Youtube comments of Rune of Svalbard (@vladimirofsvalbard9477).

  1. I have a CDL, 4 years of Shunter op, excavation plumbing, and brewery. I'm also a stay at home dad that runs a business with my wife. This was my experience from 2021-2022. I applied to three breweries; two of which were by phone. Two told me that they weren't hiring and I never heard back from one. I applied to 6 shipping companies(w/CDL); 2 demanded 6 day workweeks and 16hr shifts (due to a Federal loophole), 1 told me that I had to pickup my truck and drive to Columbus (1.5 hours) before I would be start to be paid each day, and I never heard back from the other three. I applied to the water department, which I was referred to and told that they were having trouble hiring people. CDL-B was a plus (since I already have A Class). I never heard back from them. I applied to two entry level data jobs (no college required). Never heard back from either. I have a strong feeling that businesses have an incentive to falsely report their hiring statistics. How else can you explain the number of jobs available, but the inability to get them?
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  2. CNBC pretending this is a normal topic truly shows how dystopian this situation is becoming.
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  3. These companies are posting 'ghost jobs' so that they can continue to get forgiveness on their PPP loans as per the stipulations. PPP loan fraud is one of the biggest problems in the last several years.
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  4. The Harris campaign wanted a 'controlled' interview lol
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  5. (Woman) - Looks at man (Man) - Hey, can I get your number? (Woman) - Somebody call the police; he's stalking me! (Woman) - Looks at man (Man) - ignores the world (Woman) - WHY didn't he pick up on my signals; I looked at him to get his attention!
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  6. I applaud everyone who's been paying attention to USD hegemony and the economic repercussions taking place in the US. Btw, We're not at 6.8% inflation; it's about 40% since Jan 2020. It's a very strategic dismantling of the West.
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  7. This is often a talking point that is ignored, but the US has the largest public health pandemic on the planet. 39% rate of obesity 10% Type 1 or 2 diabetes 33% Pre-diabetic 48% of Americans on (at least) 1 prescription medication. It would be inappropriate to assume the drastic decline in American health has no part to play in the pathologies unfolding imo.
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  8. Something we really need to acknowledge is that we have a shortage of good people. You don't produce bad daughters without bad fathers and bad mothers. In turn, we've produced an equally abhorrent generation of young men. Demand is high for good people, but it feels impossible because the supply is extremely low.
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  9. I'm married and have a son; we are both extraordinarily happy. My advice for people? If you and your partner go into marriage (having worked on yourselves, being open to change, realizing that each other are not perfect, and strengthening each other's failings; then it will most likely be successful.\ If you go into marriage looking for an 'already successful and perfect' partner; it is going to fail miserably. Divorce and marital failures are ALWAYS a result of contempt from one or both parties. Usually because one or both people have an unrealistic and even egotistical expectation of the other as human beings. Also, going into marriage without addressing any PTSD or historic trauma is a MAJOR mistake.
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  10. These truly are the end times. It's not like our economy can absorb another economic crisis. The value of the US Dollar and standard of living have gone as low as they can. The next crisis will bankrupt the middle class officially. Hard to imagine you need to be making $100K single just to be considering centre middle class these days; thanks Federal Reserve inflation!
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  11. How David Pakman STILL has a show after all these years reminds me that we have a never ending supply of dumb voters.
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  12.  @reuven2010  Yes, because the USD is the reserve currency and every bank in the world is downwind of the Federal Reserve. Printing $8 Trillion dollars has consequences, especially when most of it doesn't go towards production/exportation.
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  13. As a mental math whiz, I've been trying to describe this problem to my parents for years. At 18 year old, I figured out this problem pretty quickly just by looking at my first tax stub. Btw, I'm 29 now; married, home, children etc. People wonder why I'm a minimalist in my personal habits; this is one of the primary reasons. Every DIME you can save now is a DOLLAR that won't be robbed from you in the future. Every cheap/healthy habit you can form NOW is going to be a lifestyle that affords you a good living in the economy that we are creating right now! For every dollar YOU put into Social Security that is matched by employer, you will receive 50 cents before you die. For the average American, that is a mathematical fact! Not only that, but we have a demographic crisis that is going to further bankrupt to ability to even pay for the current mandatory spending. Boomers and Gen X did NOT have enough children to pay for their retirement habits. You want to know why we're having labor shortages? It's not due to laziness, nor even unemployment insurance. The savings, the stimulus money, and the insurance money has been exhausted. There's a labor shortage because we don't have enough people to take over for retirees. Covid jump started this inevitability. Those 7 Millions men you keep hearing about in the news that are unemployed; they're not kids. They're 50-65 year old men that have retired early. Once you understand the financial and demographic disaster we are facing, the faster everything else starts to make sense. This is all about the numbers folks.
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  14. It's so frustrating to finally see a jury agree it was self defense OVER a YEAR from when all the footage was released. Kyle will be a millionaire after he sues everyone.
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  15. People need to quit blaming senile Joe. He doesn't know where he is half the time. Who is really pulling the strings?
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  16. "You've expressed some illogical and dangerous positions; just about everything under the sun. But, I will only bring up a few points today." As someone who grew up with an NPD mother, I can tell you for sure that this woman is a narcissist. This is a classic example of gaslighting.
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  17. In a matter of years, when all of this comes to a close. Nobody and I mean nobody is going to be able to use the, "I was just following orders" or "I thought it was the right thing to do" argument. This violates every aspect of the Nuremberg laws, HIPPA, Civil Rights, and the scope of medical care in general. You have the information of the world at your fingertips, but you chose to be ignorant in the face of pure evil. There is no excuse for this. People that remain willfully blind deserve everything that is coming....
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  18. This is what's wrong with social media; everyone's nerves are on fire over nothing. As soon as a cop arrests somebody, everybody and their brother are coming out of businesses and bars to fight the cops.
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  19.  @edheldude  What else would you recommend? I have a CDL and my wife is a cardiothoracic surgery PA. There are NO jobs bud. Employers and hiring managers act all excited to onboard you or get you started in the process. Then they ghost you! This is because they have 'connect' and 'interview' quotas that their companies have to meet in order to post their jobs as 'vacant' once they don't hire for them. This is done so that they can commit 'unemployment insurance fraud' and get a major tax break from each state they operate in.
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  20. Hey MSNBC! Why is Kennedy being snubbed from the debate stage? Interview your friends at CNN!
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  21. Millennial here at 30 years old; married, own a home, child etc. I went to community college and got my Associates in 2016. It was about $10k and I'm glad FedEx paid for it all. However, if I could have gone back and done it over again; I would have skipped it. College these days is a waste of time with the illusion of information scarcity. Unless you are going into Medicine or STEM; avoid it at all costs. Especially if you're looking at a top tier University. Otherwise you'll just be another statistic working at Starbucks with $100,000 in debt.
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  22.  @TheMeanArena  300 miles (at the closest points) isn't exactly 'close' in my opinion. As far as I understand, the 'NATO expansion' is only half the story. If NATO didn't want Russia to invade Ukraine, then perhaps they shouldn't have funded a coup in 2014 that replaced the Ukrainian President and previous Administration. They installed Zelensky later on and used him as a puppet to wage a civil war in Eastern Ukraine against the four Oblasts that didn't recognize the new leadership in Kiev. None of this was random and due to paranoia of NATO expansion alone. Most people should know by now that almost all of these wars are purposefully created to gain power, political favor, and above all else to serve corporate lobbyists. Blackrock Inc. prematurely manages all the contracts to rebuild Ukraine after the war is over. What do you think they plan to do? Strip malls, rentals, and grocery stores.
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  23. I grew up with an NPD mom that was absolutely evil as all hell. Thankfully, I found good resources, role models, and loving people to surround myself with. I never thought about mass murder or anything, but I was certainly on the wrong track and full of contempt. A bad father will teach his son to be cruel or afraid. A bad mother will teach her son to be psychotic! NEVER underestimate the evil that a mother can perpetrate against her child and turn him into a monster.
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  24. Actually, I think it's really smart. It attracts the eye and many people are a bit drowsy from the white/red hats. A new look draws new attention in many ways.
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  25. I get that this began with his typical 'joking attitude' and I thought it was somewhat funny. BUT, where exactly was this conversation going; the 'late great Hannibal Lector?'
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  26. Democrats are down -35% with ages (18-39) in early voting; plus mail-in requests are down -27%. Democrats literally cannot win this election without those two factors. Turnout will be excessively low for registered Dems.
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  27. When I was 18 years old (in 2012), I was all set to go to either Kent State or OSU. I was going to pursue Russian Language at the time. When the loan paperwork got laid in front of me; I refused. It was $80,000 plus interest for a job field that maxed out around $50k. My parents were furious and all the disappointment in the world ensued. I just saw it as a contract for my own slavery. I went to work for FedEx instead and got my CDL. Now I'm married, own a home, and have a son; without student debt (thank God).
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  28.  @gomahklawm4446  That's not a solution; capitalism created your laptop bud. End the central banks and it will end the problems. Cheap and massive public debt degrades your dollar worth.
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  29. Yeah, you'd probably get a random (sexual assault charge) for looking at the wrong things.
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  30. IS there anything in this country that isn't a scam?
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  31. I still can't believe this scam has continued. I realized college was a scam when I graduated HS in 2012. $80k for a job that pays (max-$50k) which was Russian Translation at the time. I said 'absolutely not'. How these kids just sign these loans and don't understand interest and job prospects is beyond me. I do try to empathize because I know a lot of this pressure comes from friends and family. Many of them don't have your best interests. They just want to gloat to their friends about which University you're attending because it makes them popular at cookouts.
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  32. I find it interesting that certain countries are against newly formed GM products, even though your modern banana is purely a product of GM.
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  33. Typical USA, trying to gate-keep meaningless products that investors think are valuable.
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  34. Independent here; same!
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  35. Same here! Peterson saved my life. I was anxious, resentful, vengeful, committed crimes, and wasn't headed in the right direction. Now I'm married, own a home, and have a newborn. Peterson is literally my digital parent :)
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  36. Yeah, that one makes me laugh. I love Bernie Sanders, but apparently siding with Kennedy and Tulsi under a Trump vote makes me right wing? I'm not right wing; the Democratic Party is just a little left of insanity.
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  37. The easiest way to pay the LEAST taxes in America is by doing TWO things! 1. Renting 2. Gambling - (capital gains) The east way to pay the MOST taxes in America is by doing TWO things! 1. Owning a home 2. Working a W-2 job. Now tell me that's not intentional to incentivize slavery?
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  38. "Accuse your enemy of what you are doing." Considering that these people have done JUST THAT since Trump, hearing them saying "Millions are being killed" is terrifying.
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  39.  @tayhayes2781  Yeah, that's what happens in war time; humor keeps humanity alive in dark times. Rolling up in a ball and crying about it accomplishes nothing.
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  40. They're bonds to be specific; Department of Education has nothing to do with their financing. New bonds would need to be printed as the FED bought out the old ones under the student debt. I know it was initially a joke; just giving some context.
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  41. I said it the day Will Smith assaulted Chris on stage! "40 Million people didn't see someone get assaulted on stage. They saw that it was now acceptable to hurt people whom you disagree with."
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  42. So, the White-House basically states that the executive order gives the Director of National Intelligence 15 days to present a plan of release to the President. It gives the Director 45 days to present a plan to release the documentation about Bobby and MLK.
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  43. I wish people would put more thought into moving overseas before they jump ship. There are always risks, but as of currently. I couldn't imagine a better place to be than the US. Especially with how high the tensions are on an international stage. You have 50 sovereign states to choose from, natural resources, and services. In a foreign country, you don't have that option. If you are locked down, mandated to vaccinate, or anything else; it is law. You have no recourse but to seek refugee status. I wouldn't even recommend east Asia at this point. If Chinese aggression continues, you're going to be in a war zone. And with no US support, you're extremely vulnerable. At a time where the global supply chain and reserve currency is at risk, moving to an island in the Caribbean is a very poor decision. No natural resources and no exports outside of medical equipment. The idea is to invest in multiple assets, as well as asset classes. For many watching this channel that are not multi millionaires, but have the means to leave. Renouncing your citizenship and moving to St. Lucia is a very poor decision. Andrew is very well off with a wealth of assets, passports and options to endure. The average Joe watching this channel is middle class; prospecting a move to one island with two passports and renouncing their citizenship. I just feel that it's going to get a lot of people in trouble.
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  44. We've trained women to be entitled from 18-30; craving money and careers. Then they get nervous from 30-35 (long after they've aged out of the dating pool for marriage). Then they get all bitter and blame men for their own poor decisions.
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  45. It's because we're in the early stages of hyper-inflation in a failed Keynesian economy. Permanent growth and permanent inflation work; until they don't.
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  46. A lot of Gen Z are and I am really surprised tbh
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  47. Well, you can, but it depends on who you know. Many people only get high paying jobs (outside of a specific profession) because their father in law or sister know somebody important. They talk a good game and tell the employer that they won't be sorry. Then they end up getting promoted multiple times inside a year and surpass all the other grunts. I took the CDL route. Went from $45k at FedEx to $70k working for Anheuser Busch via Werner. If you don't know people, then you have to take advantage of supply/demand economics to get a job. Choose a field that has high demand, but a low supply of workers.
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  48. It's a farm bud; you must be new here lol Welcome to the Matrix!
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  49. Especially when they have a 'buddy' relationship with government for tax cuts and preferential real-estate. The Government is VERY complicit in this problem. Get rid of the mega-corporations.
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  50. As much as I'm optimistic about the election results; I'm also terrified. I fully believe corporate and political interests will resort to ANY means necessary to keep their power. This includes another pandemic or even a nuclear conflict.
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  51. Everybody has changed. In my experience, men have given up and women have become aggressive. It's really sad. The guys in my family are non-responsive most of the time and don't even talk to you anymore. The women are increasingly selfish. All of this crap was birthed from social media.
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  52. Even if you make $40/hr; assuming it's a 40 hour work week. It's $83,000 per year, which is difficult to live on in most metro areas. Not impossible, but it's not a job to build a family on. In 2019 $40 an hour was the definition of a 'success story'.
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  53. I moved out on $15/h in 2017 working as a Shunter Operator at Fedex. There is no way in hell I could survive in the same apartment on those wages; I would need $25/h minimum.
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  54. I am a stay at home dad living in the Midwest. After my wife and I agreed to marry; we settled down outside of the city to raise a family. I worked locally during 2020-2022 until my son was born last year. We've felt the strain of the economy like everyone else, but we are still doing rather well due to my wife's profession and she only has to work part time thankfully; three days a week. While I've been at home, I've applied for dozens of jobs in areas that I specialize. I called every Brewery in a 20 mile radius; that's 5 Breweries. Not a single one of them needed staffing for production. I called about 9 jobs requiring a CDL; 2 never called back, 2 weren't hiring, and 5 of them offered me a job ($19-21/hr). On top of that, the schedules were 6 days a week; 12-16 hours a day due to a local driving loophole in Federal regulations. Industry average at this time was around $24/hr. Absolutely ridiculous and no compromises! I left my job in 2020 due to moving out of the city, but that same company had cut my unpaid vacation from 13 to 8 days per year Mind you I was working 6 days a week; 66 hours on average. I took a job shortly after working for an excavation plumbing company that said they 'needed' a CDL. Promising me additional pay for the license and so forth. My first paycheck rolled around after my training week and I already calculated my check out; it was supposed to be $974.00. They hand me my check and the total comes out to $424.37; for 45 hours worth of work the previous week. I immediately tell the manager that I wasn't going to work that day unless it was corrected. So apparently, they put my rate at 2% of the contract instead of 4% and cut my day rates into 1/3. I walked off the job that day and never came back. There's something nefarious going on with the jobs data being released from the US Government (as well as foreign governments I would assume). The only jobs that seem to be available to the public are menial jobs that pay minimum wage to $14/hr. Then you had the jobs that pay less than industry average for 60-80 hours per week; no exceptions. What the hell is going on?
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  55. I graduated HS in 2012 and I stared down the barrel of an $80k loan for a BA in Russian language. Despite how ironic it looks now; I'm glad I never took it. Considering the prospects were $45k max at the time. At some point, people need to give their family members and friends the finger. If your family is going to disown you for not having a degree; they were never looking out for you in the first place. It's just some credential that they use to make themselves more popular at a neighborhood cookout.
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  56. Ah yes! Planned obsolescence! Where they make a shovel with an iron blade, a wooden shaft, but an aluminum neck so that it snaps.
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  57. lol people are insinuating that the government is going to shut everything down and start the fourth Reich 'heil Kallama!' They're insanely incompetent!
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  58. Oh please, this is a childish way of viewing history. War is war and using the nuclear option was the lesser of two horrible options. Calling nuclear justification evil while ignoring other weapons like aerial bombings is just a giant word game. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were MILITARY targets. Millions of leaflets were dropped over Japan for weeks before the bombs were dropped; telling civilians to flee a list of two dozen possible targets. It was the Imperial Government that ordered a death sentence for anyone dispersing flyers or attempting to flee the cities in panic of American threats. In place of a non-nuclear option; Operation Downfall would be a go. It was estimated to be anywhere from 5 to 15 million casualties in Japan alone. That ignores the 19 sovereign nations that Japan was still occupying at the time. This war could have easily been dragged out for two or three more years and cost upwards of 30 million additional casualties across Japan and the mainland.
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  59. Not really. Lesbian couples have a 72% divorce rate and depression/anxiety among people with gender dysphoria is well documented.
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  60.  @stoneyrules  Can you elaborate on how Trump did not "Help us." But Biden is?
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  61. Not going to happen while the FEDs are giving them sub-prime student loans. Make it private again, prices would drop and interest rates would go up for education.
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  62. To imagine that gun ownership was much more normalized back in the 1950/60s is crazy. With practically 0 incidents like the ones we see today. There is a serious problem going on in this country. People are malfunctioning! I don't have the answers, but it's obvious that (with declining birth-rates, loss in maternal instinct, fatherless homes, and a media accessible to everyone - causing insanity) the answer lies somewhere in the society we are building.
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  63. Because every single encounter with someone is now viewed as a possible lawsuit, as well as life and career destroying event.
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  64. It feels strange being an American. - Wanting Russia to win on principle and righteousness - Wanted the US to win, purely for my own self preservation
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  65. Because everybody is making money in the same illegal ways. You can't rat on your colleagues for insider trading when YOU are doing it yourself.
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  66. Your brain is attached to algorithm manipulations bud.
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  67. You're creating VALUE my son! lol
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  68. Well, tbh the demographics of (SS, Medicare, and Pensions) led us here. SS was doomed from the start because it heavily relies on consistent population growth and age demographics.
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  69. Been fasting for around 10 years, increasing in length. Today, I eat one meal a day. It's a complete life changer. It's so frustrating to having fasted and avoided Omega 6 for years. Only to be called a conspiracy nut. Until finally your conspiracy nut lifestyle becomes the new fad lol. People are so predictable...
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  70.  @Solomon11777  I'm white and I know that brothas are NOT going to vote for Kamala. Call me whatever names you want lol
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  71. I'm 31 years old living in central Ohio. My wife and I bought our home (1650 sqft) for $200k in 2020. We put our house up for sale recently. We had 19 showings, 40 attendees at the open house, and multiple offers including; cash offers. We're closing in less than 10 days and the final price went beyond 300k. All but ONE offer were 55+ in age and several of them were buying for their older children. Believe me, there isn't going to be a housing crash; inventory is still historically low and foreclosures are at a 20 year low.
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  72. Believe me, almost every fortune 500 company operating inside the US is running on auto-pilot. Everybody that does the work for 'said' company is an outsourced 3rd party not even residing in the US. There's literally nobody working at DoorDash corporate office, Whirlpool, Samsung, etc. Literally nobody! You can call their office and that phone will ring and ring until the utility company shuts off the power.
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  73. Well, they want you to take a pay-cut and work harder the older you get, duh! lol Faster Grandpa or I'll take your healthcare away! XD
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  74. I'm not a huge fan of Trump, but I would be embarrassed to be a leftie in this day and age.
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  75. It shows the people that invested their brain in Government agencies to do their thinking for them.
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  76. Unfortunately, they are your neighbors and their teenage kids. Never underestimate how contemptuous and envious normal people can become when they are given the illusion that everybody outside of their sphere is evil. This is exactly what happened during the beginning of the Soviet Union. A major rise in morally broken and disenfranchised citizens can easily put 'evil' people into power.
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  77. Yep, lost my Gma in 08' and my family slid. Lost 3 Grandparents between 2020-2024 and the entire family fell apart.
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  78. Well, you're obviously not starving or living in poverty; much less experiencing any type of mental breakdown. I mean, neither am I, but if you haven't noticed, this country is falling apart. People lost 42% of their dollar value in the last 3 years, Covid lockdowns, alcoholism/drug use on the rise, increase in homelessness/poverty. The list goes on! It doesn't take much to understand why people are snapping more often.
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  79. Government isn't THIS creative and they never have been. Somebody or a group of people is putting up BIG BUCKS to see this happen in government.
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  80. It's social programs that are forcing the deficits; not reckless spending overall.
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  81. Again, no mention of vaccines... Especially considering they've been mandated in Malaysia as well as the US. Come on Andrew.... It's been almost a week. One would think that Medical Tyranny falls into the category of trying to be a Nomad Capitalist.
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  82. You are witnessing the source of hate right before your eyes. The people that hate him always project their own sinister motives onto Jordan; calling him a con-man, a fake intellectual, and distort his battle with prescription benzodiazepine to maim his autoimmune disorders. They are quite simply narcissists and some of the worst kind if I've ever seen any. I really don't care if someone disagrees with him, I disagree with him. Though you have to be an extremely arrogant and egotistical person to call him a "fake intellectual." That honestly sounds like a person that was abused psychologically as a child, refused at the higher University level, and never learned to take responsibility for their own actions.
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  83. Because the cost of invasion would have yielded 1 million service casualties and at least 10 million Japanese casualties.
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  84. The guy is probably omitting that he has a $2400/m mortgage and $1500/m student loan.
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  85. The wife and I, plus her parents are the only unvaccinated people in both families. Coincidentally, we are the only ones not suffering from recurring new strains. My parents and younger sister have gotten the full series and booster and fallen horribly sick three times in the last two years.
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  86. You're going to tranquilize a bear that has developed a taste for human food and attacked people? What's your solution, to put it in a zoo? You have to put them down because they become extremely aggressive towards humans even unprovoked.
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  87. Generation X: (2000-2020) - You MUST get a college degree and go into massive debt to be successful! (2023) - "You signed the loans; take responsibility! It's not my fault you can't afford shelter, a car, or food!" Worst generation of parents in human history.
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  88. I commend Trump for his strength of character, but I still won't vote for him. People have very little understanding of the fundamentals that allowed his Presidency to roll this country on an economic and foreign policy basis. I'm well aware that most of the Covid issue was beyond his control, but virtually all the inflation we've seen was a result of his policies. His relationship with the Federal Reserve and policy in 2020 is what led to the current state of affairs we are in. As well as his Trump continuing Obama's legacy abroad as far as sanctions and tariffs. This exacerbated problems in South America and East Asia. If Trump gets back into office, he'll probably do what he said he'd do in 2020. Fire Jerome Powell and appoint somebody who will slash interest rates. Then we get inflation all over again when the demand curve goes insane. Again, I like Trump for his strength of character, but he is economic suicide. Just because he got to ride a bull-market thru his Presidency (that began in 2014) doesn't mean he had anything to do with it's inception.
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  89.  @bwillsboys  No Jaimee, no studio, 1 hour, and full ability to cut/edit it however they wanted.
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  90. I don't know. Covid being man made by the Chinese to infect their enemies? I could believe that. But Pharmaceutical companies lobbying China to infect the public in order to sell their vaccine? Holy #$@&.... Just answered my own question. Scary stuff...
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  91. Most people were probably completely unaware. Besides, what do you want them to do? Just start pissing and moaning?
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  92. 29, you got that right; this country is becoming a joke. If this nation falls apart, it won't be because the laws and bill of rights is undone. It will be because nobody cares anymore and nobody follows the laws.
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  93. You forgot the Biden increased the gasoline tax from 18.3 cents to 53.3 cents when he signed the American Rescue Act. Sec. 9512 (a) It's all there; black and white, clear as crystal.
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  94. Bud, if the entire system of currency is at stake; not even Credit Unions will be immune to the repercussions.
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  95. "If you're against me, you're against science." That's sounds awfully similar to: "Whoever denies the crown, denies God!
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  96. Vegans like to conveniently forget that 99% of your vegetable and fruit items at the grocery didn't exist for human consumption before the 16th century. Botany and bio-engineering have affording people the option to refuse meat. Your ancestors fasted for days, freezing their asses off moving their nomadic village, and then feasted on animal fats and meats. There were some viable vegetation and nuts available seasonally, but they were few and 'seasonal'. I assure you that native people's were not feasting on sweet corn and peaches. The history of botany should be a required course for students imo
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  97. I don't think human intelligence (in mass) has the capability to do this. At least not with our current evolutionary status. We have a very large portion of the populous that can't even participate in our current technologically advanced society. For a civilization like this to exist, the inequalities would be so polarized that nothing would function.
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  98. His parents probably raised him with no morals, no empathy, and no guidance. This is what you produce when you mix those together. As someone that had an NPD mom growing up, I can affirm that she was probably the tormentor that turned him into a monster.
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  99. The tyrant isn't at the top; the tyrant is everyone. I wish people would have understood that before they got the idea they would ONLY be fighting the government. Human rights begin in the home and in your community. A state gone rogue is only possible when its own culture becomes completely pathological.
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  100. I was skeptical of college at 18, even though my parents were in love with the idea. I started going to Community College to save money and my counselor told me this. "You won't be able to really do anything if you get a Bach. in Psychology. The minimum you'll need in Master's and that will barely get your foot in the industry."
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  101.  @fernandovalenzuela2198  Not anymore lmfao This labor shortage has most companies ripping their hair out; it's amazing.
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  102. The problem is that older generations are not doing the math. It's easy to lambaste younger generations for 'not working hard enough' when you're sitting on a (paid off home, a 401k, and many 403b). It's hard to believe that USPS used to give out pensions after 20 years of service; the minimum is now 30. They point to interest rates in 1977 (at 17%) and then claim that you're doing something wrong. Let me be clear! If you had to choose between a 17% interest rate on $40,000 and a 7% interest rate on $400,000. You would be borderline mental for choosing the current mortgage market at 7%. Wages have lost their value; anybody with two functioning brain cells come come to this conclusion if they aren't living in a fantasy world.
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  103. Europe has no choice. I can only imagine how much worse shape Europe would be in if the US began withholding funding for foreign militaries and research and development. People can tout Europe all they want, but life would be considerably harder if many of those countries had to budget for those items.
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  104. Many homeless people are actually fairly intelligent; they know how to game the system. The people that are sitting at the low end of the IQ bell curve that can't function in society are the people living in Section 8 on income and energy assistance. Those are the real victims in the economy and there's around 45 million of them. Not pan handlers that make $50 an hour! Someone with an IQ of 85 wouldn't figure out how the earn money in that manner.
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  105. Inevitability of a Keynesian system. If debt printing doesn't stay linear with productivity; then prices rise and wages stagnate. This has been taking place for nearly 40 years.
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  106. 31 here with a 2 year old son; I fully agree. Raising a family is certainly hard, but on a different level it seems equally hard to give them the childhood that we had growing up. Families are drastically shrinking; friend groups are shrinking. It's all about life-stage and the largest demographic will soon be (middle aged, unmarried, no kids). In my opinion, we have to do something different going forward. The environment of the 90s and 2000s doesn't exist anymore. I've never found the money part to be hard, but the social/community part seems impossible anymore.
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  107. It's because the entire corporate model is a scam. If the company does poorly, the executives and board members cash in on their SHORT positions and then claim bankruptcy. They buy a yacht and YOU pay the bill with tax dollars for their insolvency.
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  108.  @marsmagdalene  Right industries is rather subjective. If your degree isn't in Medicine or STEM; you're probably struggling. Even experienced engineers are having great difficulty. It's insanely difficult to get a job and the gig economy is completely screwing up the Dept. of Labor's ability to properly calculate employment. I've been saying for years that employment needs to be revised to include a standard of living. The real unemployment rate is NOT 4.1%. The people struggling the most are people 22-35 that have a college degree, but can't get a employment/wage boost to counter that debt.
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  109. Real estate organizations have MADE home buying and selling difficult by lobbying politicians. This way they can gatekeep the profits and maintain their niche jobs.
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  110. Well, there's a massive wave of child abuse and substance abuse rippling through the US the past decade; predating Covid. Parents are becoming largely neglectful and kids are addicted to screens with no connection. We have absolutely left (boys) behind in society. Fathers are rare these days and many parents have no relationship with their kids. I grew up with a mentally ill mother that made my life a living hell for 20 years. The only reason I didn't take (alternative/violent means) was because I found good people in my life to help me and had ambitions to do many things. I became a husband and father myself. Some of these kids have ZERO alternatives. I'm not surprised at all that these things continue to happen more and more. The people that wonder about this should heavily consider what's going on in their own lives. If you think nobody is hitting rock-bottom around you, there's a high likelihood that you're negatively contributing.
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  111. Same, I hate small talk. I'd rather talk about philosophy, pareto distributions, or Social Security before I'll enjoy talking about the weather.
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  112. Yes it is! The people will choose Trump 2024; I for one refuse to be an oligarchy under a global regime.
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  113. - You can't buy a home - You can't get rid of your student debt - Can't find a good woman - None of your "friends" are actually friends - Your diet is killing you Why would anyone expect Gen Z and the tail end of the millennials to do anything else OTHER than invest in addictions to escape reality? I'm not saying it's right: rather that it was inevitable. Just wait until the Metaverse unfolds...
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  114. Well, he's not wrong; people can't keep having prosperity by outsourcing jobs and taking low interest debt. The free ride is over and Millennials and Zoomers will have to pay for it; thanks Grandpa!
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  115. This is Keynesian economics; permanent inflation and permanent growth. If it sounds stupid; it's because IT IS! But, at the same time; it's better than a gold standard. If we reverted back to gold; we'd go into a depression and every country would be at war with each other again.
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  116. You didn't seem to care last Administration?
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  117.  @jessegarman7899  It wouldn't be exploitation if the government would stop gate-keeping asset prices in order for their budget to function. Prices would ebb and flow and everything would be fine. Wages don't need to rise; prices need to come down.
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  118. Companies are posting ghost jobs because it gives them a tax-break on their unemployment insurance dues to the state they operate in. Each company of a certain size has to report their employment numbers and their vacancies. Companies found out that they could create a large number of 'unfilled jobs' in ratio with their employment stats so that it 'appears' that there is no lack of labor prospects. The state happily takes the numbers because it makes their labor market look good. The companies in turn impose quotas on their hiring staff to interview people for 'said ghost job' so that the company doesn't get sued for tax fraud.
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  119.  @CorinthianIvory  An illusion of human behavior; no offense. A good community is produced by good micro-behaviors. When the world starts to upend; it's because the average person is making daily decisions that make it worse. Popularity and influence have a much smaller effect on civilization than you think. You have to manifest that behavior yourself and others have to mirror it.
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  120.  @Harsh......  Not sure where you heard that, because it's simply not true. Once a bear becomes aggressive towards humans (typically a result from people feeding them) then they have to be put down. I think you're getting your info from movies.
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  121.  @taylormickelson225  Yet we lost some 9 Million jobs in Spring of 2020. Are you seriously saying that re-opening businesses is job creation? Nobody can be this dense.
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  122.  @JezaLoki  Use an inflation calculator for the USD and come back later. The USD has lost more than half it's value since 1980. We had 40% inflation alone since January 2020.
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  123.  @richardmesser1091  The Biden Administration alone put his picture in a television ad and called him a white supremacist. That's defamation of character and if he sues (which they already plan to do) then he will win.
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  124. Sold my house; 11% over ask. Used it to settle all our debts; now we're high income. Depends on the situation. I will never understand the (home forever mindset). My family has a much bigger nomadic sentiment.
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  125. Cheap debt and low corporate taxes ONLY give incentive for bad products. If I want to create an LLC. I would have gotten a low interest loan, sold a bunch of Chinese garbage in a market trend for 18 months, SHORTED by own company, and then allowed my company to dissolve into bankruptcy. I and my board members would have gotten rich on our profits, gotten additionally wealthy from our short positions, and then walked away unscathed after using the chapter laws and making the tax-payer fund our collapse. This model has been extremely lucrative since the 1980s.
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  126. Wokism is a virtue of people with no past, no present, no future, no expectations, and no forgiveness. It's the ultimate self-worship.
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  127. Personally, I intentionally misplace items at the grocery or retail store. By doing so, I am creating jobs.
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  128. There are maternal and affectionate women out there, but it's a needle in a hay stack. I was fortunate enough to find a wonderful wife, but I truly fear for the young guys. (I'm 31 btw).
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  129.  @cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059  You're trying too hard to hate the man. Swallow your pride and don't be ideologically possessed.
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  130.  @randylazer2894  As an economist, you should know that median earnings in the field of real-estate are a bad measurement of the profession. Seeing as a majority of those agents work part-time. The spread on real-estate earnings is MASSIVE, with virtually half of all real-estate agents have 1 sale every 12 months. Also, avoid using insults and gaslighting in your analysis and replies; it's extremely unprofessional.
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  131.  @owninfools  It's over 10 years and they tend to go for lower hanging fruit because it takes experienced IRS workers to process audits for millionaires and large businesses.
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  132. Excuse you pal, but that's our future child. To say that I (the father) has no say in the life of my child) is asinine. Why would you even marry a women that wouldn't agree to carry your child after pregnancy? That's a low level woman if you ask me. People need to stop playing the (threat to the mother's life card). Very few abortions are actually medically necessary. I and my wife had two ectopic pregnancies which were obviously of medical necessity to remove.
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  133. Vegetable/Seed oils, High Fructose corn syrup, and RoundUp + DDT. All legal for consumer use and production in the US. Except DDT which is used on foreign fruits before import. Yet they are causing the greatest health crisis in human history. Follow the money... People, stop buying crap from these corporations...
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  134. He does have a valid point. Too many people are desperately clinging to the "America is the greatest country" concept. I would agree that America is the greatest country from a standpoint of it's creation and how it spawned a global phenomena of human rights and constitutions crafted similar to ours. Aside from that, have you people seen our infrastructure, living standards, and family life? It's piss poor. I was completely blind to most of these issues until I left my rich suburban town, got my CDL and started working on the road. Seeing virtually every town in the Midwest, it becomes truly humbling. Outside of suburban and gated communities, this country is dirt poor. We have some of the most dangerous cities on the planet and more than 1 in 3 people are on some kind of government subsidy. It took many years for me to figure that out, but America has some of the worst culture on the face of the globe.
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  135. Personally, I've never had a problem generating money; I don't even have a useful degree. It's the social culture that I miss. All of it died after 2008. My family limped on thru 2013, but began to rapidly die afterwards 2020 was the last nail in the coffin; many people lost the matriarchs and patriarchs that led the family.
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  136.  @mamory3791  The internet is a wonderful place if you care to find out for yourself, but I wouldn't advise it. Believe me, those kids and parents were beheaded. Don't watch the recorded FB posts and uploaded videos though. You'll have PTSD for life.
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  137. She sounds like a narcissist, she gaslighted him from the start.
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  138. Decades lol She's not THAT old (maybe A decade) plus a few years.
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  139. lmfao "China's state controlled media." As if the US and European media outlets are not 'controlled'... XD
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  140. - Liberal - House is a complete mess, but filled with books and artwork. - Conservative - House is organized and tidy, but there are few books and the walls are dull. It's a pretty accurate description from a personality analysis. Though what fascinates me the most is how there are a large number of liberals and conservatives living out the opposite ideology. Hate to break it to you, but loving guns doesn't make you a conservative, and bring pro-choice doesn't make you a liberal. I'd recommend people take an official Big Five test. The results might surprise you or make perfect sense.
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  141. This dude thought he was going to be anointed as Lee Harvey Oswald the Second lol
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  142. It's not about convenience; it's about control. That's why I killed my smartphone and left it outback for the raccoons to play with. Now I carry a Nokia flip and I'll never go back. You are the product and these tech devices are stealing 'not just your data', but also your intuition and instincts. Being scared of not knowing where you are without your phone should be a telltale sign that it's ruining your ability to live and think.
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  143. The entire last week will be historically remembered lol
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  144.  @thesuccessfulmind7180  I highly doubt it; regardless who wins. It didn't happen the first time and I don't think it will happen again. Too much debt and too much gate-keeping that maintains high prices. The US can't compete whatsoever. You'd have to put up tariffs of like 125% before companies even think about coming back. AND, consumers in other countries would also have to be willing to pay those prices. Americans are simply too expensive to hire on a global level. Until prices deflate; nothing will happen.
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  145. Depends what your situation is. If you're massively in debt from student loans and your income is low; then I'd expect it feels like a depression. There are many people that would argue that it's a fantastic time in the market (if you're in the top 30%) or even the top 40%. It all depends on how you want to perceive the situation. Deflation is always good for people with no assets and no debt. Inflation is always good for people with assets and/or debt.
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  146. If all people do is listen to bureaucrats working for the AHA and FDA. Then you'll end up fat and stupid. Can't tell you how many people I've met in my life that say the same thing, "I'm following all the AHA recommendations but I'm not losing weight."
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  147. People are so thick; Vivek said he would refuse any VP nomination some 6 months ago.
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  148. Please, I'm well aware that there's a massive immigration issue in the UK (as well as many places), but people are using it as a scapegoat to ignore the real problem. What is the real problem? Nobody gets together, nobody calls, and nobody is upholding their culture. Why? Because there's something disturbingly addictive about the technology the last 5-6 years. We all know it and feel it; people have changed. I lost all my friends, many of my family, and my own father won't even get off his phone to call me or my wife; let alone take calls from us. This problem isn't unique to the UK. People are complaining about losing a culture that they didn't even try to uphold because they're addicted.
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  149. That's what happens when you give UTRA-low interest rates and allow limitless speculation. People buy up properties and treat them like a permanent (cash-cow) with no effort. The ZERO percent interest rates over the last 20 years have give people the impression that they can routinely make 50% APY on all their investments. Tell them to accept 10% APY and they'll kill themselves. This isn't just an economic issue; it's a cultural problem. (Me-me-me, now-now-now).
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  150. What jobs? I have a CDL and my wife is a cardiothoracic surgery PA; there are NO jobs! If you have a job, keep in mind it's extremely hard to find another right now. Indeed might say there are millions of jobs, but employers will tell you they're interest and then ghost you forever.
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  151.  @user-sd8ec5xx5h  As much as I dislike Biden, I have a hard time understanding the 'blame Biden for the economy' comments. There's not a whole lot of reasoning with blaming Biden. Perhaps his 'student loan' shenanigans aided in inflation getting worse, but to blame him for everything is nonsensical. 80% of everything happening is fallout from (lockdowns, Federal Reserve policy, and Trump Administration policy).
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  152. Depends though! Personally, I think people should save 'long term' so that they can afford to give their employers the middle finger. I quit a $45k job in 2019 with $15k in the bank. I interviewed with dozens of people; got tons of offers and gave them all the middle finger. Eventually got a job paying $70k and went from there.
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  153. Yep! Demand due to American manufacturing and ingenuity. Too bad we don't have either these days lol
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  154. Crime is out of control due to the economic crisis and collapse of purpose. People have lost faith in the educational system, the government, businesses, neighbors, and above all else 'the American dream." Anybody claiming that the American dream and economic security are still achievable for the standard citizen is kidding themselves.
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  155. Crazy right?! Tucker, Russel Brand, Rubin, Peterson, and Rogan have the largest audiences on current issues. I would recommend all of them to people looking for a balanced view on a litany of issues.
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  156. I wouldn't move to St. Louis if you paid me to. The city is absolutely filled with criminals.
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  157.  @jimkilroy2549  He's embarrassing and has been since he bowed to Hillary.
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  158. Exactly! It's frustrating as all hell. My mom prides herself on being a penny pincher. I tried explaining WHY my wife and I were cutting back and not doing the things we used to do (due to 42% inflation since 2020 - average). She looked at me like I have three heads. These are the same type of people that are happy about a 5% raise when their food got 50% more expensive.
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  159.  @Harsh......  Which countries? Again not true, most aggressive animals are euthanized worldwide. Not a safe practice; hunting a bear can make it extremely defensive and aggressive, especially if they are in sow. What's the next step in the process? Where will the bear go after being tranquilized?
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  160. I figured this out at 18; back in 2012. I was accepted to Kent State U. and was pursuing a Russian Language BA. I went over the loan paperwork which estimated it to be $80,000. Average interpreter salary was around 45k at the time. Plus compounding interest was frightening to me. Against all the peer pressure from my friends and parents; I said no! I'm 29 now! I am married, have a son, and own a home. I am still ridiculed by family members over not getting higher than an Associate's Degree. Yet, I am the only one of the children in my family that has 'built' a life. Everyone else is drowning in debt and misery, but they have that 'fancy' degree they love to talk about around Christmas and Easter.
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  161.  @sam7259  What year are you living in? What demand is creating these jobs? I have a CDL and I assure you; there are no jobs. Unless your blue-collar profession is 'plumbing'; I'd wager they are hitting hard times.
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  162.  @Zippadeedoodaa-nt8om  I think you're watching too much news. The educational problem is significantly worse than just meaningless social study degrees. I never took loans, but the pressure against Millennials and Gen X to take those loans was insane. Parents were ruthless in the gaslighting, then shamed their kids when they couldn't find an adequate job. I know many in my family that have done so and now their parents get free labor post-2020 inflation. The children didn't push themselves into high debt; it was parents and faculty.
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  163. Photo ID and voter registry is racist in America. But Covid passports are humanitarian. Obviously lol
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  164. I like the idea of tariffs, but under the current circumstances I see many problems occurring. In the current economic environment, you would probably have to push a 75-150% tariff against imported goods before their manufacturers would even think about coming back to the US. Now if consumers stop buying those imports (after the added cost); then the manufacturer loses profits. However, at the same time consumers will be further constricted to domestic items (which means significantly higher costs). As long as the exporter can absorb the loss in sales; nothing will change and inflation will go up again. We're stuck between a rock and a hard place. We cannot continue importing cheap products and foreign labor. However, we will also burden consumers with higher costs regardless. Even IF the manufacturer moves back to the US. They have to pay American wages while they circumvent those tariffs. So your costs will go up well beyond 10%. Now, with the FED cutting interest rates as well. I can guarantee we're looking at another round of inflation come 2026/2027.
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  165. Europe is ONCE AGAIN not learning it's lesson and going down the road of authoritarianism. How many times must we teach you this lesson OLD MAN!?
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  166. Don't worry bud, there's something wrong with THOSE people; not you. I was in the same trap, but disregarded everyone and was eternally shamed because of it. At least I didn't go for the $80k degree my parents wanted at the time. But they don't care, it's all about gloating to their friends about the degree their child has. They care about their image; not their kids.
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  167. It's systemic. Blame corporate policy, blame changing demographics, aging infrastructure, and oh yeah; crappy people.
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  168. This happened at FedEx routinely. Guys with years or even a decade of experience running a sorter. Yet they were promoting girls with 6 months of experience like mad.
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  169. That's what happens when we invoked Reaganomics, NAFTA, and Administrative takeover. All the jobs shipped overseas; debt became extremely cheap (driving up prices) and administrative takeover focused more on quotas than relationships. This has allowed millions of people to indulge in detrimental behaviors, lose well paying jobs, and get burnout from all the ridiculous bureaucracy that is slowing down the business sector. Children and teens are are record levels of illiteracy that we haven't seen for over a century. Single parenthood and parents that pay no attention to their kids are largely the problem.
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  170. AND tripled the gasoline tax from 18.3 cents to 53.3 cents. Thank the American Rescue Plan :)
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  171.  michaelsrensen2452  Gen X was NEVER forgotten. Generation X is obsessed with reminding you they exist because their lives revolve around narcissism. The apple didn't fall far from the Boomer tree.
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  172. Very obvious daddy issues, that one! You can't say you're not interested and then get all offended that he doesn't enforce his will over your boundaries.
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  173. China is watching these segments; laughing their balls off at how poor our security apparatus is! And that's the point, our security net sucks. Surely they will be looking to take advantage of it. The balloons were just a goof to see how far they could push it.
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  174.  @sharonsanders1658  Of course it does! It's very important to know his background in order to make better policy on how to prevent future problems.
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  175.  @cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059  Trust me, I'm the most realistic person you'll ever meet. Where's the point in your statement, other than to cause animosity? You sound like a nihilist. Prove me wrong.
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  176.  @oopiumosmo1062  No, just the hypocrites that were anti-pharma before Covid. Now they are pharma Nazis that want unvaxxed people to be shipped off in railcars.
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  177. Yep! This happened when I worked as an excavation plumber years ago. They get you in the door with the idea you'll make $1200 a week. Your first day, the work schedule has you believe it will be $900 this week, but it will rebound in a month. Two weeks later, you get your first pay stub for $442 for 45 hours (all based on commission). I had 2 minute conversation with the manager, then dropped my stuff off at the table and left.
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  178. I'm 30; married, own a home, have a child. I live in central Ohio, OH down 33 a bit. We live in a neighborhood that has many retirees, but on our own street we have at least 6 house (out of 30 that are being rented out to people older than me. What happened was that when the FED cut rates in 2020, all these Boomers took early retirement and decided to pay cash for a new home and condo down in Florida. So they moved to their new home with a large acreage and decided to rent out their old house and condo. So two empty nesters with an equity of $500k, snowballed that into a nest egg of millions in only 3 years. When everybody else decided to jump into the market to buy a new home in 2021, the prices started to inflate due to basic supply and demand. I personally don't have anything against Baby Boomers, but there's a reason why they are despised. It's because by 1987 they were in their prime working years. They got to buy LOW in 1987, 2000, 2008, and 2020. All the while Gen X and every other generation were barely on their feet before every one of those recessions hit the market. I don't blame them for that, but I do get irritated when they construe it as hard work instead of lucky timing
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  179. $100k in 2024 is what $50,000 was in about 2012.
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  180. Yep! One of the reasons I stopped going to church. I was tired of listening to sermons about stopping racism and sexism.
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  181. Youtube is messing with the view count. This interview has over 200 Million views on Twitter (X).
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  182. I'm an atheist an I oppose abortion. You people that think defending the 'right to life' is a religious issue have some SERIOUS ethical dilemmas.
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  183. A complete 1 hour lecture for free right here on Youtube; what an age we live in! There is such a wealth of information on this platform it boggles my mind why anybody would continue paying for a College education, at least for the didactic years. No wonder the inequalities are becoming so massive with the technology available. Anyone not taking advantage of this will unfortunately be left behind; that's a lot of people right now.
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  184. Already did; voted for Trump. In all honesty, I voted for Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, and JD Vance. Trump's meh, but Kalama is dangerous.
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  185. These corporations and politicians are jerking us all around; then laughing while we fight each other.
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  186.  @Justagamerhere1  Fauci claimed roughly 8 months ago that two masks may be better than one.
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  187. We actually know four people now that have been diagnosed with glioblastomas. One of them has already passed. Everybody in my family knows it too; vaccine induced.
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  188. For those that are wondering! JD Vance is one of the newly elected Senators in Ohio. Republicans are in danger of losing the Midwest (Ohio included) with the events between 2020-2024. Democrats have made very large strides in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Choosing Vance ensures they he will have a much higher voter turnout in all these state (including Pennsylvania) and hopefully North Carolina. All states he needs to win in order to win.
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  189. One way or another; deflation is needed to bring better times to the US. SS, pensions, student loans, and other asset bubbles are bankrupting this country.
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  190. When the average American starts creating a budget list; ending Netflix, Disney+, the Gym membership. Plus starts vacationing at a Sleep-Inn, instead of a Hyatt. You know there is a looming recession... Wages keeping up with inflation? Please... As a gig worker, our average contracts have decreased 25% by price in the last year. If they matched inflation, they'd be up over 50% in the last two.
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  191. As much as I don't like the birth-right citizenship clause, because it's outright abused.. It's going to be excessively difficult to get around the 14th Amendment. It guarantees the right for people born in the US to become citizens. So unless lawyers want to do some massive gymnastics with exceptions to that statement; I don't see it changing. However, it doesn't stop people from reinterpreting the second amendment; so.
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  192.  @TheQpzm12  Sociopathic traits and humor don't exactly align on a personality basis; not sure what your point is.
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  193. Not going to happen, the Federal Government does not have the logistics or man-power to commit to anything approximating such a conflict. One thing that gets repeatedly ignored by just about everyone is how bad the labor shortage is for military, corrections, law enforcement, etc. You're more likely to have a long-term government shutdown (years) rather than an actual armed conflict between states, militias, and the Feds.
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  194. 'Bloodbath'? What would that even mean? We don't manufacture vehicles in the US 'largely speaking'; we largely assemble certain makes and models. The average USED car price is still roughly $25,000 USD.
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  195. As a former student, (home) was always the problem; not school. CPS and police need to get more involved imo
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  196. Registered Bernie Democrat; voted for Trump in Ohio!
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  197. More like a new dark age. Companies always advertise the most, right before they plan to pull all their options and longs out of risky assets. I don't think this market will last another month.
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  198.  @Crusader-Ramos45  I'm curious where you're deriving those sentiments. I've been blue collar my entire life; Americans don't want these jobs. A significant amount of your apprenticeships, CDL courses, and construction/labor are going to green-cards. It's been happening for years. They're not forcing American workers out; American workers never show up to begin with.
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  199.  @Harsh......  I think you're not getting the point. Let's say we do it your way. Tranquilize the bear until it becomes passive. What's the next step in the process? The bear isn't angry for no reason, it's angry because it's developed a hostility against humans and gained a taste for human food items. A tranquilizer is not going to solve that long term. Btw, some extra info; a tranquilizer has to be used in a very controlled environment. It's not going to make the bear pass out in 2 seconds like you see in movies.
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  200.  @Zultzify  No idea, but I think one of them lives in Florida at Mar-a-Lago.
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  201. In all honest, he's probably already confessed to his parents about her disappearance. They are more than likely seeking legal advice to carry the news forward before the son says something stupid and gets a life sentence.
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  202. Because the US Government was busy exporting 'opium' for pharmaceutical companies. I always thought it was interesting that we completely left the Middle East within a year of fentanyl taking over the markets.
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  203.  @karen-kk2ev  Nope, I'm surprised people are just now learning that our system is completely messed up.
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  204. She's not clueless; she's calculated and corrupt.
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  205. Bud, I have a CDL and my wife is a cardiothoracic surgery PA; doing open heart surgery: six figure job. She has 4 years of experience and she's been ghosted by over a dozen hospital systems between March thru September this year. It's not just you. We had one employer in Tallahassee reach out and claim "my wife was one in a million; we'll get you in contact in no time." We reached out two weeks later and the lady ignored her. That was back in June.
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  206. Yep! And they are people that still rely on the government and institutions to tell them how to think.
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  207. Insurrectionist breaking thru capital windows to get to the inner chamber AND a trigger happy secret service member. Bad situation all around.
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  208. Shush! The unemployment rate is 3.5%! There are amazing jobs for everybody! Stop asking questions and get back to work lol
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  209. She looks like an HOA President.
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  210. I think it's actually much more complicated than that. We've globalized trade beyond what anybody thought possible. So naturally the standards get raised and everybody is desperate to catch up. Inequalities run amuck when value systems change in a domain. Pair that with Price's Law and you get the current outcome.
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  211. Hold your horses bud, try to trace back why you believe these things and I think your mind will change. I've never heard of an idiot billionaire tbh. Plus, do you believe the charges are legitimate? Lot of media gaslighting going on the last few years.
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  212. All of this goes back to family issues. These girls were neglected, had no paternal role model, and are addicted to social media. Their lives revolve around their ego because that's what they were taught.
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  213. I envy Japan's ability to keep out international/globalist filth. Their culture and politics seem impervious to outside bribery, lobbyism, and corruption. In the US, international corporations and billionaires run the show.
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  214.  @richardbranson363  Probably because they don't have US domestic debt to a large degree. There's also a huge cultural difference. Also, their culture is more labor/education centric. Easy to say someone is doing well when money and family tradition is the center of everything. There's not much choice either. I also don't think a lot of Americans have the familial resources to communally raise children. The anti-social problems around American born citizens is astounding in my experience.
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  215. Notice that France is never named because it's an absolute shit hole. They have more terror activity than any other Western country and the culture is extremely prejudicial to Americans.
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  216. I'm 30 years old and met my now wife at 24; we married in 2020. I don't understand how anyone is even remotely dating these days. Women 18-25 are absolutely dysfunctional across the board. They have absolutely no idea how to speak to people. It's gotten so bad over the years that it's starting to weird my wife out. There is seriously something wrong with Gen Z; no offense to anyone. We have these behavioral problems within my own family and it ended with my own sister being disowned. The manipulation, gaslighting, silent treatment, eye-rolling, and sarcasm all reek of social media brain-training.
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  217. Stop letting CNN do your thinking for you :)
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  218. No such thing... People and culture MAKE a country. The US isn't fucked up because of the Government. It's fucked up because of the people living in it. If you nor anybody else is willing to play a part in forming what makes a country great. Then it will slowly rot. I don't see why moving to a country for a decade just enjoy the prime of it, only to bounce when pathologies begin is a solution. If all people ever did was just take advantage of nations for a short time to enjoy comfort, but not contribute to its strength. Then the world would fall apart.
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  219. There's no money in taking the time to be 100% accurate and correct. They get ad revenue for clickbait titles and being first; plain and simple, sadly.
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  220. My wife is a cardiothoracic surgery PA; four years experience. She's been trying to switch jobs externally for a year now. Some 15 applications were sent; we heard back from 6. The last one was a recruiter for a system out in Ocala/Tallahassee. They said my wife was a (one in a million catch) and that she'd be given a contract in no time. Right after that, she ghosted her and that was 7 months ago.
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  221. My wife and I made the same income in 2020 that we did in 2023. Our expenses on the same items are up 40-75% between insurance, food, etc. The economy sucks because everybody got taxed an additional 30% under the guise of 'inflation'.
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  222. Too many people are looking at swing states. You SHOULD be looking at states like New Hampshire. Republican voter registrations went from 29% to 34% in only 2 years. Plus, polls have Harris/Trump at 50/50 there.
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  223. You don't know the HALF of it. I have neighbors like this; Democrats ALWAYS want to gloat about politics in my experience. They think they're smart by regurgitating garbage from MSNBC and Late night with Seth Myers; it's truly pathetic. I was walking with my son yesterday and a lady stopped to talk to me about politics. I tend to dress like a hippie and I'm 30; so she thought I was definitely a Democrat. So she starts ranting about how pathetic and trashy Trump voters are. Then ends it with saying; can you believe people want a President that talks about "Arnold Palmer's penis!?" I couldn't help but smile, but all I could think of was 'this lady is an msnbc drone.' Twice my age as well!
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  224. Yet, they will ASSURE you that raising corporate taxes will certainly HELP consumers and raise the standard of living. Do they think we're stupid?
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  225. I couldn't care less about what they do on OF. What sickens me is that these women make content for young adults and children on Youtube and then attempt to link their OF accounts in descriptions and links. These women are literally attempting to show pornographic content to minors for profit.
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  226. Not in a million years will rates be maintained for that long. The US Treasury risks a debt default every auction going forward. No more debt can be easily financed until they cut rates. Whether it's by a banking failure OR a continuation of budget problems with Congress; they WILL cut rates. It won't take very long either.
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  227. Sounds like Graham Stephen! That's probably why he went political and partnered with other influencers, because his old channel is a scammy mess.
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  228. I'm 30 (married) - own a home and have a 2 year old son in central Ohio. We don't know ANYBODY our age with a house and children outside of our friends (same age) that moved to Colorado Springs. The only locals with kids that we 'semi-know' are 38-45 years old with 1-2 young child and they don't own homes.
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  229. Corporations aren't screwing you. You'll pay more going anywhere else; so stop pretending that you hate using their services. No local grocer or farmer's market will give you (below corporate) market prices.
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  230. In what way? She can't answer any questions and she was selected by the party after they kicked out the 'democratically nominated candidate.'
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  231. Hilarious how the Federal Reserves writes a blank check; the Treasury cashes it. Then uses that money to buy back their own freaking bonds they issued.
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  232. Well, he was probably trying to insinuate that he was eating 'the turkey', but still; not his kid or grandkid. Kind of weird if you ask me lol
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  233. In an infinite internet, there's enough evidence to conclude any bias of your choice. People better take care to learn this sooner rather than later. Otherwise you'll be a pawn for algorithms.
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  234. It was 14 months old and put down for killing a chicken... No such thing as a 'violent' 14 month old dog that was shown love and raised correctly. Sounds like they beat and neglected the dog into craziness and then used him for target practice.
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  235. Go get a CDL (pay cash) and go haul for a big company for a few years. Save all your money and then put a down payment on a house. Then quit and work less for less pay; you don't need it. Consumerism is cancerous.
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  236. Yeah, Boomers would always say (the debt crisis will be here when I'm dead). Well, it's here.
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  237. The problem is that everything is digital. As soon as you open up an investigation; they pay people to erase or edit the material.
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  238.  @benzo___  Trump already cut taxes in 2017. What are you on about? You can literally compare 2017 and 2018 tax brackets to see a huge difference.
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  239.  @HTMLRu1ezD00d  Agreed! Annual property tax effectively means that all the land in the US is nationalized. SCOTUS really fell asleep on this one; just like Citizens United.
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  240.  @thedevilsadvocate5210  In 1955, of course! lol
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  241. I've lived in the US all my life and I've been to about 40 states. Here's my list of recommendations! Not in any particular order: 1. Bozeman, MT 2. Destin, FL 3. Glacier National Park - St. Mary, MT 4. Savannah, GA 5. Tampa, FL - Sailport Waterfront 6. Cody, WY - best rodeo! 7. Las Vegas 8. Death Valley National Park 9. Flagstaff, AZ 10. Lake Estes, Colorado. Please, steer clear of St. Louis and San Francisco.
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  242.  joeblogs-vx4ep  They both have fertility in common lol
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  243. Yep! My wife has SVT and her heart went into an odd rhythm. Which usually gets fixed by vagal maneuvers or adenosine. She walks in to the ER; Doctor puts his hand on her stomach and asks her to push (one of many vagal maneuvers). She goes back into her original rhythm. Bill - $1997.13 - with 1Tier 1 insurance. I'm grateful that she received care, but the pricing is ridiculous. These insurance companies are essentially running a privatized socialism scam (backed) by government gatekeeping.
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  244. Well, child abuse and neglect are surging to levels (never before seen) in US history. The kids are emotionally alone, they have no relationship with their parents, and they are plagued by constant negative media.
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  245. Only took me watching a few videos of "red pill coach" until I found out that he was just manipulating young men for his own personal gain. He is the perfect example of a fake red pill.
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  246. They want to use you as a tax deduction; it's really dirty.
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  247.  @itzthegoat3742  Which is exactly why they are trying to normalize diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
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  248. We put our home up for sale in March 13th; it went into contract in 2 days and closed in 8. 1644sqft - 3b-1.5ba that we put on the market for $282,000. It went into a bidding were between 8 contracts and ended at $310,500. Mind you this is all outside Columbus, OH. The reason that social media and many people have sentiments that the economy is horrible is simply due to the demographics using the platforms. Millennials and Gen Z are not even in the game; largely because there are many people that took advantage of furloughed student loans in 2020 to try and live big. Inflation came in, interest rates went up, and loans became due two years ago. So now those people feel the weight of the economy crushing them. On the flip side, the market for older Gen X and Boomers is absolutely insane. This is what is currently propping up the entire market.
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  249. Unfortunately, in the United States at least, the online dating phenomenon was created because of rising anti-social issues. Personally, I began dating at 19 and found my wife at 24; she and I found each other online. I asked out 12 different women in those years and 4 of them turned into dates. The reason I went online was because there was a major problem with the social attitude of many girls that I spoke to. Many of them think its perfectly accessible to reel you along, insult you, be overtly sarcastic for no reason, or outright use you. I'm not sure if it was always this way, but it's certainly that way now. After a while, I realized I was just wasting my time by asking women out in person. It's a lot of effort for the reward of being insulted, belittled, or used. Many young women have no problem having you take them out on a string of dates (for free food). Just to tell you on the third or fourth date that they aren't interested in relationships. After you clearly tell them that your intentions are to eventually find a good wife and have children when you get to know each other. Dating online simply allows both men AND women to cut through all the drama and garbage and connect with people that want similar things. On a side note, I'm pretty sure the dating market was ironically destroyed by social media and the internet. Men obviously have their own string of problems that usually stem from immaturity, narcissism, or even Christian men that assume they are going to rule over their woman. I actually didn't know that was a thing until I met men that espoused those viewpoints. Women tend to be troubled by exaggerated egos and an irrational view of what it takes to build a life or family. Ultimately leading to pampered and entitled behavior towards family and strangers. Many of the younger women have fallen out of favor in my extended family (including my own sister) because of excessive attitude problems.
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  250. Four years of anarchy and chaos? You mean lefties burning down cities because they hate Trump?
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  251. I don't think so; people fell for Ukraine just as easily as Covid. We are definitely headed for changed, but people are blaming the wrong person. The culprits are in the mirror and Americans don't even realize it. We point the finger at politicians serving the interests of foreign government; screaming about nationalism as we chant our slogans. Yet at the same time we all have an Amazon prime account and ship Chinese products on the daily.
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  252. Government is to blame; none of these corporations would exist if government wasn't being used to gate-keep it's products and profits. Prices Law wouldn't allow for it.
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  253. Well, I know everyone wants to blame corporations, government, or even cronyism. But I think it's the culture. Americans are obsessed with gambling, looking high status, and colorful fun food. Gen Z if anything is a generation that is the most obsessed with these three. They complain about inequalities, but they'll scream if you tell them that they shouldn't be allowed to gambling stock options on their smartphone.
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  254. A good man/woman is somebody that wants the best for their companion. I was fortunate enough to find the love of my life and have a son. Nowadays, both of us look at the dating market in complete disbelief. I know it may be unfair to generalize entire generations, but I find people 18-25 to be almost intolerable; mind you I am 29. You can't trust men 18-25. They are completely self absorbed, porn addicted, and don't know anything, least of all anything that can make their lives better. You can't trust women either of the same age. They are married to their own narcissism, expect to be taken care of, but at the same time champion their TikTok/prostitute lifestyles as high status. Then they cry at 30 because their clock is ticking and can't find a good man. Yet they spit on them for 12 straight years as they walked by trying to catch your attention. My wife and I have to be creative in order to properly raise our son and hopefully future 'children'. We live in a neighborhood where the average home-owner is 50-80 years old and there are no children. At the same time, it feels impossible to relate to the younger/nihilistic types. I am the oldest (29) of the children in my family. The remainder range from 12-23 years old. If we go to a family gathering (Easter/Christmas/Thanksgiving) the younger people provide nothing, bake nothing, and give nothing. They arrive at our events as entitled little brats. They invite their skank friends (without our knowledge) that wear mini-skirts to family gatherings, then talk about their drinking and TikTok profiles in front of everyone. It's getting to the point where I want to stop inviting them. They were wonderful as children when I was growing up, but they are something else these days.
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  255. Crypto as well
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  256. I don't think people understand how expensive it is to set up shop in the United States. Bureaucrats have hobbled business in every way imaginable. Prices are high so employees demand wages that businesses can't bring in. It's not a business problem; it's an 'investor' problem.
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  257.  @brandonplays702  There's a huge difference between thinking something is a hoax and thinking it's politically motivated. Is Covid a hoax? No... Is it politically motivated? Absolutely Unfortunately, the people that don't see it have a very naive view of the incentives we throw government agencies and Pharmaceutical companies. They are absolutely disgusting and don't think for a second they won't take advantage of a crisis to not only make money, but expand their power.
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  258. Sunshine and cold exposure; that will do it 👍
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  259. I was working for Werner hauling Anheuser. $70k per year; 6 days/72hours a week. January 1st we were forced to sign a form that reduced our unpaid vacation from 13 to 8 days per year. I quit 6 months later and I'll never take another CDL job again. Wages don't keep up with inflation regardless of industry and a CDL itself has lost over half it's value in the last 40 years. People may not be doing the math, but they feel it at the grocery store. If you didn't get a 30% raise within the last 2 years. Then you've lost market value.
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  260. It's unbelievable frustrating to see a video like this, even though it's Godsent! I've been trying to warn people for years, especially in my own family about how Omega 6 in vegetable oils was causing obesity, heart disease, and death. Yet I've been called a nut conspiracy theorist by just about everyone. We have rat trials to prove it, but you don't hear a peep out of the corrupt AHA.
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  261. lmfao
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  262. I admire your fortitude, but it will eventually run out; trust me. Want my honest advice for money? Go pay cash for a CDL course and then go work for a big company. WERNER'S Anheuser lane pays $85,000 for new drivers (slip-seat; 12 hour shifts) out of Columbus, OH. I know it's not the typical work for a woman, but it pays. I have a degree from 2016 and learned very quickly that corporate jobs are all a dog n' pony show. Go where the demand is.
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  263. Bad and ignorant analogy; all fortune 500 companies use the bankruptcy laws to get rid of debt.
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  264. This is a huge problem, it's a large reason I cut out most of the female ASMR artists on Youtube. Believe it or not, most of them are doing sex-work or onlyfans on the side and attempting to link the viewership. They KNOW their demographics tend to be 12-30 years old on Youtube. Yet it hasn't stopped them from trying to groom that audience and steer them towards their other channels. Youtube actually stood up to this a few years back and demanded that they take their OF links down, but these people are clever is continuing to steer their audience from one platform to another.
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  265. Well, the Universities have been churning out activists for years now. Many are currently becoming educators.
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  266. Loving parents don't get randomly murdered by their children.
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  267. Not the case, mail-in ballots got processed already; so the red vote will only get higher as the night continues. It won't be an excessive number of mail-in ballots this time.
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  268.  @Chicago48  How are they paying taxes if they don't have a green card/work visa or resident status? They don't have a SS number or legal status to actually pay taxes.
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  269. Ex-truck driver here, let me rephrase so people understand. There IS a truck driver shortage. The company I worked for before quitting had a 30% shortage of needed drivers. Most other companies cannot fill their staffing quotas. Now, there is NOT a CDL shortage. Only a shortage of people willing to take bad pay and lengthy work hours. A CDL has lost roughly 50% of it's value in the last 40 years inflation adjusted. It's just not worth it anymore.
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  270.  @cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059  Perhaps.... Do you lie, just curious? Considering he's the first President whom of which has had his life pasted to a camera and television for four straight years. Which is the new reality for anybody, truly. Would you have anything to be embarrassed about if your life was televised 24/7? People like him because he's human and doesn't pretend to be. Btw, being old, senile, or having memory problems is not always synonymous with lying, which the media would love to attribute all of which to.
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  271. A college degree to be an electrician? Why didn't he just enter an apprenticeship? Is he thick?
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  272. Let's not forget Gen X parents; infatuated with the idea that their kid will only be successful with a 100k degree from X University. Now we have millions of indentured servants to the system that will NEVER own a home or be a greater part of the US economy/workforce.
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  273. You can't even find this video if you search Youtube. No way that's not intentional. You have to go directly to the JRE page.
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  274.  @thatxdamnxgirl7416  How? Learning how to code on many of these certification programs includes a list of AI programming software. He's not wrong; it is not for everyone and it gets harder. The selection pool of coders that can create innovative software and participate (going forward) with AI technology is going to shrink. I'm not sure about globally, but a 35% layoff in the US would be generous. I'd wager it would be at least 50%; if not higher. Coding isn't even 'remotely' enough anymore. The simps that got sold into thinking it would get them six figures are going to be ripping their hair out. It won't even be worth minimum wage.
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  275. Anymore, a University degree has kids looking down the barrel of a 20 year position at Starbucks.
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  276. The biggest problem is that a considerable number of people are in a state of psychosis. It's really a frightening thing to see, even in my own family. I visited my family a few weeks ago and my 19 year old sister asked me a question about Covid. I didn't get two words out before my mother screamed downstairs to get me to stop talking. Mind you I'm 28 and she's an RN of 25 years. She honestly believes that me and my wife are Covid deniers and conspiracy theorists for not getting the shot and not believing the CDC, FDA, AHA on their word. Both my parents mental health has been on serious decline over the last several years. Not sure if that's from Covid hysteria, prescription meds, or both. I conclude all my information from either a published trial or clinical trials from the ASJ with a microscope. What were seeing is NOT the rise of science, but rather religion. Because obeying every order without question from any entity IS religion.
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  277. Welcome to America pal; most voters do that lol
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  278.  @miguelsanchez2353  Take care that your trust in Government doesn't become a religion.
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  279. People need to eat more protein and I mean 'quality' protein. Go pick up a rotisserie chicken and a 1lb pack of beef; go make some burgers I will say btw, if you cut out 'store bought bread' your belly and bloat will probably disappear. I ONLY use organic flour when I make pancakes sometimes, but the store-bought buns will just inflate you like a balloon. Why? Because they're full of carcinogens lol
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  280. I thought it was dumb from the beginning. What they should have done is create a program for vulnerable Americans using medical, shipping, and gig services. Allow the economy to function and let all the healthy people get the virus to achieve herd immunity relatively fast. This would have protected so many elderly and immunocompromised people survive. What was the outcome though? Pharma made billions and corporations made billions; all while small business got closed up.
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  281.  @peterquinn2997  You're projecting your own prejudices bud; nobody believes that here. Affirmative action undermines the competence hierarchy. If you decided to choose the top 5 male and 5 female nurses; the male nurses would be on the lower end of the competence hierarchy. If you chose 5 women and 5 men to represent masonry; the women would be more incompetent. It's all about mathematics and distributions.
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  282.  @BrendanMcClelland  There is no first world country that is cheaper than the US. It's all tied to the same monetary system. You'd have to go to a 2nd or 3rd world country.
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  283. Agreed! I'm no fan of the GOP, but every single time Democrats open their mouths; I lose brain cells.
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  284. That's the number the Feds are WILLING to admit. The money supply would suggest something more in the 14% range domestically, but 130% on global USD inflation.
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  285. I'll be honest, my wife and I work for a living, but virtually ALL of our wealth was made thru inflation. This system is a joke. At least we get to use it towards debt I suppose.
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  286. Yeah, until he changes his mind next month in an (unforeseeable chain of events lol)
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  287.  @smithynoir9980  I think you'll find that it's government that creates the incentive for waste. Not the other way around. Do you think Walmart would be dumping food left and right if they didn't get a tax deduction for it? Large fishing companies over-fish because they are speculating on sales; then are rewarded for both sales and losses.
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  288. I'm with you man; baby millennial at 30. I went to Community College and then dropped to go get my CDL. Got the house, wife, and kids after that. I knew college was a scam at 18, but everyone around me just remained so pathetically ignorant, especially parents.
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  289. @ Agreed! Also, patent law needs massive reform.
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  290. He will NEVER be sent to prison; wait and watch!
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  291. RFK voter here! I'll never vote D or R again.
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  292.  @Basketball64ful  1 in 3 chance? The Covid patients in the hospital fall into an obese category 30% of the time and: obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and poor metabolic health 95% of the time. There are serious concerns with taking an experimental drug, since insurance will deny you should anything happen. Plus we need to consider the 550,000 adverse reports; 12,000 of which are deaths associated with the vaccine. What boggles my mind is how easily people are ready to stick up for big-pharma due to some poorly formulated thinking.
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  293. I got married in 2020 and I feel like I dodged a major bullet. The women these days are actually insane and my wife is completely shocked how immature and non-maternal women are becoming. If you find a unicorn; never let her go boys! If I ever lost my wife; I would never re-marry.
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  294. I'm glad I graduated in 2012 from High School and 2016 from College. Everything turned to crap after I left both schools.
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  295. Unfortunately, if you were middle class in 2019; you're most likely lower middle class or lower class in 2023.
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  296. Owning anything these days is like leasing a piece of nationalized (socialist) land. I use that analogy because the day that legislators made 'property taxes' legal; all the land in the US was nationalized. You do not own anything!
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  297.  @springwoodslasher79  Maybe not a moron, but at least not critically thinking. I understand if you're elderly and diabetic, but young and/or a child devoid of risk? That's dumb... People forget that Pfizer's anti-inflammatory drug 'Vioxx' killed some 27,000 people by 04'.
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  298. Media:. Let's release a story about a 24 year old that died from Covid instead of the other thousands of cases that fit bad risk factors and adverse vaccine effects in order to push our narrative that ANYONE can die from it!
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  299. I think about the Roman Empire almost every day! It infuriates me as a father and husband to see a considerable amount of the world falling apart to complacency.
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  300. GO get a CDL and haul for Anheuser out of Columbus, OH; they pay $85,000 now. $70k back in 2019 when I had the job.
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  301. Well, not that I disagree with you. From a financial perspective, the USD has never been worth less. Call it the inevitability of a Keynesian system, but people are really beginning to feel the strain of that reality. I'd trade 1977 for 2024 in a heart-beat. Many older people are not doing the math on inflation and purchase power.
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  302. 2020 - 2022 a grand total of 37% inflation according to the USD M0 Money Supply. The Feds low-ball these numbers using bs calculations in order to save face for their bond buyers. Your wages are decreasing and prices inflating. It's not going to be sustainable for much longer. Most people are ignorant of the mathematics, but they feel it at the grocery store.
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  303. Tariffs would be good, IF the countries we are putting tariffs on would have a similar standard of living. Your logic is that businesses will return to the US if it's too costly to remain in India, Mexico, China? You would have to put anywhere from a 50% to 125% tariff before companies even THINK about coming back to the US. Companies have to make a business decision between over-head cost of tariff AND more important; decrease in profit from demand going down (due to increased price). Assuming that 10% or 20% will push companies into coming back to the US is going to end in disappointment. Trump's deportation campaign along with tariffs will make inflation go back up. That's also hoping he doesn't have to bail out another recession like he did in 2020. I would expect rampant inflation between 2027-2029.
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  304. People expect their partners to be perfect now; this is the problem. It's all about growth and empathy; together. Honest advice? If you can't unconditionally love someone that could (admit to committing a crime, talk about horrible experiences, tell you about their deepest regrets, expose their most perverted views, or even want help on stopping addiction. Then you're not ready for a relationship. Everybody has their demons. People that pretend they have none make some of the worst partners.
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  305. Poor diet, prescription meds, social media. Nobody should be surprised by how pathological we've become due to this. Abuse of stimulants and depressants is just the next step in the process for many.
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  306. I feel bad for anybody attempting to currently do gig work. That ship honestly sailed in 2022. Work volume was already hitting record lows by January 2022 and they never picked back up during the Spring and Summer that year. I ended up wrecking my car September that year, but it was a wake-up call regardless. There was no money in gig anymore. I still talk to people that currently do it and it's dog-eat-dog at this point. The only people making money are people that have created a client-list and are working as personal taxi's or delivery drivers undermining the app. Pretty much all the gig workers waiting around the fast food restaurants disappeared because there is no work available.
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  307. Things will never be as bad as the Great Depression or worse, unless there is some kind of Armageddon/Nuclear Holocaust level of event.
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  308. The problem is that this is a Keynesian economy. Under Federal Law, the Federal Reserve cannot allow deflation to take place and they never will. If unemployment rises and deflation begins, they will slash interest rates and begin quantitative easing to strengthen the stock market and large employers. If this country dies, it will die from hyperinflation; never deflation again.
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  309. The most dangerous people in the world aren't necessarily the ones that can't see their shadow, but deny it's existence entirely.
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  310. They calculate inflation just like they calculate unemployment; using a bunch of fancy terminologies and subcategories to produce the most attractive number. If you crunch unemployment according to (working age populations) with W2/1099 status. Then you'll realize unemployment is in the 20% to 25% range no joke. If you look at the M0-4 USD money supply, you'll see an increase of about 15.4T to 21.4T since January 2020. That's a 38% increase, which matches the CPI index average impeccably. I've seen friends and family get ecstatic lately over getting a $2/h raise, but they fail to realize that if they didn't get a raise of something around 30% in the last two years, then you've lost money.
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  311. Maybe we should start with California? They are not required to balance their budget, but the Federal Government bails them out with the funds of other states every fiscal year.
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  312. FedEx, UPS, and Amazon aren't exactly hiring. I'm from Columbus, OH. They all took down their positions in the spring this year for the first time since 2011. Believe me, jobs are harder to find than 2008 right now.
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  313. I stopped applying to new job postings after I didn't hear back from the 30th one. I even called 4 breweries in town to see if they needed additional workers. Every single one told me that they weren't hiring.
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  314. Well, not dealing with situations, especially if they are traumatic is not healthy. You can bury it all you want, but it will follow you. Time isn't the only consideration in the equation.
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  315. He was asked to leave as a condition of the FOX v. Dominion settlement. Tucker Carlson's testimony also prove that he was fully aware of Fox's intentionally misleading and false reporting.
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  316. I'm 31; married and just sold my house. 1644sqft 3b-1.5ba outside Columbus, OH. We had 8 offers; four of them were cash. It went into contract in 2 days at $310,500 and closed in 8 days. If there is going to be a recession; it's not going to start with the housing market. People need to quit the wishful thinking. Two factors (low foreclosure and low supply) make this virtually impossible any time soon.
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  317.  @FazeParticles  Not regulated; get Federal funds out of Universities. The FEDs get the loan contract and the University gets the money upfront! They have ZERO incentive to have integrity with that model.
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  318. This is why people are trying to bring up the issue of (walkable infrastructure) in the US. I'm from the Midwest and everybody knows that you pretty much can't walk anywhere; unless you want to walk in the grass on the side of the roadway.
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  319.  @arhamvlogs8641  Blacks have always ruled a majority of Africa, including the slave trades. Power is colorless.
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  320. Tech companies found out years ago that their algorithms can predict what most Americans will do. Plus they can manipulate behavior. The government is also in on the sick joke. It doesn't matter what one person does. They know that in the end a majority of people will perceive their propaganda as it was intended. Why do you think they've been selling your personal data for the last decade? 🤣
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  321. No, it's most people. They may not all be woke, but they're the walking dead. Even my own parents have become zombies. All these people are on prescription meds and eat shit food. What could go wrong! Lol
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  322. 10%? Try 55% from January 2020 to January 2024; go look at the M2 USD Supply.
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  323. She started with gaslighting; he should of ignored her in all honesty.
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  324. The 1% of people posting are also the most negative/hateful people in existence. It's NOT a sample population!
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  325. One might suggest that social media corporations are doing whatever they want. Considering their algorithms are manipulating the masses into such large division. What could stop that?
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  326.  @zionismisterrorism8716  Of course, but you're describing a minority of people. Let's not forget that inflation has greatly shifted Americans from class to class in the last two years. People who were center middle class in 2019 are now low middle class. The people that have the means to afford duel citizenship are well into six figures and above. These aren't nurses and firefighters. His clientele are primarily: lawyers, investors, physicians, and business owners looking to retire. The people watching this show are not those people on the grand scale.
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  327. @JasonBuckman Sorry, but the math doesn't add up. Sure, there is bad spending, but most of the debt is due to servicing demographic problems with financing SS, Medicare, and Pensions. All of this is verifiable by budget data. Some 74% of the budget goes to autopilot social programs; largely the ones I listed.
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  328. I had Tinder for about 12 hours. Got a bunch of hits from weirdos. I finally deleted it after a woman in her 20s demanded to know where I was so she could come and get me.
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  329. She's a narcissist, notice how to poses her question at the start by (basically) insulting his intelligence.
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  330.  @AskMississippiAskMississippi  You seem to have a full time job posting that garbage on every single video. Do you have any capacity for critical thinking? Do you even question what you are ideologically processed by? Quit being a useful idiot for morons in Congress and in the media.
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  331. Politicians with ambitions; nothing new for humanity lol
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  332. Auto-makers have been giving 0% APY for the last 4 years. Explain how what you said is realistic?
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  333. I think you'd be surprised how many people believe that the US is healthier than ever before. Not sure how they manage that belief, but..
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  334.  @alexblaze8878  I'm not downplaying how poor of a President Biden is. But what's going on right now has very little to do with him. This country is tearing itself apart because these cartels of tech and media companies know they can make a buck from a blazing dumpster fire. People are losing their minds, because they are constantly being manipulated by the software of these tech giants. Chaos sells and they are going to show people anything to start a conflict, protest, and/or riot. These people you see rioting and looting 'do so' because they know there will be no repercussions and whatever excuse they have makes it perfectly justifiable. They see a series of police brutality videos on FB, then they take to the streets to "revolt". Try not to project your life, behavior, or competence onto the low IQ tier of society.
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  335. She's an activist; she's not listening and she doesn't care. I've met people like this; they are fueled by hatred and lack of accountability. I guarantee she has daddy issues in order to scoot around logic like that.
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  336. Housing crash isn't going to happen with a 0.3% foreclosure rate. I know people are hopeful, but if something breaks in the market and causes a recession; real-estate won't be leading it. If anything, it will be tech and auto leading it.
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  337. Personally, I quit my truck driving job right in the middle of this entire freak show, June 2020. They dropped my unpaid vacation days from 13 to 8 per year and I bounced with many others. I took another job working for an excavation plumbing company. After the third week, they gave me a pay stub for $420, when they owed me some $1,100 for my work according to their own pay scale. I walked on the spot.. Since then, I've done just fine running UberEATS, DoorDash, and GrubHub; plus making alcohol on the side. Not sure if that's a story similar to many Americans, but that's why I left the greater workforce. Horrible companies and cheated pay that doesn't keep up with inflation in the slightest. I'm assuming many Americans have jumped ship and are working delivery apps. The market is saturated with them.
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  338.  @GD-xc4wg  She's probably hysterical and full of anxiety. It's terrible what she did. At the same time this kid is a product of her mother and mom should have been better to her. She obviously didn't trust her own parent.
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  339. Always embrace the change! Stop living in a doom and gloom bubble. Change your habits, stay out of debt, reduce your expenses, maintain your health, and get after life!
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  340. TYT is trash..
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  341. Not likely a husband, Gen X and Boomers have a massive problem with 'buying love for their little girl'. Everybody in my parents old neighborhood did it too after the 2010s and 2020s came. I honestly think my dad blew a gasket. My sister is a borderline psychopath in college. He blows money on her like there's no tomorrow and she treats everyone like absolute garbage. The old neighbors do the same thing with their girls.
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  342. Clarification... It's envy... It's not that they want what you have. They simply DON'T want you to have it.
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  343. Crime is out of control due to the economic crisis and collapse of purpose. People have lost faith in the educational system, the government, businesses, neighbors, and above all else 'the American dream." Anybody claiming that the American dream and economic security are still achievable for the standard citizen is kidding themselves.
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  344. From day 1, the entire situation in Ukraine was a bigger red flag than even Covid was. The fact that Americans eat-up the media narrative so easily (and without pause) truly scares me. It's like moths flying towards a light; a form of psychosis. For God sakes, even my own parents partake in this exact behavior. The last two years have been an absolute mind-fk for me. The average American has an attention span so short that it can ONLY seem to process GIFs and MEME jokes of the same length. Believe me, international corporations and social media companies are trying to enslave the population to a set of de-facto organizations. Eventually, if anybody tries to tell the truth or go against the narrative; a mob will burn down your home with the flick of a switch on the tech algorithms.
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  345.  @thomasblak4288  If they did, they would have used it by now.
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  346. "The 1% wanted everything." Sorry, but that's a sophomoric conclusion. Debt obligations = inflation. This is what happened when you allow everybody + corporations to have artificially low interest rates AND allow them to ship all the jobs overseas. Reaganomics + NAFTA + bad Federal Reserve policy.
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  347.  @TheFranke100  Older people have NO idea that they actually had it about 5 times better in 1970s than we have it now. For a wage example, the minimum wage in 1980 (40 hours a week) would net you 12% of the average home value in a single year. Try that in 2023 and you will receive 3% of the average home value.
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  348. Companies wouldn't be doing this if they didn't have Universities and Government in their pocket. Government guarantees the loans, Universities guarantee degrees for their corporate buddies, corporations get kickbacks from the Universities and then low-ball their actual expectations for the workplace. It's a giant racket.
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  349. You can't price gouge in an open market. You can try, but it never works because they always go to your competitor. Kroger sells Canada Dry for 9.99 a case; Walmart sells it for 5.36. I simply go to Walmart.
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  350. RFK is wrong; let us present you an example of why he's right! lol
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  351. That's why I short these M-Fers; give them a taste of their own medicine.
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  352. It's basically a tax that gets passed onto the consumer. Generally they have a high potential to hurt consumers. Now, to be fair, many don't seem to understand that demand generally decreases due to tariffs/taxes and many times the price can maintain equilibrium or even go down MORE because of a nose dive in the demand curve. Consumers tend to make different choices when faced with the prospect of higher costs in general. If raspberries from Mexico go up a dollar; many people begin to buy more bananas from Ecuador. Alcohol and tobacco are an easy example. Tariffs can be problematic, but to pretend that consumer choices don't change is also foolish.
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  353. I would have told you to ditch college and go get your CDL ($80,000) starting for many positions. I started making $70k in 2019; that same position at Anheuser pays $85k now. College is a mega waste of time, unless you're going into STEM or Medical. My own sister rejected my advice and got herself into $144,000 of debt for a freaking Interior Design Degree; now she has no interest in actually doing it. I'll tell you, the cultural obsession with a defunct college system will go down in history as the biggest blunder of the 21st century.
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  354. Not hyper-inflation (yet) lol In 2026/2027 you'll see another wave of 9.1% (YoY) inflation, but it will probably be even higher.
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  355. It could be worse though. You could have parents or a parent that is alive and only wants you around to use you as a punching bag.
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  356. Benefits of studying economics: 1. Knowing the best time to buy/sell a home. 2. Knowing the best time to buy/sell a car. 3. Knowing the best time to stock up on supplies. I find that the general population is always 12 months behind on implementing their plans when the window of opportunity passes.
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  357.    What you're practicing is not science Scott, it's religion. Take your own advice and look at some clinical research on masks and mandates please.
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  358. I think you mean (corporations) pay no taxes; comparatively Billionaires and the upper class pay almost all of your taxes. Lower class and middle class pay a small percentage; less than 20%
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  359. This could be applied to anything and is profound advice. The pain of continuing to live where we do became so strong that the fear of the unknown became more welcomed. So now my wife and I are finally moving and making big changes to our lives.
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  360. @SenkaZver Considering that Youtube alleged 2.7 Billion regular users and Twitter alleged 470M. I think it's obvious manipulation. Especially after the Put-in interview had 200M views in under 48 hours on Twitter, but only 20M on Youtube in 10 months.
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  361. We used to attend Catholic mass, as my wife is Catholic. I would definitely believe it, but I think the metric is based on long-term trends. Christianity is a rather shrinking ideology in the United States at least. Children in general are becoming more and more rare. The future of this country is going to be a large number of suburbs where only older and wealthier people live.
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  362. Maybe the US NOT organizing coups and arming foreign countries won't make distal countries angry? Just a thought... The Obama Administration started this conflict and now the average person has to deal with the consequences.
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  363. The working class has had enough of this 4 year depression probably. The economy is in the toilet, we're gearing up for two different wars, and 8 million illegal migrants came into the US in the last four years. This isn't about liberal vs. conservative; it's labor vs. institution.
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  364. Congrats to everyone! Good work!
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  365. Not really; the entire globe is experiencing economic strife.
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  366. I'm a huge critic of tariff use, but personally I have no problem with a 500% tariff on China. They are not an economic competitor; they are an ideological enemy.
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  367.  @wuxing100  Virtually all your hardware and chips (like A-18) are made by companies like TSMC; not China
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  368. That's the oldest joke in the book. So you're saying that public schools don't focus on profits? Are you kidding me? Public schools have some of the largest Administrative slush funds in the country. It's guaranteed money that bureaucrats can siphon thru the DoE and other state agencies. Chicago TU pays a whopping 2% into the public pension fund while Police/Fire pay 9% for the same retirement benefits. All so they can pocket the rest instead of paying teachers; this is how bureaucracy works. The educational system is dirty dirty dirty. People need to understand how these bureaucracies truly work instead of building them up on a series of fantasies.
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  369. Yeah, I thought that was kind of dumb. Florida and Texas are solid red states at this point. It's the Midwest, AZ, GA, and NC that will be up for grabs.
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  370. This is truly the stuff that makes me want to leave this country and reinvest my assets and cash overseas. Doesn't matter where you go; Montana, Florida, California, Iowa, etc. 1. The fields and their air are contaminated with glyphosate. 2. The water-sheds are all poisoned with hormones, PFA's, drug and chemical traces. 3. The land is largely contaminated with industry chemicals and polys. Even 3rd world countries don't have these problems.
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  371. I actually think attacking TULSI was the most deranged thing they did; a new low for them lol
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  372. I'm from central Ohio down 33 a bit. We have kids 18-25 driving sports cars all over the place in a town where your average home price is $250,000. Make it make sense!
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  373. Well, to be brutally honest, there's what; over a million real-estate agents. Most of which sell 0 or 1 property per year? Maybe it's too easy for people to get into this practice and it certainly inflates the push to buy homes, which have in turn pushed prices upward further.
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  374. Ohioan here, I knew for a while that both of these laws would pass. I've voted Republican my entire life; the party is in complete chaos and it's going to cost them everything. Democrats has a significant 'edge' on the 2024 election and it's already shown in the August and November elections this year. First of all, changing age demographics and political strategies has driven Republican turnout into the ground. A significant portion of the people that died during Covid were elderly people with comorbidities. That age demographic primarily leans Republican. On top of that, the GOP has been running a culture campaign during an economic crisis and war overseas. Nobody serious person wants to hear FOX talk about transgenderism, library books, or drag queens when the people are scraping by to pay their bills. There's been a significant amount of upheaval during DeWine's Governorship and it has divided the Ohio Republican Party on a multitude of issues; not to mention their voters. Many Republicans are looking for independents and/or new candidates to run; all the while Democrats stand in unison with their goals.
