income tax is because everyone pays some of it rather than only half the population like it currently is with income taxes. Now, do I think he's going to be able to achieve it? No, but I do appreciate it now being actually discussed as a possibility and at least attempting to do something. Edit: What might be another possibility is a federal tax on luxury goods. That would be the only real way to target the ultra rich. Bush Sr enacted one on certain items. The tax on boats kicked in at $100,000. The boat industry said it was losing jobs to it so it was dropped. Everything else was dropped in 2002. A blanket luxury tax could be put on items costing over say $1 million. As long as it's not too high, it should generate decent tax revenue. It wouldn't include housing because that's not really a "good."
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  139. He actually won more electoral votes. The census is wrong. 9 votes should go to red states. They over counted in blue states and under counted in red. It needs to be redone and fixed. New York should lose a couple and California another 1. Meaning he won 322 in the electoral college.
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  140.  @simbadas1234 That’s why my husband listens to me. He knows I’ve always stayed informed on stuff since I could start voting. Yes it’s tedious and can be boring. Studies show its independents that mostly do it. Probably because we haven’t turned our brains off and just picked a side.
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  141. ​ @board-3659  But the concept didn't originate with him. It comes from Plato from the Republic. Just like Marx created the term capitalism but it's just a word used to describe how trade between people had been done forever.
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  142. ​ @williamthalman2708  Not just himself. He thinks he has enough power to gatekeep the current movement. He doesn't. It's also not just the far-right he's calling that. Anyone that wants something he doesn't is that. Basically he's a globalist that doesn't want to see that change. That became clear during the Visa discussion. What's really hilarious to me is Konstantin trying to gatekeep a movement in a different country. There's also the added element that now that this is starting to end, the need for them has passed. So there's a financial incentive as well to keep trying to milk it.
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  143. A live debate is really little different than a trial by jury. If your explanations are too scientific and long, the jury zones out and doesn’t understand. If the evidence against the person isn’t easy to understand than it comes down to who can give the better emotional arguments or spin the best. It’s why you’ll see people convicted with zero evidence and people found not guilty with lots of evidence against them. I’ve watched trials and still don’t understand how they were convicted when the evidence presented by the prosecution refutes the claims of the prosecution.
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  144. The riots and stuff being allowed to happen wasn’t by accident. It all was a threat of “this is what will happen if you don’t do what we want”. Look back and notice where some of the most publicized ones occurred outside PNW. Swing states.
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  145. Unfortunately he is correct about debate and anyone that had the pleasure, or displeasure, of having taken it as a course or being on a debate team can tell you that. Yes, you want to give facts, but your goal is to win the audience. Think of it like a lawyer. A lawyer will argue facts and use emotional arguments to win over a jury. Whichever lawyer convinces the most people that they're correct, they're going to win. The same is true for a debate. Even in court, again unfortunately, it a lot of times comes down to which lawyer the jury likes more.
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  146. There's nothing you can do about ponzi schemes. The government currently doesn't prevent them. It only comes in after the damage has been done. Look at Madoff, who ran one for decades. Transportation safety isn't laws. It's regulations. The majority of those regulations are 40 years old or less. Just the idea that they're somehow a necessity when they're fairly new is odd. The only one that's a law is wearing a seat belt, which again is fairly new and falls on the operator. Not the car company. Before all the regulations, they'd just be sued if there was a known issue. Once that happened a few times, they started doing recalls and repairs once something bad was reported. Which is why you don't see lawsuits today. It has nothing to do with the government. Food safety was only put in to increase confidence in grocery stores, like the USDA. Before everyone purchased directly from the farmer or the local store said what farm their stock came from. Most of the regulations were put in place by the lobbiest for the company that created the product to limit competition. Heinz, for example, lobbied the government to put in sanitary regulations for bottling because ketchup became popular. Lots of knockoffs hit the shelves quickly with varying degrees of pricing. The cheapest had sawdust, for example (which is still found in foods today). The cheaper a product was, the lower the quality, which again is still true today. So Heinz sent a lobbiest to DC, scared the politicians, they made regulations, and the cheaper options were immediately removed from competition. The same thing happened with Coke. The idea they're there to protect you isn't true. They're there to raise the barrier for competition. Just look into what the USDA allows in your meat, and you'll understand that. Though I warn you, you might not want to buy any ever again if you do. A good example of the market doing its job is chicken. People didn't want antibiotics and some wanted free range. The market responded and now those are all readily available. A prime example of customers demanding change without the government stepping in to force it. Edit: Also, look at just a few years ago with outbreaks of salmonella poisoning from bagged lettuce. All those regulations didn't prevent it.