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  375.  @YourForkSave  Well, that's just the crux of it. People can't do what they want AND demand free healthcare at the same time. Not that you are saying that, but many Americans are. There needs to be a standard.
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  376.  @jonothandoeser  Not exactly... Most of them are flat out ignorant and yield to the FDA and AHA. Even the ones that disagree have to open their own practice and establish a legal team. It's a scope of practice; if you prescribe or even recommend something that a panel of your peers would disapprove of. And that person suffers or dies. You could lose your license and potentially go to prison. My wife is a cardiothoracic surgeon and wants out. She's so conflicted because she is forced to recommend and advise patients with information she doesn't agree with. The problem is the unholy alliance between pharmaceutical companies and government.
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  377. I live in Lancaster, OH. The top industries/jobs here are: 1. Healthcare - 15.6% 2. Retail - 15.5% 3. Manufacturing -10.2% I can tell you right now that I've seen a lot of (lease) and (closing) signs going up inside the city limits. The first things to start going are the small businesses and restaurants. Pretty soon, I'd imagine that the retailers are going to be getting hit hard, as nobody is buying anything. How the economy/markets have managed to be maintained this far is beyond a miracle. They can only keep fudging the jobs/earnings reports so much before investors start to smell bad news.
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  378. Tell him to get his CDL and go work on the road; he can easily make $70-$90 in his first year. I worked for Werner for a year and made $70k. I left in order to move into our home and raise our son. I wouldn't recommend it super long term, but it's a great start to building equity/cash/assets.
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  379. Pretty much! It always boggled my mind how people believe that Americans will source their livelihoods from domestic manufacturing. I learned many years ago when I got my CDL that you couldn't pay Americans enough to do farm labor or most blue collar jobs. We had 15 students; 12 of them were green-cards.
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  380. The bigger problem is not the cartel; it's the entire culture. What use is there in fighting if the next generation will grow up doing the same thing for each side. People in America should count their blessings, despite how dysfunctional you think our government is.
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  381. I always find it interest that their are (objective - yet ignorant people supporting Ukraine) and then (subjective - historically yet knowledgeable Russian bots?) If you know anything about the last 100 years of Ukraine; people will call you a Russian stooge.
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  382. Forgotten? Gen X - televangelism, military worship, and pharmaceutical obsession. Must I go on?
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  383. Well, to be realistic. If you have no liabilities and no assets; you in a far better position than most Americans. Stay out of debt kid! I hope you go far. Work a job while living with your parents and then go by land; you won't regret it. You could pitch a tent on that land for free indefinitely if you weren't actively building on it :)
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  384. In a Democracy; you're supposed to vote for THEM! Not the other party lol
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  385. She's not clueless; she's a narcissistic. She doesn't actually care about the question. She came out of the gates by gaslighting him. I grew up with an NPD mom; she is just trying to make herself look good in front of people. That's all she cares about.
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  386.  @RavenAnorlunda  I highly doubt it. You have an insane amount of Democrats flipping for Trump 2024.
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  387.  @Hobbs-g5q  Elaborate? Where's your proof?
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  388.  @Disiplyn  No offense, but what kind of life does your friend live where the hierarchy of needs is 'abortion' politics? I really don't get it.
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  389.  dominionphilosophy3698  Well, they're being farmed by hygiene and big pharma. Imagine asking 80% of all men to start taking a pill by the age of 18. The fact that most women do that without a second thought is nothing short of psychological conditioning. Men are farmed in different ways.
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  390.  @nicolenotizieeamici  Maybe, but realistically she's probably an NPD. My mother was the same way; super manipulative and cruel.
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  391. I get that he was probably using his typical jokester attitude, but where exactly was his statement going? The 'late great Hannibal Lector'? Unless he was about to call Biden a cannibal (which is weird regardless). I don't see why this would even be said; joking or not.
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  392.  @ads3-1.0  Caribbean nations, Pacific nations, ex-soviet Bloc, and France/Germany currently are going thru years of mass protest and civil unrest. Almost all nations that have to face the first brunt of economic upheaval.
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  393.  @bobs5596  I've noticed that idiots still keep buying brand new cars where I live. Repos will be insane in 2025.
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  394. Yep, learn a trade; make soap, make beer; something!
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  395. Welcome aboard Rob!
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  396. It's not just in politics; it's everywhere. Can't tell you how many times I've seen incompetent people get rewarded in different jobs due to either affirmative action, nepotism, favoritism, or flat out virtue signalling. It's a disease that's infected the culture.
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  397. I still feel like I need to rescue my dad (the enabler) and my sister (the golden child). My mom has roped my dad back in over guilt of an affair and now roped my sister in by co-signing her $124,000 series of loans that she will now hold over her head or LIFE.
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  398. Well, unfortunately one of the biggest problems was the takeover of the educational and healthcare industries by administrative and business degrees. This happened (almost exclusively) under Obama due to Obamacare and a number of Dept. of Education policies that reformed both industries. As far as they are concerned, these are businesses and the teacher/healthcare workers are a number. This is (in part) why the disconnect is so huge between the needs of workers and the people running these programs. All the districts care about are the numbers; they don't care who has to suffer, what gets switched, or who gets shit on.
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  399.  @uwillnevahno6837  You need to unplug from the Matrix my friend and join the movement.
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  400.  @cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059  Who said I loved Trump? Name calling only means you are losing the debate and it's juvenile. You're not thinking critically Cletus. Technological advances have put a significant amount of people's lives on the spotlight 24/7. So you'll see more and hear more than you ever have before. You have an immense amount of spite, envy, and pride that is corrupting your ability to think rationally. Unless you have something of equal value to bring on the other side of the spectrum. I'm not going to continue the conversation.
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  401. Forget the swings state; look at NY, New Hampshire, Hawaii, and Illinois Tuesday night! All will flip red!
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  402. Bull! People are moving out of Florida because nearly 1 million Mid-westerners decided to move there in 2020 and found out they couldn't afford to keep living there in 2022-2023.
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  403. I disagree, there are a lot of unseen problems with older houses. It's the largely one of the reasons I'll never own anything older than 20 years again. My first house was built in 1937 btw. Mold is a major consideration that most people don't think about. It can truly affect your quality of life and mental health to a large degree. Trying to live in an older home while it's giving you CIRS is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. People can call newer homes cardboard boxes all they want, but having goods (bones) doesn't negate a myriad of health concerns that come with older homes; not to mention asbestos and lead traces.
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  404. For anyone who's wondering but doesn't know that much about AI or tech in general. Basically, China just showed the world that the US was selling Rice Krispies (made out of saw dust).
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  405. The gig economy is so successful that people are making less money than they ever have; working longer hours and doing more unpaid labor.
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  406. Go ANYWHERE in the world outside of the US and people will expect you to educated, know their laws, and speak their language. But in America, they become hypocrites.
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  407. She's an activist; I've met many like her. They're not listening and they don't care. My own sister acts like this; part of the reason I had to disown her. They have an agenda and that agenda is fueled by apathy and revenge based on ignorance and anti-social vices.
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  408. Yeah, I'm 30 and a father; that woman is insufferable. This is partially why younger people have no money. They are gambling it all in an attempt to be called 'diamond hands'. It's the ultimate definition of 'looking rich instead of being rich.' Believe me, those children will grow up with a lot of addiction problems surrounding money and it will impoverish them.
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  409. Because the US Government (quite literally) doubled the dollars in circulation. 25M Millions to 65M Millions But don't worry! Janet and Jerome say it's only 2.4% and temporary! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  410. Yeah, if only that were true for most people. A lot of Boomers and Gen X worked full time in order to avoid their family and make money that they could otherwise spend on ridiculous things. My parents together made over $175,000 in the 2000s and never lost their jobs in 2008 because of their fields. Virtually all of it went into their own personal project, vehicles, lavish spending, and vacations where they pretended to love my sister and I. The household was an absolute horror house and I know many Americans have a similar experience. When we were alone with our parents it was (sit down, shut up, and do/feel what we say). When we were in front of others; it was (why aren't you expressing yourself and joyful?) I'm sure each person has their own experience, but don't blindly believe that parents worked because they wanted to (sacrifice) for you. A lot of it is self indulgence and greed.
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  411.  @nottheone582  $14,000 a year for a child is ridiculously stupid. I'm a stay at home dad and I guarantee that I don't spend half of that per year. Stop buying name brand diapers, stop buying sugar/seed oil garbage formula, and stop buying expensive clothes. Kids clothes cost like $1.50/$3 at Walmart/Macys.
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  412. GDP vs debt bud. If debt rises beyond GDP; then prices rise and wages stagnate. Don't blame the companies; blame the Federal Reserve, Social Security, and Pensions. An unelected bank running your currency and asset bubbles propping up prices and wages that are too high to compete globally. Student loans are also a massive wage bubble.
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  413.  @AskMississippiAskMississippi  Copy/paste again and again and again. Are you seriously that pathetic? I don't care what your message is, get a freaking life bud.
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  414.  @Alexander-Bunyip  DEI means that the black lady gets the job and YOU hit the road; all because of 'equity'.
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  415. It boggles my mind that people can openly see how big oil have blatant conflicts of interest in our economy and overall health. But somehow they think that people with college credentials aren't able to be bribed?
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  416. This is more important than LeBron James. Congratulations man! 😎👍
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  417. @ It's inflation bud; everything goes up. Corporate profit goes up because they devalued the currency and competition got wiped out. Basic Price's/Lotka's Law. Even the Matthew Principle claims so. To those with everything; more will be given. From those with nothing; all will be taken. It's like a game of monopoly.
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  418.  @carlasainz95  Exact opposite my friend, nobody was allowed inside the residence when the FBI conducted their investigation for 8 straight hours.
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  419. It's not even about taking chances. The math is impossible. When people lecture others about needing to make $250k a year. I'll be honest, I know how to make $75-$100,000 per year. But anything higher than that is over my concept of understanding. This isn't about needing to save up for 2 years in order to put down a payment. It's like asking young men to save for 10 years living out of their cars (assuming they're still running).
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  420. This is why the wife and I are moving to Montana from the eastern US. The economies, even in the Midwest are literally facing annihilation within a short time period. If you are working gig or contract, you're starting to feel the strain. Every month you're having to work an extra number of hours to make the same amount you made the prior month. Which is getting exponentially worse. If people are looking for places to avoid the Federal Government and turbulence in the wake of a war, then leaving the country is probably the worst option. Though I could be wrong, it all just depends. If this country falls into a Civil War, let alone a World War, assuming a financial collapse would have already happened; which is what usually happens. Do you really think you're going to be safe in a foreign country? The Caribbean - exports are primarily pharmaceutical equipment with virtually nothing that is self sustainable. If global supply chains fall apart, the people in St. Lucia are going to be eating each other. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines - these countries heavily rely on US military strength, Intelligence, and business partnerships in order to function. In the event that the US is rendered insolvent or defunct, these countries are a ticking time bomb. Chinese aggression would turn all of these into a war or occupational zone of influence. Australia already speaks for itself. Africa - a major Chinese investment Western Europe - tied to the same fate that the United States is and anything to the far east runs risk of falling into Russian or Chinese influence.
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  421. Andrew, are you going to make a video on the new vaccine mandates???
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  422.  @OakhillSailor  No he didn't; stop lying for your agenda please.
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  423. As an investor; July 28th was on my calendar for months. The release date for GDP Q2. Every single analysis put the GDP to a negative 1% or 2%; so that's what was expected. Not to mention, on top of another interest rate hike. Never before in my entire life have I seen the stock market go BULL - straight ahead "Green" with the reports and metrics we are currently seeing. Not to mention NO recession? It's like owning a 1 Billion dollar company and the day they claim bankruptcy; investors think they are worth 10 Billion; it defies logic. What people don't realize though, is that the Federal Reserve has never been more invested in the American NASDAQ and DOW. They are using your tax-payer dollars in order to purchase fortune 500 company stocks at TOP price, all to stop a crash from happening on the Biden Administration's head. When people look back, they will truly wonder how the US Government became involved in the largest set of cover-ups in history. Playing off Covid as a non-US funded 'natural' virus AND blackmailing US companies and Federal agencies to cover up a deliberate attack on the US economy.
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  424. This is like putting in those left turn lanes where NOBODY turns left. Except they're going to do it 500,000 times .
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  425. @edder The same thing happened during the 1960s. Unfortunately, there are a much larger amount of factors at play this time. Including massive USD devaluation, a public health epidemic, and unsteady social safety nets. It will take a lot more than (public perception and a young President) to fix these issues.
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  426. Yep! People have no clue that healthcare is already socialized. People are complaining about a socialized system while claiming they want one.
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  427.  @mattkrell726  Does your family support you?
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  428.  @davelock5479  Reg. Republican here; it really doesn't matter at this point. All this insanity is being driven by the deficit and currency devaluation. The stranglehold of corporations over each party has largely caused this. Citizens United was a massive mistake fated by the decision of ONE judge; imagine that.
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  429.  @donnash5813  Name something Trump did that made him the worst President? What action did he take that makes you think so, I'm extremely curious.
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  430. There's a lot of people in the US that love to think that the debt doesn't matter. Here's the problem, that debt have to grow linear with GDP. (This hasn't happened consistently since the 1980s). As long as debt outperforms GDP; prices will rise and your wages will stagnate. Eventually, the debt crisis will force most people into poverty.
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  431. Plot twist: Communism never failed; it did exactly what it was designed to do.
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  432. Not ONCE in the last 50+ years has a heightened rate cut not resulted in a market crash. High interest drives up liquidity problems. When institutions go to refinance after rate cuts; it induces a wave of demand with rising unemployment. All the while bankruptcies start to pile up and consumers become more delinquent. Get ready for another market-wide bailout like 2020. People are going to feel like they got hit by a train in 2026/2027 when the new inflation becomes realized. If the debt crisis is going to be stopped. It will come at a cost of dissolving Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions. There is no way to increase GDP to a level needed to counter the current trajectory of our debts. America is not in the manufacturing position to afford a world war, thus it will not result in a new golden-age even if we succeed. I would ask that people humor Cantillon's Law on this one. Once a population reaches a certain level of luxury; consumers would rather die than face poverty. The world is running out of cheap labor that Americans are used to. At the same time, they refuse to consume less and become more frugal. Something has to give eventually!
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  433.  @LancasterBristow  How? The US bull-run began in roughly 2014. I didn't vote for Obama, but his Presidency is aging well compared to Trump, Biden, and Bush.
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  434. The illegal immigrants are not the ones I blame. They are being given opportunities to escape their situations world-wide. I blame the corporations and politicians who have paid these international organizations to bring them here via plane, boat, and bus.
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  435.  @tanuki9691  It's called VAERs and the death count is something around 12,000 people. Yet the media has continued to delegitimize it to advance it's agenda. It's in the best interest of government agencies and Pharmaceutical companies to prolong the pandemic.
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  436.  @gustavovazquez6976  The US overthrew their government in Kiev. Where have you been?
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  437. Try 52% since January 2020 lol
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  438.  @vl3244  Yeah, blame Trump and not the media that gaslighted you about him 24/7; come on man.
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  439. Cenk and Anna feed on the hatred that they have for their own life choices at this point.
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  440.  @andyiswonderful  So you're a good slave? What's your point?
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  441. I'm an Ohioan and I love Florida with all of my heart. But! I wouldn't touch Florida with a 100ft pole right now. Until the maintenance, infrastructure, pricing, and insurance issues with Florida change; I'd be paranoid to own property there. People will say that this isn't a political issue, but to a certain extent it is. Reagan-esque style leadership in the GOP has championed (out of control growth) for the last 40 odd years with the same result. People enjoy good jobs, good money, and good living for about 3-5 years. Then the fallout ensues when productivity/gdp fails to keep up with the continuously growing demand. Ultimately causing inevitable repeat recessions. On top of that, Florida's speculative economy in real-estate has caused a decades long string of maintenance problems. People want to milk the cow, but they don't want to put any profits into up-keep of the real-estate.
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  442. Not sure if anyone had the same experience as I did, but one of the ways I managed to better myself in relationships was to do the opposite of what I was shown in my youth. I was brought up in a suburban middle class household where is screaming, breaking things, and animal abuse were completely acceptable. I can't lay blame equally because my mother instigated and manipulated most of the situations into chaos. She was extremely psychological abusive to both me and my sister. Even at a young age, it was very apparent to me that what they were doing was wrong. Even though they would get in my face and yell that I was wrong 99% of the time and that there was something wrong with my brain whenever I had a creative idea. Mind you this was my childhood; I was very stunted until I finally left. I'm happily married now and having a wife that is middling' in agreeableness has allowed me to say 'no' when it's a necessity. It's also aided in creating boundaries between my parents and I. We don't allow them to come to the house anymore and I only go over when I am of sound energy to do so. You can't let a blood-line determine your life choices. If a relationship is toxic, then people need to learn how to leave.
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  443.  @LightAsh01  Same, there's a lot of dumb voters on both sides.
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  444.  @Therealannemorgan  Well, I only agree with her first point 'be thankful you have a job'. Which is definitely true, because layoffs and the jump crunch are VERY real right now. FedEx and Amazon (for the first time in 13 years removed their warehouse positions in most places across the US. If I were you, hold onto that job and do what you can. Get out of debt as quickly as possible and save as much as you can. I know it seems impossible but keep your head up. Don't place limitations on work you can do. A CDL is how I was able to get my first house.
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  445.  @seanh5922  Or it could mean 30%+ inflation we've seen since January 2020. It's reflected in virtually all commodities market wide. Blaming demand alone is foolish.
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  446.  @bitkrusher5948  You're not enslaved to capitalism, you're enslaved to an unelected central bank that devalues your currency.
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  447.  @fallonmassey4714  Define cheating though? Most millionaires in this day and age are self made, 9 out of 10. I'll tell you what is cheating though. Lobbying the FDA to approve foods and medications that are killing people. Or programming an Apple Lithium Ion battery to reduce it's charge and slow the processing speed so that customers want to buy a new phone after 2 years.
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  448. At this point, the important thing is discovering what the end goal is. We know what lengths they will go to get their way.
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  449.  @octoroidd  I'm not sure why you're using murder and cannibalism to refute my statement. It rather seems an emotional attempt to refute my argument. It's futile. You are not going to evolve independent from your ancestors. Believing that humans finally have to ability to eat correctly with technological advances ignores the entire relationship between humans, biochemistry, and mutations through time. Your ancestors had very few options that they were limited to. Organ meets (A, B complex C, D, Omega 3 and 9, E) Animal meat and fats Perhaps a variation of nuts and seasonal berries on top of that. That is how you are evolved. To deny that would pervert a large density of scientific literature. Even your racial background could increase or decrease certain characteristics of your gut mutations through time and it's function in regard to the availability of food. As a generalizing statement, it also isn't uncommon for vegans to deny bio-chemistry and evolution in humans. The average vegan couldn't even explain the difference between Omega 3, 6, and 9 and their metabolic functions. Honestly I should say (people) in general, not vegans. So forgive my irritation. Scientific and medical knowledge among Americans is utterly appalling (in general).
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  450. I'm not religious. Though it seems 'very' apparent to me that atheists are afforded their ability to criticize religion, due to a lineage of religious philosophies that birthed their freedom to do so. I think that's also the point Formula Zero is attempting to make.
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  451.  @hangten1904  The last four years have been a complete waste. Can't buy anything, can't finance much, can't really get that far ahead. I'm really looking forward to the next four years regardless since finances will be easing up a bit.
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  452.  @RoboticsJoe  I don't get it. You're sending them a series created by a partisan news channel? It's like sending Democrats a series created by FOX News.
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  453. That's bs bud, you need to check your account. Interest accumulation has been on hold for three years. NO public student debt (93% of it) has gone up since April 2020.
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  454. Yep, it's just another American psychosis episode. Even my own parents tout how awesome their 5% raise was in 2022 for the first time. Yet they are blind to the fact that they are paying 40% more at the grocery store.
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  455. Found out I still had $3.60 on Webull; so I bought 162,000 Pepe coins XD lol
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  456. This is what happens when you allow college kids to vote. Voting age needs to be (25) PERIOD!
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  457. Of course, everybody has to virtue signal their ignorance as per the usual.
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  458. I would SO vote for her, but she's so tired of the swamp. I don't think she'd actually run.
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  459. Or, get rid of the government. The only reason these corporations can bribe, steal, and kill millions without going out of business is because they LOBBY government officials to protect them, their patents, and their assets. If they go bankrupt, then you (the tax payer) bails them out.
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  460. Whole family did!
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  461.  @Red-xvii  Desperate and vulnerable people will believe any absurdity or create their own in order to confirm their bias. Why do you think organized religion is still semi-popular?
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  462. I read your comment really WRONG the first time lol
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  463. We have a few, but they are all pensioners. Working class people aren't voting for her; the economy is ridiculous and everybody knows it.
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  464. This comment section made me lose brain cells.
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  465. Well, women will only date (there own age and +5) generally speaking. Plus, they will only date incomes that are (across and higher) than their own. So naturally, women going to college has created two dangerous problems. A large amount of women that can't find a suitable partner, because men have no way to climb higher than they already are to meet the demands of educated women. On top of that, college aged women are sacrificing their fertility for a career. This inevitable dooms the ability to have a domestic replacement population. This is why importing migrants is a key political issue for corporations and billionaires.
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  466. MAGA
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  467. I applaud your work and ethics. Understand though, there are no jobs and I'm dead serious; I'll explain how if you'd like. Baby Boomers grew up and worked during the greatest time in human history. The essential re-birth of the Roman Empire post-WW2 that was shaped by a world falling apart with the US as it's salvation. Your purchase power was insane between 1955 and 2007 Believe it or not, Americans have never had a more financially frustrating situation and you can blame dollar devaluation. It's not like it used to be. It might be hard for older people to understand the situation, but I can guarantee that if you were starting a family or looking for a job; you'd understand.
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  468. Well, as much as I love tax cuts; it will make inflation worse. So, unless you plan to just be the lucky guy that does everything first; it's a loss.
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  469. Why is GBS pretending like this is breaking news? Did you fall asleep at the wheel for the last 15 years?
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  470. Yeah, most people are used to these neurotoxins nowadays. Get rid of all your scented and paraffin wax candles. Wait 6 months and then walk by Bath and Body Workers; you'll have a stroke with one breath.
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  471. Rent is easier when you don't have a bunch of student loans to pay back; that's what everyone loves to omit.
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  472.  @alwynwatson6119  Aside from education; schools give an outlet to young men so that they don't indulge in hormonal violence. Every teacher and coach KNOWS that boys that leave school after the bell (actively avoiding clubs and sports) are far more likely to indulge in criminal behavior.
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  473. That's why I killed my smartphone and went back to a flip phone lol A lot easier to control your internet habits.
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  474. Credit where credit is due :)
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  475.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  I'm done... You are absolutely crazy... Merry Christmas and whatnot, but I can't deal with this level of insanity.
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  476. Inflation is a massive problem, but there's also the debt-factor. Also, most people don't live in NY City or Miami; so we need to be more realistic in cost expectations for most of the country. If $100k isn't working for you, then there's a HIGH likelihood that you have student loan debt AND a mortgage you got in 2022/2023.
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  477. Blame the lefties; Obama pushed and pushed for Administrative and HR oversight in the workplace and his supporters loved it. This stuff was on steroids between 2011 and 2016.
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  478. Andrew? Why are you avoiding a video on the US mandates?
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  479.  @alex_lll  Based on?
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  480. The lady just said that grocers are already raising their prices for eggs because of the incoming tariffs. Does she not realize that almost all of our eggs are domestic?
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  481.  @AuroraColoradoUSA  The difference between conspiracy and truth is about 2-3 years apparently.
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  482. It's a woman's evolutionary role to civilize a man. You are talking non-sense. If women didn't have this roll, then men would never create civilizations, nor would they build anything larger than a tribal fuck-hut.
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  483.  @slowemm  Awesome, stay at it!
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  484.  @davedee6745  Why would you choose to be a government puppet? Join the side of science, the side of freedom, the side of humanity. Stop listening to government propaganda.
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  485.  @latrellwhite6215  OMG that age old 'corporate greed' - no substance, just a blanket answer that essentially means, nothing.
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  486.  @Feisenbach  Why does refusing the Covid vaccine make someone an idiot? What if I've already had Covid? What if I don't want to be an experiment for Pfizer?
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  487. You literally just described the Democratic Party; no plan, no policies, no action. What on earth are you watching that gives you the impression that they have a plan?
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  488.  @guyfaux5010  I'm 31, obviously I was not alive during the 70s, but mathematically there is a push and pull to having lived thru those times. Interest rates were 18%+ going in to 1980, but you're talking about 18% on $40k; not a 7% on $400k which is considerably worse. The median family income ratio to housing was 3:1. In 2025 it's 9:1 Of course there are concessions in technology and other things that affect the overall situation. However, from a finance standpoint, the USD has significantly more purchasing power in 1978-1980 than it does currently. The US has never undergone inflation like we have from 2021-2024. There's just no comparison. Interest rates are irrelevant devoid of currency strength and price indexing.
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  489. Stay strong! I just let my mom go at 29. It is an uphill battle! You were an extension of the abuser's will most likely. So you will feel very bipolar about leaving them behind, but it gets better :)
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  490. Exactly! I'm a married man and thankfully I married the right woman; maternal, compassionate, and empathetic. The 'worth' of a man in the marriage is all rooted in Protestant theology where the man is the truest form of creation; women, children, and animals are to be herded. So naturally, this ideology forces the idea that the man bears all the responsibility with all the power and influence as well. This inevitably makes you the tyrant if you follow thru a marriage to it's conclusion. Women don't respect tyrants, which is why they become fickle and disloyal. Now, as a man, I realized that no matter what your ideology is; a marriage needs a leader. The problem is that many people see that as a a king and serf relationship. It should actually resemble the relationship between a President and Vice President for example. For anyone not married; dual leadership DOES NOT WORK! You will be in a constant state of confusion and important decisions do not get made. Find both of your strengths and apply them accordingly to tackling life. Respect each other, support each other, and have each other's back when times get tough.
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  491. Well, it's because women (statistically) date men that can provide for them. Meaning they date (across and up) in regards to income. The average female income is higher than the average male income, which means that a large majority of women are dating pools of men that are the same or below their income levels. So naturally, the women get picky and can't find a viable partner based on those survival instincts.
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  492. People got addicted to technology and the Federal Reserve devalued the dollar. A dwindling currency and globalizing economy create a shockwave of widening inequalities. Inequalities are a result of widening value systems. When that happens, families fall apart, marriages fall apart, jobs fall apart, and societies fall apart. When your value system is made up of unattainable ambitions using unattainable resources; nothing can survive. Historically, this isn't anything new; it's exactly how the Roman Empire fell. However, the speed at which the regression is taking place is extremely impressive. Instead of 400 years, we'll get it done in under 60; assuming you start in 1979.
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  493. The cartel wars reflect a culture in Mexico; just as the growing crime and dysfunction in America defines the culture. Unfortunately, people are attached to that no matter where you live. If the culture didn't stand for it, then it wouldn't exist.
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  494. Well, last time the crisis was attached to real-estate; variable rates on single family homes. This time it's attached to commercial real-estate, rental markets, and brick/mortar leases. Single-family homes will only receive a distal effect from the fall-out; thank God.
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  495. $13 for a bag of cherries? Where on earth; California maybe? I realize that inflation has been bad, but I just picked up some tender sirloins 1lb ( $11.00), bananas ($1.50), and a 5lb bag of potatoes ($3.47) for $15 bucks. People need to make better choices!
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  496.  @fullclipaudio  Meh, it's hard to go against the grain when your parents, friends, friends parents, and extended family are all putting on the same pressure. I rejected the push and I stayed out of debt. However, it came at the cost of losing respect. Which basically means those people weren't really supportive in the first place. But still, it can be a lot of pressure for average people
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  497.  @yukiosakura4969  Food pyramid was thrown out by the FDA in 2011. What are you on about?
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  498.  @SaulAguilar.  Can't wait for that day. I live in a retirement neighborhood (surrounded by Boomers); I'm 30 with a wife/ son. They assume I'm a Democrat and talk so much garbage about conservatives and they all watch 'The View' and "msnbc'. It's ridiculous.
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  499. The IRS is absolutely swamped; both in funding and labor shortages. They absolutely DO NOT have the resources to throw on anymore filing requirements than are already on the books. This is largely why they are defying a congressional LAW on the 1099-K forms for things like Venmo. The 87,000 agents are a hiring standard to be implemented over ten years; simply because they do not have the staffing needed to adequately process their normal volume. The cascading problems are absolutely insane at most facilities under the Internal Revenue Service.
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  500. You can reverse type 2, it takes a bit of time but people can do it.
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  501. For anybody that doesn't know. 1. They sell your data 2. They store your information for future job fills. 3. They have interview quotas so that they can qualify their open positions for 'vacancies' when they report it to the state. Why do they do this? Because if they pretend to be looking for someone and maintain a bunch of vacancies. They can tout big job numbers to the state (which makes politicians happy) and then they can get a large tax deduction on their unemployment insurance dues. All three are essentially as good as 'profit' without ever hiring anyone.
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  502. Problem is, Americans won't take these jobs; no matter how much you pay them. CDL industry is the same way. Every single class is full of green-cards; great people btw. But the point is that you can't pay Americans enough to do any type of blue collar work these days.
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  503. That's the hygiene products mostly! My wife and I began making soap (personal care, dishwashing, and handwashing). Magically I now have to cut my nails super often and shave every two days. Most hygiene products are stunting your cellular growth.
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  504.  @johnclayton4946  You complain about mainstream media, yet everything you espouse is mainstream media garbage. Make up your mind bud.
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  505. Sorry for your loss! Carry their memories on your shoulders, but don't give up! Stay busy and the grieving process will be better :)
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  506. Education will never get fixed with the current parental problem right now. Teachers are glorified babysitters at this point and are dropping out of the industry like flies. Parents don't take part in any school activities or conferences anymore. They only show up to school when their kid gets expelled so they can threaten the school.
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  507.  @haleygrace138  Principles getting charged for not stopping it? Sounds a little slippery that one. Remember that bullying is only the tip of the iceberg. Many times bullies AND bullied kids come from homes that produce anti-social behaviors. If anything, charge the parents.
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  508.  @whatthefrackwillis8704  Appreciated! Unfortunately, it's forced our hand here in Ohio. Thankfully our legislature is going to defend against the Federal intrusion. However, it's not stopping the healthcare corporations from extending the mandates themselves. My wife's CEO at her hospital jumped on the opportunity merely hours after the executive order, claiming that they would abide by the Federal orders; the arrogant ass. Plus, 45% of the staff refuse to vaccinate, which was admitted by the board. So the hospital will probably be shut down regardless after people walk out. She either has to take the vaccine or lose her job as a PA here. We chose the "death before dishonor" route some 6 months ago in preparation. So in the next 6 months we'll be moving out West. They drew up her contract dirty and being rather young, we didn't realize it nor consulted a lawyer at the time. But it bans her from taking any similar jobs for an extended amount of time within their facilities, which stretch a much wider radius than we initially anticipated. Plus virtually every other facility outside of that range has mandated those shots. So we've no choice but to move away to a state that will protect her Civil Rights.
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  509. I prefer to make my own product! Beer, mead, soap, and furniture! USA made right here in my back yard! To hell with Chinese imports; it makes me sick...
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  510. According to her logic, we might as well throw the 5 Pillars of Islam up on the wall; since it's 'historic'.. Bet you she'd hate that though!
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  511.  @romancewriter6296  Bud, you're suffering from intellectualization. Probably from how you grew up and your parents thumbed their nose at any behavior or opinion not coming from someone of the educated upper class. You should re-evaluate where your opinions are rooted and maybe not project such an arrogant viewpoint onto the rest of children and adults, especially in the home-schooling world. I have an AAS and ended up getting a CDL afterwards. You'd be surprised how ignorant people in the 'educational' atmosphere can be. They tend to believe they know everything while severely lacking in any personal experience. They're condescending and try to use the power structure of University credentials to belittle people whenever they get beat at their own game.
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  512. Yeah, I highly doubt that. She was probably be abused by you for the last 31 years and finally had enough.
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  513. The bigger this conflict gets, the more apparent it becomes that NATO is the freaking problem.
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  514. (I am an RN - I know what I'm talking about). If I had a nickel for every Nurse with a God complex lol
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  515. Same! I'm an independent, but my wife is ultra-right wing (all about maternal nature, the children, and leaving authority to the men and spiritualism to the women). Guess I got lucky.
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  516. What happened? Mega-corporations got to stay open and absorb the $7Trillion we printed, all the while small business got shut down forever. We inflated the corporate sector and destroyed mom and pop.
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  517. No offense, but as an Independent, I question the sanity of the Democrats that voted for him in the 2020 primaries.
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  518. Who would have to thought that in the year 2021, all the pro-corp/ business people would be turned against them. And all the anti-corp and anti-pharma people would now praise corporations and big pharma. Still boggles my mind.
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  519.  @Ladywren101  Boy was I wrong about union intervention. Sure, there are 'some' lower end companies where trickle-down works and mom/pop treat their employees well, but those days are largely gone. These days, if a company 'can' screw you; they 'will'.
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  520. You don't have to worry about AI destroying jobs; AI already destroyed the jobs last year.
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  521.  @bakonfater4000  Is there something going on in your life that you're neglecting and in turn making you miserable? Or do you behave like an evil individual towards everybody you come into contact with? Which one is it?
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  522.  @bakonfater4000  How about you pull yourself together and stop acting like a child? There is no room for your nihilism and evil personality. I've seen your other comments. Your only intent is to hurt others, most likely because you feel no self worth.
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  523. I remember getting hired at FedEx in 2014. The first thing the package handlers told me was this, "the only way you're going to move up is if you sleep with a manager or you rub the back of one." I've never heard truer words in my entire life.
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  524. You FIX the world by fixing yourself first.
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  525. Well, I think there's a glaring portion of the problem that isn't being addressed and it's not unique to the UK. Culture is being destroyed by a tech industry that is taking over people's minds unfortunately. I essentially lost my entire family and all friends in the last 5 years. It's because people would rather addict themselves to fake attention online than in real life. I'm not sure what changed it, but something done the past 5-6 years did it. It's so addictive that my dad won't even break away from it anymore and call us/accept calls. Truly disturbing stuff.
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  526. Labour (socialist party) cracking down on free-speech; what's new? lol
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  527. My parents did the same thing and now my sister has disowned everyone. Yet she has no support elsewhere and no money. She's quite a winner lol It's all due to the same logic. Generation X only cares about 'bragging to their friends on social media' about what schools their kids are attending. They don't care what happens to their children and in turn the children don't care about them. I've watched virtually everyone I grew up with get gaslit and treated like garbage because they didn't get a degree. Yet nearly all of them were successful. The kids that got a BA/BS or Graduate Degree got hugs and kisses as they continue to live at home; unemployed and mooching off mom and dad.
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  528.  @TomBarbashev  Not very adult-like attitude if you ask me. Perhaps you should make more logical statements with more decency.
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  529. Well, I wonder what women have done to their bodies to stop the nature process short.
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  530.  @LordVestik  If you think empathy is weakness; you will destroy any children you have. That's an extremely bad ideology to go by.
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  531. Stay out of debt and live minimally on a high wage job. Go get a CDL and bust $85k for several years. Live on the bare minimum! That's what I did working at FedEx. Debt (aka - student loans) are the real killer.
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  532. Sure you can, just induce hyperinflation lol
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  533.  Paul L  It's crushing anybody that doesn't fall into the top quartile of earners. The middle class; 40%-60% earners (Acc. to the Fed Res. Board website) has lost more than half their value in the last 30 years. The bottom 20% have maintained a total net worth of $3 Trillion in the last 30 years. Everyone is getting eaten alive and most Americans don't realize it, but they feel it at Walmart.
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  534. This is so painful to watch... I feel like the director fired all of his martial art and weapon coordinators and just went with cool looking moves.
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  535. Just wait until 40 million illegal immigrants get amnesty. You'll never be able to find a job again.
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  536. We had positive wage increases in the past several years. Mostly in Distribution Centers, but most of it was due to worker shortages, even pre-covid. Though the greater market has not had wage growth that has kept up with inflation in decades. Thing of the trucking industry. 1980 Average earnings - $37,000 2020 Average earnings - $50,000 1980 Inflation adjusted - $106,000 2020 Inflation adjusted - $50,000 So a CDL literally lost HALF it's worth over 40 years.
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  537.  @jessicaconner80  Sounds like you're on the right track to finding yourself. Never give up on progressing yourself and striving for knowledge and wisdom. We all have different personalities and it's the duty of each to expand more in the other direction. Conservatives being more open and liberals being more organized. If you're interested, I'd throw Jordan Peterson and Russel Brand your way. They are a wealth of spirit and knowledge.
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  538. Let's be real though. People talk about prices, wages, and housing. But what they won't tell you is that have massive student loans holding them back. I understand people have a range of circumstances, but this factor really takes the cake (especially for younger generations). My parents gave me nothing and I began working in 2012 at 18 years old. I had $25k by the time I was 23 and moved out living on $45k. Made $70k by the time I was 25 and bought a home (same job pays $85k. I'm perfectly aware that housing is up some 40% with inflation and interest rates suck. What's stopping people from saving up and buying land or finding rent options for $1200-$1400? Where's the money going? I remember getting my CDL in 2019; 15 students (12 green-cards from Africa). Here's my question, where are American workers - Gen Z workers? I think the biggest problem is that people don't want to admit that they are addicted to unhealthy habits waiting for a miracle to give them a work from home job.
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  539.  @tak178  What are you talking about? The US is a borderline 3rd world country by our metrics.
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  540. Yes, original code has to be written, but most of the code is writing itself thanks to these algorithms. Innovative software coding is truly the only 'coding' that has to be manually written. Nobody is sitting around writing (already existing software) for things that are routinely downloaded by companies.
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  541. No, the shot came from the far left (in the video). The person that was hit was probably off screen or way in the righthand corner of he stadium.
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  542.  @jerrylundegaard2592  You're negating a lot of factors here. Homogenous cultures, significantly lower rates of disease, large oil legacy funds in places like Norway from petrol proceeds, etc. I don't see the connection, nor would I make a blind assumption that a country is better by however it measures happiness. Are you aware that Scandinavia also has some of the largest consumptions of anti-depressants in the world? Thinking that alleged socialist policies somehow merit themselves because you can draw a short statistical conclusion about happiness is bizarre. If you have spent considerable time there, then I'd imagine you'd see that it was the culture that made the difference. Not an abstract of social economic policies that confirm your biases. Are you aware of any social-economic policies that make people in America happy? I can tell you first hand that people using them are some of the most unhappy people in the world. Why draw a conclusion that isn't there?
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  543. @@Potentpotion Yes, UBI; the magical fix to everything. You introduce UBI (for instance: $12,000 annually like Yang was suggesting) and you'll run the US into hyperinflation within 5 years. We already saw what setting the Federal funds rate at 0.25% did to the markets. Massive stimulus and loans out the wazoo that drove prices thru the roof and inflated the markets to kingdom come. UBI is essentially a 0% loan that everybody will use to push the demand in markets up. Beef alone would probably double or triple in price within 18 months. Then you have to give CPI adjusted raises to the UBI each year. It's a horrible idea; the market always corrects itself.
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  544. Bad incentives all around! We give great incentives for creating corporations via debt and then destroying them with short positions. You only need to pay 10-15% capital gains on that shit. But if you do an honest job; you owe about 30% in taxes! :) Dumb dumb logic.
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  545. Don't buy a home; it's a ripoff. Or at least don't get a mortgage. Buy land outright or not at all imo. Anything higher than a 4% interest will typically be more expensive (gross cost) than any rental. People need to stay out of debt, get their income up, and throw savings into a brokerage account on index funds. The only problem I had was I blew $8k on weed stocks back when I moved out at 22. Wish I hadn't, but you live and learn I guess.
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  546. Dear God, what a fine woman :)
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  547. The US would rather take an an immigrant because they were a minority from some 3rd world country. Rather than take in immigrants by their merit and qualifications. Any system that throws competence out the window is set to fail. With a rapidly shrinking middle class, I'm ashamed to say that we are on the decline. It's not just the politicians, it's the culture. The average US citizen doesn't realize they are contributing to it's demise.
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  548. More city walk videos!!!
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  549. You should leave, go far away! I've had too many women in my life say the exact thing; black and white. They always say the same thing, "I can't, I know too many people, and care for too many people." To that I would say, make sure that these people care for you. Many times people in toxic relationships care for others, but those other people don't care for them. Leave the city, go far away, build a new life, and be able to hear your own thoughts. Best of wishes!
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  550.  @segapena5033  This is a big misconception; every President has outspent the last since Bush. This includes Biden. So I'm not sure where you're getting that from. Debt isn't an accounting gimmick. You actively get poorer every single year because of the deficit with GDP/debt. You're making drastic assumptions about things that affect your every day life. I'm not sure what exactly made you hyper-vigilant against Republicans 'specifically', but maybe you could elaborate?
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  551. The wife and some 40% of her hospital threw a fit over the jabs. So now they all get to claim exemptions because that kind of labor loss would have bankrupt them 🥳🥳🥳
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  552.  @Foxtai1987  Newsflash bud, you're still spreading the virus regardless. It's just not going to tag you as a host. If you're around people with Covid, then you will most likely spread it regardless. That is, if the vaccine does as intended. Vaccines are only supposed to build the immunity of the person getting it. Yet the hilarious part is they introduced the most "anti scientific" idea that since I got Covid in 2020. I can fall sick from it over and over and over, which is a load of crap. It will spread regardless until we reach heard immunity, like Sweden did. And with only 14,000 deaths, despite the WHO expecting 100,000 🤣🤣🤣. Too many people putting their faith in corrupt bureaucrats and don't doing their own research.
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  553.  @nicoleodigie7218  Yes, because the USD is the Reserve Currency. The Federal Reserve policy affects ALL world banks and currencies. All currencies are traded for USD and we printed $8 Trillion.
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  554. Married my wife from Match.
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  555. Most women don't care about abortion. It's a minority topic that interests women of pampered backgrounds, which is why it's uniquely low-info college voters. It's all about the hierarchy of needs. Anybody having to focus on working for a living doesn't care about abortion. Women care about safety and prices; hence the economy/immigration issues.
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  556. Sounds like American's are having a wake-up call about the nightmare called (equity). People DO NOT want to be paid the same for going above and beyond, while their colleague cut's corners.
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  557. Low interest rates were the only way people could afford home post-2008. Banks are already preparing to dish out (40 year contracts with 1-5% down) when the housing market picks up after they lower rates. When that happens, you'll see another housing boom. You'll have couples making $120,000 getting mortgages for $750,000 homes.
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  558.  @RobertJara-m3k  Is was a perfect answer to a dumb question.
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  559. How is that? Local residents destroyed their country thru greed and complacency. Same thing is happening in America to a large extent. Nobody took your jobs, people simply think they're too good to work them.
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  560. Wouldn't be happening if anti-trust was enforced and we weren't subsidizing the losses of these companies. As usual, government is gate-keeping the profits of large businesses; hence they can do whatever they want.
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  561. Well, there's two issues going on simultaneously with walkability. First, the US is insanely large. Second, residential areas are NOT built for foot travel. I'm hoping that changes in the future.
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  562. If the debt gets defaulted on it surely will. People can only afford to delude themselves so long as their money keeps the collectors away and keeps them content.
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  563.  @gavinlew8273  Wealth inequality is not a problem; the problem lies with the margins. If the margins grow too wide, the bottom half flips the table and sets it on fire. We've seen this happen multiple times in human history. The last time being the conclusion of the Industrial Revolution, which led to a series of Marxist ideologies that leveled whole nations that had inequalities running out of control.
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  564. They'll have to rig the jury. Any random jury will easily let this guy go; fingers crossed.
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  565. This comment being popular means it's attracted a lot of people that don't understand bankruptcy laws. All fortune 500 companies use the chapter laws to eliminate bad debts, especially Pharmaceutical companies. Infering that it's somehow ironic for Trump to use it against a casino is ignorant in it's usage; a complete vaguery of perception.
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  566. Enjoy it while it lasts; eventually the company will slash your position. You're probably being kept on as a 'filler' position for their corporate hierarchy. It may take a year or five, but eventually these companies outsource the work to subcontractors or another position that will accept less pay.
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  567.  @None-y2f  No, immigration had nothing to do with it. The FED set interest rates near 0 in 2020. I was offered a 1.75% interest rate to buy a home in April 2024. Everybody and their brother jumped in to buy up houses and condos to rent out because AirBNB was becoming popular. The buyer surplus sent prices thru the roof. That's how this happened. It's because a million Americans own multi-properties.
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  568.  @therealjordiano  Yep, child abuse and neglect are crazy high right now. Parents don't participate in their child's education anymore and would rather stare at their phones for hours on end. The children are desperate for 'approval' and 'connection'; this is the result!
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  569. I am scared to death for the future of this country. Once a nation is destroyed within; it can never recover. I don't want to wait around to find out what the newest two generations will do to this country.
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  570.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  360,900 deaths per year just from coronary artery disease. Yep, I'm pretty sure.
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  571. As situations grow more dire, regimes grow more desperate.
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  572. Good luck with that. Inflation would get worse simply trying to budget those military funds the US pays for.
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  573.  @TheeBlackSilhouette  Look, wrapping your mind around the idea is hard; trust me I believed the same thing as you Try and listen to my reasoning. Your 87, 89 octanes have a similar numbers of MJkg per gallon than say even Canola oil. You can put all three in your vehicle and the vehicle will run. However, canola oil or any kind of generic alcohol will be rough on your engine and mileage will be terrible. Human body works the same way. You can conflate two foods with similar caloric values as equal, but your body will process their energy differently. Research on rats proved this over a decade ago. You can give them the same caloric value of different items and it will literally cause them to become obese rats. Much of that energy is not metabolically sufficient and it does depend person to person to a large degree. This is why Polynesians blow up like balloons when you feed them corn and wheat. Metabolic insufficiency; as well as histamine reactions.
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  574.  @waltersokil4938  Half the nation?
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  575.  @nocategories3398  Let's not revise history please. He said "lock her up" during the heat of the Hillary scandal. She was found to have broken the law, but Comey decided there would be no charges.
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  576. Well, a child in the womb feels pain and discomfort. Pro-choice people resort to rage and anger when you try to tell them that an unborn child is a life. They've spent so much time dehumanizing unborn children that it's painful to imagine the opposite. They see that reflection of evil in their argument and get angry to defend their own conscience imo
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  577. Cardiomyopathy in many cases and a long list of odd deaths
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  578.  @covenant11  I'm sorry, but it's not; you can look it up via IRS tax revenue data. The bottom 50% of wage earners (by median salary) pay 3.04% of all taxes. Billionaires and upper class wage earners pay almost all taxes.
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  579. The idea in Reaganomics is that (if you give companies low interest and tax breaks) they will use that opportunity to increase productivity and raise employee living standards. What actually happens, is that companies use low interest loans to make profits on BAD/cheap products and then pocket all the additional savings from tax cuts.
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  580. Seems to be the case. A large number of people duped by social media companies and a number of Congressional officials that pulled strings to make it as theatrical and dramatic as possible.
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  581.  @RockBrentwood  Fixed waiting time is just code-word for (raise the number to 5-8 million per year. Are you prepared to allow them to flood your neighborhood and lower equity? Or are you in one of those gated communities that doesn't allow non-residents to enter?
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  582. The biggest problem with leftist doctrine is that it's not just a casual opinion. In order to be a follower of leftist ideology, you have to make major concessions in the manner that you behave around people. If you think the state should own your body, property, and control all other aspects. Then why would people expect to have a normal non-political conversation with that person? They don't believe in individual rights. It's not just a political opinion you can tuck away, it ruins their lives.
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  583. @187bronco187 ? Have you seen the difference between the Japanese and American diet? Insulin resistance is caused by a massively sucrose/corn syrup diet. The Japanese don't eat massive amounts of sucrose, fructose, or corn syrup. Or high glycemic foods. Diabetes and body weight aren't exactly correlated.
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  584. Just make sure you are actually connected to your child. I don't mean any insult by that btw. I've met a lot of parents that play the 'perfect family' game while their teenager or 20 year old son have major anti-social problems.
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  585. No wonder Elon Musk was suspicious of Twitter; some insiders have claimed that 60%+ of Twitter comments are bots as well. It's a disease that is everywhere and I suspect the companies themselves are involved. Imagine these companies getting paid advertising profits by creating fake accounts on their own platforms lol
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  586. We don't have the money. Even if you terminated all foreign aid and defense spending; it will derail this country. Social Security and Medicare liabilities are the problem.
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  587.  @MasterBlaster220  Action - rioting, protests, civil unrest, insurrection, arrests, etc.
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  588. Sad, he's was a great President. Nowadays he'd have like a 90% approval in the middle of the recent clowns.
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  589. I love this! I grew up in a Christian home and largely Christian community. Whenever anything bad happened or we made a mistake; we were punished for it. When we told the truth; we were punished harder. I remember when I found out that girls had vaginas at the age of 6. (My parents never taught us anatomy or sexual education) - which is rampant in Christian communities. We had exposed ourselves to each other and that's how I found out. Later that evening, my parents created a demonic setting by turning all the lights off; except the garage entry light. Then scolded the living daylights out of me and told me that seeing genitals was 'evil' and that I had something wrong with my brain. Therapy might not be the most healthy way to help such horrible traumas. However, we also need to acknowledge that the 'parents' are either absent or complicit in the trauma. We are seeing a mega-wave of parental neglect. They scream and yell at their kids and then give them an iPad to shut-up. Let's not pretend that giving parents back 'ALL' of their capabilities will produce anything that will solve the cultural problem.
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  590. Can't afford to be slaves actually. If people need to make a decision between a low wage and cutting liabilities so that somebody can stay home or work PT. That's what they're going to do. We have two economies! One for pensioners, government, and students; the other for working class people.
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  591. Find a woman NOT on birth control or altered from long term use and you will be happy. If you've never met a woman that doesn't take the pill, it's literally a night and day difference.
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  592. I voted twice for Trump, but he's truly turned out to be a POS. Wish I would have seen it sooner though.
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  593.  @bissonlouise9061  Who's we?
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  594.  @Jewel_Screaming_Chango8387  Tech drove up the expectations and so did female income. Women date (same age and +5); also across and up when it comes to income. If a majority of women are making the same income or higher than the average man. This completely screws up the mating evolution. Social media makes it worse because women are more likely to buy into internet peer pressure and standards. So they set an expectation for their husband to be a multi-millionaire that looks like Brad Pitt. The last part is that women are not evolved to deduce things logistically or mathematically. So they never wonder how millions of them won't be able to have a small selection pool of those mates. Fertility drives the smoke screen and technology drives the illusion. So women don't snap out of it until they're 35, by the time they're largely infertile and a depreciating asset.
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  595.  @jolene41062  What can you do? Stop deluding yourself perhaps? I find it very unlikely that you were 'so connected' before she entirely cut you off. All the narcissistic parents say the same garbage.
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  596.  @patland1762  At the same time, if we gave free education to everyone at this point (we'd all just get dumber). Education standards are nowhere near what they used to be. Bad incentives have eroded any decency left in the colleges.
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  597. Malta tourist website: 1. Tourist who are unvaccinated will undergo a mandatory quarantine at their own expense. 2. You will need to wear a mask outdoors unless you have received a booster shot. 3. Vaccination cards must be shown upon entree to the list below - virtually all businesses. 4. Vaccine cards must be presented by women that are up to 16 weeks pregnant. Are you kidding? People need to do some research and quit basing their aspirations to leave the US on Twitter comments. If you move to a foreign country outside the US, you will be at the mercy of their governing standards. Not to mention in a poor position should the global supply chain falter. Considering the situation of the US Dollar, Crude Oil, supply chains, and tensions between the Federation of Russia and China. I would deem it unwise to remove yourself from the US.
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  598. 401k accounts are typically filled with low volatility mutual funds; market goes down 30% and your account goes down 12%. I'm 31 and we have a 401k that's roughly $80,000. Also just paid off $117,000 in debt; so we're back to square one basically. But, it was worth it.
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  599. To be fair, I don't think either party is going to do anything about it. Policies aren't causing insanity; insanity is causing bad policies. Insanity being caused by $7 Trillion printed dollars in less than 2 years and a demographic implosion creating a debt crisis. Not to mention global tensions.
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  600. @NightmareNate7 Based on what exactly? Try not to take that logic to it's conclusion. Living life after 40 (without spouse or children) is a mistake people mostly regret. Eventually you'll relate to nobody and have no close family left. It's not a life I'd wish on anyone. You're probably young I assume, but eventually you'll find out that an ideology of (freedom to do random things) isn't going to get you thru to 80 years old.
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  601.  @letgobandit  China, Bahamas, Belize, El Salvador, Mexico, and Canada; not much longer than a few weeks at any one location (at any one time). Plus about 40 states. I'm a routine traveler, though I've remained more domestic these past few years. I don't have cable and I don't watch CNN btw. I talk to people, I watch people, and I stay up to date on on the market, global economies, and trade. I am a pessimist if that's what you're asking, but that has just allowed me to stay ahead of the curve. It's not without it's drawbacks though. That's about it...
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  602. I agree, however there are some issues. The US is a massive places, but as someone from the Midwest; you can't really walk anywhere unless it's an older town with older infrastructural plans. Newer residential areas are literally built to keep you contained and you must use a car to visit anywhere. Less you want to walk miles and miles in the grass on the side of the roadway.
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  603. America will once again know peace when this regime and the internation cartel of corporations; that include the MSM are burned to the ground ...
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  604.  @dcoughla681  It precisely did, seeing as imports are more expensive as they must go thru a significant amount of red tape/bureaucracy to reach the mainland and the UK is largely not sufficient to begin with. Therefore domestic inflation was exacerbated (beyond) normal Covid-inflation due to barriers in energy, food, and labor availability that came much easier with EU flexibility. Life got harder for the same reason it did everywhere else, but it was push even further due to Brexit. Had it been self sustainable without the need for outside/labor and large exports; it wouldn't have been a problem. This is an economic problem; not an immigration issue. The EU (as many problems as it's currently facing) would have helped to stabilize the UK had it not left. People are getting comfy with globalist economics and then somehow thing it's a good idea to (cut it off) and keep the benefits.
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  605.  @diegoharo7943  Administrations are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme. Every President has outspent the last since Bush Jr. If you cite the actual budgets; you'll find that a whopping majority of the spending (about 74% currently) goes towards auto-pilot programs. Post 2020, those programs have been cola adjusted with the massive stimulus since Covid.
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  606. As much as I like Vivek, there are two major problems that he is not addressing in his campaign. 1. The elephant in the room 'inflation'. Expanding the energy sector back up is not going to get America back to where it was in the 1980s. 2. The subject everyone loves to ignore; labor shortages and rapidly changing demographics. Social Security is now projected to be cut by 23% in 2034 in order to continue functioning. Retirees are piling up and there aren't enough young people to pay forward their social safety nets. We do not have enough cops to properly police cities, we don't have enough correctional officers to maintain the prisons. Let alone military personal and border security that can do the same job in volume that they did 20 years ago. None of these things are being addressed! You can talk policy and law all day long, but until you address the employment shortages in these key areas, nothing is going to change.
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  607. Competition for what? He's a multi-millionaire; like he cares? Coding is useless is an age where algorithms are writing 99% of it. The only coding that matter is the creation of NEW and INNOVATIVE software. If you can't bring that to a company or be contracted to do so; you're wasting your time.
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  608. Because the US is attempting to cut off China (slowly). And ramping up semi-conductor production and auto-production will aid in this, less we introduce more tariffs or sanctions. Problem is, excessive sanctions or tariffs could escalate a military conflict. Personally, I have no qualms with tariffs against China; the US should have distanced itself years ago.
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  609. It won't change anything; inflation will just get worse next cycle. This is all happening due to the retirement crisis; not exactly greed. SS, Medicare, and Pensions are essentially asset bubbles that have to be propped up by currency devaluation due to demographic problems. People should honestly be thankful to be in the US; Canada is significantly worse off.
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  610.  @JStrauD  Yep, didn't Dana Bash LITERALLY just say "there are no media lies" when she interview JD Vance?
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  611. People always max out their cards the most before a recession. They never learn. You can never spend your way out of an economic crisis; the only solution is to downsize and remove liabilities. Not just on a large scale, but in every household.
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  612. No, it's about winning the Midwest imo
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  613. I've always been curious about that same subject. Some Russians say it's a shit hole. Some Americans say they love it.
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  614. This guy sounds like he gets all of his info from YoungTurks and MSNBC. I'm not a fan of Trump, but dear God everybody is living in their own echo-chamber. Social media was a terrible idea lol
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  615. SO you're angry at the guy shaking his head, but NOT angry at the President (at the podium) spewing absolute bs and lies about the border and Congressional legislation? What kind of logic is that?
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  616. There's an insane amount of bot accounts here lol
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  617.  @Violet-fj8yd  Not really any common sense. I wouldn't trust a dog I didn't know, sure. But normal dogs don't jump into cribs and attack babies. Sounds like the dog was vicious and feral; created by vicious and feral people. I've been around and seen enough in my life to know when people are full of bs. Guaranteed; the father was an abuser of the dog and/or child. Mom is covering up for him.
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  618. All these jobs are going to be outsourced to either AI or some young person in India within the decade. The 'remote work' revolutionaries have ZERO concept of the can of worms they've opened. As cute of an idea as it is; remote work is a fast track to job outsourcing.
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  619. Too many people without critical thinking skills. Either that or they flip on the news once a month and then are willfully ignorant the rest of the time. If you haven't caught on to media deception by now, then I don't think people ever will.
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  620.  @agentxcompany  You need some fats in there; KerryGold butter is a good clean source. Also, if you're not eating organ meats, then you will probably need some supplementation. I don't feel there are enough vitamins in a cut of steak and virtually none in potatoes.
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  621. Well, it's always the conundrum with humans; they are built to worship Thinking you're not-religious is just a state of denial. If you don't worship a God, then you'll worship yourself, or other people; it's really that simple. It all comes down to aspiring to live up to an idea greater than yourself This is why nomadic humans for the last million years had a largely non-existent spiritual life. People telling you otherwise are selling something. Hunter gatherers focused on the survival of the family and thankfulness of the sun and moon. THAT was their God. As civilizations become more complex (even with native American tribes) a more complex spirituality is needed to enforce the social hierarchy. Essentially elders defending their position of power in a growing community of people. When it gets even larger, you have to introduce spiritualities of 'force' like Abrahamic religions to keep people under control. Now that Western religions are declining, the family is declining, and gratitude is declining. People sit at home worshipping themselves alone until they die. Mother nature is resetting the system; not reproducing is a fail-safe to ensure humanity returns to it's natural state.
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  622. Nobody is stopping people; read the litigation please.
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  623. It's really bad in Ohio. The Columbus Mayor signed an executive bill that allowed illegal migrants to receive all kinds of benefits; including seasonal passes to the Columbus Zoo. My wife and I went there in May of this year and there were THOUSANDS of Latin and South American families that spoke ZERO English.
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  624. Why is that crazy? Tbh, they're all dictators; even Zelensky.
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  625. That's why you always choose a realtor that is FAMILY or close FRIENDS. Choosing anybody else is asking to get screwed. They will try to sell you the biggest house they can and duck on better deals to get higher commission. An agent you don't know, is an agent you can't trust.
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  626. Your channel and Brian from ClearValue are my two favorite channels on Youtube that discuss these topics. Thank you for everything you do!
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  627. Yep, because they have debt that they voluntarily took. Debt is significantly worse than raising kids, believe me.
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  628. I remember when my Grandpa was laid off in the early 2000s. He worked for a plastic molding company up near Akron, OH. Job, benefits, pension; gone! Just like that! Thankfully, he had a very lengthy set of friends and began a lawn-mowing business and made good money; mostly tax free. He was able to largely put off Social Security for himself and his wife for a while.
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  629.  @l337z0r  Anti-American? Quick watching mainstream news bud and put your thinking cap on.
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  630. Tulsi refused months ago; keep up!
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  631. Yep, it's really no different than the solar panel investments. People get all excited because they save 70% on their electric bill and get a $2000 tax credit. How much do you still owe for that solar panel? Oh yeah, $31,000 at 5.47% for 8 years. Thank you for playing lol People in love with the new electric technology always get mad when you ask them how much they owe.
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  632. Again, we're blaming everybody except the people that did it; the Federal Reserve. Politicians are a close second. Generic bankers and lawyers didn't destroy your standard of living; social security bubble, student loan bubble, and every other government intrusion that protects asset values and profits in industries of their choice.
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  633. One thing that irritates me is that people pretend that this entire conflict was unprovoked. Both NATO and Russia have massive ambitions; politics as usual. NATO formed a coup against Kiev in 2014 and Russia wants back political control of Ukraine.
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  634. Welcome to the revolution bro! Down with the global oligarchy!
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  635. Not a fan of the man whatsoever! I'll give him a bit of credit on foreign policy, but he was a freaking disaster regarding domestic economics. This man appointed Jerome Powell and tried to get the federal funds rate under 0.25% in 2020. Which gave us ridiculous inflation in the markets. Everybody and their brother jumped onto cheap mortgages to push rent and got new cars. It drove demand sky high and prices increased with it. We created nothing along the way, which is why wages stayed stagnant. Now the American dream is practically dead for the next generation. Explain to the average 18 year old how he is going to afford a $427,000 home (average price). On top of high energy costs, student loans, or even basic amenities. Republicans have NO plan for any of this and it will cost them in the election.
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  636.  @rusty-y8r  What kind of comment is that? This country has had insane gun ownership since it's inception.
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  637. Well, what are your circumstances; debt is a real killer. The economy is inflated yes, but perfectly manageable if you're not drowning in debt. As someone who has paid $40k in medical bills since 2020 and paid off some $167,000 of student loans; I don't understand what some people are complaining about.
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  638. A single television show that paints a parent is a positive light? BLUEY! But of course, that's an Australian show lol
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  639. Coddling? Please... These kids do these things after being beaten, tormented, and neglected. I was abused by my mentally ill mother for 20 years and all I could ever think about was putting her in the ground. Thankfully, I found people that could help me, grew tremendously in spirit, became a husband, and father. The people that think (disciplining-) their child is the answer to this kind of issue are delusional. Only in the delusional fairytale world of religion do people think up the idea that (conformity, physical violence, and breaking the will) actually produce a good human being. All you produce is a child that (stays quiet and does whatever you ask - out of fear). The fact that people still think with such barbarity makes me lose hope in humanity.
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  640. He's really hit and miss for me. His segment of the diesel fuel supply had me really irritated. He literally said that we'd run out of diesel by Thanksgiving; which was an obvious lie from the beginning. Whether he was aware of it or not tells you something about his show script. Maybe he should do more research and due diligence? I'd love to believe he's sincere, but he doesn't always give an accurate story for one reason or another.
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  641. Most people saw this coming in 2020. I'm not a Trump fan, but I truly question the sanity of many Democrats.
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  642. @ultraquiz For everyone that wanted to make money bud.
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  643. It's currency devaluation; all to pay for debts that can never be afforded in the first place.
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  644. Don't you mean (20 minutes?)
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  645. Hundreds? Try over 20,000!
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  646.  @The-Oneness11  Those are factors, but hardly the totality. Female infertility rates are largely based on medical surveys that the CDC collects from Medicare dependent hospital systems. If you are an average 30 year old woman; just married. Your chances of being pregnant in the first 3 months are statistically slim in the US. As I said, it takes anywhere from 2-4 years on average. It used to be 18 months in the mid 2010s. Having an anecdotal experience doesn't mean everyone else is having the same experience. It is quit daunting for a newly-wed couple in their early 30s to conceive a child in a short period of time. Women with tubal ligations would not qualify for these surveys; it would pervert the end results.
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  647.  @joannajensen2221  1.7% actually, according to Pfizer clinical trial data.
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  648. It's called the 'theory of evolution' for a reason. The point is, you can't visualize evolution on the grand scale. You can only visualize it in real time when looking at something like a virus. So evolution on a micro-scale seems quite obvious, but using that observation of minutes or hours to make a claim about billions of years for other organism doesn't hold water as far as the scientific method would allow.
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  649. I remember going out to eat with my family when I was 18; I'm 30 now btw. My parents struck up a conversation with a couple that had a 3 year old girl and she had an iPad. The mom was going on and ON about how good the iPad was for her education and learning skills. Fast forward, I'm not sure how this kid ended up. However, looking at the other children in my own family that were raised on iPads; it's actually terrifying. The anti-social behavior I experience from cousins and children of friends is disturbing. I was talking to my wife yesterday about how I worried that several of them struck me as the 'school shooter type.' There is seriously something wrong with them. They are also completely apathetic and artificial people incapable of a genuine relationship.
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  650. I surely didn't! I hated his guts when he was Lt. Gov years ago. He was an avid supporter of the assault weapons ban first off. Then he allowed an unelected (Amy Acton) to dictate policy on the state-wide shutdowns and mask mandates. Which ultimately ended in the destruction of 55% of all small-business in Ohio; reported from the Ohio Dept. of Labor itself! All to yield part of a national efficacy of 2% for helping to stop the spread? I surely thought this guy would be thrown out, but apparently Ohioans thought that killing half of small business was justified. I feel embarrassed to be an Ohioan.
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  651. I've noticed that these kids kick ANYBODY off the debate table that starts making any sense lol
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  652.  @chancarter3440  Join the Trump teach Carter!
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  653. Canada is not a 'low cost living' nation. Perhaps you just meant 'your own family?'
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  654. So we need to stop bullying people so they won't shoot up schools? I'm no fan of bullying, but I think you see my point. This problem is so much deeper than simply 'bullying'. All of this starts in the home, antisocial problems, and relationship. Children don't just shoot up schools do to bullying alone.
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  655. Yes and no! I'm a tradesman and the economy hasn't been this bad since 2008. There is no demand. The only way you are going to score customers is by being in professions like 'plumbing' where they are forced to finance loans for necessity maintenance or projects. Other than that, truck driving, carpentry, and even construction are really hurting.
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  656. Waste your time and find out. The supply of coders is insane in most 1st world countries. Existing code does not have to be written while algorithms are doing it for you. The only coding that actually means anything is in the creation of innovative software. Unless you think you're going to be leading that innovation in your company department or constantly contracted in that industry; you're wasting you're time. Nobody cares about people that simply, 'know how to code.'
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  657.  @Gnofg  Unfortunately, as much as I liked Reagan. I'd have to agree, at least to a certain extent. From what I've seen statistically, wealth (as far as assets and cash value) has been declining for the bottom 60% of earners in the US since the 80s.
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  658.  @Andreas-gh6is  I'm not even going to try. You don't realize how thick and ignorant you are.
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  659. Same
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  660.  @dafunkmonster  For a rare number of people this is desirable. For many others, primarily women; it's voluntary slavery. By age 30 what happens? They're depressed, don't want to work anymore, and are having problems with fertility. This isn't ideal for a man either. Culture has sold us a big fat lie. "Graduate HS, go to college, work your butt off for 45 years, then retire and be happy." What a load of crap, some of the most depressed people I know are retired. I don't see an issue with short term money goals, but the need for more $$$ never ends. Most people HAVE to work such ridiculous hours to afford all the insanity that they've been brainwashed into needing. This is NOT what humans were designed to do and no manner of motivation or denial is going to change that. When you're young, this might seem plausible. But every day after you hit your mid 20s will a painful day of denial for years to come. That is until people snap out of it.
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  661.  @Rob-i9k  They could easily take him to court for perjury, which he committed when testifying in front of Congress. A change in Administration could very easily end up with him being indicted.
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  662. Yep, I noticed this has exploded in the ASMR community as well. Many women are attempting to link their ASMR accounts to their porn accounts and trying to get younger viewers to go there. We need to stop blaming men for everything. There is an insane amount of women attempting to lure minors into their sex-based business.
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  663.  @prototype8137  Lots of people. They eat at 7am, snack, eat at noon, snack, eat dinner, snack, then eat a Papa John's pizza at 10pm after work. On top of 6 Mountain Dews. Trust me, there are demographics all over the US full of these types of people. It's primarily in black ghettos and in places like Appalachia. Though they are just the highest concentrations I'd say. It's rampant all over the US. We're talking shy of 100 Million people; it's that bad. Health freaks like myself came from the suburbs.
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  664.  @davidhall3747  Ouch! Sorry that happened to you David.
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  665. Exactly! I understand the entire conservative argument about education, but it also pretends that parents will do the right thing given more educational freedom in raising their kids. If you give parents full autonomy in their child's education; a majority of them will let their kid look at their iPad for 6 hours straight 5 days a week. Most of the anti-social problems are stemming from the home; not the classroom.
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  666. I've never seen this channel before, but it was my first instinct. It's not a legal channel; it's an activist channel for clickbait. Also, note the cultists that are posting below defending him without question. Apparently lawyers all tell the truth, but people they don't like always lie.
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  667. The new retirement is 'no debt' which includes 'no mortgage' lol
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  668. The FED will never allow deflation to take place.
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  669.  PoisonelleMisty4311  To be brutally honest, almost every state has entered a deficit since the Covid spending the last 3 years.
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  670. We already had the UBI experiment in 2020. Newsflash, UBI is inflationary. If you give people (ex: $12k annually). All that's going to happen is prices will spin out of control. After that you have to do a COLA adjustment each year; it would be in the 10-20% annually. We'd be in hyperinflation before you knew it. It's no different than giving people free loans (which we essentially did in 2020 with stimulus, PPP loans, and 0.25% rates).
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  671. Welcome to America, women have been doing this since the late 1960s.
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  672. Kids these days are absolute narcissists! It's unbearable having to deal with most college aged brats, but I can't imagine people at this level of contempt and self pity.
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  673. Don't hurt yourself trying to figure out why lol I always thought I was weird for reading the Gulag Archipelago in my teens years. It's always been apparent to me how untrustworthy authority can be. I'm not sure why it's such a shocker to people to find out the badges and political office can make average people evil.
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  674. Things are easier with a stronger purchasing power. Blame the constant currency devaluation needed to prop up social safety net bubbles.
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  675. Nothing can be fixed until the deficit implodes. All this insanity is stemming from currency devaluation.
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  676. I think you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Your life is in your hands and the world is in the hands of the angry mob. Best you can do is stay out of their way every time they flip the table.
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  677. I'm married, own a home, and have a son; the roles are reversed. My wife is a medical professional and I'm a stay at home dad that periodically works. We both get to spend a lot of time with our son and are planning to do so for any other children that we have. She hates doing chores, but loves decorating. I love doing house-work, but can't decorate for crap. People nowadays just waste their time investing in utter nonsense primarily from social media. I'm aware that there are obvious economic factors and the wage that doesn't keep up with inflation. However, from my experience, most people are miserable (at many ages) due to their addiction to social medial and online stupidity. This is why you have 30-40 year old people acting like teenagers and having the reasoning of a child.
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  678. As someone who was diagnosed with ADHD during the "planned pharmaceutical phase" during the early 2000s. It irritates me to no end how easily the people that orchestrated this disaster skated away. The rate of ADHD diagnosing went from 2% to over 11% in the span of 5 years back in the early 2000s. Pharmaceutical companies made billions on any manner of crap they could shill out to the public with the FDA's approval. It truly damaged quite a large number of young boys specifically and there was never any justice done about it. The more frustrating part was that you had a majority of Gen X parents that completely went along with it; full confidence in an already broken and scandalous system. These same people repeated that mistake during Covid in 2020 and I have no patience for it any longer. If you haven't figured out by now how ridiculously corrupt the relationship between government and pharmaceutical companies are in this country; I'd say you'd deserve to end up as one of the one million cancer patients diagnosed each year due to their agenda; one in three hundred is NOT good odds folks. That's my judgmental side speaking. The more compassionate side of me hopes that more people will seek clarity on the subject. Girls do better in school and boys can't sit still. It has always been that way; what else could you hope for? Perhaps a generation or two of boys that were forced to sit still in class and swallow the bureaucratic crap that these psychopaths put into the curriculums? I won't have it; none of it. If you have no problem medicating your children without a second thought just so they can perform better in a system of insane consumerism. Then I'd say you have a different strain of mental illness all to yourself. Considering that we are in a time of great upheaval in the economy and government; don't be a blind fool and jump on the healthcare/pharma bandwagon. The fact that many people are still so blind to how much bureaucratic corruption has been taking place 'especially since Covid' is annoying to say the least. With a son on the way, I refuse to play along with these games anymore. A litany of pharmaceutical medications and shot, followed by a K-12 education that doesn't teach my child jack-crap. Imagine how much time your kid spends in all those years of schooling and how much they actually retain; maybe 5% at most I'd say! They are training your child to get ready for a full time job of meaningless work to feed a horrible system. The only thing I have left to say is this. Please, for the love of God, DO NOT put your child through what my parents did. I was a medicated drooling zombie for 6 straight years until I told me parents that I "refused" to medicate. Back then you could swap out multiple medications every few months. Thankfully new policy allows for only two medications before a review of the diagnosis, should they not work. If you do, your child may never forgive you and rightfully so.
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  679. Forgiveness is always the first action, but after a decade or more (when it supposed to work?) Toxic people depend on forgiveness to be given a sense that their abuse is "ok". That's how they see it!
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  680. I love how all these celebrities spent the last ten years spreading their political ideologies all over social media. Now they're complaining that the President is being reckless by spreading his political ideologies. Rules for thee, but not for me!
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  681. Well, to be fair, there are MILLIONS of parents that are completely neglecting their child's education. Then get mad when they watch the news and then show up at their child's school to protest. This isn't an easy problem to solve.
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  682. He's never said that, I'd love to hear where you're getting this info.
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  683.  @KaptynEllie  My wife actually has PCOS; carnivore diet entirely eliminated it. Food for thought lol
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  684. It's eerily taking the same form as WW2 in many ways; leftism vs. rightism all over again. Just it seems that the roles are reversed and some ideologies are swapped. Russia, Italy, China, and many Central/South American countries will play the part of the AXIS this time. US/NATO will play the part of the Socialists/Marxists. I think right-wing socialism (rightwing - defective marxism) will actually be absent in this conflict. Left-wing Democratic Socialism vs. Right-wing nationalists.
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  685.  @yeeet1580  All good people are happy to see Iran's missiles? Explain that one to me.
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  686.  @exitscreaming4637  Normal dogs don't jump into baby cribs and attack. I've heard the 'good and loving dog' excuse too many times. I guarantee you that this dog was feral, antisocial, and vicious. That's how you get this kind of situation.
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  687. 90% pension? Yeah right. Most cap out between 60-75%. Medical depends on industry and location. Also, you're paying into Social Security and are never allowed to receive it if you take your pension. It's not all it's cracked up to be.
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  688. PROBLEM #1 Assuming that Youtube, Twitter, and Instagram are not complicit in the bot infestation. Imagine how profitable it would be for any ONE of these companies to create enough bot accounts, so that a majority of the advertising revenue was going straight back to the corporation. Remember when advertising on social media for profit started to become popular? Have you noticed that bots have taken over the entire advertising environment? It's all just a bait and switch scam folks; no different than Door-Dash or any other tech company that offers a service to (be your own boss). I remember when many people were able to quit their regular jobs, because they were making money advertising and creating businesses on these tech company websites. NOW, nobody is making money on these sites; at least enough money to call 'justifiable'. They create a company, screw their suppliers, screw the investors, screw the customers. Then, bankrupt a selection of their company at the tax-payers expense, and continue doing business as usual. This is how f*cked up our business laws are and this is coming from a conservative voter.
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  689. I've said it for quite some time now, but AI and the current trend of technological advancement will eventually create inequalities so massive that the lower end of society will flip the table and destroy it all. There's a reason we are seeing such massive political turmoil in the world. The ideologies haven't really changed; only the human mind has been manipulated. We can double our technological output every several years, but you can't improve human intelligence at that rate. Eventually, one by one demographics of IQ will be phased out. The start of the 21st century nearly erased anyone from the job market with an IQ under 90. Right now we are going through the next phase that will wipe out most people below average intelligence. Most people don't know why the world is changing so rapidly, but they are angry about it and anger is the only thing you need to burn it down.
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  690.  @davidguelette7036  According to 'you'; hate won. But the other side tells you that it wasn't hate. So naturally how would you react if I said that (voting for Harris) was voting for hatred? I don't believe this because I've had enough life experience to know that half the population isn't voting for hatred; no matter which side. What you're indulging in is tribal thinking based on poor information.
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  691.  @davidguelette7036  That's really some echo-chamber thinking. Tribal thinking is regressive and leads nowhere. You're generalizing tens of millions of people. I think the real question is, why do you think I'm lying or anybody else is? What have you been watching that makes you think that? If you ask enough questions; you ultimately come to a centered conclusion about people in my experience.
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  692. JD Vance is the best choice to secure Midwest voters. Republicans need a stronger Midwest turnout OR they risk losing those states (as well as Ohio) but people aren't aware of that.
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  693. More likely lying about it. A man can post that he's dating a woman on his social media. If he lies, everybody hears about it and he gets shamed and called a stalker. Women can allege they are dating men just because they sat next to them on a bench somewhere.
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  694. Well, it's not just about celebrating your roots. These epigenetic traits largely determine who we are, how we think, what we do. I am German and Slovakian by heritage. Punctuality, prestige, and perfection are deeply engrained behaviors in my family, as we primarily take after the German side. Being married to a woman that is essentially Irish/Welsh is hilarious. Her entirely demeanor is rooted in hustle, intuition, and fun leisure.
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  695. Same!
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  696. Kennedy has been pushing these for years. Where have the rest of you been?
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  697. Why?
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  698.  @sorryociffer  It has value because of demand. Bid - 3000 Ask - 15000 This will change when the bail-outs come; again. Then everything goes to auction and gets sold for peanuts. After that, car values drop like a rock.
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  699.  @rechasebass  Virtually 90%+ of comments on this platform are fake. Dead internet theory is pretty real. Depends on the community type, but some communities are overwhelmingly bots.
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  700. Because the crash only happens once the FED reverses it's position on interest rates. Think about it like this, as long as interest rates are low; debtors can acquire new debts to pay off old ones. When the federal funds rate gets raised, you can still acquire new debts to pay off old ones, but you yield more debts in the process. It's a lag effect... Once the Feds reverse their tightening, debtors typically have no more cash or credit to acquire new debts and are forced to pay their existing ones. When that happens, delinquencies stack up and everything crashes.
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  701. Pretty sure Biden and Obama voted for him too lol
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  702. @@Naathat Actually, rehabilitation for violent offenders is extremely common in Scandinavian countries. America is one of the few 1st world nations that continues throwing everybody in prison (aka) 'criminal college.'
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  703.  @6lemans10  Perhaps. Though the Democrats are able to do is with a flick of the pen using the reconciliation act. They don't need the GOP. Question is, will they do it or let the Government go into shutdown? If they ram the debt limit forward, they risk losing seats in mid-terms next year. This is a replay of the shutdown in 2011. Except, this time the situation is different. With the amount of unemployment checks, PPP loans, and mortgage intervention; a shutdown could trigger the economic collapse.
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  704. Yep! I started to get that feeling around 18 years old. I'm 30 now and I'm convinced that you have to be smart in order to survive here. Virtually everything is one step away from causing you cancer or getting you indebted.
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  705.  @spongeintheshoe  Please, use some critical thinking; he is not.
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  706. "The neat thing about inflation is, it's eternal." No truer words have ever been spoken 😂
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  707.  @S0DAo  Chris Williamson, Jordan Peterson, and Russel Brand are my favs.
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  708.  @stoggy4839  Illegal immigration supplies a ridiculous amount of low wage labor in the US; regardless of you feel about them being here. That IS supply..
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  709.  @feathermerchant  Slavery in the US was almost entirely limited to regions contained people (considered to be of a lesser culture) in Britain and Ireland where they originally came from. The linguistics and traditions of those people were the same in both countries and were seen as undesirable by much of the more Germanic cultured peoples that were living in the North. The industrialization of the north and lack thereof in the south is NOT an accident. Even today, mainstream black culture continues the cultural backwardness that much of the southern whites brought with them from undesirable areas of Britain. A large degree of violence, substance abuse, and hustle culture. This is why lottery, gambling, and substance abuse (even today) still take place primarily in Appalachia, the deep South, and inner city black ghettos.
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  710.  @beaglesrfun5896  Calories unfortunately aren't just calories. Japan has strict guidelines on GMO and other imports. Better quality of food and life in general than say the US.
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  711. It dropped after the birthday insult lol
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  712. Unfortunately, educating woman has a caveat. Double the cost index and produce no capacity for child-rearing. No matter how you look at it, prices go up and women stop having children; it's unsustainable.
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  713. I'm not a Christian, but you have to do some major gymnastics in order to divorce the founding documents from (at the very least) a connection to Abrahamic religions. Seeing men as equals endowed with unalienable rights is a unique idea stemming from that.
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  714. Well, unlike many Marvel heroes (real people can die). Hopefully they can avoid any 'curveballs' the system throws at them.
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  715. There's no comparison! Europe is a garbage dump right now; don't go there. Ask anybody how their experience was in the UK or France.
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  716. Here's a grand idea 'dad'. How about you stop treating your adult children like your property? Coming from an extremely abusive household, I can assure you that this isn't my first rodeo with a narcissist. You people are all the same and you repeat the same old gaslighting garbage. Is anybody to truly believe that this was entirely random and that none of this behavior is tied to actions of the past or of recent? My own mother thought it would be nice to start a fight with me over the phone and text, just before she went into surgery a few weeks later. All so she could tell people how disrespectful I was being in 'her time of need'. If you had a real relationship with your kids; they wouldn't be short with you over the phone/text.
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  717. I'm voting for RFK; I can't stand either of those clowns.
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  718. It's not going to raise GDP enough to bring wages back to where they were. Money printing under his administration was so damaging that it will take something of 10-15 years of progress to bring back what we had.
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  719. This guest isn't very intelligent if her only retort is; RFK is weird!
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  720.  @itiswellwithmySoul153  We succeeded SO MUCH that the Communist Party took over the entire country of South Vietnam in 6 weeks after the US withdrew lol
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  721.  @16BitDungeon  Just because your mom/dad did it to you and you internalize that trauma (doesn't mean it's not abuse). Sounds like you have some things to work out with a narcissistic parent..
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  722.  @ShaunHensley  Well, depends on what you're measuring. Men that aren't appreciated will give up. But so will men that are addicted to porn, drugs, or modern isolation. Remember, that women are the ones that seek out men based on resources in an evolutionary sense. Social media gives the illusion that the bar can be raised 10 fold, simply because you interpret random people having a better lifestyle than your own. Men have to live in the reality that they've created from an asset perspective. Women (as long as they are not struggling) will base their new resource cravings on the illusions of social media. No naturally, this is why it seems that women have expectations that are not realistic. The problem is, they won't change this perspective until their fertility is completely shot. Thus giving us a 30-34 age demographic that are unmarried by 54%.
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  723. Nothing we can do about it; everything is tied to USD. I say let it burn...
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  724. I think there will be some ups and downs as usual, but it will certainly be better than the last four years. Forget about everything else, interest rates are high, wages are stagnant, and nobody can basically do anything.
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  725. Technically not from a financial definition. We are in the early stages of excessive inflation. When we hit hyperinflation, your bread will go from $5 to $25 in 24 hours.
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  726.  @ralphholiman7401  "Carry a large sword and keep it sheathed." It's like having a dog. You don't want it to bite you, but having a dog with no teeth is useless.
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  727. Of don't worry, they're doing it in healthcare too! They'll fire you for the same reason you think they'll give you a raise! Years of experience and skill = you'll ask for higher wages (and we can't have that now can we?)
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  728. She probably did; she's a very noticeable narcissistic. All she cared about was getting 'clapped' for in a crowd. She doesn't care about the question or the answer. She gaslighted him from the start.
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  729.  @kelliepatrick519  Kellie you've got to be kidding me. Stop watching these crap news outlets and mentioning Trump... He literally committed perjury in Congress and is facing no accountability for it. He said he was not involved in Gain of Function Research in Wuhan when they proved that he was. You complain that this is right wing propaganda? Only someone who is incessant on watching the MSM would regurgitate something like that at this point. This isn't even a right or left issue anymore. This issue has cut entire families and communities in half. Being right or left has nothing to do with it.
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  730. I've always heard (5), but I agree with basically everything else. Why did they get a 6.5% interest rate and then decide to sell it? They should have just rented. My wife and I have lived in our house for 4.5 years. Bought it for $200k and will now sell for $275-280k. Looking at new jobs out of state.
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  731. Yep, and 94% of them come from Sallie Mae (Government loans).
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  732.  @myoutuber77  Oh believe me, they want (just a little experience). If you gain too much experience, they won't hire you because you're worth too much lol
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  733. Then maybe tell the Canadians to bug off; they own 6% of US farm land. The Chinese own less than 2%.
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  734. I think a melting pot is "hardly" the pressing issue right now in America. It's the sick incentives that Government and Corporations provide each other. It's all a sick game to them. They poison the wells and then show up as the water commissioner.
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  735. Yep! Low interest rates for individuals and businesses sent this entire market out of control. That what 40 years of Reaganomics gets you; it's not just about taxes.
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  736. At this point, jobs will never be the same until deflation occurs. As long as debt outperforms GDP; your wages stagnate and prices rise, period. People can complain about free markets, unions, or spending all they want, but the fundamentals don't change. I don't care where you stand on politics or Covid. The reality is that between 2020-2022 the FED printed $7 Trillion dollars while state governments shut down small business and destroyed more than half of them. So naturally, all that printing inflated the pockets of mega-corporations and annihilated nearly all their competitors. That's why all the jobs and products suck considerably more than they did even 5 years ago. I'm not one for conspiracies, but for Christ sakes look at the outcome! It seems pretty intentional if you ask me
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  737.  @R.BOWERS  Tariffs are good if your standard of living is competitive with your exporter. US prices MUST come down if this were to work in a traditional sense. At the end of the day, they might as well do a sales tax; because that's all it will amount to.
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  738. Ohio here!
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  739.  @sjs1555  Take your own advice bud. When has a SINGLE tax-fraud misdemeanor ever been turned into 34 separate felonies?
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  740. They forgot the part where the sugarcane was sprayed with DDT, an extremely toxic pesticide that is banned in the US. Though that doesn't stop foreign countries from doing it.
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  741. @louis-vd3ur Well, I'm not so sure most of it is willful; it's all about life-stage. If you don't get married and have kids, eventually your parents and their friends pass on; the circle shrinks. I'm 31 with children and it naturally alienates you from people that don't. You just enter a whole new chapter, where-as the other people can't relate or empathize. Of course there are some people (free-spirits) that can make 100 friends per day and live an amazing life just chasing butterflies. However, I think a many people foolishly believe that they have those qualities. I think the biggest sentiment right now is freedom and no responsibility; in so choosing not to have kids or settle down. It's the 20s style thinking, but it honestly burns out by the age of 40. If you can't relate to people or share a life growing something for the eventual benefit of others; life will sour. You see these people all the time that feel the need to justify how happy they are being single and childless after 30. If it were true, they wouldn't be telling you lol
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  742. Agriculture crisis will be here starting September; energy to follow at the same time. It won't take that long for the market to blunder; probably less than 18 months.
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  743. May I ask how he KNEW you weren't wearing the communal underwear? lol
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  744. I think age and context are very important. I watched numerous horror movies when I was a child, which traumatized me. Though I've seen horrible content on the internet; beheadings, dismemberment, even the Jordanian Pilot being burned alive. Personally I did that occasionally around the age of 18 because I felt I could not confront the world if I was unable to witness the atrocities that evil presents. Seeing such things did make me sick and depressive for a short time, though it does desensitize you over time and I think that is a very necessary element to face true malevolence. If anything, it's made me stronger as a person (I'm 27 now) and more willing to educate myself on ways to improve the human condition. You can't fight evil if your anxieties are crippled by their violence. That's exactly the purpose of their violence, the cripple and dissuade dissent.
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  745.  @MartinSmith2  I think you're using a misnomer. All Presidents since Bush had spent more than the last. Biden is no different. Try to focus on the math and less about the politics when looking at the debt.
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  746. Posting online after 4pm isn't the same as spending an entire day (let alone week) at a political convention. Given the current economic crisis, how on earth can people afford to go and protest when prices are high and work is scarce?
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  747. Funny you say that, I'm a happily married man. In my experience, the avoidance of responsibility and loser-like behavior seems to be pattern of divorced men.
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  748. Never would have happened if the Government hadn't been guaranteeing loans. The Universities get paid (up front with tax dollars) and you get stuck with the government bill. The Universities have absolutely ZERO incentive to give you a quality education after that.
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  749. What do you mean exactly? 2012 to 2016 was when the economy finally began to get back on it's feet and enter a bully cycle.
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  750.  @mrbritisher9748  Who has PTSD? Brexit was officially implemented on May 1st of 2021; not 8 years ago with the initial vote. Everything comes down to economics. To think otherwise is an illusion. Virtually all social issues, as well as immigration, and labor all come down to economics. Political idealism in it's very essence is spawned from economic circumstances.
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  751.  @Un1234l  I'm certainly optimistic, but it will take the larger culture to embrace it; not just one man.
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  752. Had this been the other way around. Democrats would have set fire to Congress and the media would be cheering it on. Turning your back on corruption 'simply' because your side won shows a complete lack of principle as well as integry.
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  753. Welcome to tech post 2020. The field is saturated and the companies are massively over-valued. Personally, I think people should look elsewhere for employment; it's a ticking time bomb.
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  754. You can clearly see it in how she frames her arguments. All these operatives do the same thing, which is their weakness. She frames Putin as (looking for an excuse to use nukes). She is simply parroting the official narrative set forth (at least in part by the media). Who knows who really knows who the top payer/influencer is?