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  147. BS! Complete bs! The percentage of the population that were homeowners in 1940 was 44%. The percentage today is 65%. Ya'll want a time that never existed. You think it did because you think movies and TV shows reflected real life. No more than they do today.
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  148. Why? Project 2025 was put together by a think tank and the only people really talking about it are the left. It's not part of any actual proposed policy. It's been out there for awhile so the sudden fixation on it is intentional to frighten voters.
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  149. Absolutely. When Cubans and former Soviet Union Russians started sounding the alarm bells several years ago, I listened. They were warning this is how it starts pointing to Democrat rhetoric. Former residents of China were doing the same. Listen to people that fled communism.
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  150. That article is wild. My favorite has been Democrats complaining they're an unelected bureaucracy, which is 90% of government. The difference is that they were elected. Trump was clear of what DOGE's job would be, and we elected him. Leftists freaking out over a department they didn't even know exsited and that has zero oversight has been hilarious. Especially since it carried out something they've been complaining about and wanted stopped for years. Creating rifts in the social fabric of foreign countries to facilitate an overthrow of the government. Color revolutions basically. It was created by JFK as a tool to fight the Cold War. The Cold War is over so it's out lived it's purpose. Agencies created for a particular goal absolutely should be removed once that goal has been reached. Edit: Another YouTuber explained it as Democrats/leftists see every part of the government as sacred. Even though they'll say certain aspects and agencies are bad and evil, they're still sacred and untouchable. It's a completely foreign concept to me as I've never known anyone that thought like that. I've known people that thought that way about the Constitution, but not the government itself. I'd really love someone to explain to me how Feminine Frequency was engaged in "international development."
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  151.  @Selrisitai  This is indeed also very strange to me. When did being mean become a violation of NAP which is physical force. This conflation of societal pressures with violence or aggressive force is just another example of the changing of words and definitions to suit a purpose.
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  152. No. FDR was and all his social policies. Once the Supreme Court got bullied and stopped striking down his executive orders. It'll take decades to clean all the up, if ever.
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  153. There was a legal reason why Disney's special status was changed and it wasn't political reasons. Disney was breaking the regulations of the special district by controlling it. The board is supposed to represent the citizens that reside in the special district. Instead the board was appointed by and working only in favor of Disney. They were issuing bonds that were going to help fund Disney projects. They'd been doing this for a long time. It's just the government finally stopped looking the other way about it. They weren't stripped of special status either. They were merely given the exact same special status as every other company that has it where as before their special status was far more favorable than say Universal. They simply leveled the playing field. Edit: Basically the courts weren't ruling on the supposed "punishment" that Disney alleged so legally it didn't set some kind of precedent that can be used by the other side.
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  154. ​​ @TheresNoFreeUsername  What does meritocracy have to with the comment? Eugenics happens everywhere in nature. Females choose a mate based on what traits they want in their offspring. That's all it is. Breeding based on traits that will improve the species. We still practice it, we just don't call it that. Right now if you have enough money you can choose hair and eye color of your child using IVF. You can also screen out any genes that increase the risk of certain diseases. Heck, aborting fetuses with Down Syndrome is a form of it. Edit: A prime example is I think it was Sweden proudly announcing to the world they'd found a cure for Down Syndrome. The "cure" was aborting every baby with it. Eugenics.