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  755. Well, a debt crisis mixed with complacency has consequences. People love to blame politicians or corporations, but the honest answer is that people did it to themselves. People want a global economy, but no global relocation. They complain that their culture is being lost, while in fact they've already destroyed it themselves. I will never understand how people will willfully notice that there's nobody white around them, but they also willfully ignore that there's actually (nobody around them). I guess people would rather sit in their basements on the computer and live a delusional life that there is a Christmas Party going on upstairs and 50 local residents from their home-town attended. It's much easier to claim something is destroying your society after you've already destroyed it yourself. Rome fell the same way; Roman citizens destroyed it, but blaming barbarians is much easier.
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  756. Minimum wage is only an issue when labor is plentiful. Then businesses can cut employees to maintain certain profit margins. When labor is in short supply; they have no choice but to slim their profit margins to stay in business. Every corporation in the US is anticipating a bail-out; which is why they aren't playing by the rules.
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  757. I am betting all my eggs that China invades Taiwan mid-November; wait and watch! If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. But three key factors have increased tensions here: 1. US regulations crippling Chinese Semiconductor exports 2. US military build up in Taiwan. 3. November is the first month out of typhoon season. If this actually becomes a reality, expect a market drop AND sanctions on China that will cripple the tech/retail industry in the US.
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  758. Having money to purchase property and have kids is a misnomer. I'm a father and husband, plus I own a home. The family essentially died after 2020. I'm not sure what it was; dollar devaluation, addictive technology, diet, disease, etc. Nobody talks to each other, nobody calls, nobody takes calls, and nobody follows up on anything. Something happened and it isn't limited to money. I feel like everyone is fried.
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  759. Scandinavian nations do LOVE to take advantage of US tax-payer dollars that support large swathes of their budget.
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  760. Because America is an oligarchy and the world is bidding on it's ownership lol
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  761. My wife and I make six figures in the Midwest. How are we? Hanging on! We stopped eating out nearly a year ago and the budget is tight. Where do I see this nation going in five years? Potentially hyperinflation, massive civil unrest, and World War III.
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  762.  @julesbrunton1728  I don't recall demeaning anybody. A disagreement isn't an insult. Kaliningrad escaped me; so I will amend on the technical basis. But does Kaliningrad have nuclear and military might to push against Poland? The original conversation was about how much of a threat Russia is to Poland given their proximity. Unless Putin is putting hundreds of thousands of troops in Kaliningrad with ICMBs. I don't think it's a fair assessment of a threat.
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  763. Yep! Grew up with a narcissistic mom that drugged me, screamed, and took no accountability for her actions. What made it worse was that dad was under her thumb 'complete coward'.
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  764. Well, you theoretically don't have to support Israel to claim that Hamas/Gaza are the bad guys.
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  765. Aside from social issues, the number one reason why conservatives lose (especially with young people) is due to the repetitive economic banter. "Get married, buy a home, work for 30+ years, pay into Social Security!" I am 29 years old and I am one of the last of my age group to be buying homes. People even a few years behind me can't afford it! I was fortunate enough to buy a home in Spring of 2020, get married, and have a child. However, for younger people this is almost impossible with how much the US Dollar has been devalued over the last 40 years. The repercussions of Covid were that the devaluation of our living standards sped up by almost a decade in a short period of time. Many young people saw their parent's marriages destroyed in the 2000s, they look at a $400k home as utterly impossible, and they KNOW they will never receive Social Security. All the while the interest sitting on their student loans will be nearly impossible to pay off should those loans resume. People can't even afford to pay their loans currently while we are sitting at dangerous inflationary levels. If one mishap were to take place in the stock market, the inflation would temporarily drop and then soar to 20%+ percent; it will make June inflation of 9.1% look like a cake walk. People are terrified of the economic repercussions we are up against. So when young people hear "work harder, get married, pull yourself up"; it just doesn't click with tens of millions of people. It truly feels like fighting against a tsunami sized tidal wave. I can't exactly empathize with their situation because the money I earned and the timing of my lifestyle were impeccable. However, I'm fully aware of what they say and how they think. The American Dream that Boomers and Gen X peddle to people doesn't exist anymore.
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  766. My thoughts exactly when Democrats voted for Joe Biden in 2020 during the primaries, smh.
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  767. Same here, the wife an I never got it. My parents and sister were all vaccinated and hot boosters. They got initial Covid and then got Covid again really bad. I'm assuming one of the variants.
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  768.  @DJGR0g333  Agreed! My parents pressured me so badly to go to a University and I basically gave them the finger; metaphorically speaking. Ended up working for FedEx and then getting my CDL. Got the house, wife, and kid. Yet my parents are still ashamed of my life course. They have no problem cuddling my sister who is now in $144k for a BA lol
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  769.  @morgainenyc  I think you should blame government intervention in creating massive bastions of big business and propaganda. Not an economic medium of exchange.
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  770. I know what you mean man. I was relentlessly bullied and pressured by my family, peers, and educators to do what they instructed and approved of; well into the workforce mind you. The funny thing is that I am by far the most successful person in my entire family; married, home, children. Yet they still thumb their nose as me because I didn't listen to their wisdom lol
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  771. People do the same thing in the US; take advantage of the USD and consumers. If most Americans could live abroad while making US money; they would do it. I know I would.
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  772. Probably because the food isn't laced full of vegetable oils, MSGs, and pesticides.
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  773. Kennedy, Tulsi, and Bernie supporter; voting for Trump!
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  774. I was a truck driver for Anheuser (day-cab, home daily). 6 days a week, 72 hours. On January 2020, they had us sign a paper that took our 13 days of unpaid vacation away and gave us 8 total; for the entire year mind you! I quit within 6 months. The corporate labor markets are absolutely ridiculous and medical professions are no different.
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  775.  @cynthj796  Well, the ones that are actually homeschooling. There's a large majority of homeschooling parents that yanked their kids over political jargon they saw on the news. Those same parents are completely neglecting their kids and are falling behind now.
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  776. Funny, I can't do eggs or bacon anymore. Makes me feel psychological and physically ill. No wonder, considering how horrible both of this industries are. A salted banana and a charred steak are my go-to.
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  777. Exactly! Thank you! The first sensible comment on this entire page. Idiots on here are telling people to sue lol. Sue for what, improperly filling our your own paperwork?
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  778. It's opportunistic investing; all investors do this. It's not a conspiracy, it's literally where the market is going. Home ownership is going to be something of the past SIMPLY because it's too expensive to construct them and the back-log for construction is massive. It's people doing what's best for their pocket books; Blackrock is no different.
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  779. You'd actually be lucky to be working in a factory or warehouse right now. There are no jobs; believe me.
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  780. She'll be lucky to take 70% imo
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  781.  @raydavies3278  You don't care about facts, you care about being right regardless of truth. That's not virtue, it's corruption of the soul.
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  782. People are taking a day off in their logic on this one. The first 20 years of the 20th century were absolutely horrific with tropic storms and natural disasters. Understanding how these things are being caused cannot be whittled down to a series of patterns over two decades. You need centuries of climate data in order to understand the surges of these disasters.
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  783.  @huan2524  Just buy it on paperback before they eventually yank it from the shelf. There are 3 volumes, I'm partway through the first.
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  784. They do it to gate-keep their profits. People that own patents HATE it when you bring a product into the market that can perform better than their own. They would rather people suffer and pay 5000% more; just so they can maintain power and money.
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  785.  @TacoTuesday4  Well, yes and no I suppose. My wife and I make six figures living in a 1600 sqft home. One vehicle and a child to take care of. We are broke and in debt from inflation and medical bills.
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  786. Peterson, Brand, and Bret Weinstein are literally my favorite intellectuals on the planet! 🥰
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  787. Here's something interesting for anyone that cares to know. Did anyone catch that the 2021 Infrastructure Bill contains a piece of legislation that triples to current federal gasoline tax and doubles the diesel tax?
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  788. Jesus, some of these people don't even work anymore because they're retired. If you aren't paying income tax, property taxes, and the current grocery bills to raise a family; then please do us a favor and shut up! I really hate when empty nesters come along and virtue signal about how easy everything is and how people need to quit complaining. Those people would have 'offed' themselves in this economy.
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  789. Funny you ask! They responded by 'dumping all legitimacy' to our existing court system. As a former Republican (now Independent). This is deeply concerning! I can guarantee you that 2024 post November will be a wild ride of anarchy.
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  790. It's more probable that the color schemes on your television, laptop, and screen are presenting you with over-stimulating and exaggerated coloring. So naturally, your eye-sight adjusts to these fake color schemes and real life looks significantly more dull.
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  791. A ketogenic diet can assist in cancer treatment to slow it. But a plant based diet? Cancer cells feed on glucose; eating carbs of any sort is antithetical to slowing the cancer.
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  792.  @AD-ub7ly  lol stop trying to get mad and join the club. Why defend the current oligarchy?
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  793. This guy doesn't have a a freaking clue; he's simply peddling MEDIA headlines that Americans have been fed for the last 9 months. Unbelievable...
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  794. I deleted my Facebook back in September and I would recommend everyone else do the same. They are going to use everything you put online against you. Not to mention these international tech giants circle jerk to your consumer data.
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  795. Disney movies
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  796. Yeah, my parents were dumb. They told us to stop eating fat altogether. We were given pork chops/chicken and broccoli alot smh
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  797. Doing alright! Just put my son to sleep :) The toxic parents here are a nightmare. It's like they've been summoned and are looking for their 'supply fix' from other abused children; it's sick.
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  798. Too early, wait until mid or late May.
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  799. I'm no fan of Biden, but I don't see how Biden has anything to do with this.
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  800. Same!
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  801.  @RealSerie26  Centralizing everything has made communities complacent. Let them drum up the funds and stop letting the state and feds nanny everything inefficiently
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  802. Let's be honest here, everybody KNOWS what the answer is, but they won't vote to deflate their assets in order to save the economy and country. Everybody for the last 50 years has done the same thing 'kick the can'. You either vote to kick the can or you vote to be first in line for the collapse. That's where a permanent inflation Keynesian economy gets you.
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  803.  @jwc1772  Jesus are you trolling or do you actually believe that? How do people just believe random media lies?
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  804. Bullseye! It's all about creating hysteria for clicks lol
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  805. I've completely remained neutral on this entire conflict. Though when people that I know prompt me to choose a side; I say I'd side with Russia. People have an immensely short memory that they've forgotten this war began in 2014 after the Ukrainian Civil War; props to the Obama Administration. NATO along with the United States aided in overthrowing the sitting administration and installed a new government under Volodymyr Zelensky. You can listen to leaked tapes of US State Department officials conspiring on who they want to be installed in the succeeding Administration in Ukraine; all on tape and I'm surprised Youtube never took them down. Afterwards, the US sold them anti-tank and aircraft missiles to fight a border war against Russia in the east that we know as Donbass. At the same time the Zelensky Administration took measures to persecute ethnic Russians living in eastern Ukraine, which the media loves to hide. NATO set this all up so that the 'bear' would attack after it was poked with a stick repeatedly. They want Russia to be subjugated under their rule, seeing as it still continues to be the closest threat to Europe since the cold war. This is all a power play by the more recently elected left-wing governments of Europe and the United States; I don't blame Russia for invading, but they gave NATO exactly what they wanted. Another excuse to go to war for profit. Could you imagine if China overthrew the Mexican Government, made it a puppet, then sold them weapons to fight a border war against the United States?? Conflicts like this are extremely lucrative, especially if you are an official sitting on US foreign policy. You invest in commodities one day; then you enact sanctions on that same commodities the following. However, this also completely ignores the large amount of money laundering that takes place on the Congressional level. Hundreds of billions of dollars don't actually go to research 'frogs on cocaine' or 'transgenderism in Pakistan'; aid to Ukraine anyone? No, it's a medium to give tax-payer dollars to foreign governments and international terrorists in exchange for favors, pure and simple.
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  806. This interview is currently trending 199Million views on Twitter (aka X). This has some SERIOUS potential to re-shape a lot of Congressional elections in 2024. Perhaps even the Presidential race as well.
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  807. OR maybe his opinion changed in 8 years. You know, like normal people do?
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  808. That makes no sense! All of this changed during the 1990s and early 2000s. During a time of global peace (more or less) and prosperity. People became to engaged in hedonism and wanted the respect associated with hardships that they never endured. Plus, women are waiting longer to have children and are becoming infertile due to a range of chemical products and aging out of fertility; plus birth control affects on fertility.
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  809.  @mariogiresi6792  Uhm, not sure some of you understand. Perhaps many people took advantage of unemployment benefits, but the rest of us quit voluntarily. Great Resignation my friend; some 20 million people have quit their jobs since Spring 2021. People have realized how corrupt this system is and we don't like it. Everything is build on a scam or lies. The whole thing needs to burn!
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  810.  @rhaspados666  Well, I think you're referring to intellectualization. It's usually a defense mechanism that liberals use. Kind of the same way that conservatives will use aggression or detachment to defend themselves socially. If you talk to well rounded liberals; I find the conversation to be much more creative and productive. Kind of the same way talking to well rounded conservatives produce a better atmosphere of appreciation for life, family, and experiences. Problem is, in this day and age it just feels like everybody is angry, depressed, or financially stressed. I wish it was just limited to online. Covid destroyed my family social dynamics and most of my friendships. I guess it's just one of those 'cycles' in human history.
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  811. Unlikely given the early voting results
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  812.  @bigneiltoo  I own a home; $880/m. Plus, all my old friends still live with their parents and they're all around me age; I'm 30. Friends, let alone the economy aren't what they used to be. It's brought out the worst in people. My entire family fell apart post-2020 and many people I knew resorted to alcohol and some even drugs. I had to get away from all that, especially now with a child. I wouldn't wish anybody to pain of starting their life 18+ in a post-2020 economy. The US Dollar been inflated some 55% since then with no wage growth. If people thought 1977 was bad; this is considerably worse in terms of purchase power.
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  813. Well, billionaires didn't get rich on a W2 Charlie; that should seem quite obvious. They make their money on capital gains, which is 0-20%; not paying income tax. Btw, virtually all your taxes are paid by the top 20% of income tax and capital gains.
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  814. That's like asking average Americans what is happening to our elections, healthcare mandates, and public debt. If you ask average people, you'll get average answers. Most Americans have no freaking clue what is going on in the world, let alone domestically. I would assume the same for Ukrainians. Plus, you have eastern Ukrainian trying to annex themselves with Russia and fight against the Zelensky regime. Vice versa in the west; they are hardly a united people.
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  815.  @4376ED  How might I ask? What would you have done differently?
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  816. OR losing it all. You're forgetting that almost anybody buying into those loses money. Only 1-2% of people carry all the weight of these crypto currencies. So they can dump or pump it at any time.
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  817. People now refusing to vote for Joe Biden is the LEAST concern for the DNC. The debate has caused a tsunami of contagions throughout the country on what is being hidden from the public.
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  818. It always amazed me how Al Gore had any career at all considering his dad was an ex-KKK member. Imagine if anybody these days got a hold of that information.
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  819. Got married in 2020; boy did I dodge a bullet. The dating market is a complete mess nowadays.
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  820. *Opens BITCOIN Mining Position *Rejects Satoshi Nakamoto
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  821. No, lazy journalism on this one. They simply marked non-citizen and got removed; it's their own fault.
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  822.  @AidanJohnson-lm7mw  You're literally describing the hatred for Donald Trump; 'making things up to get mad about'.
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  823.  @Hard_in_the_yard  Thinking something is good because there are lobbyists appearing to resent it in the media is not logic; it's a generalization based on a carrot dangling from a stick. You would have to raise tariffs over 50% before companies even think about coming back. This will only worsen inflation for consumers.
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  824. Most people are unemployable because the job market is levitating on bad monetary policy. The FED decided after 2008 that they would never allow deflation again. So they started bailing out all recessionary environments with new dollars. Assets maintain their value due to inflation and the actual economy ceases to exist. Anybody trying to change jobs or find a new job KNOWS how ridiculous the market has been since roughly 2022. It's easy to judge people looking for a job when your house is paid off and your retirement tripled from inflation.
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  825. My wife and I are the ONLY Millennials between our families. We are chocked full of boomers, gen X, and zoomers. Our elders are all between 48-72 and our younger members are all between 12-23. My wife and I are both 30. I'm not sure what's going on with younger people, but our zoomers practically abandoned our family. They don't contribute, they don't cook, they don't clean up, they don't aid/help in any way, and they don't have reasoning skills. I've known most of them personally for the last decade or two. I'm aware of all the demons and problems that my older family members have, but it's not like these children are desperately attempting to leave an 'abusive' home or get away from psychopathic/narcissistic parents. These kids 'literally' do not give a flying - F*. They show up, take what people give them, eat their food, and then throw those people away like garbage. The problem is that most of the parents have enabled this behavior for many years. My own sister will text us and tell us how much she would love having us over. I largely found out that her agenda was actually to 'bring us over' so that we could entertain mom, so that she wouldn't have to engage with anybody; plus she's 21 years old. It's truly a state of excessive infantilization! They will lay on the couch with their phones when family arrives and basically ignore them. To this day, my sister tries to guilt trip my wife and I with the 'family' lingo. "Don't leave this family." - "You'll have to explain to your son one day why you don't come around as often." - "This is supposed to be a family vacation time." All of which are one of the reasons that our family fell apart. In my opinion, generation X is one of the largest narcissistic generations in recent American history. Generation Z was completely neglected, raised on smartphones, and they inherited all of the worst traits of their parents. While at the same time having virtually no life experience or ability to get anything done, because their parents used them as an 'apology' tour for Millennials kids. Part of the reason you're seeing everything fall apart is because Generation Z entered the workforce in 2018 (post college graduation).
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  826. Expensive cost of living and massive uptake in political corruption. Is it really that hard to grasp?
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  827. Its because Generation X was in love with gloating about their egos on social media. They didn't care about what happened to their children; only that they could boast about how great a college their kid was attending. That in and of itself made them more popular among their loser friends.
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  828. Whatever world governments and the media are officially reporting. I guarantee you they aren't telling you the entire truth.
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  829.  @detroitbadboy313  It's an umbrella and people have all kinds of reasons for voting :) You could literally apply the same language to Harris voters if you wanted, but it's not productive.
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  830. Jesus, most of the comments are great, but there are some vile and disturbing narcissists always lurking on Jordan's interviews. The fact the there are many people blind to such vanity is mind boggling.
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  831. Bro, the balloon is HUGE and it's at like 50,000 feet.
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  832. Used to be; I fear we're a Fascistic social democracy.
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  833.  @bakonfater4000  Well, in their defense. The Clinton Foundation is still 'very' active.
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  834.  @bakonfater4000  I merely meant that the organization wasn't defunct, as might have been inferred. With your own substantial and relevant rationalization. Humor me with your explanation behind the actions of the Administration, I'm genuinely curious. Plus, what does this have to do with Fox?
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  835. I fear that Nazism is just one of the several options you carry out when you finally understand how humans operate in the world. Obviously, the Nazis took it to extremes, but their decisions were not irrational. If you are purifying society to strengthen it, then potential enemies and useless people have to be accounted for. You have the option to: institutionalize, euthanize, or afford them a living. The US has taken the path of institutionalization and then affording them a living. We still have problems, but we saw how euthanization went. It was a horror show.
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  836. Not going to work this time bud. A lot of people like this guy. Personally, I think he'll walk.
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  837. All of this, even the war in Ukraine is just a distraction that the West is using to shield themselves from the repercussions of a debt-crisis. In their minds, if they defend Ukraine and form a coup on Russia. They can use it as leverage against the Chinese in the face of a debt auction. The US Government would rather bully and wage war, rather than come clean about the debt crisis. If the US and Western Europe fail to prevail against the BRICS Alliance, they will be at the mercy of a failed debt auction.
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  838.  @The-Oneness11  It's a major problem considering the declining birth rates. A civilization of scale (growth) cannot sustain itself with a less than replacement birth-rate. Educating women and marrying late pushes this out. Plus, most women are infertile by 30 (take anywhere from 2-4 years to conceive) and soon to be sterile by roughly 35. Birth control has destroyed the female genome generationally and breast cancer is roughly 50% these days due to the carcinogenic side effects.
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  839. We bought at 26 before we married, but we were married two months after we got the house.
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  840.  @saintseer8214  Actually it's a state by state basis. The President has largely nothing to do with it.
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  841.  @mrdanielleebrown  Easy lending always pushes prices up. So in a perverted way, I guess you can claim that it (created more value), but not really since it's all just a bubble of bad lending.
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  842. I think most people say 'third world' to mean (homelessness, horrible public transit, high income inequality, and trashy. I'm from Ohio; Columbus, and Cleveland are dumpsters. Cincinnati is alright, but there's not really a single city in the Midwest I envy.
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  843.  @antibell  In California yes; it's 1 in 36, the US average rate is more like 1 in 50, but it's still insanely high. Plus, it's NOT because we've widened the spectrum of diagnoses. This is a lie perpetuated by companies so that they kick the can on getting sued.
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  844. Something people should know! It has not been officially stated, but DeWine has already approved construction for a second outer belt to be built around the Columbus area. It will engulf Pickerington, Canal, Hilliard, as well as Carroll. Intel has been approved for (7) manufacturing locations around Columbus; employment stats are anywhere from 400 to 7000 per location. There's also a very large number of builder contracts for apartment complexes that will be going up. If you live in Ohio, take care to consider your property value in lieu of this information. DeWine wants it done inside 5 years, which I think is hilarious considering it took them 5 years to build a third lane on I-70. However, these projects will sprawl, opportunities will arise, but crime will spread to many of these areas. My wife and I are already looking to leave Ohio for good. The culture here has been eroding due to many political and business factors.
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  845. America is concerned with profiting on disease and making sure people never get well. I love when people assume that Big Oil and Big Defense industries are the only evil in business and government; it's rather cute.
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  846. I could care less about Roe v Wade in all honesty. I simply look forward to the complete desolation of the Federal Government; this was a great start!
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  847. Japan is tied to the fate of the US. In the wake of Pacific aggression from China it would be an unwise place to be. I love Japan and many other countries, but if people think that simply leaving the US will save them from the coming economic and military consequences; they are sadly mistaken. The wife and I are leaving for Montana shortly. I still think the US is the best place to remain during a collapse. Just steer clear of the metropolis.
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  848.  @cgcg73  Because it's clinical trials were rushed, the efficacy rates are in the 1% range, and natural immunity is being disregarded. Plus the vaccine death toll is around 16,000, mostly coming from Pfizer. Btw, there have never been vaccine mandates for work in the US and the ability to travel.
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  849.  @joelspring6201  I don't see how this fits the context at all. You people make excuses for Trump going nuts when you shouldn't. I know you wouldn't give Biden a pass if he made these statements.
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  850.  @TomBarbashev  Elaborate using your extensive reasoning skills.
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  851. @CoeusQuantitative If you crunch the inflationary numbers using the pre-Clinton equations, you'll end up with something around 14%. The people denying this are paying any attention the the M0-4money supplies. Global USD inflation is around 130%.
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  852. This guy is selling hot air. Bitcoin goes up with Quantitative easing and then down with tightening. The problem that nobody wants to confront about Bitcoin is the mining and energy costs. Crypto exchanges have been slashing thousands of once popular cryptos because they cannot function on the energy/price demands of the sales. Once Bitcoin mining returns go below a certain threshold; it will be unsustainable to hold. One by one, major exchange will discontinue Bitcoin and the price will drop as people liquidate their coins into USD.
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  853. Equating high taxation in the 50s to the nation's success is misguided. The US manufactured over 90% of global autos and the world was still pulling itself out of the most destructive conflict in human history. It's easy to be the BEST country when it's given the privilege of (reserve currency status) and an amazing export economy.
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  854. I'm a 29 year old man with a home, wife, child, and dog. I am one of those "Great Resignation" followers and could care less about 'maintaining the system' for at least the sake of the modernized world. Of course there are drawbacks to that type of thinking and unintended consequences. I quit my job smack dab in the middle of Covid; June 2020. I was a truck driver making $70k a year; working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. In January of that year, we were asked to sign a form acknowledging that we would accept 8 days of unpaid vacation per year, instead of 13. Which was initially 20. We had 120 guys at the time and an average of 20 call-offs per day. I bought a home and then quit my job 6 months later. I've since made a great living being a dad and working occasional gig/contract whenever I can find it. The wife also works part time in Healthcare. We are NOT struggling, despite the inflationary insanity. K-12, High School, College, 45 years of work, and then retire and be happy (realistically depressed)? Is that really the meaning of life? To miss out on life with the promise that it will pay off in the last stage? I saw this trap the moment I entered the work-force at 18, but I decided to do the ropes from immense pressure I got from friends and family. I avoided the University trap and worked for FedEx, later Werner Ent; all to my parent's dismay. They were extremely disappointed to learn that I was making a lot of money, living in an apartment, and dating my (now wife). They would have been more proud to have me gobble up 100K of debt and live at home until 40 being a loser. Which is want a substantial amount of Gen X parents do to their children. They live in a world of denial about the changing times and force their 1980s religion onto their kids and ruin their lives over it. The same thing has happened to my younger sister, who will be $130,000 deep in student debt over a Bachelor of Design, smh.
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  855. @S1N15A Elaborate! I'm talking in the short term; interest rate cuts are always useful, despite their repercussions. Got to get ahead somehow.
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  856. What do you owe Bill? 🤣🤣
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  857.  @latexsolarbeef4990  Forget everything you THINK you know. Start to reclaim your theories based on EVIDENCE. That is how people stop deluding themselves with media crap. Ask yourself why you hate Trump and when you reassess your conclusions with evidence, you'll stop hating him so much.
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  858. It's not so much GMO; it's Omega 6 content. Avocado and Olive oils luckily are lower in Omega 6. Butter, lard, and coconut oil have the lowest. Safflower, Sunflower, Soy, and Corn oil have the highest content.
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  859. "Trump says mean things, he's Hitler!" "Biden does mean things, he's Jesus!" At this point, I'm starting to think American complacency gives it a much deserved death.
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  860. MariahahhhhhH!!!!!
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  861. Public education is a Prussian design; made to create soldiers and factory workers. That is nothing new. What is however a new problem, is how much knowledge and skill is being retained as a necessity for conducting your life and producing skills. I'd say that probably a good 90% of your K - 12 education falls on deaf ears. Which means you wasted 11 years of your life doing repetitive and meaningless things in the classroom that didn't facilitate any long lasting skills. Considering that you can watch millions of hours of lectures on YouTube in subjects that you are actually interested in. I'd say that's a major new advance for society. Personally, I believe we could produce better and happier human beings if didactic education was reduced to perhaps 1 or 2 hours several days a week. 6 hours a day is not engaging for many, primarily men.
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  862.  @madinkan  Would you suggest kicking the can until it crashes due to excessive debt-weight? Pretending to care about people with a system that will eventually fail if you do nothing is NOT a solution.
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  863.  @Andreas-gh6is  What studies are you referring to? Plus that makes no sense. Your body is going to respond to a virus in the same manner. Not like your immune system is going to miss areas that the vaccine promotes. Regardless, the fact that these vaccines haven't been pulled from the market shows how high the corruption goes. Some 15,000 deaths according to VAERs and most of them are Pfizer, which is not surprising. People have such a short term memory these days.
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  864.  @ruseriouss.9819  It mainly comes down to arrogance of the intellect. I come from a medical family and we have these issues all the time as they bud heads over who knows more about medicine. They get it in their heads that their degree makes them smarter than anyone else, but their biggest blind-side is actual scientific data and research. They actually never conduct any and mostly yield to the AHA or FDA. You could ask them about 'cholesterol' or whatever and they would say "You need to lower it." And if you ask why, they will get irritated and claim that all scientific data proves that it's harmful and causes atherosclerosis etc etc. I personally do a fasted diet and fasting raises all your cholesterol levels. Try telling them that and they will say, "Well then fasting is bad for you!" They're not stupid, they just tend to be very arrogant. The FDA and AHA are a borderline Theocracy for some people. And theocratic zealots are typically the most dangerous of people.
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  865. You forgot some! 11. The board members all cash in their short positions and ride the company into bankruptcy. 12. Dissolve the company (using the Chapter Laws) with tax-payer dollars :)
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  866. No freight?
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  867. While I truly respect the Carnivore/Keto community. I must offer caution for a number of reasons. Going from one radical to another is never a good solution for your mental health. I entertained both of these diets and ended up with an eating disorder that lasted 2 years. Humans have a 2.5 million year evolution. While I do think that red meats and animal fats are relatively good and necessary for human health. I must say that entirely cutting out or minimizing carbohydrates to less than -50g per day may be problematic. I experienced carb crashes all the time, but then immense emotional episodes when I was restricted to protein and fats. I actually found out that I had a pancreatic disorder where I wasn't producing enzymes in large enough quantity to digest normally. I began taking an enzyme/bile supplement and over a week began to see phenomenal changes. I quit (intermittent fasting) and obsessions with protein/fats and began to eat small meals (2-3 a day) and my health returned to what it used to be. I will say that avoiding seed oils and ultra-processed foods is also paramount to staying healthy as well. I think the average American ought to eat more animal fats and unprocessed red meat. However, becoming obsessive is equally problematic.
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  868. Prices fluctuate with consumer demand; it's a bit more complicated than you're explaining.
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  869. Buddy, I'm 30 (married). If I ever lost my wife; I would never date again either. It's actually very simple. There is a high demand for 'good women' and 'good men'. However, there is an extremely low supply of each and the 'buyers' are asking too high of a price anyways. It's the exact same problem in the job market. Good jobs are rare and both employer and employee are asking too much; ends in a stalemate. People in this country have absolutely no idea what real 'loneliness' and 'desperation' look like. Until they experience it, things are not likely to change.
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  870. What working class? Too little too late.
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  871. Slight price fluctuations, but not corrections. There aren't enough foreclosures to induce a crash outside of extremely high priced demographics. Your cookie-cutter home prices aren't going to come down. We have the lowest foreclosure rate in 20 years. It took nearly 5 years of rising foreclosures to produce 2008.
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  872.  @kejuu6887  I can tell you right now; you're already coming to the table with a bunch of preconceived notions that you didn't come up with. In order to be objective, you should ignore any prejudices and criticisms you think are true and simply watch the interview with an open mind.
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  873. Labor market is great, but somehow nobody can get a job. I'm work with my CDL and my wife is a cardiotheracic surgery PA. She's been trying to change jobs outside of our state for some 11 months; nothing but crickets. Employers just aren't hiring or non of their phones work.
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  874.  @hoopgal3216  Well of course it's unsustainable. Productivity and GDP cannot outperform the $10 Trillion that we've printed since 2020. If the Federal Reserve were to drop interest rates and start printing money again. We would relive 2021/2022 all over again, but worse. The biggest mistake that people ever made was assuming that the American model post WW2 would function in perpetuity. This is why Baby Boomers are consider to be the most selfish and arrogant generation in US history. They entered the workforce at the pinnacle of when you could call the United States - Rome! A completely free ride on the idea that their freedoms built the worth of the US. When in reality their happenstance of birth at the right time was the reason for their success. The reason the US was so successful and the USD was worth so much from 1946-1980 is because the entire world has been devastated by war and regression. Outside of the United States; regimes, poverty, and 3rd world nations reigned for decades. Their cheap labor and aspiration to the American dream are what made us so powerful. Now that the world has rebuilt itself and largely become sustainable in it's own economies; they no longer need the US. The United States essentially exports three things: Crude Oil, Aerospace patents, and US Dollars. Having an economically vulnerable super-power dishing out debts and dollars is asking for a global depression.
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  875. Beta male? Try breaking a window with your hands bud. If you succeed you're either going to have a broken elbow or lacerations and fractures all over your hands.
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  876.  @Spacecadet690  I'm from Lancaster, OH. We're still pissed about the E. Palestine spill; I feel for you guys in Michigan. Personally, one of my motivations for leaving the Midwest is due to how poor the land and water quality are. It takes a lot more than just eating clean food and clean hygiene products. I've been all over the US and overseas. There is a massive difference in water/air quality (even on a state to state basis). If an actual environmental entity (that wasn't bought by third parties) conducted an audit of US farmland and water-ways; they would probably be condemned.
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  877.  @herkpolivil7327  Perhaps. I guess my point is just to make sure you're not bringing rot with you. Many people coming into the US from Mexico are bringing pathologies with them that tore their country apart. The same logic applies to any country you could say. Just like Californians moving to Texas.
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  878. Native Ohioan here! I can say that I successfully grew sugarcane (yes - SUGARCANE) in a garden box from April to September of 2023. It grew to a whopping three feet and roughly 1in thickness on average. It produced about 20 stalks from seedlings. I harvested it, I crushed it, and I boiled it into a grand total 1OZ of molasses! For anybody that is more knowledgeable about this topic than myself; the molasses was very sweet, but a bit sour as well.
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  879. 1. Saturated fat is good 2. Social media algorithms manipulate behavior. 3. The President is an alien. Which one is a lie?
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  880. US is over? Nah man, it's just getting started lol
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  881. I left the trucking industry in June 2020 when they took away my 13 unpaid vacation days and gave me 8. Mind you, I was already on a 6 day - 12 hours schedule. I can't imagine how squeezed independent contractors in trucking feel. Especially if fuel has doubled in price, but freight/broker rates haven't been raised.
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  882. It's actually not 'employers' that cap the industry; it's the state legislators under the boards that manage the industry. Though I guarantee that the lobbyists from these industries play a role in such perversion. I'm from Ohio, the medical licensing board controls how much a PA or NP can be paid at a Hospital. Talk about dirty!
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  883. Blame the corporations!
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  884. Rice, Potatoes, Beef sausages, and bananas can get you a LONG way!
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  885. I really empathize with the ulcerative colitis issue. Has your Doctor not told you to change your diet and do an elimination? Wheat, corn, tomatoes, chocolate, and dairy tend to be the worst. I found bananas, potatoes, and steak eliminate the issues personally.
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  886.  @Reveur_Lucide  Best of wishes!
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  887. Non-profit is just another tax-classification to avoid paying taxes. You can qualify if you are donating, funding, or pushing some kind of semi-social agenda.
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  888. You're forgetting that poll worker shortages are still causing many issues in recent elections.
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  889. Well, I think it was a mix of disenfranchised voters and media gaslighting. If they hadn't insulting voters to the core in 2015/2016; he probably would have never won the primaries.
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  890.  @jeffryblackmon4846  Where are you deducting racism from? Maybe he is just cold about low-lives and stupid people?
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  891. Sorry to hear that
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  892. Could it possibly be that the internet is so VAST that it enables you to find the bias of your choice? I can't help but notice that people can actually believe whatever they want because the evidence for everything now exists to a large capacity or is at least corroborated similarly.
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  893.  @tsuisiu7162  Various polls from Indians suggest they have immense support for Israel. I would imagine because they has faced excessive Islamic terrorism in more recent history.
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  894. Well, not exactly. The massive inflation is a result of 0.25% interest rates set under Jerome Powell (Trump appointed). Trump pressured him to go negative in 2020. Had he done that, inflation would have been significantly worse. Lower interest rates allow for cheaper debts. Cheaper debts drive higher demand. Higher demand drives higher prices.
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  895. Correctional staff volume is in the toilet. We simply don't have enough man-power to manage the current prison system and number of incarcerated inmates. This is why many of the less violent offenders get let out very easily.
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  896.  @RW4LIFE-b2s  No, I said I went to community college and it cost $10k that Fedex paid for. Then I said to essentially avoid unnecessary degrees at upper tier Universities or you'll probably be working at Starbucks with $100k in debt.
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  897. Spoiled children? What are you referring to? Being spoiled by physical abuse, being drugged, and manipulated into adulthood?
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  898. Well, you need to account for changed in sqft of home building. In the 1960s, the median wage to house was roughly 1:3 In 2024, the median wage to house is now 1:7 Still bad though.
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  899. Bernie Democrat and huge Kennedy supporter here! Down with the Democrat oligarchy; dirty and corrupt! Voted for Trump; if for no other reason to teach the corrupt DNC a lesson.
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  900. 30 and I certainly feel this way!
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  901. Same!
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  902. Ex-truck driver here! Virtually no American born citizens are signing up to get their CDL; this has been happening for quite a while. In 2019, I paid $5000 to get my CDL and got my first job from Werner that paid me $70,000. That same job pays $85k now in 2025. When I went to class for three weeks; we had 15 students. 1 from Halliburton (out of state), another from NY, and then myself. The rest were green-cards from West Africa and another from Ethiopia. I swear they were some of the nicest people I've ever met. The point is, you can't pay Americans ANYTHING to get them to do most of these blue collar jobs. It's culture; not economic.
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  903. Millennials with an Associates Degree and CDL. University BA/BS degrees are some of the most arrogant and inexperienced personalities I have ever met; no offense to anyone. This further indulges my belief that wisdom is experienced; not taught.
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  904. This is what happens when you have a central bank and endless bailouts. It just allows monopolies to grow bigger. Governments primary purpose at this point is to act as a gate-keeper for asset values. All to maintain SS, Medicare, Pensions, and home prices. Thank a Boomer :)
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  905. Compassion doesn't pay bills or balance the budget.
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  906.  @chuckkoehler9526  Well, I mean we can trace anything back to the dawn of man. I think what people are trying to describe is (centralization - corporatization). That began with Reagan ultimately.
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  907. Yes, the greed of ordinary people above all else. Debt obligations drive inflation! If you give everybody 0% interest rates; they all go out and buy new stuff. This drives up the cost of living and all prices follow.
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  908.  @katehipkins2838  Australia doesn't have a massive diseased population and population draining the supply/demand curve of the system. US healthcare is the best in the world, but it has an extremely HIGH demand which means extremely high prices.
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  909. Uh, no lol. There's a reason that teacher turnover is ridiculous (13% teacher turnover) in the state of Texas alone in 2023. Administration is insane and those three months you get off; yeah you don't get those off. Get ready for endless unpaid BS.
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  910. You can always tell a Democratic by their racist comments; your party is dying because of it.
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  911.  @vanpearsall  You're watching way too much mainstream media. You're talking about a minority comparison to how imbedded illegal labor is, especially in the farming industry. The alleged savings in state government budgets will be peanuts in comparison to the labor shortage/increased pricing that will come with a significant crackdown on undocumented labor. Americans refuse to acknowledge that US born citizens will not takes these jobs, but they're about the learn the hard way. You can't even pay Americans $70k to work a CDL job; they're all taken by African green-cards and Indians. Migrants never stole anyone's job; Americans refused to work them in the first place.
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  912. Because the private market and investors KNOW that CPI-inflation is bs. It is reflected in the treasury note markets, which directly affect mortgage rates.
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  913. I love Jack so much; no homo (is that still as thing?) Anyways, thank you so much for you humor and down to earth outlook. In an age of radicalism and high tempers; it's nice to see somebody that works hard, takes care of his dad, and empathizes with everyone :) You're the best!
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  914. My KhW rates have gone up 13%, 22%, and 21% in the past three consecutive months. Though, let's not kid ourselves; most Americans don't even know how to look at their KhW charge on the bill.
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  915. That's a rather intellectualized belief; to know people interests better than they do.
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  916. My biggest problem with this conflict is that it was undoubtedly instigated by the Obama Administration in 2014. We helped organize a coup that overthrew the Ukrainian Government and sold them firearms and anti-aircraft missiles; that in turn ended up being used to fight a border war against Russians in the east. While at the same time, Zelinskyy was using the new Ukrainian regime to muscle it's leverage against Russian residents in the east. Though no media outlet will talk about that of course. Russia had enough and now we're involved in a full scale war. Could you imagine if China had overthrown the Mexican government and sold them weapons to fight a border war against the US? Then the US invaded and the media presented it as "fascist American aggression?" That's exactly what is unfolding. Though you can't stop young boys from wanting to go out and fight, until the moment their guts are hanging out and they are truly wondering what the hell they are doing there. The Ukrainian crisis went exactly as planned and Americans ate it up just like Covid. The transitions from narrative to narrative was flawless and I am truly ashamed to see it happen again.
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  917. American doesn't have a Democracy; stop chanting cultist words please.
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  918. Twitter will easily lose some 40% of it's public worth come Monday. As an investor with 'more moral sentiment than most', it's hilarious to watch this company burn.
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  919. Well, saying it as political banter is different from ordering someone to fudge the results.
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  920. A third? Try half! Most people aren't doing the math. After your W2 taxes, sales, property, work-city tax, school tax, bureau of motor vehicles fees, fuel tax, and capital gains. I guarantee you it's between 45-60%.
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  921. 1lb Petite Eye of Round - $7.00 5lb Bag of Potatoes - $4.00 2lb Bananas - $1.30 cents All can be found at Walmart. STOP eating out and stop getting fast food. You are wasting money and poisoning yourself. Take the Eye of Round; coat it in heavy salt and butter. Light it on fire (500F) on the grill for 1:30 each side; spoon extra butter on if necessary. Charred crunchy outside with medium rare juicy inside. Remove and serve! Peel and cut potatoes; fry in skillet with butter until soft. Salt and let cool. Eat a banana for desert! Tastes significantly better and is cheaper than industry garbage.
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  922. If I'm not mistaken, companies BY LAW need to post jobs (even with intent to internally hire).
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  923. Women are far more likely to lie about their relationship status on these surveys. Plus, what constitutes a relationship? Most men know whether or not they have a girlfriend. Women are allowed to invent one whenever it suits their situation and nobody will ever give them flack for it. Not to mention that statistically women are dating more than one person at any given time, while men are dating one or none. Women on average will have 5-6 sexual partners in their life-span. Men on average will have 1-3 sexual partners in their life-span. Some 5% of men have 50+ partners and some 20% of men will never have a sexual relationship in their entire existence.
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  924. Latino here; voting for Trump!
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  925. Bud, my own family (Republicans) can't see it. My wife and I and several others are the only ones in our entire family seeing this. My own parents are pretending nothing is going on and my mother is trying to educate her neighbors on why they need to get the vaccine! There has got to be something in the water. I don't drink public water. But if there isn't than it has to be mass complacency. People have it too good and aren't prepared to fight for it because they're accustomed to everything working 24/7. Give government an inch, they will take a mile. "Two weeks to slow the spread" turned into, "Two jabs to keep your Civil Rights." What's next: "Two arrests to send you and your wife off to a concentration camp?" If anybody has not read "The Gulag Archipelago", then they need to ASAP. The parallels between the beginning of the regression in the Soviet Union and the US is identical.
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  926. 2K a week in 2024? I find that a bit hard to believe considering how low freight volume has been the last year.
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  927. Greenville began going downhill long before the Covid wave began moving there from the Midwest. The lots are TINY, the traffic is ridiculous, and it's being taken over by corporate interests. If you want to move to a city with a strip-mall full of corporate leases and 2500sqft homes on 0.1 lots; then move to Greenville. My wife and I prospected that place back in 2022 and it was already being over-run with drama from Atlanta. It will most likely be the first place outside of Florida to have a massive foreclosure problem come 2025/2026. Real-estate prices are ridiculous (even compared to Florida), groceries prices are insane, and wages/contracts are 20% under national averages; completely unsustainable.
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  928. To be brutally honest, in your situation (online or at Wendys) and I don't mean anything by that. Those are statistically the best places you're going to get what you're looking for regardless of what kind of man you are. Trying to ask out people in person (these days) is more or less just for social rep or experience. They will probably all say no or lure your in for a free dinner. I'm 30, married, and have a son. Apparently I'm really good looking and have been in shape my entire life. You're wasting your time with college girls or trying to date in person. Women ignored me my entire life until I got married and had a child, then they got jealous; that's how it works. Women mate by charisma and resource and then character afterwards; looks and fitness then become bonuses. If you be yourself and show ambition for the future; you'll get really far with most women on that. The tricky part is that women in the modern age are lapsing 18-25 when it comes to serious dating. Culture and technology give them unrealistic standards and bad habits, then they reach 30 and start getting depression and having regrets. So naturally, you'll have a high turnover rate with college chicks. They may humor you at first, but they will assume that you are childish because you don't have a degree and that they will make more than you. Which is ironic, because they typically end up working at Starbucks for 10 years. Take your confidence and ambitions, then go looking for a female with family values. If you date non-maternal women; life will be rough going forward. Find a girl that's about average intelligence, isn't hopped up on pharmaceuticals, calm and steady, and family oriented. The rest should take care of itself
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  929. It's actually about 4 times harder to buy a home in 2024 than it was in 1979. Interest rates are irrelevant without income/inflation data.
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  930.  @Solid_Snoop  Aging demographics Social programs are crushing the US under their weight and maintaining asset bubbles in every sector.
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  931. I understand your compassion, but if you didn't raise rent. Then naturally you're absorbing the 50% or so inflation that has taken place since 2020. Don't listen to the feds, watch the USD supplies. Watching home and commodity prices go up 30% to 70% isn't an accident; it flows in congruence with our reckless printing.
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  932.  @timetravela890  Rent? The average rent price is pretty similar to the average mortgage; there would just be no equity. My rent was $858 before we moved and my mortgage is $885. There is literally nowhere for people to turn to. Plus you need to consider that many rentals have a waiting list.
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  933. Well, I think it's a bit more complicated. If we institute a system of anarcho-capitalism - the intelligent and strong will persecute the weak and middling If we institute a system of control - the weak and middling are rewards at the expense of the intelligent and the strong The argument of maintaining a system (in the middle) as we have had it for the last 70+ years is only allowing inequities to run amuck. It's one thing was 20% to have half and the other 80% to have the other half. It's another thing to have 1% have almost all the wealth and 99% live in the lower class or poverty class. That's where the modern system is getting us. Perhaps it's destined to always produce this outcome and there is no true permanent solution.
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  934. Pretty sound argument!
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  935. Thankfully, it is dying. There are bastions of it in certain geographies on the US, but in large it's been dying quickly the last several years. You can thank the psychological community (healing minds from trauma and religious indoctrination) for these triumphs. It wasn't always this way though. The Trump cult turned stupid people into dangerously-stupid people.
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  936. Term limits are not going to solve the cultural crisis that the US is facing. You truly have to be living under a rock to think that politicians (alone) are the problem in comparison to the general public. I lived in this country my entire life. Never before have I seen a population that was no narcissistic, greedy, and lacking in critical thinking skills. Giving more power to the voters is what has resulted in the catastrophe we are facing. More people are now voting than every before in US history. Naturally, this forces the IQ average to decrease in relationship to political competency. In other words, the more people that vote; the more corrupt the DC politicians become. Voting used to be designated to voters of choice that were involved in politics. The more voters you add, the more low IQ voters there will be.
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  937. You can get a long way with rotisserie chickens and boiled potatoes at home lol
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  938. Most of this behavior (I think) is coming from two things; parents don't care and children think TikTok is real life. Get rid of the phones lol
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  939. It's called demographics; they didn't squander it. Too few working class people paying older people forward.
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  940. I feel bad for Gen X. You guys will be the first ones to 'literally' be screwed out of Social Security here soon. CBO says it has to be cut by 23% in 2034 to function.
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  941. I'm been a conservative my entire life and I've never heard such a ridiculous conspiracy. These Youtube bloggers and influencers literally push the ideas that these things are (widespread) because they'd be out of a job if you quit clicking on their videos.
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  942.  @WillBlindYouWithLight  Eh, economists have been predicting this for the last twenty years. All of these symptoms come from a mixture of currency devaluation, rapidly changing age demographics, and Cantillon's Law.
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  943. We all have our bubbles; which is the problem lol
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  944. Yep, I will never vote for a D or R again. My state of Ohio politicians failed me, Congress failed me, and recent Presidents failed me; never again!
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  945. I hope she succeeds! The healthcare industry isn't what it used to be. It's becoming slave work due to shortages and hospital policy.
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  946. Housing bubble isn't going to pop with a 0.3% foreclosure rate. By what metrics are people thinking the real-estate market will collapse; I truly wonder. This seems more about hype and emotion than it is about economics. I know people don't like the higher prices, but that doesn't mean prices will come down. It simply means you're in a demographic that can't afford it, while there's another demographic that can.
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  947. Oh believe me, the corruption goes all the way to local city councils. It's absolutely disgusting; there is no accountability.
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  948.  @jnananinja7436  So based on a slow motion video and the logic that (ALL front ends of vehicles) stopped or not are an immediate danger; you make judgement on this premise? I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm an extremely rational person. Your comment doesn't make any sense. Should of, would of, could of etc doesn't count as "I had knowledge of the dangers before-hand and dictation that this was indeed murder." It's arrogant....
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  949. People are not thinking this through on a financial level. Inflation is a result of debt obligations. The UBI you would receive, is a creation of that system. That newly created money produces higher demand and higher demand pushes up prices. Giving you UBI would just cause annual inflation to go up exponentially. You would need an annual inflationary adjustment just to keep up with the cost of living. We just went through this between 2020-2023 and people still don't understand how 'money printing' from debt obligations leads to higher pricing in the markets. You can call it greed all you want; it's sophomoric reasoning to a complex economic model.
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  950.  @drmodestoesq  Not even close. We can compare inflation rates all we want, but what you need to pay attention to is the inflationary value to the standard of living. Boomers love to tout their 17% mortgages in the 1970s, when a house was $50k lol If you have a 7% mortgage on a $400k home for 30 years; you'll pay $800,000 dollars. There is 0 comparison...
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  951.  @williamjpellas0314  Your laundered tax dollars lol
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  952. Unfortunately, the United States has no option, but to allow millions of migrants into the US in order to re-level the demographic problems affecting productivity, GDP, and above all else Medicare/Social Security. The US will never be able to innovate and produce it's way out of the $8 Trillion that we printed in the last four years. Unless we take drastic measures to improve domestic productivity and exports. It either come at the cost of slow trade, migration, and two decades of high interest rates. Or a very rash and quick incorporation of labor, production, and manufacturing; this includes a third World War.
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  953. Financially illiteracy is largely why people blame capitalism. How about blaming the government that devalues your dollar or enables companies to use unfair trade practices pertaining to patent extensions? You know why your US insulin is so expensive? Because one of the largest manufacturer has an import contract with a plastic molding company for your albuterol inhaler. Most of that price is for the holder. Medicare and the FDA is completely in on it too! That's not capitalism; it's large businesses USING government as a gate-keeper against competitors.
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  954. These politicians want war! It's a perfect excuse to get Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to test out their new toys. The government gets new funding after a Trillion dollars defense bill, the shareholders get a giant boost in their portfolio, and the citizens are happy with the illusion that we need another conflict to stamp out their prejudices. Voters, Government, and business AS USUAL!
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  955. I understand the situation with (unaffordable prices), but you're not really missing out, especially if you live in the US. Homes are like College Degrees. You are elated for 6 months once you get them, then you spend the rest of your life trying to get out of them; think about it. Can't think of anyone that didn't constantly complain about needing to get out of their own house. Plus, there's no such thing as community anymore. We live in a suburb of people hat are 45-80 years old. We are 29 and are raising children. Demographics are changing rapidly and raising a family in a home isn't what it used to be.
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  956. Trump is literally doing everything he can to increase inflation with his strategies lol
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  957. In my opinion, steering clear of the Middle East, South Pacific, Europe, as well as many large American cities is the strategy for the next decade or two. South and Central America are up and coming countries with growing economies and less determination for revolutionary type behavior. European living will decline and militarization will continue. China and the surrounding regions will either be affected by conflict in the Pacific or Civil War within China that cripples supply chains. The United States will continue to have growing political violence and rioting following 2024 and most likely future elections. Crime will continue to grow and overwhelm many cities and the standard of living will decline as business ties with China are cut. Going forward, the US will need to strengthen it's relationship with Mexico and Central/South America; this is absolutely imperative. Seeing as all of these areas are growing in manufacturing capacity and economic trade. I'm not a huge fan of the immigration crisis (as many are not coming from Mexico). But Congress will need to initiate some kind of (citizenship thru service or expedited program). We do not have the logistics to deport 30 million people and it will come at the cost of social demonization against minorities, as it always does.
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  958. I can tell you with absolute confidence that there are virtually ZERO degrees worth pursuing anymore. If you drop out; you pay your debts for a long time. If you succeed; you start thinking about killing yourself 6 months into the job and you STILL pay your debts for a long time. People are burnt out, under-paid, and doing the labor of 3 people, while receiving minimal benefits. This is a grim reality, especially in healthcare right now. It's simply not worth it anymore to go to college and then get into your 'career' field. All that ends up happening, is you get placed into a corporation hierarchy with an abundance of red-tape and stipulations, on top of being asked to do everything under the sun for less and less pay as inflation eats your lunch. My own wife went to school for 6 years to become a Physician Assistant, later landing a job in cardiothoracic surgery; a very high paying job. The amount of times she's told me that she wishes she would have just stayed at Texas Roadhouse is crazy. If you go to college; you lose your wallet. If you go into STEM or Medicine; you lose your soul. Don't do it. Personally, if I could go back in time. I would have skipped college entirely (6 wasted years of trying to please my parents). I would have gone straight to FedEX to start making money, gotten my CDL at 21 and then started the whole process much earlier.
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  959. So, being screamed at, given an anxiety disorder, drugged for 6 years, and manipulated doesn't count as abuse in your eyes? Oh sorry, I'm just a complainer; go to hell.
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  960. I've been saying this for years. Virtually all tech companies are overvalued; probably by 80% or more. The next big financial shift (IMO) will see a massive transfer or wealth out of companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, etc. and into companies that can produce a tech product that is tangible to investors. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already, but I think investors are getting screwed by false expectations.
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  961. I assume you mean the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs; I fully agree! lol
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  962. Trump has already been with LEX. This makes Joe Rogan look small lol
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  963.  @biniam6655  Welcome to the real world bud! Money runs every industry; not morality.
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  964. @Christopher Vice Bud, I'm not saying that America hasn't influenced nations around the globe, but have you seen this country? Go for a drive and get back to me, this country is dirt poor and we have some of the most dangerous cities in the world. Saudi Arabia has a standard of living multiple times over from a 1/3 of Americans living on welfare and a crumbling infrastructure.
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  965. Being pro-choice is almost always a statement of (neutrality, ignorance, or hate). My wife and I have gone thru two ectopic pregnancies in the Midwest. No problem whatsoever from the medical establishment. These women literally think they are going to get pregnant and die. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
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  966. It's a trade, US needs drugs and Mexico needs guns. The laws on each side are beneficial to both black markets between the US and Mexico. Believe me, the governments are largely complicit.
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  967. 28 and been aware for over a decade.
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  968. Well DEI is discriminatory because it institutes racial quotas for pubic and private sector jobs. Though I don't think he's going to win anything complaining about DEI or wokism while we are dealing with inflation and foreign wars.
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  969. Try taking Ashwaghanda, I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid too, but found out I had an anxiety disorder; not adhd.
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  970. You're conflating new problems with cultural issues that started taking place over a decade ago. People didn't wake up in 2023 and decide that they couldn't have kids because they couldn't afford a home. Not that it isn't MORE of a factor now, but it's not right to conflate the two as cause and effect.
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  971. Same here; a LOT has changed in 25 years. I remember when Hamilton Rd. and even Whitehall were nice places. Crime has been completely out of control in Columbus and Pickerington is being overrun by it. I grew up in Hilliard and for the first time in history they began to have shootings inside the city limits starting in 2019.
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  972. I think it's foolish to jump to the conclusion that the parents are completely in the right. Children like this don't become this way from loving parents. They become like this from abuse, trauma, and horrible parents. Nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. As someone who grew up with an NPD mother that tormented me for 20 years of my life. She would easily sit in front of other people and play dumb/manipulate conversations about how I was problematic and that they did everything with 'love' in mind. So excuse me for being a skeptic and not jumping on the 'poor parents' bandwagon.
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  973. I guarantee you there's is more to this than the media is letting on.
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  974. Go check out Russel Brands channel. He's unrecognizable from a decade ago.
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  975. Get ready for another round of inflation if he gets elected.
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  976. "Ukraine has the most sophisticated anti-corruption system in Europe." Really? Does this guy believe his own bs?
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  977. Being in good shape and strength training can help in a fight, but I'd say it's only 10% of the equation. Unless you're 'The Mountain' and can squeeze a person's head until it explodes. I wrestled through my highschool years and the Football meatheads that occasionally joined us would get put on their ass by people half their size 99% of the time. If you don't have experience in physical conflict; muscles don't compensate.
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  978. Why is FOX, SKY, and other conservative outlets acting like their viewers are on their side? Read your comments Sky! Everybody is sticking up for the shooter lol
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  979. 27-35 is the danger zone? That's mighty generous! Typically, once women hit 29/30; they've already gone into dating a selection pool of men that will NEVER make them happy. At that point, all an A+ woman can hope for is a series of D+ men. Women only date (their age and 5+) unless they go full 'sugar daddy status'. Most men 30-35 are NOT single by choice; I can assure you of that. They wasted too much time in their youth chasing tail and goofing off; now they can't attract anybody 18 to infinity.
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  980. She's not the President? UH, oh yeah she IS! lol Informally!
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  981. Fake account
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  982. $5.09 in all of central Ohio; plus we typically hold the average fuel cost nationawide.
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  983. Outsourcing is a component, but the largest reason is that the FED attempts to maintain asset values by propping up markets and social safety nets. This is why high inflation is the inevitable future for the US. If a recession like 2008 were to happen; it would bankrupt Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions. So as a result, they will print more money and devalue the USD so that asset values will be maintained. IF they don't; we go into a depression. If they do, then we eventually go into hyperinflation.
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  984. Not commies, they are neo-fascists mirroring the CCP and Chinese government.
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  985.  @albertber.  Sarcasm, I assume?
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  986.  @albertber.  Explain how gaslighting is love? You should never treat a loved one (let alone a spouse) like a Kindergartner.
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  987. American here; media gaslighting isn't going to change. People will interpret things how they will. I've not once seen Trump actually espouse racism; despite the fact that I don't really care for him regardless. Going forward, it's essential the US strengthen ties with Mexico and Latino America as a whole. If the EU fails and China increases it's grip on South/Central America. The US will be in a horrible position to negotiate.
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  988. Then go to the gear box and choose Spanish with subs; he says this in the beginning.
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  989. Economics are barely the reason for having kids. Values and over-all health are why the birth-rate is plummeting. Imagine destroying everyone's body with carcinogens and convincing women to pursue a corporate career into their 30s, by which that time they largely become infertile.
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  990. This is a ridiculous falsehood. Some 80% of all your tax revenue is afforded by the top 20% of earners. The bottom 50% of tax payers pay 3.04% of all tax revenue. Taxation solves one issue; feeding the monster
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  991.  @NachoNormalCoup  They lied about vaccine FDA approval, that's for sure. Its all about following the time line. Let's not forget that this is the Administration that put Kyle Rittenhouse's photo on a campaign advertisement and called him a white supremacist. Defamation lawsuits and negligent garbage define this Administration.
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  992. It's inevitable; Covid spending only expedited it. We are going to continue getting poorer as long as our largest export are US Dollars.
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  993. Honestly, you could even go back to the Industrial Revolution. That in and of itself created all the ideologies that government must manage the world.
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  994.  @44manm  Some states didn't start their ballot access windows until June and some aren't opening for another week or two. Sounds like they intentionally altered the rules to remove him from debating. By your own reasoning; Biden nor Trump should be able to debate because they are not on the ballot in all 50 states.
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  995. Well, to be fair (most Trump voters are not actually voting for Donald Trump). I voted for the man and regret it in all honesty. Though I tend to have very different reasons than most people I suppose. The American worker has been disenfranchised by years of Reaganomics and Federal Reserve policies. Low interest rates have given rise to cheap investment in business for high return. It has also driven prices out of control, while real wages have remained stagnant more or less. They feel it at the grocery store, but they can't articulate it at the ballot box. This is how you get Trump! Trump is a symptom, people need to understand this. NAFTA and Reaganomics has absolutely wrecked this country in the last 40 years. However, people associate Trump "Make American Great Again" with a resurgence of 1981-1986. Which in all honestly was a great time to be alive, be working, and to be raising a family. It can be confusing to understand why people vote for ideologies that destroyed their way of life later on. Even today, there's a strong minority of Russians that still show love for Stalin. They don't identify with his crimes, but rather the respect/power that is associated with him on a global scale. Not to compare Stalin to Reagan on ethics, but the same principle applies.
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  996. Debt to GDP inequalities. When debt (demand) outperforms productivity; then prices rise and wages stagnate. This has been happening 40 years. Also, you have massive asset bubbles like Social Security, Pensions, and student loans. All of which put upwards pressure on prices.
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  997.  @justine7083  Oh please, you're spreading hysteria. Karens have always existed if that's what you mean.
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  998. That's why pensioners love Harris and everybody else is voting for Trump. I've spoken to some retired people in my neighborhood and many of them act like Harris is the obvious choice. The last time they had to worry about saving 20% by going to Walmart was over a decade ago. They aren't living in reality because their retirement funds are sky high right now.
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  999. Very interesting! Unfortunately in this day and age it's so difficult to keep relevant and factual information straight. Does anyone have insight into how well this channel and it's documentaries are managed? Are their other videos pretty unbiased?
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  1000. Gas prices have dropped from $3.39 to $2.69 in Columbus OH where I live from October 1st to December 8th. I'd imagine this is a large sign of demand destruction taking place. This time of year usually entails a pickup in travel and shopping.
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  1001. I was so incredibly close to joining the US Military when I was 18 years old. I was actively studying for the ASVAB and preparing myself in every way I could. Wrestling season had just ended and I was still in great shape. Why didn't I do it? I couldn't tell you. It surely wasn't fear or anxiety and in the end I'm glad that I didn't. As I got older, I had more appreciation for my work and later my wife and family. As far as moral or political reasons go. Why would I train and spill my guts in a conflict created by politicians to enrich themselves? When I saw these younger guys run off to Syria and Ukraine. I could only think of them as fools. You might label them as brave, courageous or fearless, but fools nonetheless. They have raging hormones that push their bodies and minds into action; needing to participate in a movement or conflict. They rush off to a foreign country believing that the narrative that placed them their still remains true. It's only when they're missing a limb with their guts hanging out do they take their last few seconds to realize what they were doing. You are pawn for powerful people to play their sick games; nothing more. I don't think we have a lack of courageous or strong men. I think we have a surplus of people that are waking up to the idea that 'patriotism' and 'country' are an illusion.
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  1002. Getting rid of the central bank = good Jumping on the USD? Meh? I mean, it will keep them afloat in more desperate times for sure, BUT it completely ties Argentina to the fate of the USD. If anything happens to the economy in 2023/2024; the banks will slash interest rates and inflation will surge again in 2025/2026. Argentina will experience it all the same, maybe even worse.
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  1003.  @practicaliching2311  Well, to be fair (ALL Marxist ideologies) were on the left. Fascism and Communism ONLY became right/left following the conclusion of WW2 as it was rebranded.
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  1004.  @HighPlainsDrifterJJ  I don't recall saying it was. Avoiding the subject will be at everyone's peril. Boomers would rather kick the can and lose it all; instead of reforming it and losing a little. CBO has already projected for decades that it will hit a deficit; which is now 2034. After that, SS benefits will need to be reduced by basic funding (about 23%). Nobody will be able to filibuster or stop the vote. It's inevitable or SS will default.
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  1005. I'm actually going to slightly disagree with you on that. For instance, driving a truck is obviously blue collar, but you can't pay Americans enough to take the job. I remember getting my CDL back in 2019; we had 15 students and 3 of us were born and raised in America. The rest were from West African and one other from Ethiopia. This however, does happen in fields like being a machinist or other skilled tradesman to a large degree these days. Even in white collar; there is a shortage. My question to you is that, if there really is no shortage of skilled labor; where are the skilled Americans at? People act like they're showing up to interviews, seminars, or job fairs and being rejected. This is not my experience! My actual experience is that so-called American workers don't show up at all. I think what's actually happening is that most Americans are getting degrees in useless fields that present them with virtually no skills. Why else do you think virtually all of Gen Z sits at home applying to (work-from home positions). No life experience, no ambition, and no actual skills in my experience. I think Americans have hobbled themselves by investing in complacency.
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  1006. Bud, you need to get used to the prices, because they are NEVER going to go back down without an economic crisis bigger than 08. Your dollar was inflated by some 50% in the last 2.5 years; courtesy of the USD 0-4 Monetary Supply measurement. If you didn't get a 50% raise; then you've lost income value.
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  1007. Unfortunately, we are seeing the rise of religion. Obeying the words of any entity like the CDC without question is not science, it's religion. We will either worship God, ourselves, or our Government.
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  1008. I was lucky enough to find the love of my life; a farm girl that wanted to be a health care professional. No mini-skirt, no bizarre lingo, no narcissism, and no anti-social personality disorder. I married her and now we have a home and a family. A whopping number of women 18-25 are absolutely impossible these days, especially in any metropolitan or sub-metropolitan area of the United States. They want equity, they want equality, they want to be a Hollywood model, but they don't want to put any effort in, and they expect you to bail out all of their incompetence and mistakes; no thank you! In all honesty, I don't think the men of the same age are any different. Many of them are unmotivated, incompetent, and/or narcissistic to their over impulsive wants. The more things change, the more they stay the same! Women have always been subject to three survival categories; real-labor, house-wife, or prosititute. Never in my life did I think that being a 'content creator' (prostitute) would be viewed as 'high status' by the women doing it. What is happening in reality is that young women are forgoing companionship and family, while replacing it with narcissism and impulsive attention seeking. Then, when their clock starts ticking at 30, they rush out to find a husband. Only to realize that their are no men (30-40) that will marry her and give her a family. So she blames men for her decisions and then collects cats until she dies.
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  1009.  @infini.tesimo  Being deep in debt typically means you made a bad investment decision or you're simply ignorant.
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  1010. I can certainly empathize with your position, but let's be honest here. You need to move! Many places in Florida don't even cost that much. I could get a 2B2Ba apartment in Ocala for $1550. Do you have student loan debt? It's what's keeping most people down while they omit it from the equation.
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  1011. 1. Trump will cause a nuclear war! 2. Trump will initial a fascist state! 3. Trump will take away your rights! Gee, it's almost like this Administration was preparing the American people for what THEY intended to do. Great job!
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  1012. Do we really need anymore proof that the Democratic Party is in the dog-house currently? They have no platform, no common goal, and no brown messiah. If they want to remain a major political party; they need to fire every executive running the DNC. If nothing changes, they might be lucky to get 50 million votes in 2028.
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  1013. Yes, yes, and yes! "What did I ever do to deserve this!" "Did we do something wrong to offend you like this!" "Why have you changed like this!" Etc etc...
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  1014. She was probably drunk af
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  1015. Tim Kennedy acts as if 'being fooled into a conflict to enrich elitists' is some kind of noble cause for joining the military. I don't think he has a deep philosophy of service. I'm pretty sure he remains willfully ignorant because he wants to believe that US military involvement is somehow morally justified.
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  1016. @SweetChick10101 The wife and I have already made our choice. We're not getting the vaccine and she'll be fired for it. Montana on the other hand has already taken measures to protect our Civil Rights. So we're looking to go there.
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  1017.  @soulsbourne  No such thing as liberals anymore, it's like finding a unicorn. These are pro-revolutionary Marxists.
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  1018. - Fauci commits perjury = he gets a documentary and a book deal. - YOU commit perjury = prison for 25 years. That's how it works...
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  1019. These grifters are so desperate for a crash that many spent the last 4 years building their ENTIRE channel on. So they intend to 'make a crash' happen in their news regardless of the reality. Not sure how this guy can even take himself seriously knowing he intentionally puts out click-bait and misinformation left and right. I'm really starting to think that 'influencing' attracts sociopathic and or psychopathic personalities. They just can't stop lying for attention and money.
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  1020. My loyalty to companies got me extremely far! 1. FedEx - one of the most productive employees (which got me a write-up from a false accusation from a driver). Which was all on camera, but management refused to be billed for the footage exonerating me. 2. Anheuser - again, one of the most productive employees and fastest at my job (which got my unpaid vacation slashed from 13 to 8 days a year). 3. Rooter - very productive and attentive to job details (in which I was scammed out of half my pay due to a number of loopholes in their employment paperwork). They owed me $975 and paid out $424. I walked on the spot with that stunt.
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  1021.  @RodRuth  The only person insulting anybody is you. I never insulting or demeaned anybody. A disagreement isn't an insult. Perhaps you should have more decency in the conversation? I've already admitted Kaliningrad escaped me. The original subject was Russia's threat to Poland being a NATO member (given their proximity). Unless Putin is amassing thousands of troops in Kaliningrad with ICMBS against Poland. I don't see it as a fair comparison given that continental Russia is still 300 miles away at the closest point.
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  1022. Opposite of capitalism bud; it's socialism. Government printing mass amounts of money and bailing out corporations isn't capitalism.
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  1023. ? Fighting for Trump?
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  1024. Are YOU forgetting the Ukraine began a war against Russia's border in Donetsk? Started by the NATO Zelensky regime?
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  1025. Fully agreed! One side is looking forward and the other side thinks nobody should get ahead.
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  1026. Based on what logic? It seems to be a pretty genuine conversation and set of questions from the guy that was in position of the laptop. You seem erratically irritated by something that has nothing to do with the actual interview. Especially if you're going to base the credibility on how someone dresses.
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  1027. Yeah right, Canadian government invoked a 25% tax on residents that live outside the country by 186+ days. Canadians aren't going to ditch their foreign investments.
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  1028. @dione2610 Columbus, OH. I can't tell you exactly because it's going into contract soon; so my initial claim was a bit speculative, but the actual sale will be much better. We put it up between 270k-290k and now there's a bidding war in cash offers going well above 300k.
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  1029. @cliffthecoolcat Depends on the market and the size. Don't focus too hard on national averages. Houses between $400-550k or higher are experiencing major slowdowns and many are being left on the market for 30-50 days before sale. This is even in the Midwest. If you have a home $350 or under; it sells rather quickly. Personally, I would vouch for either buying a parcel and find a builder OR sticking to ranches with a quarter/half acre and less than 1800sqft.
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  1030. Are people so gullible to think that these allegations are not suspicious based on the timeline?
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  1031. What he really meant to say is that he was drowning in debt when he came and now he's drowning in more debt as he attempts to leave. Stop sugar-coating it!
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  1032.  @Anu-hv2pp  The economic crisis caused by Governments has only increased suicides, overdoses, and overall despair What good is creating a business and living life if the government can take it away on a whim? Reassuring people that this will never happen again and allowing the economy to function as necessary has a much bigger implication in real life than it does on paper. Plus, the vaccine seems to be the least useful of solutions. Our county hospital is being overrun with hospitalizations from vaccinated people beyond belief. What they should have done from day one is give recommendations to the public on boosting immune systems via exercise and Vitamin D3 supplements and created a budget and agency tasked with assisting the most vulnerable. Not shutting down businesses, forcing people inside, and throwing them on a ventilator. Most of the time without their say-so. Ventilators have got to be one of the biggest unintentional consequences of death causation among Covid patients. Healthcare in the US is a business and it's in their best interest to make sure the patient never gets healthy.
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  1033. Best case scenario, these tariffs have to be used as a bullying tactic in order to force other countries to reduce or drop their own. As a long term strategy; tariff wars are devastating to global trade. Claiming that the US will make a lot of money implementing these tariffs is either insane incompetence or sleight of hand in wording. Tariffs in useful cases are good as a short term strategy when nations have a similar standard of living. The idea that putting a 10% or even 40% tariff in places in southeast Asia will somehow make companies come back to the US is unbelievable. Companies will go to a dozen other countries before they even humor the idea of returning to the US. Why? The US has massive asset and wage bubbles that make it nearly impossible for these companies to turn a profit and sell their goods globally or domestically. Deflation (reducing the cost of living) is the ultimate goal here. But of course, no Boomers wants to see their retirement get cut by 90% do they? So voters will keep kicking the can and do nothing to solve the actual problem. Get rid of Federal student loans, phase out social security, and stop giving subsidies to big companies.
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  1034. Nope, not by design, just be natural default. People value nothing because they appreciate nothing. Not having kids is just mother natures way of resetting the whole system.
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  1035.  @zackcinq-mars2129  It wasn't overturned for employers receiving Medicare (aka all hospitals).
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  1036. The problem is, for the first time in history women aren't the ones setting the price. Rather the other way around. Men can replace their biological urges with pornography and tinder. While a woman cannot replace her urges to produce a child. It's created a landscape where women are working until 30. Then when they get the urge to have children, they quickly realize that the family oriented men were all married off years ago. The only men remaining in the selection pool are sociopathic users that only want sex with no responsibilities. Therefore, those men set the price. I wish more women would wake up to this. It's destroying an entire generation of Americans.
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  1037. What is it with the race obsession?
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  1038. I here all different things when it comes to this subject. Now, my strength is typically in finance/economics; not geo-politics or currencies. However, Russia does have a massive export economy; largely petroleum. Their largest economic partners are China and India. Does Russia not have the ability to maintain it's own domestic economy based on just a few of these factors?
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  1039. lol life in prison? How about the gallows?
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  1040. Well, I think a lot of that was dependent on 'timing' rather than his policies.
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  1041. Does anyone actually watch these garbage movies anymore?
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  1042. Statistically speaking, the average women will have 4-5 sexual partners in her life. The average man - 0 to 3. Some 20% of men will die virgins in their lifetimes and that's been the statistical distribution for quite some time. Nowadays though, men have choice picks. Women focus on their career and wait to have children, but when their uterus screams child at the age of 30 they finally start looking for a husband. Problem is, women date men their own age or 5 years older to start. But women soon find that the men that they want are already married and have been married for almost a decade. So they have to settle for man children that are 35 years old and have no prospect for family. If you are a man that is looking to create a family, then you have choice picks! There's a reason why the divorce rate is so high. Women don't want to put up with a 35-40 year old loser that won't take out the trash, nor give her a child. Despite how she's damaged her reproductive system with birth control for over a decade at that point. "It is no sign of heath to be well adjusted to an overwhelmingly sick society."
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  1043. We have a serious problem with stupidity in this country. There's either something in the water or the screens are making kids (now adults) beyond dumb. Perhaps ID's and permits for social media use? Some 90% of the users don't even know reality from fantasy. They see a cop shoot someone online and then they go to Kroger thinking that cops are 'hunting' black people.
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  1044. Awesome job Brandon! I swear, a mental health crisis is an understatement in this country. People are seriously malfunctioning! Inflation, fatherlessness, despair, loneliness, pharmaceutical meds, too many single people, social media, glyphosate, autism, iPhones, EMF radiation, responsibility, meaning? The problem is in there somewhere! We didn't used to have these issues back in the day. Even people in the 1950s were armed to the teeth and teenagers would bring rifles in their trucks to go sport shooting after school. Something has gone madly wrong and we are overlooking it. My greatest fear is this might just be a sad case of Calhoun's Rodent Utopia playing out in the real world.
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  1045. Congrats, just be careful where ambitions may take you. The people who pioneered seed and vegetable oils and replaced the lard industry ended up causing the crises of arteriosclerosis and obesity we are seeing. Innovations can do great things and horrible things. Which falls to the responsibility of the creator.
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  1046.  @kodykendall  Buddy, don't virtue signal on here; that's poor taste. If you don't like the comment; object from a position of logic, not credentials and power smh
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  1047. It won't budge prices until inventory massively increases and there are a lot of sellers and no buyers.
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  1048. I used to think the same, but ask yourself this. If you TRIED to poison and kill society; would you do a better job than they have?
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  1049. lol what will they say in 2028 at this point? OUR POLICY IS THAT WE ARE NOT TRUMP'S SPAWN! XD
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  1050. Ok, then why are you torturing yourself by going into debt exactly? I assure you, I was once $167,000 in debt (student loans). It's far worse than having children; I promise you
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  1051. @jp1135 It's probably the intellectual shame cycle. Parents shame their kids into performing beyond possible expectations. So the children focus their entire lives on pleasing mom and dad with credentials and accomplishments, but the parents will never give them credit. Seen it happen over and over again. People go into massive debt trying to tame their insecurities about status by getting degree after degree while still making poverty wages.
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  1052. Politics in blood-sport. If you stand up outright against the institution; you'll end up in a made-up scandal and getting kicked out of office It's that simple! I'm a conservative and my DREAM-TEAM is Tulsi, Kennedy, and Bernie running the Democratic Party. Give me that and I'll ditch the joke that's called the GOP. I truly hate having to vote 'against' candidates as a standard of election time.
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  1053. ☝☝ wow wow wow wow wow wow wowo
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  1054. Same! The Democratic Party should look like (Bernie, Tulsi, and Kennedy). The current DNC and Congress is absolutely pathetic!
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  1055.  @nn123654  It used to be that way. This problem is national. I guarantee there are still good schools, but even my public high school in an upper class suburban area is having major problems with student crimes and behavioral problems.
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  1056. You call those facts, but emigration data suggests that nearly 4 Million Ukrainians have settled in Poland, Czechia, or EU nations. Some 100,000 have come to the US under asylum. Where are you getting your info?
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  1057.  @drifella  A caloric deficit I suppose. Though most of these people are taking whey or some other source of synthetic or plant based, which is not healthy in the long run. Most vegan diets cannot be sustained beyond a year without medical episodes. The ones that endure are taking B supplements and other substitutes.
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  1058. It's a scam bud, most of these jobs pay less than minimum wage and require longer work hours to make typical ends meet. I did the gig economy for 2 years and it was a major waste of time, money, and effort; all of which went into the pockets of these companies.
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  1059.  @andrewowens4421  What didn't they like might I inquire? Plus, everybody and their brother knew about the recall. "Pulling a fast one" in my opinion is rather inappropriate.
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  1060.  @SueP-D  Most elected officials enable this.
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  1061. The entire Midwest is going in this direction unfortunately. Metropolitan areas have been electing extremely (anti-cop) legislators and mayors that are trying everything to undermine the police. In Columbus, the Mayor attempted to create a (citizens police review board) that would force officers that (already went to court) to go into double jeopardy if Columbus citizens felt that justice was not served. Hilarious, when the beta-stage of this program was enacted; no surprise that the only people signing up were 'anti-cop' residents. We have some 350 unsolved murders in the last three years in Columbus, OH alone. Thugs are getting let go left and right due to a feral left-wing local politicians.
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  1062. He has an entire biblical series on the subject. In his own words, "He lives his life as if God exists."
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  1063.  @whousa642  It's an agnostic position; that the existence of God is unknowable.
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  1064. These government officials are hilarious! Knowing that military enrollment and policing are down considerably in ALL Western nations. How exactly do they expect to enforce this?
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  1065. This is the problem, there are a total of 5 people that select WHEN and HOW hearings and votes are going to be conducted. They manipulate the process by screwing anybody that doesn't play ball and adjourn everyone when someone starts talking common sense.
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  1066. Personally, I hold bear-leverage investments; primarily for semi-conductors. I have a feeling that Congress has recently passed the CHIPS Act as a means to force China's hand against Taiwan. The bill is mutual for US companies like Intel and our allies over-seas. This Administration wants a war and I guarantee you they'll get it. What isn't being reported is that China has been frantically filing their national energy and oil companies to be pulled from the NYSE. Most likely so the US has no leverage over their assets should they invade Taiwan. As far as stocks, this market is being ridiculously manipulated right now by the FED and institutions like Blackrock; all the keep a crash from happening before mid-terms. They buy at TOP price with YOUR tax-dollars to maintain the illusion of healthy fortune 500 companies. The same ones that missed all their earnings in the last quarter. It's amazing how much control this Administration has been able to gain itself using simple blackmail and strong-arming tactics against the private sector. We are quite literally witnessing the rise of a fascist regime right here in America. How else do you think the Biden Admin convinced the top 10 financial websites to alter their "recession" definitions in less than 48 hours.
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  1067. How do you account for UBI related price inflation? Giving people 'free' money or better yet (0% interest loans - from a technical standpoint); this only creates price inflation. We already saw this from 2020-2023 when the federal funds rate was set to 0.25% Could you imagine how much food prices would go up with UBI?
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  1068. I hope and you should be sure. Turning 30-32 and realizing that you want a husband and children (only not have neither) is a horror that I wouldn't wish on anybody. Too many women are falling into despair and loneliness because they experience the clock-ticking. Make sure it's the life you want, or you will regret it forever...
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  1069.  @SioMeo  Consumer habits, address, name, birthday, political ideology, voting trends etc... All of that is data that foreign governments and international corporations can use to subvert you.
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  1070.  @Irishhound  And go where? The Caribbean, Malaysia, or Georgia as Nomad-Capitalist would suggest? There may be countries fairing better than the US as of currently, but many of which have no longer than a 30 year history of peace and were drowning in revolution after the iron curtain fell. I'm not saying that's not an option, but we don't have the means to buy a citizenship or whatnot. If the United States is going to deny your Civil Rights, then I'm afraid no place is truly safe. We found it best to travel West where the culture remains strong. In the wake of a collapse, where corporate shortages would not so easily affect us. There are not too many 1st world countries fairing better than the US as of right now. Pretty sure we're in the end times, but I'd rather be connected land-wise to family.
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  1071. $60/hr as an analyst? I'll believe it when I see it. Most analysts only make between $20/$35 an hour. That dude is selling you bs.
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  1072. "Politics is about marketing." I couldn't agree more! Everything is a pyramid scheme these days; even most of Youtube.
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  1073. Every Boomer ever - Just work harder and stop complaining!!!!
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  1074. Same!
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  1075. Did you watch the video? Turn your brain on please.
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  1076. We have a 25 day reserve of diesel, not a 25 day supply of diesel (period). We are NOT going to run out, it will just get more expensive as the months go on after November is over.
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  1077.  @lo-kel  Exactly! If the company knows that you are only working 1 or 2 of an 8 hour shift (that you are being paid for). Then your wage value naturally gets devalued. This is something most people don't talk about. Despite massive inflation (cheap debt) released in the market. People devalued their own worth by pushing 'remote work' and 'the great resignation.' Companies found that they could ram thru the same amount of customers and volume with HALF or less the staffing. Remote work only showed them that they could get rid of the office buildings and contract people from Mumbai to do their work-loads for significantly less wages. If anything, this would make deflation inevitable, but the government won't allow that to happen.
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  1078. Dana Bash - "There are no media lies." That Dana Bash? lol
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  1079.  @angie-xy5sf  Not down compared to 2020. Everything is easily still up 30-40% compared to pre-Covid inflation.
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  1080. Welcome to the age of accountability sweetheart! :)
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  1081. Only if you co-sign of course. A bank can't chase down family members (legally) to repay debts.
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  1082. I'm in the same boat, I voted for Trump largely to cure tensions with Russia. On top of that, I felt Kamala wasn't qualified nor even wanted the job. As for tariffs, I'm all in on them for China. However, I hope that the rest (mainly Mexico and Canada) are more of a short term bullying tactic. Long term tariff wars never go well for anyone typically. As far as the economy or market; this was inevitable. I knew they would blame him for it even back in January when he unveiled his final plans. FED cut the rates bac in September; historically this always creates a debt refinancing phase. The bear market began in mid February and typically happens 6 months after major rate changes.
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  1083. Well, keep in mind that there are many different factors at play than say (1929, 87', 00', 08') etc. The Government owns EVERYTHING now (or at least most of it). Fannie Mae owns some 75% of all mortgages and Sallie Mae owns some 94% of all student loans. This is crucial in understanding where the next blow-out will be, because private industry will absorb these bubbles less and less. Because the Government owns all of these assets, the bubble will be laid on the US Dollar itself; meaning inflation has to be leveraged to escape these debts and bubbles. Social Security is currently on a trajectory to be defunct by 2034. They will have to cut SS recipient payments by 25% that year (from CBO calculations) in order to continue the benefits. Personally, I think this will be a string of volatile markets and recessions until the early-mid 2030s in my honest opinion. A world-wide depression is most likely going to occur in some kind of default of the US Dollar or loss of reserve status imo. You can't spend yourself out of a debt crisis. There are only two ways out! End the trouble-children (Social Security/Medicare) and absorb the fall-out OR allow the economy to innovate and grow it's way out of such bad debts. US Labor markets and products would need to create immense value and need on a global stage. It's been done before and that is thru foreign wars. It's precisely why the US became so largely involved in WW2.
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  1084. Teachers are leaving schools for the same reason that medical professionals are leaving hospitals. 1. No real wage increase/incentives since 2019; despite 42%+ inflation, according to USD M2 Supply. 2. Behavioral problems from parents, students, patients. 3. Increased work load; doing the work of 3 people. 4. Reduction in benefits across the board. I was driving for Anheuser in 2020 when they cut my (unpaid vacation) from 13 days to 8 annually. Mind you, I was working 6 days a week; 12 hours a day. I left within 6 months of them making that change. I began doing gig jobs like Door-Dash instead so I could help raise my son and spend more time with my family.
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  1085. Believe me, I know exactly what you're talking about. Learned the hard way many years ago about mandatory reporting and red flag laws while seeing a therapist. Though in all honesty it was probably a good thing looking back. If brought everything to light. Not that the threats and state intervention were a joyful experience lol Anyway, I found the best therapy from both my wife and Jordan Peterson. Also standing up to my parents who were psychologically abusive. Took a number of years, but I'm 500% better than I was way back when.
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  1086.  @ImGairBair  Yep! I can confirm that learning how to raise a child (especially as a stay at home dad) will mature your very fast. You can never reach full maturity without taking on the monumental responsibility of having kids; there's just nothing that compares. This is why it's truly impossible for single people to be be close friends with people (married with kids). Being a dad 'hanging around other single men' is like babysitting middle-schoolers. No offense to anyone here.
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  1087.  @ab6565  Then what exactly has she done successfully as VP? Don't go desperately googling her career history. Tell me from the heart if you care so much? I'm serious.
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  1088. Well, the biggest problem is trying to design a system that doesn't incentivize "gaming behavior." Obviously, some political figures do it for votes. People need to understand that we have around 45 million people that can't function in the economy due to cognitive problems. That's around 15% of people falling around an IQ of 85 or below. You need something of at least 90 to use a smartphone and computer. Even the trucking jobs are requiring smartphones now for paperwork and income related uses. It's one of the biggest reasons that we have a realistic unemployment around 20%.
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  1089. The Confederacy openly terminated the Bill of Rights as they did not believe in a Federalist state. You can't say that you're for apples, but against all trees lol It's an old and poor argument that holds no water.
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  1090.  @rhaspados666  Well, this can be tricky. Intellectualization can either be thru hubris or envy. Liberals are high in openness. If the person you're talking to is reactionary; then they aren't a liberal. They're a conservative with a leftist ideology. Conservative and liberal are personality traits; not political ideologies. An intellectualized liberal will usually come off as open, but also arrogant. Never closed off though.
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  1091. I'm convinced that most comments on social media are fake at this point. We can play the (whose land is it game - all day long). Regardless, Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7th/8th that killed 1300 (mainly civilians) in a brutal attack. How anybody comes to the conclusion that Israel is to blame after trying to root out Hamas is a miracle of stupidity or fake accounts.
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  1092. YOU are living paycheck to paycheck. YOUR landlord is living month to month. Your employer is living bailout to bailout. Your politicians are living war to war. The elites are living government to government.
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  1093. Yeah, I hate that! Whenever you pour your heart into a new job, but a year later the faces rapidly change and in a matter of months you don't know anybody anymore.
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  1094. And living rent free in your head because you choose to hate him lol It's easier to join the club and vote for progress and stability :)
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  1095.  @hylimm  The Freedom of Information Act divulged his personal emails on the topic. You can read them yourself... Your allegations of conspiracy are on par with Holocaust denial. Who's side are you on?
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  1096. Buying a dip that everybody is aware of is not insider trading. It's called (YOU JELLY!)
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  1097. Not likely, the system is imploding; not becoming stronger. We are more likely going to go into a currency default than have the Federal Government grow to strengths large enough to accomplish this.
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  1098. That's the people living here for ya lol
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  1099. Gaslighting Karen comment! Assuming all Doctors agree in the first place?
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  1100. I think you mean Academi?
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  1101. Yeah, it's not just you.
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  1102. That truly is a dumb quote lol
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  1103. Socialists (Labour Party) always try to conjure up new labels and ways of fooling the population into thinking that their motivation ISN'T complete control of private business, life, and liberty. They will and have always been losers that can't compete with talent, creativity, and cultural values.
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  1104.  @nankerphelge3771  He never said he sides with Putin. He asked for politicians to stop calling it a Democracy, because it's not. That doesn't mean he can't criticize Russia for invading.
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  1105. No, it correlates with the 28% rule. Without that rule; you'd be right (and it would make no sense).
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  1106. Excuse my ignore, but why (on average) would someone be prescribed benzodiazepine in your experience? Insomnia?
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  1107. I think (regionally an ethnically) is a better way. There's a reason some people do very well with potatoes, vegetables, or even wheat and others don't. Though American grown wheat has a bunch of problems on it's own.
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  1108. Careful what you wish for! I don't dispute the crimes of American politicians, but our high standard of living is mutual to their power. Losing reserve currency status would wreck the US economy and standard of living.
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  1109.  @terrorindu  I don't see how destroying one sector of corporations and giving it to another is a solution. Bureaucratic corruption is rampant. If you don't think these cultures meat companies will do the exact same thing in the long run, then I think that's foolish. Edible vegetation largely didn't exist for humans prior to the 16th century. Processing that into plant proteins and oils (things human never consumed) is the main problem now. It's where arteriosclerosis and obesity stemmed from.
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  1110. It's not just entry level. My wife has been attempting to find another job for over 6 months in healthcare. Master's Degree with (four years of cardiothoracic surgery experience). She's been ghosted by every single employer she's spoken to. The last one was in Ocala where the lady sounded so excited to onboard her for interviews and potential-hire. Saying her skills were one in a million! My wife attempted to contact her again when we didn't hear anything for two weeks. She never replied and that was over a month ago. These companies are using your data to construct a competency pool, then selling your data in bulk to third parties. On top of that, they are using your data to commit unemployment insurance fraud. They give their availabilities to the state and then maintain vacancies so that they can get a break on the tax dues to the state's unemployment fund. The state is happy with the job postings and the company is happy with the tax deductions.
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  1111.  @jenniferlynne7323  Define undedicated? If (not following 100% of FDA, CDC, and AHA guidelines) is uneducated. Then I'm afraid being uneducated is the least of your worries. It's not having any critical thinking skills.