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  155. The issue is they connect capitalism with the US economic system. They don't know it's not capitalism and is instead a mixed economic system like most around the world. They think since. capitalists can operate within the system it's capitalism. By that reasoning China is a capitalist country, but they'd explode if you told them that.
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  156. They can't now. The ballot can't be changed in 6 states. 2 of those are swing states that he has to take to win. They could try to 25th him, but Republicans would be stupid to vote for it and there aren't enough Democrats to enact it alone. What you're seeing now is them trying to lessen the significance of Trump's coming win. Basically they're going to go sure Trump won, but it wasn't on policy. It was because he was facing a senile old man. Our policies were great and people liked them, they just couldn't vote for him. I'd put money that's going to be the spin.
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  157. He wasn't wrong about the virus. It's really no different than any new strain would be. The best course of action was to let it run it course through the population with having the elderly and obese kept as safe from it as possible. Those were who were mostly suseptible to being gone from it. It was handled by most of the world the complete opposite of how scientifically we know it should be. You do not lockdown the young and healthy to protect the sick and elderly. It's impossible to stop a virus from spreading.
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  158. ​ @teck1756 ​ Because right-wing is a political group. Not a social one. Politics can be based on economics or social issues. A person can be right-wing economically, but not right-wing socially. Also, Christians are pretty evenly split between the left-wing and right-wing, so attempting to use it as some determining factor means you don't know what you're talking about. There are Christians that will tell you Jesus was a socialist so we should become one. Socialism is inherently left-wing. The Bible also clearly says His Kingdom won't be on Earth and that we should follow the laws of the land. Meaning the things you mentioned shouldn't have anything to do with the government you find yourself living under. The Bible also says your walk with Christ is personal and coming to God is a choice made by each individual. Which means trying to use the force of the state to force it upon others is not what we're called to do. There's the reasons why you attempting to put being Christian as a what determines if someone is right-wing is wrong. Right-wing in the US is more about conserving the ideal behind the Constitution. Which is equality under the law. So gay marriage would actually fit into that and it's why Republicans were abolitionists. People can want to conserve other things than what you want to conserve. You aren't who decides for everyone else what is conserved.
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  159. ​ @opadrip  They're trying to force onto others what they want the right-wing to stand for. Unfortunately for them, they don't decide that for everyone else. Even just trying to use Christian as the determining factor is bad because they fall all over the political spectrum. There are a few denominations that perform gay marriages and there are some that think Jesus would have supported socialism. You can also be economically conservative and socially liberal, but economics is more important to you, so you fall more on the right. They're trying to make it only social. Basically they don't understand politics.
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  160. ​ @Jeg1041  No. He absolute is legitimately dumb. He thinks he's not, but he is. I've heard him say absolutely beyond stupid things while saying he'd researched it. If he researched it and knew better than the Supreme Court, I'll eat my shoe.
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  161. ​ @jakubsevcik1392  No. Democrats are openly not pro American and avoid being associated with the flag because a minority of people think it's racist. They actively talk about the world instead of focusing on the US. That has nothing to do with my guy or whatever. It's just how they've been since Obama.
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  162. Point to Clinton firing over 300,000 federal workers almost immediately when he took office back when the government bureaucracy was much smaller. And that Obama set up what is now DOGE to do what Trump is doing. Edit: Clinton also put in similar welfare reform. Only he went further. If you were getting benefits and already had 2 children, if you had another you wouldn't receive additional benefits.
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  163. He messes up at the first question.
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  164. ​​@scottjacobsen5894 Don't search for her name. Search for the bill. That should clear out a lot of the lamestream media noise about her. Edit: I'm not sure if it's attached to the IRS agent bill or not. I do know it's about "making it easier to report tips".
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  165. ​ @mortuitissedai2085 ​ I really think the only reason we're doing slightly better is because we had Trump for 4 years to at least create a small gap. Had Hillary won, we'd be right in line or further ahead. For all he didn't do, he did at least pause a lot of the illegal immigration and insane policies. Our political class is in lock step with the global ones.
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  166. Yes and no. When polled Republicans don't like or trust the Republican party. As weird as that is.
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  167. Not true. Studies show leftists are the only group with out group preference. In other words, they put others above the wellbeing of their own group. So if that group is American, they'll vote against it's best interest and instead the interest of outsiders.
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  168. If you go back, they've been calling Republicans literally the mustache man since the 60s or so. It used to be done by some outside organizations putting out ads or flyers. Only recently it's been picked up by the legacy media. That's what's been different. It's mainly because of the 24 hour news cycle. When news was just in the morning and in the evening, ratings weren't really important. They were kind of exempt from them. When you're entire cable channel is dedicated to it, ratings become the most important thing. There was even a song about it by Don Henley many years ago.
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  169. ​ @pubcle  Thank you! Everyone focuses so much on federal races they don't realize state and local governments directly impact their lives much more.
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  170. ​​​ @fireworkbutterfly  Why do people think more parties equals better? The reason Democrats are over the Senate right now is because they formed a coalition with independents. Which means the people that voted for an independent because they weren't affiliated with either party and expected them to vote based on their interest were screwed over. Trudeau didn't win the last vote, but was able to remain in power by forming coalitions. Same currently in France. The voters can say we don't want this guy and vote overwhelmingly against them, and they still retain power. Edit: I believe it was close to 70% that voted for a party other than Trudeau's but he retained power. Overwhelmingly rejected by voters.
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  171. Oh no! Some people in this group don't like a country. Therefore they will be labeled with this pejorative to push them out. Who's acting "woke" exactly? This is why Tim Pool correctly identified that if there was such a thing it would be Lindsey and Konstantin. Since they're using it to try to push out what they deem as undesirables from a political party neither one even belongs to.
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  172. ​@tythedrunkenthird-gendarkt3795 This country was founded on indivualisim and a very limited federal government, so yes I can love my country. A government's main role is to protect its citizens from outside forces. Not to "take care of its people". The idea that government is supposed to provide for you is a very new one and left by nature. If they can convince you of that, they can convince you it needs to be for the "workers" and other leftist crap. I'm Gen X, the most libertarian generation to exist. We were/are also very patriotic. The power structure the founders put forth was and still is the most libertarian to ever exist. Small, controlled federal government with most power being with the state and local governments. Until Lincoln there was no national loyalty persay. Your loyalty was to your community, your state, and then the federal government. Citizens didn't call themselves Americans. They called themselves citizens of their state. They were Texans, Georgians, etc. That was the ideal. That was how it was supposed to work. It was never supposed to be what we have today.
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  173. ​​ @KingBuilder525 ​ Why are you talking about labor? My community is a collective. We look out for each other's safety. That's got nothing to do with productivity. A church is a collective. Again, it has nothing to do with productivity or labor. The only people I see that think of everything in those terms are Commies.
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  174. Considering he’s already lead to a much more libertarian leaning take over of the Republican Party to a large extent it’s already a win. It’s not really about him but a populist change that’s historically been how we greatly reduce corruption. Wether he does or doesn’t do what he says, he’s planted the seed. The changes in candidates at the local level alone has been impressive. Regular people finally stepping up and filling key positions.