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  1112. January 2020 - September 2024 56% inflation, 10% increase in median wages, and a 17.1% COLA adjustment for Social Security. The Government loves you so much :)
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  1113.  @milesmcmillansr999  Many of us simply don't see it that way. No hate here :)
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  1114. Accountability this; accountability that! Hasn't anyone realized by now that there's nobody left to enforce accountability? It's the fall of Rome, so don't get bewildered when the soldiers are missing from their posts.
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  1115. It's going to be Trump, watch!
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  1116. Aweseom! Shoutout from Ohio!
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  1117. We're technically still in a bull market; or at least coming right over the hump into a bear market. Cutting interest rates after a prolonged time period has ALWAYS resulted in a recession. Question is, what will break first in the next 3 months?
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  1118. People need to take into account that Japan is NOT America. Japan does not suffer from metropolitan crime like the US does. That being said, even if zoning allowed it. You'd have a hard time convincing a business to construct right up against an apartment or housing complex in most locations.
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  1119. Got that right!
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  1120. Wisdom cannot be taught; it must be experienced. I think this is why humanity is doomed to repeat a cycle of horror followed by triumph.
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  1121. @thatswildokay Not sure what you mean; I predicted Trump would win by a 6% margin. Turned out to be roughly 3.
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  1122. Here!
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  1123. Hey, Brie Larson literally told me NOT to show up to her movie in 2019. "No CIS Gendered white men allowed!" So you know what; I didn't go to the theater. Shocker!
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  1124. Maybe they ment 'grandkids'. That would be accurate.
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  1125. I personally think they need to start charging and arresting these content creators (largely women) that are linking their accounts and attempting to create sexual content (knowing) that minors are a large portion of their viewers on (ex: ASMR videos). I think you'll find that some 90% of female ASMR creators are whoring themselves on OF.
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  1126. According to the IRS: The bottom 50% of American tax payers pay a whopping (3.04%) of total Federal Revenue. Fair?
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  1127.  @CTKearns  Uh no! $20 dollars in 2000 is roughly $75 in 2024. You forget inflation increased by 60% since 2020 alone!
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  1128. Beautiful files! The most beautiful files you've ever seen!
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  1129.  @Knightfall21  Disagreeing doesn't make you a leftist. Most people voted for Trump because the Democrats couldn't find a viable candidate. While I like his approach is some ways, most of his banter is paranoia and falsehoods. Trump would literally need to invoke a 75-150% tariff for companies to even THINK about coming back.
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  1130.  @asrr62  Or, maybe people weren't asleep in 2014? Claiming that the US has committed itself to regime changes for the last 50+ years isn't propaganda. I for one am sick of it.
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  1131. Wagies at restaurants lost my respect post-Covid. A bunch of incompetent and carefree buffoons that live on mommy and daddy's credit card and have the audacity to complain when they don't get tipped 25% for bare minimum service. There are VERY few places I will ever go for restaurant service anymore and most of the it's because there's a server on-duty that I respect.
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  1132. I'm from Ohio! If there are any people relocating here, they are coming from places like New York and other places in new England. Migration to Ohio is still sparse, given that we are #9. But many Ohioans are moving to Florida and South Carolina.
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  1133. I know how you feel bud. Go get a CDL; work your butt off for a few years and live minimally! Stay out of debt and leave anyone behind that's holding you back.
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  1134. It's always been a 'specific' demographic of US households. Typically they are city or state employees. I'm 30 and rather successful, but don't have retirement plans. Nobody in my family ever got to properly retire in the private sector. Almost all of them were laid off, then proceeded to maintain a paid off home and SS as their retirement. I know one guy (married) that has a UPS pension; he started in the 1980s. The rest of the successful retirees I know are all public sector; cops, firefighters, teachers, etc.
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  1135. We require 50 years of experience on Windows 10 please
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  1136.  @basspig  Never say never I guess. I don't think it will come to that, but one must always be prepared.
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  1137. The unhappiest, most depressed, and suicidal people are those in first world countries. Your sentiment is misplaced.
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  1138. All these countries allow global migrants to flood into the United States. Yet they'll scream when they get these same migrants dumped back inside their country. Give them a taste of their own medicine please.
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  1139.  @TomBarbashev  I live in reality; perhaps you should return to it. What's your obsession with (Mr. Potato-head Biden) in reference to insulting me?
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  1140. That will just ensure that algorithms get more powerful over time, since the patent is open to be copied and improved. Community confirmed updates? The social media community is a mob. And they will update it as a mob will do.
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  1141. I think it's funny how people don't like that podcasters influenced the election in 2024. BUT, those same people had no problem with celebrities and social media gurus influencing 2020. Do as I say; not as I do syndrome.
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  1142. Did we watch the same video? RFK never said these things and these are the same people that talk about censoring misinformation.
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  1143.  @StinkCabbage  He literally said in the video that the person he was speaking to thought that AIDS might not be the full conclusion of HIV, but rather exaggerated by environmental toxins. I think you want him to say these things to justify your bias. We're watching the same video bud lol Everything is in context and all the words are there.
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  1144. How people relate the Covid vaccine to polio, MMR, and others is beyond ignorant. Do we forget how horrible of a track record some of these companies have? VAERs claims 15,000+ deaths as of late. How that's not enough to shelf this jab shows you how high the corruption goes.
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  1145. Not an incel, but a 28 year old man that's married. Women always puzzled me, especially as a teen. I couldn't get a girlfriend to save my life, couldn't find a prom date, nothing. My first actual date was with a girl a year younger than me when I was 19 years old. Though she had some major anxiety and medical issues, so it didn't exactly work out. I've always been on the athletic side and maintained a 3.3 GPA by the time I graduated HS. Though that never swayed girls when I was younger. It wasn't until my first job at 18, working at a dinner theater did I realize that women took an interest in me; older women specifically 25 to 30. I was sexually assaulted probably 5 or 6 times by various women at my job. I had two grind their rear into my crotch unannounced, I was grabbed, had my rear smacked multiple times, was kiss multiple times, and was sat on too many times to count. All unwarranted. This really threw me off as a late teen because I never understood where this behavior came from until I got older. Mind you, I'm married to a Physician Assistant and I have an AAS that I don't use. Those making money has never been a struggle for me and I'm told I have good looks along with a great physique. On top of that; I cook, clean, sweep, do the laundry etc. It's how I was raised, because my dad and his brother were raised by a single mother. That is where the money is in a relationship. It doesn't matter how much money I ever made, even though I bought us our first house and pay all the bills. It all came down to being a homemaker, while paying bills, staying in shape, and communicating. I realized I was being sexually harassed at my first job because I ran my job as work the same way; with the utmost industriousness and competence. I think it mainly has something to do with birth control and the career orientation that young women are taught. Women realistically don't understand what they actually want until they get older. That's when all the ridiculous fantasies that women have (with men that despise them) fall away. It makes perfect sense. The other interesting find is that in quite a few research surveys. They found that women actively on birth control overwhelmingly prefer men that have significantly slimmer jawlines and builds. Which is typically a sign of genetic dispossession to male infertility, no offense to anyone. Though the same women that went off of birth control and retook the surveys found that they were far more attracted to wider jawed males. Interesting to say the least; it would seem there's a psychological connection at the least. I think a lot of it has to do with levels of testosterone in men and prescription medications in women to a large degree. No woman ever looked at me twice until I turned 18 and the attraction from females became unparalleled after I turned 25. I routinely get called honey, sweetie, love etc. I picked up an order from taco bell this week and the manager called me "eye candy". It's freaking ridiculous at this point. Regardless, I think there's a large correlation with the medications that women are on. As well as the socialization and testosterone that men are having problems with.
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  1146.  @zatoichijiku9281  I think that's an old wives tale conjured up by the American Heart Association bud. Best to leave it in the mythology chapters of history.
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  1147.  @skylinefever  1913, thank the Federal Reserve.
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  1148. "I got kicked off AirBNB for not doing the dishes and talking about it on my show." Not the part where you threatened to burn their house down? lmfao Tim is a legend.
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  1149. I fully concur, I'm 31 and we sold our house a month ago; we had 8 offers. All but ONE were 60+ buyers. Four of those seven were buying for their children.
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  1150. Potato - pótato I think they're conveniently interchangeable whenever a person has a falling out with one or the other. I remember growing up in the early 2000s. We loved Bush, loved our military, loved our country, and loved the enthusiasm to invade 3rd world countries to rob them of oil and opium. After a falling out, the only thing left was the 'love of country'. But what does it mean to love a country? One can love many places for their geological composition. Maybe what we really mean is that we love our foundation? Men you never knew, parchment you've never seen, and that happened to be birthed on a specific set of global coordinates? I'm just thinking aloud of course...
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  1151. CNN needs Trump to win; otherwise their channel will go off-air due to bankruptcy lol
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  1152. Did we watch the same interview? I have my own issues with Vance, but he's very well spoken. The interviewer did nothing but gaslight and try to create 'gotcha' moments like addressing family separation. All families are separated when people commit crimes; she's playing dumb for low info voters.
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  1153. I don't it so much as an evil plot, but rather an inevitability due to the tech/intelligence curve. You have 45 Million people with an IQ of 85 and below. You need at least an IQ of 90 to operate a smart phone. See the problem?
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  1154. They all take bribes bud; welcome to politics. Trump is the reason the economy is in the toilet. He threated Powell with his job to get negative interest rates! Thank God they stopped at 0.25% We would have easily had 10%+ YoY inflation if he had gotten his way. You elect him again and I guarantee you that he'll fire Powell and install a Fed Director that will do his bidding; all to pump the stock market and give us a resurgence in inflation to make his corporate buddies happy. His fiscal policies and PPP loan policies created that environment. I'm no fan of Biden, but Trump was economic suicide.
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  1155. I love Peter! Not because he's right; he's typically wrong about virtually everything. However, I like his delivery and many of his points can always taken as potential side interests in the grand scheme of geopolitics.
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  1156.  @victorsmall7  Personally, he doesn't seem qualified whatsoever. He's a major bs'er on any given topic. Many of his reasons are (to save people's lives). If that's the case, then why did NATO organize a coup against Kiev to initiate Russian aggression? It blows my mind how people are still unaware of what's going on in this conflict; no offense.
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  1157.  @ashicks  Try not to insult people with responses; it's unprofessional and childish. ABC is owned by the Australian Government and Sky News Australia is owned by Comcast. What exactly are you deducing to think that government/corporate owned stations are non-partisan? Some advice if you will. Believing something is objective because it comes from the government is like believing a monopoly will always tell you the truth.
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  1158. DEI is about removing by skin color to hire based on skin color.
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  1159. What are you talking about? What does getting Trump out of office have to do with surviving?
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  1160. Bernie and Ron Paul always seemed to grab my attention to most; seeing as they are most likely the only honest men that ever existed in Congress.
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  1161. A significant portion of the problem came from the Obama Administration; we are just now starting to notice the affects it has on the educational and healthcare sector. His Administration completely overhauled the workplace hierarchy so that it was exclusively dictated by administrative authority. The same problem happened in healthcare; only insurance companies became involved as well. Teachers have very little say in how their schools are run or the curriculum that is given out. Principles are at the mercy of administrative authority from the districts and states. Both of which are filled with nepotism and corruption.
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  1162. Don't you mean 'Peter's tree speaking skills?'
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  1163. Basically, you are going to see much fewer Americans and Europeans, but a LOT more Indians and Middle-easterners taking up the tourism industry.
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  1164.  @TXP9  Doesn't work that way pal. If you can't describe what you've lost; then you haven't lost anything.
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  1165.  @fluteloop6737  They can't tell you because they don't have any brain-cells. I really like RFK, but his pick of Nicole Shanahan has me suspicious now.
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  1166.  @djp1234  No, Putin literally endorsed Kamala back in early September. Even CNN of all outlets reported it.
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  1167. Preach! The system we have is a 'gate-keeper insurance/pharma scam'. Universal healthcare would be 10 times worse. What other countries have is called 'no gate-keeping' and a free market lol. It's that simple!
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  1168. Deportations are actually more likely to make consumers turn to existing producers outside the US. Rather than make them pay more for farmers that have to raise prices or have supply shortages from lack of workers.
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  1169. CDL still pays quite a bit. I ran in Columbus, OH from Anheuser; my old job pays $85k starting these days.
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  1170. Politicians are only one kind of problem; people ultimately destroy their own countries. Complacency destroys cultures.
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  1171. And property taxes? Vacancy taxes? Are the Chinese couple paying that? It wouldn't make much sense to do that in central Ohio for instance. In 2 decades, you'd pay at least $25,000 on property taxes! Kind of eats away at your speculation profits.
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  1172. Buckle up; they're about to go up another 20-30% if FED cuts rates.
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  1173.  @AquaS0ma  Well, as much as I understand your sentiment; you get into trouble with the word 'right'. Which means you have a right to take it from someone else. Personally, companies shouldn't have a right to use the government to force out competitors and abuse the market.
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  1174. How would you account for UBI's role in inflationary pricing? We saw what a 0.25% federal funds rate did to the economy; 42% inflation in the last 3 years according to the USD M2 Supply. Giving everyone more money would just increase grocery and all other prices. Inflation would increase again and each year you'd have to pro-rate that UBI with an inflationary adjustment that was probably in the 5-15% range. It's a quick way to make all essentials REALLY expensive.
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  1175.  @nothere9551  Well, I think balance is the key. You can't trust pharma or the food industry, but going to extremes can also create systemic problems.
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  1176. A normal dog doesn't attack a newborn in their cage. That's what a vicious and feral dog does; created by feral and vicious owners. 68 years should have also taught you that dogs are a product of their owners. Blaming the dog completely for his erratic behavior is a scapegoat.
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  1177. From what I heard, the barbed wire that was setup impeded officers from accessing a large number of migrants in an area down by the Rio. They cut the wire in order to get to the migrants and send them to the nearby encampment.
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  1178.  @Switchblade39  It's all in theater, subtle wording, gaslighting, and narrative shaping. Once you see it; you'll never un-see it. For example, when they say 'insurrection' considering that nobody was ever charged with an insurrection and it defies the very definition; they are narrative shaping. They do this to give the impression to the viewer that it was their own idea. Tech algorithms and video editing these days are unparalleled in their ability to sway people's thoughts and opinion on any given subject. It's all about control; just wait till AI really gets rolling here.
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  1179. Their base at this point are (students and pensioners). Two classes of people that don't really live in reality of the working class plight.
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  1180. Because they are trying to fool people into thinking it was 10,000 people, when in reality it was more like 6000.
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  1181.  @carrasco2011sc  Our? Which tribe do you come from specifically?
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  1182.  @darin4704  Why am I going to have a bad day??
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  1183. Commercial and rental specifically. Single-family homes will face only distal fallouts from this disaster; maybe 10-15%. Rentals may comes down 30-40%! Florida, Texas, SC, and California will get hit HARD!
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  1184.  @BadMannerKorea  For an overtime paycheck of course. Not like you'd do it for fun.
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  1185.  @BadMannerKorea  Well, don't work yourself to death. Otherwise you might wake up one day at the age of 60 and missed out on life.
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  1186. Dementia
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  1187.  @cromBumny  I can't find any 'reason' surrounding Marx. He was afforded his entire life from familial and associate wealth. Not to mention he endlessly wrote about his envies of society at the time. "A man should revolve around himself as if he were his own sun." ""Religion is an opiate for the masses." The guy was entirely in love with himself and revolved his theories around depriving those that had more wealth than himself. Pure vanity and envy.
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  1188.  @tak178  You're projecting and don't insult people please. It's childish...
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  1189. PARENTS failed to prepare their children for the world. They were too busy telling them to get expensive degrees so that they could gloat to their buddies about it at cook-outs. They when their children couldn't get jobs; they gas-lit them into thinking it was their fault for signing the loan. Boomers in my opinion are the most entitled self brats to ever walk the face of the planet. A generation that STOLE valor from Vietnam Vets, smoked and drank everything they could get their hands on, worked jobs that pay the equivalent of 300k for 30 years; not to mention bought low in 87' 00' 08' and 2020. But now they have the gall to complain that younger generations ask for too much money after their retirements tripled from recent inflation.
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  1190. Oh yes, the grand old 'parents are not perfect' BS that abusers love to throw around to absolve themselves.
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  1191.  @mmfong297  Military logistics couldn't defeat goat herders in Afghanistan. Do you really think it's going to succeed against a population the size of the US or China? The idea that the military has the capability is laughable.
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  1192. I think this is probably a multi faceted issue like everything else. One thing I don't hear mentioned above all else is competence. From my experience, competence has completely left the room. My order is always wrong, I don't get silverware at a restaurant without asking, and everyone else has a five second attention span. You can't blame it all of unemployment insurance, because recipient rates are close to where they were pre-Covid. One major factor that people need to consider, is that the pandemic completely changed the outlook on work. Especially through the essential worker phase. Why on earth should I work hard for $15/h, while many of my co-workers receive the same amount doing the bare minimum? I believe many Americans started feeling that and jumping ship as part of the equation. Tucker was slightly wrong on one thing and that's the number of workers that have left the workforce. It's not 5 million, it's closer to 10 million. Social Security beneficiaries aren't out of the norm for retirement. Labor participation pre-Covid was 64%, now it's 61%. 'Where did those people go?' is the question of the year.
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  1193. That's not exactly a rational statement. Record profits are a result of record inflation. People eat up the statement because they're not thinking about the fundamentals.
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  1194.  @klayn1204  It's inevitable with population growth and the current Keynesian system and reserve currency. You can do it all over again and it would still end up the same way; Price's Law and natural pareto distributions. Question is, why eat the rich? The state acquiring their wealth only devalues it's equity. This has been tried numerous times already and it ends the same way. I can guarantee that you'll be more prosperous in this system than any system where the rich get taken out.
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  1195. A bit off topic, but correlative imo. With the continuing immigration crisis; 8 million since 2020 and est. 30M illegal migrants inside the US. If amnesty is ever put back on the table and passes; the average American will never work a decent job again.
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  1196. Cherish it while it lasts. It's only a matter of time until companies find loopholes to outsource your 'remote job' to someone half the world away.
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  1197.  @hoppeanofasgard1365  Well hyperinflation is when it hits over 100% I believe. But don't worry, it's on the way lol US debt obligations will ensure it. Thank a Boomer that won't give up their SS or Pension while pulling the ladder up.
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  1198. Well, a good way to avoid cancer in the first place is (eat correctly, avoid carcinogenic hygiene products, and don't take routine pharmaceuticals like birth-control). Most people are completely unaware that birth-control is actually a Class A carcinogen and is the reason there's a 50% rate of breast cancer among women in the US.
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  1199. I'm not trying to be condescending; I'm sorry you went thru that. However, this does largely depend on the woman. I know every situation is unique, but in many cases of divorce or martial problems among friends/family. I could easily see the problems from a mile away. Two simple rules I followed before I got married: never date a woman on birth control AND never marry a woman that can't apologize.
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  1200. Unpopular opinion here, but I've actually enjoyed the media disregarding a whopping majority of mass shootings that have taken place over the past two years. Most people think that mass shootings are non-existent now, but quite the contrary; you're simply hearing about them less. Don't give mass killers the attention they want. They seek immortal life through the media cartel and an image of their face that will haunt Americans for generations. I have no problem with them not reporting these low-lives.
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  1201. I don't think he really knows what he's talking about here. Human history is the story of war, rape, and slavery from Ancient Greece to the Native Americans. I won't ridicule Musk for his stance on this issue; nobody is perfectly attune to all subjects lesser or greater. Our ancestors migrated routinely, freezing their butts off, fending off opposing tribes, and hunting what deer and foraging what berries/nuts they could. It's a story of constant conflict and conquest no matter what civilization you ran into. Clean water and a shared culture are what made us rise out of the dark ages of history. But even those events don't absolve us from our cruel human roots. People should never take that for granted.
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  1202. I'm 29 and have worked in both freight and excavation plumbing. The idea that manufacturing or (blue collar) in general will return to the United States is delusional. Most of these prospects come from very hopeful Gen X and Boomers that have great optimism to see the rust belt and their personal layoffs redeemed is some sort of vicarious fashion. When I got initially got my CDL (which was 5 years ago); I had a class of 15 men. Three of which were from (New York, Ohio - Halliburton, and myself in FedEx). The other 12 members of the class were African green-card visas. The previous class was exclusively (African green-cards). American citizens are NOT attending these schools and they are not applying to these industries. One thing to consider that many people are not paying attention to are demographic problems. Baby Boomers are retiring and newer generations are not footing enough of the bill to maintain the Social Security program. Millennials are 27-43 and Generation Z (the smallest generation) is right behind them with 'zero' equity. Most of both generations have been plagued with ridiculous student loan bills at the direction of their parents. It can be very difficult to convince two generations of college students to entirely switch careers after giving so much prospect into white-collar. On top of that, due to a plethora of government and private sector incentives. A majority of young people are completely unaware that they can enter these fields with little to no overhead cost and begin making middle-class income in many instances. Third, manufacturing in the US is not what it used to be. Job security, benefits, and wages have major pitfalls. This country has places very little value on being a producer and almost ALL of incentives on being a 'service' economy. In most cases, non-necessity services; especially in tech and gig markets. I can't be sure that unionization or lack thereof will be the answer; on top of government regulation. However, I can say, as long as the incentives for (speculation, cheap debt, and service industry 'outsourcing') remain; wage value and equity will decline. The fact that someone earning an 'income' pays (on average) 22% +7.69% FICA, but someone speculating on the market pays 10-15% is insane.
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  1203.  @jamesross160  Well, probably bad timing. Record run of a bull market created complacency along with technology. Then inflation insanity killed the standard of living. Also, Boomers and Gen X had a much stronger purchase value for the dollar. If they had to do life all over again, they'd find it multiple times harder.
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  1204. Can I ask what being an economist meant in reference to your comment? I'm extremely well versed in economics myself, but your statement was more about media anecdotes if anything. I mean, you claim a colleague of yours got assaults and mugged by an African; there's no a whole lot of information there or confidence in the wording. If what you say is true, then you have my condolences. However, it seemed like low-hanging fruit to loosely attach your self to someone who may or may not have been attacked by an immigrant. Unless you meant something else entirely. I think people are spending way too much time in the fantasy land of social media and less in real life. I've been all over the world and to about 37 states in the US. The problems are the same everywhere. Weak and complacent culture leads to an upheaval in politics and behavior. The worst people I've ever met have always been natural-born citizens without exception. I'm well aware that there are moral/ethical problems in numerous cultures like Somalis or Chinese that make it more difficult to have a positive experience on average. However, in most cases it seems to me that the locals of a given area are unwilling to change, the economic fundamentals start banging on the door, and then they start to complain. Here in America, a lot of culture has been lost. Not because of foreigners or DEI, but because they allowed it to die. They exchanged their friends and family for an iPad and they couldn't be happier doing so. I will never understand how people think they can profit from a global economic system, but get mad because people want to relocate.
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  1205.  @sunnyadams5842  Do you pay property taxes? Because getting that $2552 bill in February freaking sucks. It effectively means that most of the tax representation goes to a minority of property owners, but they see no difference representation. I'd be perfectly fine gouging sales taxes. It would probably bring down inflationary pressures too.
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  1206. lol I've been doing IF for so long that "only eating one meal a day at 4pm" feels perfectly normal to me. No strain, no hunger pains, no lack of energy. I thought it suicide when I first started, but it will change your life.
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  1207. If at any time you wonder: "Why do Californians keep voting for the same thing over and over expecting things to change?" Just remember: there's a disturbing number of people that think - "The pandemic isn't going away, keep making mask mandates and lockdowns!
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  1208. Like 2-3% tops
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  1209. Too many early retirees from 2020 to 2021. People aged 50 - 60; some 10-15 million of them. People either had an epiphany or they were trying to avoid the drama of Covid lockdowns, and/or vaccinations. These people paid CA$H via 401Ks for homes; that's how people were able to fight for prices with cash down. They are too young to claim SS and are still part of the work force via PT or gig work; that's why they don't show up on the stats. We simply don't have enough young people to replace them. This (retirement crisis) was inevitable; it was only a matter of time. It's the start of something much more economically devastating; plummeting birth rates in most first world nations.
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  1210. I always think of the Hunger Games. How do these people not see how they are obviously the clueless and disconnected sheep living in the Capitol?
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  1211. Yep! MLMs, startup apps, and gigs are NOT innovation. It's using existing corporations to create new extensions of the corporation.
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  1212. Human purposes: Men - sex, violence, entertainment Women - attention and children. Social media feeds the biological necessities of each brain and creates a dopaminergic addiction. It gives them everything that they want. Why would they revert back to their old biological tendencies. Both can feel like they are apart of the biological community without actually doing anything.
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  1213.  @RMJJ91  What about being rich makes you more greedy than a poor person; honest question? Greedy doesn't describe your assets; it's describes your ambition to have more than what is fairly due.
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  1214. I used to say that the US will lose Reserve Currency status by 2030, but I'm starting to think it's going to be before 2025. China 2025? I don't think it's a conspiracy; I think they are blatantly telling the truth.
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  1215. Yeah, had to look that one up; had no idea she'll be 60 during the election.
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  1216. (Manager) - "The information about our client is classified." (Hera) - "I'm a General; nothing is classified to me!" I turned off the TV and barfed...
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  1217. Honestly, they should just impose a 25% sales-tax on a state level and then again on a Federal Level. Yes, 50% tax on all items! Don't ever bother me again with Income tax, Social Security, Medicare, or Property tax ever again. Plus, it will also push inflation down on a lot of food and products. Win-win I suppose?
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  1218. "I'm a woman; therefore I exude competence and held back potential." Some context for young people! People that use victimhood to gain power ALWAYS abuse it.
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  1219. Anybody with an Algebra I education should be able to deduce why DEI and affirmative action are so harmful. Imagine choosing an equal number of male/female nurses out a selection pool where 10:1 of those degrees were women. Mathematically you are choosing people of lower competence by choosing an equal number of men. Same goes for professions that women are underrepresented in. The Soviets did this in the 1930s and it led to a catastrophe when Hitler invaded in 41'. Stalin almost immediately reverted the armed forces back to a standardized Western model of testing when it came to producing officers.
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  1220. Yeah, RV living used to be nice; until the bull market from 2013-2019. It's insanely expensive now. Personally, this is why me and my wife contemplate getting property outside the US.
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  1221. Believe me, politics is just the tip of the iceberg. This entire economy runs on lies.
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  1222. Oh please, I live in Ohio and these heat waves in June have been happening my entire life. It isn't an Ohio summer without at least a week or two of 90-100F. This has been the normal in all my 30 years of life. People that think this is an emergency are the same people that don't leave their houses.
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  1223. No offense, but that's an extremely sophomoric view of 'priorities' when in reality you're describing a (labor market).
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  1224.  @DIVISIONINCISION  You act like saving for retirement was the same as it was in the 80s or 90s. If you had $500,000 in a 401k or 403b in 2019. You might now have $800,000, but your expenses doubled. Earnings/wages DO NOT keep up with prices. This is what happens in Keynesian economics when you have rising demand and reduced GDP/productivity. Sure, you could have saved enough to absorb most of the newer inflation. But eventually, inflation will eat everyone. If inflation outgrows wages, then eventually everybody will suffer (one block at a time; up the income scale).
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  1225. People can blame the government all they want, but tyranny doesn't come from the top down. It comes from the bottom up. The culture is shifting in the United States. Changing your vote at the ballot box isn't going to stop the cultural tsunami coming. It's inevitable; people are the problem.
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  1226. This conviction just won him the election with Independents; mark my words. Anybody not interested in the details will blatantly see this as 'imprisonment of political rivals'. Look at the polls next week and he'll be up +10-15 points.
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  1227. No, it's just ballot adjudication. The Antrim Cy. Forensics team in Michigan proved it. All it takes is a poll executive to adjudicate any number of ballots to a certain vote. They could use the application to group 5000 ballots at a time and alter there vote from red to blue. We need a system that verifies for people how they voted. A Blockchain voting system seems optimal imo.
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  1228.  @IdalyPartridge  Who taught you that? CNN?
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  1229. My God, can you narcs come up with anything new? If the internet gave you the enlightenment that you needed to be a fully rounded parent. Then why did these abusive parents always know how to 'properly act' whenever they were in public or had guests over? As soon as that door shut, their personalities morphed and the abuse began. Prior generations always knew what they had to do. Most were just too much of cowards to do anything about it.
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  1230.  @SoCal9705  If you own or lease your own truck, as well as have you own authority. Then yes, this is possible after expenses to make six figures as a truck driver. Although you used to be able to pull $200k, that isn't the case anymore. As a company driver though, this isn't the case. Those average earnings are around $49k per year. My annual average was $70k, but I was also one of the most efficient and long hour drivers at 72h per week and I did side work to get bonuses.
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  1231. Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot, being a family means (being abused me shitbag parents that feel much better about themselves after they use you as a human punching bag). If you decide to run away from that abuse, then YOU are selfish! lol The cycle of abuse in these situations is morbidly hilarious. It's a system of control where the abuser gets to maintain their victims in a family setting; how lovely!
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  1232. I'm from central Ohio, most people I've ever met have a pretty good geographical education of the world. Btw, I'm largely talking about rural and suburban populations. If I had to pick on a demographic; college kids are the worst with geography imo. When I was in school in the early 2010s, beginning any topic of foreign nations would usually lose most students.
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  1233. You'd have to convince the culture to abandon Amazon, Walmart, and corporatization. All these Government incentives breed a corporate environment and in return (also) breed urbanization and the growth of large cities. Government is at the helm of almost every problem. It's a giant lever that businesses use in order to squash competition or line their own pockets. Government subsidies go to farmers that grow Soy, Corn, and Wheat. So that also incentivizes the seed oil industry to boom in the fast food chains. This also produces more urbanization.
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  1234. Similar situation in the US. Median rent is $2550 ($30,000k per year), while the median income is $35,000. This is what happens when central banks live out loans like Halloween candy. The US money jar gets inflated and no new cookies get baked. If printing grows without (real-growth); then prices grow and wages stagnate.
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  1235. Did you guys have sex after this?
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  1236.  @dricoirving3236  It's a wet dream that will be short lived bud. These companies already learned that they can shove thru the same amount of customers with HALF the staffing. What do you think they are currently trying to do with 'remote workers' that they could contract overseas for lesser wages? All of these factors push wage values DOWN.
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  1237.  @realresident1890  The immigration crisis has been really bad in Chicago. Remember the city went thru with the 20 Million dollar housing/encampment levy when the city residents overwhemingly said 'No!'. That was less than a year ago; people are still pissed it's being put up.
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  1238.  @Flash3-22  Term limits (meaning) you can't run 12 times for Congressional Rep.
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  1239. There is a Spanish option in the gear box :)
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  1240. She makes Michelle and Milania looks like Saints with class.
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  1241. The Oscars were on?
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  1242.  @vagabondwastrel2361  I recall that the Proud Boys were being brought up on Federal charges for storing a cache of firearms near the Congressional building to use (had Trump said that they needed to invoke a militia to overthrow the government).
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  1243. Why can't you afford your own place? Go get a job as a package handler $17-$22 or go get your CDL $70k+ and pay in installation.
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  1244. Being the best spouse comes first. If you can't maintain a stable marriage; the children WILL pay for it.
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  1245. Wait, that was a girl? I couldn't tell lol
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  1246.  @realbosstakea  Congrats!
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  1247. Literally every comment! Republican/Independent - criticisms of everyone/plans Democrats - BUT TRUMP!!! blahhh!
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  1248.  @cl9826  It's not capitalism; government has been highly influencing these behaviors. None of the businesses would be acting like this if they weren't getting PPP loans and other subsidies that manipulate their behavior to workers and the market. Corporations have a large incentive to (short) their own companies and then claim bankruptcy. They get to buy a yacht and your tax dollars bail out their failing company.
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  1249. They killed 300 Million of their own during the one child policy terror. Genocide is nothing new to the Chinese Government.
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  1250. For anyone that is confused by Elon's post. He's probably referring the the recent news that the FED now has a 100% chance of cutting interest rates in September. If the FED's cut rates; it will induce a recession, period. This will drive the stock market down and unemployment up due to the refinancing phase in the banking industry. This has happened without exception for the last 50+ years in these situations. After this takes place, the FED and US Government will have two options. Bail-out the markets 'again' like they did in 2020 (OR) let the entire system default, which in all honesty isn't an option. Get ready for inflation round 2; 2025 and part of 2026 will seem like things are returning to normal, but 2027/2028 will probably feel like you got run over by a freight train.
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  1251.  @215Ride  Well, not all of it is so easy. We still teach people to eat a low fat, low red meat, and high carbohydrate diet. That's the problem. With that kind of advice, how are people supposed to change anything? Plus, the fast food is full of MSGs. If you have have a hunger-pain for a certain fast food; that's msgs in your stomach. The entire food supply is crap.
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  1252. @Christina-g4s It's not welfare, it's the fact that the government gate-keeps asset prices via SS, Medicare, and Pensions. They are the primary reason that the debt crisis is so bad and why prices won't come down.
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  1253. It actually makes perfect sense. Universities receive Federal subsidies; some 94% of all student loans are owned by Sallie Mae investors. The value of college decreases because the demand of a college degree by employers is dependent on the supply of jobs available, which is LOW. The value of college itself is derived from excessive demand based on manipulated interest rates set by the Federal Government. By giving subprime loans and maintaining a culture that strives for higher ed; college attendance remains high. The higher the demand the higher the cost. None of this would be possible if student loans were privatized. Banks would immediately throw up a 30% interest rate and drastically increase demands for co-signers and borrowers. The demand for college would plummet and so would the prices. Problem solved, but nobody ever learns because they don't teach basic econ; probably for a reason.
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  1254. Meh, rather societal decay and too many young apathetic men with broken families.
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  1255.  @ENZERYN  More competition for an illusion of scarce resources maybe. Remember that everybody is always comparing themselves to the current standard of living; this drives the inequalities. If we were transported back a few centuries; we'd all be in the top 1%.
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  1256. You're probably making a wise decision. Same here, my family went a bit downhill after 08 when my Gma passed. Things were held in suspension until 2020 and everybody lost their minds. We lost 3 grandparents and people adopted nihilism, political radicalism, or iPhone worship. This societal decay has happened before though. Ultimately, many people will either be too addicted to technology to have kids OR they will produce anti-social kids that aid in destroying society. In the end, it's all about complacency; it's how the Roman Empire fell.
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  1257. So sorry to hear about your family troubles. Time does heal all wounds and hopefully you can do some wonders for your dad and vice versa before his time comes :) Try to focus your mind though and leave anxieties behind. Things that can't be changed aren't worth torturing yourself over. Stay healthy and I hope you do well :)
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  1258. There is a finish line, despite the nasty inflation we have. People would rather indulge in addictions and debt; same as they always have. For people that aren't suffering from crushing student loan debt or medical debt. I would truly ask what's holding them back?
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  1259.  @KaffeeSpot  Inventory compared to 12 months ago is up, yes. But overall it is historically still low. Also, demand curves play an important role. July 2022 had the highest inventory since January of 2009. Yet the demand was soaring. The demographics in demand have largely changed. It may feel like nobody is buying, but it's because millennials aren't buying; boomers are. All of our offers (minus 1) were 60+ in age.
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  1260. @gdhs I think watching the "news" is your problem. Plus, the FDA hasn't "approved" anything, even the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine. Yes, they are lying. How do I know this? Read the FDA license that is public. It's a PHS extension; that's not an approval. Same thing goes for booster. It was disapproved 16 - 2. Then they rammed through another (351a) PHS Extension. So they can go on their website and post "FDA Approved!". And then mumble, technically we aren't lying, because we weren't specific.
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  1261. This is hilarious, I was actually just thinking (what happened to Vitaly) like 3 days ago. Then he magically shows up on Asmon and is apparently a woman beater and jailed overseas; wow.
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  1262. The claim that China is buying up US farm land is pathetically dumb. A simple google search could illuminate the fact that Canadian nationals own roughly 6% of US Farm land and China owns less than 2%.
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  1263. This is why I deleted all my social media accounts and use a VPN with a fake Google account. They are going to use everything against you. Get ready for social credit scoring.
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  1264. Trump will never be President again; I guarantee you. I don't say that because I love Biden; I actually despise him. I simply don't think he has the votes and 18-30 is now a solid Democratic block, especially among women (92%). Assuming the immigration, economics, and gender issues would somehow re-elect Trump out of voter spite was the worst political strategy in US history. Watch! RFK and the Libertarian candidate will take 15% of the vote. Trump will take 35% and Biden will win 50%. This will be Ross Perot (1992) all over again.
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  1265.  @weeblordgaming6062  Yeah, older generations typically had anywhere from 3-10 year mortgages as well where employers would actively supply many of the loan terms with local banks. Many times manufacturing contracts would even pay off your house over the course of 5 years as you worked for the company. I'm from Lancaster, OH and this was the norm here in the 1940s and 1950s.
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  1266. Labor class vs. institutions
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  1267.  @l-train7876  Come to places like Dunkirk-IN, Lancaster-OH, Charleston WV. People are kind, but virtually everybody is on food stamps. When I say everybody, I quite literally mean 70%+ of the residential population is on some form of assistance (snap, liheap, etc.)
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  1268.  @looonytoonz  Well, most people are financially illiterate. Younger generations are literally taught that wages have almost no relation to final product cost.
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  1269. Unfortunately, I don't think doing voting (any which way) is going to stop what's coming. We are NEVER going to see 2% inflation again; plus the labor markets are stretched thin from retirees and low birth-rates. Government actions during Covid truly messed everything up and pushed us forward ten years.
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  1270. Well, the idea is that future children take up the baton. But when nobody is having children; there's nobody to take up the baton lol It's gotten to the point where 30 people are dependent on ONE mother/father with a single child to carry all the traditions of the family. It's creating parasitic parents and older cousins/siblings imo.
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  1271. The guy talking about the 'equal opportunity act' has no idea what he's talking about. He is the very definition of a low IQ narcissist. He is intentionally using a vague perception of an existing US statute to determine that people are immoral. DEI or affirmative action have never been about equal opportunity. It has always been about extending a hiring initiative to lesser qualified people so that there are less white/asian males in certain industries. These same initiatives have never been used to correct imbalances in industries dominated by women or other minorities; nor should they.
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  1272. Yes, very rational! Perhaps people are tired of inflationary pressure, 8 million illegal migrants, two new wars, and global tensions we haven't had since the 1960s? I hope that's what you meant :)
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  1273. Money apparently is NOT the root of all evil, it's the second. Religion seems to be though. Watching how people worship gender, race, Marxism, Government agencies, and corporations has taught me that.
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  1274. It's ridiculous that we even have to resort to this. Not that I'm against having teachers carry weapons; it's simply sad that we've even gotten to this stage in the crisis. Guns do one thing; solve a situation or kill a perp. They are not going to solve the unacknowledged crisis of sociopathic young men that we are breeding. Social media has been one of the largest catalysts for creating a generation that derives values from virtue signals and are completely apathetic to real world problems. It's nothing but me-me-me and any adversity will make them break down and start pounding anti-depressants. No wonder they think that all their problems are the fault of someone else.
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  1275. Well, not to blame the guys here, but many of you have serious problems with pursuing college women. Guys need to learn how to seek out pretty Wendy's workers and ask if they want to be a mom; not TikTok idiots with Planet Fitness butts.
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  1276.  @christiannoriega428  Schools teach to the common denominator. The smartest kid in the room is missing opportunities because the teacher is too busy helping the less intelligent kids. Plus, with all the less intelligent and unethical kids cheating (on every level of education I might add). It gives zero incentives for the smart kids to continue to participate. Why be smart and become the teachers pet if all the other kids are going to disrupt and cheat? So I agree with you! The problem though is that with how addicting and unregulated internet content is these days. There's not really any way to manage the younger minds. These kids will start with an educational video and end up on social media clickbait; it's a competition for attention and it's addicting. I suppose if we start to label many of these issues are addictions, then maybe we can find a way out of them. There's really no path to regulation without registration. Maybe that's the answer, but I don't know.
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  1277. Fully agreed! I've been saying for years that they are massively overvalued. The field itself is insanely saturated with coders, engineers, and software developers. Personally, I think University prices are the only thing inadvertently propping up MOST white collar wages.
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  1278. In my personal experience, I've met many dimwitted Trump supporters. At the same time, I've never met a Harris supporter that was intelligent whatsoever.
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  1279. We make six figures; can CONFIRM without a doubt that we pay upwards of $50-60k in taxes each year; everything combined!
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  1280. Not true 'technically speaking' until July 26th when they release GDP Q2.
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  1281. I'll tell you why people are leaving; it's the same reason that I left. 72 hours, 6 days a week, 8 unpaid vacation days a year, and underpaid for market price. I swear, things like CPM in the trucking industry need to be abolished. Earning 54 cents a mile on that kind of work schedule essentially nets you $17.00 per hour, when the market (hourly/wage) for the same industry is $22-$25/h Lack of regulation, oversight, and corporate policy are what's destroying this country. Thank the trickle-down economic clowns for that one!
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  1282.  @LoveyK  Has a poor person ever fought the corporations and won?
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  1283. The writing was on the wall back in the early 2000s. If people in 2024 can't figure out that most degrees are worthless in the job market; then that's you're own fault. Too many narcissistic parents also continue to push education so that they can gloat about their family status to people that don't actually care. Anymore, education (even at the Community level) is pushing student debt sharply. These kids end up being indentured servants making $40k a year until they're 40+ years old.
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  1284. Wages can't go up; prices need to come down. The scary part is that the Federal Government cannot afford a deflationary event at this point in time. It would implode all of the existing debts. They have no choice but to inflate away the debts and by extension; prices. This means that wages may go up over time, but they will fall further and further away from affordability. Nobody will ever again have the purchasing power that they did in 2019, ever! The strain will get harder until the currency implodes and we lose reserve currency status. No going back now.
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  1285. It's a cute idea and quite creative if you ask me, especially the creation of Bitcoin. However, as much as I like the idea of a decentralized global currency; it poses the same problem that gold does. A gold standard in a global trade only favors the leaders in productivity. It's a game of monopoly. Eventually, when the most productive nation exports their products and imports 'your' nations gold. Then the importing nation has nothing left to bargain with, which inevitably leads to resource expansion; aka 'war'. Although, you could make the assumption that (unlike a gold-standard) BTC cannot be controlled by the government. So nations that failed in productivity/exports would attempt to engineer new currencies by force. However, if BTC is still more favorable overseas, then it could stifle such ambitions. BTC is also extremely 'energy' expensive to mine and transact. It surely doesn't have VISA beat by a long shot. Ultimately, in order for BTC to work, you would need a globalized economy and an incentive to absorb BTC energy costs.
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  1286. Absolute rubbish! Average teachers work 50+ hour weeks; much of which is not compensated. Plus, you're not considering how much time they have to give to the District, Administration, further training, and conferences. We don't have a teacher shortage because teaching is 'easy'. We have a shortage because they're being burned out by long hours and low pay; not to mention garbage kids and parents.
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  1287. He's juggling his TDS and love of Trump's new policy.
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  1288. Same here! I hope you find peace and prosperity!
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  1289. Tell that to all the whiners that complain about Tom Bombadil not being in the film lol
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  1290. You punished the most by (owning a home and working a W-2) You get punished the least by (renting and gambling). Intentional? I think not!
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  1291. You're about to pay those taxes WITH much higher inflation if those tariffs go thru. Americans are going to find out the hard way that American-born citizens WILL NOT work menial farm jobs.
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  1292.  @kha2121  Because the Ottomans focused more on Imperial interests of the state; rather than ridiculous theocratic laws that kept everyone in the dark.
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  1293. Social Security, Medicare, Interest, and the debt/GDP gap w/demographics is what's driving the problem. Anybody that tells you military and discretionary are driving the debt don't know what they are talking about. This is what Reaganomics ultimately gets you. Financing cheap debts and taxes doesn't create a GDP that outpaces debt; it creates a scam market with a bunch of bubbles. Unfortunately, at this point the US cannot afford to go with high interest (long term). The budget will force more spending to finance the IOUs and we will go into hyperinflation within the next 10-15 years.
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  1294.  @thebigballer2434  Those factors are largely irrelevant. The center of all this inflation is with (Social Security, Medicare, Pensions, and the Federal Reserve). Regulations and taxation are peanuts in comparison. GDP would have to be insane to produce an economy that could out-compete our debt obligations. It's just not feasible. You could cut 100% of military and discretionary. It would do nothing to stop the debt crisis.
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  1295. Oh she does alright! Has what it takes to get us into WW3.
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  1296. Propaganda and manipulation at it's finest! CNN has reached a new low.
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  1297. I'm not exactly sure that multi-culturalism is destroying the West faster than many other factors are; at least not in the US. I've lived in Ohio for 30 years and it's very clear to me that technological addiction derailed the family and culture faster than anything I've ever witnessed. Being family, community, or even largely Caucasian did not stop the destruction of what I grew up with. Immigrants or foreign cultures certainly didn't do it either. In my experience, it was economic stress, trauma, hopelessness, and above all else 'disconnection'. My entire family was wrecked since 2020 and it had nothing to do with multiculturalism. I'm not saying it's not potentially an issue, but I wouldn't even put it in the top 10 for causations.
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  1298. The problem with social media these days is that it's a cesspool of anarchic information. Most people can't decipher what is right, wrong, up, or down. This is why economics and finance are so important. The cross-over for being able to detect lies on the internet is truly rewarding. It frustrates me how a lot of these influencers try to manipulate viewers with a false narrative when they are ignorant on the subject. It's all in the wording and expected outcome. We live in a time of rapidly growing cults. If an influencer is selling you (black and white) (good and evil) (end of the world) narratives. Then they're probably full of garbage. Don't join a cult please!
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  1299.  @JohnDoe-ml8ru  Well, he's probably using the CPI-U factor, which omits energy and shelter. So if you took that and then used a gold-price index; I think the average would give you a better representation of real-inflation.
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  1300.  @davidguelette7036  I appreciate that statement. Just know that if people are going to come back to the Democratic Party; it will need to look like a workers party. Populists always win when the institutions turn their backs on labor. There's only a moderate minority of people that actually like Trump who voted for him; maybe 20%. The rest of us see it from a leverage standpoint. The same as core-Democrats do.
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  1301. Our Democracy? Are people really this stupid? We live in a Constitutional Republic bud.
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  1302.  @A.D.I.I.D.A  Calorie counting was largely debunked in the 2010s. Yet many people still buy into it for some reason. It's all about metabolic sufficiency. Your body cannot process everything in terms of calories. There are many food items such as safflower and sunflower oil that are not able to be properly metabolized. So it wouldn't matter what the calories were; you're fat cells will store them. This is why people end up losing weight when they go over-seas to places like Italy and Thailand. Plus end up eating more and losing more weight. Real food and real nourishment.
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  1303. Corrupt or not, these people are in no way (able-minded) to confront the tech/monopoly issues. Not a single member of Congress can talk to you about coding algorithms. We need younger people that know a thing or two about how to fight these tech giants.
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  1304. How any Governor (Mike DeWine included) can be re-elected after crashing 50%+ of their states small business is beyond idiotic. If you vote for the same person that took everything from you, then you deserve to have the rest taken as well.
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  1305. Supply and demand bud.. Cheap debts create more buyers and that drives up prices.
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  1306.  @estamnar6092  Np! Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving
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  1307. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're apart of the club. Why don't people understand this? No poor person ever won a war against an elite group of businesses and governments
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  1308. All due to currency devaluation to prop up assets bubbles like pensions, medicare, and social security. It's really as simple as that. This is a Keynesian economy; permanent growth and permanent inflation. Except it's virtually impossible. In order to maintain to economy with stagnating growth; more currency must be printed.
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  1309. To be fair, Boomers were in their PRIME working years when the last four stock market crashes happened. Gen X on the other hand never got a foothold when those crashes happened. So Boomers bought low and Gen X repeatedly got hit with a sledge hammer.
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  1310. This entire page is full of bots and propaganda. Too many people that didn't even know Ukraine was a country (up until two years ago) want to act like we need to defend it with everything we have. How about the US stops performing 'regime changes'?
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  1311. How the hell would that even work? My Bitcoin goes up 100% and I don't even sell, but I owe $40,000 dollars? Then it crashes in the Spring and I have an unrealized loss of $200,000? I'm not doing it; the IRS can sue me and I'll set the subpoenas on fire in my back yard.
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  1312. @clawwestfall8799 That's actually false; the calorie counting strategy has been largely dismissed for over a decade at this point. Yet somehow people are still trying to push it; like the food pyramid. Calorie counting doesn't take macro quality into account whatsoever. Your metabolism can't process all calories in the same manner; some can't be processed whatsoever (no matter what calorie value you attach to them). It's like putting 87', 89', Vodka, or Canola oil into your gas tank. It will still run on Canola oil or Vodka, but you mileage will go down by 70% and probably begin to ruin your engine at the same time. With that analogy in place; soy oil, corn oil, and sunflower oil are in virtually everything. All three of which can be measured by a similar caloric value, but none of which metabolize in the human body properly. This has already been observed in animal studies.
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  1313. @Freedom Seeker You're describing early childhood development. So yes, you can maximize the potential intelligence from a developing human. As far as an adult goes, this is impossible. There is no evidence I'm aware of that allows for an adults performance on IQ tests to improve. There are all kinds of tests that claim the raise intelligence, but clinically the data seems to suggest that performing well at one test only gives similar results to distal tests. It does not improve the ability of a person to perform better at other tests. If you score a 20 on the ACT for example (which is an IQ test by definition). Then you may be able to alter the test by a small margin. But you will never score a 28 for example. You can certainly damage intelligence, but expanding it is something we haven't been able to achieve yet.
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  1314. DEI gonna go straight out the door for these women when they find out that all their men are marrying women overseas lol
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  1315. I'm sure she was a lovely woman! She wouldn't want you dying inside any further. Go out an live your dreams and carry her with you :)
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  1316. The biggest problem is that most Americans are part-time politic-ers that think they get to have a baseless (yet) merited opinion on world events whenever they 'trend'. Almost nobody is aware that the Obama Administration orchestrated most of this conflict. They helped overthrow the sitting Ukrainian Government in 2014. Replaced it with individuals they 'approved of', as well as sold firearms and missiles to Ukraine to fight Russian separatists. NATO has been strategically brewing this conflict, knowing full well that Putin was going to respond with military force. Things are going exactly as planned as far as I can see and NATO will get the war they've been dreaming of. Gotta love Senator Marko Rubio grilled Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland about bio-research labs in Ukraine. To which she confirmed their existence. Though he made a very strange remark, asking that "if there was to be a biological attack in Ukraine, it would no doubt come from the Russians?" To which she replied that :it would be likely and that it's a classic Russian strategy to accuse your enemy of what you plan to do." DING DING DING people, have we learned nothing? Sounds like the US is planning to release a bio-weapon in Ukraine, blame the Russians, and justify the war they've always wanted.
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  1317. Millennial here; 31. I learned very early on that the only way forward was the stay out of debt. Not because someone taught me to, but because I did the opposite of what everyone told me to. Though tbh, life has never been more lonely in my opinion. I own a home and there is nobody; absolutely nobody that is our own age. Residential areas are filling up with older folks and there aren't any children anymore. The ones that do exist are typically on their phones or iPads. I'm probably not the only one contemplating leaving the country.
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  1318. Calhoun's Rodent Utopia - that's what is happening right here in America... Guess what happens at the very end....
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  1319. I voted for him when he ran for Senator, but not without skepticism. I honestly didn't like Tim Ryan, but JD seemed a little to quick when he came in. Regardless, he's really grown on me and is an amazing individual. His interview with Theo Von is also incredible.
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  1320. Children very rarely come out bad from two loving parents.
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  1321. It's not sick, it's a normal distribution of human evolution. Thinking that humans evolved for 200,000 years and then women 'decide' to have children (devoid of biological patterns) is ignorant beyond belief.
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  1322. Yeah, got my CDL in 2019 and it was amazing. I left in mid 2020, but how is it now? It was pretty easy to get pay back in 2019, but is it really bad these days?
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  1323.  @timewisetimewise9463  Unfortunately, I don't think this falls on party lines. Or at least not as much as the media portays. We have Democrat colleagues at work and others that are friends and they are scratching their heads over this idiocy. Nearly half my entire family (Republicans) are falling victim to the propaganda. My own mother won't stop trying to "rant -educate" her neighbors on why they need to get the vaccine. People have truly lost their f-ing minds...
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  1324. My God will people get with the freaking program? These are not Liberals, which are a dying breed. These are infiltrating leftists. Huge difference...
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  1325. aka pensioners that watch msnbc lol
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  1326.  @covenant11  According to what? You're literally making things up. According to the IRS, the top 1% of taxpayers (incomes of $682,000+) pay 45.8% of all income tax revenue. The top 25% ($94,000 or more) pay 89.2% of all income taxes. Stop trying to defend whatever your knee jerk reaction is and learn something about tax revenue
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  1327. This is largely occurring from global economic factors that began with the Federal Reserve in 2020. Printing $10 Trillion in the last four years has caused global economic upheaval.
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  1328. I figured this out at 18, which is why I went to Community. Thought if I had to do it over. I would skip college all together. It was amazing to be 18 (claiming that I didn't think $80k was worth a $45k salary). Oh boy, the crap I got from braindead adults was absolutely insane.
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  1329. Yeah, the UK isn't 2000 miles from coast to coast friend. Europeans don't use that much fuel in their daily lives.
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  1330. @romanbowler8754 As an artist, what is your opinion on careers in free-lance art or even interior design? Will these be obsolete soon? Or will AI just aid in the work-load and potentially drive down the wage? Perhaps something else?
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  1331. It's disturbing how the White House goes about it's selection of staff. Almost like being a narcissistic, lying, sociopath are requirements on the job posting. What the hell is wrong with these people......
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  1332.  @PrimalCarnivoreFallon  It's a cult; that's why I left. Plus, carnivore induced a nasty eating disorder on my end. Radical dieting tends to come from a pathology of vast conclusion jumping imo. There's a radical difference between needing Ozempic and going carnivore.
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  1333. Sounds like the parents weren't very engaged. They always play victim for the media when they arrive. They didn't try to homeschool, they didn't change schools, and they didn't try to get her off social media.
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  1334. I've been to almost every single state in the US and I've been overseas multiple times. I'd say that the US is more like a 2nd world country if anything. The only thing holding it back from 3rd world is the fact that the USD is the Reserve Currency. Look at our metros, downtown areas, public transit, and shelters. Especially in the Midwest! A majority of US cities are comparable to unstable Latin American countries. Btw, this isn't downward spiral started to hit western Europe over a decade ago. Many metros in France and the UK are quite comparable too. I'm born and raised in Ohio and the only city I will even humor is Cincinnati as far as standards. If you want to see a real standard for first world countries. Look at places like Oslo, Brussels, or Seoul.
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  1335. Palestinians are largely continuing a culture of Nazism that was left during World War 2. None of this hatred for Jews existed on such a scale prior. The Palestinians are in the situation that they are because of decades of attacks against Israelis that have shrunk Gaza into what it is today.
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  1336.  @stevenmarxs374  Bud, Trump appointed Jerome Powell. You know, the guy that set interest rates at 0% in 2020 and printed $8 Trillion for Congress?
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  1337. Nobody buys CNN's garbage anymore lol
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  1338. We've all seen Star Wars folks! We KNOW what happens with Emergency Powers! Kathy IS the Senate!!!
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  1339. Why does it need to be solved exactly? Dangerous people create wealth and jobs lol
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  1340. I assumed 4B was kind of like 4H, but instead of raising animals; it's female adults screwing animals. I mean these feminists don't just pick up dogs from the shelter purely for company.
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  1341. Everything at this point is a lie...
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  1342. The machine gun ban scored one goal, removing machine guns from the US public. Or at the very least making them expensive for tax stamp transfers or black market deals. It never stopped violence though.
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  1343. Give people everything they want and they will set it on fire to see something exciting happen. People focus too much on greed from the wealthy, when they should be focusing on greed in their own lives.
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  1344.  @TeresaOverholt-ky1ct  No context for why? That makes me skeptical of your role.
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  1345.  @raw726  Actually, that's false and a very common misconception. Gold standard ended between 1914 and 1934 for the most part. Nixon going off the gold-standard was more ceremonial than anything. You could only exchange gold for currency between central banks (internationally) for the prior 40-ish years anyways. Nations realized quickly that gold-reserves would not be able to cover the over-head cost of the first world war. This quickly pushed in the direction of credit and currency exchanges. Eventually you get Bretton-Woods which was a precursor to an agreed upon fiat reserve currency (the USD).
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  1346. Well, that's correct, except women age out of fertility because they chase careers. An A+ woman at 30 will most likely never get an A+ man. Because the selection pool is low AND she has to compete with the previous 12 years at the same time. A successful 30 year old man will seldom marry a 30 year old woman.
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  1347. Considering the horrible state of health in America, obviously I think people should have risked the vaccine if they had diabetes, COPD, were obese, or had other health issues. However, for anybody that didn't fit that description; why get the vaccine? Higher likelihood of permanent damage than death from the virus. We have a serious problem with CDC religion in this country.
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  1348. "Borders should not exist!" This kind of logic ONLY comes from the silver-spoon Millennial/Zoomer elites that have no life experience and that have always lived under the funding of a parent.
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  1349. Why anyone would still be lobbying for Trump or supporting him financially is beyond me. His large donations have dropped off a cliff, but there are still some large players that recently joined the game. Anybody that has been financially associated with this man has either gone bankrupt or ended up in court.
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  1350. Parents in general have completely ghosted and neglected their children. I'm not saying there aren't problem with the Universities or whatnot. But most of these problems are present LONG before the kids go to college. The parents are NOT alright...
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  1351. Same in 2020. Things are looking crazy these days.
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  1352. Actually they do, we are 13% of their export market. They may lose 7% of their imports from the US, but they ultimately lose us as a consumer; which is a large portion of their volume.
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  1353. I don't really think so. They're both pushing 60. This sounded more like a conversation between two older guys with a lot of life experience. I grew up with this kind of stuff around campfires as a kid; we were middle class. It's almost nostalgic to a large degree. Of course they're both millionaires, but older people with a good retirement and assets all talk similarly.
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  1354. Sounds like he has undiagnosed schizophrenia. Paranoia, word salad, irrationality, delusions of grandeur, and God complex; it's all there.
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  1355. Conservative personalities are actually very high in conscientiousness typically; meaning they are very detail and order conscious. Liberals are great with abstracts, but logic and reasons usually take a back seat because they can never focus on a single topic for too long. It's why they always come off as unprincipled or fickle.
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  1356.  @Watermelon_Man92  It's incumbent of the viewer to have a proper perspective of the interview, history, and relationship. Why do people assume that this is the sole clip? WSJ cut this video exactly how they wanted to in order to get the reaction they wanted. How are people still falling for this? Zelensky has thousands of interviews on the internet. He is NOT a diplomat, he's no a historian, he's not a military strategist. He is interested in a continuation of unaccounted-for funds going towards Ukraine. On top of that, what annoys me the most is the absolute ignorance among people that Russia is somehow solely to blame for this conflict. Perhaps the US shouldn't be (regime changing) Ukraine in the first place since 2014.
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  1357. Your ignorance shows and I can almost guarantee it's because of what you're watching. Turn off Yahoo; turn off MSNBC: turn off Vox! Then start to watch unedited material and make up your own mind. You'll magically find that you won't hate so much and you're reasoning will be much clearer.
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  1358. It's always amusing to listen to people (with no financial experience) talk about why this phenomenon exists. CEO payouts have about as much to do with wages, as cutting Congress salaries have to do with the Social Security deficit. Factors: 1. Artificially low interest rates stimulate profit growth 'margins'. This plays in to the neutral zone of interest rates (depending on how long they are implemented). It's very similar to how household budgets change when you keep interest rates high or low for long periods of time; levels of scarcity change (and with it, culture). Higher incentives for greed, avarice, etc. 2. Federal Funds rate bond yields and inflation; this also plays into low interest rates. Long term inflation produces more credit based profits. Credit based profits are (in a way) 'unrealized gains' as far as the banks are concerned, since the debts have to be paid back over time by the borrower. 3. Loss of Pensions and Benefits; companies have a decreased interest in retaining long term employees and many employees feel the same way. Hiring and pricing algorithms make it incredibly easy for businesses to find out (what they can pay, how long people will stay, and the demographics of their workers). The amount of consumer/employee data is insane. These international companies can usually precisely predict what you're willing to accept for a salary, how many hours you're willing to work, and how many years you will commit to. Granted there is not a black swan event like Covid obviously. 4. Technology and ease of access to the economy and workforce. For example, Door Dash drivers on average work for a period of 3-6 months. As long as there is a consistent flow of available labor pouring into the company; there is no need to raise wages of benefits.
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  1359. Yeah, it was roughly 6000 people. Nearly a quarter of the entire stadium was vacant.
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  1360.  @grantg2692  Well, while I hate it, we also need to NOT muddy terms here. The insurance denies the claim; medical services don't deny treatment. Most people dying in the hospital are going thru cancer, pneumonia, and, coronary artery disease. Hospitals aren't going to refuse to treat you in those situations, but insurance will attempt to screw with the bill.
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  1361. I wish Conservative types would discontinue statements like, "The US is superior to 3rd world countries." Newsflash, have you been to the 100 largest cities in the US? We are a 3rd world country in many areas. We have cities with crime rates worse than Columbia and Brazil in the 90s.
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  1362. Nobody likes to read bills, but I went through Biden's American Rescue plan. 'Sec. 9512 National Infrastructure Investment Trust Fund. SEC. 5. INCREASE IN TAX ON MOTOR FUELS (a) Gasoline tax - increased from 18.3 cents to 53.3 cents Plus, the Biden Administration has renegotiated a deal with OPEC after it murdered American oil independence. Why is anyone surprised? Just wait, it'll soon be $4.00/gallon, then $5. This man destroyed American energy independence, tripled the gasoline tax, and negotiated a crude oil deal with our enemies? Elections have consequences people and you elected a man that is involved in undoubtedly treasonous behavior.
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  1363. They're holding out for a BAIL-OUT; that's why they're not lowering costs. Ford and Toyota are hoping they can auction all their stuff for peanuts after the US GOV gives them a big fat paycheck.
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  1364. Good for her! Most elderly people can't even tell that IRS calls are fake.
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  1365. Too many holes in the boat to fix. This collapse was inevitable, regardless if Trump had been elected or not. We are facing the end times people.
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  1366. Millennial here! Bought my first in 2020. I didn't realize how large a bullet I dodged.
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  1367.  @slent5346  Please. If Biden had done this; you probably would have thought it was funny. Everybody wants to have a set of rules for the politician they like and another for the opposing team.
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  1368. 40%? Not sure where you're getting that information; it's roughly 2.5%. Condos are not single-family homes btw
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  1369.  @robertbastiencote4284  What are you talking about? Price's Law is extremely important in understanding productivity/GDP. I don't think you understand the subject. How about you inquire instead of insulting me? I read your previous comment and we're on the same ideological plain; how about slow down and not make assumptions?
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  1370.  @Zoetherat  I think it's because they're including 'condos' and also including 'management firms' as ownership. Which is like calling a bowl of iceberg lettuce a 'romaine chicken caesar salad'. These conspiracies usually arise due to a poor translation between econ, media, and viewer. Actual ownership of single-family homes by corporations is like 2.5%; last I saw. Housing is expensive because the FED printed $8 Trillion in 2 years and supply never really went up.
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  1371. That's hardly the issue. People can't afford a living because the Keynesian model is coming to an end. We can't be the Reserve Currency while exporting 'essentially' nothing.
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  1372. Schools shootings are rampant nationwide, especially in the MidWest and Colorado.
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  1373. The tyrant is NOT at the top; the tyrant is everywhere. Of course that's something that people continue to deny to this day because it turns the mirror on themselves. You can blame Democrats or Republicans all you want. You can blame Trump or Brandon all you want. But at the end of the day, individuals make the world go round. How many people lie on their resumes to score a job? How many people refuse to acknowledge glaring Covid 19 discrepancies? How many people collect unemployment because they refuse to provide a service for income? How many people refuse to say something when they see something illegal occur in the workplace? How many people choose to virtue signal about the environment, while throwing cigarettes out the window? You don't have to be religious to acknowledge that pride and envy are two of the most destructive traits available to humans.
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  1374. The first problem is that everybody assumes that this is the fault of either the local or city government. Not exactly, it's the direct fault of the people living right here in America. Not sure if people have been looking around, but Americans have quite literally been losing their minds. Go drive or visit the grocery store and put your phone away, you'll see what's wrong with America in a matter of seconds. We have a pandemic of ignorant, arrogant, and narcissistic people having their way with this country. Blame the media, blame the colleges, blame social media, blame those dumb smart-phones, and after that blame yourself as well!
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  1375. Bud, you really need to quit watching Qanon and Alex Jones; they will make you crazy. I have family that have gone absolute bonkers listening to this stuff and it's affected her relations a lot. Every train derailment is apparently the Biden Administration trying to destroy the nation SMH
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  1376. If NATO prevails in Ukraine; BlackRock will be able to fulfill their rebuilding contract. Which essentially means they will own a very large swathe of Ukrainian industries and real-estate.
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  1377. As much as I like DeSantis as Governor, the platform he's building to take into a Presidential bid is going to be a catastrophe. Regardless of how I feel about Disney and wokism. If you build a campaign on (fighting wokism, fighting transgenderism, banning library books, and using powers of the state to subdue business. The result is going to be that you lose the election. Nobody that is serious about a candidates is going to vote for you while they ignore inflation, the threat of war from Russia and China, as well as a collapse of our social safety nets. This is all a ruse for the GOP to try and take back both houses and the Presidency, while not addressing anything that people are actually suffering from. I've voted Republican my entire life, but let me clear (the MAGA base has been decimated); People that voted for Trump need to understand this. Many Republican voters in my family and friend groups are also starting to question the current GOP leadership and the direction they are taking us. If you split the GOP between DeSantis and Trump, there's a very good chance that the remaining MAGA voters will make Trump the primary winner and then we lose the general election in 2024.
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  1378. I'm one of those (not in the labor force - men). I'm 30 years old and live in Ohio. I was working for Anheuser-CDL in 2020 when the pandemic hit; $70k job. My wife and I had just bought a house and the commute was 1 hour at the time. In January of that year, my company gave notice that they were removing our 13 annual unpaid vacation; giving us (5 personal/3 sick). Mind you, this was on a 6 day/12 hour schedule for slip-seat hauls. What a slap in the face. My wife had recently picked up her new job that payed six figures and we talked it over and I decided to stay home and raise my son. In the end it all worked out, but I don't blame other men whatsoever. Child-care is ridiculously expensive, as are vehicles, and jobs these days are paying pathetic wages with virtually no benefits. I would love to go and work a job that would get me out of the house more often. However, until my son is a bit older; this is the plan.
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  1379. I think it's time we put the Prussian model behind us... 5 days a weeks, 7 hours a day, and for what? A retention of 5% knowledge and skill acquired over a 13 year didactic education? How about we send them to a classroom 1-2 hours for several days a week, followed by workshop, and life skills. Oh, but that doesn't produce brain dead consumers does it? I know I'm going to sound left leaning when I say this, but the problem is systemic. We are witnessing the fall of Rome in real time.
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  1380. Because wealthy people don't really hoard cash; they hoard assets. Hoarding cash is insane stupid, because inflation eats it alive. I think it's smart to keep (maybe) $1000-$5000 in cash; in case of some digital melt-down OR if you needed a purchase to be untraceable I suppose. But, the best option is to invest your money in assets. Commodities, land, real-estate etc. Ultra-rich people never hold cash period; they hold assets and options/derivatives. I guarantee you that Warren Buffet has a wealth of Call/Put options for his favorite insider investments that he will exchange for 'cash' or 'shares' at expiration. After that, he'll use the money to reinvest in more options or assets. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat! I do the exact same thing; I hold options and commodities. When the options pay off, I reinvest them right back into commodities.
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  1381. China has more to lose; seeing as the US is 13% of their export market. With those tariffs; they lose a large portion of that trade.
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  1382. I'm not trying to be rude, but much of your writing is redundant. It's not that I don't understand what you're saying, but I feel as if I'm re-reading the same thing written three different ways in every sentence. That could be a start if you're looking for any constructive criticism; clear and concise presentations. Unfortunately, on a societal level most people have a hard time paying attention. My own parents can't remain attentive to a conversation with either me or my sister for longer than ten seconds before interjecting or losing interest all together. Plus, I'm well aware that it's not just my parents, but a large majority of people. One theory behind the decline of human attention is the dopamine response to social media and other technological devices. If you're used to 3 second "GIFs" on social media for short term kicks of dopamine, then I would reckon that it is decreasing the ability of that person to produce an attention to detail. That's probably why you might be frustrated with some I figure.
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  1383. Successful people don't typically chew out people for being wealthy. Karen probably lives in a trailer on SNAP. Don't be too hard on her folks.
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  1384. MTG is the kind of woman that tries to get all the other soap makers thrown out of a venue after claiming that they stole her idea.
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  1385. I find it hilarious that they think they're going to find '87,000' people to work for the IRS in the middle of a massive labor shortage lmfao
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  1386. How? You have two choices: A Venezuelan style Socialist and war-monger OR a greedy business guy that managed to gather Kennedy, Tulsi, JD, and Vivek.
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  1387. Farmers just can't make a decent living anymore. It's not what it used to be. Running a business for most Americans is like taking home minimum wage after all your expenses are taken care of. Virtually everybody retails with the big corporations because you simply can't compete in most markets. Not to mention the cost of living is ridiculous. I know a LOT of business owners in town where I live; all of them work another job on top of managing their business.
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  1388.  @sparkysmalarkey  Well, that's what happens when you have speculative business models backed by government subsidies. I miss the days of 1% growth. Higher speculation means bigger bubbles and then people have to resort to being as greedy as the corporations in their business practices; just to keep up.
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  1389.  @goodlife6277  Voted against their interest? Elaborate? I hear this often with no articulation.
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  1390.  @realityforever2585  ??
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  1391.  @Brandinisnores  How's that supposed to work?
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  1392. He's not a good guy, he's the leader of a regime. The only innocent ones are the people in between.
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  1393. Most people do not understand this basic concept. This economic upheaval is happening on a global scale. The US is the WORLD Reserve Currency! The Federal Reserve dictates interest rates and debt creation thru the Treasury. We printed some $10 Trillion dollars since 2020 and it has resulted in over 60% inflation if you're looking at the USD M2 Supply charts. Along with a litany of embargos/sanctions that began under Obama and were expedited under Trump. We have destabilized virtually all global economies. The FED will never allow deflation to happen. So we are most likely in the very early phase of hyperinflation. If the markets break for any reason; interest rates will drop and spending will skyrocket. Then we play this game over and over until nobody can afford to live and the government cannot afford to pay interest on it's debts.
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  1394. Believe me, it's nearly impossible to get a job. Go apply to any McDonalds; the won't hire you. FedEx and Amazon pulled their package handlers hiring over 6 months ago. Not hiring anywhere in central Ohio or 100 mile radius. Times are scary!
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  1395. The problem is that the (anti-wokeness) movement has punched back so strong that (simply seeing any minority) in a film or advertisement is portrayed as wokism. As if they solely selected that person for their race or sex. I know this to not be true, but the manipulation by both sides is astounding.
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  1396. Well, yes and no! Baby Boomers and Silent Generation parents had their fair share of problems, but there is no comparison to Generation X parents. I think Generation X became entirely complacent from the wisdom of their forefathers. They indulged in the religion of military, pharmaceutical companies, and birthed televangelism. A significant number of millennials and zoomers will tell you that growing up with Gen X parents was a hell-hole of compliance and stagnation. Quite a bit of religious abuse as well. Not to mention they are the generation that started Reaganomics and the beginning of artificially low interest rates. It allows horrible and dysfunctional families to get cheap mortgages and loans to become middle class. I grew up in a center middle class home. All but one home on our entire block was completely dysfunctional; culturally backwoods, violent, and irrational households.
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  1397. Yep! US patent laws are abused to death in order to gate-keep profits for (truth be told - not unique products). Personally, I've been waiting for this bubble to burst for a long time. Most US tech companies are massively overvalued because they've convinced investors that they're producing rocket science. When in reality, it's worth as much as a coupon. The massive oversaturation of software developers, engineers, and coders over the last decade is also a tell-tale sign that the field is insanely bloated. Some people say that we're entering the Digital Age. I actually believe that we're exiting the Digital Age and entering something entirely different. RIP Digital Age 1997-2025.
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  1398. You could always get your CDL. I worked in Columbus hauling for Anheuser. I was making $70k in 2019; job now pays $80-85k..
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  1399. What's your point? JD Vance is one of the best people to ever emerge into the political landscape; quite brilliant actually.
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  1400. So it ISN'T a scam as long as some 2% of investors make off with millions? Some 98% of crypto investors are in negative territory. Crypto has very low utility and almost nobody actually uses it for that purpose. You'll play the game for a while and realize how you're being screwing eventually. It's really no different than being involved in an MLM scam. I pity you :(
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  1401. Well, let's see here... I think the rationale with Russia is something like; "NATO needs to quit screwing us with our backs turned and blaming us for the collateral?" Just a thought. Could you imagine if China formed a coup in Mexico and created a puppet government? Then sold that puppet government weapons to fight a border war in Texas? That's not "whatabout-ism"; it's exactly what the United States did in Ukraine. People have such a short term memory; it only happened in 2014.
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  1402. Most people are still way behind on this subject. Anybody paying attention already knew this was an issue 5-10 years ago. Ask any college kids or millennials today and they will complain about 'over-population' still. It always takes about 20 years for the culture and societal concepts to emerge into the public.
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  1403. Why do people keep insisting on having Vikek as the VP? He refused the offer nearly 6 months ago. Please keep up!
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  1404.  @bangali8640  What does that have to do with this conflict? Please don't try to virtue signal in a collective manner about distal affairs, it's cowardly.
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  1405. I moved out in 2017 to an apartment complex in the Columbus, Ohio suburbs. Really nice place with cathedral ceilings and the area was very safe and newly built. 1 Bedroom cost me $858. Loan papers said they could max 4% raises each year, but I never saw a single one before I moved out in 2020. Thankfully, I got a house when rates were super low and got married. Luckiest two decisions I ever made in my life. Happy life with a mortgage of $885. That same apartment unit is now $1442 as of 2024 and the waiting list is 12+ months.
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  1406. Avoiding animal products typically makes people malnourished. Malnutrition makes people irrational and dysfunctional long term.
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  1407. Yep! Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan. Republicans will need to win at least three of these; assuming that they don't lose Texas.
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  1408. Well, I guess evil is sometimes subjective, but I'd probably still agree. They want a war so that afterwards they can building strip malls in Ukraine and sell you crap lol That's why they hate Trump; he interferes with their imperialist ambitions.
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  1409. They're everywhere; the culture is compromised thru envy. I fear it's an inevitable cycle.
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  1410.  @jyfjgtyuh  It's a bad either way. Decentralization may be good, but the fundamentals don't change. Like GOLD, BTC would be a (currency for product exchange). The issue with gold was that nations (by nature of resources) are competitive by imports and exports. Once a nation exhausted it's supply of gold; it must find new resources by forcibly acquiring them via Imperialism. This led to the gold standard beginning to wane after WW1 and nations began to use credit instead. It only formally ended in 1971 under Nixon, but realistically died out between 1913-1934. This eventually led to the idea of fiat Keynesian economics; for all their flaws they're better than gold or crypto imo. Consider this, even if nations no longer became imperialistic after exporting all of their crypto or gold. Naturally, because BTC is decentralized; a very large amount of BTC would end up in the hands of only a few people; as it already has. Only, as time went on it would get smaller. So basically, Trillionaires in Tokyo, Dubai, Miami, and Copenhagen (for example); would rule the world with their wallets. Too many people focus on the (decentralization) narrative, when they should take into account that their asset values and global labor worth are being propped up by the system they claim to despise.
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  1411. If you think that (preservation of human life) is a religious problem. Then I think you have bigger ethic issues going on in your mind.
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  1412. Well, a lot of people are still willfully ignorant to the power play that is happening between corporations and politics. If you still believe the institutions serve YOU; you've been played.
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  1413.  @bissonlouise9061  Rude and using gaslighting? That's characteristic of a narcissist in my experience. Doesn't matter who you were talking to. What's your goal and why do you think it's even remotely appropriate?
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  1414. Personally, I can't see the difference at this point. Both Republicans and Democrats are trying to cheat elections by either smoke and mirrors or changing the rules. If you don't believe me, then you haven't been reading your state ballots before voting. I feel nobody actually represents 'the people' at this point. Best thing is to stay out of the way maybe.
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  1415. Again, both refused months ago publicly.
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  1416.  @ashleyoneal5617  How are you protecting others? The vaccine logic violates everything we know about virology...
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  1417.  @Beau74  I'm actually very educated in the subjects thank you. How about you start proving your own knowledge instead of the condescending comments? Virology doesn't change when it comes to Covid. You get a titer test with MMR to show your antibodies. That doesn't mean you can't spread MMR, it means you will most likely not be a host. If you come into contact with say "an Amish person" that is currently shedding measels, then you can potentially spread it to someone else. Though not as likely as someone who is currently a viral host. You need to start reviewing research and educate yourself. Much of your bias seems to come from credentialing and media. Just because a textbook is stamped with an AHA approval doesn't mean it's the word of God. Review the scientific literature and make a conclusion. Most of those NSF funded studies are garbage that corporations use for commercial purposes.
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  1418.  @Beau74  You're projecting, as you just stated what I already said. I find it interesting that many pro Covid vaccine people will persecute any that don't get it, while maintaining 'heard immunity's as a moot point. Then they flip around and use it when it suites their narrative. Congratulations... Your issue isn't intelligence; it's pride and spite. Plus, you insult people while never putting much frame to your own argument. I think we're done here.
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  1419. I disagree, but not by a huge margin. The greatest threat right now, is how social media algorithms are manipulating your behavior. This is why I tell people to delete their Facebook and Twitter. They get ad revenue by showing you what you want to see and showing you the most controversial trending of that subject. People are divided because they're being conditioned to hate, all for ad revenue.
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  1420.  @caliindoor  I'll be frank, it's blatantly obvious you're depressed. Nobody with any self respect goes looking for anti-intellectual fights. Whatever is bothering or causing trauma in your life; go sort it out and stop wasting your time trying to bully people.
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  1421. Democrats lost the popular vote by 5 MILLION votes; absolutely insane! It would have been much more if the DNC hadn't played dirty and sued Kennedy to stay on the ballot in a number of states. This is only ONE reason that people support Trump; the Democrats have completely perverted the justice system. We are NOT a third world country!
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  1422. Everybody is ignoring Illinois, New York, Hawaii, and New Hampshire. All states have been widely affected by economic, migrant, or other political factors leading into this election.
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  1423.  @guyfaux5010  Poor is relative though; that's all I'm saying. Nobody in this country really lives in abject poverty like they did in perhaps 1933. I do agree with your middle class statement though.
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  1424. @Billy Shears The 2020 Stimulus bills were largely bipartisan. The American Rescue plan was not a GOP bill for clarification. Nor is the $3.5Trillion Build Back Better plan the House Committee just passed and is sending to Congress.
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  1425. This is becoming extremely common in virtually all US states. The number of felonies being committed by children 10-16 is absolutely insane. In Columbus, OH, we are routinely arresting minors for violent offenses; many of them young girls.
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  1426.  @ashleyvillafana8748  Thank you for all that you do :)
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  1427. Ohioan here, I've been to 40 states. I will never put NY on the list.
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  1428.  @22QXX112  I truly hope so, though I highly suspect that Trump needs to be careful; as he is walking into a likely recession coming in a few months. The FED began cutting rates in September, meaning (historically) a recession is inevitable within 6 months.
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  1429. People don't make reasonable decisions because most of society is not reasonable. Have any of your seen how physically and emotionally degraded people in America are? We have the largest health crisis in our nation's history. All of which is the result of corporate greed that is being shielded from a lobbied government. You can't trust any agency or corporation to do what's in your best interest, because becoming healthy doesn't make them profits. I'm 29, married, own a home, have a son etc. I will say this... Having children and living a happy life is not a cake-walk, but most people complicate it above and beyond belief. I see many people struggle with children because they are actively participating in habits, choices, or beliefs that are detrimental to their family. If you want to live a better life, stop following the crowd. You will buy what you are told, teach what you are told, and then die when you are told to. It blows my mind half the time when people are spending an entire paycheck on baby formula, socially reprimanding their spouse continuously, and then pushing themselves to both work full time jobs while paying for child care. If you want the insanity of the modern world to end, stop participating in it's insanity!
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  1430. Your compassion 'if sincere' is misplaced. These estranged parents are a plethora of Cluster B Personality disorders that see their children as property. No offense, but Generation X is the most abusive generation in recent history. A generation that created televangelism, military worship, and religion of pharmaceuticals. They were ALSO the first generation to experience the low-interest portion of Reaganomics that allowed millions of trash individuals to become middle class home owners. The finances changed, but the culture remained the same; utter garbage. The amount of physical abuse, manipulation, alcoholism, and drug abuse going on when I grew up was staggering. Mind you this all took place in middle class neighborhoods. It's a massive plight in American history that (now adult children) are just beginning to heal from.
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  1431. Same! Infinite internet has to given the ability for idiots to have unlimited bias corroboration. Doesn't matter what it is.
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  1432. Millennial here; 31. Believe me, I know what you mean. The labor shortage is real and it's not just because many young people aren't willing to do menial jobs. It's because there's not enough people to do those jobs. Actually, maybe I'm tooting my own horn, but being a baby Millennial with a wife and kids is insane. The wife and kids part is easy, but the cultural landscape has radically changed since the early 2000s. There's basically nobody at our life stage. If people have children; they're pushing 40 and live elsewhere. Having a good income and home is a social curse in and of itself for people like us.
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  1433. Which part? Trumps executive orders or Biden pardoning his entire family and Fauci?
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  1434. It's patent vs non-patent basically. Patent means you can use the government to milk consumers while they are ignorant to a better product existing.
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  1435. Well, this is true, but it's just a side affect. The real reason is economic complacency. People are allowed to indulge in these stupidities because they had generations behinds them that created a magical economic domain that allowed them to have whatever they wanted. It will self correct when those women die alone with no children. The only people having children will be manifesting family values.
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  1436. For people that don't understand; it's not about loving Trump. It's about realizing how FAKE this entire system and media is.
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  1437. That's pretty foolish advice tbh. Learn the metrics, don't go off of what other investors are doing.
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  1438. Shipping/freight service shortages are almost completely a demographic problem; nobody wants to do it. It may be a better option than trying to work a menial job out of college, but it's not the be-all/end-all that it used to be. Getting a CDL isn't even worth it anymore tbh. I was a shunter op at FedEx before I went to CDL school and drove for Werner. Insurance policies make it impossible for you to drive as a beginner for anyone other than a few primary freight companies. They will run you 60-80 hours per week non-stop, no benefits, and very little unpaid days off. All the while your CPM pay will come out to around $17.00/h after over-time calculations. That was netting me $70k per year in 2020 and it's gone up to $80k from what I've heard, but it doesn't keep up with inflation. I was getting $21.00/h at FedEx and I hear they pay $25.00/h now for the same position. This is largely why only green cards are getting CDL's and working for the freight companies. The pay is ridiculously low on a historical scale.
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  1439. Every level of the law has been saying "oh crap, I don't want to deal with that!" "Just lie about it until the next guy figures out." Now we're here.
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  1440. Bio engineering on any level has a litany of unintended consequences. I'm starting to find that science has become a religion rather than a process for a disturbing amount of people. People want to follow the science, but they don't want to put in the research on any clinical trial. They choose their option of corporate deity and begin to worship. Sad state of affairs if you ask me.
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  1441. You don't have a very high IQ if you need to be taught what to be offended about. It's crazy how people think they're smart being gaslighted into hating something they didn't even watch lol
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  1442.  @tpulling83  I think everything goes in cycles. 1st World Countries are destined to become 3rd and start annew. People have simply become too complacent, greedy, and narcissistic. Always a price to pay for that kind of behavior.
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  1443. It's not a theory! I've been an investor for 12 years. These companies have been paying off these stock analysts like mad and setting the bar exceptionally low.
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  1444. Nope it's actually seed/vegetable oils. The timeline of sugar consumption doesn't add up to the timeline of the obesity epidemic. Sugar of course has not helped, but it's not the primary source.
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  1445. Unfortunately, the majority of the population has to be spoon fed this news directly from the CDC on every television in order to believe it. Regardless of the sources, to the masses it's still disinformation. Covid has truly taught me the dangers of mob mentality , as well as the unholy alliance between corporation and government.
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  1446. Why? So they can flip flop decisions every 4 years to make you happier. Be real my friend; things would be a mess with that kind of set-up.
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  1447. It's the Freedom Caucus (45 MAGA members) 12 of which basically vote NO on everything sponsored between Johnson and the Democrats. Their entire goal is to get Government to shutdown. As noble as some people might think that is; it would have devastating consequences for the economy and overseas conflicts. Basically, everybody hates the Federal Government, but if we shut it down (we must suffer the consequences of a cease in all Federal funding). I don't think people realize how much of the economy is functioning on tax payer dollars; it's insane!
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  1448. In what state do you need a gun license within your own home? That's ridiculous if true.
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  1449.  @diamari91  It WAS! Since the Obamacare mandate was overturned (you don't have to pay that 1% or $125 tax anymore).
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  1450. These companies wouldn't be able to do this if we actually enforced anti-trust. I don't think people understand how much influence Google has between marketing and sales of these products. If companies actually had to compete for a good product, they wouldn't be pulling these scams. That's what happens when all of your entertainment gets centralized by a small batch of mega-corporations.
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  1451. Unfortunately, this problem is only going to get worse with Roe v. Wade being overturned. Single-mother households are already a pandemic in this country in the inner cities. Give it about 15-20 years and you'll have a crime wave like you've never seen before in human history.
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  1452.  @troya3094  I think using Google (with no citation) is the reason your conclusions are bad.
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  1453. @angelgjr1999 Russian is highly sought after like Farsi and Mandarin are; considering numerous fields. Perhaps not domestically like local law enforcement or manufacturing. Try not to make short assumptions. Personally, I've run into many Russian and other Balkan/Slav natives since I was a kid. I began learning the language at 12; it just didn't seem financially feasible considering the ambitions that I had at the time.
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  1454. Unpopular opinion from someone with a harsh personality. Unfortunately, this is what you get when you have a society that caters to poor decisions and rewards narcissistic behaviors. These people shouldn't be alive and the kids shouldn't even exist. We have completely undermined natural selection to benefit the bottom line and for what? Pharmaceutical and agricultural profits? Anyway, that's my harsh and seemingly unempathetic comment. I truly think we need to take away voting rights from people that don't own land and don't pass a certain intelligence threshold; it's destroying this country. Imagine the kinds of people that normally voted in the past. You'd generally be in the upper quartile of the intelligence bell curve. If you use social media and technology to spread awareness about how and where to vote, then naturally you allow a larger volume of people under the threshold to vote as well. If you think about it mathematically, all it does is decrease the average of the entire intelligence curve..
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  1455. I'm a conservative and I've found that many conservatives tend to be complete hypocrites on this topic. Abortion is apparently a (state's rights) issue. However, states independent conducting their own elections for Federal office seems to be a no-no? State's rights are typically implicated when Republicans know it will be cast in their favor. As soon as the tide turns; they go full Federalism.
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  1456. I'm not dietician, but I have been a fitness freak my entire life and tried various fads and diets. The first thing I would recommend is challenging the status quo. Public science incentives are absolutely disgusting. It's no mystery to me that we have a growing obesity and depression pandemic. Take what has been authorized by the AHA or FDA with a grain of salt.
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  1457.  @CementFactoryNutrition  Bingo!
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  1458. Ohioan here; born and raised. The wife and I are planning to leave the state next chance we get in the real-estate markets. Columbus has turned into an absolute shit-hole; 350 unsolved murders in the last 4 years. Crime is beginning to overtake Pickerington and for the first time in history (shootings being reported in Hilliard). Growing up, the worst crime committed was counterfeiting. Now that DeWine has approved construction of an 'additional' outer-belt that will overtake West Jefferson to Carroll; we feel we have no choice. I remember Circleville being considered (in the sticks) when I was a kid. The amount of apartments they've built there over on '23' is amazing. Pretty soon, it will become the new Pickerington of Ohio and property value will plummet there as well.
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  1459. Well, it's typical of conservatives to build walls and make people sleep in the beds they made. It's only in their personality. Liberals on the other hand can have a problem knowing when to stop, to the point that it's destroying society. There's nothing more relevant in that arena than social media.
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  1460. In 2019, Brie Larson posted on Twitter, "If you're a white CIS gendered man; don't bother seeing my movie." For the last 4 years, I have abided by her request :)
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  1461. Maybe he's just making a neutral statement; I believe I slept about 5 hours in a 4 day time period all the same for my firstborn. What's your point? My wife loved being pregnant and is eager to have our second child. She wants to try another home birth. I mean no offense, but you are speaking from absolute ignorance that has been conjured by the media and healthcare companies that would love nothing more than to bill everybody $60k thru insurance providers for a birth. Doctors are pressured by insurance and administration to take measures that rapidly allow for delivery; regardless of the cost to the mother or the infant. The medical standard that we used to have in this country is a freaking joke. They treat it like an assembly line. Anybody that goes into healthcare either already knows this and leaves or stays long enough to not care. Go ask random healthcare providers if they are ready to leave their job in the next 6 months. The industry is on it's knees because it's a racket. Birth control pills are largely Pharmaceutical greed at it's finest. It's one of the biggest reasons that so many people are employed in healthcare to begin with; to be pill salesmen. Roughly a decade ago, they began trying to lower the age of giving birth control on the merit of reducing acne in teenagers. They could have easily changed their diet or used spironolactone. Birth control medication has a list of negative long term side affects, just to name a few; depression, suicide, high blood pressure, hormone disruption, as well as fertility damage. The number one problem being that it is much more difficult to get pregnant after you have taken birth control long term. In many cases, the women are infertile. The option to risk their health? That comes with the risk of having sex period; a litany of sexually transmitted diseases. Women nowadays are probably the most ignorant about their anatomy and psychology than they have ever been in history. They are not taught how to track their cycles, they are not taught how to use temperature as a method for fertility, they are not taught about periods of mucosa, nor are they taught about the highs/low of progesteron. It's all intentional and that's the way these pill companies want it. Gotta make money off the ignorance of the masses. Corporate lobbyists run this nation and it's amazing how most of the country still hasn't figured that out.
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  1462. Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling that the past 5 years of superhero films will kill the genre for the next half century. People will say "good time!" But try to pull out any of those movies and your friends will be dissolving you in an acid barrel.
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  1463. Brown Snow..
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  1464. My favorite word is 'liquidation' lol
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  1465. The biggest problem is that the Federal Government is trying to play daddy to the poor performances of it's sub-par citizens. Every child 'not' left behind due to a handicap in the grades is an entire CLASS that lowers the quality of their work to fit the newly accepted standard. Parents are dropping like flies in PTO attendance and extracurricular activities. Children have essentially no course work to occupy their brains. The entire culture is dropping off a cliff and parents are not putting in the effort that previous generations did.
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  1466. If you think this is just about left leaning people, I feel you're not paying attention. I come from a solid Republican family and they are cannibalizing themselves over the last two years of Covid. It is turning neighbor against neighbor and parents against children. The world revolves around the decisions of individuals and it is very clear to me that the average person is contributing to the tyranny that they are seeing in their own lives. There's a reason that the media, corporations, and government have been so reprehensible in the last several years. It's because we allow and abet the behavior. Not only that, but the average person is actively involved in the propaganda, deception, pride, and envy at it's core.
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  1467.  @zd5917  That's a very ignorant statement. If you truly think Russia randomly invaded Ukraine; you must have not been paying attention in 2014.
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  1468. People should stop bowing to the religion of "The Fed" and actually do some research. Look at the 0-4 USD money supplies. We are literally looking at 38% inflation in the last 18 months. The Fed calculates inflation like they calculate unemployment. A bunch of fun gadgets and categories to make the number look more appealing. If you actually want to define unemployment by (no capital gains, no 1099, and no w2), then you're looking at 20% unemployment at the very least. Wages have no kept up with inflation for 40 years and the process has just be expedited. Get ready for UBI, it's coming.
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  1469.  @gabrieltopan9315  Depression is not a soul issue I assure you. The link between gut health and depression is scary. I suspect that pesticides and food quality largely has to do with depression. Which is a fairly new disease on a world scale.
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  1470. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans
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  1471. lmfao "vote" he says Good one Morgan 👍
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  1472. (Women) - he needs to pop the ring in less than a year or he doesn't deserve me. (Man) - at 11 months; will you marry me sweetie? (Women) - wow, he seems really desperate.
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  1473. Americans don't care; a whopping majority of them! Ask anybody 60+ about reforming Social Security; they'll curse you out of the house. Older people don't want to hear it, talk about it, or even acknowledge the mathematics. It doesn't matter how bad the issue gets or how loud some representatives scream. Americans will ignore this issue until the entire circus collapses. Mark my words, this isn't going to happen ten years from now; it will happen sooner. This recent round of inflation has sent the train full steam ahead! You will see rolling black-outs, shortages, and a government shutdown that will last YEARS.
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  1474. Well, unlike US dollars; crypto is being leveraged as an investment. People trade in currency markets all the time, but it's never for a 5000% gain lol Crypto has the same fundamental problem that gold does. Once you run out of gold to export; your next strategy is ambition for resources via imperialism. Keynesian economics with a fiat currency helped eliminate that, only now the problem is that jobs get exported instead of precious metals.
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  1475. lol If I had a nickel for every vanity laden person that inferred that Russel Brand or Jordan Peterson was unintelligent; I'd be rich.
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  1476. The entire Keynesian experiment is coming to an end; as many expected. Unfortunately, you can't have system of permanent growth and permanent inflation in order to keep industrialized societies level. They eventually create bubbles and imbalances. An Austrian model is much more reliable, but the growth is extremely limited and would not have been possible in maintaining the US in it's global position it has enjoyed since 1946.
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  1477. My wife and I are 31 (baby Millennials) and we bought our first house at 26. We currently have a two years old son. There is nobody and I mean NOBODY (our own age) at our life stage. Residential areas are full of empty-nest Boomers/Gen X and the few who have little kids are late 30s to early 40s. My friend-groups from my HS graduating class got left behind entirely. Almost all of them still live with their parents or are couch-surfing with buddies. I literally have ONE close friend and he's been with me since middle-school. It just feels like everybody got left behind in my personal experience.
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  1478.  @teams3345  You pay taxes no matter where you live, as long as you are an American citizen. The deduction is $106k. Go live in Australia making $150k; you'll pay taxes on $44,000 to the US Government.
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  1479.  @teams3345  Because you don't pay income tax or FICA, unless you have a side job that pushes you over the tax free SS threshold. Which reduces it by probably 25-30%.
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  1480. I don't see how, one interview shouldn't define Joe Rogan. It was alright, but certainly nowhere near as intricate as interviews like this. I mean, his JD Vance interview was easily 1000 times better.
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  1481.  @lynmcfarlane3880  All of them! Look at them! They're trying to get sound-bite answers in order to make him look bad. This isn't a hearing; it's a clownshow.
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  1482.  @ronaldo2358  I appreciate yours as well, thanks! Good luck in Florida!
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  1483.  @beaf6537  You could look at Montana and Wyoming :)
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  1484. Oh please, Biden is innocent; he has no idea what day it is. Now, who is running the country and making the calls for his Administration? That's the real question...
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  1485. It's the other way around. Canada is largely a banana republic, with petrol being roughly 30% of all it's exports. Canada needs to US economy strong so that it can sell it's oil at higher prices which fuel it's own economy. The US on the other hand does not have that vice and is much more diversified.
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  1486.  @_____nope_____  Your response is rather subjective. I clearly highlighted some key features of the relationship which are easily confirmed by export and GDP data. You can call it non-sense all you want, but that doesn't change it. Feeling the need to resort to passive aggressiveness isn't necessary if your point is solid. Canada has a very problematic demographic problem (especially with retirement). Plus, real-estate and taxes make it nearly impossible for average incomes to live easily. Not to mention your penalties for living over-seas as a Canadian resident. Canada's relationship with the world holds as long as they're oil does, period. I wouldn't go gloating about Canada's relationship with the world after having Pierre's son as it's Prime Minister.
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  1487. If you don't know what you're going to college for, then you probably shouldn't be going. Should you do so, the likelihood is very high that you will join a horde of other University alumni that are barely able to make their loan and apartment payments. Not to mention carry no work prospects. We have tens of millions of Americans that are essentially indentured servants.
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  1488. This is like Pocahontas meets Transformers meets Assassins Creed.
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  1489. No offense, but I'm from Ohio and I could have told you that. The UK isn't what it used to be inflation was worsened by Brexit since it's harder to do business and maintain a domestic supply of goods.
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  1490. The agricultural industry wasn't deregulated. It's called mass incompetence.
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  1491. Honest question; what will change? Getting rid of Biden doesn't change ANYTHING regarding American problems. Inflation, the Retirement Crisis, and dropping domestic birthrates will still plague this country and your children.
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  1492. Personally, with countries like Costa Rica, Ecuador, Argentina, and others falling into good relations with the US. I think it's essential that the US continue to build a stronger alliance with Mexico and then try to pry Panama and Brazil from Chinese influence. One way or another, Latin America is going to be the next global power house for manufacturing and trade. Especially as Mexico continues to gain a large foothold on vehicles, computers, and other tech manufacturing. A new trade agreement to replace many of NAFTA's problems could prove essential if the US is going to compete with BRICS nations. I'm not a huge fan of regime change, but imagine if Brazil left BRICS and entered an alliance with the US and USD. Brazil's exports/imports are overwhelmingly going to and coming from China. If that alliance was lost, China would suffer greatly in terms of agriculture, petroleum, and steel.
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  1493. Unless they pull another Obama out of the butts; Hillary is the only option for 2024. Though if the GOP runs a moderate, this country will go blood red. I don't have anything personal against Trump. However, we know what they are prepared to do should he try to run again. He's completely uncontrollable and they despise that.
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  1494. Yeah, some advice to people when dating; don't ever date a woman on birth-control. I know that sounds mean, but these companies do not inform you (nor Doctors) about all the risks (physical and psychological) that go along with their use. Increased risk for permanent hormonal imbalances, mood swings, bipolar disorder, high blood pressure, reduced fertility and of course breast cancer. The FDA lists them as Class A carcinogens; another thing they won't tell you. One psychological side effect is a massive surge in testosterone that makes them more aggressive, more disagreeable, not responsive to the stimuli children produce, and on top of that much more apathetic. Which seems to coincide with many of the mental health surveys that are publicly released. This is why we have a super-minority of women aged 18-30 that are having problems with child rearing and socialization; it's not just a choice people are making. It's a change in factors relating to public health.
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  1495.  @diegoharo7943  On average, the markets perform better under Democrat leadership, but that's not exactly due to economic policy. Republicans are better are producing large bull periods due to trickle-down theory. It works; until it doesn't. Largely because demand runs out of control as supply begins to fall from natural factors in the economy. Democrats have actually pushed in a similar fashion in the last decade since Obama. It's not exactly partisan. Your welfare programs aren't leading the deficit though; it's SS, Medicare, and Pensions. Canada is experiencing the same thing; just worse. It's all in demographics; too many old and not enough young working and producing a large enough tax payment. I'm not sure where you're getting that Dems fund and Republicans defund programs. I think this is a broad generalization for auto-pilot programs, but they have had bi-partisan stability for decades.
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  1496. They are Zoomer and baby Millennial shits with ZERO life experience and have a time dilemma because Disney/Amazon have a deadline for more profits
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  1497. Yes, so does Batman! :)
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  1498.  @Connery007neckache  I agree that most of school is pointless, but standardized testing has been taking a nose dive. Throw reading and writing on top of that. No child left behind means that classrooms with smarter kids have to accommodate slower kids and trouble-makers. It's the classic equity argument. If you try to push all the failing children thru; kids don't get smarter. The entire class gets dumber and the teachers lose their quality as well.
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  1499. Trump dynasty will end in 2024; mark my words. Republicans don't have the votes to re-elect him. We have the greatest chance in human history for an Independent candidate. Question is, will people take advantage of that?
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  1500. Well, you're falsely associating affluence with not wanting to support children. Women going into college are much less likely to have children before they've even started. It's because they are more likely to be on birth control AND they are going to avoid serious relationships during a considerable amount of their fertile years. Once a woman hits 25-28; her prospects of a successful marriage go down significantly. After 30, it's near impossible. Historically, this is why women were married off young. You may be an A+, but women only date their own age and higher on a societal scale. Meaning that their selection-pool of men is C+ at best by the time they're 25-28.
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  1501.  @WongWho  Nope! lol
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  1502. Doing great actually! Most of my investments are hedged with (bear leverage X3 ETFs). Any market between the S&P 500, Tech, and Semi-conductor contracts that loses 1% returns 3% to me. It's all a matter of paying attention to market trends; anybody that's buying into a BULL market is delusional...
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  1503. Florida isn't done; it is STILL (as of December 2024) one of the hottest locations for more people looking to enter the state as residents than leave. Yes, there has been a slowdown, but Florida is nowhere near in the same situation as NY, CA, or even Illinois.
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  1504. Well, insane economics and insane demographic problems produce insane candidates. I'll be glad when all of this is over after the 2030s.
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  1505. Completely done! I don't really buy anything anymore tbh Grab a sack of potatoes, couple bananas, and a rotisserie chicken from Kroger and I'm all good!
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  1506. Thank you! I've been saying this for years; as I used to do DoorDash, UberEats, and GrubHub. These people are intentionally pumping their (hourly wages) so they can virtue signal to themselves so they don't feel as bad. It also misleads people that have never done the job. My overhead was roughly 0.25 cents a mile on average.
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  1507. They have no evidence that I've seen. If he keeps his mouth shut; he walks. If he opens his mouth; the jury empathizes with the rest of us and he STILL walks.
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  1508. Exactly!
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  1509. Unfortunately, the attention span of the average American wouldn't be able to watch the first 10 seconds of this video. The biggest problem aside from tech algorithms, is their effect on the average person. I cant even speak to my own parents anymore without them losing attention after 5 seconds and having a "squirrel" moment. It sounds hilarious, but this will be the downfall of society if we do nothing.
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  1510. By all means, don't raise it! Been waiting all my life for the day that we default and the Federal Government collapses. It's going to be Christmas with fireworks!
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  1511. It's insider trading to people that don't trade and don't understand the definition. You'll see the opposite opinion on most financial channels. It was publicly released and investors reacted to it. Trump made his tariff implementation public and his pause public; in advance I might add. Insider trading (for example) is when you invest in Palladium right before there are massive sanctions put up against countries that export it. Most investors are not privy to that information.
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  1512. Business tax incentives and administrative bureaucracies are not exactly mutual. You can be for tax legislation and against monopolies. The problem is that these institutions are giving corporations subsidies that are allowing them to bulldoze small businesses using taxpayer money.
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  1513. Vera, as a retired educator, could you explain why teachers feel so pressured to pass such large volumes of students that are not meeting old standards? I graduated in 2012 and the educational system have a dramatic overhaul between 2013 and 2014 where they began passing just about anybody that could breathe. My own sister was accepted into a University at a 7th grade reading/writing level. We were extremely worried, but it seems that the college teachers are doing the same thing. She has had virtually 0 homework since 6th grade with anybody she attends and the requirements to pass these courses are microscopic in comparison to what I experienced in school.
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  1514. People need to understand that these activists are desperately trying to change the age of consent. "16 year olds should be able to vote!" Which isn't going to come without "16 year olds can consent as pornographic actors", for example. It boggles my mind that so many people don't understand how the rule of law flows from one subject to another. They assume that they can legalize one particular agenda at a time with no unintended consequence in a distal category. Believe me, it's no accident. They want to take advantage of your children in every way possible. A wet dream of these people would be to make children property of the state with full consent of their bodies and minds.
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  1515.  @frankdux5693  Exceptional logic bud; smh.
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  1516. I admire Chip and other representatives attempting to fight this issue, but believe me; there is nothing of God's green earth that is going to solve the debt crisis. Even if you taxed Americans at 100% (all income and all capital gains). It would take some 100 years to settle the debt and interest of all unfunded liabilities under the US Government. It's NEVER going to happen, period! It's not linear; it's exponential. Boomers didn't want to talk about Social Security 30 years ago and NOW we are going to pay for it! Not only with our livelihoods, but the livelihoods of our children, and our grandchildren. I truly think that some 99% of Americans are completely ignorant of the situation we are in. Demographics changed; you didn't have enough kids. Nobody apparently did (in all first world countries). Why is another question, but the repercussions are inevitable. We have a shrinking labor force and a growing number of retirees. So what is supposed to happen as demographics shift, Social Security liability goes UP, interest continues to grow, and wages continue to sink below the rate of inflation? That's a brilliant question! You know what happens? We all become dirt poor and can't afford anything. The refusal to talk about Social Security and other entitlements is going to inevitably get them taken away completely. You'll see a Government shutdown that will last YEARS and not even be able to fulfill Social Security auto-pilot payments. Even if they did, the annual inflation would eat it alive. There's a reason why corporations are moving all their assets and business overseas. Who on earth wants to have assets remaining in a continent experiencing a long term depression? America's future is a bunch of elderly people dying in the streets and only a handful of young people trying to scrape by to survive.
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  1517. Not exactly! Stronger dollar just typically means that it's easier to export TO the US; weaker dollar would signify the opposite. If what you said was true, then the most recent height of dollar strength in Oct 2022 would signify a lower stock market, while it was peaking at the time That's not mutually exclusive to stocks losing valuation. The stock market overall is better determined by interest rate fluctuations. As money gets refinanced with lower-interest; it tends to leave the stock market and enter real-estate/services or be maintained as cash. Stock valuations have been soaring since Covid (more or less) because of ultra-low interest rates than began in March 2020. Dollar strength has never been a direct indicator of market valuation; the correlation is extremely poor.
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  1518. I feel I am very quickly transitioning from conservative to anarchist. What's the point of natural or human rights when they can be stripped away by some corrupt bureaucrat? They face no repercussions for committing crimes that the rest of us would be serving LIFE in prison for. As far as I'm concerned; any government conduct to infringe on my ability to protect myself, protect my family, and speak my mind is worthy of capital punishment via public hanging.
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  1519. US imposed a 125% tariff on China and gave a 90 day pause to other nations that did not retaliate against the base level tariffs the US imposed in the last several weeks. China's imports from the US are 7% of their total. China exports to the US are 13% of their total. They are hurting much more from the tariffs than we are.
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  1520. Yep! I'm not a fan of her personality and his methodology. I think he serves himself and his family, but it's hard not to notice how fake everyone is (as soon as he decided to run for office). Everybody in show-biz and the media loved this man before his ran in 2016.
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  1521. I've been talking about this to friends and family for years and it all falls on deaf ears. It's not evidence enough that my son (born several months ago) is the first child in my entire family born in the last 9 years. In a family of roughly 75 close blood-line members; we have an infant, a 9 year old, an 11 year old, and a 17 year old. Everybody else is between 23 and 73. Btw, at the age of 29; I am the ONLY married person and the ONLY one with a child. My own parents continues to badger Generation Z for (not picking up the slack and working) to better the economy and the labor shortages. Newsflash, who retired from the largest positions of competence and prestige in the last 3 years during the Covid fiasco? Because it wasn't young people. Those 7 Millions Americans you see in the headlines "not working" as almost exclusively people between the ages of 45 and 60 that retired early or called it quits due to lockdowns, vaccines, work strain, or even a cultural wakeup call. The idea that a bunch of 20-25 year olds are the reason that the labor force is empty is foolish. Many of those people haven't even left school, let alone found their first job. Look at the age statistics for each industry! Even Drivers for Door-Dash have an average age of 49. The priority jobs in the economy: electrician, plumber, truck driver, Doctor, Nurse, Firefighter, Police officer, etc. Are all held by the competency of middle aged Americans. This problem was a LONG time coming and I find it quite embarrassing that Americans haven't realized that (not having any children) has resulted in a societal collapse.
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  1522. Don't spread baseless ignorance bud; use your head and research for yourself.
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  1523.  @thomaskim5008  Nursing is a death sentence bud; it's not what it used to be. If you take on massive debts and don't get a job in your field; you're done. If you take on massive debts and GET a job in your field; you'll die a slow and painful death. Nowadays, most RNs want to leave their hospital within 6 months. My wife is a PA and she's wanted out ever since her first year concluded. People really need to talk about how bad these industries are getting. The staff are disgruntled, the clients/patients are rude, and the benefits/pay isn't worth it anymore. Go pay cash for a CDL and drive a truck and save money; you'll thank me later.
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  1524. @kim5008 You're living in the year 2000 buddy. Your comment smells of either retirement or over-optimistic youth. Things aren't what they used to be. There's a difference between working a job you hate and being worked to death 60 hours a week; doing the labor of 3 people. This is 2024 and the older demographics are completely out of touch with reality. The US Dollar has never seen this much depreciation; not even in 1977. I don't care what anybody says. Laziness and complaining are not the reasons people can't get ahead. There will come a time when you need to accept that the middle-class is essentially going extinct. No amount of 'bootstraps rhetoric' is going to change that.
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  1525. The Federal Reserve will NEVER allow deflation. They will slash interest rates and perform massive QE! If anything, we are in the early stages of hyperinflation. There is no productivity/GDP that can outpace the inflation that we've experienced. Which means we will experience nasty inflation for at least the next 5-6 years. Whether or not that will collapse the USD is anyone's guess.
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  1526. Docile? That's hilarious. Try taking that iPad away and you'll see how DOCILE these kids are.
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  1527. We used to make weapons to fight wars. Now we make wars to sell weapons. We used to make medicine to fight diseases. Now we make diseases to sell medicine.
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  1528.  @endofjourney665  I don't understand your analogy. Socialism is quite literally when government institutionalizes the private market with a series of wealth redistributions. Bootstraps for the poor; socialism for the rich. A considerable amount of progressives have the same criticisms of the US government. It's not so much a criticism of economic theories, but rather an identification of hypocrisy and corruption.
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  1529. The transgender movement is largely a coping mechanism that American children are using to deal with the mega-surge in child abuse and neglect. The rate of fatherlessness and/or absence of an interpersonal relationship with the father is crazy high. At the same time, human trafficking groups and predators are taking FULL advantage of the insecurities that these kids have.
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  1530. Maybe it's because their parents taught them or incentivized them to do so. The idea that children need to have 'evil' or 'bad behavior' disciplined OUT of them is a sick part of Christian ideology. I hear that stuff from the Christian parents that sexually and physically abuse their children while telling them that their lack of obedience is rooted in the 'devil'.
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  1531. Inflation is coming down; that doesn't mean prices come down lol If inflation slows, it simply means that the rate of price increases slow.
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  1532.  @edwinjustiniano2937  But it was important for you to let me know?
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  1533. Not going to happen with a 20 year low foreclosure rate and historically low supply rate. Yes, supply is up compared to 2023, but overall supply is still low while demand is high. The problem is that the demand curve hasn't changed; only the demographics. In 2020, the demand curve was heavy Gen X, Boomer, and Millennial. Now the demand curve is almost exclusively older Gen X and Boomers.
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  1534. Well, what are they waiting for? Holding those properties long term without full capacity is a large cost.
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  1535.  @tristanconn11  It's very easy for someone (such as yourself) to criticize everything you see on a body cam. Imagine how many dumb things you do every day if people had the footage of it to criticize. I'm just putting it into perspective.
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  1536. Cherish it when you can, because pride usually destroys most people. The average person will burn down their own house and allow their whole family to die before they admit they were wrong.
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  1537.  @2bittesla  I can, perhaps not for your field maybe. But I used to be a truck driver two years ago 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, 8 unpaid vacation days a year. And that's pretty much industry standard. Plus, I was home daily; dear Jesus lol
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  1538. The culture and incentives for avarice are abundant, especially in office. The US is literally becoming a third world country.
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  1539. My wife and I make six figures. We've almost entirely cut out restaurants. Not ONLY are they more expensive, but they've been adding a significant amount of carcinogenic additives to food; carrageenan, hydrogenated soy, natural 'lab' flavors, and msg's out the wazoo. They are desperately trying to enslave their consumers that can't afford to keep going out.
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  1540.  @sg24336  Do you still think 'hands up don't shoot' was truth?
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  1541. They wanted a 'controlled' interview.
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  1542. Congrats! Was that decades ago? Todays college market is nothing like it used to be. The quality is completely absent and the prices are far outweighing inflation. Government bureaucracy and loan guarantees have assured that.
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  1543. Bitcoin is a cute idea, but it's biggest problem is how to manage the energy/exchange costs. Unless BTC can figure out a way to be cheaper to process than VISA (for example). It will never be a national or global currency. Currently, it's just a toy.
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  1544. Well, the US doesn't prosecute users anymore to a large extent. It's about going after the supply chains.
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  1545. I actually agree!
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  1546. You forgot the toilet in between.
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  1547. @skye Based on what? Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance. Receptors become overtly saturated by the insulin and begin to lose their function. This can happen from eating too often, as well as eating too many high glycemic foods, considering volume as well. Going on a ketogenic diet will erase type 2 diabetes. My mother in law and wife have both accomplished this.. I hope you're not referring to that intramuscular fat theory cited by one research scientist... There's not a shred of clinical data to prove it. If what you say is true, where would prehistoric humans have gotten their fats and vitamins? Plants would not have provided the amount and variation needed. Native people's that still live using the old ways in places like Indonesia have a diet of pork, organ meats, coconuts, and fruits. African tribes aren't that different: pork, chicken, potatoes, organ meats, and fruits.
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  1548.  @scottvaj4434  Well, I say this with utmost kindness. But a large disproportion of them are on the autistic spectrum and/or have poor nutrition and health. Living a life that is a social nightmare; most of them turn to animal care. An animal doesn't judge and is easier to connect with in many ways. The rest of the ideology plays itself out from there. If they don't view animals as people in such capacity, then it interferes with their function. Other times it can be a fad due to poor socialization and family connection. Ideologies such as transgenderism and veganism are also much more prevalent in families that have an absent parent or the child that has suffered some kind of abuse. Pathologies in a family almost always lead to extreme cultist like behavior. It's the yearning to belong. So that's why I don't get on their case too much.
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  1549. Well, give it another 5-10 years and we'll all be poor millionaires lmfao
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  1550. A complete media BLACKOUT of Ivermectin in India shows you what their true motives are.
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  1551. lol my subconscious is always telling me to shove my knife thru my computer. The brain is fighting back!
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  1552. That makes no sense; why would the banks worry? They have collateral on your vehicle; they own it. If you stop paying, they get it back. If you financed with the dealership; they get it back.
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  1553. Kennedy 2024 all the way! No more D's and R's!
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  1554. He was born in the United States.....
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  1555. Probably for ESG loan rates; nothing more.
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  1556.  @Nathan-mg5wt  Yeah, you're like the 1000th person to tell me that lol I live in Ohio if it's any consolation and my family descends from Slovakia.
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  1557. He never said it; that's the problem.
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  1558. It won't change anything. Everybody is paying attention to the wrong problems. His mass deportation plan (should it go thru) would have significant implications for the markets. Prices will go up and labor prices will rise. People don't realize how deeply imbedded illegal immigrant labor is in the US.
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  1559. You people are all about hate; what gives?
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  1560. Well, I do empathize with many of the younger people (I'm 30). But let's be real here. Most of these people 'suffering' are omitting the fact that they have a gargantuan student loan payment each month.
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  1561. They're not seeing at all; they're dead... XD
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  1562. Well, you're ignoring a very basic concept. Bigger cost of living = needing more money to finance it. It's the same reason food prices go up with real-estate and auto-markets. You're logic dictates that I should make the same amount that I made in 1990 because of a 'linear' principle.
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  1563. Property taxes effectively mean that all the property of the US has been nationalized. The Supreme Court REALLY took a nap on this one.
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  1564.  @perseus-t7m  Same! We were actually going to move to Florida in 2022. I love it there, but things need to change. It's not a price or weather friendly place to raise children.
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  1565. Not gonna lie; I thought this was a Joe Rogan upload for a second XD
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  1566.  @halfhonkyhalfsamoan  It's unfortunately bigger than you'd hink. I thought this behavior would be limited to (online) until the last few years. I was just walking with my son yesterday when a neighbor 3 blocks away began talking politics. Then began to go unhinged ranting about how much she hated Trump supporters. I just smiled and wished her well lol
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  1567. Tulsi already refused Trump and Kennedy months ago. Why is it so hard for people to keep up?
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  1568. Explain to me how an average person is going to learn how to transfer BTC without an exchange? Accessibility and convenience are a proportion of it's value. If any number of major institutions drop BTC from the exchange, the value will crash; it's that simple.
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  1569.  @rareroots  Give me an example? High interest rates are not a 'Biden policy' if that's what you mean.
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  1570. @James Bond Tell that to 15 million people living illegally in this country. If ICE and local police aren't enforcing the law or the "Return to Mexico Title 42" policy. Then not much is going to stop you. Free healthcare, no taxes, and off grid. Some people like that.
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  1571. Makes you wonder what their true agenda is. In all the vaccine commotion, I bet people forgot that our Government is operating a budget on the "extraordinary measures" clause, since they failed to extend the debt Ceiling after its expiration on Jul 31st. IF Congress does not agree to raise it within the next several weeks, this Government is going to go into shutdown and ultimately default. McConnell has already said that they will not vote to raise it. So what's the end game one might wonder?
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  1572. There are two kinds of people! 1. People that watched the interview and make their own observations and decisions. 2. People that need a media channel to tell them how to hear and think.
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  1573.  @KonglomeratYT  I think you're projecting your own misunderstandings on the subject. If your take on the subject is strong and fool-proof. Then maybe you'd share what I am missing instead of low-key insulting my intelligence? What 'lack of economic understanding of mine' is so glaringly obvious to you?
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  1574.  @indakgalak  Due elaborate on what Bidenflation is? Nobody seems to know. The economy was booming from 2014 to 2019. This was largely besides Trump's Administration. Inflation (which takes 12-24 months to mature) was a result of his cabinet policies as well as the policies of the Federal Reserve. I'm curious to how Biden caused inflation (which began in Q1 of 2021 and got to 9.1% CPI in June of 2022). All of this was due to ultra-low rates, PPP loans, and printing under the Trump Administration.
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  1575.  @jmd489  Every President since Clinton has spent more than the previous. This is largely a mathematic inevitability as interest on debt compounds and demographic problems grow the Federal budget each year. It's not as simple as 'over-spending on military or discretionary' as many like to believe.
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  1576. Candace Owens terminated her Daily-wire contract because a number of 'conservative' influencers have lost their minds, which includes Ben Shapiro. Between emotional agitation, click-bait, cancel culture, and fame gone to the head; the conservative-right have been shredding it's base for the last 2 years. The lack of profession and insanity that has been going on in the conservative realm is embarrassing to say the least. By the way, if this is news to you, then I'd say you're living under a rock. This is one of the reasons that Republican voters are splintering. Eating your own and expecting to miraculously come out on top politically is abundantly naïve. Every other day, somebody on the right gets 'outraged' about something one of their colleagues says and then uses the might of their followers to damage the reputation of the other person. It's destroyed much of my faith in the ability for Republicans to ever make a comeback; believe me.
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  1577. There's something wrong with this Administration; there's something wrong with people in general. The scariest part is that the causation is probably something nobody is aware of.
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  1578. @grayma Did you forget the part where Obama's State Dept. formed a coup against Kiev in 2014? Which basically started this entire problem.
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  1579.  @benstandard  Because younger people tend to be ignorant of the cogs that shape environment typically.
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  1580.  @Mikel3564  Jesus bud, it's going to take a lot more than some hacks to fix this garbage dump. I'm not exactly a fan of the inflation you know; so I won't be voting for Trump.
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  1581. Unfortunately, most of the "racism" you hear about is completely fabricated. An entire generation of young people that have never experienced racism get to run around and exclaim how they are going to stamp it out. I would largely relate it to the "crisis of meaning." Generation Z is very disproportionately handicapped in responsibility, emotion, prestige, and everything you can imagine that used to be second nature. Trying to fight a "culture war" is just another way to cope with not belonging to anything or not feeling your life means anything to others. Social media alone is enough proof of that: likes, shares, and posts for attention. No wonder people are so depressed, they have to INVENT their own suffrage.
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  1582. Basically all games made after 2015 suck.
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  1583. Probably 40 years or more at this point?
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  1584. Housing demand is INSANE on a national scale. The problem though, is high interest rates are holding people back from taking on these mortgages; it's sitting idle. When interest rates falter even a little bit, you'll see the housing market take back off 2024/2025 and we will see inflation surge all over again; just like the 70s.
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  1585. Laws aren't being enforced, if campaign finance laws and insider trading laws were enforced; some 80% of Congress would go to prison.
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  1586. Well, education is a major factor too. I'm not against educating women in principle, but the undeniable result is that (educated women do not provide a replacement number of children) by natural falling fertility.
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  1587. Assuming that everybody is buying useless things perhaps, but this problem is much deeper. The only reason food is still cheap is due to illegal labor and cheap labor in central/south America. Tariffs and deportations (while I agree with both in theory) will actually just make you pay more for everything unfortunately.
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  1588. Depends on location; I grew up with cops in my family. It largely seems like a cultural issue. I'm from Columbus and have met all manner of Ohio cops. They always talk politics about how crazy New York and California law enforcement policies are. I would ask all the time if they agreed with something that had happened in those states and they would always be bewildered why cops would even be enforcing those laws. Ohio cops don't even enforce marijuana laws; it's a simple citation/fine if the officer chooses. Mind you, in 2020/2021 the Ohio Dept. of Health was asking CPD to enforce the Covid laws on gatherings. They sited a large number of instances where complaints were filing in from residents about neighbors not following the party/gathering mandates. So they openly asked CPD to enforce the law and apprehend non-compliant residents. The police Chief and a swarm of letters kindly told the DoH to F-off.
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  1589. People have better access to information; it's why podcasts are so important. The population is rejecting to oligarchy currently in charge.
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  1590. Pretty much sums up the morals of current society. If people LIKE you and you're RICH, then you can commit any crime you want without repercussion. As long as the mob approves, you can assault someone. This should terrify people on the basis of their freedom and rights, especially to free speech. People will say it's the Oscars etc; that it's all a joke anyway, but it doesn't matter. Tens of millions of people watch this garbage and those kinds of signals manifest themselves in reality. Same thing with social media, words don't just end online. They eventually change behaviors that people present in real life. I'm not sure people understand how much of an effect these kinds of things have on larger society. Having a large influence as a celebrity, talk show host, politician, CEO etc puts an entirely different level of responsibility on the individual. The things you do and say have the ability to build or destroy people far away from you.
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  1591.  @marionamewontwork2681  Yeah, it will affect relationships as you get older. Watching porn isn't exactly a harmless act. Thinking it changes nothing seems really complacent.
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  1592. They had NO platform or policies to begin with. Even IF they would have won; they would have been at each other's throats not knowing what to do about anything.
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  1593.  @Rlee-x9s  Alright, so what policies are you referring to? When most people talk about Trump positively; they speak about the economy btw.
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  1594.  @richardwendt9266  Tell me about it! This is why I'm an Independent. The cultism on either side scares me.
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  1595. Under resourced SS. Ex-Presidents don't have the same volume of security as a sitting President.
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  1596. Well, Federal contracts are still being paid to remove migrants from Texas encampments. For 2023, they were still paying $15,000 per head I believe. This has given a bad incentive for international organizations to traffic people 'globally' into the US for financial reward.
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  1597. I think technology ruined the kids; not really the educational system. On top of that, parents don't seem to care anymore.
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  1598. As much as I might agree with a 'ban' on most of this garbage; there's nothing you can do. Even a 10 year old can navigate loopholes to continue getting what he wants in the digital world. All we can do is let this continue to it's conclusion. I fear that it involves WW3 and new incentives/regulations to follow afterwards.
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  1599. Just a bit of advice! I love IF and low carb dieting, but I might have to caution you about OMAD. I did it for 18 months and ended up with leptin resistance and a border-line eating disorder. I think it may be a useful tool short term, but I will never do OMAD again. It's dangerous long term in my experience. I stick to 18-6 IF now with low carb diets; typically under 100g per day.
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  1600. Europe has nowhere to go. The US has major leverage over Europe considering that we pay massive amounts of money to maintain their militaries and invest in research and development.
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  1601. It's pretty obvious that China wants assurance that NATO will not intervene when they decide to invade Taiwan. Anything involving the invasion of Taiwan would be catastrophic for the textile and/or retail industry. The moment China puts boots on the ground, the United States is going to invoke crippling sanctions. You'll have monumental shortages of shoes, shirts, hats, and bankruptcies out the wazoo from Kohls, Big Lots, and many designer apparel companies.
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  1602. I think people will be surprised how quickly middle/upper class children will go from high status to welfare in less than one generation. A CONSIDERABLE amount of Gen Z will probably end up living on welfare in the future. It's not all about lack of opportunities, it's about a general lack of motivation and unhealthy lifestyle as well.
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  1603. The Government doesn't pay interest to the FED; they pay interest to bond holders. So technically if any part of the government owns bonds (as they often do). They are paying themselves. Most of those are investors.
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  1604.  @persistenceoverresistance8464  Technically, hyperinflation is a mathematical phase, but I agree that we are on track at least.
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  1605. Plus, 'unemployment insurance fraud' - that's a major one most people are unaware of.
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  1606.  @J3LVN1  Who on earth told you that? Public employees DO pay Social Security taxes, but they cannot collect them. Ask any police officer that has paid into SS their entire life, but cannot collect it!
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  1607. Supply and demand bud. You're trying to criminalize a natural result of economics stemming from government incompetence. Maybe if government would stop gate-keeping asset prices, then prices would come down and this wouldn't be needed in the first place? I truly do not understand how a lot of people think we can continue raising wages and somehow price stability in a Keynesian market will magically maintain equilibrium. Economics needs to be mandatory in HS.
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  1608. I've always enjoyed immigrants more than born and raised Americans. Just my experience, but they have a sense of gratitude and integrity that I seldom find in others. I feel it shows how complacent we've become over the years.
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  1609.  @benedwards3427  That's a myth bud; caloric value doesn't mean you are metabolizing it. It's like putting canola oil in your gas tank. It'll work, but at 10% efficiency than 87' Octane.
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  1610. The biggest reason that people so easily dismiss the adverse reports is because a majority of Americans are still heavily invested in the credentials of the FDA and CDC. The last time it was this bad, we ended up with the final solution. Most Germans were well aware of what was going on. Pride will allow you to drag your spouse, kids, and friends to hell with you.
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  1611. I don't people realize how many crazies live in this country. People want to criticize police left and right for doing something or NOT doing something. I mean, statistically 15% of the population has an IQ of 85 or below; that's 45 million people. Being low in intelligence and having an anti-social disorder is a recipe for criminality.
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  1612. If the minimum wage went up to $50; I would immediately buy a home. I'd easily sell is for quintuple in about 2 years lol
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  1613. Yeah, certainly messed up my game of bingo this week.
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  1614. Joe Biden did do good things, from a certain point of view. He gave Americans enough Child Tax credits so that 7 Million people would permanently leave the workforce. Which I guarantee you was the opposite effect of what the Democrats thought would happen. It's just one step closer to dismantling this freak-show of an economy and political elitist system we have in my opinion.
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  1615. dual citizenship actually!
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  1616. Yep! Live it up while you can because 2026 will certainly see inflation resurgence in my opinion.
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  1617. Unfortunately, I have to agree with you; sitting here in the US. Crazy times where we can quite literally side with the enemies of our country; all over principle and values.
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  1618. Trump will stop nothing. All that will end up happening is a mud-slide of legal issues between states and Federal agencies. We're more likely to get ourselves into a Civil War than fixing the current issues. In my mind, now doubt inflation will resurge under Trump. He caused the issue in the first place! Let's not forget about the governors that shut down their states as well. The end goal is for corporations to suck up the rest of the wealth and leave the US high and dry.
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  1619. He probably gets amazing sleep quality; like Trump I'd imagine. Forget their politics, just pay attention to how much energy they can both exert; absolutely insane.
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  1620.  @jimmyboy2165  People that can convey their understanding of a situation don't use petty insults. If China was selling arms and missiles to Mexico that they were using to skirmish against border patrol, along with creating a coup to put in a Mexican President they approve of. Would you really be surprised if the US invaded? That's the same situation unfolding in Ukraine. Civilians dies in war. Using that as a catalyst to call other people morons is extremely unintelligent. I wonder how many war crimes have been committed by Ukrainian forces. We don't know, because it's not in the interest of the media.
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  1621. Not leaked, they were released on a judge's orders under the Freedom of Information Act.
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  1622. Respectively, from each side these days. It literally sounds like one side is denying any possibility that humans could contribute to damaging the earth, it's ecosystems, and atmosphere. On the other hand, you have a mob of people that will sentence you to hell if you don't acknowledge that the world will end in 10 years. The frustration is unreal and the source of the gridlock on the conversation is because all the dumb people are shouting.
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  1623. Social Security recipients got screwed on the COLA adjustments the last several years. 9.1% inflation? Here's a 6% raise Grandma! 7.5% inflation? Here's a 3% raise Grandma! Unfortunately, Social Security is going to fail due to natural trends in demographic changes. I hope everybody now understands why Keynesian economics is pathetic. Permanent inflation and permanent growth work very well; until they don't.
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  1624. He is definitely risen! Right thru my shorts.
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  1625.  @stinkbug1  Every dealership near me at least in Columbus, OH. I'm from the Midwest and the signs are still everywhere, including the commercials. Our local Nissan, Kia, and Ford all have 0% APY deals. Because nothing in inventory is selling; so they are trying to reduce inventory still. Dealerships often do 0% APY and run it thru their own payment app on their website. That's how I did my KIA years ago.
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  1626.  @donparker1823  I hope you're right :)
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  1627. There is; he says this in the beginning of the video. Go to the gear box and choose the Spanish version :)
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  1628. The nearest one was 35 minutes away; it's a waste of time and resources.
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  1629. - Trump will crash the economy - Trump will make you poor - Trump will bring about inflation - Trump will sell us to the Chinese - Trump will get us involved in a war - Trump will start a nuclear war. ALL of these accusations have happened (with Biden in office); except the last one and THAT terrifies me.
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  1630. Harry Kallama
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  1631. That's rare :)
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  1632. Colonialism was the largest reason that many nations are the way they are; in terms of prosperity or technology. Some completely fell behind when they gained their independence. India is a great example of a country that fell apart after the British left.
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  1633. Just because it goes against the narrative of blindly hating every women doesn't mean it's useless bantering. This is perfect example of behavior from men I detest.
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  1634.  @Pharmakon_nokamrahP  Why do you assume that I ignore the toxicity of many women? This is more about your own bias than anything else. I used this one example to make a statement against a certain kind of attitude that some men represent. I never generalized; you assumed because you didn't read correctly. Perhaps you should slow down and be more objective on the subject instead of getting a knee jerk reaction to insult anyone who doesn't spread constant insults about women?
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  1635.  @AF-xi8ly  You're going to be paying $240,000 for a two bed two bath condo (if they don't get gobbled up within hours of being posted). Those new construction homes are going to be owned by bag holders in a very short amount of time.
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  1636. What I've noticed is the nihilism in people is running rampant. It's not even about debating anymore, people are only trying to call out the slightest hint of hypocrisy so they can feel better about themselves.. Btw, comparing the Covid vaccine to Polio or MMR is a ridiculously incompetent use of the "mandate" argument. These are the same people that willfully ignore that Pfizer has a history with hundreds of thousands of deaths. Vioxx alone was linked to 27,000 deaths. Considering VAERs deaths fall at 11,000 for the Pfizer vaccine, I will most assuredly say, "No!"
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  1637. Everything he's said is largely publicly available. My largest opposition to support for either side was NATO's involvement in the Yanukovich coup that took place in 2014. Anybody paying attention pretty much knows that Ukraine is not a nation, it's a (pay to play) buffer state that Russia and NATO are trying to control. If Ukraine had joined NATO, then the rest of Europe and America would be obligated to suppress the ongoing civil war in eastern Ukraine back during 2021 and early 2022. This would have put NATO and a war against Russia's border. Now you have idiots claiming that there never was a (civil war) in eastern Ukraine before 2022. The amount of stupidity in the media and general public has always astounded me.
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  1638. So, how long until everybody on this channel is 'magically' against the war? Probably 3-4 years or so as usual lol
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  1639. Save up $5,000 and go to CDL school. Work a few years, save, then get out. Then pursue something you want. That's what I did. I would have said that two years ago and it's still a viable option today. Though the price of a house is ridiculous. No child from Gen Z will be able to afford one.
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  1640. Both of which refused his offer months ago.
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  1641.  @crackasaurus_rox9740  Society will always go the way it wants; best thing you can do is stay out of it's way.
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  1642. Anxiety and OCD are typically indicative of childhood trauma and abuse. I still have severe anxiety and managing the OCD due to my NPD mother.
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  1643. The slowdown is real, people denying it are living under a rock collecting retirement. There's only a handful of really successful restaurant businesses that continue to function well and demand has really taken a hit. From an interest perspective, I don't think people could afford debt at the current levels, even if they thought that interest rates would get worse. Nobody has any money, my wife and I make six figures, have a 1600 sqft home, and one vehicle. We essentially have no money left. All of it goes to bills, student loans, and medical debt.
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  1644. Sure thing, just expect prices to go insane lol
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  1645. I have no empathy for the lady with 6 cans of Pringles, Fritos, Marie Calendar, and TV Dinners. I'm a 30 year old man; learn how to cook sweetie. A sack of potatoes and chicken breast go a long way!
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  1646. They're out there; just excessively harder to find.
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  1647. That makes no sense. If you love the geographical area, the people, or the culture that's one thing. But if you love a country, by default you love the government. There is no country without a government. Perhaps you should say that you love Georgia, or South Dakota, or wherever you hail from. Never again will I claim to love this country or utter the words, "Our brothers and sister that died for our freedoms." What a load of malarkey! It's a sick joke is what it is. Stay strong in whatever hardships or life you are going through though.
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  1648.  @gypsyluv1118  He probably means people will start reapplying to law enforcement agencies when more competent people are in charge? Which I don't exactly agree with; law enforcement has been defamed to the length that it would takes decades to recoup TRUST in the system. State Trooper application alone are down 70% since 2 years ago. Many cops are also retiring early, my father included (taking the 25 year pension). You get bigger pension percentages for staying longer and many of these cops are opting out. Nobody wants to be a cop; least of all in any major city like Columbus, Atlanta, Milwaukee, or Chicago. There politicians and media companies have completely undermined their safety AND the trust the Americans had in any PD or law enforcement agency. Columbus PD alone are on hold for any non-emergent calls and the city prosecutor hasn't pursued any cases as of late. We have some 300 unsolved murders in the last 3 years. Lawlessness is rampant in many major cities and it's ruining the living standards and property values of residence, even in suburbs.
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  1649. Impossible, you can cut 100% of military and discretionary and it would still NOT balance the budget. The problem is mandatory spending. Unless you raise the tax revenue, you must cut something out of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Tribal lands, public transit, etc!
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  1650. The biggest problem is that a considerable number of people are in a state of psychosis. It's really a frightening thing to see, even in my own family. I visited my family a few weeks ago and my 19 year old sister asked me a question about Covid. I didn't get two words out before my mother screamed downstairs to get me to stop talking. Mind you I'm 28 and she's an RN of 25 years. She honestly believes that me and my wife are Covid deniers and conspiracy theorists for not getting the shot and not believing the CDC, FDA, AHA on their word. Both my parents mental health has been on serious decline over the last several years. Not sure if that's from Covid hysteria, prescription meds, or both. I conclude all my information from either a published trial or clinical trials from the ASJ with a microscope. What we're seeing is NOT the rise of science, but rather religion. Because obeying every order without question from any entity IS religion.
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  1651. It's more like 80% bud lol
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  1652.  @rockysahota1  Nonsense... All mortgages that qualify under Fannie Mae guidelines get sold to the Feds. The Feds own 3/4 of the housing market and 92% of all student loans. The banks don't care, because all the risky assets get sold to Uncle Joe. You can thank the Obama Admin for that stunt. You can easily qualify for a VA loan, First time buyer, or otherwise 10% down using another loan. They simply don't care.
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  1653. People don't realize how big these cartels are. You can take three companies: Facebook, Google, and AT&T. Together they own a whopping majority of all the media in the world.
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  1654. I really admire your efforts, but I think you are creating too big of a goal. This kind of behavior is deeply rooted in childhood development between 2-5. It's almost impossible to change, unless the child undergoes willful growth, self-reflection, and therapy to a certain extent. My sister (21 years old) is an absolute user and manipulator. This is because my mother was an NPD as we grew up and made her the golden-child, while everything was blamed on me. She learned that the only way to be loved is thru financial offerings. I have always budded heads with my mother, but my sister learned how to get want she wanted AND appease her at the same time. So now, she has become a full blown narcissist that uses people to get what she wants; then throws them in the trash. I spent YEARS trying to correct her behavior and become a beacon of positivity in her life and growth. It all went to waste when she began using me when I offered to spend time with her and help her with school and her endeavors. The moment I told her 'no' when she wanted something; she ghosted me. My wife and I cut back on Christmas this year due to inflation and my sister made a big fuss about it. Both my mom and sister jumped on the 'you don't care about family' train when we opted not to receive gifts or give them a few months ago. Win your battles when you can, but don't waste your life attempting the impossible. My dad wasted his entire life being married to my mother (abused and belittled) for everything he ever did. Thankfully, he's contemplating divorce so that he can finally live his life and not have my mom suck his pension dry. Unfortunately, as he falls out with mom; he's falling into my sister's trap now. She fully expects him to take care of her indefinitely thru college and pay off her bills. The moment he does; she'll ghost him out of her life as well.
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  1655.  @thehubrisoftheunivris2432  I admire your convictions and I wish you the best. Just don't waste your entire life and earnings taking care of people that don't give two shits about your well-being. Feeling that you must take care or support abusers in your life is a 'conditioned' response from child-hood trauma. Emotional care for them, but not for you. As I said, I wish you the best; just remember that you have a life and future too!
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  1656. Age demographics 18-39 were DOWN roughly -30% for the entire election turnout compared to 2020. These young people are blowing smoke and most don't know the issues whatsoever.
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  1657. Maybes he's insinuating Mark needs a wank break? Lol
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  1658.  @asdk3090  You should support them because they are the only true political ally in Middle East. This is politics; not dodgeball. If you were to pull all investment from Israel; it would create vulnerabilities and increase the amount of vultures circling. Adversaries take advantage of these weaknesses. Regardless of the social atmosphere; it would be excessively foolish to distance ourselves from Israel. The only caveat would be if we could create stronger relations with Arab governments, but that's not the case. People need to understand that politics is never a decision of virtue or perfection. It's about which candidate to choose to produces to least amount of global collateral AND can help achieve a minority of goals. If you don't attempt to calculate the risks and rewards with both candidates objectively; you'll vote for the wrong reasons.
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  1659. Not fake, there is a MASSIVE competence problem in this country. I think it has something to do with the screens lol
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  1660. Correction: The US Dollar value was incredibly strong in the 1950s, compared to what it is now.
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  1661. This will go down as one of the largest corporate frauds in US history. There are TWO reasons that employers are posting job openings and never filling them. 1. It fulfills the PPP loan forgiveness requirements. This allows businesses to keep the money they were loaned, while never actually hiring the people that they claim to need. 2. It gives the illusion of growth and stability for investors. Most investors are looking at the fundamentals; sales, profit margins, lawsuits, debt, etc. A large number of them have absolutely no idea which companies are producing healthy growth and which ones are slowly dying while giving the illusion of growth. I will tell you right now. A majority of fortune 500 companies are running on fumes. You can call the corporate office all day long and they will simply defer your problem to someone else, because there is nothing they can actually do about it. Everything is sub-contracted to smaller companies that take weeks to solve anything. It all hangs on the ability for the infrastructure of the economy to bear the weight. If you saw what was happening inside companies like DoorDash; you would never use a delivery app ever again. Nobody is running the company; the algorithms and sub-contractors are running it. A good analogy would be 'someone who is in the hospital; brain-dead and on life support. In the end, this charade can only continue for so long. When investors discover the truth; it will be a blood bath in the markets.
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  1662. Saying he's a cult while listening to a cult channel is hilarious. How can people not see that this woman has a manipulative agenda?
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  1663. Don't you just love America? Wishing you hadn't voted for Biden or Trump every other week?
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  1664. They seem to have most influence over Boomers. I can't tell you how many older put me down (I'm 30) because they watch MSNBC and know what they're talking about lol
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  1665. Question is, why did they put him thru in the first place? This didn't just randomly come up in a few months after January 2021. He's been going downhill for a long time.
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  1666. The economy is going to tank regardless because the FED is cutting rates. Money will go out of stocks and back into physical assets.
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  1667.  @alg678  Not problem, I appreciate it :)
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  1668.  @mariavonromer1079  The man says some dumb things sometimes, but is there a limit on mistakes, exaggerations, or missteps? I think social media has created an echo chamber of perfection from people that largely haven't made any mistakes in their lives, because they've never tried anything imo. Perspective is everything.
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  1669. There's no life in working a job that is 72 hours a week with 8 unpaid vacation days a year. That's why I left!
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  1670.  @pololikikuju  I wouldn't indulge in baseless conspiracies bud; it'll make you irrational and complacent. A disproportion of Ashkenazi Jews and East Asians lead the world in banking, engineering, and finance. Acknowledging a disparity doesn't mean its's a conspiracy; it's just human evolution at play with normal pareto distributions. If you break everything down to numbers and mathematics; the world makes a lot more sense.
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  1671. I've seen this all too often in my field of work. In an overwhelming majority of cases of (transgenderism). The child had previously or is being actively abused sexually by a parent or a close family member. They are also being infantilized by one or both parents due to mental illnesses of their own. This doesn't surprise me, given the state of mental health decline Americans are in right now. Paired with an economic crisis and drastic change in social environment. A considerable number of parents share (no more) than 1 hour of social/play time with their children under 10. Those same kids are usually getting 4-10 hours of screen time. I thought people were joking when I heard claims of 1 years old being given iPads and iPhones of their own. Turns out it is actually a trend. This is where Darwinism comes in and the rest of us will pay for it with an increase in school shootings and anti-social children.
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  1672. Gentle parenting without authority is 'permissive parenting'; don't conflate the two Freya. By the way, did she really say that there's evidence to show that conservative disciplining parents have better relationships with their children? I'd love to see that study because I smell bs. Those children are far more likely to keep quiet out of fear of retribution. Screaming, shouting, assaulting, spanking, and complete disregard for a child's emotions does not make them 'well rounded'. It makes them compliant and apathetic.
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  1673. Not going to happen as long as debt outperforms GDP. Wages stagnate and prices grows; econ 101 (supply and demand).
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  1674.  @Fightthepower365  Bro, government is so incompetent that they can't even mail checks on time.
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  1675.  @asiandwanemeighan6479  Not communism! It's socialism for the rich and bootstraps for the poor.
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  1676. Yeah, he's spilled a LOT of random idiocies in his talk on this one.
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  1677. Biden's not even in charge. It's the Alphabet Agencies and the Chiefs of Staff running America with the corporations and billionaires hands up their asses.
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  1678. That's not even fair; Biden has a psychological ailment! lol Come on man ;) Vote for me or you're NOT white!
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  1679.  @rw6783  Uh bud, ever heard of the Great Resignation? It's a movement; quit putting up with corporate BS and join the millions of us that have voluntarily quit. People that are keeping these corporations alive are just letting it die slower.
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  1680. This is because the entire market has become speculative. Betting has become more lucrative than producing anything and it seems to give most people better odds in the end. The Trojan horse in this whole mess is the Federal Reserve's faith in the unemployment numbers. I am technically employed by five different companies; three of which I haven't made a profit from in over a year. You can thank the gig markets for that! They have allowed people to work side jobs, but at the cost of damaging the value of labor and distorting unemployment rates. Unemployment NEEDS to be re-engineered to include a certain threshold of income per year. If you counted the number of people over 18 that were unable to afford the bottom 25% of rent prices, utilities, and goods. Then you'd actually have an unemployment rate of around 10%. The reason inflation keeps going up the last several months is because of people continuing to max out their credit cards AND small-large caps speculating on all industries of the market. People tend to gamble a lot more when they lose their jobs.
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  1681.  @Michealvt-o5o  Hey bud, don't allow open criticism of women to mold your mind that men aren't to blame. I'm a husband and father, there are a lot of losers out there. The anti-social behaviors coming from people under 40 are off the freaking charts. I can't have any normal conversation in person unless they are typically 50+ years of age.
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  1682. If you have the means, temperament, and integrity to do so; I would say yes. The first part about setting yourself up for success in the parenting world is finance. This is a step that many people cannot manage even on their own. Stop buying things that provide no value in their life, stop wasting things that can be re-used or repurposed, and lastly creating habits that allow you to live a better and cheaper lifestyle. Once you do that, you really need to work on your physical and emotional health; which even fewer people can do. Do you have trauma, PTSD, or insecurities that manifest themselves in horrible behavior? You should truly consider fixing those before having children. Third, you need to understand that you constantly need to be acquiring knowledge. Constantly learning, being proactive, and adjusting yourself to changing times and the information available to you. Let the dead wood burn off and plant new seeds in life. There's nothing more destructive than a person that lives their entire life status quo and full of pride. Fourth, realize that this isn't 1980 and it certainly isn't 2005. There is a wealth of information out there, but there is also a wealth of new ways that governments, businesses, and individuals can prey on you. You are the king of your castle and your home is your kingdom. If you don't defend it as a 'just' ruler, it will fall apart and be taken over.
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  1683. Because you probably have student loans or personal loans that are holding you back. Am I wrong?
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  1684. This is largely the same reason I left the trucking industry. I worked as a day-cab hauler for Anheuser Busch/Werner Enterprises. When I started, they gave me 13 unpaid days per year. While I had a 6 day shift per week. In January of 2020, they required that I sign some paperwork, claiming I acknowledge only 5 days off per year unpaid and 3 sick days. I immediately began making plans to leave the company and checked out in June 2020 right in the middle of the pandemic. Not to mention that nobody in the industry was paying a (raise) that kept up with inflation. 0.9% per year against 2.1% inflation. Can't imagine how people feel now with 7-8% inflation (at least according to CPI data). It feels considerably worse..
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  1685. For people that don't understand how the system really works. Companies like Pfizer lobby to get hydroxy chloroquine and ivermectin banned for Covid prescription use. They then develop and sell their own patented drug that (probably isn't as effective) and they put the price at 10,000% it's manufacturing cost. All after greasing the palms of FDA and DC officials. This is NOT a free market...
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  1686. I had that happen about 7 years ago. She told me she would not continue dating me because I voted for him. Her LOSS, because now I'm married with a beautiful son, a house, and a ton of equity.
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  1687.  @Fabilicious6  Are we still on that topic? The studies from the AAAS made it pretty clear that masks have an extraordinarily low efficacy rate; the highest being around 20%.
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  1688. It's not even worth it anymore. I'm glad my dad is retiring after 35 years. This stuff has gotten out of hand nationwide. Anymore you need military gear and training to handle many of these situations from coast to coast. Mass shootings, home-made bombs, flat out nut-jobs, and mental health insanity. No amount of policing is going to restore the mental health that America needs.
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  1689. It's not what it looks like bud; it's all about blackmail. If the school indulges these educational and accommodation requests; they get protests and lawsuits by angry parents. If the schools says NO; they get protests and lawsuits by the ACLU, NAACP, BLM, etc. There's no way out for these school districts; it's a rock and a hard place.
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  1690. That's ridiculous, I can buy $9.00 ERA Detergent at Menards or just use Baking soda/vinegar.
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  1691. More innovators and less problem solvers essentially means that innovation spirals forwards, BUT the ability to tie up loose ends crumbles. This allows inequalities to run out of control a destabilize economies.
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  1692. Tell us something we don't know lol.
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  1693. It boggles my mind that most Americans are not following the numbers. This economy is balancing on fairy dust. All the risk is being held on the US Dollar; there's nowhere else for the liabilities to go. They can kick the debt ceiling can all they want, but if the US loses reserve currency status. This country will face a mega-depression, more than likely followed by war.
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  1694. Yeah, I'm also starting to think it will be the LAST administration. Whatever the result of 2024 will be; they'll be contested with blood.
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  1695. We sold our home, took $121,000 in profit and used it to pay off $100k of student debt and our $8000 car note. Now the money just flows into our account and doesn't leave.
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  1696. I don't think the stigma will ever go away; not in the US at least. I'm sure there are people that maintain healthy relationships with their parents, make mad money, and have true friends; maybe even a girlfriend or fiancé. I don't have anything against that. The odds of this being the case for a majority of the people in this situation is slim though. Most of the time, living at home in the US past 30 would be indicative of a major financial mistake. Useless degrees or excessive infantilization are the average reasons.
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  1697. As much as I agree that there's a border and illegal immigration crisis; this problem should have been stamped over a decade ago. Complacency of previous Presidents laid the foundation for 9 million migrants to enter the US (mostly undocumented; not asylum) since 2020. That being said, if Trump actually carries out a deportation plan that alleges it will remove anywhere from 5 to 20 million illegal aliens. You're going to have astronomical problems in farming and blue collar industries. I don't care what your presumptions on immigration or economics are. The truth is that American-born citizens WILL NOT work these jobs. You can't even pay Americans enough to drive a semi. I got my CDL back in the 2010s; we had 15 students in the CDL course. One from Halliburton Corp from IN, another from NY, myself from Ohio, and then 11 green-cards from West Africa, and another from Ethiopia. What's going to happen is another supply/chain malfunction as labor costs go up and supply goes down. Inflation inflation inflation all over again. Throw the tariffs and a potential recession on the horizon with bailouts and you're going to get another horrible wave of inflation. And this time, Americans aren't going to recover.
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  1698.  @nycdweller  I used to use Blue Cross/Shield, as 'meh' as it was. But I switched to duel enrollment on my wife's insurance. All the tech companies offer health insurance plans similar to Blue Cross/Shield, but hers is better. Plus, in all honestly looking after your physical and mental health is the key. It may be useful to have a 'catastrophic' plan in case of a horrible accident, but the lesser co-pay plans are just money makers for insurance.
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  1699. Ex-Trump supporter here! People forget that when the FED cut rates in 2020. Trump was screaming for Jerome Powell to go negative and threatened him if he didn't. That threat never bore fruit. But, had that happened, inflation would have easily been twice as bad. Though it would have pumped the markets up for re-election. Most likely because Trump isn't stupid. If Trump is re-elected again. It's my personal belief that he WILL fire Powell and replace him with someone that will pressure for rates to be cut. We'll have inflation madness all over again.
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  1700. Gotta keep the propaganda wheel churning 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵🤣
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  1701.  @EarthAngelPreparedness  There's a huge difference between livable wage and debt saturation. If you want everything to simply be more expensive, then shut down businesses that don't pay enough. I truly can't wrap my head around people not understanding the cost of doing business.
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  1702. When are people going to pull their heads out of their rear and understand that the Democratic Party is committing the largest tax laundering scheme in the history of the United States? First with Covid funds; some 680 Billion dollars and also sanctuary cities for the last 3 years. Most people didn't vote for Trump because they like him. They voted for him because the Democratic Party is corrupt to the core.
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  1703. Quality is dropping due to administration/bureaucracy.
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  1704. People would scream, because the lower class pays virtually no tax. Their exemption is what $12,200? Middle and upper class pay some 96% of all taxes.
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  1705. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans
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  1706. WTH are you talking about?
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  1707. Social media doesn't create narcissists, but the screen-time from 1-10 years old certainly does. Technology is allowed parents to rampantly neglect their children's developmental needs.
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  1708. I'm pretty sure ALL but 2 of the state secessions included slavery in their reasoning.
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  1709. You're wasting your time; white collar is a dog and pony show. I grabbed a CDL for $5k in 2019 and it guaranteed me a $70k job. It may be a bit higher now, but it's still worth it. That same job pays $85k now.
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  1710. He wouldn't be deporting 13-14 Million immigrants; it would be upwards of 40 Million. Which is why the plan is absolutely insane. This is why there has to be a compromise and I think there will most likely be. Back in 201, the DOHS projected that there were anywhere between 20-25 Million illegal immigrants in the US; as more conservative estimates. If you add the 8 million 'known crossings' from 2020-2024. That means we have at least 28 million illegal aliens and I'd believe it. We do not have the resources to maintain our infrastructure, job markets, or corrections and law enforcement. By extension, meaning we don't have the logistics to deport this many people. Again, there needs to be a compromise. Perhaps immigration reform to allow easier green-cards or perhaps via military services, which is already on the table in Congress.
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  1711. That makes absolutely no sense. The idea that children need to have some kind of 'devil' stamped out of their behavior is a deeply root and ignorant Christian ideology. If the child is spoiled, narcissistic, or abusive themselves; the parent made them that way by doing the same.
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  1712. Why are trying to boot-up another Vikings show right after the best one ended? Are they truly that desperate for originality??
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  1713. Well, there's a caveat that you're not addressing. In Asia, kids remain with their parents to build up money, advance their skills, build the family name and then many marry when they are ready. A LOT of American children are not doing this. They are remaining with mom and dad so they can complain in perpetuity that they can't leave the house.
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  1714. I find it interesting how people complained about Trump being a fascist for four years . Then come 6 months later they have NO problem turning half the country into second class citizens and demanding your papers
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  1715. Same
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  1716. Jesus, everybody in this room is a freaking joke; what is going on in this country? Johnson's head is about the fall off, Marjorie won't shut up, and Joe is spewing more bs in five minutes than he's said in the last 5 months.
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  1717. You'd then have to make the case that the reports (which are nationally 100,000+ for CDC records) would largely be lies from the general populace.
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  1718. Good point! Maybe we should leave the country. Costa Rica maybe?
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  1719. This is one of the reasons I really want to leave North America. Once the snowball gets rolling on insurrection, growing inequalities, and anti-social behavior; it's nearly impossible to stop. Gen Z and Gen Alpha are going to introduce a very dark dystopian future. They are completely apathetic and feel that euthanizing the unborn and unwanted persons is 'mercy'. I find it morbidly hilarious how SCREENS haven't 'connected' us, but created entire generations of antisocial people that are 'unable' to connect.
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  1720. The top 10% of earners pay some 82% of all the taxes. The bottom 50% pay 3.04% of all taxes.
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  1721. Nobody tariffed me; I don't feel loved
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  1722. I still play it in my kitchen and I turn on the dungeon theme and light a candle at night lol
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  1723. Is it really that hard to STOP spraying chemicals on the f-ing food? Come on corporate guys!
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  1724. I think it depends! For God's sakes don't waste 30-40 years of your life slowly dying in some corporate job. Spend specific periods of your life acquiring assets, skills, and a future. For instance, I busted my balls at FedEx as a Shunter Op for four years. That allowed my to move out (rent) and save up $30,000 in a nice area. I then got my CDL and busted my balls for over a year and this allowed me to buy a home with a juicy down payment. The only true reason your need to work for 30 years is because you're financing crap that you don't need.
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  1725. The biggest problem is trying to design a system that doesn't incentivize "gaming behavior." Obviously, some political figures do it for votes. People need to understand that we have around 45 million people that can't function in the economy due to cognitive problems. That's around 15% of people falling around an IQ of 85 or below. You need something of at least 90 to use a smartphone and computer. Even the trucking jobs are requiring smartphones now for paperwork and income related uses. It's one of the biggest reasons that we have a realistic unemployment around 20%.
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  1726. We don't, stop going by media headline garbage.
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  1727. They better not KILL the entire original cast like Disney did with Star Wars!
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  1728.  @AseRa444  Not taking on a mortgage worth of student loan debt for starters.
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  1729. They should have given the horse a female name and then gave it a giant CGI dick that flopped around the entire commercial.
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  1730. A significant amount of these children come from single parent households and have behavioral problems. On top of that, we have a growing number of kids that are growing up in two parent households where the parents are completely detached and do nothing with their children. Add that to school curriculums that are being dumbed down to accommodate failing students and you get the current situation.
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  1731. This is just an ignorant fear mongering video. In order for there to be a housing crash, there needs to be a massive increase in inventory. The US currently has the lowest foreclosure rate since 2004 of (0.25%). Foreclosures typically take 6-12 months to re-enter the market. Considering that it took some 3 years for the crash of 2008 to unfold, I find it highly unlikely to happen any time soon.
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  1732.  @LefhikaPheto  It's not, people are just envious that they didn't buy options or stocks before-hand.
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  1733. Believe me, there's an alcohol and drug epidemic of biblical proportions right now. The fact that it's not being taken seriously at any state or federal level is a major sign of systemic failure.
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  1734. It's not just politicians; it's everybody. We are going to innovate ourselves out of existence.
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  1735. They underestimated the number of women voting on immigration issues. Women don't like the idea of being surrounded by foreigners that don't adhere to the culture or speak the language. It was the Achilles heel of Harris's campaign.
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  1736. People need to stop blaming Biden, despite the dementia and take a look at the world around them. The culture is absolutely going to hell and I'm not talking about wokism. Companies only care about optics and workers only care about putting in the least effort. People are not stupid, they vote for their best interest. Why would you blame someone for voting in a politician that will increase their unemployment benefits? We have record lows of law and regulation enforcement, plus record highs for fraud and felony crimes. People have become complacent, greedy, and envious of people they don't even know on social media. Don't think those behaviors don't manifest themselves outside the internet, because they do. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.
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  1737. It's embarrassing that people still make excuses for these cultures. Absolutely barbaric and backwards.
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  1738. Most of this division is being orchestrated by social media corporations, that code their software to engage people with the biggest dumpster fire stories that aren't real. All for a buck $....
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  1739. Unpopular opinion here, but if your politicians are getting worse; I'd bet your culture is too. In the Midwest, the political behavior in elected positions seems very reflective of the attitude that most people have. I get the door dropped in my face half the time, a significant amount of people don't even say "please" or "thank you", not to mention the driving has become erratic to say the least. People give each other dirty looks for pushing any direction even close to them at the grocery store. Many of them can't take a moments peace to put their phone away. People completely ignore customers at the front desk REGARDLESS of restaurant or fast food joint. Mind you, this is all of Ohio. It's also all of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and many metropolitan areas of the southern United States. We have a serious cultural problem in this country and I think it's time we acknowledge it in order to fix a much bigger problem. Prescription meds; whether they are Statins, Zoloft, or Xanax are getting thrown out like Halloween candy. People simply can't take it I presume; they walk out into traffic as if they wanted to die. I can't be the only person that has noticed such volatile behavior in the last 6 to 12 months. I mean, we have patients that walk into the office (that we know) and are genuinely nice people. Only to be screamed and cursed at when their surgery date has to be moved two days. Whether it's the fuel-grocery prices, vaccines, social media, or something else; there is seriously something wrong with people nowadays. It's like everybody is nice and gentle; until you inconvenience them for 5 seconds and they are ready to rip your throat out at a moments notice.
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  1740. People that think they aren't capable of EVIL usually end up doing the most evil.
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  1741. You got that right; this guy is a scam artist.
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  1742. Yeah, because the US has a GREAT history of not backstabbing it's friends lol
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  1743.  @deezeed2817  As USD value shrinks in it's ability to pay for old debts; governments will resort to desperate and dangerous measures to ensure their power is maintained. Best thing you can do is just stay out of the way lol
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  1744. Well, it wasn't just inflation. Some genius states like Kansas thought they would do away with income tax several years ago. In most areas, property tax went up 30%, but in those areas it doubled or even tripled. Kansas and Texas are really bad! I can't imagine why anyone would move to Kansas these days. Florida is mixed, but coastal is pretty pricey
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  1745. I'm married to the best woman in the world. If I ever lost her; I would never get remarried at this point. Not with how women act these days.
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  1746. You need to see the full interview, WJS as usual cut this video to elicit the response they wanted.
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  1747. @AkalaTanara The entire interview is 45 minutes long. Zelensky has thousands of interviews. He's not a diplomat or a historian. He's a warmonger interested in skimming the funds that Ukraine receives; war profiteering as usual. This was supposed to be a peace meeting. I don't agree with Trump and JD's take, but Zelensky isn't a good guy and especially not in this interview. He wants more money and for Europe/US to get fully on-board with a full-scale war against Russia. Plus, the guys doesn't even live in Ukraine; he has a house in Miami. This entire situation is embarrassing, caused by the Obama Administration trying to regime change Ukraine in 2014.
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  1748. US has the largest medical cost of any country in the world. Not ONLY because Medicare doesn't negotiate or patents run unchecked, but also because we are the unhealthiest. If Americans care about healthcare, then they need to first eat healthier and second put representatives in place that will force government to negotiate prices.
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  1749. Well, don't hold your breath. Turnout will be a key factor in this election. Primary turnouts nationwide were anywhere from -30% to -80% for most states. There are a LOT of voters that are going to be skipping this year.
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  1750. Well, I'm not sure Kaliningrad has any serious military prowess. Any volume of Russian military would have to travel far and wide to cover Western Europe. This isn't like WW2 when the soviets had 6 million men at arms.
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  1751.  @davidb9323  The wife and I are talking about the same regarding hens. The biggest concern with precious metals is the premium fees when you exchange them for cash. Which is why Dave doesn't recommend them. Though at the same time, most precious metals are sold via 'paper assets'. Which allows the market for those metals to be exchanged in quantities that don't exist. Kind of like 2008 housing swaps lol. So many people hold on to them because they think the real price will come forth at some point.
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  1752. More like 10-20%. Most people dislike both candidates immensely.
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  1753. Slowly, very slowly, as the union army won in the south. Thousands of slaves (one at a time) began emancipating themselves.
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  1754. The 'labor' class has had ENOUGH abuse from this administration. The ONLY people voting for Harris in mass are pensioners, students, and administrative/government jobs. All gate-keeping positions to avoid the reality that is 'the American economic disaster'. Everyone in the private sector feels it.
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  1755. While I empathize with the business. I think you're leaving out the ultra-low rates of 2020-2021. People scooped up mortgages on properties for 1.5-1.75% in April of 2020 if you were looking to buy. That can allow you to have massive profit margins when the cost of your mortgage is low and you can charge a competitive rate compared to other rentals. A lot of Boomers in 2020 turned a $500k retirement nest-egg into millions inside 3 years doing this.
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  1756. Rising inequalities; happens with every civilization. Once they reach a certain level; sexual perversions grows rampant, income inequality rises drastically, social behavior is erratic, and laws aren't enforced. Take your pick; Roman Empire, Fall of the Qing Dynasty, Collapse of the Soviet Union, etc. Once inequalities run out of control; the table gets flipped and society collapses. We're currently in this phase and have been since 2008 in my opinion.
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  1757. Well, to be objective, people with Jewish backgrounds do hold a large disproportion of wealth and powerful positions. The problem is that 'idiots' jump straight to the (conspiracy argument) and completely ignore the math behind competence hierarchies. Jewish culture has been sustained over thousands of years because their ideas and practices are simply (derp) 'sustainable' lol Historically, every time there was a flood, famine, or economic collapse in a region or nation. The people living there would notice that the Jewish families were persevering the hard times. So they formed conspiracies about devil worship, thieving, and mysticism. The fact is, Jews build their homes smart, they grow/store food properly, they eat relatively healthy diets, and they use those successes to lend money to those that ask for it. It's not a conspiracy; they are simply smarter than the general population and plan accordingly. Stupid people love to blame others for their misfortunes and that human failing hasn't changed whatsoever.
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  1758. Irrelevant! We do not have the staffing to take care of the current demand for healthcare. If you impose a single-payer mandate; hospitals will get swamped 10 fold! You'll have half the healthcare workers in the nation walking off the job within a week.
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  1759. Really? You're going to cast Molly Ball in this video? She's had a hand-full of interviews and she is an insanely ignorant person with virtually no insight into any topic she tries to weigh in on.
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  1760. Eat locally raised grass fed, that's the solution. I swear, people that claim to hate corporations only ever seem to have the solution to outsource to OTHER corporations and pharmaceutical companies.
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  1761. I disagree, he doesn't sound qualified to lead virtually anything. His background also suggests otherwise. Much of what he's stated has been rather vague. The fundamentals are important here. Ukraine as far back as 2014 was under the political control of Russia until the Obama Administrated orchestrated a coup against Kiev which changed everything. NATO and Russia are fighting over control of Ukraine. Anybody saying it's a sovereign country is selling you bs. It has been a puppet state/region for centuries. Even back in 2004, annexation was one of the biggest political pushes after the Soviet Union fell and eastern Ukrainians were desperately trying to realign themselves with the Russian Federation. NATO should not be dictating how foreign residents should be aligning politically. If anything NATO is revoking the Democratic process by using their puppet Kiev against eastern Ukrainians since 2014.
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  1762. My God why are people so dense? Tulsi and Vivek already said they would refuse any VP nomination months ago. Yet people are still wondering why they weren't picked? lol
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  1763. Fauci too!
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  1764. Cult classic now and forever!
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  1765. The sad things is that Democrats in tech are actively using the first amendment with the pursuit of destroying it. People might not realize this, but there are thousands of channels (legal and not) teaching people that Donald Trump is going to take away their Social Security, Medicare, right to vote, etc.
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  1766. Correction; people with student loans cannot afford a home.
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  1767. I have no idea where you got that information. Automotive manufacturing and assembly have largely gone overseas since the 1990s. We import BMW's to the Port of Savannah in the hundreds of thousands. Corporate business doesn't all move overseas in less than 2 years lol
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  1768. I am in agreement!
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  1769. Either a Weimarraner or a Silver Lab. It's hard to tell with the camera so close.
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  1770. Fascist pigs disguised at (Democracy and a Republic). The relationship between corporations and government has never been better!
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  1771. I actually think that's wrong. Every profession has it's bad apples, but I think the kids are bringing these ideologies into college. My sister was certainly that way. Remember that the FED largely controls educational loans. So a large number of the kids going these days are either low income entitled OR high income suburban entitled. AKA, DEI and pay-to-play; so the kids going aren't actually the ones that should be there. These kids are jerks before they ever get to the classroom.
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  1772.  @MrBeav1982  First rule of fight club; don't talk about fight club.
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  1773.  @pv3152  When did he suggest that?
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  1774. Never try to talk facts or logic with someone who is morally superior in their own ignorance....
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  1775. Ex-Truck Driver here, if anyone wants to know the real problem. It's wages and hours. I ran a day-cab hauling Anheuser 6 days/66 hours a week at $70k per year. I quit after Werner had me sign a form acknowledging that I would only have 8 instead of 13 days of unpaid vacation per year. Plus we didn't get Holidays off automatically. 54 cents a mile (which is what I got paid) is the equivalent of $17/h with over-time if you're working 66 hours a week. Also, my position was in the top quartile of the industry for a company driver. In 1980 you could have pulled $37,000 on average ($106k inflation adjusted for 2020). Today the average is around $49k. There's a shortage of drivers because a CDL has quite literally lost 55% of it's value in the last 40 years. And nobody wants to put up with the ridiculous hours and side work.
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  1776. You hike taxes on corporations and they will leave; it's an unfortunate result whether you like it or not. However, we already give them tax breaks on hiring stats and it's led to the largest labor market fraud in US history. The solution isn't so simple.
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  1777. You need to educate yourself on economics bud. Future traders don't drive up commodity prices; that's called scarcity in the open market. Futures are simply speculation on the real price of any given commodity. They are completely separate.
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  1778. As an Independent, I'm not a fan of Trump. However, I truly question the sanity of Democrats that shoved this man thru the 2020 primaries. Then pretended that there was nothing wrong with his cognitive abilities for the last 3 years. Even a monkey could observe that Biden's health is in a dangerous place. If he becomes President, there's no doubt in my mind that he'll pass away in office. It's a miracle alone that he's been able to traverse the last several years.
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  1779. What gave him away? lol
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  1780.  @Sarcastro_78  I don't think it's about tax revenue as much as it's about a hampster wheel for lower income people. If people on the bottom 50% of the income chart can constantly indulge in crypto, stocks, casinos, or lotteries. They are probably less likely to complain about things actually being done to screw them in politics.
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  1781.  @concernedcitizens4110  Just because we voted for Trump doesn't means were bots. You should stop deriving your biases from MSM :)
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  1782. If people stopped for a minute and made a list of where all their food and commodities come from. I think you'd be surprised that the USA creates; pretty much nothing.
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  1783. 2020! Crypto, media influencers, and home flippers. Pair that with 0% interest rates and you get an economic disaster!
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  1784. Nobody is, but reality will hit you like a brick. IQ tests have been a solid science since around 1930. It's not about putting people in a box; it's about realizing the reality surrounding our economy. You need an IQ in the 90s to at least use a smartphone. Considering we have 45 Million people at 85 or below, I'd say that's a problem. If you take a personality and IQ test, it may help you to understand what you are best suited for. Trying to attempt fields and work loads that you are not suited for is pure agony over time. For example, if you're low in conscientiousness, trying to become a manager will be absolutely miserable.
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  1785. Exporters require importers. Without an importer; they lose. A 100% would annihilate their business, because no American would buy the 100% cost hike of any item.
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  1786. She looks like AOC's rat daughter
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  1787. Segregation is almost always going to be a natural phenomenon. It isn't natural for people to want to immediately settle around people that don't resemble their complexion or trade. Ghettos have almost exclusively arose out of certain demographics leaving an area due to crime, poverty, or stagnation. People tend to focus on race, but if you change the terminology; you could find thousands of (age-related) ghettos around the world. Young people leave for work, educational reasons, or stagnation.
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  1788. Gut health and mental health are highly related. You'll see a major difference taking small steps.
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  1789. Verified where? Your status doesn't change unless you alter it and then it takes a week or two to mail out the notice.
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  1790. That's what happens in the world when you're nice or too agreeable unfortunately. You get taken advantage of! Which ultimately means you need nasty sons of b1tches to fight them fire with fire.
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  1791.  @bakonfater4000  Were you neglected as a child or are you delusional? You really need to seek help Dana, I'm not joking.
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  1792. It's not rocket science; Biden and his cabinet are globalists. Globalists don't believe in individualism, nor the sovereign nation. The clown show and the clapping seals are just a facade so they can strip this country dry and get a Chinese paycheck.
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  1793. She's a ploy, this was all planned. An ex-worker is going to come out (get coverage by the entire media) and urge the Government to increase regulations? Yeah, that sounds like a hack that Facebook planned and is allowing a little pushback in order to promote regulations that will benefit them in the long run.
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  1794. Many employers and recruiters are withholding the salary info intentionally. I remember job hunting back in 2018-2019 and most employers were irritated when I asked. I even had one of them tell me he was going to terminate the interview just for asking over the phone.
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  1795. Fascist? You must be trolling lol
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  1796.  @fallonmassey4714  Well we can definitely agree on the market. Though being 'self made' means you didn't inherit wealth. Doesn't have a technicality with public services.
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  1797.  @fallonmassey4714  Advantage how? Collective mentality is a dangerous slope. Yes, I'm white. My mother grew up squatting in evicted houses. Her being white didn't benefit her at all. People are people. Being one race or the other doesn't implicate any disadvantage. Collectively though, it's easier to do that though, which I try to avoid. Yes, there are major collective dis/advantages to each race. Geographics, health, intelligence etc... Though it's impossible to decipher these differences by looking at someone. They are simply bell curves in large demographics.
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  1798. Considering that ALL of K-12 and College is essentially a never ending daycare: I'm not surprised.
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  1799. I'm not empathizing with the Third Reich. However, I am truly beginning to understand how they were able to erect such a powerful movement. The left repeatedly antagonizes the political landscape and perverts it. All the while throwing a cat-fight. The right retaliates and then the left throws their hands up and pretends they didn't do anything. Hands up; don't shoot! lol I wonder what they did in the 20s and 30s to instigate such a global movement. They left that out of the history books.
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  1800. I think this is much more of a (secular vs religion) kind of problem. Not globalism vs nationalism exactly. These people are conditioned as children to accept these RIDICULOUS beliefs in martyrdom and glory for the honor of Allah. Obviously Christians aren't as bad, but the methodology is similar. Sociopaths and gullible cult members train their children to believe they will face eternal hellfire if they don't accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and savior. Some churches are not strict about this, Catholics are much less strict, but many protestant churches are indeed. It distorts the child's ability to form empathy and grow to be a productive and critically thinking adult. Going through life like a drone and doing what is expected of you isn't a successfully raised child. Many people claim (I worked hard and I turned out fine). Yes, because these people largely operate under the thumb of a narcissists expectations and they are kept in line with that childhood conditioning. Thankfully Christian churches don't teach glory and martyrdom because we'd have idiots blowing themselves up here too. Organized religion in general needs to go away. I guarantee that if you labeled Christianity as "Christian mythology" in any textbook. The number of people that self-identify with the religion would drop 90% over the next 30 years alone. Islam needs to have the same thing done. Religion cannot co-exist with secular society and governments. As long as it does, it will always be attempting to regain control and subjugate the population to it's religious will.
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  1801. I'm not so sure it is entirely the fault of social media (per se). Pornography addiction and child sexual abuse are absolutely rampant in the United States. It's an epidemic that is not discussed by the media.
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  1802. Inflation being at a three decade high is a simple comparison of numbers. Inflation adjusted, the US has 'never' experienced this level of inflation in it's history. Inflation is around 52% since January of 2020. This means that (without a raise) you lost roughly 1/3 of your income value.
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  1803. Well, tariffs are payed by the company importing the good. In most cases, they hike the price on the item to account for that tariff. One thing most people miss, is how tariffs affect the demand curve. In most cases, it reduces consumer spending on the item across the board; unless consumers have a readily available secondary option.
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  1804. Even though I acknowledge inequality to a certain extent is a problem. It would seem that governments will only take measures that end up making them worse. Most of society can't keep up with the changing technology. You can't increase technology, but you can't raise intelligence. If you can't use a smartphone (i.e. an IQ of 89 and below) then you're practically out of the market. That's 20% of the population at the very least. Eventually, there will be enough people that bottom out at 0 that they'll flip the system on its head. That's what we're seeing happen in real time.
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  1805. Sounds like narcissists with a Marxist world-view. I'm bourgeoisie or proletariat depending on which side is more convenient for the time being.
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  1806. It's because the model that we live in has been sold to us as something OTHER than what it is. I came up with a very simple explanation of our economy; service, production, and legal gambling. I think everybody could easily classify jobs using this little classification. It shows you how screwed up this system really is.
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  1807.  @CodyCole80  Separate rooms? No. This isn't the Victorian age lol. We knew we'd be married and we eloped.
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  1808. The next alliance will need to be with Latin America. As small as the economies or Argentina, Ecuador, and Costa Rica are. Friendly creations being driven in more recent years will prove crucial going forward. The US MUST strengthen it's alliance with Mexico. Latin America is the next manufacturing power house. It's essential that Mexico be maintained in good standing with the US. My greatest hope is that Brazil will be won back from BRICS. If China suffered the lost of Brazil as an economic partner; it would hurt. Some of China's largest exports come from Brazil; petroleum, agriculture, and iron.
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  1809.  @chrismullin8304  I don't see how. Birth rates are quickly reversing to be below replenishment. The speculation from currents rates will be a rapid decline once we reach 9 Billion people.
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  1810. @T-1000 WizOh'd Why does cruelty exist then? Is it evil for a dog to rip apart a baby bird because it's amusing? Or is it just cruelty perhaps? Whatever it is, evil or cruelty takes a huge toll on the health of the perpetrator (at least for modern humans). So one might argue that it's innate?
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  1811.  @marycanary3871  Not an argument. I'm in the best shape of my life, blood work is good, and so is my cholesterol (normal). Cholesterol is actually very essential, low cholesterol leads to higher rates of hypertension, infection, and CAD. Looking at your comments, you seem to have a strong set of beliefs that are unscientific and not based in nutrition. If you believe something, you must be able to back it up. Plus, patronizing people and being rude is nowhere to start. You mentioned deforestation in a previous comment. Are you aware that we have 400% more trees in North America than we did in 1920? Dept. of Agriculture sourced.
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  1812.  @jooot_6850  Well I have no gripe with grains, except for the pesticide issues. Celiac disease is also a huge problem though and gluten causes inflammation in most people regardless of that status. I don't know what to make of that though. From every study I can find on early humans. It seems that we can thrive on carbs or meats, so long as we have a source of saturated and Omega 3 fats. Coconut oil, butter, lard, etc. Today, at least in American diets this isn't the case. The foods are highly contaminated with RoundUp and DDT from imported fruits. Plus vegetable oils and Omega 6 are the underlying source of fat in the diet. Causing most of the cardiac and arterial problems. I was eating 3 pineapples a week imported from Costa Rica; did that for 3 months. I began to develop depressive states and psychological episodes soon after. Then I quit and the symptoms went away within a week for good. Personally, I'm not a big meat eater. I stick more to eggs, rice, and occasional red meat. But we only ever buy grass-fed.
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  1813. I'm an independent that voted for Trump in 2016. Believe me, this Presidential race was over before it began. Biden is insufferable, but that doesn't mean everybody is going to magically swap to Trump. Best case scenario, you get a 2020 rematch and Trump still loses. Republicans are focusing too much on social issues and voter assumptions, while completely ignoring the math. Republicans CANNOT lose a single state that they won in 2020. On top of that, they must win 3 out of 5: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Democrats easily get an additional 5 million eligible voters that will show up to vote heavily in their favor. The biggest problem is Republican voter turnout for 2022 and 2023. If Midterms and the recent General election reflect anything for GOP turnout in 2024; then Republicans will lose in a landslide. Trump fatigue is real and Republicans don't have any energy left for another rematch. The only way Trump becomes President again, is if we have a Ross Perot situation where RFK takes more votes away from Biden. In an open election between Trump and Biden; Trump will get crushed. His indictments have partially strengthened his support among men, but drastically cut down support from women. Polls largely indicate that Nikki Haley voters will vote for Biden if she is not the nominee. Unless 25% of people under 40 magically switch from a (2020 Biden vote) to a 2024 Trump ticket; the Republicans will lose.
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  1814. Lichtman needs to go away! He's the most arrogant personality I've seen on reoccurring news stations and it shows. I mean come on! I'm sitting at home looking at early voting data a few days before the election and I tell me wife that I calculated that Donald Trump would win the popular vote by a 7% margin (turned out to be 5%). All I used was age demographic data and differences between 2020 and 2024. I guess I'm a freaking economist now. 18-39 voting demographics were down -30% from 2020. Considering they're about 64% leaning Democrat, hat alone meant the Democrats were facing an uphill battle How can these people be so incompetent and arrogant, yet still get invited on television day in and day out?
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  1815. He's right; you'll never see Sidney Sweeney in a Spiderman costume! But, you can see her in about 'every other' costume; including her birthday suit!
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  1816. Back in my day = (back when I was born in the capital of the world, where our currency could afford ANYTHING, and we could live off one income). Then concludes we had to struggle. Imo, people need to hold Boomers feet to the fire more often. They are the generation that on average got the equivalent of a $20k gift from their parents after graduating high school, got to smoke and drink to their life's content, stole valor from the Silent Generation that fought in Vietnam, got to buy a house for 2 years worth of income, and also got to invest in the stock market in 87, 00, 08, and 2020 during their peak years. Yes, the generation that got their assets for peanuts and made it harder for younger generations by inflating their assets thru currency devaluation really worked hard for their livelihoods. Believe it or not, I don't have a problem with it. Just stop pretending that bootstraps got your there and start admitting you were born at the right time.
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  1817. Funny how CNBC didn't give two craps about this subject before the election. Now all of them pretend that the economy isn't GOOD anymore lol
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  1818. Well, they're two different classes of fighters. Trump is a wrecking ball and a cheerleader; using voter worries as ammunition. Bernie fights with compassion; using fairness as ammunition.