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  175. ​ @mosesbrown4126 ​ When they complain about egg prices and someone responds with it being market forces caused by millions of chickens (and dairy cows) being put down due to bird flu, they then try to make fun of the fact people are aware of what happened. I think trying to present it as a conspiracy theory. We simply paid attention to the news. A few weeks ago there was an article about it. Which said the flocks were being put down, and California had lost almost all its dairy cows. I went to the store that day and stocked up on eggs and chicken because I knew prices were going to go up. To me, they're just proudly admitting they don't know how economies function and to cover their own ignorance, pretend everyone that does are spreading "disinformation." If I can stomach it, I'm going to watch the MSNBC of YouTube, Midas Touch, and see what they're actually being told, so I'll kind of understand what they believe. To answer your question about regulations, particularly at the state level, they're redundant. The federal agency that regulates food sold in grocery stores already has all the safety guidelines required. You're state might have some that go beyond those, but they don't actually create a safer product, or so little it's negligible. That's called over regulation and it's used to prevent competition from smaller producers. It forces them to sign contracts with the big 2 chicken companies if they want to make any money because it makes it too expensive for anyone else.
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  176. ​ @KSUser-0301  Technically, but the flocks were destroyed under Biden. It's not immediate because the supply when it happened had to be used up first before the shortage caused by fewer chickens producing showed up in prices. Plus, the destruction of the flocks was over a couple of weeks rather than all at once. If I could link in YouTube, I would link you the article from when it began which was the first or second week in January.
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  177. Unfortunately, accidents happened. Just because airplane crashes don't happen anywhere near as often as car accidents, but they still happen. Edit: It's funny the leftists are all posting on BlueSky where no one will even see their reeees much less answer them or pay attention to them politically. Destiny's just happy something is distracting from his legal issues.
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  178. ​ @dementedvillian  You have to understand they know they can't win the presidency at this point. They just need someone to speak to boost the down ticket. The plan now is just to try to hold onto the Senate to block Trump. This candidate won't have a political career after this. Most likely in exchange for a cushy private one.
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  179. The Tickle Giggle case. The names are just hilarious, but that decision was horrible.
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  180. They were going to lose regardless. They were trying to save the other candidates. Anyone they put up was going to be sacrificing their political future. No way they'd be dumb enough to put up anyone they thought might have a chance in 4 years.
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  181. And communists
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  182. ​ @matthewclark1857  As a chronic pain suffer due to multiple systemic autoimmune diseases, thank you for mentioning us. I use Kratom now. Hopefully it remains legal.
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  183. The drug company claimed percacet (sp) wasn't nearly as addictive and much safer. Doctors prescribed them for short term pain like a twisted knee. Surprise! It was just as addictive. It had absolutely nothing to do with any other painkillers. They took it off the market and then a black market exploded around them. Rather than go after the black market and the few doctors that kept writing prescriptions, they put massive regulations which have really only hurt those like me and the black market continues to thrive. Fentynal isn't just being sold as a painkiller. It's being laced into a lot of drugs that don't have that effect.
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  184. Supply is behind because of the lockdowns. We build more than 3 million a year. For 2 years that didn't happen putting the supply down by almost 6 million. It'll catch up, but it will take awhile. I don't know where you live, but that would be a mansion where I am. Homeownership, is only down by like 1% from it's all time high. The cost of homeownership in cities is why suburbs were created. It's not a new problem and it's because room is limited in them due to being high density. It's why people that lived most of their lives in them buy a home in a cheap state when they retire. It's the first time they own one. It was always understood if you choose to live in a city you're making tradeoffs. Culture and access to fine goods vs homeownership and room. Edit: I don't mean to sound uncaring, but it's really tiresome seeing people who choose to live in the most expensive areas complaining it's expensive. No sh it!