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  1819. Government is literally giving (banking loan) incentives to push this kind of stuff. Social Governance; China does the same thing.
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  1820. I tried to warn my family about the incoming inflation and loss of dollar value during 2021. People looked at me like I had three heads. Now my parent have burned thru their 401k trying to finance their lives and they don't understand why everything is so expensive. The USD M2 Chart suggest that inflation has increased 42% since January of 2020. This is easily reflected in all prices! If you were center middle class in 2019 and you didn't get a big boost in income. Then you are most likely (lower middle class) or (lower class). It takes at least $80,000 single to put you in the lower class. It takes upwards of $130,000 joint to put you in center middle class.
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  1821. Work is booming is trades? I'm calling bull. Demand began to fall off a cliff in September 2023; there's been very little work available at least in the Midwest. Nobody has any money left.
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  1822. HA lol nice
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  1823.  @MaliWari  Learn what gas-lighting is and you'll understand why Dana is trash :)
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  1824.  @VideoGameStarChannelSupreme  I disagree, I think it's all a matter of perception. I think we have more rights than ever before in human history. The system 'government' isn't expanding as many believe; it's actually imploding.
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  1825. Employers are picky? I'm afraid not. Ask the business owners themselves; many applicants and nobody shows up. Why? Unemployment insurance claims. Which isn't the totality, but it's some of the problem. I quit my truck driving job in June 2020 because they took my 13 annual unpaid vacation days away and gave me 8.
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  1826. Yeah, 272,000 ghost jobs lol
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  1827. Which makes you wonder how the hell this economy even functions anymore. It's interesting, but imagine if everyone did stock/options and ONLY those; basically producing nothing and providing no services. What keeps the demand in balance? Even if the demand is real, but the foundation is artificial..
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  1828.  @bobwoods1302  Yes, it's called supply and demand. Not sure why you think it's funny; just basic econ. WTI and Brent Crude supplies dictate global pricing. If you increase the volume at current demand; prices go down.
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  1829. Unsurprising takeaway! 1. Turnout for people 18-24 is down some -40% from 2020; down -25% for people aged 30-39. 2. Turnout by party registration is significantly lower in comparison to previous election - early voting results. 3. Harris is down 18pts polling with black Americans. Tuesday night, everybody is finally going to realize how 'fake' the polls are. It's not even going to be close. Three entire demographics that allow Democrats to compete of a national scale are missing in action.
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  1830. Please, while I agree with you on some points, semi-conductor manufacturing will NEVER produce enough GDP to rise American wages out of the last 40 years of price inflation. I'm from Ohio, all 7 of those Intel contracts are going to be built around Columbus along with a secondary outer-belt. It will produce jobs, but specialized jobs. This isn't the same as rubber molding and machinists, which Ohio used to have a lot of before the 2000s. Those jobs will attract out of state competition and most people won't have a shot. The best way to raise GDP is to go nuts on energy production; creating more jobs and lowering cost of energy.
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  1831. Stop giving out (cheap debt) thru Reaganomics and you'll get affordable housing. What do you think the 0.25% federal funds rate did in 2020? People were making off with 1% mortgages like mad. This drove up prices in the housing market due to high demand.
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  1832.  @THIS---GUY  Oh yeah, because Government good and everybody else bad. You went from an accusation of fraud to telling us that he illegally did a launch. Pick one bud; while you're at it, find some humility. As well as the reason you hate him. It might have more to do with your world view, which is probably why you're not successful. PMA - positive mental attitude; it'll attract success, believe it or not.
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  1833. This is what Imperialism and Marxism get you; tens of millions dead. WW2 to a technical degree was a war of Marxism; Fascism vs. Communism. I'm not exactly sure what you'd call the newer Russo-Ukranian War. It seems that we are repeating ourselves nonetheless.
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  1834.  @phenom1tsmith  Is that really all you people got? So substance, just insults the last 8 years. For people that call Trump voters brainless; the irony is pretty strong.
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  1835. The ONLY reason this woman got any attention at all is because they thought they were hiring "Halle Berry".
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  1836. Stop listening the the FED garbage CPI-basket based inflation numbers. All they do is construct a digital commodity basket and switch items out to average the lowest possible inflation rate possible. If you are paying attention to the M0-4 USD money supplies; you'll see that inflation is around 45%+ since January 2020. Yes, I'm dead serious; you lost almost half the value of your income. You feel it every day you go to the grocery store...
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  1837.  @user-uy3eq5hg1s  Its far worse at this point I fear. If anti-trust hasn't been applied by now, then my bet is that it never will. YouTub3 has been deleting about 90% of new comments I've heard. They delete most of mine. Question them, their partners, or use any manner of words/phrases that their algorithms will detect as inappropriate and they will remove it. It's getting so bad that Scientific material entered in the ASJ is disappearing if it violates the bureaucratic and technocratic narrative.
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  1838. I'm convinced that mainstream media ONLY attracts psychopaths anymore. Unless it's outright blackmail to keep them in line. Almost all of these 'journalists' seem to be focused on getting sound-bites to push their political agenda. There's no honesty or good questions; only manipulation and red herrings to induce a foolish reply that they can exploit.
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  1839. You don't flip personality traits bud; people don't choose to be liberal or conservative. They DO choose their ideologies.
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  1840. This is ALL public information; Redacted is either suffering from delusional paranoia OR willfully trying to sell a non-story. The Ohio EPA and authorities evacuated the town almost two weeks ago and allowed the residents to return after 5 days. They conducted air quality measurements and deemed them safe for the residents in joint with the state government of Pennsylvania on it's border.
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  1841. The last two years have absolutely convinced me that 90% of the population doesn't have two brain cells to rub together. Americans are tearing their own country apart PIECE by PIECE. If someone isn't convicted; the system is fraudulent. If someone isn't elected; the system is fraudulent. If someone isn't impeached; the system is fraudulent. But apparently, if the system serves a former President a warrant; the system is doing just FINE! Hypocrites and narcissists, the lot of you. I truly hope Americans get everything they deserve when everything falls into chaos and genocide. You reap what you sow; Americans continue to reap after sowing NOTHING.
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  1842. It's always a distraction for the main event. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan and I'm betting they release a virus in Ukraine and blame the Russians.
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  1843. I guarantee you that Epstein served primarily as a go-to for blackmail. I mean "hello" he's got a Caribbean island with teen babes on it... The island would serve as a lodge for his friends and a trap for his enemies. That way they could blackmail them for eternity. If the truth came out, you'd probably find that most heads of fortune 500 companies and 1st World nations have been there, including members of the Royal Family; which was recently released.
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  1844. Yeah, I laugh at this all the time. Especially the virtue college students. I understand that there is education and credentialing in certain areas that must be pushed thru a college. However, many times these kids are paying $100k for education that is second rate to Youtube videos. That takes some massive stupidity to accomplish.
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  1845.  @101GM8  That's why you have to by 100% extra virgin. Bertolli is olive oil, BUT they mix it with like 10 differently sourced olive oils.
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  1846. This is nothing but a distraction. I liked Desantis in previous years, but he's gone off the deep end now. Regardless of how people feel about wokism, Disney, or God forbid LIBRARY books! It's not going to win you support when you are making it a campaign focal point, all the while we are dealing with inflation and war with Russia and China. He will end up losing if chosen as the front runner. Then the GOP will blame his loss on election fraud; wait and see!
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  1847.  @zatoichijiku9281  Not exactly, your body makes some, but not all.
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  1848. All industry dog food is garbage. Cook a 5lb roll of beef and add some pumpkin and maybe an egg. My dog has been on that diet for years. His coat and body made a remarkable change for the better. Plus, it's cheaper.
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  1849. They probably DID read it, but only the parts that benefit them. I mean, these lawyers aren't typing up the bills on their own lol
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  1850. The ONLY good things about Obi-Wan and Ahsoka were the fact that Ewan and Hayden got screen time. Everybody else in the series should have committed suicide.
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  1851. The liberals warned us about this back in the 1980s and they were made fun of. NOW, nobody cares. These corporations are unbelievable powerful and they will take you out if you pose a threat. Which is a primary reason for why (raw) foods like Milk and Cheese are heavily regulated. Try and sell raw milk or cheese in most states and you'll end up with a SWAT team raiding your farm; it's unbelievable.
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  1852. Why can nobody spell 'lose' or 'losing'? 🤣
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  1853. Cathie Woods has GOT to be one of most incompetent investors I've ever heard of. This woman has been wrong, wrong, wrong on every single purchase and prophecy she has made for the last several years. If Cathie Woods tells you to do something; do the opposite and you'll make bank.
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  1854. Because you're electing judges and legislators that are releasing repeat offenders on minimal to no charges.
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  1855. The fact that this issue is so divisive WITHIN the ranks of Democrats shows how bad it is. I'm thinking Trump will win by about 10 pts honestly.
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  1856. Are you nuts? High inflation, open border, two wars overseas, and virtually NO jobs if you're trying to get hired?
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  1857. I truly fear that the US is going to try and release a virus inside Ukraine and blame the Russians for using a bio-weapon. Why should we fear this? Because Marko Rubio and Victoria Nuland SAID it was likely to happen.
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  1858. We are witnessing a cascading failure of the economy from too many directions to count. New York will certainly feel it when hundreds of thousands more quit their jobs. How Americans are able to sit in a 50 car line at McDonald's each day and pay $50 bucks. All while the lobby is closed and only 3 people are on duty is beyond my understanding. But I'm loving it! Crash this party folks! Send your politicians and corporations packing. We have never been closer to destroying this government. Keep it rolling folks!
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  1859. Gen Z loves 'labels' or 'boxes' because the Empire is collapsing. People largely have nothing in common anymore; even their virtues. Society is tribalizing!
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  1860. The biggest problem is that most Americans are part-time politic-ers that think they get to have a baseless (yet) merited opinion on world events whenever they 'trend'. Almost nobody is aware that the Obama Administration orchestrated most of this conflict. They helped overthrow the sitting Ukrainian Government in 2014. Replaced it with individuals they 'approved of', as well as sold firearms and missiles to Ukraine to fight Russian separatists. NATO has been strategically brewing this conflict, knowing full well that Putin was going to respond with military force. Things are going exactly as planned as far as I can see and NATO will get the war they've been dreaming of. Gotta love the clown - Senator Marko Rubio grilling Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland about bio-research labs in Ukraine. To which she confirmed their existence. Though he made a very strange remark, asking that "if there was to be a biological attack in Ukraine, it would no doubt come from the Russians?" To which she replied that "it would be likely and that it's a classic Russian strategy to accuse your enemy of what you plan to do." DING DING DING people, have we learned nothing? Sounds like the US is planning to release a bio-weapon in Ukraine, blame the Russians, and justify the war they've always wanted.
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  1861. Ohio is still largely steady
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  1862. Weapons are almost exclusively supplied from the US on this side of the globe. Weapons manufacturers and drug manufacturers have a closer relationship than most people think. They lobby the legislators in both the US and Mexico in order to maintain high prices on their items. If both were completely deregulated in both countries; their monopolies would fall apart and get taken out by the markets.
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  1863. Sean, this has nothing to do with constitutional rights; I wish people would do more research. This has everything to do with whether these platforms classify as forums or publishers. Under the law they typically get classified as forums, which aren't allowed to persecute people based on speech alone. They like to play both sides of the law though; Federal law prohibits thee companies from being sued for abuses though.
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  1864. Evolution is a theory and you can only prove it on a micro-scale. When it comes to billions of years and organism; it becomes excessively difficult to prove with the scientific method.
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  1865. If the DNC looked like (Kennedy, Tulsi, and Bernie) - then they'd have my vote. Aside from that, it's been taken over by seemingly Venezuelan Socialists that value incompetence. Kamala Harris can kiss my as-$.
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  1866. The biggest problem is that the left most easily converts children and teens of a conservative personality. Being low in openness is the defining trait, which is not a huge surprise. It's why they can so easily regurgitate garbage based on the religion of the cult. Conservative parents with children of either liberal or conservative personalities need to spearhead the philosophy behind their culture in the home. If you don't understand why you're championing individual sovereignty, capitalism, pro-life etc. Then neither will your kid. That's how the left are converting them. And once they do, it's going to be extremely difficult to win them back. Marxism and it's derivatives are antihuman. How can you have a relationship with someone that doesn't believe that you own your own body, or that your should be allowed to own or sell property?
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  1867.  Paul L  What the hell are you talking about? When have you and I ever talked about China? Where have I even mentioned China in this feed?
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  1868. I don't think the GOP is looking very good as far as 2024. Democrats took Ohio by storm in the 2023 General Election and Republicans were nowhere to be seen; their turnout was terrible. When you run on campaigns of (anti-wokism, anti-trans, library books, voter fraud, and God); while people are suffering from bad inflation and there is escalating war overseas. Then people tend to go in the other direction. I voted Republican for a long time, but the last 4 years has been ridiculously damaging.
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  1869. Omicron is just another media pumped issue to drive the narrative. My wife ended up getting strep and I ended up getting some viral bronchitis. Nobody even cares about Covid anymore, because it's NOT an issue. These Healthcare companies are still on Medicare payroll for getting positive PCR tests and the media is still in love with pumping the numbers. Follow the money. Nobody is scared of Omicron, they are scared of what their state will do to their businesses again.
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  1870. This!!! I feel like I'm in a world of literal NPC's. You can't have an open conversion with very many people these days. It's all programmed responses.
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  1871. Something that most people are completely unaware of, but have already experienced; an economic crisis of age/labor. Inflation wasn't the primary reason that an economic crisis ensued post-Covid. It was largely because you had a workforce of professionals that was compromised of the most competent men and women aged between 50 and 65. The recession in 2020 saw the early retirement of tens of millions of Americans. They had a choice: be laid off or put on furlough with insurance benefits OR claim early retirement with their 401k or pension. Those people then retired from their initial careers; taking up side hobbies and gig work to stay busy. THIS is why these people still show up as employed or part of the labor participation rate. They are officially retired, but they are doing side work and NOT old enough to claim Social Security payments. We have a massive competency crisis ON TOP of a labor shortage and this is precisely why. How do you think people were paying CA$H for homes down in Florida? The last of the baby boomers and oldest of Gen X retiring with a wealth of money in their retirement accounts; there's you answer.
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  1872. Same, I was done in a matter of minutes. Stay at home (ex-truck driver) dad. I'm nowhere near the scientific field, but I've seen enough in life to feel like this guy was selling his business instead of medical competence.
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  1873. It's a Keynesian system based on continuous debt. In order for boomers to maintain the values of their assets; the dollar must be devalued to pay for old debts that can't be paid back by normal means. SO by default, your devaluing currency ensures that boomers can continue funding a series of old debts that they cannot pay off. That's how it works. Boomers were in their prime working years when 87' 00' 08' and then 2020 hit. SO they were able to buy fortune 500 companies for peanuts on four separate occasions at the bare minimum. Gen X on average had just gotten into the workforce when 87' hit. So they had almost no liquidity to invest. They built it back up from scratch only to see it damaged in 2000 and then wiped away again in 2008. Twelve years later, they had 2020 and a lot of that investment went into maintaining their lifestyles; not investment. Boomers will truly never understand how big of a free-ride they got while the economy still functioned as intended. Btw, the blond chick is clueless. 2% inflation has been happening forever; not 60% inflation. By comparison, inflation wasn't even that bad in 1978.
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  1874. Yeah, I'm afraid it's not that simple. Demographics and government budgets are driving this.
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  1875. People are so quick to jump to conclusions. Russia invades Ukraine = Russia evil That about sums up the intellectual level of most Americans at least. I'm not saying Russia is in the right, but there are numerous complexities to the situation unfolding. People compare this to the Sudetenland, but it better mirrors the surprise attack by the Japanese in 1941, give the circumstances. NATO is NOT without blame in this situation and I believe they are intending to provoke a war in the east, as their actions have already shown since the Obama Administration. Which is the catalyst in this situation, so I congratulate all the Obama lovers that chose to stick their heads in the sand during his Administration and pretend he was awesome because he gave great speeches. For anyone that follows the geo-politics of USD hegemony in the world, you're most likely well aware of the agendas at play here. There is so much free floating wisdom and experience on this conflict between Russia and the Ukraine and it irritates me to no end that I see an endless line of stupid comments. We have the information of the world at our fingertips, but people use it to take selfies and twerk for their own narcissistic amusement. Then jump on a political topic and act like they have something to add by pouring their heart out. How about we spend more time on our brain and make better choices at the ballot box imo?
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  1876. He's been covering this stuff for quite a while. Many of us aren't 24/7 gamers.
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  1877. This isn't a liberal talking point; it's reality. I'm blue collar, American-born citizens don't do farm or blue-collar work for the most part. Conservatives have been spinning this fantasy for the last 25 years. Acting like migrants are stealing jobs from hard working Americans. I'm sure there are a solid minority of good kids and experienced workers that get involved in those industries, but the overwhelming majority don't. We can't even pay truck drivers enough to attract American workers. They literally won't do it for $70-90k.
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  1878. Unlikely, considering how apathetic generations of the past used to be.
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  1879. None of this would be happening if (first - patents were open source) and (two - government would stop subsidizing industries). This has forced millions of people into fields or educations that are not marketable and allow a handful of companies to exploit tech patents that are intentionally maimed in order to stifle competition and keep consumers paying high prices. Why do people think these gaming companies are trying to release half completed games with rendering that is worse than 2017? Get rid of both and you'll see an explosion in wages and innovation.
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  1880. Well, as funny as it sounds. A lot of Gen Z calculate their annual income by their best daily income. So if they make $1000 on a lucky crypto trade; they tell people they make $365,000 per year.
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  1881. Well, the Democratic Party operates on blackmail. Look at how easily they indicted the NY mayor.
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  1882.  @jonnyd9351  No seriously, what is actually being taken from you. I'm not talking about what CNN/FOX peddle each evening. What has actually been taken? I seriously don't think having a comment on Twitter or Youtube deleted is (taking your rights away) if that's what you're referring to. People have more rights than ever before in this day and age. They are experiencing everybody using their own rights to oppress each other. Don't conflate government oppression with total anarchy.
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  1883.  @fluteloop6737  It's Sergey Brin's ex-wife; co-founder of Google. Plus, there's a big rumor she was sleeping with Elon Musk. So, with her being an anti-trust attorney. From a skeptics point of view; she comes off like a gold-digger and a corporate plant. No offense to her personally, but her history begs a lot of questions.
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  1884.  @fluteloop6737  Costa Rica actually. We're native Ohioans, but her family is 60+ and mine is falling apart thru alcoholism. There's no children either. Talk about holidays with 40 people and we're the only people with a child. We're the only millennials as well between bloodlines and our son has nobody to play with or relate to. The Zoomers do practically nothing; sit on the couch, eat, and play on their phones. I miss the early 2000s and the Greatest Generation elders.
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  1885. @MarkCherkowski Well, not so fast. I think you mean (green-cards); not undocumented. The deportation problem will have the largest effect o (temp and farm-payroll jobs). Many states like California actively help undocumented workers to gain access to these areas of work, but CDL is much more heavily restricted. It would be an insane crime for companies like RoadMaster to issue commercial licensure for people with no documentation. Even if they tried, the DMV/BMV is not going to process your CDL without that documentation. Green-card drivers make up more than half the industry currently; much more than 40%. My line of work is actually with my CDL. It's not just in farming. You can't pay Americans enough to do any blue collar job. When I got my CDL in 2019; we had 15 students. 12 of them were green-cards from West Africa and one from Ethiopia. Extremely nice people. However, the instructors told me this has been the norm for years. They were actually glad that they were from around the Congo, because the Somalis and harder to teach. My first job was $70k back in 2019; pays $85,000 now for a day-cab job.
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  1886. This has been a historical reality in most countries until around the 20th century. By definition, it is known as indentured servitude. Which was commonly practiced under the British Empire and it's subjects. This doesn't make it right. However, people need to understand that this was the reality worldwide (aside from slavery) up until more modern times. And obviously, it is still being practiced in many 2nd and 3rd world countries to date. People enjoy making slavery and indentured servitude (racial issues) based on their ability to win an argument. So I think it's important that we define terms.
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  1887. I think the biggest issue is how these algorithms. If you're a 15 year old kid and the algorithms are endlessly recommending police brutality videos. He's not aware he's being manipulated. So the justification for rioting and fighting the system will appear legitimate. The end result is what we've had for the last decade: fires, riots, and hatred. To a scale we've not seen before.
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  1888.  @uwharriebigfoothunter  It began over a century ago around WW1 and has been that way ever since. People are beginning to notice taxation because their USD purchasing power is drying up. 56% INFLATION and 10% wage increases in only the last 4 years alone.
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  1889. Yeah, I lost ALL respect for Lauren after that pathetic insult.
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  1890.  @alphabrainwave  Appointed and private; not sure how that's party of the Legislative Branch.
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  1891. It's the ultimate (we must become fascists to stop the fascists) logic lol
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  1892. Every single top comment on here is from a scam bot from a finance fraud; what the hell?
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  1893. It's because almost everything you were taught is a lie; used only to capitalize on your ignorance. Birth, K-12, College, Work, Retire, Repeat. Healthcare is no different; it's all a massive lie. The conspiracy to continue to revolving door is very simple though; the people in positions (other than myself) know what they are doing. Go ask any medical professional why cholesterol and saturated fat are bad for your health. You won't get a straight answer and if you do, it will be along the lines of a shallow, "It clogs your arteries excuse." Nobody actually knows what they are doing; they rely ENTIRELY on the faith of other people that claim the same thing. These last two years have turned me into an outright anarchist.
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  1894. I've tried to warn people for years. Crypto is a really cute idea, but a whopping majority of it is (inflationary, unregulated, fraudulent, and above all else unaccountable) to investors. Coinbase freezing LUNA assets and never giving money back to investors should have sealed the fate for all cryptos. Any crypto that ISN'T proof of work AND max supplied on currency is going to get sued into oblivion. Plus, people need to consider the energy markets when it comes to crypto in general. BTC itself uses up 1500 Khw on average to perform a transaction for 1 coin. Maintaining a mining operation and exchange has become unprofitable and the clock is ticking before these companies will have to cut multiple cryptos including Bitcoin itself. Check out how many blockchain bankruptcies are being filed each week for the last 18 months. It is completely unsustainable!
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  1895. Yeah, same here. But buy tickets ASAP. I was going to go see him in Akron, but I procrastinated one week and the middle seat tickets went from $55 to $480
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  1896. A banana republic whose military budget is put on the backs of US taxpayers. Plus, southern Norway (where most of the population is) is only 300x300 miles. Hardly comparable to the US, but good try CNCB!
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  1897. ^ Look at Mr. Perfect who's never said anything stupid in his life folks ^ You're not impressing anybody. You're looking for videos that criticize JP. How about you be a bit more liberal/open and learn? He's helped a lot of people, myself included. Don't be so closed off about learning.
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  1898. Well, I think Trump is rather a byproduct of numerous things. Technology took over and social media corrupted a lot of the American public. Disenfranchised people and families continued to blame the wrong person for their woes and it resulted in electing Trump.
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  1899. I don't mean this as an insult, but if you don't think people have anything to do with the downfall of an entire culture. Then I'd say you're not paying attention. Societies are ALWAYS destroyed within from their own people. It's just that nobody is paying attention. Most people are unaware that the average attention span was 30 seconds some 30 years ago. Now it's less than 5 and it truly shows when you talk to people.
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  1900. Yep! My parents were infuriated with me when I went to go get my CDL. Don't you want to try and becoming successful? (That Gen X gaslighting garbage and such). I was initially going to go to college for Russian Translation and found out that I'd be stacking $80k in debt for a $45k job some years ago. I got my CDL in 2019 and started making $70,000 for the get-go; paid $5000 in cash for the CDL 3 week course.
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  1901. Some 80-85% of the American public in various polls show they 'DO NOT' support intervention in either Ukraine or Israel. Our elected officials are not representing us.
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  1902. Not exactly; most people have nothing even close to the material abundance of the early 2000s. I remember growing up in Midwest suburbia. Three cars in every driveway and tons of shit every holiday with endless consumerism. You're forgetting that inflation is up 45% in the last 3.5 years (according to the USD M2). People are realizing that they cannot sustain their future ambitions on the original course. Minimalism is starting to become popular to get ahead.
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  1903. Don't let politics fool you. Most of the problems stem from fiscal policy and rapidly changing age demographics.
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  1904. @ Elaborate? What are people paying double on and why can't they choose lesser options that would alleviate their inability to live on the current income. Do you live on your own? What expenses ate up all your spending power?
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  1905. 10 Million people permanently left the workforce in Spring of 2020. 30 Millions since then have voluntarily quit their jobs and retired, become a stay at home parent, or chosen another job field. A very large number of those people were Gen X and Baby Boomers that were the best at what they did. You need to remember something very important: Price's Law... The square root of the number of people in ANY domain do half the work. The scary part is the mathematics check out no matter where you apply them. If you have 100 package handlers, 10 of them are loading half of all the merchandise into the vans. Those are your most competent people in any job field; they're also the ones that have largely checked out of the work-force. I'm one of them; I used to work for FedEx, then Werner. I drove a semi hauling for Anheuser Busch pulling about $70,000 a year driving a day-cab. One of the top earners and hours put into the job. They took my 13 days of unpaid vacation away in 2020 and gave me 8. After that, I checked out and have been doing alternative work ever since. Covid taught many people that the W-2 system was completely outdated. Why should I bust my balls working a job getting paid an hourly wage, while my co-worker can do half of the work I'm doing and still receive the same pay incentive?
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  1906. @ That goes against basic accounting. Debts, cost of business, taxes, etc are accounted for first from gross revenue. Also, people with assets tend to accumulate more assets; law of attraction. Getting your first 100k is hard, but eventually it's get easier afterwards. 20s are always a rough road.
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  1907.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  You copy a paste garbage all day everyday; how can you sit at your computer and stay content with life? Log off and go outside for once.
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  1908.  @lordofthestings  Are you over 18 by chance?
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  1909. Because you need to clean your room :)
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  1910. Covid taught me that a disturbing percentage of society is ready to abuse everyone 'to maximum potential' given the chance. Now that the chance has passed; they all go back to their lives and pretend nothing happened. It has completely changed my perspective on civilization and government.
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  1911. A combination of poor food quality, prescription med use, lack of meaning in life, and aging out of the dating pool. Yes, if you are a woman and are not seeking marriage/children in your 20s; you are aging out of the dating pool. It will become harder and harder to find tiered men that have the same interests. Women date roughly men of the same age and older. If your a 30 year old woman, there are VERY few men between 30 and 35 that are seeking children and a marriage. If they are, the odds of them being Tier A are slim to none. As far as technology goes, people have very little fortitude these days and cave to the slightest bit of adversity. We had people literally killing themselves because they couldn't visit their friends during Covid. That's a serious lack of emotional stability if you ask me. Technology (mainly social media) had bankrupt our children's emotions and future. They can't handle being told no, they can't handle delayed gratification, they can't handle adversity, they can't even handle voting repercussions. Most of this stems directly from screen-time and social media. The children that began getting the devices at 4 are now growing older and the world is becoming unstable.
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  1912. Quit degrading women bud!
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  1913.  @yamerojones  Bingo!
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  1914.  @HummingByrd-b1n  It's a money laundering scheme bud; you have to follow the bread crumbs. States offers contracts to companies that are willing to help move migrants away from border towns because Mexico won't do anything about it; most are coming from Venezuela. Those companies then profit-share with third party international companies and pay cartels to bring them thru the Panamanian jungle up to the US border. At the same time, they charge fees from the migrants as well. It's a mixture of political corruption, trafficking, and business.
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  1915. It's probably an element of biology/psychology as well. We all say that we hate empires and regimes, but in all honesty 'MEN' are drawn to them. Not exactly because of power, but rather purpose I think. Might be the reason why 'thinking about the Roman Empire' joke is so true. The right wing allures to people needing a sense of purpose and focus. The left doesn't offer these things; it just offers mindless anarchy of indulgences imo
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  1916. Four factors: 1. American Rescue Plan - increased the gasoline tax from 18.3 cents to 53.3 cents. 2. Revoking the Keystone XL Permit. 3. Sanctions against Russian Petrol. 4. 40% Inflation since January 2020. Yes, it's Biden's fault...
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  1917. Caffeine and fasting are actually really helpful in getting over illnesses. The fasting induces autophagy and the caffeine stimulates the production of ketones.
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  1918. The inevitability of a Keynesian system. No conspiracy, just horrible horrible fiscal/economic policy. It has nothing to do with votes. If you don't increase exports/productivity linear with inflation; wages stagnate and prices continue to rise. If you increase the amount of cookies in the cookie jar; you need to increase the amount of people that will eat them as well. A reversed analogy, but it gets the point across.
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  1919.  @DiegoPerez08  Relax Diego, neuroticism doesn't solve the world's problems. Putting a person with a low IQ in a job field that they cannot function in is NOT virtue, it's virtue signalling. People are much happier when they have the cognitive ability to do their job of choice.
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  1920. Well, based on the road name alone; Miami, FL - Atlantic Heights
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  1921. Ross Perot took 20% with two likable candidates. Imagine what Kennedy can get with the two worst Presidents back-to-back?
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  1922. Bot
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  1923. A whopping majority of these men fall between the ages of 45 and 60. They retired early from empty careers and settled for a 401k and maybe a small pension. Zoomers and Millennials are not the reason that AEP doesn't have enough journeymen.
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  1924. Sue for what? You can't sue the state for improperly filing your own citizenship status.
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  1925. It's not the young or middle aged people propping up Harris. It's the brain-dead Democratic portion of the baby boomers. I've met them, they are absolutely the dumbest people I've ever met. How they ever retired or learned how to claim social security is beyond me. They literally believe that Biden is in charge of the stock market. I've been told that SEVERAL times in person.
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  1926. Perhaps because the anglo-culture you are describing is the most advanced? Not everything has to be viewed through a lens of racial prejudice.
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  1927. I've noticed that ANY time a speaker starts to become more descriptive or informative; the rest hate it. It's all about envy and contempt with this demographic.
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  1928. It's called a standard of care. If a Doctor tells you something different than a panel of their peers, then you can be held liable in a court of law. Unfortunately, all this has produced is bad medical practices and bad nutritional information. If I'm a doctor and I tell a person with diabetes to try a ketogenic diet and they end up in the hospital for any reason whatsoever, I can be taken to court and most likely lose my license. It's not about truth, it's about power.
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  1929. Vote for RFK then!
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  1930. Unlikely! Narcissistic and manipulative children are spawned from parents that act the same way; not the other way around.
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  1931. @ Pretty much! Supply and demand! If people want a fair economy, then the FED will need to sacrifice it's auto-pilot programs. SS, Medicare, and Pensions have to be inflated to meet annual cola adjustments. This naturally forces prices to stay high to so that retirement values can maintain their generational value.
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  1932. Well prices come down periodically and elastic prices tend to rebound quite routinely. However, once a recession hits and prices lower; those prices go back up to their previous highs within 18 months. After that, they keep going up.
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  1933. How can you vote them out, when they voted themselves IN!? lol
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  1934. I'm more or less right leaning and so is my family. The sentiment among us is 'open season lol'
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  1935.  @natalyakoval5712  Not everybody that disagrees with kissing Ukraine's rear is a bot.
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  1936. Property tax = nationalized property Where the hell is SCOTUS on this issue?
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  1937.  @crand20033  Having low unemployment has nothing to do with recession metrics David. If you want to patronize people with your age and experience, then at least have the articulation to back it up please. July 26th marks GDP Q2 release; it will be negative (more than likely) as is forecasted. That means we are about the enter a recession on paper. The economy on the other hand has already entered one, as far as the market is concerned. Surpluses of unfilled jobs are a hallmark of a pre-recession.
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  1938. My heart this; my heart that. War is bad; this is uncalled for etc... The virtue signalling is really pathetic. You people act like these decisions are made lightly from one side or the other. Congrats that you think war is bad and it racks up civilian casualties, such an intellectual thought 🙄. What people should be focused on are the series of events that led us here. Joe Biden and Nordstream 2 being a major catalyst, as well as OPEC dependency (yet again). Elections have consequences.... Stop crying on social media and start educating yourself to be better informed so that we can elect more qualified people to handle these situations and not set up the EU and US in a position of weakness.
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  1939. "Saudi Arabia found to be secretly supplying Russia with American technology. An invasion is necessary!" Wait for it!
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  1940. I'm not sure why any American left or right would still hold onto the "America is the Greatest nation" narrative any more. Perhaps in terms of our founding and the ability to move from state to state should a crisis arise in your hometown. Though by international standards, this is a third world country. Many of the most dangerous cities in the world are not located in some far off land in Asia or Latin America. The most dangerous cities in the world are right here in the US: Baltimore, Dayton, St. Louis, Chicago etc.
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  1941. Well, to be fair nobody seems to be talking 'whatsoever' about the epidemic of cancer, heart disease, and obesity either. This nation is a farm and when it's all said and done; foreign countries will look at the land and condemn it. The air and soil is absolutely toxic in a great majority of the country. Eventually, nobody will be able to live here do to compounding effects of the chemicals, hormones, and pharmaceuticals we're pumping into the water supply.
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  1942. Everyone is an addict; alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, blue light, social media excitement, etc.
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  1943. I think the proper way to see the last decade of American politics isn't exactly 'which party has become more radical'. But rather, which organizations and businesses are leading the charge on perverting the American culture. America is seemingly 'for sale' right now and everybody is buying.
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  1944.  @rachelcookie321  Fertility rates continue to decrease, I've known several people that went through IVF to gain a child. Birth control pills, pesticides, diet; modern humans are killing themselves slowly and with each subsequent generation they pass it onto.
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  1945.  @rachelcookie321  Typo corrected, yes! Thanks 👍
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  1946. Small loopholes intentionally neglected to maximize voter fraud. It's also not Federalized; so states just sue each other when they affect outcomes of other states.
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  1947. Yep, literally overheard a grandfather telling his granddaughter to take her boyfriends gun collection and sell them for personal cash after he was arrested and put in jail. My first thought was, does grandad realize he's asking her to commit a crime herself?
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  1948. What a dumb statement. 50% against 50% is a pretty healthy system if you ask me. Having a 90/10% political vote would be a really big problem.
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  1949. 95% of Congress wants to show up for 2 hours to discuss legislation that's controlled by like 5 people. Adjourn for the day and then pay an intern and 5 lawyers to write the rest of their legislative amendments according to whatever lobbyist is paying. That's how our Government works. Corporations lobby and make phone calls, an army of lawyers write the political amendments for each representative, and then politicians show up for a few hours a week to make theatrics in front of the press. Chip Roy, David Schweikert, and a handful of other Republicans and Democrats actually stick around to do their job. Everybody else just ignores them and goes for a Steak Dinner at your expense. People go into politics for two reasons. Either knowing it's a full blown circus of frauds with cows to milk OR completely ignorant and wanting to help, eventually getting way in over their heads.
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  1950. What's the source?
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  1951. Capitalism is about sourcing labor for profit; nothing else. You're describing a cultural shift with bad corporate policy; not capitalism.
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  1952. From an outsider looking in. It seems apparent that too many people rely on reality tv shows and comedy to support their worldview. All the jokes I can see are based from stereotypes that talk show hosts created out of ignorance. If this country is to die, it will be from complacency and arrogance of the intellect.
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  1953. UBI would cause massive price inflation. Didn't anybody learn from the federal funds rate being 0.25% in 2020? Inflation went out of control and food pricing went thru the roof. UBI is essentially a (0% interest loan). Could you imagine how bad pricing would get if we just gave everybody free money?
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  1954. Well, look at technology. It allows a very small minority of people (that take advantage of it the correct way) to advance further. While the masses utilize technology to make themselves dumber. Conservatives will always win the battles, but inevitably lose the war. This is a people problem and it's not going to go away.
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  1955. Crazy times! I honestly don't know how to feel. I'm not a fan, but to anyone on the outside (it may easily appear as if the Biden Admin is conspiring to imprison political opponents. If justice is to be served across the board, then you'd need to imprison at least the last 5 Presidents; including Biden for blackmail and extortion that he admitted on video.
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  1956. Gasoline is $5.09 in all of central Ohio.........
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  1957. Well, he seems pretty genuine, but I truly thinks he's beyond unqualified.
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  1958. Social skills are hardly the issue in my opinion; it's training children to form sociopathic and narcissistic tendencies. The younger generation of today is a disaster. People in my own family can't cope with the reality of life, they can't function, and many of them are apathetic. My own sister doesn't text or call me unless she can get something out of it and her peers are no different. Social media manipulates people to be rude, untruthful, and evil in a manner that rewards their dopamine receptors.
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  1959. Same here! I learned more about economics in a single month on Youtube than I did with 4 years of college. Embarrassing to say the least.
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  1960.  @BrandonMalveaux8  Well, that's unfortunately a factor of the economic system; not exactly businesses. As long as debt outgrows GDP; prices will rise and wages will stagnate. There will be periods of relief during interest rate cuts and whatnot, but overall the inequalities will widen and money will be worth less going forward.
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  1961.  @laaaliiiluuu  Sure it does. In your life you'll get to know roughly 1000 people. Connecting with two other people forms a billion connections over the course of a lifetime. Imagine how many connections your neighborhood makes lol Everybody effects everyone else in every way imaginable. People must take the burden of responsibility onto their shoulders. When they stop, someone else has to carry that. And not only that, but counter the negative effects from everyone that doesn't take that burden. If not, then the negative outperforms the positive. Every single action on the planet has an equal and counter reaction worldwide.
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  1962. Interest coincidence, but in the same time that we invaded Afghanistan and left. Opioid use increased by some 20,000% in the US. Considering that Afghanistan has the largest opium fields on planet earth. Now, fentanyl is taking over the industry and the US has no more interest in Afghanistan? Big coincidence right there...
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  1963. Because newer generations are more interested in renting. You can't blame companies for going with the requests and trends of their consumers. This predates Covid btw.
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  1964. Assuming that you have equity in it? You're forgetting natural bell curves; BTC has value because almost all of it's market cap is held by a handful of people and businesses. BTC is much worse than the gold-standard. It may be decentralized, but devil is that it will suck up all equity in a small oligarchy while everyone else gets poorer. I was in your position years ago, but once you have a family. You realize that these unregulated business models are a threat to your very survival. Let them run the show and the inequalities will get much worse.
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  1965. Trust me, it's people in general. Playing for one side or the other is foolish at this point. People make the decisions that tyrannize a society. Imagine all the people that were complicit in the actions of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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  1966. You see how they set everyone up since the whole (Russia collusion hoax)? Now, if you defend Russia (they can point at you and say, "look I told you, then are colluding against America together!" It's all been the plan from the start.
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  1967. You got that right; I was abused with them for 7 years. I was traded out on 8 medications as a child; it was nothing but horror and abuse. I felt like a zombie for years.
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  1968. Population and hospitalization studies from the ASJ have already confirmed that the infection of variants are affecting vaccinated persons in the 90% percentile. The unvaccinated are not taking up the beds. The CDC redefined vaccination status in order to say "they are unvaccinated". If you had two shots and no booster, then you are NOT vaccinated.
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  1969. Glad to hear that Andrew is hiring cats from Elsweyr 👍
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  1970. It boggles my mind how pathetically dumb Americans are on this subject. It's like they FORGOT that NATO destabilized Ukraine in 2014 and installed Zelensky as an anti-Putin puppet. Not to mention he started a war in East Ukraine against the pro-Russian party residents that have been trying to annex themselves with Russia for 20 years.
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  1971. Smart-phones and echo chambers is what's wrong with this country.
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  1972.  @hillowl4977  Similar situation for us. I'm actually planning on teach our child mathematics and Russian, but the wife will have partake in the scientific fields, as I am not qualified whatsoever.
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  1973. She's a narcissist looking for a public clap; notice that she started with gaslighting. She doesn't care about the question OR the answer; she just wanted attention.
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  1974. Well, yes and no; you're confusing certain US statutes. There is no circuit of supreme court case that has a pretense for (lies) in relation to the first amendment. What you are talking about is largely (conspiracy) to commit bodily harm; yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater. The first amendment does not extend protections to people for libel, slander, defamation, etc; as you stated. However, this is because states and municipalities can create their own laws regarding these issues. Keep in mind, this is solely on the basis of causing harm in lieu of credentialing. You can advertise any belief you want; so long as you protect yourself legally. Another thing to keep in mind is that (in foreign countries); the stronger the laws against dissenting speech are; the harder it is to sue the governing institutions. More damage will always result from government immunity than it will from an anarchy of public opinions. In the US, you have the right to say whatever you want, whenever you want, so long as it is not a conspiracy to commit bodily harm or uses a false credential to relay information deemed to be harmful to the public. Hence the reason for claiming 'not medical advice'.
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  1975. Because they own an impeccable amount of international and US ports, real estate, and fortune 500 companies. Even Forbes is majority owned by Whale Media Investments, located in China.
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  1976. Why aren't people being held accountable!? - (Some Boomer in the comments) There is no accountability anymore, because there's nobody left to properly enforce a society with ethics and morals. The state of the US should not come as a shock to people. We have the unhealthiest, angriest, and most complacent standing population in history.
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  1977. Last week, Joe Rogan was a kick-boxer; now he's Santa Clause.
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  1978. @ bensheard3969 Yep, I'm from central Ohio and my 2024 property tax was $2617 and insurance $1213. That's on a house worth $276k Probably worse in other states or regions, but still; it's no picnic.
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  1979. Maybe! Single family homes just hit a new record high in 2024 at ($439,000 median price). It all depends on where you live. Many people are not looking for large houses. If you have a 3B2Ba house under $300k; it will sell easily. I'm in Ohio and homes around here still sell like hot cakes. We bought out home in 2020 for $200,000 (I was 26). Now the home is worth $285,000. If we put it on the market for $250,000; I guarantee you we'd get at least 10 offers. You have to target the people that are going to be looking at your house; meaning Boomers with cash OR young couples with lucrative jobs.
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  1980. It's pretty obvious this guy has never been to any of these regions; it's a completely academic report. It's Mobile - pronounced 'Moe-beel' Come on man..
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  1981. How would they sue? They were removed for improperly listing themselves as non-citizens. That's there own fault and they'll need to follow up.
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  1982. Yeah, no. Do you realize the lawsuits that would ensue from your hypothetical? Insurance companies would be screaming as well.
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  1983. Same, but I'd rather vote Kennedy.
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  1984. I'm American, the people living here are going absolutely insane. I'm married with the best wife ever and we are quite literally watching this country tear itself apart. Freaking vehicular accidents alone went up 10.5% in one year in this country. I think it's the social media algorithms; making people malfunction.
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  1985. I think the rise of social media has led us to a truly formidable age where apathy and narcissism on a steep incline. Blaming the victim and generational revenge go hand in hand with these growths.
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  1986.  @Chazzmatazz  No, many of us simply WATCH podcasts and interviews. We don't watch divisive, biased, and edited propaganda on cable television.
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  1987. Bitcoin is a cute idea, but it fundamentally has the same problem that gold does. Top exporting countries eventually trade all their products for your gold. So naturally, nations would become imperialistic in pursuit of resources that could be exchanged for gold. Bitcoin is no different, only instead of a central bank or private bank; the bank is imaginary. Yet, the ones holding all the currency has immense power anywhere they live. If anything, crypto currency is more likely to begin a new feudal state, rather than emancipate people from governments. Instead of being beholden to government currency. You'll be beholden to a series of billionaires with a private army that have immense control over the areas that they reside in.
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  1988. Already did! Note: Democrats did a very poor job campaigning this year. I have a feeling they will lose a number of states considered 'SAFE' - starting with New Hampshire; currently polling at 50/50.
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  1989. I feel it's too late; the culture is entirely compromised. The only way I see this changing is a STRONG Law and Order Administration, followed by anti-trust laws, and regulation of tech/media company algorithms. Without those, this country will continue to tear itself apart.
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  1990. Bingo! The fact that people think the Trump Administration had no role in this (along with the Federal Reserve) is insane. Biden came along and made it worse.
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  1991. Well, it's not so much a saturation of people as it is a devaluation of the dollar. You could buy a crap ton of stuff on (one hour of minimum wage) in the 80s, 90s, and even 2000s. It's something that older generations either don't want to admit or can't mentally grasp, but the value of wages is in the dirt. There's no amount of extra work you can do to have to same life that your parents and grandparents had. At this point, we only have the option of downsizing and minimalizing.
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  1992.  @CaptainSprinkles1985  What cult is that? "The cult of questioning pharmaceutical companies?" Does nobody remember Vioxx?
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  1993.  @CaptainSprinkles1985  Conducting the scientific method is science. Believe everything that's come out of a bureaucratic agency is NOT science. You need to sharpen your skills brother. It's not acceptable at your age.
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  1994. At the end of the day, it's incredibly easy to create an LLC. These business owners aren't really putting their own money on the line anymore. They will pay you peanuts to maximize profits. If the company can't hire anybody with shit wages, then they will go out of business and claim your tax dollar thru bankruptcy to save themselves.
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  1995. Plus, you government now has an expatriation tax. If you sell your home and move abroad; they tax you 25%. They also tax you 25% on the home value over-seas. Not only that, but if you live overseas more than 186 days as a Canadian citizen; they charge you a penalty on both.
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  1996. How so? I've never seen a speech from him that's given me such an impression. Perhaps you're listening to media disinformation from garbage channels?
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  1997.  @DIVISIONINCISION  I do live below my means. Why you would make such a comment is unnecessary and arrogant. I don't understand the passive aggressiveness at the end. Btw, your wages do not keep up with inflation; even with you working from tax dollars. You are going to (on average) get paid below market value and CPI inflation will never be assigned to your wage increases. I would ask anyone to show me a job (private or public) that assigned a wage increase that reflected a (YoY inflation rate). Ask people in medical professions if their wages are growing linear with inflation. There is a fundamental reason why your wages cannot grow with such large inflation. It all comes back to the Keynesian model. As long as GDP/productivity are not growing with debt obligation; it's nearly impossible.
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  1998. I made $70k starting in 2019 with a CDL. Wages vary depending on state and industry. That same job I used to work at pays $85,000 starting. No-touch; day cab freight.
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  1999. You don't; the clinical data is manipulated like mad for efficacy rates. Best bet? Only use ex-patent medications that haven't had any major lawsuits in the last twenty years.
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  2000. Where have you been? This is literally the position of Kennedy Jr.
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  2001. Please, will you grow and brain and stop repeating mindless garbage? Did Covid teach you nothing about propaganda? Could you imagine if China replaced Mexico's President. Then sold them weapons to fight the US in a border war. And we retaliated with an invasion? Same premise here..
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  2002. Same, I left after my 3rd or 4th visit. I just felt like I was a number and they didn't really put any effort into understanding my situation. It took me nearly a decade, but I spent an enormous amount of time on myself and learned a lot. I am easily 100 times the man I was when I walked into those therapy sessions.
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  2003. Permissive/neglectful parenting! You don't need to use corporal punishment with kids. Be authoritative, connect with them, and lead by example. The problem with modern parents is that they emotionally neglect their children, let them do whatever they want, and the children rule the house. All the while these kids get untethered access to their iPads since 12 months and the parents ignore them.
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  2004. DO you not realize the irony of your comment? If they're illegal aliens; how can they vote for him?
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  2005. It's happening everywhere because every currency is traded in USD The Reserve Currency. The FED printed $7 Trillion dollars between 2020-2022. People ran out to get low interest mortgages to rent them out on AirBNB.
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  2006. The US needs to stop destabilizing foreign nations for monetary gain! It has been done 'repeatedly' under every US Administration since Bush Sr. We have some three dozen nations under threat of civil war and economic collapse due to policies, coups, and sanctions set by Obama and then exacerbated by Trump.
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  2007. This is PRECISELY the reason that the GOP and conservatives in general are losing across the board. Conservative groups are actively attacking each other and their own followers/companies. I can tell you right now that the GOP has lost a great deal of the Midwest alone. Ohio came out in storm for the Democrats in 2022 and 2023. As an independent, I fully expect them to do so in 2024. This is what happens when people are suffering from inflation and escalation overseas. While the GOP tries to convince you that wokism, transgenderism, and Disney are your greatest threats; it's an absolute joke.
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  2008. The media is making all these low IQ people crazy. Get all hopped up on drugs and FB algorithms showing them a crap ton of police videos in a bad light. Then they go out looking for vengeance. We have entirely allowed people like this to flourish in society.
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  2009. Nice! Just had chicken breast, boiled potatoes with olive oil, and a coffee.
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  2010. Gen Z loves 'labels' or 'boxes' because the Empire is collapsing. People largely have nothing in common anymore; even their virtues. Society is tribalizing!
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  2011.  @SomeUserNameBlahBlah  Yes, but the tariffs will probably make it worse. Not like we had a choice. It's either death by inflation or death by deflation. There's no way out.
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  2012. You're projecting your own behavior here.
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  2013. The biggest problem in the west is the media narrative. War is a mixture of theater and economics. You have to assume that everything you hear and a large portion of what you see are NOT real. This seems to be largely true, considering how many OLD photos and videos that media loves to use to describe currently trending situations in a completely different location. Many Germans were not even aware that the red army was within 100 miles of their location before it was too late and artillery barrages devastated their towns and cities. They believed the entire time that they were succeeding in the war. All thanks to the propaganda of the German Government.
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  2014.  @jaym9846  He's saying there's a massive double standard; which there is.
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  2015.  @Goibniu001  Pretty much, it's not limited to any one industry. The purchasing power of the USD declines and wages do not keep up with inflation in any steady rate.
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  2016. Honestly, I think people want that, or rather they just want to keep kicking the can. I mean older people know that social security is toast. Doesn't stop them from screaming to keep it running on fumes though. People would rather drive off a cliff than willfully degrade their standard of living to make their dollar more valuable.
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  2017. Wake up people! Imagine CNN or FOX bringing on your narcissistic mom or sister and having her talk all kinds of garbage about you! That's literally what they're doing!
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  2018. They're being hired over 10 year period.
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  2019.  @profpurge  Government shutdowns reduced supply volume (yes). But demand skyrocketed due to interest rate cuts more than anything. There was a short period of wage negotiation, but it only lasted from mid-way 2020 thru early 2022. Inflation came from several factors and remained higher than 3.0% after January 2021. Rising wages 2017-2020; increase in child tax credit, 0.25% federal funds rate, lower supply, and lastly promises of student loan forgiveness. All of which fell into a 2 year time period. Every President since Bush has outspent the last; so I'm not sure what you're eluding to on Trump. Unless you want to blame Congress for the PPP loans and Covid spending (that would have otherwise not happened 'absent' the shutdowns. Then I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at. I'm not sure what you hint is aimed at. Try not to vent about your personal politics when the conversation doesn't even contain the subject.
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  2020.  @DPM917  No, USD are traded for every currency. Therefore printing $8Trillion is going to inflate every single currency on the market. It's a domino affect of central banking. The US had the strictest shutdowns of any first world nation by far other than China. So supply chain issues in the US were not the same as places overseas. WTI and Brent Crude hit almost $0 per barrel on the global exchanges. The inventory just started piling up with a huge decrease in travel. Ukraine has barely any affect as far as agriculture and energy production on a world stage. Most of the EU doesn't even have a market for their exports. Lastly, you're forgetting that the federal funds rate was set to 0.25%. Everybody and their brother ran out to buy new cars and new houses when that happened. That's your source of demand spike. Introducing a ton of new currency into the system and creating a new demand spike with no new efforts to increase GDP in most countries is why you have sky high inflation. All of which gets tied right back into Federal Reserve policy. This is how the central banks function. Once they set a new rate or introduce new currency; all other central banks in Europe and Asia follow suit. It's all tied together; not a bunch of countries acting independently.
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  2021.  @ecurewitz  How so? The entire idea is that you put a tariff on an import and Americans will buy less of that item. So the manufacturer has to calculate whether or not to relocate or risk raising the price and receiving less.
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  2022.  @MakapoluEsq  They're all miserable and hate humanity. The idea of not being a victim is terrifying.
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  2023. I'm 30 and I have never been swayed by an ad. A week before the election I saw both GOP and Democrats ads and said to my wife, "Do they really expect people to believe this bull-s?"
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  2024. Sounds like you're intentionally leaving out a lot of details? Your wife helped build your household! You give her no credit or value for raising your children? YOU built everything in those 52 years? Have you ever stopped to think your behavior and attitude may have contributed to your wife's demise? Just a thought! I've met many men that speak like you do and there is ALWAYS a major underlying factor with emotional or physical abuse from the man.
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  2025. I asked out (9) women from when I was 19-24. 6 of them gave me their numbers and 3 refused. All in all, none of those turned into any meaningful long term relationships and some of them were looking for free meals and attention. I dated TWO women online; one was a divorced women with a great heart, but we agreed we had different goals. The other turned out to be my wife and gave me my son. Unfortunately, asking women out in person is a waste of time. I'd say that young men should attempt it several times in order to get outside their comfort zone, but it was more likely get you kicked out of your own gym than find a good partner.
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  2026.  @plonk7  Oil is always secondary in the market; I know many try to say otherwise, but I don't buy it. When the Federal Reserve gives a print order to the Treasury; those newly printed bonds get sent out to reserve banks. Then they are diversified into mortgages, auto loans, and so forth. New inflation ALWAYS hits the bond markets, real-estate, and auto industry first. The demand associated with that influences fuel prices.
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  2027. Well, both East Asians and Ashkenazi Jews have an average population that is one standard deviation higher on an IQ scale than Europeans. Doesn't mean all Asians are smarter, it just means that their are a larger number of intelligent people. Put that together with culture and you can explain virtually all the discrepancies in any given society.
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  2028. (FOX News) - "We lied to our viewers." (FOX Viewers) - "No you didn't!"
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  2029. The only thing I fear is a cultural blowout in another direction. People fail to realize that tyranny never comes from the top, it comes from everywhere. It's not going to go away whether we win this fight or not; it's engrained in a massive portion of the culture. We cannot afford to become complacent even if we win. Millions of Americans actively partook in the government propaganda and mandate threats of this Administration. Those people will still be here when it's all said and done. It will take decades to undo the damage that has been done in the last several years.
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  2030. This is basic Keynesian economics, but most people don't know because the financial literacy in this country is piss poor. Productivity and exports MUST increase linear with inflation OR you will have stagnate wages with rising prices. All inflation is a result of debt obligations; both private and public. If you have a 0% car loan or 1% mortgage in 2020; then you by default have contributed to the inflation wave of 2021-2023. Artificially low rates cause artificially high demand; high demand cause prices to rise.
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  2031. It's not disorganization, it's intentionally done by hiring managers at the behest of large corporations so they can get tax deductions on unemployment insurance.
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  2032.  @FunnyBoneBob  What does that have to do with anything? Besides, you neglected to share (which side of Ukraine); the east of west part of Ukraine. It is NOT a united country and hasn't been for the last 8 years.
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  2033. I was thinking the same thing. They probably see "climate change" and if that is secondary to any other issue they get emotional and irrational.
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  2034.  @Ebbrush3  We had firearms like this even back in the 50s. Teenagers used to take long-guns in their trucks to be left at the high schools so they could go sport shooting afterwards. That was normal back then. Didn't seem to an issue back in those days. Now it's common place to have a mass shooting several times a week.
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  2035. When you hear marketing bloggers telling you to try something; it's already been a bubble for years most likely.
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  2036. I've been waiting for someone to do a realistic take on this. People are completely out of touch if they think Trump is going to win in some landslide. I would humor the possibility of a Ross Perot situation with Robert F. Kennedy. However, people need to pay attention to the voter turnout and demographics. Democrats took the Ohio 2023 General Election by storm several months ago. Republicans were nowhere to be seen and rural voter turnout was in the garbage. Republicans made a huge mistake by campaigning on (anti-wokism, anti-trans, library books, and Disney). Nobody cares about these issues when they are struggling to pay the bills and worrying about escalating conflicts overseas. Personally, I am worried about wages, bills, and avoiding another war. What exactly have the Republicans offered to reassure voters like myself on these issues? They also continue to crush the Congressional attempts to raise the Child Tax Credit. They have offered to raise it, under the promise that Democrats will support a series of corporate tax deductions; primarily 'research and development'. Which is a major gateway to tax fraud and laundering anything under the sun off the books. Seeing as Trump appointed Jerome Powell and pressured the Federal Reserve to drop the interest rates into negative territory; he OWNS the inflationary mess that we're in, period! PPP loans were also a complete mess and instigated one of the largest frauds in American history as businesses stole their employee wages thru loopholes in the forgiveness program. Now those jobs are constantly being reposted to continue getting forgiveness while laid off/fired employees can't afford to take those jobs anymore.
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  2037. It's because they are financing 70% of their income on debt based fantasies. We have a neighbor: $300k home that just bought FOUR new vehicles. Ford F150 2023, Corvette, Crossover, and Suburban. Very simple middle class jobs and income. Absolutely crazy and I'm sure it's going to end in foreclosures and repos.
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  2038. Welcome to DEI; or at least this is one of the major components that keeps the police looking the other way. If it looks bad to the media; many times they will ignore it to avoid backlash.
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  2039. Bud, this should really go without saying; have you wife quit her job. You have about a $20,000 tax bill (Federal and FICA) and a children-care bill of $24,000. If your wife stops working, your tax liability goes down to roughly $5000 with no child-care bill. So you lose $50k gross, but also lose $46,000 in child-care and tax liability. Plus, you get a $2k tax credit with your kid; so realistically your wife makes $2000 additional by working a second job. Unless you have another reason, why would you continue to working two jobs just to save a couple thousand a year with the second job?
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  2040. It's hilarious how people went from: regulations against business and civil liberties - to Show me your papers, businesses have the right to hire and serve who they please, and if you're in the military then you're a lab rat. Our population is so pathetically stupid that the credentials of the CDC can turn people into overnight hypocrites without a second thought.
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  2041.  @lieninger  Ineffectiveness? Bud the FDA is "IN" on the sick joke! How many more (ex-corporate) members do we need running as director of the FDA!? How many more ex-Pharma board members do we need running as director of the CDC!? It's a racket!
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  2042. Yeah, abut that. Who's getting billed? When demand for chicken increases and prices increase; who's paying? UBI is an inflationary nightmare that would destroy the free markets.
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  2043. They won't, it will destroy any and all sentiment that the media has set forth. It's better for them to allow stupid people to believe what they were initially told. He's definitely a right wing extremist that supports Trump and hates black people, OBVIOUSLY! Stop asking reasoning questions and do what you're told peasant! lol
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  2044.  @MidWitPride  What I don't understand is that this is supposedly all from open AI right? Is the material patented? If not, then why hasn't this entire thing fallen apart years ago? Other companies should be coming out with this technology left and right. Are they just really good at convincing investors that their tech is special? lol
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  2045. Last I recall, it was the Democrats attempting to throw their political opponents in jail. Yet they aren't considered Fascists. People don't realize that fascism ALWAYS comes from the people that refuse to question institutions.
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  2046. I think it really helped with men 18-50. The 18-39 vote (as a whole) was down like -30% across the board though. I think the ones that did turn out probably had a much higher propensity to vote for Trump this time around. A lot of college aged voters switched as well. I've never seen this level of support among young people for Trump.
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  2047. Explain how an 18 month private commission (making recommendations) is going to increase corruption? Their entire commission is designed to recommend areas to cut spending surround administrative bureaucracy. I swear, the ignorance from people is amazing. Stop reading headlines and start reading the sub-text.
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  2048. This might come off as mildly subjective, but I realized that college was a scam in the early 2000s. It's at that point at the beginning of my teenage years that I realized virtually all adults were morons.
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  2049. Jesus, this guy is trying SO HARD to be offended and put all of his critical thinking on the virtue signaling of the greater populace. This is a young man that have zero virtues or morals. He consents and agrees with whatever makes him the most popular.
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  2050. Polls are used for one thing; manipulating voters into who they should vote for.
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  2051.  @CodyHagemeier  No, it would tank corporate profits lol
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  2052. Well, let's not forget that zoomers are the apology tour generation for failed Gen X parents lol Millennials get all the grief Zoomers get all the money and attention; therefore they have no fortitude.
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  2053. Most of them seem to be finance related; "I'm Dave and I make $6,000 a week trading with Ray Stallone." They are very profitable in hard times, because the largest victims of scam are middle aged women. Men can grunt about it and go do manual labor, but woman are usually looking for more white-collar opportunities most of the time. So they get scammed more often due to those tendencies AND their more gregarious/agreeable nature. At the same time, whose to say that Youtube or Twitter are not behind the bot infestation? They could be creating bots to undermine the advertising profits, so that (instead of users getting paid to advertise their client companies) the corporations recoup all the money they are getting paid by INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE
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  2054.  @rygarisfun8164  Well yeah, when they go to school. Anymore the medical system attracts (true believers and narcissists with a God-complex). If you don't believe me, go work at a hospital and see how Doctors act on a daily basis. They are some of the most arrogant people you will ever work with. They also typically have a high disposition to alcoholism, drug use, and affairs in the workplace. Again, I wish I was joking; this is pretty much universal. We have two surgeons actively having affairs with lower tier workers at our hospital. Say something and then those lower employees get fired; that's how it works. So we keep our mouth shut and let management handle it. Any honest person going into healthcare realizes how in over their head they are within six months. All that training, all that work, and all that drive ends up being defeated by a bureaucracy of insurance and pharma-drugs that administration pushes AHEAD of your medical knowledge. It is INDEED, a racket.
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  2055.  @Cenmonoel  Oh believe me; it's insane. I actually have Alpha-gal; which means I can't eat red meat/fat or dairy. But in the end, Mediterranean works out. I think the biggest problem with people is how we've normalized (Doctor my body is acting weird). Diagnosis - keep eating (the same foods, some Nexium, and try this anti-depressant while your at it). What a joke.
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  2056. Noob thief archer doesn't know how to get good fences lol
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  2057. Conservative here! This is a HUGE surprise - NOT... Hypocrisy in these kinds of political and religious groups is about as American as apple pie. Let's face it, Republicans have nothing to offer anymore. We are being tugged between a bad inflation cycle and the threat of war overseas. Not just in Eastern Europe, but in the Middle East and South Pacific. At the same time, these right-wing organizations and political pundits want us to believe that our greatest concerns are transgenderism, library books, and Disney? Get real... The 2023 General Election has already shown that Republican politics are deeply unpopular with the general public, especially after 7 years of Trump. I'm from Ohio, a middle-ground leaning conservative safe haven. For the first time in our history, both Marijuana and Abortion legislation passed overwhelmingly in the state constitution. I may not be favorable to one or the other, but I'm not going to be delusional about the results. I can assure you that not many people are taking these kinds of organizations seriously and this kind of complacency is going to cost the GOP big time in the 2024 election. My greatest fear though, is that their loss becomes an excuse for Jan 6th 2.0.
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  2058. Ignore Matt, I think you SHOULD continue this practice. It will only continue to devaluation of education so that eventually dumb Americans will wake up and quit sending their kids to a University. The education model is completely obsolete and only produces liabilities. The reason is still exists is due to a bunch of dinosaurs in office and suburbia that refuse to accept it's death.
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  2059. Might as well send Whoopie Goldberg at this point lol
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  2060. Too many basement dwellers here. Arab countries produce virtually nothing on a scale of global GDP. The resources belong to the Saudis, but the equipment and skilled labor belong to corporations. If companies like Halliburton pulled completely out of the Middle East; their exports would drop drastically. Talk about people that have never traveled outside of a 30 mile radius. These countries are completely depending on foreign investment, foreign equipment, and even foreign labor in order to have their Banana Republic function. The culture is backwards and the treatment of women is abysmal in these countries. Honestly, treatment of women is abysmal anywhere east of Vienna and south of Istanbul. I grow tired of people determining a countries moral value by their food and/or ability to have written account of history. You want to stand up for the cultural values of these countries? Go take a weeks vacation and live among the local population.
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  2061.  @therearenoshortcuts9868  Well, I think it's more complicated. I don't think it's the resources, but rather the indulgence. The end of WW2 saw the world in ruins while the US dominated trade, production, and culture. We essentially rebuilt the world importing items made from cheap labor. Running the nations indulgences on the backs of third world workers building back their countries. This isn't anything new from a historic perspective, but simply having resources doesn't erode the foundation of creating good humans imo. I think it's the excess, especially in innovation that undermines your values.
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  2062. My wife and I decided to put this in one night just for amusement. The moment we realized that they had made 'Scuttle' a woman. We both looked at each other and shook our heads. Then proceeded to turn the TV off and head to bed.
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  2063. Where exactly did you go to school? I've been alive for quite some time and I've never seen what you're describing as neither social etiquette OR policy. Israel and Jews have always been openly criticized, even in the United States.
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  2064. Exactly! No problem because we don't work for the government or get benefits lol
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  2065. Same
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  2066. CNN better be careful! They need to be watching New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Virgina; not North Carolina and Georgia. Democrats are going to lose a LOT more than just the swing states. Take a look at voter registrations in those states the last 2 years.
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  2067. That's why I stabbed my smartphone to death and ordered a Nokia. It's much easier to manage your time from a laptop lol It cut down my internet time by like -90% without the smartphone and I only get on it between 6-7p
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  2068. I'm actually amazed that most of the publicity is coming from leftwing outlets regarding Kamala's absence. Late last night she was expected to make a concession speech after they had already projected Trump's win and Harris simply left the headquarters without a word to supporters. They had a campaign manager make a two minute speech saying that she had retired for the night and was planning to address everyone the following day. If I was one of the people standing out there for 12 hours; I'd feel abandoned tbh. Imagine Trump just leaving for Mar-a Lago and not saying anything when he lost?
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  2069. @RicoHooverTrump Fetterman was just in an interview explaining that he was surprised by the turnout for Trump. It's not a lie.
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  2070. Omega 6 Linoleic acids are what make up a grand amount of vegetable oils. And your body has a very hard time metabolizing them and functioning with them. They are one of the biggest contributions to heart disease. The fact that we've tested these on rats to their detriment and nobody sounded the alarm in the AHA or FDA shows you how high the corruption goes. 1. Avoid Omega 6 2. Eat fewer meals and fast 3. Exercise 4. Increase Omega 3 and Saturated fat consumption. This is how we've evolved to live. Not eating the lubricants of farm machinery smh...
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  2071. I've like him so far, but there's something very off about him. Especially after he continues to dodge the 'inflation' issue. All GOP candidates are ignoring the blatant inflation problem, because there's nothing intelligent they can say in order to make a compelling argument that it wasn't Trump's fault. Trump appointed J. Powell and even threatened his job if he didn't take rates lower. Imagine if the Federal Funds rate would have been negative like many countries. We would have had 20% inflation in June last year, not 9.1%.
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  2072. I will NOT die in some foreign dump for the ambitions of bureaucrats; all of which started at the behest of the Obama Adminsitration. If you haven't done your research on how this conflict came about, you need to get on it. There's no excuse with the information of the world at your fingertips. Make no mistake, this Administration could very well institute a drafter for the first time in over 50 years. War is when politicians send you to die fighting a foreign government. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
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  2073. The idea that depression is genetic is almost criminal. That's Big Pharma logic used to sell you more pills. Change your diet, change your lifestyle, and it will change your neurochemistry.
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  2074. Some 2/3 of the entire Boomer generation couldn't have served in Vietnam due to basic math. Most of them were the last leg of the Silent Generation. Boomers were born into a post-WW2 Utopia US as the world's leading super-power with a reserve currency. Everything costed peanuts essentially. They are a generation that easily had the most entitled ride in the history of the world. Then they turn around and try to virtue signal to other generations about 'how bad they had it'. Baby Boomers are the ONLY generation that has between $2-$5 Million 'average' in retirement assets. Plus, they are the last generation that will ever have such wealth. Generation X is projected to have HALF of those assets by 67. Millennials are projected to have 1/5 of Baby Boomers assets by their own retirement. From a purely financial point of view; they had it made and were lucky to be born when they were.
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  2075.  @terachad5793  Yeah, by 1.7% People need to quit being ignorant and read Pfizer's trial reports.
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  2076. Bernie had a brilliant opportunity to align himself with the winning strategy, but he wasn't brave enough and decided to go down with the sinking ship. Anybody serious about these issues left Bernie years ago. The man willingly ignores attempts to progress while playing up things he's never been able to change.
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  2077. Natural gas is the primarily energy source for heating homes in Europe and quite a bit of the US as well. This isn't about blankets; it's about natural gas supply and potential shortages stemming from Government price caps. Not to mention food and other supplies. If you have been watching year over year supply volumes you would know that this will result in disastrous shortages. People will quite literally freeze to death unless they are staying warm at a military shelter. People are always dying; your analogy makes no sense. With your logic, everyone should be thankful for anything that isn't short of being shot, gutted, or in any other regard "blown up." To be quite frank, it's disingenuous and unintelligent. I would implore you to be a little more educated on the subject of why Europe is involved in a conflict with Russia and also what happens when energy becomes scarce. It's not the difference between paying half for energy; it's the difference between being comfortable and dying in 0 degree weather. Want to avoid conflict with Russia? Tell the US and NATO to quit partaking in their typical (middle east 'style') foreign policy. Perhaps the US should not have helped orchestrate the Ukrainian revolution in 2014 and funded weapons for them to fight against Russians in the east.
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  2078. Well, problem! Andrew Tate is a grifter that preys on men's insecurities about labor and women. Just because he is addressing these issues doesn't disqualify him. It's how he approaches and uses it for his own gain. To me he seems like your typical (grifter/influencer) selling radical information to attract desperate people. He makes men (not doing well in the economy) feel insufficient and gives them garbage advice on how to do what he does. Then he teaches men (whom many of which have never dated before) to already have an intense disgust or mistrust of women in general. None of that seems sustainable to me. It seems like a good way for him to make money on the misguided dreams that he manipulated his audience into having.
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  2079.  @ajy45678  Depends on area, south FL is doing poorly with insurance problems. There are adjustments in different markets, but there hasn't been any kind of crash.
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  2080.  @amberandrews6842  Ukraine hasn't been a sovereign nation in over two centuries. Russia held political power in Kiev until Obama overthrew it in the coup by in 2014. Russia simply wants it back.
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  2081. The entire disinformation campaign launched by the Clintons in 2016 against Russia in collaboration with the Trump campaign was no accident. I truly commend all that have been paying close attention to the nuanced details of the geo-political environment in recent years. The Obama Administration orchestrated a coup in Ukraine that gave us the current standing government. Other than that, Ukraine has been under internal conflict for years. There is NO (Ukrainian side) - it's almost as ridiculous as saying the (Iraqi-side) or the (Afghani-side). The US and it's allies have been sucking it dry for years. Considering Ukraine had been disarmed voluntarily on a nuclear level, it's no surprise that Putin has engaged in an invasion. NATO has been trying to provoke Russia into this conflict for near of a decade. It's just another shit-show by billionaires and wealthy politicians to flex their power in the world. Considering the state of USD hegemony in the world, NATO is desperate to alter the environment. Don't be too surprised if China begins a similar military conflict in a matter of months. The USD is nearing it's death and Western leaders are well aware of it. The next goal for opposing world powers will be to debase the current reserve currency and establish a new one. Probably a digital currency sponsored by the CCP; that's what is in the works. They're not exaggerating when they say, "China 2025!"
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  2082.  @somerealnews6312  I don't understand your question..
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  2083. Well, if you haven't noticed; colleges standards have fallen off a cliff in the last twenty years. Some 57% of people under 25 are enrolled at a college. Yet, the initial college student from the 1970s-1990s had to have an IQ roughly 120+ to be enrolled in school. I can assure you that not even 57% of the population has 'even above a 95 IQ'. College degrees mean nothing when everybody and their brother can get a degree.
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  2084.  @elmedia1532  Divide and racist ways? Were you asleep during those years. It was Democratic funded organizations setting cities on fire the entire time. Racist ways? Name me one...
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  2085. I feel like I'm watching a Chris Heria video lol
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  2086. How is he delusional? I know plenty of reg. Republicans voting for both Biden and RFK. The Republican Party is in shambles. Why do you think Nikki Haley was so popular? 21% of the primary vote in Indiana went to her and she dropped out two months prior. Btw, that was a closed-election. So it's not Democrats voting on a Republican ballot.
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  2087. This guy needs to learn how supply and demand work. There can't be a crash or implosion if there is not a large number of inventory going back on the market via foreclosure. I'm not saying that can't happen, but there's no economic data that has put foreclosures anywhere near the 2008 level. Foreclosures are actually very few for the last two years.
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  2088. Yep, we had to cut out the restaurants. I started to become sick over the last several years and had huge bloat. Now I eat all organic; mostly potatoes, meat, and fruits.
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  2089.  @TheBriarWolf  We adapt and thrive; who said we were complaining? Older generations have this implicit idea that if we 'cast away' any of their wisdom; we're complaining.. The point here is to talk about what works and what doesn't. Older generations had it easier in a financial sense; that's no complaining. It's just an acknowledgement that they thrived in a time that gave them immense leverage. But they'll never admit it.
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  2090. Even IF a civil war ensued; the idea that any suppression of the Federal Government leading to peace and prosperity is laughable. I'm no fan of the Feds, but a systemic failure of the US Federal Government would lead to a global depression. BRICS would suffer to a certain extent as well, but they are in a better position to brace the wave. It would lead to a series of imperialist style acquisitions of land and nations across the globe. All while the US and NATO would be financially crippled. Nobody is going to work if the dollar means nothing and the contract becomes void.
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  2091.  @PurplePaperPrius  But, you don't know the half of it. A considerable amount of parents give their 1-2 year old children iPads. The scientific data is pretty clear that it not only causes visual problems in development, but also a large series of anti-social behavior, depression, and anxiety disorders. My son is 2 and he's never seen an iPad and probably bashed by wife's phone on the table for a grand 60 seconds.
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  2092. Social Security taxes go into the general fund, but they are not apart of general expenditures. While I disagree with sending money overseas, this comment doesn't make any sense.
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  2093. People need to understand that this is not ideological; idealism is always second to economic upheaval.
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  2094. Why should I work for a company that will offer me a 2% raise, while we have 5% inflation? Not to mention that next year, they will hire somebody new and pay them 3-4% MORE than I was offered when I signed on.
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  2095. I don't recall him being convicted of anything (rape or not). What are you talking about?
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  2096. Your entirely omitting Latin America; the next powerhouse for manufacturing. Most of the nations you listed are dependent on US funding in order to function as able-bodied militaries and economic partners. China is advancing it's interests in China and overwhemingly Latin America.
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  2097.  @AaronD-q6t  Yeah, that scares me honestly.
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  2098. Yeah, a title for funding can say anything; checking who the funds are WIRED to is the key. It's all money laundering!
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  2099. Everyone is focusing on the land rights instead of focusing on "who is the uncivilized side". I don't care what happened in the past. If you fund a raid that cost 1300 lives and dismembered adults and children; you forfeit your claim.
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  2100. I'm glad Trump got in, but I truly fear that it's not going to matter in the long term. The math is the math on our deficit. Presidents don't have that much power over it, nor central bank policy. Social Security and Pensions are bankrupting the country and voters don't care; that's just a fact. So politicians (similar to voters) will kick the can into the 2030s until everything breaks. Expect inflation resurgence multiple times in coming years. Trump isn't going to save the demographic induced problems.
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  2101.  @Martytroutman  True, but I don't think the rising inequalities will change. I feel like all we'll end up doing is exchanging one oligarchy for another. Things need to be decentralized, but with a world population of 8 Billion; short chance of that happening.
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  2102. The amount of blatant misinformation in threads like this is what is driving the disconnect in America. How many times does there need to be an investigation that finds 'nothing' or Van Jones calling the 'Russia story's a nothing-burger? People are willfully stupid.
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  2103. I think the biggest gambling problem is stock/options on smartphone apps. It's an absolute scam and most of those users have a subpar credit score.
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  2104. Why can nobody on the internet spell 'lose'?
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  2105.  @SeaJay_Oceans  Well, I quit in June 2020 after they took away my 13 unpaid vacation days and gave me 8. Great incentives... Though you're probably right. Inflation is hovering around a realistic 14% if you crunch the numbers using the old method with the money supply. Even cops where I live have gotten a 20% raise in the last 18 months. Dad is making six figures as a city cop, it's ridiculous. Though I can't pretend to know how much they've hiked the cpm up since then at my old company. All I know is that a CDL's value (in totality) has been on the decline as the years go by since the golden age of the 80s.
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  2106. Oh believe me; the gym membership, HULU, and Netflix are already cancelled. There's probably several million Americans that have done the same.
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  2107. 261,000 Jobs Added! The didn't tell you how many we lost! And they surely didn't tell you if any of the reported jobs were filled or not.
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  2108. I don't think you understand how records are kept. You'd be arguing that the reports from hundreds of agencies are frauded thru conspiracy. There's a huge difference between omitting numbers and falsifying them; which is difficult to do. It would be like saying that FBI UCR reports are part of a conspiracy (considering they are created by a conglomerate of 12,000 agencies).
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  2109. I was ranting about this exact subject 10 years ago to my parents at the age of 18. They so desperately wanted me to go to college; got accepted to OSU and Kent just to humor them. Then I discovered that the burden of debt was in the $80k to $90k range. I told them I wouldn't do it and would rather seek out Community if I was inclined. Ended up going to Community College for several years and got an Associate Degree (which I don't use). BUT, I ended up getting FedEx to reimburse all $10,000 of my college tuition. Now, as an married man with a home; it boggles my mind to see the tuition/college crisis play out further (just as I had predicted). Yet my parents still pushed my little sister to get into college. She's now stuck in a 6 year bachelor's degree (due to program curriculum) and will be paying some $130,000 for her degree. It got to the point that both my parents and sister stopped talking about it and I stopped caring. You can only help people so much that are on a collision course with their own arrogance. Her degree is in Interior Design smh... I sifted through the job listings back in 2021 and found that for any Interior Designer position (most of which are located in Floria, NY, California etc) had an applicant list of 200-3000 people.
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  2110. Your comment makes no grammatical sense. Yet it got 14 thumbs up?
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  2111.  @drstew1  And installed candidate and Biden was kicked out? You call that level headed tbh?
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  2112. I'm afraid I'm not a bot.
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  2113.  @Seahorse0418  Save it from what?
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  2114.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  Could you elaborate? All anybody has on here are insults most of the time.
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  2115.  @RideAcrossTheRiver  That seems really convenient for you. Have a good day then.
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  2116. Change the title to (How European traitors held their own people hostage) if they didn't go along with the NATO-US agenda in Ukraine.
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  2117. Not really such thing as a humble and successful man. They are disproportionately a bit narcissistic and excessively competitive. If they weren't they wouldn't be in the position they are. Being successful will make you cold many times because everyone is out to sue you.
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  2118. @josephrhodes7083 Thanks! The first 2-3 months are the hardest imo, but after that it's upward. Also, the faster the baby feels like their needs are met and can rely on mom/dad; the easier they will sleep through the night on their own.
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  2119. @wutangdunks That's why I only wear linen shorts and have slip on barefoot shoes lol I only wear a shirt for like 2 hours a day max.
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  2120.  @MichaelRodriguez-ur6bu  Nope, GM says; "We're gonna get a bailout; so we don't care.
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  2121.  @ZootZinBootZ  Mentioning the exceptions doesn't do anything; what's the point? Most of these kids act this way because they have horrendously abusive parents.
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  2122. Sure, we ALL abuse our children! You're a narcissist pure and simple if you are looking for reasons to blame-shift your actions. I've always thought it was hilarious how abusers act 'purely and upright' in public or at gatherings. When the door slams shut at home; they go back to abusing their victims.
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  2123. We went to Iraq to control OPEC. We went to Afghanistan to get opium. What the hell are we going to Ukraine for?
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  2124. Until the inflation subject is gong to be thoroughly managed by his campaign; he has no business running for President again. I have nothing against the Tweets, the cage fighting, and the MAGA rhetoric. My issue with Trump is that he literally tried Reaganomics all over again, putting Jerome Powell in place to produce a massive wave of quantitative easing, corporate tax cuts, and artificially low interest rates to over-stimulate the economy. THIS, along with several incentives the Biden Administration produced ultimately created the inflation insanity we are seeing. If you are going to vote for Reaganomics all over again, just expect another big inflation/recession in the economy. Republicans always tout themselves as the (small government party). But all they ever do is create an environment of low interest and corporate tax incentives that run the economy from crash to crash. Your bills go higher and your wages will stagnate.
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  2125. How is he a fascist? I recall Biden being the one using the oligarchy of tech against his political opponents? Even Zuckerberg testified that he was pressured by Biden to silence political dissidence.
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  2126. DNC loyalists are so embarrassed that they're not even commenting.
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  2127. People always do the same thing in the end; they implement a solution that doesn't work. No matter how many times the government intervenes in the housing/rent markets, it always results in shortages and another crisis.
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  2128. Here's the problem. Illegal immigration is a major problem between social program funds and the value of citizenship. However, illegal immigration is so imbedded in every state economy that it's almost dangerous to remove it. Farm labor employs a significant amount of asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants alike. If you got rid of them or gave them amnesty, companies would have to pay higher wages either way. Btw, when I got my CDL; more than half of each graduating class were green-cards from overseas; most from Africa. They are truly wonderful people and I have no criticism of that. The point is that these people aren't stealing American jobs; Americans had no intention of working them in the first place.
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  2129.  @Serahpin  Youtube algorithms target certain phrases and words.
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  2130. I truly wonder what fantasy land a lot of Americans are living in. If many people are scared that leveleing the FDA will crash the food supply quality; do they think the current supply is healthy? You have to be living under a rock to think they are actually doing their jobs and not collaborating with corporations to gatekeep profits.
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  2131. This is precisely why I don't eat out anymore. Everything is filled with MSGs, lab-additives, corn-syrup, and seed oils. Eating healthy is actually fairly cheap. Get some potatoes, bananas, petite sirloins, and chicken tenderloins. Aldi has been a life-saver for many people.
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  2132.  @Carla_Jay  You're inexperienced and gullible Carla; this is routine political theatre in the US. Doesn't matter who's in the hot seat, both sides do the exact same thing and fool the public into believing that their drama is real.
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  2133. Well, to be fair, they're not killing people; they're letting them take on impossible debts. In the end, hospitals decide the procedure. You're talking about rare cases when insurance doesn't want to get involved and the hospital has a procedure that doesn't guarantee any good outcome.
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  2134. What possible benefit do these politicians see in Ukraine? Did they find oil? Opium? Fentanyl growing on trees? They wouldn't be inciting such hysteria and military threats of force if the reward wasn't ten fold; makes you wonder.
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  2135. What are people doing for jobs and money? DoorDash, UberEats, reselling Walmart clearance items, lottery tickets, and referrals to brokerage accounts; plus stock options. Everybody is gambling their money in order to make a little bit of extra money. Then when it all disappears; they pull out the credit card. I've never seen the job market look this bad; it's giving 2008 a run for it's money. However, people need to keep in mind that this is similar to what happened in 2006/2007. (Now hiring) signs were everywhere, but it was difficult to get a job. It's because companies are running on debt fumes and they want a new employee to trade out an old one for a 25% pay cut.
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  2136. Anything to fuel Big-Pharma's thirst for the blood of children....
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  2137. $11k a month? No offense, but I find that hard to believe. Gig died a violent death nationwide in 2022. People are lucky to be pulling $13/hr with food delivery or $20/hr with ride-share. Where and how are you pulling that income? I used to do food delivery and $896/week in July was the highest I ever got and that was going balls to the wall.
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  2138. In American society: 48% of adults are on at least one prescription medication 10% have type 1 or 2 diabetes 30% are pre-diabetic 39% suffer from obesity I feel it would be foolish to infer that these statistics don't correlation in some fashion to the horrible culture that is unfolding before our eyes.
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  2139. Stop watching msnbc bud
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  2140. I would recommend claiming 0 on your W2. It's always nice to get thousands back instead of nothing or owing.
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  2141. Well, that's what happens when you give out low-rate debts and don't export anything anymore. Keynesian economics 101! If productivity and GDP don't keep up with debt obligations; prices rise and wages stagnate. This actually creates an even worse incentive for 'gambling and speculation'. Which further drives up demand and reduces supply.
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  2142.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  Pandemic - Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population. I'm really not understanding why you are trying to define millions of unnatural deaths per year as (not a pandemic). What is your point really? If it's not a pandemic, then what is it? Life? I'm be blunt... Do you think a pandemic only describes Covid or something? This conversation is getting dumb really fast and I mean that in the nicest way possible.
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  2143.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  What the hell are you talking about? Jesus Christ you're hopeless. Please work on your reading comprehension. NOBODY is talking about Covid buddy. So turn your brain on and rant about Covid elsewhere. I'm well aware that people have received death certificates from Covid that died of other means. Plus I'm perfectly aware that the testing is faulty. Please take your COVID discussion elsewhere......
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  2144. You and me both bud, people I know pretend that it's a dumb conspiracy theory. As they (quite literally) go to the grocery store and pay 75% more for every item than they did 3 years ago and accept the new CDC recommendations for Covid vaccinations on children for public shools. It shocked me how out of the loop and gullible my own parents were.
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  2145. Stop eating it for 6 months; it will smell and taste gross next time you try it. That was all I needed
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  2146.  @davidscott9257  Actually, a lot of the blame goes to Nixon believe it or not. The first President to lift existing embargos against China in the 70s.
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  2147. It's very simple; the members of the club invite their friends to Epstein island. Then they blackmail them for the rest of their lives to do their bidding.
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  2148.  @Gorkness  Don't let media algorithms program you bud. Using the brain-worm story as a reason to dislike him speaks volumes.
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  2149. CDL here (ex-truck driver). I see you man :)
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  2150. It has nothing to do with Covid; China is desperately attempted to quell massive internal unrest that has been persisting the last several years. Their only strategy is to continue convincing their people that it's about public health in order to stamp out the factions that are opposing the communist party.
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  2151. Average people assume that ridiculous prices must equate to a ridiculous bubble; therefore it must crash! Unfortunately, most people forget the rules of supply and demand when it matters most. Look at the M2-US Dollar supply; it's around 40% since since 2020. Which justifies the prices in the larger economy for food and energy. At the same time, it largely reflects the housing market in the same time period. If anything, real-estate is undervalued. The only reason why it's not still going up is due to high interest rates that force both seller and buyer to sit idle until the proper moment. For people that were hopeful, I'm sorry to burst your bubble; there's not going to be a housing market crash. At least not for the foreseeable 2-3 years. Foreclosures are at a 20 year low! It took foreclosures nearly 3 years in order for the housing bubble of 2008 to pop. What's going to end up happening is another real-estate boom in the 2024 markets. Government policy is going to end up causing a recession and/or market slide in Q2-Q4 of 2023. After that, unemployment will rise and the FEDs will be forced to lower interest rates again and begin quantitative easing in order to save the markets; it's mandated by law actually. This will send all commodities upwards again, as well as the housing market. People need to be looking out for a potential 'interest rate dip' before the end of the year. If you aren't planning to buy a house then; you will ultimately lose your chance. Housing prices are NOT coming back down and the market is NOT over-priced.
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  2152. Yeah, there's a reason that hate-podcasts like this one don't get traffic. 324k subs and 57k views. That's a dying channel. The reason people like (what she called - bro-podcasts) are simply podcasts that talk about life and experience. Trying to turn it into some kind of pro-man anti-woman agenda shows your bias. This isn't an honest channel.
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  2153. These people are absolutely insane; what is society coming to?
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  2154. Well, smart people flourish too. Most of our economy functions on luxury services. People think a 2400sqft home and 15 year car are 'normal'. I'm not belittling people's experience, but perception in standard of living is very important to being able to get ahead. Stay out of debt and live WELL below your means. Times are tough, but they're always tougher for people that follow the crowd.
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  2155. No wonder CNN viewers still want Biden. Look at the irrational comments full of grammatical errors!
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  2156.  @BobChancer  Third time here! Already voted :)
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  2157. As a 28 year old man with a child on the way; same here. We must rely on ourselves though; no cavalry coming. Stay ahead of the curve, stay prepared, and stay supplied.
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  2158. A draft sounds hilarious, considering that some 92% of males under 30 are medically or physically unfit for service.
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  2159. If you were a big fan of Vivek; you'd know that he refused months ago.
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  2160. Having a disproportion of people in powerful positions that are Jewish isn't the same thing as a Jewish conspiracy. This is an age old idea that holds no water. It's like saying there's an asian conspiracy because there are more of them in STEM than other races.
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  2161. Regardless of which way you lean on this issue. This was the last nail in the coffin for Trump's ability to get elected. From a strategic point of view, Republicans simply don't have enough voters to oust Biden in the next election. Being indicted on 91 felonies has already aliened a large percentage of female conservative voters; this is what many polls indicate. Bringing up election interference after 2400 court cases being struck down will only further alienate moderate Republicans from supporting him. Nobody wants a January 6th 2.0. Congress has already done unparalleled damage to it's voter base, which is why many Republicans are splintering. The moment he got 49% of the vote in the Iowa Caucus; I knew it was over.
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  2162. I caution anyone; Healthcare professional or not to tread lightly when it comes to accepting information from the FDA or the AHA. Dig just a little and you will find that most of their approvals and recommendations are based on absolute garbage. The easiest example being saturated fat and cholesterol. Ask the average person and they will say cholesterol is bad. Ask the average Healthcare worker and they will say LDL cholesterol is bad. This is only feasible if you buy into the lipid theory, for which there is no sound scientific evidence for. Only poor correlations like everything else. Cholesterol is a lipoprotein that carries lipid around your bloodstream to be used as a source of energy. Your brain functions almost entirely on Keytones and your body produces a quarter of need cholesterol naturally. What you will find is that plaque in the arteries are deposits of calcium, caused by oxidized lipids in the bloodstream. This is only possible if your lipids are glycosylated or the fats you are ingesting have a naturally oxidizing effect on the arterial walls. This would be your poly and trans fats stemming from Omega 6 linoleic oils: all your vegetable and seed oils. Saturated fat is in the exact same boat, which Axel Keys began theorizing in the early 20th century. Only narcissism and pride produce such results. He theorized that saturated fat was the source of heart disease and he was intent on proving it, whether or not it was the truth was irrelevant. To this day, there is not a shred of credible evidence or clinical research data that proves saturated fat is causing any negative effects to human health. One you take the red pill you will go down the rabbit hole. It's a wild ride, but once you start to notice to inconsistencies, you can unplug yourself from the sick game that Pharmaceutical companies and Governments play.