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  185.  @borginburkes1819  What? "Until 10 years ago, movies were almost exclusively white". No they weren't. Beverly Hills Cop, Batman (Commissioner Gordon was Billy D. Williams), Nutty Professor, Demolition Man, Blade, StarWars, on and on. It's not everyone else's fault YOU choose to not consume those movies. You sound like the stupid people claiming women were never in powerful roles when Bettie Davis would even disagree. Let's see Barbershop, Straight Outta Compton, Malcom X, etc all majority black casts and all performed well at the box office which means they were watched by white audiences. TV wise shows with majority black casts have scored high on TV ratings from Sanford and Son all the way to Family Matters and beyond. Get out of here with that made up bs take. Edit: I was VERY upset black characters were added by Amazon in Rings of Power because those races look like they do for a reason. You're adding US race bs into other races making it stupid. Why would a race that dwells underground have a black member? There's humans in it which certainly you can put that into, because it fits, but not Elves and Dwarves. You don't mess with someone else's work because it's disrespectful to that work. As for the Little Mermaid, his daughters represented each of the 7 seas and were the race of the people that resides near that sea per the mythology. Meaning they could have changed her to a different character very easily. Or make one based off African mythology, which does have some with mermaids, instead of another culture. Before you claim mythology from Africa doesn't draw audiences I'll remind you of the Lion King. I'm sure you didn't know it existed until now either like every other movie with black people in it. You're also ignoring they told the audience these changes and decisions were made because of "representation".
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  186.  @Lucas-cm2ky  The origin of the myth that The Little Mermaid is based on is European. So she's white. It's a Brother's Grimm tale. Obviously the movie doesn't follow the orginal story completely just like Disney has Dineyfied every tale starting with Snow White, but aside from a much nicer ending for Ariel it's basis is close. She ends up cutting her legs off and offing herself in the orginal because the Prince doesn't know she exists because she can't talk to him and he gets engaged to someone else. Changing the race did impact the story because it's now set in the Caribbean, the Prince's mother is black, he was adopted apparently, the King is dead, and the Prince no longer saves her which he did in the orginal Disney animated film. It changed over 50% of the orginal film making it NOT a live version as described. That's not even getting into that Disney has the Princesses in their parks for little girls to meet and speak to so now there will be kids being confused when the Ariel they saw isn't the Princess they meet. It's honestly just creates a mess in many many ways.
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  187.  @emmi2670  So you're also agreeing that a person can't identify with a character except only based on their race? If there's a character that grew up poor, had friends that were constantly in and out of jail as teenagers, their family is Church going everytime the door is open type, but they just happen to not be Native, I can't possibly understand them or identify with what's happening in their head because they don't look like me. That's insane and not how anything works. It's like saying I can't enjoy Viking history because I'm not one. A "native" experience of media would be stories about MY culture, MY religion, MY history. Just sticking a Native in a European story doesn't make it magically mine now or somehow now part of my people's culture. So if I changed every character in Boys in the Hood to Native, Indian, Asian, that's somehow going to make them magically understand those characters that they couldn't before? I hate to tell you, but it's not their "native" (I can't even begin to explain how offensive it is to use that in that sense) to have because it's not from their culture. They're not European. It's NOT a US story or myth it's a European one just like The Lion King is an African one. Since the Lion King is African does that mean I can't understand the story unless instead of lions they used American dog breeds? You see how stupid that is? It's the same as what you're proclaiming as good. Just change the different animals to different races. Edit: In case you don't understand, that's what the ideology behind "representation" is. That people can't identify with a character that doesn't look like them. So by claiming that native experience crap means you agree because that's the only way that bit makes sense. You're also ignoring it's supposed to be a live action version of the animated movie which means an almost shot for shot reenactment except in things it's just simply impossible. It's not. Most of the movie was changed including the setting so the race swap made sense. Basically you're telling people of other races and cultures their cultures and myths have no value unless a European one is adapted to create it for you.
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  188. Getting tired of correcting this. The reason it was limited to landowners was because that was what proved citizenship. There was no federal agency to report to. It was all handled locally. So for federal elections, since there was no official record, that's how citizenship was determined. It had nothing to do with "human impulses" or as others try to claim, having stake in the game.
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  189. ​ @Feroce ​ That's been disproven even by Mentis. The whole BlackRock is buying up all the houses was a big talking point during the initial migration during the pandemic that I'm seeing cropping up again. If you looked into it, they were buying/investing in new subdivisions. Ones that were mainly being built for older people. Disney is building ones for families. We moved during that period and were looking for a house. What we mostly ran into were flippers. Primarily local real-estate brokers going in together, buying them, doing a bit of cosmetic upgrades, and jacking the price up. They know what's about to hit the market before anyone else, so they jump on the ones that they can do minimal work on and put back on the market quickly at a higher price. Those were most of the sight unseen purchases. Flippers are a bane on the housing market. Then again, so many people are willing to pay premium prices for turnkey ready houses it becomes the incentive. The one house we looked at that wasn't flipped and was turnkey ready got in a bidding war that we jumped out of quickly.
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  190. It appears that for Independents, the social issues were important and pulled many over. The economy obviously was the #1 issue, but the social situation pushed many over the edge.
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  191. ​​ @chillchinna4164  Clinton served 2 terms. Bush Sr was who only served one. Which a VP being elected is unusual in the first place. That's not the norm. VP is where politicians go to have their political career end. Edit: Which is why I've always thought them putting in Kamala was to get her out of the way for 2028 to save the best contenders for that race.
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  192. The endorsements for Trump this time are wild. From Unions to Muslim leaders in Michigan. Meanwhile Dems are just trotting out celebrities that nobody cares what they think anymore.
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  193. They went hard against minority men. Now it's yt women. So far Natives are skating unnoticed with 64% voting Trump.
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  194. I do not know how he got re- elected after it had been proven he stole the people's money. It's insane. There was a lady saying he was going to fight climate change because of the floods. Floods that occur about every 100 years or so. I asked her how he was going to stop China and India. There's no way they're going to do anything he demands. I told her he can increase taxes and say he's doing something he clearly has no power to do or he can invest in engineering projects to prevent the damage that will come again in about another 100 years. If he doesn't use the money to do the latter then he's just telling you what you want to hear to take your money.
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  195. You're correct that Biden's aggression is worse than Trump's. I see them call Trump a bully yet Biden has physically threatened voters and threatened to nuke half the country because they didn't vote for him. It's downright insane, but completely ignored. It's also funny when his campaign calls Trump a pathological liar when Biden had to drop out twice in the past for lying too much. He lies about what he's done in his life (truck driver, dad worked in a coal mine, uncle eaten by cannibals, etc). He lies about completely irrelevant stupid things which is far worse and is way more of a sign of being a pathological liar. The best thing I can see coming out of this moving forward is the press tones down the rhetoric against Trump voters. I don't see the DNC doing it, but hopefully the press will. Them attacking voters is one of the most destructive things I've ever seen. At the very least Trump doesn't do that. He keeps his attacks to politicians and public figures. Who should be the target. Calling half the country evil is absolutely despicable and it should never be tolerated from a Presidential candidate.
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  196. Seriously? Musk works almost 24/7. People around him have talked about his working hours. This is a misunderstanding of what they do. They're constantly working, networking, taking calls, etc. Even when they're golfing, they're working. They're talking business and making deals. Most are very hands on in their businesses and dealings.
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  197. Not really. The elite are people the government has deemed worthy. They don't have to be rich or run a company. Fauci for example is an elite. Someone appointed to a high level of authority or raised into that position who has shown several times, he's not worthy of it. He should have been removed during his AIDS debacle. The less than 1% of scientists that believe the world is going to end in 20 years that they always quote to evoke fear in the public would be the elite. Anyone that's pushed onto the public because the government likes them rather than earning the recognition basically.
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  198. Thank you for showing that young people have never been able to be homeowners. Its so annoying to see them complain about sometime that's never been true. Some fictitious time period where an 18 year old could buy a mansion with acres of land. My grandfather built his house in his mid 30s when my mom was 8 after renting a company house that didn't even have indoor plumbing and I've got 20 year olds complaining they can't start a family because they can't buy a home. My parents were shocked we were able to buy our first home in our early 30s.