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  2163. Yeah, I think that's truly an echo-chamber mentality. I mean, I won't deny there are some crazy Trump supporters; I've got them in my family. But then I have sane ones too in my family. So the guy really reeks of isolation.
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  2164. Most certainly, but what is the catalyst for their inability to face adversity? The echo chamber and narcissistic incentives of social media... These kids are having anxiety attacks when their friends don't like and share their cat videos.
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  2165.  @Danielle-jj5lp  When did I say I disowned her over politics? So you've made up your mind about me, based on your inability to read someone's post? Explain that one to me. Coming to such a quick and radical judgement is ignorant.
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  2166. Love me some Thomas Sowell
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  2167.  @XiaoJinx-G6  Virtue signaling doesn't work anymore. Pick up some virtue and quit trying to pretend.
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  2168. I think you're leaving out (student loans). If you don't have student loans or massive medical debt; I find it hard to believe you're broke.
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  2169. Would love to see that!
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  2170. The workforce retired, plain and simple. Social Security beneficiaries haven't changed, meaning it wasn't older people that retired, but younger. We had tens of millions of people in their 50s and early 60s prematurely exit the workforce with their 401k and pensions. Those people then sold and bought new homes elsewhere and began working part time gigs like Uber or DoorDash. The displacement from this has left the economy is shambles. Inflation from 2020/2021 is just the icing on the cake for a catastrophe.
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  2171. @colinquinn7516 Not exactly, I think it has more to do with community/religion than people think it does. We have multi-general housing in the US; it's called welfare. Try that with any family and it falls apart like a house of cards. Keep in mind, American isn't just a place; it's a mindset of rebellion and rule breaking. Individualism is the rule! People tend to live in generational housing because that often have no choice or are completely under the thumb of their parents. These ideologies have long flown and the ability to make your own is 'still' an option; believe it or not. If people are trying to make it popular again. I would imagine it was solely for the advantage of using your parent's wealth to escape present and future hardships. People in general don't find this very noble. I don't condemn it exactly, but it's nothing to gloat about.
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  2172. No offense, but why are you making $39K a year? Honestly, why would anyone put up with that? Go get a CDL and go make $80k by driving a truck.
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  2173. Your health is your greatest investment going forward in life, period. I unfortunately had to learn that the hard way by the time I hit 28. I was in shape, thought I was eating right, and doing everything that was recommended. Turned out I not only had a disease called Alpha-gal, but also several ulcers in my stomach and duodenum, plus ulceritive colitis. I eventually went on a strict diet and organic at that so my life had changed quite a bit. For those without any issues, I cannot stress how much you should be listening to your body. If you go to your Doctor with gut or acid reflux problems; they will try to put you on a proton-pump inhibitor or even statins. If that is the case, your body is already on the waiting list for cancer and it's usually downhill from there on for most people. DO NOT jump on pharmaceuticals and forget about your diet. Before you know it, you'll be on 6 medications and starting to have cognitive decline by 50. It is absolutely no joke; don't wait for the warning signs to occur. Cancer and heart disease are now hitting the 30-40 age demographics in the US. It is no longer a disease of the elderly.
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  2174. Victims are always the most dangerous people. They often exaggerate their oppression in order to gain powder. All for the goal of destroying the system that did now kowtow to their emotional insecurities.
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  2175. Sad that I'd rather side with them than by own country (sigh). US is no doubt the largest sponsor of terrorism on the entire planet.
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  2176.  @SwitchTalkChannel  Disenfranchised and hopeless people typically turn to radical ideologies to feel a sense of belongings; many times no matter the cost to current society.
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  2177.  @cec2707  You can't pick people that refuse your nomination. Vivek was the most requested VP pick under Trump's campaign. He and Tulsi both refused before Summer.
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  2178. I have my own issues with Vance, but these interviews make him look like a saint. These reporters are pathetic and have no dignity or moral compass.
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  2179. Comparative to USD value; 2021-2024 is the worst inflation in US history. People would KILL to have a 17% mortgage for a $40k home.
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  2180. I truly feel bad for people that got roped into college/student debt in the last 4 years. It is quite literally a 'death sentence' for most people outside of some medical and STEM careers. For anybody thinking about going to college. DON'T DO IT!
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  2181. Ukraine has been the US Government money laundering capitol and Russia buffer since 2014. We helped orchestrate the overthrow of the sitting administration and replaced it during their civil war 9 years ago. The US Government doesn't want to lose this war because it would be devastating for several reasons. One, Russian influence and power grows and Ukraine is reestablished as a sovereign nation state with an elected Government. Two, we have fewer people to bully in order to escape the possibility of a debt default in the next 10 years. Three, US intelligence loses a significant source of it's international power. China is still the next big threat to the US Government. Politicians are simply buying 'time' in order to meander the narrative so that the US will side with their next moves. We already crippled their semi-conductor industry back in October. The Commerce Dept. wrote a re-licensure requirement for nearly all high-end SC products. So no more labor, imports, or exports for those items. The next step in China invading Taiwan. The US Government is INTENTIONALLY causing their problems in order to bully itself out of a currency crisis. The US public budget is at 8% interest; 71% is mandatory spending. What happens when it's 20% or 50%; every dollar you pay will have 50 cents going to pay interest on our printing 'bonds'. The world stage will NOT accept bonds at this rate and the Government knows it. Brewing economic catastrophes are always the cause military turmoil at this size.
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  2182. To a certain extent, but almost all of those expenses are deductible. Landlords can make a LOT of net profit.
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  2183. Roman Empire - became a church British Empire - became a bank American Empire - became a prison
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  2184. People can blame McDonalds all they want, but the reality is that the FDA and CDC are bought out by these corporations. We actively have thousands of carcinogens in the food supply and hygiene products. It's not that the agencies aren't aware of this; they simply get paid to look the other way. I mean, if you're working at say Bath and Body Works; chances are that you're developing cancer breathing in those neurotoxins all day long. At the same time, a considerable amount of your food has additives. Even you Walmart butter has (natural flavors) added. Which is a composite list of over 1000 ingredients that corporations have lobbied the government in order to get them classified that way so that it's less suspicious. Easily among those additives are the very common lab made flavors and monosodium glutamate (MSGs). If you feel the need to go back to a restaurant or fast food joint against your will; then you're stomach bacteria have probably been corrupted with MSGs.
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  2185. That's what happens when people create a religion of the CDC/FDA and Pharmaceuticals; thanks Generation X!
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  2186. Exactly! There isn't going to be a crash. Historically low supply and low foreclosure rate.
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  2187. To be brutally honest, one can't choose to be liberal or conservative. They are personality types that have been perverted into political affiliations. What you can be are more open to experience and humility, by choice though.
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  2188. Believe me, bathe with home-made soap (hair and body). In a matter of days; your hair and nails will begin to grow faster. Why? Because virtually all soaps, shampoos, and conditioners contain carcinogenic ingredients that damage your skin cells. There's plenty of resources to make soap at home and it's a pretty cheap up-start. I love to do (pure olive oil) bars; good for people with dry skin as well.
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  2189. Housing market isn't going to crash with a 0.3% foreclosure rate. Something will break in the market, but it won't be housing.
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  2190. Exactly what I thought AND I DON'T EVEN BUILD DECKS! lol
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  2191. Pretty nihilistic if you ask me. What bothers me the most is not people's ideologies these days. It's that they can get a 'gotcha moment' before they leave this world. What are we becoming as a species?
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  2192. NPDs don't apologize. This isn't about human faults; it's about a large number of people with personality disorders. My mom abused me for 20 years and I began to get aggressive about boundaries after my son was born. Everything she does and says is an 'investment' into controlling you or somebody else to get her way. She was like that when I was a child and she is like that now. Forgiveness is one thing, but allowing yourself to remain in that predatory situation is insane.
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  2193. People aren't paying attention.. After October, the USD may not even be a currency anymore.
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  2194. It's the inequalities I fear. Which I believe are inevitable with the growth of technology. You can make a better computer, but you can't raise an adult's intelligence.
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  2195. The media's credibility was destroyed when they tried to convince an entire country that a tiny innocent (obviously not huge) little boy named Michael Brown (didn't) beat the living crap out of a police officer before he was (unjustly) shot and killed, but not before he (didn't) rob a liquor store.
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  2196.  @GeoffsSousChef  Pretty much
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  2197. they're trying to stay relevant lol
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  2198. What kind of magic are people applying to their brains in order to ignore the 1,300 dead civilians that were murdered in the Hamas attack on October 7th/8th.
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  2199. Crazy the turns that post-modern Marxism is taking to create radical movements. At the end of the day, it's all about subjugating a society to the idea that there are no differences between people. Except with who they deem to be an oppressor. We all know what happens to the perceived oppressor in the movement. You sacrifice virtue and competence after you convince everyone that it's greed If you're rich, then you've exploited the people If you're fit, then you've also exploited the people; in accordance with the ideology.
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  2200. To be brutally honest, this isn't a fluke; it was bound to happen one way or another. This is what a debt crisis looks like. I would expect it to last until the mid-to-late 2030s tbh.
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  2201.  @Yandel21ableify  It came true! People got everything they ever wanted. Now they're going to set it on fire for fun..
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  2202. I'm not so optimistic; expect a massive inflation surge come 2026/2027. Even earlier if tariffs are put in place.
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  2203. Inequalities are only going to get worse; nothing you can do about it at this stage in the economic/political environment. This country will be a lot poorer when the middle class is wiped out.
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  2204. You should consider pulling your kid out with that kind of attitude from a teacher. The Prussian model is a wasted of the kids time and yours for that matter. What will they retain after 13 years of didactic education, sitting braindead in a chair for 7 hours a day? Probably less than 5%. At least in the US school systems. Socialization is important, but your kid is missing out on the greater part of life.
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  2205. Yeah, you'd think.... Despite the protest my wife and I had, my parents hurried my sister off the college ASAP after I spoke with her having concerns about what she was getting herself into.
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  2206. Well, the US as usual would rather bluff their hand. It's all about gate-keeping valuation to prop up the stock market.
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  2207.  @xx133  That makes absolutely no sense. I don't think you understand what you're talking about. The educational loan system was Federalized a while ago. That's when prices began to go out of control. If student receive sub-prime loans for education, the schools must reduce standards and raise prices to maintain their business model. Try to focus on the fundamentals first; supply and demand.
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  2208.  @mikeaccount4174  Shhhh, big brother is listening.
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  2209. Just another cascade of the increasing labor shortage in this country. More power to the people quitting and skipping out on work. It's about time we bring this freak-show to a halt. They are CLAIMING that it has nothing to do with staffing to save face; nothing more. They had a massive demand for flights and staffing couldn't meet demands in a surge. Perhaps something good will come of all this. Maybe a return to community based living and not constantly running in a rat-race.
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  2210. Jesus, this channel is absolute garbage; on par with TYT.
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  2211.  @cromBumny  You're basing conservatism on a modern interpretation of politics that have taken place during the 20th century. China has an extremely conservative culture, but that didn't stop them from euthenizing 300 Million children. The terminology of conservatism has been made political. It has nothing to do innately with religion or 'best parts' of society. It's a set of personality traits that prides itself on orderliness and low openness.
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  2212.  @johncooper7663  Well, which Doctor? Do you think they all believe the same thing?
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  2213.  @NewJerseyJets  Please, stop letting the media teach you what morals to have. You wouldn't have said anything if they said it anywhere else or even at a Harris rally; which they did actually.
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  2214. We should never had killed Sadam and Gaddafi; they were dictators, but they killed pathetic terrorists that caused civil unrest.
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  2215. 2600 Federal election lawsuits thrown out doesn't count? Republicans are losing because of a major demographic shift. Church attendance in the last 5 years alone dropped by roughly 30%. The GOP doesn't have the numbers. I voted Republican for most of my life and Democrats are rolling Ohio in state elections left and right since 2020.
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  2216. It's because this story is non-sense. The market is on the verge of crashing because of interest rate cuts. Refinancing in the debt sector ALWAYS causes a market crash. They are trying to time it perfectly so they can blame Trump I would imagine.
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  2217. Bringing people together? More like "coding our algorithms to radicalize and drive as much division as possible". Tech algorithms and anti-trust are the biggest issues facing this country and people are blind to it!
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  2218. Those are age ranges my friend...
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  2219. A vote for Biden or Trump is a vote for WW3 or Civil War. I refuse to take part in that freak-show.
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  2220. You got that right! Unfortunately, I think (at this point) it's better to stay in the US; remotely of course. Put assets into silver, gold, water, bullets, land, and livestock. We're coming to the abrupt end of the American Empire. Like all empires that fall; tremendous interior and exterior conflicts usually follow. The amount of small scale wars that began after the fall of the Soviet Union was enormous and largely ignored in the history books. It will truly be an interesting thing to watch.
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  2221. 2000 - Millennials are the most useless generation in existence and they're going to destroy civilization. 2024 - Millennials are our salvation with honor and virtue and they have to steer Zoomers (the most useless generation) towards the light!
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  2222. I liked quite a bit of the discussion, but his philosophy on service is extremely shallow and I think he knows it. How he can call food in the US poison with a failing education industry, then claim that the US is trying to 'help' countries by exporting Democracy and business is completely hypocritical and laughable.
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  2223.  @joefer5360  Well, you're skipping a few large steps. Speculation doesn't just get created out of thin air. Volatile markets create speculation. Ultra-low interest rate debts spark high demand; high demand without supply growth means prices rise. Prices rising means that people will take advantage of that market in order to make it big. The reason housing is so expensive is (ONE - The FED printed $6 Trillion dollars in 18 months). (TWO - AirBNB kickstarted the entire industry when they went public around the same time period). (THREE - In 2020 you could qualify for interest rates at low as 1.74% in my experience). Demand for housing went nuts and many Boomers bought up multiple properties while renting out their old homes because Airbnb and other rental sites were becoming popular. Demand (feeds) fun new ideas (feeds) speculation (feeds) market insanity. None of this would have happened if the FED hadn't slashed rates and states hadn't shut down their economies that sparked a wave of Covid spending.
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  2224. True, but only small skirmishes have taken place since it's inception; mainly in Donbass. This is a full scale invasion of the entire country.
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  2225. They broke NOTHING, this was NATO's plan all along; the Obama Administration set this entire situation up. Oh, how short the memories of Americans are. Do people so easily forget that the Obama Administration helped orchestrate the revolution that overthrew the Ukrainian Government in 2014 and replaced it with a puppet regime under Zelenskiy? Then we sold them weapons to fight a border war against Russia in the east. Russia had enough and sought out to silence a noisy and corrupt neighbor. This is the wet dream that NATO and the US have wanted for years...
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  2226. Evolution is a theory though. You can only observe it on a micro scale. Applying that to billions of years and organisms defies quite a bit of criteria in the scientific method.
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  2227. I think it goes much deeper than that; it's predatory male behavior. Too much porn and no responsibility makes men think they have a right to women. That along with anti-social behaviors.
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  2228. Absolutely false, please do your research. She participated in a youth organization that stemmed from The Italian Social Movement when she was 25. Nowhere do I see that she is still a part of that group. The Brothers of Italy is a split party that came from (People of Freedom); a center right party in 2009. Even looking at her platform and public statements, it's very obvious she is NOT a fascist. Again, please do objective research.
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  2229. She's so relatable in that she's so awkward. I think many of us, especially late millennials feels the same way because our parents never taught us how to socialize like generations of the past. For me personally, the socialization that takes place at a young age, took place for me between the ages of 18 and 25. I was a complete train-wreck that would get tunnel vision going into a grocery store and stutter to even say "hello" to someone. It was horrific. It's amazing how long it takes to become "operable" as an adult once you get fucked up and emotionally neglected in your childhood years.
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  2230. Racism and stolen land claims are usually an attempt by anti-intellectual cowards to parade their virtue signaling. They're depressed from their lack of meaning and contribution in life, so they get a kick out of making up for it in that way.
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  2231. The dad strikes me as an NPD. Taking out all of his antisocial frustrations and expectations on his child.
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  2232. Ah yes GEN X - televangelism, pro-military, and pro-pharmaceutical! Why should they not be overlooked again?
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  2233. Liberals are apparently SO smart; that they created an entire generation of women that became free by not procreating (chasing their careers; thus not being able to pass the ideology on to their children. I mean seriously, how else did people think this was going to end? Children were going to birth themselves and then learn about feminist career chasing?
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  2234. Considering that the FED began with a 100pt rate cut in September. Historically, this would mean that a recession is imminent within the next 6 months. Or at the very least we're going to see the beginning of a bear market. There have been occasions that the FED has had a soft landing after rate cuts; four to be exact if I remember correctly. However, there has never been a soft landing after a period of high inflation and rapidly rising interest rates. The reason that lower interest rates typically create a bear market is because the refinancing phase in the banking sector forces money OUT of the stock market and back into real-estate and small/medium cap businesses. Smaller and mid-cap business tend to rise faster with bankruptcies and are in turn bought out by larger companies and individuals with cash. One other thing to consider, deflation (like in 2008; except for the banking industry) is not an option with the current government budget. It would implode the ability for programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions to function. They will inevitably need to force an industry wide bail-out like they did in 2020. This is personally why I expect another larger rise in inflation between 2026/2027.
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  2235. I couldn't do it lol Found out that eggs, dairy, and wheat/corn/soy were my biggest problems. I just avoid those and everything else became fine.
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  2236. Here's the problem! You can't talk about wages, income, or prices without addressing 'debt and GDP'. Every time a dollar is printed by the Federal Reserve, it needs an equal value of GDP to accommodate it's existence in order to maintain the equilibrium. If it doesn't, then you get higher prices and stagnating wages. If you double the money supply without doubling the production side; then all you're going to do is outpace wages with higher cost. This is why your wages went up 10% in 4 years, while prices went up 30-50%. Nearly all the money printed 2020-2023 went into consumerism; not production.
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  2237.  @bigjdm5460  Everything is a matter of distributions; they are inescapable. The golden rule of life is learning how to maximize your potential and success by being fully aware of your odds and competencies so that you can master a demographic of your choosing.
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  2238. Oh, those 303,000 jobs are real alright! Unfortunately, there are no hiring managers on duty to process them :) Come back next week! lol
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  2239. If you haven't realized by now that the media operates as a cartel. Then you're not paying any attention. Vaccine mandates are in the best interest of their donors. 🇨🇳💵🇨🇳💵🇨🇳💵
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  2240. Bad idea, people are pathetically stupid. That's why we have a Republic and not a Democracy. You forget Trump had below a 50% rating in the early stages of his Administration.
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  2241. Well, that's what you get with (equal pay laws).
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  2242. Well, it's social media; the IQ distribution isn't exactly even no matter where you go.
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  2243. Having money doesn't mean you're apart of the club; it never has.
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  2244. Yeah, I never understood how people so blindly fell for this crap. Turns out that the religion of the CDC attracted more followers than Islam and Christianity combined. Money is not the root of all evil, it's blind religion to a single group or ideology.
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  2245. Well, it's more complicated than that. As much as people may hate illegal immigration, it's one of the things keeping the economy functioning. Illegal migrant labor is so imbedded in every state economy that it's actually dangerous to remove it. Considering that the US debt-to-GDP is at a point where very little can be done to avoid an eventual default. It's a situation that has to be handled with extreme tact.
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  2246.  @222ableVelo  This is a big misconception; I'm talking mathematically. You need to think about this on a macro level and demographics of the labor class. Could you imagine what inflation would look like if we either (A - removed 40 million illegals) OR (N - gave them citizenship with minimum wages?) Careful what you wish for. Americans began leaving those industries in droves back in the 2000s. The US cannot afford deflation in a large scale and any loss in GDP is going to be replaced with more printing long term. There is a large scarcity of US citizens willing to do any kind of farm labor or blue collar work. So naturally your supply would shrink in absence of illegal immigrants; raising prices significantly. The ONLY way your argument works is if deflation was allowed to occur (lower prices/lower wages) AND on top of that the US would need a GDP that it had more than 40+ years ago to support domestic productivity.
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  2247. This is why people can't hold an attention span of any topic that isn't shallow for longer than 5 seconds. Not to mention people can't even remember political consequences that are a week old. We are being farmed and manipulated.
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  2248. Nothing more than an arrogant personality suffering from Dunning Kruger. Who more than likely doesn't know anything about himself, because he fails to see how his pride and narcissism carry the way he behaves towards others.
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  2249. @MaddenFifa Keep repeating lies and eventually people will believe them. Have people seriously not learned by now that you can't rely on anything you hear? Critical thinking, research, and evidence! Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see! Good rules to live by.
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  2250. Canada is not as important as it used to be (as far as geo-politics go) as we enter the 2030s. High cost of living and relatively (banana republic style economy) make it difficult. Of course we get a lot of petroleum from Canada; not much else. If Petroleum goes offline; Canada fails unfortunately. It's like 30% of all their exports. If the US steams ahead in oil production under Trump; it will actually strengthen the US and hurt Canada immensely. The next major partner ship needs to be with Latin America.
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  2251. Be careful what you wish for. I don't think people truly understand what a country without Federal funding looks like. Everything would fall apart: Social Security, Medicare, Pensions. Followed by the states thereafter.
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  2252. Yep! I have a home, wife, and a son, but apparently I'm a loser because I didn't get a college degree. That's how my parents treat me. My sister took on $144,000 for Interior Design and she's a dead-broke super-star living off mom and dad. They are so proud. My cousin took out $275,000 at Xavier. I saw the insanity at 18 (back in 2012). But you can't convince idiots about anything.
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  2253. People need to stop feeling sorry and start preparing. Where? Everywhere. We are witnessing a balkanization on a global scale. This is what happens when Empires fall. I don't think people realize the consequences of the US financial crisis that has taken place between 2021-2023 and ongoing. The US won't be able to hold on reserve currency status for much longer. Whenever the existing system of overarching government begins to collapse; everything begins to tribalize. I would expect a high degree of instability, economic upheaval, and violence for at least the next 10-15 years.
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  2254. Kudos! Gotta steer clear of the Google algorithms; they're manipulating a lot of the younger generation without their knowledge too
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  2255. Ohioan of 29 years here, I was about done with Ohioans when they re-elected a man (DeWine) that destroyed 55% of all small business in the state by giving Amy Acton full authority over the pandemic. How anybody could have voted for him again was beyond pathetic.
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  2256. Wouldn't have happened without lockdowns, Jerome Powell, and Donald Trump.
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  2257. That's precisely what I did :) You get rewarded with wealth, but socially ousted by family unfortunately. Suburban families love nothing more than to shame you for avoiding college while celebrating their kids who will never get out from under the weight of debt. Totally perverted society.
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  2258. My wife and I threw all of our products away years ago after we educated ourselves about these toxic ingredients. Make your own soap, buy clean laundry detergent or use baking soda/vinegar, buy organic. I'm not kidding. On top of that, a lot of the the obesity epidemic is due to toxins (not just poor diet).
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  2259. In 2019, my girlfriend 'now wife' and I were upper-middle class. In 2023, I can assure you that we are 'simply' middle class. Our income largely hasn't changed.
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  2260. My wife and I actually joke about this all the time. I've been claiming for a while now that younger millennials and Gen Z girls will end up being permanent debtors. I mean, eventually what's going to happen when all these single women finally pay off their student loans at 43? (Assuming they graduate with a bachelors at 22 and pay their loans over the national average of 21 years?) You'll be 43, single, 0 equity, and no children. I think when I'm 60 years old, we're going to have a new welfare class of single white women. All the while families will be largely Indian, Asian, or Mixed
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  2261. Can you elaborate on why he's the worst?
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  2262. Please please, stop trying to be offended for no reason at all. These media outlets are gaslighting you.
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  2263. They've been doing it the past two years like mad. How do they expect to win in 2024 with this kind of outrage? lol
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  2264.  @Positive-Vibes-77  You seeing it as optional is the greatest illusion of the modern world. Someone will always be better off for making the trade. That both buyer and seller are better off equally is an illusion.
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  2265. @ciarroam It's because Americans are corrupt. The pinnacle isn't going to crack unless the pillars are corrupted.
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  2266. Whatever Joe Biden claims someone else is doing, he is doing himself...
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  2267.  @jackwilson3121  I live in Ohio; my home insurance was $1213; up from $550 in 2021.
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  2268.  @burgermeow  Survivors bias; almost all of those are either protected or live in symbiosis with other animals. Birds are different because they have the ability of flight, which to a large extent puts them in their own category against predatory birds. Predators thrive because they have the intelligence to either incorporate or conquest similar or lesser animals. The only difference is that humans have cheat codes for infectious disease and agriculture; something that holds back all other life-forms from pushing out of their environmental equilibrium. No civilization ever persevered by sitting around and enjoying life. Unfortunately, you need constant struggle in order for humans to maintain their elasticity on traversing life; complacency destroy entire civilizations as we are currently seeing in the west. Wisdom cannot be taught; only experienced. So naturally it would seem logical (imo) that intergalactic civilizations are at the very least incorporative (for resources and labor); basically indentured servitude or passive servitude. Which is also a key sign of a dying civilization. OR, they are in a phase of conquest with a rigid social structure that maintain tensions to avoid future complacency.
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  2269. States have every right to do what they are doing. It is not unconstitutional for states to remove candidates from their ballots. This is (AGAIN) a case of Republicans picking and choosing when they want to support state's rights.
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  2270. Well, a lot of context is usually missing. If you were living in 1924 (you could argue the same alarming figures from a climatological standpoint). You can't create a prediction model based on 25 years of weather patterns; that's the problem.
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  2271. Most of the time science is inconvenient. That doesn't mean it was created by someone with an agenda. Although that doesn't stop people from using it to justify theirs.
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  2272.  @foolishlyfoolhardy6004  Sorry bud, that's my wife. No respectable woman is going to give her husband the middle finger when she's pregnant. Do people actually think this is a realistic scenario? Why would people marry if the female wanted to abort the child whimsically? The scenario says it all; younger generations have a serious social dilemma when it comes to these issues. They cannot connect to people properly; so they come up with situations that make no sense. Get married and then throw your hands up and say; it's your baby sweetie? What kind of fantasy do younger people live in?
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  2273. 98% of people in Congress are working for themselves.
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  2274. No money needed; it's a district that voted for Biden by 95%. They were already paid up-front with 'contempt currency'.
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  2275. Oh yeah, I remember that; the CCP called it the 'one child policy' where they quite literally murdered 300 million children both born and unborn. Stop trying to re-initiate failed experiments please. The population is already set for a drop due to insufficient birth rates; doesn't anyone pay attention anymore? Also, assuming that you would be the one put in charge to tell other people who gets to live or die seems a bit sociopathic.
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  2276. That 'lack' of empathy for men is fueled by social media narcissism which largely targets female populations. This is one of many reasons that there is a big divide in dating and relationships. The politics of this travesty have invaded everything.
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  2277. Now Trump is saying he wants to give Ukraine money 'with better loan terms'. ALL the politicians are fake and lying. It's all about corporate greed! Blackrock has all the contracts to rebuild Ukraine. They'll own the entire country and put up massive condo units so you can go blow what's left of your life savings on a beautiful foreign vacation, smh.
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  2278. It says so in the first few minutes. It means they want another speaker.
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  2279. Go woke; go broke! For any that have been watching, a great deal of the tech sector (specifically) have lost a great deal of their net worth in the last year alone. Regardless of Covid, companies like Netflix, Disney, Facebook etc have been falling like rocks in the market in recent history. There is always a price to pay for giving the middle finger to your biggest customers and virtue signaling to an angry mob; they are reaping what they sowed.
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  2280. If Democrats aren't going to see what their party has become by now; I don't think they ever well. I will never understand how registered democrats put up with such blatant corruption and lies.
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  2281.  @edheldude  No, just let Darwinism do it's thing. If these teenage girls want to sell themselves into Onlyfans and then end up getting abused in a larger industry and trafficked; let them! Every time you try to protect people from their own stupidity; you embolden them and it gets worse. Let people start paying for their actions please.
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  2282. Everything is a competition; don't ever buy into this "allie" crap that the media spins. These intelligence agencies jerk each other off and stab each other in the back all day long.
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  2283. Would you rather go back to the gold-standard? Then when we run out of gold we go to war over resources? It's been 16 years since the greatest financial scam in modern history. Yet people will still point at private industry as benevolent, while they condemn anything that has the word government attached to it.
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  2284. Not in my experience, both right and left are trying to indoctrinate everyone they can into their ideology. This is what happens when the system fails and tribalism reigns again.
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  2285. Consumers get cheaper interest rates on loans to buy things. Having more buyers than sellers causing prices to inflate.
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  2286. You're going to lose your entire country to an oligarchy if you don't vote for Trump - 2024!
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  2287. More than likely, different agencies are buying up ammunition and arms because other areas of the Federal Government haven't been allocated with the desired funds to hold off an insurrection. Months before the November election in 2020; just about about agency and state PD were told to prepare for a massive series of riots, violence, and anti-government actions. That said, the consensus was that they anticipated Donald Trump winning a second term. These same agencies and police departments are 'again' getting the word from the top down. Sounds like the government is anticipating mass insurrection.
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  2288.  @GhostCryProductions  Join the club bud and stop hating. Lend your ears to unedited interviews and podcasts; stop listening to these oligarchs. Open arms man, once you turn off the international media; you'll start to love and see the progress :)
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  2289. Well, putting Trump back in office (the man that pushed Jerome Powell to lower the federal funds rate to near 0%) isn't a solution. He bears the responsibility for a large majority of the inflation insanity; appointment of Jerome Powell, PPP loans, child tax credits, student loan forbearance. All of which contributes towards CPI inflation. Biden didn't help by promising student loan cancellation. Students were out in droves using their loan refund checks for commodities and vacation money.
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  2290. Sociopaths or anything approximating Cluster B disorders are typically created by parents. I wonder what his childhood was like in comparison. I say this as a scapegoat of my own family. Golden-children are typically blind to the suffering of other siblings and the covert actions of their parents. Just my two cents.
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  2291. Both parties are conspiring for control of America. You have no say; unless we break that system.
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  2292. I think conservatives will be surprised with the mid-term outcomes. Loan forgiveness, mass illegal immigration, ballot adjudication? They're setting all of this up to ensure they win every election until the fall.
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  2293. Bud, everybody is lying; that's the problem. The entire system is falling apart because information scarcity is no longer constrained.
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  2294. Not government grants; that makes no sense. It's unemployment insurance fraud. Every state has a fund that you pay into as a business. When you fake vacancies; you get a tax deduction. Also, it's impossible to prove as fraud.
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  2295. Seriously bro, what are you talking about? Trying to see something that doesn't exist doesn't make you good at detecting things. It makes you good at thinking of things that simply 'don't exist.'
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  2296. We went to Iraq to bully OPEC. We went to Afghanistan to steal opium. God knows what the hell we're going to Ukraine for...
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  2297. Japan doesn't have a globalist controlled media like nations in the EU do. Those people are bombarded by nothing but negative. People have no idea how unfree quite a bit of the Western world is right now. People get arrested for posting (insensitive deemed rhetoric) in the UK and for filming in public. It is truly the crap-hole of Europe, along with France.
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  2298. This is the 'too big to fail' logic. It doesn't work. Create a one world currency and then everyone is stuck in the same inevitable debt bubble. Decentralization is the best way to avoid the inevitabilities of rising inequalities that happen in a vacuum.
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  2299. Whatever suits your interests I suppose. I'm Ohioan born and raised; Columbus is an absolute shit-hole lol Crime is out of control in Ohio; 350 unsolved murders since 2019 in Columbus alone.
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  2300. Do you sue Toyota when your accelerator sticks and kills somebody at 150 MPH?
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  2301. CNN is so desperate that they need an army of bots to comment on their channel lol
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  2302.  @kriswingert1662  Last I checked, the GOP wasn't in control of Google; that would be the Democrats. I can assure you that disinformation about Social Security makes them money purely from hysterical clicking.
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  2303. Try 55% since January 2020; the monetary supply doesn't lie.
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  2304. I sure would love to have an America where travel is almost entirely bikes and bullet trains. Fortunately, I'm intelligent enough to understand that America is some 2,000 miles from coast to coast...
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  2305. It's sad to be an American, knowing that your government is the number 1 sponsor of international terrorism. No wonder the world hates us and I don't blame them.
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  2306. How is this false? It's a demographic issue! Baby Boomers and Gen X did NOT have enough children to fund their retirement future; that's a blatant fact. Every first world country is having a domestic birth crisis. Social Security liabilities go up and tax revenue doesn't compete. They will have to double SS taxes every few years once 2034 hits, just to keep to same level of retirement benefits for existing and future claims. Are you ready to pay 10%SS? 15? 25% taxes in Social Security? Imagine that...
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  2307. This is where lack of anti-trust enforcements gets you. Big business taking over and using government against you.
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  2308. If any of you think that (your party getting everything it wants) is progress; you're actively attempting to destroy the model. Gridlock is the greatest gift to any human civilization. It means YOU get to live your life and politicians can't do anything about it.
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  2309. Excellent interview! I'm so glad that corporate infiltration is getting exposed to a large number of voters :) Most of these things about Big-pharma were considered conspiracies only a few years ago.
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  2310.  @Missmarple007  Yeah.. Harris was hated by many Californians and black people; she still ran lol
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  2311. Meh, our leaders are a big problem, but you're missing the bigger picture. If the politicians are lost, so are the people. Americans in large have lost their minds. The volatile events of the last several years are NO accident.
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  2312. Here's the problem with each party. Republicans don't have the brains to challenge the RNC. Democrats don't have the balls to challenge the DNC.
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  2313. Don't worry, if you thought inflation was bad when it capped at 9.1% in 2022. Just wait until 2026/2027. With interest rate cuts, inflation is going to skyrocket to insane levels. People will feel like they got hit by a freight train. I guarantee you that by 2028, the median single family home value will be $600k minimum.
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  2314.  @ROSE_reddy  Conflating intellectual elitism and how much money someone has is odd. They're not always mutual. So comparing Trump to these people makes no sense.
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  2315. Well, it's actually very simple. The internet absolutely destroyed information scarcity. So now you have an oligarchy of media outlets trying to control the narrative (as they have always done). And then you have millions of people watching podcasts, interviews, and unedited easy access info about various topics. A lot of people feel like they're being lied to and rightfully so.
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  2316. I for one don't like him because he appointed Jerome Powell and threatened him in 2020 by trying to take the funds rate negative. Trump and his Federal Reserve appointees are responsible for the out of control inflation we've been seeing. Ridiculous inflation is what happens when you give 1% mortgage rates and 0% auto loan rates. They should have left it around 2-2.5% at it's lowest in March of 2020. If Trump gets elected again; you can be sure he'll fire Powell and install somebody that will give him another round of crazy low rates.
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  2317. It's called supply and demand bud. How would one manipulate a price? If I offer you a product or property at a ridiculous price; a competitor should get your business because he will offer it at a lower rate. You blame price manipulation while you SHOULD be blaming the Federal Reserve.
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  2318.  @stoggy4839  Not as much as you might think; this is a classic Fox News charade that they've used in the past. I believe you are trying to defend an age old position that doesn't make much sense on a macro-scale. If you were to deport all 25 million illegal immigrants. Your price of agricultural goods and blue collar services would skyrocket. It would dwarf any downside of less tax revenue that is claimed to have taken place. We DO NOT have the 'labor' means to support that kind of a deficit. You'd have supply chain issues all over again. People may not like that illegal immigrants are here, but their labor makes up a large proportion of each state's functioning economy. Especially in the South, Southwest, and Midwest states. There is no scenario where deporting all of these people would create a net GAIN for tax revenue, lower prices, or better jobs. Businesses would stall in productivity and tax revenue would decrease, prices would go up because labor prices would go up, and there would be a litany of bankruptcies. Millennials and Generation Z do not have to volume to make up for the deficit Baby Boomers and Gen X are leaving behind in the workforce. Unfortunately, as much as I don't agree with it. Amnesty is going to be what ends up happening. Businesses and Congress know that we cannot continue to support ourselves on our current demographic problems. If it doesn't change, then you'll end up with the entire Midwest becoming nothing but failing nursing homes.
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  2319. The guy is a scam artist; pay no attention to him.
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  2320. Wargames needs to launch a patch to allow Ukraine to join NATO. It's weird nowadays playing the game and seeing them forced into Warsaw Pact lol
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  2321. If people haven't noticed the deception by now, then you fully deserve what's coming. There is no excuse for the ignorance. Personally, I would recommend people delete all their social media accounts. Or at the very least do not make personal profiles. They are going to use everything against you...
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  2322.  @mycitysucks8096  Use a VPN. Proton gives them for free with Swiss email accounts with strict privacy laws.
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  2323. If both Republicans and Democrats give Trump/Biden the finger; we can get this man elected!
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  2324. Depends, some are 2 days and others are a month; a very wide range.
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  2325. Well, depends on your perception. Is our military getting better and faster? Is our medical system getting better and faster? In my opinion, they are only getting more efficient as curing ailments that (they themselves) create. The only things medical science has done (in large) is aid in the reduction of infectious disease. Other than that, it's a Band-Aid for things itself creates. At the same time, regulation NEVER works (at least in the long term). Everything moves in waves and bell-curves. Regulations just make bubbles that 'always' pop in the end. You can't truly stop human choice. People will ultimately pay for their choices, regardless of how hard you try to save them. In this case, AI and infertility have the potential to reduce the global population from 9T to eventually 1-2T.
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  2326. They're going to milk this garbage to death bud. Get ready for Disney to buy Harry Potter! "Somehow Dobby returned." Bingo: The Dobby Movie! Coming to a shithole theater near you!
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  2327. At this point, nothing will happen. No accountability... All we can hope for is the looming default and collapse come October. X Fingers crossed X
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  2328. 'Decency, results, and accountability' Are these traits supposed to describe Joseph Biden? I despise Trump and I think you are LITERALLY insane!
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  2329. Nearly 3 Million votes is - barely any votes? I've always been curious why it's considering racism when you don't vote for a black Democrat though.
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  2330. It seems (from the comments) that this channel tends to attract quite a bit of mindless idiots that eat up MSM stories all day. Tell someone that Ukraine was in a Civil War that began in 2014 and they will tell you 'it never happened.' I've literally had dozens of morons make this claim.
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  2331. Too many stupid people on here. Perhaps if the US stopped overthrowing foreign governments and then crying-wolf about it when people get mad; this wouldn't happen?
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  2332. Anti-Semitism always rises when the domestic or international economy begins to falter. So much of this is not a surprise. People tend to hate 'successful people' and the Jewish community tends to be the best at doing that.
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  2333. Congratulations, it's NOT the case for probably 3/4 of all borrowers. Even a degree in Psychology puts these kids at Panera Bread. It's all a freaking racket and these companies are pushing Master's Degrees to be competitive.
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  2334. Yep lol
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  2335. Well, CNN only attracts gullible 'true believers' and psychopaths anymore. It's why the channel is so freaking bad.
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  2336. It's Youtube, some 90% of the comments are bots.
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  2337. What happens when your remote job gets outsourced? Many people are complacently setting themselves up for failure with the remote work mindset. If you company can pay you to work from home; they can also pay an Indian Grad to work from India.
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  2338. lol you people make me laugh to be honest As much as I agree with your sentiment, most Americans have decided to forget about election interference. Sure it depends on the state, but even in my home-state of Ohio; judge after judge and legislator after legislator are being de-seated by (no-name) Democrats with 0 experience in law or policy. Mid-terms are only going to produce blood-shed. Americans should be very weary of what is to come. Whatever the result, there will be unrest.
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  2339. This is why I deleted all my social media accounts + emails and began using a VPN. They are going to use every single piece of information against you! Just wait until they begin issuing social scores for your digital identity, virtually every conspiracy theory has come to fruition within a 6 month time period. The Chinese government already does this with their own citizens.
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  2340.  @foodchaser716  Oh, I fully agree, but that won't stop them from trying.
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  2341.  @nedasmozuraitis5818  Right? Meds in Mexico are highly deregulated in comparison. A lot of prescription meds in the US can be found on shelves in Mexico for much less price too.
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  2342. A lot of this fraud isn't just coming from senators or representatives. It's coming from government staff, appointed positions, and senior management of these departments. How on earth do we have such a large bureaucracy of people that think that they can commit felonies without repercussion?
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  2343. This is so pathetically dumb and it's sad to see Kristi Noem of all people saying it. China owns roughly 1.5% of US land (it's been that way for over 15 years). Canada owns 6% of all US Farm land. I don't see anybody annoyed over that fact!
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  2344. Well, this is rather complicated. People should not get caught up in the (but Russia invaded) part. A war was already ongoing in eastern Ukraine since 2014. None of which would have happened if the Obama Administration hadn't formed a coup in Kiev and installed Zelensky. Before 2014, Ukraine was ultimately controlled by the Russian Federation politically. The US for the last decade has seized control and Russia doesn't like it; naturally they want it back. Trying to force Ukraine into NATO was the last straw for Putin; as it would have quelled the war against Russia's border in favor of NATO ambitions. Plus, they would have lost incredible access to the Black Sea. Also, Eastern Ukraine and Crimea had been trying to annex themselves to the Russian Federation since 2004 officially. This is a power play between the United States and Russia. Russia has ambitions to maintain it's authentic culture and political control in eastern Europe and the US wants to turn Ukraine into a strip mall and ultimately subjugate Russia.
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  2345.  @jonson856  Elaborate? We have audio recording from the State Dept. under Obama admitting this. Like everything else, they're online (completely accessible). Hilarious how nobody goes to jail; just like Joe Biden when he openly black-mailed Zelensky. Explain to me how Yanukovich's cabinet was all murdered and suicided? Are you going to deny next that a war began in the Donbass region between Zelensky and pro-Russian Ukrainians. And that Zelensky didn't murder thousands of his own people in air-raids?
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  2346.  @johnnyhotrod18  No, it's people in general I'm afraid. Republicans love to blame Democrats and vice versa, but the culture has been going south for years. Companies only care about optics and the average worker only cares about getting away with the least amount of effort. Go figure that the only virtues of a collapsing society are "virtue signals" 🤣
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  2347. They're going to milk this garbage to death. Get ready for Disney to buy Harry Potter! "Somehow Dobby returned." Bingo: The Dobby Movie! Coming to a shithole theater near you!
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  2348. They're afraid of pissing off the mob.
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  2349. I think the people you are describing would sooner kill themselves; it's hardly about whining. These people (younger millennials and Gen Z) are facing an anti-social personality crisis. A recession or depression would make them implode, because they cannot deal with the consequences of life. Record levels of porn addiction, prescription medications (anti-depressant use), and complete lack of empathy or virtues. Their lives consist entirely of what digital twitter things 'think' of their accomplishments.
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  2350. Anybody with two brain cells could read the ingredient label on the back of the formula. Problem is, too many people are so religiously invested in the FDA-CDC duo that any kind of skepticism gets met with aggressive accusations of science-denial. What you'll find is the people that tend to have those "we believe in science" signs, are typically people that are not interested in science whatsoever. They are only interested in spreading the words of their deity - (insert corporation or government agency name).
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  2351. It will never happen, no country operates without fiat. It's too profitable to change.
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  2352. Gotta get the bureaucracies under control; they love lobbyist money lol
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  2353. Honestly, not sure why they even need a law. Ask any business in the US and they'll give you free water.
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  2354. Seriously are people brain dead? America's healthcare system is in the toilet and we have HALF the population on some kind of prescription pharmaceutical. Let's stop acting like the Pharma/Food monopoly scam system is helping people. We're just making people sicker and sicker and covering it up with medications.
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  2355. And magically, the media is convincing millions of people that Elon Musk is evil lol Pay attention or you're going to be suckers all over again folks.
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  2356. As much as I agree, this will only drive up import costs for consumers. As Americans, we have ZERO leverage because we don't export like we used to. Can you believe we used to export 95% of global autos in 1948? Unfortunately, hyper-inflation is inevitable. The Keynesian model needs permanent growth in productivity/exports in order for the modern standard of living to be maintained.
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  2357. Well, both Democrats and Republicans have found perfect justification to cheat. Despite there being 0 evidence in 2020 for cheating; only a FOX News conspiracy that they lost $785 Million over in a lawsuit with Dominion. Yet people still believe it. Voter turnout was huge, everywhere. Even the biggest Trump voting counties that won by 92% had a 30% increase in voter turnout. The idea that Democrats cheated because they had 'fake' turnout in metro areas is dumb. Voter turnout was high in all counties. But, once the voter fraud snow ball starts to roll; it's almost impossible to stop. You'll see an immense amount of voter fraud from Republicans and Democrats in 2024. Take care to remember that Republicans are being prosecuted in 7 states for a voter fraud ring involving numerous state representatives, lawyers, and other elected officials. All on felony charges for electoral voter fraud.
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  2358. Trump needs to pick his allies well. An economic alliance between Latin America needs to be secured for the foreseeable future. Which Trump doesn't seem too keen on, but hopefully his strategies will work; whatever they are. The US has a large economy, but mounting opposition that would rather do business with China.
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  2359. I hate to say it, but the GOP is doomed come November 2024. Highly unpopular candidates and a series of cultural campaigns during an economic crisis. They are truly setting themselves up for failure. Also, Republican voter turnout is down since 2020 in mid-term and special elections. Putting Donald Trump as the front runner will hand the election to the Democrats, no doubt.
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  2360. We do, just not at the volume that Taiwan and China do. Also because we don't have enough people due to labor shortages.
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  2361. So, if these landlords aren't attracting renters or vacationers to stay at their properties. How are they continuing to pay the mortgage on those condos?
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  2362.  @madmaximus2836  When you debate; focus on the issue at hand. Trying to make a random counter-point of (well-what-about-them!) isn't very appropriate.
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  2363. What a wonderful world it's become after tech companies found out that they can influence elections. Now they make everybody go crazy just to get likes. Social media was a terrible idea!
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  2364.  @ISTHIStheKRUSTYKRABx  It's a Federal MANDATE friend; if you work a public job or are a Healthcare provider, you have little recourse. Don't spread misinformation please. Back to the topic, rape and incest account for some 1% of the abortion cases. The argument used to be; we'll give you rape and incest cases if YOU give us healthy consensual sex conceptions. The answer from pro-lifers was still (NO!). Why? Because they don't care about the lives of the unborn when it comes to rape and incest; it's simply a convenient argument to try and get what they want and manipulate the opposing side.
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  2365. They simply hire sociopaths that will do anything for money. There's plenty of them out there. Any time someone grows a conscience, they either blackmail them or cut them loose and find someone else.
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  2366.  @jwill540  I love the idea of crypto, but I've never understood how BTC or crypto in general can battle the energy consumption needed to maintain it. Eventually, energy necessity should bankrupt miners and then brokers that try to mine and then mediate BTC sales.
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  2367.  @Walter-tp9uv  I heard about a quarter was vacant. Trump's rallies are nowhere near what they were in 2016 and many of his ultra-fans travel the country on his rally tour. So many of them are the same people over and over again.
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  2368. How about you keep an open mind and not going roaming for things that don't exist? He's a clinical psychologist and a professor. He's accustomed to lecturing and giving a slight performance about it.
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  2369.  @OfficiallyErling  Seed/vegetable oils play a major role in weight devoid of caloric intake. A calorie is unfortunately, not just a calorie.
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  2370. Believe it or not, there is a story still unfolding about the Chinese Government giving (billions) to law firms inside the United States to pressure for early releases and slaps on the wrist.
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  2371. Well, I mean 'we DO have a President'. Just because there's a stalk of 'broccoli' in my fridge, doesn't mean it's not food. It's just sucky food...
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  2372. Well, that's just the problem; what's an exaggeration, lie, or misuse of words anymore? I mean yes, Trump doesn't tell the truth. However, sometimes it feels like nobody knows the truth and he shoots in the dark. Then sometime later we realize how dumb it was. I'm not sure how you quantify 'lies or exaggerations' in a day and age like this. We're all human, but I feel that a lie must be an intentional distortion of a known truth. Tbh, I don't think Trump really lies, as much as he just throws stuff at the wall and hopes it's true to some capacity. Plus, he's an entertainer and they are used to saying things to get crowds going. So I've never really figured out how to interpret it most of the time. I mean Biden and Harris do the exact same thing. SO again, I'm not sure where the limitations are on human beings.
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  2373. As a conservative and a big Bernie fan; I can confirm this lol Trump being elected is a direct result of how bad policy and culture has become inside the Democratic Party. Here's a hint, get rid of your corporate wing.
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  2374. The DNC is absolutely insane if they want to run this guy again! Throw anybody up there; anybody! This tells me that they have no interest in having a coherent candidate; they only want to have a 100% controlled candidate.
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  2375. Because they can, politics is always a blood-sport to see how much you can take advantage of others before you're forced to have a formal dinner and kiss their rear.
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  2376. @ Are you really going to let mainstream media convince you that another respected person is the devil? I mean how many times are people going to fall for the smoke and mirrors? You have to think for yourself; don't let big media use you.
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  2377. You just described mainstream Doctors and Psychiatrists. People have no idea how power hungry these credentials have gotten. It's actually happened at most levels in Western industries.
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  2378.  @debrarymer  Bad analogy, a tradesman's reputation is manifested in his work. Therefore he gets no work if he does a bad job. Psychologists (like healthcare and most other white-collar professions) are protected by bureaucratic red-tape that blur the lines between necessity, scope of practice, and state board policy. You can have an NP or Physician give out bad advice all day long, but it doesn't matter because their reputation is covered by the state medical board and coverage that insurance approves of. Assuming credentialing fixes micro/macro errors in a domain in a classic mistake. By creating an institution that governs the industry via credentialing; you eventually guarantee that the governing board will create more problems to justify their existence. It's the ultimate pitfall of intellectuals. They're smart enough to think up a system that governs lower tiers, but not experienced enough to realize how it will be used to gate-keep power and profits for their special club members.
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  2379. Well, no offense but I think your trauma in that cult is affecting how you see the modern world. I wouldn't sweat it; Christianity took a massive nose dive, especially since 2020. I'm a Trump voter and religious people are a minority. Most people voted for him because they love Kennedy, Tulsi, and JD Vance; plus Harris was a terrible candidate. On top of that, the system isn't working for most people; rather holding them back.
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  2380. Clubs mean money and money means gold-diggers lol Hard-pass..
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  2381. This woman is an activist for her company; total sociopath. I feel bad for her child.
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  2382. Oh I think he does! An interest in protecting corporate profits. These companies will put up a big fight to keep their money and power in the game.
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  2383. These kids actively protest to remove 'controversial speakers'. Yet they happily have genocidal maniacs come to speak and agitate protests on campus? Who is paying for these children to go to school? WHERE ARE THE PARENTS!?
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  2384. Marvel is in a horrible position. It's not like the movies entirely failed, but they weren't anything to remember. Imagine if Harry Potter had averaged a D or C+ in it's final stretch of films. Making a whole new set of movies would be both redundant and exhausting. Failing allows for revival, but redundancy of 'average' films will lead to the death of an entire story.
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  2385. History has always intrigued me, but it wasn't until Covid did I fully understand how the Nazi's carried out their crimes. The Germany public was fully invested in the propaganda of the Germany Government. Which is the same behavior we are seeing today. What saddens me the most is that this issue is cutting through the hearts of friends and families in this country. Even in my own relationships. Too many people would rather zone out their critical thinking and rely on the groupthink of an agency autocrat. Plus they would rather continue their miserable jobs than quit out of principle and begin living their lives. When this is all over, it will cause a cultural shift never before seen in American history. People remember what side you were on! You're not going to be able to use the "I wanted to save the Jews" type of excuse. It comes down to principle and cowardice.
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  2386. Bot! The DoE is a cesspool of bureaucratic corruption and slush funds. When has bureaucracy EVER created and helped people MORE than it steals and corrupts?
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  2387.  @222ableVelo  Trying to create a system that doesn't prey on people by using patents and loopholes is completely different than having government take over and use administrative control to ration resources to people. I don't understand how those two are conflated. Millions of people died because the government (took) the land, removed it's residents, and employed thousands of people that knew nothing about agriculture. So millions starved or were sent to gulags because a foreign backed series of revolutionaries took over government. I don't think anybody would agree with maintaining the status quo of how things have been. Taxes and law are used against the voter because there are companies and people wealthy and powerful enough to gate-keep it that way. Bootstraps arguments aren't even working for conservatives anymore. You can't outrun a system where inflation is being driven by the greed of being able to milk institutions thru power plays. Think of it like this. If your municipal water was auctioned to a private corporation. Do you think they would keep prices low OR would they try to exploit it's residents thru a monopoly of scarcity? In that situation, there is no limitation to the connections and profits that the company can affect before they decide to short and then bankrupt their own assets. That's the larger problem.
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  2388.  @drewg2676  The birthday insult was childish though. It really shows what kind of person she is.
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  2389. The comments on many major news outlets show you what the problem is. When you have (even single digits) of the population wanting death to political opponents; the culture has failed.
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  2390.  @JZsBFF  You accuse me of not learning anything from history and then accuse me of being a Russian troll; adding no content of your own. Why waste time being repulsive and ignorant, when you could spend time investing in your own knowledge and having decent conversations? Typically, people with no life and no future take part in such trolling.
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  2391. You should avoid grouping people. People voting for him are extremely diverse. Any political party is going to have a sea of low IQ individuals regardless.
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  2392. Yeah, it's the same type of personality that got swayed into Nazism; that's the problem. The people screaming fascism are the most likely people to actually go along with it. It's because they have no principles and their life revolves around virtue signaling.
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  2393.  @douglasingham3821  It's because they have massive amounts of student debt. That's what most won't admit.
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  2394.  @ThrghmyEyeZZ  You know what's more hateful; subverting others in a job selection because of the color of their skin. Thanks DEI.
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  2395.  @yew2oob954  There would be far fewer wars without politicians. Let's not forget that World War 2 was a series of battles fought almost entirely through the lens of secularism. The entire foundation of Marxism is founded on uprooting religious foundation, as an opiate for the masses. Fascism and communism are undoubtedly the children of Marx. Destroying religion and religious people were some of the largest goals of the Soviets and Nazis alike.
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  2396. Welcome to the US military; running 'false promise scams for the last 75 years!'
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  2397. Car markets haven't crashed and they are not beginning to crash; unless you consider -5% a crash? These manufacturers are waiting for a bailout, which is why they are trying to maintain high prices.
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  2398. Yeah, I watch it ; I think he anticipated it.
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  2399. Yep, I got banned in less than 48 for politely disagreeing with the premise of an author's post. Yet all the nasty and harassing responses I got (filled with cursing and childish behavior) didn't seem to raise any red flags on their algorithms?
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  2400.  @Jj-zh6xp  Well, appreciation is when an asset goes up in demand. It's not necessarily exclusive from inflation, but they can often over-lap. Appreciation is often misleading because it doesn't take debt into account. If you own assets; they naturally inflate or deflate over time; depending on what it is. For example, I bought a home in 2020 at $200k. It's now worth $280k; we didn't do anything to it. The home didn't exactly appreciate, the money supply simply went wild and more people wanted houses which drove up the cost of a finite supply of homes. I guess you can use the term appreciation lol My wealth essentially increased without me doing anything. (New dollars to pay for old ones). Old debts can now be easily paid off because of newly inflated assets. It's ultimately what's wrong with Keynesian economics, but it's what we've got; so.
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  2401.  @user-ph2jf4ji1j  Not exactly, inflation widens inequalities first and foremost. If you own assets; inflation is good. If you have no assets; inflation is bad.. Ultimately, inflation decreases competition and shrinks competence hierarchies. This makes it easier for the people at the top to control others and people at the middle and bottom fall behind. If you have debts; inflation is always good regardless. Deflation is bad for debts. You can't look at it strictly from an income to price ration. If you have $100k in assets and $100k in debt; you net equity is 0. If inflation goes up 50%; then your assets are $150k and debts $100k. Therefore you now have $50k in equity. You have increased in wealth because newly printed currency has reduced your old debts.
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  2402. More like mainstream media pushing 'nuclear threats' and putting words in people's mouths for clickbait attention.
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  2403. People are always missing the low-hanging fruit when it comes to this conflict. First, Ukraine was already at war with it's own people in the Donbass region; over 14,000 dead in the last 8 years. If Ukraine joined NATO, it would have forced the western allies to intervene in the Donbass war (against) the pro-Russian residents trying to annex themselves with the Russia Federation. Ukraine is a proxy state between NATO and Russia; it's been that way for a number of years. Russia had a friendly President (Yanukovich) until he was ousted from office in a coup "The Revolution of Dignity" in 2014 by the western powers. They replaced him with the Zelensky Administration; a western puppet regime. Then, immediately after the Minsk Agreements, he launched a war against his own people in the east. All because they wanted to be reunited with greater Russia 'formally' since 2004.
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  2404. Tribal leaders steal all the tax-payer wealth that they are afforded and leave their community with crumbs. On top of that, there is virtually policing and no justice with many criminals.
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  2405. Well, I actually think it's interesting because I predicted a complete wipeout of the GOP. Instead, it seems to be the opposite. I'm not sure the left can hold things together much longer; there's no leader and no ideology anymore.
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  2406.  @franciscobassi3597  Stop watching MSNBC man lol
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  2407.  @jefffarrow4517  You should take your own advice and also try to keep your emotions on the subject contained. How people come to the conclusion of 'fascist' is nothing short of the media getting their claws into you. Once you emancipate yourself from those that use you; you can begin to have original thoughts. I'm not being condescending when I say that; I've lived it and I did it.
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  2408. Thank you Tara! I was completely screwed by a litany of medications that my parents forced me to take as a child. It didn't help that they were largely aggressive and dysfunctional themselves; nature-nurture much lol? It may be real to some extent, but it was one of the largest state-pharma scams in US history, just ahead of Polio. Too many people were destroyed by these medications, even to this day!
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  2409. That's been disproven time and time again Steve; the metrics can prove it. You may have had a point during 2021, but the unemployment insurance has been exhausted and returned to PRE-Covid lows. What you are witnessing is record number of Americans retiring early and a record number of Generation Z refuse to work while they live at home or on student loans. Welfare is not the problem; the problem was that our economy was mostly relying on an aging workforce of professionals. Now they are almost gone... This will continue to worsen as the retirement crisis continues.
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  2410.  @lyndscar7693  It's an echo chamber bud; you should stop listening to a minority that wants to project their view onto the world. People have all kinds of opinions. Independents make up the majority of voters as of recent years and it's because people are discontent with both sides.
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  2411.  @jfelton3583  Corporate-fascism In a capitalist society, corporations wouldn't exist. Prices Law wouldn't allow for it. They survive because the Federal Government subsidizes them and gives them deductions on inefficiency. Do you think business would let meat sit out and spoil if government weren't giving a deduction for it?
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  2412.  @robertbastiencote4284  No problem! lol Heck no, price controls lead to shortages. Price's Law; like (Physicist Derek J. de Solla Price) and then Lotka's Law. Basically, the square root of any domain does half the work. Therefore, a corporation cannot exist without government subsidies. A business cannot survive when 100 workers are doing the same amount of labor/intellectual work of 9,900. Don't believe me, crunch that math; it's insane. I was taught about this a decade ago and I thought 'no way', but it's very real. For example, you can do it with packages at a shipping facility. If you have 400 employees; 20 of them are moving as many packages as the other 380. It's the same reason a city cannot sustain itself from the people living there. Too many people on the bottom half needing the output from the top to survive. The only way for a large business like that to survive is 'government subsidies and handicaps. In other words, wealth transfers. You can actually crunch the math with any subject; it will change your world view.
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  2413. I tend to rag of Gen X as (the worst parents ever), but I largely think it's because Boomers and previous generations gave them absolutely no roots to feel grounds to. On top of that, you guys got screwed in 2000, 2008, and 2020 the biggest. All while Boomers got to expand their wealth (simply due to life stage during the same event). If you have no money; you can't exactly buy-low lol
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  2414.  @cheri-sn7wh  Stop watching msm bud; they're controlling your mind with algorithms.
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  2415. Because she's a "viva ukraine' bot that posts that same garbage everywhere. You can't believe anything the media is saying right now. Ukrainian residents in four regions just overwhelmingly voted to be annexed into Russia; as they've been fighting to do for over 20 years. The United States is doing the same thing it did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc... When are you people going to wake up; you fall for all these dumb narratives that only enrich US leaders.
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  2416.  @15jewjew  Supposedly, but you'd be surprised how many of your tax-dollars get laundered thru non-profits and into the hands of political organization. It's all corrupt!
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  2417. First he wanted send send his oldest daughter to jail for 'picking up some items for the kids'. Now he wants to be his son's best friend. Toxic and sociopathic household all around!
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  2418. I really think you're reaching man. I've been a fan of his for a long time and I've never gotten that impression; rather the opposite. Careful you don't pin poor character flaws on people with such slim evidence. He gets invited onto shows, he gives speeches at events, and he does his lectures at other times. I don't understand how that makes him a narcissist; it just seems rather arrogant. As far as Russia goes, I wouldn't be so quick to eat up media propaganda. Though who's to say what is what these days anyway? As far as I've seen, Russia is preparing to take Odessa; the final port city. They will probably wait until Spring, which will be optimal after Europe enters another energy crisis due to natural gas shortages. That's something western media is trying to hide and will end up surprising most people in the end.
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  2419. Sometimes getting fired is a blessing. Many people stay bonded to unhealthy jobs just like they stay glued to unhealthy screens. When the job dies or fires you. Many times it motivates you to downsize, get a better job, or change your life in a manner that is more conducive for happiness.
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  2420. Blame the Federal Reserve under Donald Trump. He pressured Jerome Powell to even go into negative rates in 2020. Had he done that, inflation would have been double what it is. Trump just wanted to pump the markets for his re-election.
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  2421. Or, maybe they were never conservatives at all? At least that seems to be my experience. Not everybody falls in line with a political ideology of their personality. There's nothing more annoying than meeting a conservative that thinks they are liberal lol Some of the most stubborn and low openness people have identified themselves in both areas. Despite it being antithetical to their personality. Many people are just too simple; loving guns makes them a conservative and being pro-choice makes them feel liberal. At least that's how many identify. If you say something that triggers someone, you can be pretty sure that's a conservative personality deep down.
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  2422. I'm losing my shit because it's becoming VERY apparent that a double digit percentage of the population is quite 'literally' insane; Trump or Biden for that matter.
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  2423.  @promethiac2641  Definition - The study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses.
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  2424. There's nothing to be done. A currency implosion is in order. Social Security, Pensions, and virtually all loans will need to be zeroed in order to reset the system. There's no way we or any of our children/grandchildren will pay enough in taxes to balance it.
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  2425. I feel bad for Taiwan. It is the single most significant country in east Asia (for American interests) and our government is going to instigate a false conflict. All the while China is open to steamroll it.
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  2426. I wonder if Kennedy would choose Vivek Ramaswamy as his VP; that would be interesting!
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  2427. It is truly frightening how the US is mimicking the regime in the Soviet Union. Suppression of dissidence, using agencies to target political opposition, election interference, and everybody at each other's throats. How did that end? Oh yeah, the death of a quarter of the population.
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  2428.  @FrogToadBug  The Gulags, collectivization, genocide and all? Not sure what your point is...
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  2429. Conservatives are eating their own. The Midwest alone has seen a giant reckoning in voters turning away from the GOP. I am one of them!
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  2430.  @ericbustos5568  Why? Maybe you should watch interviews and not talking heads in the media?
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  2431. Healthcare only attracts 'true believers' these days. They're just smart enough to get through school, but too dumb to realize that pushing pharmaceuticals isn't 'healthcare'.
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  2432. Yeah, I doubt it. Warehousing and delivery jobs (even Amazon) are not hiring. Columbus and the surrounding areas have several Amazon, FedEx, and UPS distribution centers that had job openings reposted since 2012. They all took those down in 2023. The FedEx Ground in Grove City I worked at for four years hasn't hired in over a year now. It's bad...
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  2433. As much as I dislike the Biden Administration; this woman is watching nothing but Fox, Newsmax, and QAnon. I have relatives that talk exactly like her. They literally blame every trail derailment and chemical spills on some Biden conspiracy to destroy America. When in reality, the reason that these things are happening is due to a demographic and labor crisis, all the while our infrastructure is falling apart due to mismanagement and lack of maintenance.
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  2434. Why? Do you like the 2 new wars, inflation, and global instability?
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  2435.  @ripvanwinkle3432  More like, sleep with management so you get a wage increase.
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  2436.  @ILLUMINATIVON  Yes, the parents get blamed. Two loving parents don't produce garbage children.
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  2437.  @isabeloliveira2165  I'm not a huge fan of him, but how much longer are people going to peddle media crap they hear and don't question? I'm dead serious, start questioning your xenophobic, racist identification with people, because I guarantee you can't explain it in detail. You believe this because endless pages of MSN articles teach you this. I've personally never seen it in real life, let alone much of digital platforms.
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  2438. Music sucks because it became extremely easy to 'steal it' online. I would know! I do it all the time lol
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  2439. It's politics; the world has always been that way. To think otherwise or conduct yourself in a manner that denies it's existence is foolish and complacent. People should ALWAYS assume that public information stemming from large businesses or government agencies is false. Of what benefit would telling the truth serve them? People go into politics for greed and control.
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  2440. By evil men I hope you mean Barack Obama... He started this conflict in 2014 when they orchestrated the coup in Ukraine.
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  2441.  @Nogoodalvarez  The entire globe is experiences economic and social upheaval. Printing $8 Trillion dollars (as the world's Reserve Currency) has deadly consequences. This, combined with the fallout of 2008 has produced this. When people are economic suppressed; it comes out in violence.
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  2442. Nobody understands because LOOK AT WHAT CHANNEL YOU'RE WATCHING! They're selling you sound bites with negative attraction. I'll be honest, most people voting for Trump don't love him. They like who he's surrounded himself with and they don't like how government has been weaponized. Institutions can't be trusted to be objective anymore. Covid should have taught just about anybody that lesson. A bio-weapon released from China using US tax dollars - nothing to see here says many people; are you kidding me? Want to know why people hate the institutions. Look at the list of 2,000 potential side effects on any pharmaceutical medication and you'll understand.
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  2443.  @gamerelated3887  To be honest, American companies are desperately trying to pretend that their AI tech is unique. When in reality they're gate-keeping hard to maintain investors. Most of these tech companies are overvalued by like 80-90%. It's about time the bubble burst.
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  2444. They divorce their husbands after nearly two decades of birth control that destroys their hormones and psychology. Then they start to become attracted to wide-jawed masculine men, instead of the thin and harmless man that they married. NEVER marry a women that has taken birth control!
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  2445. Covid and Ukraine are just side shows. The real reason for the mass resignations are due to the loss in confidence for where the Western system is headed. Anybody getting elected into office knows full well: There's either cows to be milked before the fall OR an impending doom that cannot be solved. All of this comes back to the growing mandatory debt obligations in 1st world countries. What happens when interest becomes HALF of the public budget in 10-15 years? The US Government and it's allies have two options: go into default thru hyperinflation OR bully their way into making other countries absorb their financial irresponsibility, namely Russia and China.
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  2446. Science has become a cult... The AHA, FDA, lobbying organizations, international corporations, and Universities have controlled and manipulated the flow of scientifically funded research through NFS grants for decades. They are a dinosaur and the asteroid is coming; the asteroid being "the ability for normal people to see open ended research" through platforms like Youtube and the Internet. Any entity that has enjoyed a lifetime of control is going to take aggressive measures to preserve their power. This is what we are witnessing!
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  2447. Something I've always noticed. When Western people learn a language; they attempt to perfect their accent and pronunciation. People that move to Western countries do NEITHER!
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  2448. OR, he has an exit-contract that bars him from speaking on certain subjects. It's not being "clever", it's called following the rules or facing financial penalties or a subpoena.
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  2449. As much as I might agree with him; this could easily trigger a mega-turnoff from his election. It could be viewed as a predecessor to Fascist-esque policies that resort to large amounts of violence in pursuit of removing these people. I think American are much more likely to vote for amnesty that a mass deportation. There is no way we can deport 20 million people mid-high estimates for the number of illegal aliens.
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  2450. It will; don't worry. And I'm not just selling hogwash. We're in a major transition period (call it the end of the American Empire 1948 to 2008). We're in the fall phase. Even the Great Depression ended after 10 years. Rough patches will always happen and new opportunities will come.
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  2451. I don't think people understand how bad the situation is in metro areas. In Columbus, we had a roster of 2,100 police officers in 2000. Now it's 2023 and the roster sits at around 1,300 officers. All of these problems fall on the growing fatherless crisis that we are experiencing nationwide. It used to be particularly a black ghetto problem. Currently the fatherless sits around 74% in inner city black communities. Now the whiter areas are beginning to experience the same thing; upwards of 30-40% in more recent years.
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  2452. Try 18% You wouldn't believe how many people are now on SNAP and income assistance. I come from a blue collar town and it's turned into a welfare town.
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  2453.  @Koi_to_Dragon  Yeah, if you cross-examine all forms of unemployment data, especially U-6. It's roughly 15-18%. If you don't consider 'running DoorDash' twice a week for income as (employed). Then it's probably more like 25%. The data doesn't even take government benefits into account.
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  2454. Are we all watching Indian News because Western News is a crock of sheet?
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  2455. I've been saying this for years. The most radical and ardent supporters are going to be constantly pumping the polls, while nobody else participates. This explains Donald Trump's current polls in the primaries and on the national stage. If you put it to a vote tomorrow; Donald Trump would lose in a landslide. Democrats hate his guts and Republicans are exhausted from 8 years of him.
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  2456.  @gionagrace6279  Problem is, you won't get a better deal overseas; the US still has the best purchase power. If we lose reserve currency status; it will flip.
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  2457. Democrats want Trump imprisoned for breaking the law. Did you ACTUALLY think they were going to apply the 'law' across the board? Absolutely not!
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  2458. A vote for Trump is a vote for more inflation. I guarantee you that upon entering the Whitehouse. He will fire Jerome Powell and install a Federal Reserve Chairman that will slash interest rates to (negative territory) like he WANTED back in 2020. If Trump or Biden win, you can be sure that we will be in either WW3 or a Civil War by the end of four years.
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  2459. Shocker! For those that are new to politics; most people trying to get into office are complete scumbags. The ones that succeed are usually criminals. I can't make this kind of stuff up. If you trace the backstory of most elected politicians (especially on a state level). You'll find that they are either trailer trash that ended up racking millions in loans OR they were given a large inheritance by their parents. These positions always attract the worst kinds of people. Political positions should mandate a personality and ethics test imo
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  2460.  @Justmefornow  Who cares? Looks kind of cool. If people vote on candidates based on (eyeliner). I think that shows the quality of the voters.
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  2461. Wow! lol
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  2462.  @jasourwnjl  Why Texas of all places? You can find Doctors anywhere that will attempt to muddy the waters for their own political purposes to stir up controversy. In the end, they typically lose their licenses. By the way, the result is getting criminally prosecuted for endangering the life of a mother with an unviable fetus. Please listen to me, stop watching the media and look at lawsuits and legislation instead. Media pretty much always put you in a direction of confusion to use your ignorance as a political weapon. As long as they can make a bunch of money lying and then pay peanuts in defamation lawsuits; they'll keep doing it.
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  2463. Just another justification for why people continue to ask "WHY DO YOU GIVE THESE PEOPLE PLATFORMS!" lol
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  2464.  @jacobmansfield-go9fz  No you don't bud; not sure where you heard that. Go apply for state-trooper and pass the physical exam.
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  2465.  @hereticalgames3695  I wouldn't say AI is a bubble, but tech certainly is. I think the next recession is truly going to show how much these tech companies are worth; basically 0. If nothing else, Elon buying Twitter should have taught people that these companies are WAY over-valued.
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  2466. Bad idea, you'll be a casualty of friendly-fire lol
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  2467. Well, technically yes, but we've been feeling the consequences of a recession already. When July 26th roles around, the recession will be on paper.
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  2468. What a bunch of crap; a new low for Fox. Tucker is the only show even remotely entertaining and fact based.
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  2469. Kennedy seems to have a very shallow philosophy of American service. He says that the food is the US is diseased, but he thinks that exporting Democracy and business from America to foreign countries is benevolent? This guy has his head up his rear.
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  2470. This is why I would be (no-scoping) the shit out of Russians. No lenses, no scope, no computer detection crap. Can't go wrong with fighting the old fashion way lol
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  2471. A very poor analogy if you ask me. The core principles of feminism 'champion' an imaginary female hierarchical society that theoretically existed thousands of years ago. Followers believe in this historical view and that the current 'patriarchal system' should be overthrown. It teaches women to despise and hate men. I think it's perfectly understandable that a large number of men run into these women and then become sexist towards them and give up on dating/marriage.
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  2472.  @sparkysmalarkey  Unfortunately, this is the problem. If we damaged the corporations at this point, it was drive up food prices. If the corporations couldn't retail; then farmers would lose a large amount of their sales by not having a whole-sale vendor. This is why deflation MUST occur at some point. People running any kind of business are so strained to make a decent living on any kind of modest business model. Most of the time it's the same as making minimum wage after all your expenses.
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  2473. Funny how lefties can see the problem with billionaires buying politicians, but they can't seem the grasp corporations buying government agencies.
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  2474. It's all legal BS. Just like East Palestine. If you accept the money, there's probably a legal doctrine that says you can't sue insurance or local/state government. It's all crooked!
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  2475. Democrats are falling for trap after trap. Immigration is good; now it's bad. China is bad; now it's good. They're not going to have a base left in 2028.
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  2476.  @Jay-is2jy  Bud, a lot of this stuff took off when Obama got into office. Obamacare merged insurance and administration into healthcare on a massive scale. This has been going on longer than Trump.
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  2477. Are people this thick? He never said HIV wasn't real.
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  2478. This was inevitable since the Obama Administration when they helped overthrow Yanukovich in Ukraine and later install Zelensky. The US and NATO are hellbent on using Russia and China to absorb their global debt crisis. Kind of like we billed Germany after WW1. It's all about power and control; a sick game to them.
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  2479.  @somebodyfixmyinternet  No bud, that's actually a very real cause of death. Being put on a ventilator tremendously damages your immune system. If you ever have to have a parent/grandparent get put on a ventilator. They are a MAJOR infection risk; pneumonia, TB, etc...
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  2480.  @julianaskov2526  So if you serve foods laced with seed oils and sugar, is that a danger to public health? You see how this logic falls flat on it's face?
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  2481. They're not, I think they praise him because they claim he's better than Trump. That's the only reason.
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  2482.  @cheri-sn7wh  You have nobody to root for, nobody to lead your party, and nobody to respect. I truly can't fathom their support anymore.
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  2483.  @OsmosisJones-0925  Yep! And the longer that person stays willfully delusional; the more painful it is. It's literally like removing someone from the Matrix; it's dangerous.
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  2484. Corporations are committing to the largest job/earnings report fraud in human history. How they've been able to fool investors this long is beyond amazing lol
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  2485.  @OneThrustMan  That's exactly how it was during the Civil War. Neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, colleague against colleague. Not everybody just stood and fought where they were geographically.
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  2486. So would you rather have what we have now? I just don't understand how people value "evil actions" over "rude statements." How on earth do people justify that between Trump and Biden?
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  2487. It's probably some woke executive that gets paid $285,000 a year and hates capitalism. Wouldn't be the first time lol
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  2488. What did you mean by anti-science rhetoric via smartphones? Just curious..
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  2489.  @bthomson  Great country? It's rotting exponentially from within. Parents don't want to parent and old people want their damn retirement benefits. Everybody will end up losing.
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  2490.  @Gregorypeckory  Elaborate? Unless your purpose is just to waste my time and everyone else's? Why say so if you couldn't offer an explanation?
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  2491.  @Gregorypeckory  Oh I get it alright. You don't have the critical thinking skills or intellect to say anything of substance. If you're over 18; that's embarrassing in my opinion.
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  2492. In all fairness, had the shoe been on the other foot for 2020. We would never have seen the end to rioting and arson. Every PD in the country was on high alert should Trump have won that election. Doesn't that tell you something?
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  2493. A religion if credentialism, which is essentially all the Democratic Party has left. They're convinced that they're geniuses because Sallie Mae gave them a 5% student loan and now they have a Bachelors Degree.
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  2494. Maybe people should realize that it's the government that causes these problems by creating dollars out of thin air in a Keynesian system. It has nothing to do with capitalism.
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  2495. Saw this BS a mile away the day they contracted Pfizer to produce a vaccine. How can one be called a conspiracy theorist if Pfizer has a track record of killing hundreds of thousands of people with their products, well before Covid? Stupidity and complacency, that's how
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  2496. I would imagine that a lot of the demand will go towards producers that are already outside the US; Ecuador, Brazil, etc. I think many smaller US farmers will go out of business instead of prices rising due to (increased wages and/or supply shortage from lack of workers).
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  2497. How so? It's an umbrella with many different voters for different reasons. Don't let MSM fool you into the hate fest :)
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  2498. If anybody is still buying into the hysteria that the media cartel is spreading. You really need to leave your cave and open your eyes. The matrix is falling apart. You can either die with the sinking ship or liberate yourself.
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  2499. @McRae1 The 'ONLY" problem with UBI? I swear, economics needs to be a required course for high school graduation. Simple question for UBI supporters! How do you account for UBI related pricing inflation in the economy? All inflation is a result of debt obligations. Creating UBI would be a result of the Federal Reserve/Treasury selling bonds or giving out loans. We already saw what a 0.25% federal funds rate did to the economy 2020-2023. Inflation peaked at 9.1% June to June, but is up 42% since January 2020. UBI would essentially be a (0% interest loan; as far as the market is concerned). When UBI gets spent on groceries; it will cause inflationary pricing in the food markets. Then you'll have to pro-rate the UBI each year to reflect those inflationary prices. Not to mention all the other areas of the market UBI would be spent on. You'd be giving a 5-15% raise in UBI each year to maintain the standard of living at the bare minimum.
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  2500. Turn off Fox News and you shut down the cult. The fact that they got a slap on the wrist with the Dominion lawsuit (for this entire charade) is embarassing. They pushed the idea of election fraud EVERY NIGHT for weeks on end post election.
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  2501. I fully agree, as much as I want to blame 2020 on everything; for me it felt like it happened somewhere between 2012 and 2017. People just don't act like people anymore. The population is so angry and nothing seems to mean anything to people anymore. I'm 31; married with a child and it feels impossible to find people at the same life stage. It's so awkward to be asking people your own age what they're up to. You tell THEM that you're going to take your kid to see Grandma and they tell YOU that they're going to go drinking with their friends.
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  2502. 2008 was pretty much the nail in the coffin. However, I think people shouldn't despair; just recognize that an era is ending and a new one is beginning. Economic upheaval and social division during the 'fall' is as old as civilization itself. 20 years from now things will be entirely different; everything will sort itself out; trust me.
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  2503. Doubtful, I don't think ANY of them are. Trump has 45 Congressman in his corner and even among the Freedom Caucus there is dissent from Trump's behavior.
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  2504. This guy is obviously not born and raised here. Chickens are part of the culture as they date back hundreds of years during plantation life. They've been a pop-culture symbol of Key West since it's colonization. This guy, like most politicians probably have some egotistical vendetta against something that irritates their emotional insecurities. The birds and/or feces are not causing disease. It's just low hanging fruit for a low life politician to rile people up about. Btw, why not eat some of them if it really means that much to you? Karens are always the biggest political influencers of any demographic. I'm not surprised that they would complain and push law makers to do something.
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  2505. There will be a massive bailout in 2025; wait and watch.
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  2506. They've been saying this forever and Trump voters are well aware! I know because I am one. The only people virtue signaling about stopping deportations are pensioners and students; both of which get to live in their own fantasy worlds while the working class suffers from it.
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  2507. AI already exists and is extensively integrated in your daily lives. They control what you see, control what you buy, control how you think, and control how you feel. You as a human are reduced to an algorithm for advanced tech company and government profits.
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  2508.  @johnnycincocero  Lack thereof my friend. Using government to gate-keep isn't capitalism; it's fascism.
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  2509. Yeah, about that lol I had to leave at 23; they were beyond insane. Wish I could have done it sooner.
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  2510. Realizing your worth and being paid your worth are still miles away from each other. Unless you got a 50%+ raise (post-2020); you are making less than you did. Inflation has been an absolute bitch!
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  2511. Unfortunately, the government is simply pathetic. It's corporations that are fudging the data they send to the Bureau of Labor and IRS. The SEC and FCC are not doing their job because they've been hobbled by the Biden and Trump Administrations.
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  2512. Probably the same reason that Never-Trumpers are still Republicans.
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  2513.  @chungm381  Filled with hate? How about using your own brain and not letting the media think for you?
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  2514.  @chungm381  Really? So how do you deduce that it was a bunch of hate? Unless you're trying to subjectively take things out of context for your own agenda? I find it hard to believe that you were 'going to vote for Trump' if that was the case.
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  2515. He uses biblical references from a physiological aspect. Many of us have watched his (Biblical Series). It has nothing to do with 'believing in Jesus or God." It's a psychology lecture.
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  2516. It's not a supplement for 'much needed' mental health access.
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  2517. I don't say this with malice, but Republicans are quite literally walking into a trap. Between now and February, the Feds are expected to raise rates at least three more times. Plus, restart student loan payments during January. Democrats are going to allow the GOP to take full control of a crisis that will inevitably crash. Who do you think most people will blame when it does?
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  2518. Well, after Nancy Pelosi came out and told us their initial plan; I believe it too! She opened her mouth about how the Democrats wanted to replace him much earlier to get a primary and how the DNC and Biden basically gave them the middle finger. Now the corporate wing of the Democratic Party had to deal with their failed DEI appointee lol
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  2519.  @BrownTrout1238  Capitalism has literally nothing to do with prices rising. It's called the FED and they printed $8 Trillion dollars because morons shut down the government.
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  2520. Independent here! Democrats really sat this one out as far as campaigning. They're focusing to much on swing states and are ignoring the possibility that they could lose states like Illinois, New Hampshire, and even New York at this point. Not to mention they aren't appealing to the working class whatsoever. Even Bernie Sanders came out and criticized the Harris campaign about reaching out more to the labor class. Democrats should have NEVER underestimated the migrant crisis and now indictment of their mayor in NYC either.
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  2521. Well, in the end (you're either going to export GOLD or export DOLLARS). In order to maintain a strong economy; you have to export more products than you import. Eventually, the most productive nations will outcompete your domestic economy; you will import their products and export your gold to them. Historically, whenever a country runs out of gold; they must go to war and acquire new resources to enrich themselves.
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  2522. Bad idea, tech is a massive bubble right now. It's over-valued by like 90%. It's because these companies are creating an illusion that this software is difficult to produce, when DeepSeek just revealed they can do it for like 2% the price.
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  2523. I think most Americans are cheering for the system to collapse. Left and right at this point is a facade.
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  2524.  @NapoleonGelignite  Oil prices are set by global supplies between WTI and Brent Crude. Increase the supply and prices will go down. Throwing up a bunch of unnecessary red-tape for new leases on wells has forced output to stall under Biden/Harris. It shouldn't be at 13k barrels; it should be at 20k.
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  2525.  @sourkyle  Well, I think it was the stupidity of the media at the time. Had they been more serious and honest about things; maybe it could have been obvious. If it appears that your opponent's side is lying about petty things. It makes it all the more justifiable to elect a man that seems repulsive to them and everybody else. He's a narcissist though. The last few years destroyed my extended family; alcoholism, drugs, divorce. So I got to learn about how narcissists in the circle were dragging us down and causing chaos for their own self gratification. Learning about that gave light to revealing that Trump is no friend of community, freedom, or even health. He's in it for himself and if he gets the chance to ruin people's lives for his own stock portfolio; he'll do it again.
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  2526. Clapping seals; nothing more. Unfortunately, this is most of society. If the FDA makes the consumption of animal products "child abuse". CPS will come and take your children while the majority of the nation cheers them on. This is precisely how the early stages of Maoist China and the Soviet Union were. Everybody turned on each other over envy and greed.
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  2527. It has nothing to do with Biden? I'm sorry, this is the dumbest comment of the year. Biden was Vice President when the Obama Administration (along with Congress) organized the coup that overthrew Kiev and funded it with military ordinance that began a civil war in Ukraine. Biden was President when the administration pressured Boris Johnson to scrap the compromise that NATO reached with Putin over disputed territories. Biden was President when Kamala Harris flew in to the Munich conference in February of 2022 to pressure that Ukraine join NATO in direct defiance of previous terms they were trying to conclude with Russia. Most of the people here didn't even know that Ukraine was a country until 2022 and you slept thru the entire year of 2014 when your Messiah aided in another regime change that destabilized a nation of 36 Million people.
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  2528. GOP defund FEMA? Did CNN teach you that? I'm not MAGA, but I swear CNN viewers have a similar IQ.
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  2529. Thank you for playing Skyrim music throughout your video ;)
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  2530. Women can invent boyfriends on social media for rep or their own insecurities. Watch a man try to invent a girlfriend and he'll never live that mistake down in his peer group.
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  2531. It's not capitalism, it's monetary policy and inevitable Keynesian economics. This wouldn't have happened if the government hadn't shilled out ultra-low debt for the last 25 years.
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  2532.  @UnitedCorporationsOfAmerica  Whatever makes you feel better! As if blaming capitalism associates you with a different and successful market model? I really don't see the point.
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  2533. Pretty easy decisions; the DNC stands for hate.
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  2534. Humanity is turning into Calhoun's Rat Utopia. Wait and see!
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  2535. Not changed; rather become dysfunctional. I will never understand how people call (not being able to talk to people) a 'generational thing' lol. Sounds like a 'end of human civilization' thing lol.
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  2536. Pretty easy to look-up, even on Zillow records.
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  2537. How does a crypto's founders investing in gold reflect that value for the tokens, when virtually all tokens are based on the supply of coins vs. demand.
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  2538. Well, they're hoping that productivity/exports will grow large enough that it will swallow the debt crisis; which it most likely won't. This would be a great plan if SS, Medicare, and Pensions weren't on the line.
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  2539. Here's how it works! Government agencies use your tax dollars to fund = radical organizations that then use the funds to garner support and media attention = news media filming everything on fire with chaos = ad revenue and political gain.
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  2540. Here's the problem, while I appreciate her insight; it's pretty obvious it's less about passion and more about selling hysteria for money. Now, nuclear war is still a large threat to our livelihoods, but there is a vast difference between cold-war era nukes and modern on both sides. In the Russian arsenal, the largest weapon by volume is a the RT-2PM. NATO's largest is the Trident II. Both of which have yields that are 100 to 550kt MAX. On top of that, the radiation yield for both a RT-2PM 550kt and Trident II 475kt nuclear warheads have a considerably low radiation radius of roughly 2.2 miles. Warheads with a 1Mt or greater rating has almost entirely been taken out of circulation. Now radiation is extremely dangerous of course, but in comparison to the height of the nuclear conflict in the 60s and 80s; this is relatively low. Modern nuclear weapons on both sides have been engineered to deliver more precise and less radioactive payloads to inflict pin-point damage. Assuming that only Europe, Russia, and the US go into a nuclear conflict. Your max casualties in 72 minutes wouldn't even go over 1 Billion and that's assuming that everybody in major cities is standing outside in the downtown area. We aren't going to be lobbing Tsar-bomba's at each other lol.
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  2541. Based on what?
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  2542. For the Amish community it was. Very few deaths and complications. Tells you something about the health of an average American.
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  2543. Can we stop pretending that this President or most of Congress have any interest in the American people, let alone an interest in the land that is the United States? These people are traitors to the highest degree; every action they have taken these past 18 months has been to the detriment of the American people. They caused the fuel prices with sanctions, they caused the war in Ukraine with our foreign policy, and they caused the early stages of hyper-inflation that we are seeing.
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  2544. Your comment makes no sense. Where are you assumptions about personality traits not reacting appropriately to slightly falling rates coming from? It seems to be a gross exaggeration based on a single vague source; the guy in the video?
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  2545. More proof that civilizations of scale are a perversions of natural law AND only sustainable thru con-artistry and government wealth transfers. The bigger it gets; the bigger the inequalities get. If you have 10 laborers in a vacuum; 3 of them do HALF the work. If you have 1,000,000 laborers in a vacuum; 1000 of them do HALF the work. The problem is pretty self-evident as you get bigger. The middle class must be squeezed harder and harder to sustain the necessities of the bottom and the greed of the top.
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  2546.  @logical1399  Give me a list of names bro; give me one name, I will wait! The point is, there are no names, because nobody is trying to cut Social Security.
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  2547. I think we'll be seeing the product of those off-spring pretty soon. I personally know several people that have done IVF. Imagine being told that you were spawned from a petri-dish. Perhaps the kid doesn't care, but a significant amount of these kids are born to women that have no husband and/or a female companion.
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  2548. Why would you blindly wish victory to Ukraine? If China installed a puppet President in Mexico, gave them weapons, anti-aircraft missiles, and instigated a border war against the US. Would you as an American say "Victory to Mexico" when the US decides to invade? Same situation unfolding in Ukraine; just replace China with NATO. The ignorance of people still astounds me.
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  2549. How comments like the one above get this much attention is testament to our failing educational system. There's not a shred of logic in this post... This takes AWAY power from the Federal Government AND from Planned Parenthood.
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  2550. The divide is largely imagined due to manipulative corporate/government practices. They fully intend to destroy this country all the make a buck. CNN inciting race riots? FOX inciting a capitol riot? It's all done on purpose to create outrage that profits.
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  2551. Being decentralized is irrelevant in contrast to the fundamentals. BTC acts just like gold; except bitcoin has no physical uses. All you'll end up doing is allowing producers to leverage all the BTC in the world and leave everyone else high and dry. You would see the most insane inequalities in human history. BTC would all be centered around exporters all over again; just like gold. The reason we got rid of the gold standard is because (once you run out of gold to exchange for imports; you go into a resource war - aka imperialism). In the end, exporters WIN. Using BTC won't change that.