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  199. There is roughly half a million registered poll watchers this election on the Republican side. Plus, they've been busy taking over key positions in the last 4 years on election committees and such. Before Democrats even knew what was happening, they'd taken over 1,000 key positions. That's why a lot of the fortification from last time has been undone.
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  200. We used to have laws against this type of reporting for a reason. It's happening for the exact same reason it did then. Last time it caused a war. At least this time we have the ability to be informed enough that's extremely unlikely to occur, but it doesn't make it any better than it did then. There were 2 papers. They were competing for circulation and subscriptions. They started sensationalizing reports. Basically click baiting. It literally was what caused the US Mexican War because one of them reported a rumor that Americans had been killed on our side of the border. It caused an uproar and the government responded. That didn't happen. That paper went under and that's why the New York Post is the oldest publication and used to be the most trusted.
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  201. ​ @adventurianist2580  Which is why you're being criticized. It was people like you not being engaged that allowed it to get where it has. One day it'll get to the point that once it's bad enough for you to engage, it'll be too late. You only have freedom for as long as you can defend it.
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  202. I said under another post saying it's elder abuse, I don't see how it is. He's made it abundantly clear he wants to. He was intended to be a 1 term President. He decided to run again and as messed up as the DNC rules are, they give deference to the incumbent. He won the primary with everyone within a position to interact with him fully aware of his issues. The only reason they care now is because they're losing. They clearly had no problem with him being like this for the last 3 years.
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  203. You just outed yourself as one. IQ is simply how quickly and accurately someone can solve logic problems and recognize patterns. All of those are an indicator of potential. They have the potential to make a contribution to increasing human knowledge. It doesn't mean they will. Most people with high IQ lack the ambition to do it and simply enjoy learning and mastering things. Passing on that potential to their offspring. Edit: It's a measure of their ability to quickly learn and understand things. It's considered a learning disability finally because they don't learn like the majority does. Since public education is geared to teaching the majority of people, it's not effective in teaching those above or below the norm.
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  204. That term was used by Democrats to smear Reagan. I really don't know why it's still around. It just explains how money flows from the rich down. Which it does.
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  205. With Trump up in the early vote in a lot of places, including Portland (?!), it's going to come down to election night. If there's the usual mass turnout of Republicans that night, then it's over. However, if there isn't because they early voted, it's going to be a nail bitter. Basically, if the voting lines are like usual election day, it'll be clear very early who wins without a single vote from that night counted. Edit: The current question is, is this a new pattern for Republican voters or a different group of voters? Independent voters (like me) are also voting heavy Trump. Which means the swing vote (again me) goes to Trump. Independent voters are usually who determines elections.
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  206. ​​ @Bramandin  Hasan is the midwit. Ethan freely admits he's not very intelligent. Hasan pretends to be. This video is about how midwits believe themselves to be intelligent when they're not. Ethan doesn't fit that definition. Edit: Hasan has gotten destroyed in every debate he's ever done which is why he doesn't do them. He thought Ethan was so far below him that he could manipulate him and control the topics. He failed again.
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  207. ​ @gamingforever9121 ​ You're talking about a group that overwhelmingly voted for Hillary just because of what's between her legs. I'm not going to pretend most women are like me. I've met them.
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  208. Kamala was never the border Czar. Kamala was the best pick for the job. Trump got scared of loud noises at the rally. Oh yes, Trump and Vance are "weird." My favorite " is a danger to our democracy." Edit: It's been way more than 10 years. It just became blatantly obvious 10 years ago. I was just a kid and remember Reagan's wife and another leader's wife wore the same dress, and it was national headline news. Just like people still blame Republicans for the Satanic Panic when it was spearheaded by Democrats like Tipper Gore. The two biggest court cases took place in LA and Memphis. Cities run by Democrats.
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  209. Internal polling showed it. How much of that they hid from her I can't say, but not giving a speech election night shows she wasn't prepared. Even if it wasn't a concession speech and just a quick "We won't know the results anytime soon. Thank you for everything you've all done this election season" would have been better than just hiding.
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