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  2552. Yeah, Putin bad because the media says so. If NATO actually cared, they wouldn't be trying to push corporate greed into Ukraine at the risk of a nuclear conflict.
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  2553. Women just don't get it! First off, most women will ONLY date a man her own age or +5 years. So right off the bat, her demographics are limited. If you're a 30 year old woman; then you're looking for a 30-35 year old man. The ONLY men that are single at 30-35 are either (successful and going to date a younger girl) - (have no intention of dating anymore) - (have behavioral problems or nothing to offer a partner).
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  2554. Something is truly wrong with the liberal side these days. Anything that happens (didn't happen) and then they focus on 'whataboutism'.
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  2555.  @spudsmackenzie13  I can't say I've met anybody that worships trump like that. Maybe you're watching too much media? Most people I know don't like him, but see Harris as an imminent danger.
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  2556. What's your point? You're not making much sense...
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  2557. Well, I like the idea of tariffs. The only problem is that you must have something to trade. Attempting to hurt China with no internal cost to their GDP on the end of the US does nothing. Now, tariffs basically increase the cost of goods coming from export to import country. This is good; assuming that the US had a better alternative (for production) inside our borders. With the current state of prices and wages; this is impossible.
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  2558. Doubt it, they are simply lying. Women an invent boyfriends and their friends will support it. Try being a man that invents a girlfriend; you'll be called a loser. This is because men actually don't care and will give you honest criticism and/or judgement. Women are constantly in a state of competition between other women. This is why a group of female friends is an illusion. Women can ONLY ever be friends with one other woman who is of equal of lower status. A trio of girls will always have an Alpha, a middle girl, and then the scapegoat.
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  2559. It amazes me that people have the (information of the world) in their pockets and they choose to remain ignorant and stupid still.
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  2560.  @CyndiConnard  I think you should look at voter registrations. You can cite them on ballotpedia. Democrats have lost proportion of voter registration in all 50 states. Both Independents and Republican registrations have surged. I don't think he's desperate at all.
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  2561. Forget about the kids! You'd be surprised how financially illiterate anybody under 40 is these days. Financial illiteracy is definitely the leading cause of despair, hopelessness, being the victim of scams, and regressive/socialist style ideologies. Most people couldn't even tell you how supply and demand work in the markets.
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  2562.  @bissonlouise9061  I agree! Perhaps you should avoid doing it as well? Two things can be true at the same time.
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  2563. She did worse than Hillary AND walked off like a sore loser. Her career is officially over.
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  2564. I have to disagree about sexual education (at least from a perception of parental education). If you don't teach children 8-12 about sex; then they will get a horrible education via somewhere else. The last place you want your kids to learn about sex is from porn.
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  2565. I've always dreamed abut getting all those free things on an island. Speaking of which, Florida has thousands of islands around the everglades. Free sunshine, free health, free food, and free shelter that you assemble yourself :)
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  2566. Many people don't have the brain cells to comprehend the fact that Hamas actively puts their munitions and equipment in heavily population areas and buildings. So that when Israel attacks, civilians get killed and Israel gets blamed.
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  2567.  @Beau74  Which books might I ask? Do you question the credentials of government agencies?
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  2568.  @ashleyoneal5617  Being vaccinated (should it fulfill it's purpose) only protects you. Nobody else. You can get a titer for MMR antibodies. That doesn't mean you're NOT spreading it. You just aren't a host for the virus to infect. Same logic applies universally...
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  2569.  @caliindoor  Fall for? Everything you see on your social media page is part of an algorithm to increase your engagement. I wouldn't become complacent
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  2570.  @caliindoor  I'm not going to engage if you're going to patronize me and act irresponsibly.
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  2571. It's always been dog-eat-dog bud. Would you rather live in an anarchic model of raiding during pre-colonization? Get rid of the money/law and the same thing happens on a smaller (for violent) scale.
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  2572. Arresting people in their own homes for this reason, is a form of 'robbery' and 'home invasion' justifiable by lethal force as far as I can tell.
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  2573. The American dream was created out of a fantasy based on a very simple economic explanation. The US economy post-war economy of the 1950s was the largest exporter in the world for just about anything, especially automobiles. The The power we held with a reserve currency was unparalleled by anything that had ever happened in human history. But, with great destruction comes great opportunity, as the sweat and productive output of the US worker 'in a world ravaged by war' paved the way for economic success. We no longer represent that idealism; not in practice or fantasy. The only thing we export is US dollars. Older generations do not understand this. Which is why they will either drive over the cliff or die before any true catastrophe befalls the American experiment.
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  2574. Disinformation is largely subjective; many people have learned this over the last four years. The entire push for (information censorship) is because one side wants a monopoly on lies. The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn should be a required read for young people. Blind faith in government has always led to catastrophe and lost of human rights.
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  2575. It's because Boomer assets tripled since 2020, so they have money to complain that nobody is working to slave away to their needs.
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  2576.  @sir-beventon  That's an oxymoron, you can't increase wages and make things cheaper at the same time. Reducing prices naturally raises the value of your current wage. I think what you mean is (increase GDP) and reduce prices; supply and demand fundamentals. The reason prices are so high is because programs like SS, Medicare, and Pensions are forming an economic bubble where old investments are being propped up by excessive printing in order for retirements to function. If they didn't, then elderly people would be made poor long ago by their initial investments. Interest rates are everything. If you allow people to take cheapo-loans; then demand will run amuck (like it did 2020-2022) and prices will rise. Anytime there is a surge in demand with a finite amount of production; prices rise. Same thing in the housing market. People can blame Blackrock all they want, but it was people that went out and bought up houses and condos in order to speculate them on sites like AirBNB.
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  2577. When are people going to realize that the new media is entertainment? If you derive your virtues from news; you never had any to begin with.
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  2578. More people than you'd think; it's crazy.
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  2579. If it was Obama; they would be calling him the savior of the planet. I have many criticisms of Trump, but there is seriously something wrong with people that have TDS. Their brains are blank from any prior presidents and they don't have the intelligence to have a grounded viewpoint of expectations.
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  2580. Not a problem at all. The issue is attempting to do keto/carnivore without organ meats; which I wouldn't recommend. Liver, Spleen, Heart, Kidney etc have multiple times more micronutrients than any fruit or vegetable can provide. I take them in supplement form with raw eggs each morning. I'm not keto or carnivore, but I have tested all the diets; even OMAD at one point or another. However, if you are doing keto/carnivore; you MUST eat organ meats in some form or fashion. Otherwise you can easily end up deficient is something long term. Beef and eggs can give you probably (85%) of what you need, but the organ meats are where you get everything else. Any fruit/vegetable in comparison to say (spleen) has a negligible amount of nutrients; it's laughable on a nutritional chart.
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  2581. Integrity goes a long way; charisma isn't everything.
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  2582. This is embarrassing on a multitude of levels. The Federal Government is 'paying' contractors to relocate these migrants to sanctuary cities and it has entirely backfired. Instead of moving migrants within the country. Hundreds of international organizations are trafficking illegal immigrants INTO the United States to collect these Federal contracts. The incentives are downright horrible. Shut down the border completely and stop paying out the contracts. The Biden and Trump Administrations have been complete disasters and black marks on this country. Homeland Security estimates that some 3-5 Million immigrants have come into the United States illegally within the last 2 years. There is anywhere from 10-20 Million refugees attempting to gain access to the US from Haiti, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Venezuela. The chain of migrants spans all the way from Brownsville to South America. STOP LETTING PEOPLE IN!!!
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  2583. Hey look, the US helped to overthrew Ukraine's Government in 2014; we Congressionally funded it. Zelensky took over as the replacement and launched a war against the pro-Russian residents in eastern Ukraine. They've been trying to annex themselves with Russia since 2004! NATO starts pressuring Ukraine to join NATO (with an ongoing war in east Ukraine). This violates the Minsk Agreement! Russia therefore is OBLIGATED to defend itself and it's pro-Ukrainian residents against a dictator and NATO that is 'knowingly' driving a wedge to force Russia's compliance to their political and economic 'ambitions'. I'm no fan of war in general, but I blame NATO and the US Government; they knew what they were trying to do. Keep in mind, Ukraine is NOT a united country It's split between pro-NATO and pro-Russian residents.
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  2584. Flat tax would hurt the lower class the most and inequalities would probably widen. Not to mention revenue would plummet.
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  2585.  Anya Wale  ??
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  2586. It's just a matter of when the world loses faith in the USD Dollar. For the boomers that claim they've heard this before and nothing will happen. You are missing the larger parts of how much public interest we are paying and how far the standard of living has fallen. It's easy to think such things from behind your pension and loaded 401k. I don't say this to be mean. I say it because this logic is rampant and redundant among Boomers and Gen X Americans. By 2034, Social Security and Medicare reaches a $200 Trillion dollar debt maintenance. CBO has already projected that I will either have to pay double taxes, including a 12.4% Social Security tax, seniors will have to take a 25% cut in benefits, OR we will enter hyperinflation. It's morbidly hilarious to know that there are some 70 million people in this country that either don't care OR won't allow reform for Social Security in Medicare simply because they won't be alive to see the results of their failure.
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  2587. Too many people in the comment section are trying to "affect" a way of thinking that they are seeing something in the interview that doesn't actually exist. Probably to make themselves feel better about their low IQ I suppose.
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  2588.  @blackworldtraveler3711  I don't think people assume that. I think many are simply acknowledging that employer behavior is the worst we've seen in our lifetimes. I've never seen this level of corruption, fraud, and lack of professionalism. Even employers in healthcare are 'ghosting' applicants in an interview process. It's the dirtiest thing I've ever seen. On top of that, they are stealing your data and defrauding their unemployment insurance dues with the 'ghost' positions they're posting.
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  2589. God does nothing, humans make the world a heaven or a hell. He gave us free will, now we are to deal with it's consequences. Just my personal op.
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  2590. I'm no fan of Biden, but I would never vote for Trump again. The man that appointed Jerome Powell and drove interest rates to 0 in 2020. Allowing for mass inflation to run amuck while giving out artificially low rates to consumers. All inflation is a result of the federal funds rate.
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  2591. How so? He's been consistent for the 5 years I've watched him. Try to make sure you are hearing what he's saying and not hearing what you want.
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  2592. Not exactly, some 95% of all people trading crypto have net NEGATIVE position. It's literally a zero sum game; that's the point. Massive inequalities due to basic bell curves in action; this is why government and central banking is set up the way it is. If people get rid of all government and regulation; everything will end up in a few small hands of people that don't deserve it.
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  2593. As a younger person, I'd say 'take your own advice.' This idea that one election is going to stop this nations doom is laughable. The worst threat to this country are these trillionaire corporate conglomerates that use tech algorithms to light the world on fire; all for click-bait ad revenue. This country isn't falling apart because of 'communists.; whomever you're referring to. It's falling apart because this is the inevitability of a Keynesian system; permanent growth and permanent inflation. Past generations continued to kick the can down the road as exports couldn't keep up with inflation. Now I'm considered lazy by many older people; despite owning a home, being married, and having a child. Yet I have to work 5 times harder than boomers to achieve the same US Dollar value that enables me to live the same lifestyle that previous generations did. People need to do the math; USD value has lost some 85% of it's value since around 1980. Now amount of 'air conditioning' and 'no draft' can make up for that when I pay property taxes and the mortgage.
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  2594. This will be a Ross Perot repeat of 1992. The Republican Party will heavily split between Kennedy, the Libertarian candidate, and then Trump. Democrats will lock-step for Biden and he will win the election. Enjoy four more years of 'ice cream' man!
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  2595. If you indexed the price-wage ratio between 1980 and 2023. You'll find that minimum wage in 1980 at $3.10 will buy you as much as $24/h will currently buy you.
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  2596. Except you can't compete with these international corporations. Profit margins are so thin.
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  2597. War's are the answer of political psychopaths, especially Americans ones. As we've seen for the last 70 odd years.
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  2598.  @oof6052  I don't disagree with people paying back their loans. However, Boomers and Gen X overwhelmingly gas-lit their children into signing those loans. Then when they couldn't get a job to pay them off; they shamed them on why they did it.
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  2599.  @walkinharmonyhomestead2888  Anything is possible, but people are blissfully unaware of how rampant NPDs are in the last 30 years. We're making more due to a steep rise in anti-social disorders from neglect and child abuse stats on the rise. Never underestimate a parent's ability to make themselves look like a victim when their child cannot defend themselves in the same room. This interview will be seen my millions of people. That girl's reputation is already tarnished and it will be damaged again. Regardless of whether they are telling the truth or not. There was recently a mother that took to social media and was sponsored for her own television interview on ABC for how hurt she was over her daughter 'leaving her and going no contact.' In which the mom plays 'full victim' for how her child is evil and manipulative. That daughter is now suing the mom for defamation and having to defend her reputation due to harassment, death-threats, and doxxing.
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  2600.  @walkinharmonyhomestead2888  You should check out the (anti-therapy) community that is festering on Youtube. It's where thousands of parents with personality disorders hang out and talk garbage about their kids in order to make friends and tarnish the reputation of people seeking help from psychiatrists and trauma therapists. You'd be amazed at how large these groups have become over the last several years; nothing but nasty comments about how their children betrayed them and are horrible people. You're assuming this is happening to good parents because you're probably naïve about negligence and abusive statistics. It's very easy for people to overlook these familial problems if they were not aware of those issues within their own circle. This is the same kind of thinking that is giving teachers a bad name while exonerating parents. You have absolutely no idea how low parents have fallen in this country. The media loves to spin it to indulge in right-wing conspiracies.
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  2601.  @anonony9081  Assuming that he 'kids' are the problem. I've never seen a child grow up in a productive and positive home that turned out to be a confused and manipulative brat. All of this starts in the home. Generation X are literally one of the worst generations that ever raised children; extremely manipulative, neglectful, and irrational. You'd be surprised what percentage of the general population falls into these categories of anti-social behavior. These parents will do and say anything to make their children look like the aggressor after they abused the children for years or decades.
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  2602.  @pamelamohn5931  Happens all the time, it's called a scapegoat. One child is singled out and abused by all the other family members, but life seems fine for everybody else. This is extremely common; toxic family setup. This is because one or two manipulative family members normalize abuse for the scapegoat and teach the other members that it's acceptable. I've seen it happen over and over, especially in my own family. I agree that there are other influences, but the question is where and why are they following these influences? If you instill a set of values and reflected behaviors; children are pretty robust. Unchecked neglect creates resentment, unchecked golden-status creates entitlement, and sexual abuse creates confusion. People claiming that their children just 'up and decide to be bad' is the defense of an abuser in my experience. They are a direct reflection of their care-takers. You should be suspicious of any parent saying otherwise. Again, I think most of the time this comes down to the household. Parents are everything, if the parents are neglectful; the child will seek validation elsewhere and it harms their growth.
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  2603. Reducing taxes drives up the size of the pie (due to larger GDP). Increasing taxes too much drives down tax revenues because it stifles potential GDP>
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  2604. I can't stand Trump, but the day that she told Robert F. Kennedy - "We have nothing in common." was the day I decided I could never vote for her. If the Democratic Party doesn't stand again corporate capture and FOR American health. What do they stand for?
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  2605. Therapy bud, academia is a cheap and dumb answer.
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  2606. I'm not a fan of Trump, but he was pretty good on a global stage. The last 75 years of American politics have largely been pushed in the direction of (regime change) to maintain global ambitions. As convenient or necessary as that may sound; where has it gotten us? The US needs to maintain itself; not the world.
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  2607. It's all fake bud. The government isn't crunching the numbers; corporations are giving false data to the analysts. They want to maintain the illusion of what their companies are valued at. Otherwise the investors would jump ship. I must say, it's a brilliant scam though.
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  2608.  @rubiesofgold7698  Don't feel bad, they are manipulative trashy people that are finally reckoning with karma. Generation X - the generation that brought you televangelism, military worship, and a pharmaceutical religion. Whom of which get made when you (the child) do not comply with their long list of selfish 'wants'. A generation that went from 'broke' to middle class due to Reaganomic low-interest mortgages spanning from the 90s into the 2000s. The amount of dysfunctional families in suburbia was disturbing to me as a child. High level of religious insanity, violence in the household, alcoholism, drug abuse of children, and downright compliance with their military/God world view. It was an absolute hell hole for many millennials and zoomers. It is a unique generation born out of a radical change in economic policy and the beginning of the 'forever wars' in the middle east.
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  2609. Yeah, yet we haven't been able to modernize the IRS since 1997?
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  2610. Middle and upper class people will never understand the food-stamps situation unless you've seen it first hand. Foodstamps are essentially big corporations lobbying government for addition profit margins; nothing else. It's an insanely bad incentive too because it promotes unhealthier diets and sedentary lifestyles. A lot of you don't realize that individuals and couples on welfare getting the equivalent of a $20/hr full time job in payments. (Watch people) and observe any major grocer between the 1st and 5th of each month and you will see what I'm talking about. Overweight women rush to the stores in order to pillage hotdogs, sodas, tv dinners, and brand name garbage. It will literally be falling out of their carts when they go to check-out. They are some of the meanest people I have ever encountered. Believe me, they are not suffering and they are not falling on hard times. They are USING the system and taking advantage of the bad incentives.
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  2611. Same story; opposite conclusion lol We're selling our home to settle student loans and honestly it's been a headache. No getting out of routine property taxes and insurance; plus home costs.
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  2612. That's equally bad bud. The whole idea of leaving a cult is to live a healthier life. Not join another cult.
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  2613. Well most people are saturated with a series of debts.
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  2614. There never was any love; you brought her up in an artificial family. The degree of Boomer/Gen X entitlement knows NO bounds. It find it hilarious that (being left alone) is seen as 'entitled'. While harassing your child to get what you want and not getting a reply is 'not seen as entitled. lol
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  2615. Nala; Onlyfans
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  2616. Same! I threw out the deoderant and shampoo years ago. I just use a home-made bar of soap.
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  2617. Democrats are ignorant! I don't hear them complaining that Obama deported 3.2 million people in his first term.
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  2618. Well yes, but I feel you have to have a level of stupidity and inexperience in life to fall for this bs. I learned from a VERY young age that people lie, steal, and deceive others to get what they want. The first time I was fooled; I learned to question everything (especially if it was aiming at my insecurities).
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  2619. Physical attractiveness is actually massively detached from what actually happens. Women WANT a man that is physically attractive, but they are going to ignore you if you aren't extremely charismatic and alluring. I was in top physical shape my entire life since 14 years old; women didn't care. Until I got into my first job, where older women repeatedly groped me for two straight years. This is the problem, young women are completely clueless due to the society we've created. Then they magically go from clueless to desperate in their mid 20s.
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  2620. I think more people than you'd think are aware. Especially other moms who are Alpha-maternal and a defensive from these types of women. Narcissistic mothers are usually very insecure around other women that are equal or greater in accomplishment or intelligence. At least that was my experience. It's an easy avenue to escape torture, because you can befriend these women, but the toxic mother won't go there.
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  2621.  @jtgoeswest3792  What's your point and connection? Healthcare corruption skyrocketed under Obama when he allowed Insurance companies and administrative positions to strangle it as middle men when Obama-care came into play. Now the mandate has been revoked, but the control is still in play.
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  2622. Depends on the quality. Major corporations are far more likely to use canola, soy, and everything laced with pesticides. Some countries (unlike America) have a better system of scientific research and restrictions set up to HELP to public. Not simply profit from their demise like the US.
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  2623. Calling them dumb is a mistake. Germany was the most civilized and talented nation in all of Europe when Hitler came to power. This is what happens when political antagonism and economic duress reach their limits. Radical political movements emerge. This is a global phenomenon if you're not aware. Revolutionaries tend to become very popular when economies destabilize. Blame the media and the Federal Reserve for creating this mess. Instead of the truth and modest growth; they chose lies and speculation.
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  2624.  @ganggang3788  Perhaps you shouldn't let a mega-media conglomerate teach you what's important. Christianity has taken a massive nose dive and church attendance has decreased -30% in the last 5 years alone. If you think Project 2025 is a problem that will influence your vote; then I think your logic is taking a day off. You're literally trading 'whataboutism' from a small set of religious loons for your own eyes and ears; let alone the economy.
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  2625. Yes, but when it comes to elections and the economy; I don't understand how anyone could want him back. His two fatal flaws were (going along with the election fraud garbage that FOX spun) AND (appointing Jerome Powel) and pushing the Board of Governors to set the interest rates so low. Which resulted in the inflation we are seeing right now. People blame Biden for inflation because they're financially illiterate.
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  2626.  @ellyk8834  Your post was extremely condescending Elly. You claim others are overlooking their unhealthy/abusive language. How about starting with your own? What normal person would want to continue a conversation after your first post?
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  2627. Depends! If they don't have a weapon and he keeps his mouth shut; he'll walk. Even if they DO have evidence. I find it hard to believe a jury will convict him.
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  2628. Yeah, an economic collapse worldwide. USD can only take so much more abuse in currency value before it gets flopped as the world's reserve currency. Young people have no idea how poor they can be without that status. In the event we lose reserve currency status. I'd guarantee that a large amount of young people would commit suicide; no fortitude and no adversity.
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  2629. Well, it will eventually; whether people like it or not. Educating women basically starves their fertile years. In doing so, you create a population implosion. The education of women has created a phenomenon where the average woman is making more than the average man. So naturally, women will find it harder to date since they typically strive for partners that have higher incomes (survival instincts). As the dating pools implode, more men end up at the bottom and more women stack up alone in the middle. All the while there is a super-class of minority males mating with a super-minority of the females and subduing the men. This is mother-natures fail safe. Eventually, those women will die out and the low-status males will breed generations of lower class slaves. Leading to the inevitable outcome that a patriarchy will rule again. Who would have thought that (women not having kids after spending all their time in college and work) would not be sustainable? lol
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  2630. Great Resignation! GO BABY GO! 🍿😎🍿🔥💵🔥💵🔥💀
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  2631. It sells better lol
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  2632. You can definitely qualify for Social Security disability
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  2633. Same here as well! That 'eternal damnation' garbage is drilled into your neural pathways as a child. It's easy to leave the church, but it's difficult to leave the idea of a 'loving' God smh lol It's child abuse; no excuses!
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  2634. ​@ Direct payments were cut in 2014; not much else. Most of the subsidies are a racket that larger farms use to defraud tax-dollars and send their product to be used as cheap animal feed; including cotton and wheat byproducts. It doesn't help anybody other than a handful of farms get rebated for garbage harvests.
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  2635.  @sandrabentley8111  The idea that there's an FDA or EPA worker lurking at the end of every business model (insuring it's safety to the public) is a myth. Hard concept to understand, but government IS the source of air pollution and contamination. DO you think any of these companies would get a mile without subsidies keeping them afloat after lawsuits?
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  2636. A recession is 2 quarters of negative growth. This means that 2022 Q3 was the only recession since 2008. We are not in a recession, because it doesn't fit the original definition.
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  2637.  @JK-ks3xq  Yes and then we had positive GDP. So there was a recession in Q3 of 2022, but not since then.
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  2638. Try to rent or get a mortgage on $45k-$65k. This is a national behavioral crisis! Same thing is happening in Healthcare right now; patient behavior is absolutely horrendous. Things ebb and flow from action and reaction. It makes no sense for both the children and teachers to be at fault here. Try to put blame on both parties just for the sake of fairness is not very rational. Staffing in most industries is completely shot and most people are being asked to do the work of 2-3 people regardless of industry. This issue is very obvious if you are raising children OR are head of household in this economy.
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  2639. Yeah, I mean it sounds fishy. I'm not that smart, but I'm well aware to be far from the murder weapon and visual identification/apparel after the fact. Regardless, I think the jury will let this guy walk. This will be OJ - ceo version.
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  2640. More baiting by fake media. Does anybody realistically want their daughter to be fighting on the front lines? If so, what kind of father are you?
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  2641. Supply and demand for automation is imbedded in culture. People want faster/better, but are arrogant to believe that it won't come at a cost of human labor.
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  2642. HUSH CHILD! We need more money to make more freaking money! The show must go on!
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  2643. The annoying thing is that influencers have turned it into a cult; kind of like crypto. You're apparently not diamond hands if you eat a carb during your Lion Diet. I did carnivore for a series of months and ended up with a severe eating disorder.
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  2644. It amazes me that people still think the educational system; both primary and secondary is preparing children for life. Let alone the work force. What a joke. Spend a mortgage worth of debt to get a credentialed stamp of approval to hang on your wall, which basically qualifies many to work at a Starbucks. You can learn more about a topic on Youtube from 12 different professionals in a day than you could from a year at College these days. Nothing but corruption and poor incentives as far as the eye can see. That is what our system is riding on right now...
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  2645. By MSM perhaps. Elaborate on why though?
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  2646. What he's saying is mostly public information. He has the same opposition to the war that many people paying attention did. NATO was engineering this conflict when they helped overthrow the Yanukovich administration in 2014 and installed Zelensky.
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  2647. Anybody that hasn't woken up by now deserves everything that's coming. You had the information of the world at your fingertips. You could have researched the clinical trials of the vaccines, VAERS, or any amount of flip-flopping statements made by Fauci or the CDC. Yet you wanted to remain willfully ignorant in your home, attached to the Matrix. When this Government shuts down on December 4th and the supply chain screeches to a halt; nobody is coming to save you. You made your bed, now sleep in it.
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  2648. A simple google search reveals that she is NOT a fascist. Just because she participated in a youth party at 25 that had lineage from The Italian Social Movement doesn't make her a neo-fascist. I swear, people are so gullible. The Brothers of Italy spawned from (People of Freedom) a center right organization.
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  2649. Republicans think welfare is a 'black community issue'. Democrats think it's a 'white trash issue.' Eventually, you realize that there is a very large number of people on government handouts. Try leaving the city/suburbs and you will see poverty as far as the eye can see in just about every single state. Poverty is bad the city centers, but it's rampant out in places like Appalachia and rural Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, Oregon etc.
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  2650. Still waiting on the 1200 indictments from the Summer of Love rioters paid by DNC lobbyists.
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  2651. I'm completely done with this charade called America. The only problem is that if I stop filing my taxes; the IRS threatens me for 18 months and then I get indicted/prosecuted for tax evasion. I could care less what people do, what people think, and what people teach their kids. Just STOP asking me to pay for the end result. I'm sick and tired of bailing everybody out when they go bankrupt, have a mental breakdown, or feel discriminated against when their life choices don't work out.
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  2652. So, in other words; none of this is news. It's just Tuesday for South Koreans?
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  2653. I think it all depends on the person and what the subject is. To be quite frank, many of the realities that we live in would seem pessimistic and desolate; the kinds of things that make you lose hope in the world. On the same note, modern companies and politicians practice is every day; reducing the populace to a set of algorithms. So whether you are aware of it or not is irrelevant; it still affects you (until you take measures to alter it). This is why I urge people to become anomalies; do not follow the herd and trust nothing until it is proven.
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  2654. Why does everyone keep spelling 'loser' wrong?
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  2655. Talk shows and comedies are really starting to resemble "The Capitol" from the Hunger Games.
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  2656. Oh, the Feds will cut rates this year alright. But only AFTER there is a major fall-out in the market and they are forced to re-stimulate the economy by law.
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  2657. It's always been happening; it's the very essence of blackmail. Teenage girls are very pretty and it's rather easy to entice an arrogant politic figure to put themselves in the same bed. After that, the man is beholden to the political elite that set him up. It's all a game to them.
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  2658. I'm no fan of the state, but what makes you think they are receiving 'love' at home. In my experience, these kids are being (MASS) neglected and tormented by horrible parents. As somebody who grew up with an NPD mother that had nothing but contempt for me; I empathize with their situations. We need to stop pretending that 'parents' are doing their jobs and the state/educational system is stopping them. A large number of parents these days are crazy.
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  2659. You went to college?
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  2660. He already did, WSJ is manipulating your mind by intentionally releasing this edited video. They cut it exactly the way they wanted in order to make him look like a victim.
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  2661. Where's the proof? Keep your ignorant comments to yourself please.
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  2662. Anybody that touches Social Security (in any manner) loses re-election. It's all about how your opposition can frame you in the media lol
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  2663. It's because the DNC is literally catering to a bunch of radical students and brainless boomers that are happy with the stock market. No wonder they are out of touch with normal people.
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  2664. If anyone cares to know; this is primarily why fraud (both cyber and in person) have been absolutely rampant in the last several years. It's gotten really bad though in the last two months though. And not just in upstate NY or Cali. People know they can get away with petty crimes without any repercussions. Law enforcement and judges just don't have the teeth they used to. I live in Ohio outside Columbus limits and every restaurant has been putting up signs apologizing to customers for delays due to "labor shortages and carryout fraud" I kid you not.
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  2665. Yep, same! I actually took up a single cup of coffee each day and it actually killed all my urges for tobacco, alcohol, and binge eating. I've lost a lot of weight doing it as well.
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  2666. The more things change, the more they stay the same. As always, humans must find their own ignorant religions to justify their lust for power, greed, envy, and wants. It's terrifying these days because all of these are masqueraded in social media as virtue and compassion for others. Typically, somebody who wants the population to decrease is someone who has genocidal intentions and/or looks forward to the idea of being in the top 1% of superior peoples that avoids a genocide. There's a strong factor of envy and contempt in this kind of thinking. On top of that, you have a wealth of people on pharmaceutical medications like birth control, statins, xanax, zoloft etc. Their minds and bodies are messed up beyond belief. They see misery and dread as the norm of human activity.
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  2667. Well, I think he meant from a technical standpoint; terminology.
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  2668.  @monkeygraborange  Well, Alex Jones screams so many conspiracy theories that some of them are bound to be true.
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  2669.  @jayortiz6188  It's typical for about 1/3 of the loan to go towards interest. It's not a scam. She and her fiance signed the loan paperwork and are now confused why they can't make ends meet. I mean, they're not even married STILL and they signed a loan with a 6.5% interest rate in 2023. She NOR her partner are that smart.
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  2670. There is! Just hit the gear box and switch to Spanish with captions :)
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  2671. Massive Civil Rights lawsuit right there and violation of numerous Federal laws around discrimination. That's IF they didn't go out of business first lol
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  2672. Uh, the answer is 'slavery!" For those that claim (state rights); the Confederacy didn't believe in the necessity of the US constitution and any position to take advantage of the 10th amendment for made void. It's revisionist history at best.
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  2673. Peter is the biggest BS talker I've ever seen. Doesn't matter what the subject matter, he has an art of pretending to know everything about everything. The guy is just very talented in the art of conning people for click-bait (doomsday) garbage.
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  2674.  @carissab397  Well, it used to be about competence. Which is the best way to measure someone's ability to run something or influence it to a certain degree. However, now I don't even know what to do about it. All you need to do to get rich is be a tool and have no ethics. Now you have the sharks swimming all over the place because bad people get rewarded with pyramid scheme money.
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  2675. I'm not a fan of Trump, but you couldn't pay me to vote for Kamala Harris.
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  2676. I'll sum up the difference between Millennials and Gen Z in one example. 3 Millennials and 3 zoomers are working at Chipotle. 9:45 o'clock rolls around and the shutdown/cleaning routine starts. Manager leaves all of this to the 6 employees that he has trained while he goes in the back. When 10:00pm hits, the Millennials start mopping the floors and doing the dishes. All the while the zoomers start clocking out on the machine. The three millennials get irritated and ask (why are you clocking out?) to the other three zoomers. The zoomers reply; "it's 10pm; that's when we leave". The millennials ask, "who is going to complete the shutdown process?" Zoomers reply, I don't know, I didn't apply here to do dishes or wash floors. No joke, I have actually witnessed this kind of behavior in a number of work settings.
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  2677. What a waste of time and resources
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  2678. To sustain the Keynesian model. Plus, none of your social safety programs would function. It's basically one giant pyramid scheme. The pyramid needs a growing number of people to support the older ones.
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  2679. Well, it's because most of the fanatics and narcissists died in WW2; Japanese causalities were insane. The only people left after the war ended were largely people that were strung along on the horrendous journey. Remember that the Samurai imposed an intense and cruel authority over it's people for nearly a thousand years. Japan modernized after the 1880s and began global trade, BUT that culture was still thick within Japanese society. The barbarism played itself out during WW2.
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  2680. Wars are an inevitable result of a nation using it's military to acquire a necessary resource that is otherwise denied to them in the game of politics.
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  2681. It has nothing to do with the Internet pal; internet is a medium. It all has to do with access to (cheap-debt) to exponentially grow service industry profits. Only the service you are providing is largely a scam. No wonder the US is becoming a banana republic lol
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  2682. It's called government, when are people going to learn. People that think price gouging in an open market is the reason are daft. It's called (government giving crony patent extensions to their buddies); monopoly markets enforced by government. Make patent laws (open-source) hilarious like Elon Musk already did with Tesla and this will go away.
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  2683. Jobs don't get deleted because of expanding technology. They get deleted because a number of companies are gate-keeping the patented software and claiming that it's unique to the survival of the system. Competition drives mass innovation and good wages. Stop letting a handful of companies form an oligarchy and use government against you lol
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  2684. Unfortunately, this isn't just a pay/benefits issue. Everything is getting more expensive. You can't just drastically increase wages are not think it will have exterior effects in the market. Wage inflation is still wage inflation at the end of the day. The real reason that all of this is falling apart is 40 years of Reaganomics and several decades of NAFTA. This is a Keynesian system: permanent inflation and permanent growth. If *inflation (debt obligations) grow beyond what *growth (productivity/exports) can provide; then prices increase and wages fall behind. Think about it as increasing the size of the pot (without) increasing the volume of cookies. We are currently running out of cookies and the jar is getting very large.
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  2685.  @LunaBlanche7328  That's what happens when centralization and government subsidies take place. The entire tech industry needs a massive anti-trust push.
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  2686.  @Rudolf215  Take back what? I honestly don't think people have any idea what is going to happen if they topple the existing system. Trading corruption for truth and decentralization will unfortunately create disaster. It's because a large amount of the population has to live in a constant state of psychosis; otherwise they will malfunction and destroy everything. We live in a global world; meaning that the resources, wealth, and power will condense into smaller and smaller hands. It's mathematically inevitable. The only other way is to return to a tribal era where everyone associates with their group and constantly works or fights with others. Either way, the standard of living would plummet and billions would die of natural selection. People don't understand what they're asking for.
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  2687. That, along with human psychology and natural equilibriums. Technology advances and more people get left behind. You can create smart technology, but you can't raise human intelligence (generationally) fast enough to keep up with it. Eventually, these inevitable inequalities fuel turbulent monetary/legislative actions and the problem exponentially increases. The crime waves, the war in Ukraine, housing prices, claims of mass election fraud? None of these are coincidences... These problems will exponentially increase until a (reset) happens; like that of WW2 or the fall of the Roman Empire. Put your seatbelt on lol
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  2688. @Lee Roland Irrelevant, nothing (not even cutting all discretionary and military) is going to save this country from the impending cliff. We either default on our debts OR drive this economy into hyperinflation in the next 15 years. Interest payment on our budget can only go so high.
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  2689.  @JustinWilliams-ed2ug  Go get a CDL; drive for a few years and save everything. Then make an exit plan :)
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  2690. 29 here, I lucked out with the wife, home, and kid before the economy went in the toilet. All my peers got left behind in the economy. It's crazy how much the world is changing.
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  2691. That's very telling from who you watch. If you're not noticing how both political parties are quite literally planning to annihilate each other via legal and forceful means; you're not paying attention. A vote for Biden OR Trump is a vote for destruction. Four more years of Biden will only make the retribution of Republicans significantly worse. We're on par for economic collapse and revolution at the same time. Anybody that thinks a destruction of the Federal Government will be good for any average person is missing some braincells. Everybody will get poorer, the currency will fail, and your way of living standards as you know it will end.
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  2692. And we're supposed to believe that our voting systems are not compromised?
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  2693. I got lucky! Found a country-girl attending a University for the medical field in 2018. She wanted to be able to support herself, but wanted to be a mom above all else. Married her two years later. I feel bad for people in the current dating environment. I'm not sure why, but before I met my wife, I was dating on and off for about 2 years. Many of the women will be absolutely nasty for no reason. The last woman I asked out in person was like this, which is why I switched to 'online'. I spoke to a very nice girl that was alone at a traditional theater. I was there supporting my best friend and ended up side by side with her in the row. We spoke for nearly 45 minutes and before we all got up, I asked her if she was interested in seeing each other. Also, that I would drive an hour from where I lived and it would be no problem. Her entire demeanor switches from 'nice' to 'nasty' and she starts tell me that I would really piss her boyfriend off if I drove up to see her. I've had this happen in multi situations and I never understood it. Unfortunately, I think we are breeding a generation of narcissistic twits. My own sister acts like this and virtually every date reeked of 'entitlement' and 'narcissism'. Constantly on the phone, constantly thinking of themselves, and believing random insults are appropriate in a conversation as 'comedy'.
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  2694. If you are addicted to porn and are constantly trying to date 'white college twits'. Then no wonder you're burnt out! Fix yourself and go find a farm girl; that's what I did. Best woman I could of ever found to be my wife!
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  2695. Fun fact: If you're child was between 1 and 4 during the heat of the mandates, your child has much higher risk of suffering from any number antisocial personality behaviors. Which are permanent setbacks for their life. A child dies not develop properly on a social and psychological level if they can't see faces and expressions. We've maimed thousands of children in this political stunt. You stood by and did nothing while the ability to do your own research was at your fingertips!
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  2696. Correction: There is NO 1st world country that is more affordable in any way shape or form than the US. Moving to Europe is not a solution. This is a global issue all tied to the same economic system. Nobody in Europe is doing better than they were in 2019 and certainly not better than the opportunities people have in the US.
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  2697. People giving him shit have no lives. I have my own issues with Trump, but these people literally criticize everything he does to an insanely hypocritical length. Politics as usual. People will always try to depress their own lives (whether good or bad) depending on who is President. The amazing thing this time is that millions of Americans who used to despise him now respect him. As a single example, imagine the hundreds of millions of T1kt0k users that woke up to a message claiming that "Trump saved T1kt0k."
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  2698. I'm not a fan of Trump and the state DOES have the right to remove a candidate from their ballot. However, under the current Maine constitution I believe this is an abuse of authority. Regardless of how you view Trump; he hasn't been convicted of anything. If he was, then I think it would be appropriate to site 14th amendment in doing so. Until then, it's going to sound like subversion.
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  2699. As much as I agree with Trump, he needs to avoid the 2024 election. I voted for him twice, but I can say with certainty that his base has been utterly destroyed in the last 2 years. People are looking to candidates like DeSantis for what this country needs. If Trump runs, he has a better chance of alienating millions of Republicans and giving the election to the Democrats. If he wins the primary, it will be by slim margins.
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  2700.  @gnw1264  Let me guess, did you learn about Project 2025 from the mainstream media? Try not to let media outlets teach you what is important. That's how they control you. If CNN was screaming about Social Security 24/7; you'd probably think that SS was the most important.
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  2701. I'm actually considering running for office now.
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  2702. I think China decided after the US regulated the Chinese exports of Semiconductors into oblivion.
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  2703. I am 29, married, own a home, have a child, and have an Associate's Degree that I never used. The educational system is attempting to keep up with the volume of students that are falling behind. Parent are not being much help either because of the large disconnect between parent and child these days; probably from digital media and screen time. So naturally, the standards are being dropped across the board. Which is why it appears that anybody can get a college degree these days. I've seen teacher and after teacher pass students that are absolutely flunking in their courses. My sister (bless her heart) is 20 years old and was accepted to an Interior Design program her second year at a University. Believe it or not, her reading, writing, and vocabulary are at a 7th grade level. She went through rigorous student aid and tutoring until around 2013 when school districts began to overhaul their grade and homework systems. All of a sudden (with no effort) she went from receiving Cs to receiving As and Bs in all her classes throughout high school. Her research papers were full of grammatical errors, sentence structure problems, and simply not following instructions. It got to the point where she stopped correcting herself and quit taking any of it seriously. She still turned in 3 of those research papers in the ladder years of High School and received an A and 2 B's for that work; research papers that would have earned me a D- at best when I was in school. She failed 3 of the 8 criteria for entering her Interior Design program. Being absent two prerequisite courses AND a late submission past their applicant due date. They told my parents that their program was intensely competitive. Yet, she was accepted at the last minute regardless with no questions asked (on the first try). It got to the point where my own father, as well as my wife became concerned that my sister was being accepted into an atmosphere and program that would be doing her a disservice due to her SAT scores. On one half, I'm happy that she's made it this far. However, on the other, I am paranoid that these teachers passing her along are doing her a major disservice. She might get to the finish line and part of the way through and be completely broken by the reality that awaits her in the job market.
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  2704. If a majority of jobs become service and those service jobs eventually go remote. What's to stop service employers from outsourcing your remote-labor to India or China?
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  2705. It's a cute idea with a very bad execution and outcome. Not much different from the gold-standard and there's a reason it was ended. If you transitioned to BTC, the wealth would be quickly zapped out of most 1st or 2nd world nations and they would end up in East Asia and a few coastal and metro locations; impoverishing the rest of the world. This puts us straight back into the (product for currency) problem. The countries that export the most will take all the currency and those that don't will be left holding the bag.
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  2706.  @jjwh  You don't think they edit the videos after live coverage? lol
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  2707. Cryptos that offer APY dividends 'ARE' a ponzi scheme. The only way they can give you 8% APY is by using money from new investors.
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  2708. Cruel behavior isn't exactly a psychopathic trait. At the very least, those boys had no empathy. You can easily create boys like this with no father figure around.
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  2709. I come from a large medical professional family in the Midwest. Requirements for work and staffing a ridiculous. We saw 42% inflation between 2020 and 2023 and we didn't get ANY raises. We just had a hospital close down in Chillicothe, OH. If the staffing doesn't increase with good pay incentives; you'll see a healthcare collapse in the United States. I've bee predicting this for a number of years. The apparatus cannot withstand the current demand for the current staff.
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  2710. Oh, we were there for a LEGITIMATE reason! Do you really think the opiate crisis from 2001 to 2017 (before fentanyl took over) was an accident? It's a staging center for military/corporate contractors to get supplies for their sick businesses.
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  2711. At this point, most people can't afford to LIVE and pay bills on $15/h. That number has already gone to $20 lol
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  2712. Jesus, why America? WHY did you pit these two candidates against each other again!? We cannot allow either of these man to take office again. Biden cannot persevere competently thru four more years. We would be going into a further state of global chaos with a President that cannot make sound decisions now project strength. Trump on the other hand is on the war path. He might be a strong character in global conflicts, but I worry about the state of life in America. Mass anarchy and dysfunction would probably result from another Trump Presidency. Do the right thing folks and vote third party. Ross Perot took 20% against Bush Sr. and Clinton. How many votes do you'd think with the two WORST Presidents in American history?
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  2713. No, it's an everybody issue. Women are probably more likely to be 'open and honest' about it on social media. All of this is due to two reasons: bad economy and unemployment insurance fraud. Corporations are trying to get tax-cuts and the state doesn't care because they get good jobs numbers.
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  2714. She's an idiot that got lucky and made it into politics ultimately for the money. Her public disclosures on income and expenditures are far-beyond worthy of an audit that would put her behind bars. Law and order is all politics at this point. If George Santos is going to prison for money laundering; why isn't she?
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  2715. Well, 2008 was induced by greedy bankers. The current real-estate fiasco is being induced by a pathetically incompetent administration. It was the Biden Admin that pressured Fannie Mae to drop their standards.
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  2716.  @bebdaumon3948  I'm in the CDL industry. I can guarantee you that construction workers don't make $100k each year; nor do truck drivers.
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  2717. I'd love to know what people mean by this. The Federal Reserve is obligated to raise rates in order to fight inflation (while raising unemployment). The ONLY caveat to this is that they must CUT interest rates when unemployment goes too high.
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  2718.  BasedPortlandian  You'd be surprised! They lied about the fuel reserves in 2022; claiming it would bring the economy to a halt. Tucker should have vetted that one better. They lied about the US failing to renegotiate it's contract with Saudi Arabia for exchanging oil is US Dollars; there is no such agreement. They also lied about the Putin/Trump interview recently. No evidence that it took place. They all lie bud. At this point, assume ALL of these channels (including CNN etc) are purely for fictional entertainment.
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  2719.  @ultrastoat3298  I think you're projecting; many people don't watch those stations anymore. Unedited interviews (podcasts) are where the population are headed and that's a good thing for a better informed population. An oligarchy of media channels just perpetuates hysteria and falsehoods that generate violence for profit.
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  2720.  @DolphinWithIgloo-fg3ow  I don't understand, you are distrustful of decentralized information, but feel that msm gets their sources legitimately? Elaborate..
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  2721. Me too, but it's not always the case. Unrestrictive gun laws never guarantee that a normal citizen is armed to handle to situation. In many of the more recent shootings, they've been committed in an environment where it would have been unlikely for someone to be carrying. Ex: A Bike trail, Walmart, etc.
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  2722. 1. I wouldn't be so quick to trust mainstream media allegations that he's 'losing'. 2. He didn't start the war; it began in 2014 after the US overthrew the Ukrainian Government and installed Zelensky. 3. The US funded the Ukrainians and gave them weapons thru Congress to fight a border war in the east against Russian interests. You should research more on the topic and watch less mainstream media; they will lead you astray every time.
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  2723. If anyone thinks Communism and Fascism are opposite ends of the spectrum. That's like saying Cain and Able were at opposite ends of the family. They are sister ideologies, birthed from Marxism.
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  2724. She's not drunk, she's a gaslighting narcissist using his Presidency to push her own ambitions.
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  2725. Good! Most modern degrees are absolutely worthless anyways; they produce almost nothing but young adults with liabilities.
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  2726. The Ukrainian issue was architected back in 2014. People like to forget that the Obama Admin actively sought to aid in overthrowing their government during civil unrest and replace it with a puppet (that we know as Zelensky). It's been a money laundering state and buffer against the Russian Federation ever since.
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  2727. But but but, Trump is Hitler Blahhhhh!
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  2728.  @williamfranz9872  Plentiful jobs and higher GDP have preceded all economic recessions and depressions. GDP is no accurate measure of economic prosperity btw; most of GDP is calculated by Government spending. If you pass a 1.5Trillion dollar piece of legislation; GDP goes up.
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  2729. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  2730. "I'm so smart that I don't ever have to explain anything to anyone about how things work." - almost every liberal ever..
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  2731. Recalls are a fact of life; regardless of regulation. I'm curious where you're getting the info that it's connecting to deregulation under Trump. Don't set yourself up for a scare tactic by media that preys on vaguery of perception. People die and fall ill all the time from this industry. There's also a reason we have civil court. The FDA/USDA isn't actually inspecting these items; it's just an ability to fine companies that partake in certain unapproved activities.
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  2732.  @adwaitvedant3297  I truly do not think the system would work. Crime, homelessness, and broken families would be widespread much higher than they are now.
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  2733. The title of this video is gaslighting. They use one example as a means to represent everyone? What I find funny is that this topic has been in the news for at least a decade. Yet somehow it's a conservative obsession now?
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  2734.  @laskey2175  Don't spread lies Thomas. First, the train derailed from a faulty ball-bearing that had failed 20 miles before it's derailment. Second, Trump didn't deregulate anything. The 10 years break mandate was a regulatory consideration under the Obama Administration and was disregarded under the Trump Admin. It was never a law in the first place; it was sitting (with thousands of other considerations) on the books.
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  2735. You accuse them of being a cult, while eerily making cult like statements.
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  2736.  @lizryan6289  You have to break away from the group think; people vote for all sorts of reasons.
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  2737.  @stevenmeyer8211  Yeah, probably less than 10% tbh. I've met the cultists and they're a minority.
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  2738. The funny thing is that the CDC itself gives inserts for vaccine data. Polio is asymptomatic in like 97% of cases and only 1/10,000 have temporary paralysis. But the media will certainly lie about it.
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  2739.  @legobuilders6133  I think he's talking about (double-blinds) in the research field. Yeah, the US doesn't have those lol. Science in the US is a cesspool of gatekeeping bureaucracy. Come up with some new evidence that can help people and there will be a LONG line of jerks trying to use their positions to destroy you. They don't want competition to their patented discoveries. It's NOT just in medicine; it's bad everywhere, even archeology.
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  2740. Whether or not you support Trump. I believe it's noteworthy to understand that if Trump is absolved; it will embolden future insurrections.
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  2741. I wouldn't hold my breath. No matter the outcome, the results will be contested. Expect total chaos to happen regardless. Every election will yield exponential turbulence in this country. Even if Republicans win, there's nothing they can do to stop the retirement crisis or the economic hardship we are in. If we lower the rates and stimulate the economy, we will go into hyperinflation. If we keep raising the rates, there will inevitably be a crash within the next 6 months; followed by hyperinflation. There's no escape from this madness.
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  2742. I think you're stuck in a false narrative. People lie, cheat, steal, and say crazy things; that doesn't exactly mean they're evil. People are complicated and that's something that people are forgetting. Especially if you live in an echo chamber. Politics is ultimately about choosing the best villain in order to maybe get some change you are hoping for. That's all it's ever been. People these days (especially young people) act like the President must be Isaac Newton and never do or say anything even remotely questionable. AKA, living in a bubble of social media with no real friends or life experience, imo. Most people voting for Trump don't love him. Personally, I wasn't even going to vote. I did so because of the team he's assembled.
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  2743. Well, some say that both boys and girls need it. I mean, have you seen girl scouts? Selling cookies for monstrous political motives! What do the girls get out of that freak show? Maybe allowing them into the boy scouts was a good thing?
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  2744. Probably not. I used to be concerned about the same thing, but a smartphone emits less electromagnetic radiation than the sun touching your skin inches away. It's probably not good to constantly press it to your head for 20 years though.
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  2745.  @fynneas_trash  The diagnoses is clinical. It's not a case closed assessment for anything. It's the best way the medical apparatus knows how to handle anomalous problems like this. I for one was abused as a child by my NPD mother. You have no idea who people really are when that door closes at the house.
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  2746. Property taxes merely EXISTING means that citizens own NOTHING! You are renting it from the Government.
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  2747. Actually, none of these corporations would be able to exist without the Federal Government. Patents, deductions, tax deferments, and of the course the FDA; all to gate-keep their profits and steer away competitors.
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  2748. It's a result of mass complacency due to inequalities run amuck. Everything is sideways and right is wrong. This is what happens when you create a global economy on the backs of war veterans that allow grand-children to indulge in stupidity. It will all self correct though in a century or less.
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  2749.  @gunlover5564  All kinds of nationalities own land in the US. Any chance China owns 1.6% since they have over a billion people?
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  2750. Not only that, but it ensures that EVERYBODY is represented in their state. If you refuse to vote; you are still represented in the vote by the electoral college demographics via population proportion.
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  2751.  @nojusz9415  You're putting 8 years of propaganda thru your programmed head and getting the result that you've been conditioned to conclude.
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  2752. Nah, I think the term never changed, authoritarians just began to identify with it because they like LGTBQ people.
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  2753. Democrats will start to grow when they stop trying to find their new Barack Hussein Jesus.
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  2754. Are there seriously still people that don't know that Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was (not only) incorrect, but largely fraudulent?
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  2755. The Taliban's ability to take over 3/4 of the country in a matter of 4 months tells you that most of the culture was ready to side with their efforts in the first place. If people want real change in their own countries, they are going to have to fight for it. That's just the way it has to be... All too often in these modern times do people of the 3rd and 2nd world countries completely leave and come to a Western country. Should that continue to happen, then the end result will be turning Western nations into war torn theocracies. Just like in Syria, over half of the people trying to flee the country are males of fighting age. Whether they are Taliban or refugees is probably a mix. The US cannot continue to be the world's salvation, these countries have to evolve on their own terms.
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  2756. Only ignorant people think that NATO has no fault here. Perhaps the US shouldn't be (overthrowing foreign governments) in favor of corporate interests? None of this would have happened if Obama hadn't began a war after his coup in Kiev back in 2014. All of this is about control. Russia had political control of Kiev and then NATO stole it; now Russia wants it back.
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  2757.  @BAD_CONSUMER  He claims in the info box that he's attempting to do this, but Youtube is being difficult with the publishing.
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  2758. Correctional staffing is insanely low; many of these guys are being released because they are a lesser offender than someone else.
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  2759.  @James-cu9ul  Ukraine is a divided nation bud
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  2760.  @mr.blonde5344  Nothing you can do about it at this point. People always get caught between the games that central banks and corporations play. Interest rates are being slashed, which means a recession is pretty much inevitable. Many families will have to worry about their stock equity going down -30% and having their car repo'd. People just can't help themselves when they want what they want. Once you hit the luxury stage of a civilization; people would rather be dead than poor, even at the cost of their own family suffering.
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  2761.  @mr.blonde5344  Oligarch is gonna oligarch; best thing you can do is tell the truth, make good decisions, and stay out of the tides way imo
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  2762. They're also open-source patent, which is noble, but flawed in strategy. All other companies and nations are stealing Tesla's designs and technology.
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  2763.  @learnsteelguitarinretirement  They were right for seriously diseased people. You don't need to shot if you're young and healthy. This thing would have unfolded much better if they made an effort to actually help (those at risk) and not play politics and be politically correct for fear of offended people, dear god..
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  2764. Fauci - commits Perjury in Congress and withholds information about the outbreak - gets awards and sponsorships. Me - commits Perjury and fails to pay my taxes - goes to prison for 25 years.
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  2765. You and everybody else. If everyone is special, then nobody is. I would advise a blue collar job (as grueling as that may be). I used my CDL to get my first house and then I jumped ship in the industry.
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  2766. Well, I think you're missing the part that the oligarchy currently in charge of US politics despises him. Having billionaires and certain companies back you is inevitable in the upper echelons of politics. There's a very small conglomerate of companies and politicians that sway 95% of everything that happens and they do not like Trump.
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  2767.  @sonofra889  The searches were tracked to their respect municipalities? So you have access to Google's personal database on it's users or they made it public?
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  2768.  @peterstafford4426  Peter, take my advice and use words more clearly. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. So instead of spewing ignorance, show some humility and educate yourself on the matter.
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  2769. I deleted my FB account, disabled Google/Chrome on my phone, changed my browser, and began using Proton. Magically, all those spam calls and local advertisements stopped within the week. Yes, they are tracking you and selling all your data to better code their algorithms in order to manipulate your behavior. Why do you think people have gone insane in the last several years? Because media companies have stepped up their game on algorithms.
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  2770.  @acem82  Perhaps, but I'm not seeing any direct evidence that the greater population are even aware that they are being manipulated. Let alone wanting to change their habits. You have 1.9 Billion daily Facebook logins globally. Self harm for women has been changing age brackets; now 6 to 10. Which was unheard of before social media. That's just one small example though. People want faster, quicker, and more entertaining. Which is what current social media algorithms provide for them. The company name may change, but the coding and software isn't going to go away. It's far too lucrative for data and ad markets. People want dumpster fire stories that engage them, irritate them, and make them feel important in their lives. It justifies radical behaviors we are experiencing. Social media created the demand, now they sustain it.
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  2771.  @acem82  I don't have faith in heroine addicts. Yes, I am making an analogy between social media addiction and heroine. What's better than heroine? Fentanyl, which is far deadlier in improper dosing. That's where I see the future of social media going. I largely link the modern health pandemic in the US with social media obsession. People have better options of course in food quality, but they won't use them. Why, because addicts can't behave rationally and logically. Unless you shut off the mechanism of addiction completely, people will just seek out the next high. I'm a pessimist by nature, I prepare for the worst and I have little faith in people. I don't mean to irritate you by saying that, I've just seen too much despair in my experiences with people that I wouldn't know where to start if I was going to cure their ailments..
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  2772.  @acem82  I admire your optimism 👍
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  2773. Trump and MAGA voters are delusional. I live in Ohio; Trump support has been decimated in the state. The Dewine Administration devastated the faith that Republicans have in their own party. Trump fatigue is real; even for Trump voters. No serious person actually believes that Trump is going to solve realistic issues like (health, housing, or income mobility). This is all a 'revenge tour' for people that are immersed in crazy conspiracy theories.
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  2774. Oh please, they brooded in their basements about how meaningless life was and how they would exact revenge on human cockroaches.. That's literally how all of these lunatics think. If you reduce people to 'cockroaches' you can do just about anything.
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  2775. It's probably classic narcissistic personality disorder. My mom did the same thing. They believe in abuse as long as they have leverage over their victims. Once they no longer have leverage; they pretend to be nice. Give her leverage again and I bet things will go back to the way they were.
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  2776. Muh abortion and the evil orange cheeto!!! Seems like what it's coming down to tbh lol
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  2777. We're at the stage of the "Science Cult" where people can be infected over and over and over; week after week and fall ill with the same virus after building up anti-bodies. According to our Government agencies. Anybody that didn't bail after that level of idiocy is truly indoctrinated by the propaganda. Welcome to the Fourth Reich...
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  2778. Pride is a deadly sin, but seriously I don't know where these people are in the US. I come from a Christian background and we make fun of these delusional people whenever we hear legendary tales of their stupidity lol
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  2779. PBD is going to have to delete these videos. EVERYONE is full of blissful joy lol
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  2780. A majority of these people are Venezuelan; fleeing the Maduro regime.
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  2781.  @acidlaek  Well, crazy people don't seem to care anymore. Just because people can carry; doesn't exactly mean they will.
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  2782. It began in 2008 technically, when the Hilary campaign accused Obama of being "foreign born" and not eligible to run as President Then the left accused Trump of being illegitimate after a disinformation and hack campaign by Russian operatives. Then the right accused Biden of being illegitimate after massive irregulates and polling shutdowns. It will only get worse.
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  2783. Well, blaming Big Pharma is only the first step. Understanding WHY so many Americans are despairing towards opioids is the next question.
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  2784.  @PresidentCamacho2024  Not exactly, the US tax revenue never entered a deficit in those years. The last deficit in revenue was in 2010. I don't like when people perpetuate this myth because it's mathematically false. Of all the things I dislike about Trump; this isn't one of them. While I'm in disagreement of lowering corporate taxes to 21%. I did like that progressive income taxes were lowered. Most people in the middle class had a $2-3k reduction on their annual taxes. Taxes on capital gains didn't really change. So billionaires didn't really get any benefit; it was largely fortune 500 companies.
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  2785. The irony of (Covid) and the (Great Resignation) was that corporations learned they could ram thru the same amount of customers/volume with HALF the staffing. It's the worst incentive in history for automation and wage cuts.
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  2786. Sounds like your job is easily going to be outsourced. There's not much holding these companies back from completely removing the job title when some graduate in Mumbai can do so for cheaper.
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  2787.  @mrlukeisspeaking4391  Yep, bot because he said something you don't like. Hilarious that Democrats can't spot bots very well. They're never short posts lol
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  2788. Yes, the robot decided to kill itself lol AI has taken over XD
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  2789. Actually no, the FED has no options. They will be forced to cut rates as the economy tanks in 2024. This will stimulate wages and prices. People will feel a sense of relief for 2024-2025, but then inflation will resurge and we will be in the same boat that we were in during 2021-2023.
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  2790. Well, calling Social Security socialism is ignorant. You pay 6.2% with an employer match and those taxes get turned into t-bonds to collect interest. If Social Security required ALL people and all levels of wealth to pay in (but only the lower half of income could collect) - that would be a socialist program.
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  2791.  @dannyfrog  There is no irony; it's stupidity in the comment section. Social Security is not a socialist program. If everybody paid into it AND (most importantly) only a certain income level could collect it; then it would be a socialist program. This has all been thru the courts and that's why it was able to be implemented as an investment; instead of a tax pool.
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  2792.  @MontyFly  Well, SS isn't socialism regardless. People associate it with socialism out of misguided associations. Channels with a high viewership from the (Democratic socialist types) typically won't yield any actual economic literacy; so I wouldn't go looking for it. They're 20 year old boys that fantasize about socialism while living with their bourgeois parents.
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  2793. I'm rather ignorant; so if someone could elaborate. The internet claims that Peronists basically believe in economic freedom, trade independence, and sovereign nationalism. Is this different or does it have a hypocritical history compared to Milei?
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  2794. They pay no Federal income tax; hence they aren't included in the electorate. The media needs to stop fanning stupidity.
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  2795. Because the US funded the coup that overthrew the Yanukovych Administration in 2014; installing Zelensky as his replacement. Ukraine is a puppet state (for Russia or for America). It's been that way for some time. Ukraine was already at war with it's own people in Donbass. Joining NATO would have forced Europe and the US to fight against the pro-Russians in that war against Russia's border. Those people have been trying to annex themselves with Russia for 20 years; they've recently been annexed by Putin. America doesn't want to give up it's leverage, pure and simple.
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  2796. These agitators and event organizers are being paid by somebody. DNC donations me thinks!
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  2797.  @gizgiz-c9y  Russia never invaded Ukraine in 2014. A coup took place and eastern Ukrainians revolted against Kiev.
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  2798.  @gizgiz-c9y  Russia troops never entered the Donbass region. What do you think the 'Revolution of Dignity' was over? Eastern Ukrainian residents revolted because they were of the opinion that Yanukovich was ousted by NATO in a Kiev coup. Novorussian rebels living in eastern Ukraine went to war with Zelenskyy. Fighting and bombing raids claimed some 20,000 lives in 8 years.
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  2799. I have my own issues with conservative policies, but this is truly why liberals get a bad name. They have ZERO experience outside of their metropolitan college fantasy town.
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  2800. Good! They're lineage will never be heard from again!
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  2801. Formal education (at least the public school models) are absolute garbage and all the kids know it. You'll probably retain less than 5% of all 13 years of K-12 as far as life skills and knowledge. The smartest kids I ever knew ended up be big time readers, explorers, and builders in their own time. Many were also drop-outs.
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  2802.  @crossroads670  I assure you, if you understood how public research works, you'd never believe anything you'd hear thereafter. Researchers have to apply for NSF grants and that research has to sell. Private and independent research is extremely rare, because you need venture capitalists or wealthy sponsors to front the cost for their own morbid curiosity. Kellogg's isn't going to buy your research if it threatens their product. That's why they invented correlary and relative publications. It's the art of lying without lying. Plus, Universities get anywhere from 50% to 70% of the proceeds. Harvard for example get 69%. The incentives for public science are absolutely horrible.
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  2803. The FDA gets paid to look the other way. People that think 'regulation is the answer' have absolutely no idea what tree they are barking up. These corporations are immensely powerful.
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  2804. How so?
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  2805. People are broke because they're trying to live middle class lives on 100k of student loans. If you have no student debt; life is extremely easy. Regardless of inflation since 2020.
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  2806. A man-child to me was someone who basically lived with their parents with no income or ambitions.
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  2807. You will ALWAYS trade your time for money. Refusing to calculate the hours you worked into a potential hourly wage is your choice, but it doesn't negate the fact that it takes effort to create wealth. Effort cannot exist outside of the space-time continuum.
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  2808. Same
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  2809. You mean the gender confused HHS Assistant Secretary blob isn't the best we've got? How did I get fooled?
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  2810. There is no "transitory inflation" or "temporary inflation". The ONLY way inflation is temporary, is if the US Government began to DEVALUE the US Dollar and remove it from circulation. People need to get used to $20/h being the new living wage, because it's here to stay. Prices are here to stay!
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  2811. Hardly any if that. Most of the inflation we are seeing came from PPP loans and healthcare expenditures during Covid.
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  2812. I agree! Imo, a toxic father creates a cruel son. A toxic mother creates a psychotic son.
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  2813. The moment property taxes became legal, property was no longer private; it was nationalized. It's been my conclusion that we've been living in a socialist country for decades now.
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  2814. Well FDR is considered by many to be a thug himself. He is in fact one of the most controversial Presidents in history one way or another.
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  2815. I've voted Republican most of my life. There is no way Trump is going to win this election; Republicans are not doing the math on this one. Voter turnout for registered Republicans has been in the dumpster for Mid-terms and the 2023 General Elections. The GOP cannot lose a single state in the Presidential election, but must win THREE or FIVE: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Considering how bad Republicans got beat in the Ohio 2023 General Election. I have a hard time seeing how Republicans have the advantage. Not to mention that many die hard Trump supporters are now gone and 4 Million new young voters are entering the environment. Turnout in Iowa was also considerably down compared to previous caucuses. The Democrats have always maintained TWO leverages; lockstep voting and routine voting. Republicans are notorious for 'splinter voting'. With an Independent on the official ballot for 2024, you will see a large swathe of Republicans go independent like many did with Ross Perot. Democrats will either vote for Biden or the (primary switch candidate) that many are anticipating. There's no way Trump can win this. Republicans in large are completely exhausted from the last 8 years of his limelight. The fact that he got 51% of the caucus vote shows how divided the GOP actually is. Exit polls in Iowa heavily suggest that Nikki Haley voters would rather vote for Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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  2816.  @bgreat5111  Child tax credit give you your own money back that is withheld on W2. I think you're projecting your own motives.
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  2817.  @Synthetrix  So you'd rather vote for the two most unpopular candidates in US history? Might I remind you that Ross Perot took 20% of the national vote with Clinton and Bush Sr. that had significantly higher ratings than Trump or Biden.
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  2818. They're both cults in their own ways. Though I do question the sanity of Democrats that put Biden thru the primaries. I can understand why Trump got pushed thru; economic desperation and disenfranchisement.
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  2819. Thank you for being so professional and objective in your video presentations. I don't think I'm alone when I say "I become paranoid sometimes' that bloggers and independent journalists that I like will eventually throw their support for a radicalized and anti-social perception of politics and economics; regardless if it's left or right.
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  2820. I agree, the media is extremely biased.
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  2821. They're all destroying it bud. Gatekeeping and cronyism is the name of the game.
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  2822. Big Bernie Sanders here! Do people not realize that the Democrat Party is literally accusing the GOP of what they're doing? They scream fascist? But which party is attempting to imprison their political opponents? Which one is intentionally flooding the nation with asylum seekers and trying to get them amnesty to flip the political system? Which one is using the courts to keep or remove people from ballots in order to stifle political opposition? The corporate wing of the Democratic Party will NEVER allow Progressives to lead it. Until people realize that; you'll be sold a lie and keep party line voting.
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  2823. Personally, I don't agree that Islamists are the greatest threat. The greatest threat lies WITHIN the elected body.
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  2824. Here's the biggest problem in Congress.. Those campaigning and win EITHER: 1: Are fully aware of the freak show that exists and are just looking to milk the cow. 2. Are insanely overwhelmed to near despair, with few pushing on to help Americans. The top issues right now BY FAR are Social Security and the mandatory budget debt crisis. We have a rapidly changing demographic an rising interest debts on the public budget. What happen in 10 years when the Social Security fund runs out and there are too many retirees and not enough young tax payers? What happens when interest becomes 50% of our budget and is fiscally normal? We are either going to go into a long term Government shut-down and debt default OR hyperinflation. Everything else is a side show where the US Government is trying to bully it's way into a position to erase it's own debt and use Russia and China to absorb the fiscal damage at the world stage.
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  2825.  @kosh9639  Wages are inflationary by nature. If you enforce wages that are not suitable to the market; you ultimately drive up prices and stifle supply chains. What needs to happen is lending laws need to be tightened and demand needs to be curved so that supply can catch up. When debt (demand) outperforms GDP; prices rise and wages stagnate. If the only goal is to raise wages; all you'll do is destroy jobs and raise prices.
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  2826. Me thinks you are watching very specific news outlets. Being a leader isn't about intelligence; it's about intuition and surrounding yourself with competence. Have you seen the team he's acquired? JD Vance, Vivek, Tulsi, Elon Musk, Kennedy? I'd advise you start watching independent interviews instead of MSM if that's that case.
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  2827.  @_soupnazi  Where on earth do you live? If you live on the border, they will ask you if you're a US citizen regardless. That's standard border security. Too many people basing their ideas off of social media algorithms imo
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  2828. More like BOTH partners have $200k worth of student loans. That alone would be roughly $4000k a month.
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  2829. TO be fair, most people don't look this good at this age.
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  2830.  @AndrewSmart-sk1qo  Exactly!
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  2831. Love or hate him; easy to say behind a screen.
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  2832. Drugs? Just because she's a pornstar doesn't mean she's on drugs smh...
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  2833. It's because everybody lives in social media echo chambers. Media algorithms are rotting people's brains.
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  2834. You're projecting Katherine
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  2835.  @katherinewatkins4182  How so? You claim that other's a hateful? Have you ever considered that YOU are fostering hate against people that don't hate?
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  2836. People are so simple. Why do you think we're in this conflict to begin with? Blackrock wants to build strip-malls in Ukraine, period. Why else do you think the Obama Admin formed a coup against Kiev? Then you wonder why Russia got mad? It's all about political and corporate control. If you think that Russia invaded (just cause they could for no reason) you have no business discussing this topic.
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  2837.  @SamRey91  That's interesting; I'm not sure what to make of that. There are quite a few boomers than have less than $100k in assets, but there's also a top tier 10% that having nearly $5M in assets. A lot of people see the stock market and that's all they value at their life-stage. I guess it depends on how well you're doing.
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  2838. You're focusing too much on Trump and not enough on the campaign/cabinet he's assembled. Too many people think that the President makes all the decisions for some reason.
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  2839.  @rjsoderlund81  And who taught you that Project 2025 was relevant, let alone worth talking about? Until you discover that 99% of your positions are not yours (but rather someone elses); you won't have independent thoughts. Good advice to live by btw. These thoughts aren't yours; they are the agendas of corporate oligarchies.
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  2840. Unlikely, taking God out of the equation is allowing a lot of children to heal from generations of childhood abuse predicated on God's laws. This issue is stemming from the culture of (me-me-me) on my (smartphones). The parents don't care and the child's behavior is reflected in that apathy and emotional disconnection. The idea is to create a well rounded and critical thinking adult. You don't do that by making them conform to a religious ideology; nor do you do that by giving them smartphones and completely ignoring them. That's what many Gen X'ers and some Millennial parents are doing unfortunately.
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  2841. No, but I actually don't blame her. I feel like the DNC took her prisoner and will send her to gitmo if she says the wrong thing.
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  2842. @stevemorlock5366 To be honest, there's nothing you CAN do about it. In order to stop to debt crisis; Medicare/SS have to be reformed. They will NEVER do it! Boomers would rather run it dry and leave their children with nothing than take a benefits cut or tax hike. If people aren't willing to sacrifice something; they'll lose it all entirely.
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  2843. 85 Million? There's no way! Republicans are not doing the math on this election? Democrats took Ohio by storm in the 2023 General Election and Republicans were nowhere to be seen. If that is one instance in a swing-state; how do they expect to win the Presidential election. Keep in mind there has been mass dysfunction with the House under McCarthy.
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  2844.  @cmdrgarbage1895  Probably because people see news and think it's unbiased; so they associate the messenger with the source as mutual. They think it's the same thing. It's the problem with institutional thinking, which is what elections are coming down to now. Saving the institution vs. destroying it.
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  2845. Not a single person I've ever met has espoused why this man was such a "terrible president." They always resort to amateur garbage like his 'tweets' or rude behavior at rallies. Which I've still yet to see. Then they will make up some bs about how Trump caused Covid and got 200,000 Americans killed. Mind you these are the same people that would have screamed "fascist" if Trump had single handedly shut down the nation in January. Which is what they virtue signal that they wanted him to do. You can argue about his character and use of words all you want. But terrible President on the basis of policy? I've yet to hear anyone articulate such a thing with actual evidence.
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  2846. Politicians - inflate the dollar, cause shortages, and cripple US energy production by ending Keystone and putting sanctions on Russia. Also Politicians - blame capitalism, blame airlines, and blame oil companies for not meeting demand.
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  2847. Horrible theories? Do you realize the ignorance and irony in your comment? You should be more liberal and open to information, not closed off.
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  2848. So.... what is it? Incompetence? False targeting? Sadism? Did an AI system launch it's own missile? Did they have concealed weapons? Were they suspects? Somebody release something, come on guys..
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  2849. Welcome to Florida, hurricane names get slapped on desserts here. Congrats on your Helene arrival; here's a cake.
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  2850.  @zionismisterrorism8716  Fascinating. Unfortunately, I have no lineage to Europe. At least nothing recent and I'm already married. I feel the options are rather limited as far as the average American goes. If you're talking about St. Lucia, Georgia, etc. Moving to Mexico wouldn't be my first option either. My first love was Japan and South Korea. It was my dream move until life caught up with me.
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  2851.  @beaf6537  Recently got back from there, no joke. Billings - Ok/Industrial (cheaper) Bozeman - gorgeous (expensive) Helena - beautiful (less expensive) Missoula - little run down (cheaper) But if anything else, go to Glacier National Park. - St. Mary KOA, but book far in advance.
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  2852.  @prolific1518  There's not enough foreclosures to prompt a housing market crash like 2008. It took 4 years of rising inventory to create that environment.
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  2853. No they're not bud, it's the other way around. Some 20% of Democrats have switched to Trump. You'll see come next week :)
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  2854.  @timothyletwin5911  Nazi regime? This is what I'm talking about; where on earth are you deducing these ideas? I truly thought the last 4 years would wake people up to deception coming from talking heads in corporate media, but somehow people still buy it? Do you realize how crazy the use of the word 'Nazi' is in this context?
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  2855. That's because Ashkenazi Jews (as well as east Asians) have an average IQ that is 113; compared to an average American that is 99-100. This will mean that there are a larger proportion of Jews and east Asians in positions of power and competence.
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  2856.  @samapak7  True and now the pendulum will swing the other way. Most people don't realize that a wing is rising until about 5+ years into it's progression. The right-wing began rising on the radical ends during 2019-2020. Radicalism in general is what destroys nations.
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  2857. He build the home and took the risk; quit being a tool @chrism8180 
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  2858. Oh God forbid we stop putting antimony based flame retardants on everything that are linked to cancer SMH
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  2859. America doesn't need Trump again; his appointment of Jerome Powell got us into the inflation mess we are in. He even threatened to fire him if he didn't resort to negative interest rates. It surely would have resulted in worse inflation than we had.
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  2860. Trust me, I've lived in the US for 28 years. I don't recognize this country, I don't recognize the leadership, and I don't recognize my fellow Americans. There are so many holes in the boat it's crazy. Western society is going down the tubes.
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  2861. My God, you people eat up media garbage like no other. Let's see (how many times can we repeat "Trump lied' and 'Biden has achievements"? Let's go for a new record!
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  2862. If Obama had done this they'd be giving him another Nobel Peace Prize.
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  2863.  @Skygrey2943  Trump rolled back Medicare policy; care to elaborate on where you heard that one?
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  2864. I would heavily suggest people create an 'unthinkable plan' in the case of nuclear conflict. Make a list of supplies and locations you can go to avoid fall-out.
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  2865. Well, some 96% of women on only-fans don't earn enough to do it for a living. It has MASSIVE inequalities.
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  2866.  @joec5544g  It's not really supply and demand unfortunately; not in the way most people think. Covid crashed more than half of small businesses nationwide. Now mega-corporations are using the latest algorithms to cheat wages and manipulate prices. It's all about speculation now; even the grocery stores are doing it. All those corporations now have immense sway over wages and prices because all their competitors went out of business. Kroger updated their sale placards; red for card, orange for coupon, blue for bulk. Now they're all red; so customers get cheated at the checkout thinking that things are on sale with the member card.
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  2867. Be the change that you want. The tyrant is everywhere, not just at the helm of leadership. People in general are making the decisions that you are seeing actively destroy society.
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  2868. They're the party of corporate oligarchs; they hope we're stupid.
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  2869. Americans did it to themselves unfortunately. Our culture is rapidly changing and people want to have their cake and eat it too.
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  2870. Getting a degree with a likelihood for high paying job is something people comb over too easily. My wife was pressured at 18 to go to college and then get her Masters to become a Physician Assistant. She says it's the largest mistake of her entire life. Sure it pays $165k full time, but people seldom talk about the reality of healthcare. It is a thankless and horrible job; regardless if you're a PCA, RN, NP, PA, or surgeon. You will be expected to do the work of three individuals and all of your intuition and practice is outsourced to an administrative board and insurance companies. She regrets is whole-heartedly and constantly feels guilty about the student debt. Thankfully we've not much longer to go, but once we're done; she wants out. I think a lot of these women are being pressured by friends and parents because those people have massive dating and marital problems. Therefore they believe women should be able to throw a man in the garbage and take agency over her own income. Boomers and Gen X never learned anything about relationships. Therefore they taught their kids to take what they can and give nothing back.
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  2871. Weed? He was charged with possession of cocaine; did you watch the video? He doesn't need a license for the pistol or the AR-15. He said he has a CCW; which he doesn't technically need because it's a constitutional carry state since June 2022. The weapons are taken into consideration (in case they were used as part of the drug charge). However, this will most likely be disregarded, seeing as the weapons played now direct role in his drug possession. This is common practice! Weapons are taken into consideration if they played a role in the trafficking or possession of illegal substances. Nobody in this state gets arrested and charged purely on MJ possession anymore; it's a major waste of time and resources.
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  2872. My greatest fear is that the future (10-20) years from now is going to be nothing but people staying inside because sociopaths will be roaming the streets. Your children will have no sense of hope, be completely isolated because nobody socializes anymore, and we all whither away as our greatest salvation became our ultimate doom.
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  2873. It's crazy how bad the corruption is, even here in Ohio. And we're considered to be much more moderate in terms of bribery and lobbying in this state. Norfolk Southern is lying! The East Palestine Mayor is lying! The Governor of Ohio is lying! And the Feds are lying! All this boils down to (not wanting the liability). I'll be ditching this state soon enough. I hope Norfolk Southern and the state of Ohio get the crap sued out of them. It boggled my mind how people voted for Dewine even after he allowed Amy Acton to destroy 55% of all Ohio small-business. Yet Ohioans chose to re-elect him? For anybody that is interested in Ohio; don't bother. The culture and social atmosphere has rapidly gone down-hill in the last two decades. You can't say hello to anyone anymore and everybody is obsessed with themselves. I've been to about every place in this state and aside from a few small towns (there's nothing good about this state anymore. I'd rather go down south where people still have some decency in the way they speak and use their voting powers.
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  2874. Not at all! Some 72% of all Government spending is mandatory (autopilot). Unless Social Security and Medicare are reformed; nothing will change. You can cut 100% of the military and discretionary. You won't stop the debt crisis.
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  2875. If our Government goes into shutdown after December 3rd, it's more than likely going to trigger an economic collapse. Unemployment checks and corporate welfare are the only things keeping this illusion going.
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  2876. The country has been going downhill largely since 2008. Don't sweat it, I think it's just a collapse phase; all civilizations have them. I'm actually looking forward to the next civilization; everyone should. Try not to get caught up in doom and gloom. Personally, the next big shift will probably be in 2029 I'd imagine; then again in 2032. It's largely debt based. Pump/dump schemes with monetary police to hold up the weight of the failing system.
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  2877. People would rather continue to dwindle and rot under a corrupt Keynesian system of central/private banks to rinse/repeat to steal the wealth of the citizen.
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  2878. CNN gets your laundered tax dollars. If it was ACTUALLY a private company; they would have gone out of business long ago.
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  2879. Probably because they hate Trump. I for one despise Trump; he's a narcissistic out for his own interests. With that being said, I would have to lose a massive amount of braincells to vote for Harris.
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  2880. I would never vote for Biden, but it's pretty clear to me that he'll be President again for four years, unfortunately. Republicans are not doing the math and mass splintering only allows Democrats to lockstep against Trump. If you think Trump will win in a landslide, you're going to be disappointed.
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  2881. Prices are so ridiculous that people are switching from Walmart to Aldi lol
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  2882.  @TheBlazersfan22  You're joking right? We don't need a single payer system, we need to get insurance out of healthcare and force Medicare to negotiate with Pharma. They are actively patenting their products so they can price gouge you. Your freaking albuterol inhaler has a patented piece of plastic that allows it to be upcharged multiple times higher than in Canada or Mexico. Get bureaucracy and big corporate corruption out of healthcare and let medical professionals do their jobs.
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  2883.  @brianmeen2158  Is it? I disagree! It's changing and getting worse.
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  2884. The Retirement Crisis is the biggest COG in the machine that broke and nobody from the media is talking about it. Not only boomers, but early Gen X retirees from the Covid 2020 shutdowns and vaccine mandates. Remember how people were going nuts trying to figure out who was buying Florida homes for CASH? Those were Gen X and Boomers paying 401k CASH for those homes, largely because the Feds suspended the 401k early distribution penalty (10%). We had anywhere from 10 to 15 million people in 18 months leave their long term careers. Many switched jobs, some settled for gig work, others retired completely. Unfortunately, due to birth rates and inventory of young people in trades (there was no way in hell) that millennials were going to take over for the people retiring. The Retirement Crisis was coming regardless; Covid simply sped it up by 10 years fast. It will ultimately test this country's endurance!
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  2885. Dear God, stop trying to elect this con-artist. He's already wrecked the economy by appointing Jerome Powel and setting the interest rates to near 0% in 2020. If you re-elect him, I can guarantee you that he'll do the same thing.
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  2886. It's not the labor exactly, apprenticeships are rough; $25k or less in most states for 4-5 years. That's a lot of time to not be maximizing your earnings. Plus, skilled trades typically max out around $70k unless you go into business for yourself.
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  2887. Lol vote That's a good one. What's the point in voting if a poll executive can adjudicate your digital ballot?
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  2888. I'm still waiting for simpletons to tell me what Trump did poorly; aside from mean tweets. Of course, the only reply you'll get is "I shouldn't have to explain the obvious!" Then they proceed to mock you for being stupid and not being 'educated' on the horrible things Trump did; despite them refusing to elaborate. Same old weak tactics...
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  2889. Conservative from Ohio here! This is absolutely appalling; even for a state like Louisiana. Religious institutions have swelled the GOP since 2020. This will truly be the death of the Republican Party.
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  2890. I wish it were JUST the processed foods. If you have an artificially scented candle in your house; neurotoxins are flying around in the room and being absorbed thru your lungs and breaching the blood-brain barrier. US items are considerably more dangerous than people think. Chances are that most people have applied at least 100 different carcinogens to their body in a single day. Get rid of your soaps, shampoos, deodorant, candles, everything.
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  2891. And what is your point exactly? Putting tariffs against Russia doesn't give the US any further leverage to de-escalate the war in Ukraine. If anything, it will just make it worse.
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  2892. @AbqDez Try not to let media control your expectations. Propaganda is at a whole new level these days. I saw back in 2014 that the media was trying to pull something with the anti-Russia rhetoric. They were grooming the public to be ready for an full anti-Russian cultural movement. It didn't matter what the details were. Big money moves big levers. If you let them, they will have full control over what you think is important and condition you for their next intention.
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  2893. @ If you look hard enough for illuminati symbols; you'll find some. That's just a basic joke inferring that (it's easy to find things that confirm a sort of bias). Giving favoritism to Russia is something the media loves to condition Americans on; it's been the narrative since 2016. We could say that the US is showing favoritism towards Kazakhstan, but that doesn't fit the narrative people are fed. Personally, I think putting tariffs against Russia would only exacerbate the problem. They are a nuclear power. Plus, we can't pretend that the US isn't involved in the creation of this war. Getting to the root of the conflict tells an unfamiliar story.
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  2894. The more you try to mettle with people's natural decisions, the more inequalities you'll produce. The Scandinavians already tried this; trying to erase the social behaviors and differences in the upbringing of boys and girls. Now they have the largest career inequalities in the world. Not a bad thing, but it goes to show that everything has an equal and opposite reaction. When are these people going to find out that things are the way they are because of individual choices?
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  2895. Because it's easier for people to cheat when they don't get their way. Americans are absolutely nutz!
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  2896. My dad was PD for 35 years! I was all set to follow in his footsteps until he started having breakdowns and became an alcoholic. From an emotional standpoint; I didn't want to end up like he did. He's seen the dead bodies of thousands in his career. From a logical standpoint, me being a police officer is not going to fix the homeless and fatherlessness crisis. Bless these officers, but it's just a cog in the wheel. Nothing changes and only seems to get worse.
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  2897. Because his economic policy resulted in disaster. Sure, he wasn't the one that shut down state economies, but he DID appoint Jerome Powell and aim at getting the federal funds rate under 0.25%. Probably to boost the markets before he got re-elected. It resulted in massive inflation from surging demand in 2020. We created nothing new, but we printed trillions that inflated the markets. Now it's a day-dream to own a home for many people. Explain to an 18 y/o how he is going to buy a home (average price $427,000).
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  2898. These UFO's are essentially "spectator mode drones" from Halo lol Makes perfect sense; they can watch you, but you can't catch or hurt them.
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  2899. One can hope I guess lol
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  2900. Why? Please elaborate why we should support Ukraine instead of just repeating media garbage. I swear, the philosophical and economic understanding of the average person is in the negative range.
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  2901.  @diegoharo7943  I wish it were that simple, but markets ebb and flow with bull and bust periods. All your auto-pilot programs have to be COLA adjusted each year and are approx 74% of the entire Federal budget. It's not like Congress is implementing brand new Trillion dollar deficits that surge in new spending areas every 6 months. Almost all of the new spending goes to maintenance of old programs.
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  2902.  @Bmizzzle1  Problematic, but it's peanuts in comparison.
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  2903. I've been calling this for the last 6 months. This election will be a repeat of 1992 with Ross Perot. As much as I like RFK, he will be handing the election to Biden. Trump lost the moment he barely secured 50% of the Iowa Caucus. He'll be lucky to get 40% of the votes as Republicans splinter into the Libertarian and We the People 'Parties'.
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  2904. Is this guy a grifter or just clueless? Foreclosures are at a less than 1% rate currently. It took 4 years of rising foreclosure ratings (upwards of 3-8%) to cause the 2009 collapse. There is no mortgage collapse; this guy is selling bs.
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  2905. That's not a very intellectual stance to take as far as history goes bud. Not just to Solzhenitsyn, but the thousands of other stories and writers that described the time period. It's on par with 9/11 tower collapse denial.
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  2906. Trump support in Ohio has completely died. Democrats took the ballot by storm in 2023 and I expect them to do so again in 2024 based on the turnout. Republicans are exhausted from 8 years of Donald Trump and the party has nothing to show for it.
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  2907. Americans have gotten fat, complacent, and whiny. Younger generations think they are the center of the world and all older people care about is getting their Social Security. People have forgotten what it's like to LOSE 'everything'.
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  2908.  @robertau543  Canada is a complete different story. Your economy is significantly more vulnerable to the global issues at stake.
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  2909.  @thehollyduckie9002  So what system doesn't force people to work? I'll wait...
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  2910.  @sirseven3  Well, what constitutes a skilled rate? My first year I drove paid me $70k for a daily position. CDL was $5k up front. That same job is worth $85k now. It doesn't pay the inflation adjusted amount it did 40 years ago perhaps, but it's still a large wage for starting out in your early 20s. IT on the other hand is completely saturated and there's a number of complexities given technology grows at such a rapid rate. Computer science degrees are often obsolete by the time you graduate. Easy to blame corporations for everything, but all I see is a natural phenomenon stemming from aggressive growth. If supply doesn't grow linear with demand; you get problems with wages and prices. Most of these problems can usually be rationalized thru fundamentals.
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  2911.  @rezedent9104  Vaccines aren't even half the problem. Yes there are concerns with them, but the food, agriculture, hygiene products, and technology are largely driving the societal problems. Heck, even lighting a candle from Bath and Body Works is actively releasing neurotoxins in your home. People working there should sue because they're probably developing cancer.
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  2912.  @ChickentNug  Well, ethyl mercury was taken out of vaccines nearly a century ago. However, they do use aluminum, which is not as bad but still toxic to humans.
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  2913. She's an A+ actress on other platforms; wink wink lol
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  2914. If everyone's super; nobody is. Unfortunately, in order to bring up the bottom of society; you have to the upper half dumber.
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  2915. Virtue signaling accomplishes nothing and no logical person would every say such a thing. Why? Because nobody of a higher intellect or moral status wants to live next to trash neighbors. Housing is all supply and demand; blindly blaming corporations because it's the (new counter culture) doesn't make anyone smart. Want to know why people can't afford housing anymore; blame the market and blame the government for some 50% inflation in the last 2.5 years. For anyone reading: go look at the USD Monetary Supply 0-4 before making any dumb comments contesting my claim btw.
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  2916.  @opensocietyenjoyer  Well, nobody knows what anything is anymore; thank the internet I guess.
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  2917.  @collettechamberlin5378  Poor people don't pay taxes bud; they steal tax revenue. As frustrating as that is; it's the truth.
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  2918. @Neil Stefan Mason Well, maybe. Let's not jump to aggressive conclusions, you'll just make yourself angry. Not a good thing.
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  2919. A very small number of homes are actually being bought up by corporations. Home are unaffordable because the Trump Administration with Jerome Powell at the head of he Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to 0.25% and they spent $8 Trillion. More buyers = higher prices. No real growth = stagnant wages.
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  2920. Sounds like your friends needs to gain some humility.
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  2921. LOL they understand? Doubt it! Narcissistic parents know NO humility!
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  2922. If you really think it was staged by 'complicit SS agents' wanting Trump to get shot. Then you seriously need to get out of your basement and see the daylight. That's just ridiculous and people think it makes them look smart to wind up the idea of a multi-tiered conspiracy with hundreds of accomplices, smh.
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  2923. If Trump had gotten his way with Jerome Powell and allowed the federal funds rate to go 'negative' in 2020. Inflation would have been considerably worse. Most of the inflation falls on his presidency. It takes anywhere from 6 months to 2 years for debt to be realized in the market. Biden didn't help with his student loan cancellation antics. Demand and cheap debt were out of control! This is how you get inflation like we are seeing today.
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  2924. As much as I agree that Democrats have done a crap job; Republicans shouldn't become complacent. If you do, I'm fairly certain that you'll be disappointed. Polls have Republicans winning anywhere from 10 to 72 seats in the House from what I've seen, which is an extremely wide margin. Anything short of that is going to be consider a GOP failure. I'm going to be sitting on the side-lines, along with my money and supplies. Whatever the outcome is; the results will be contested. You can be sure of that! Expect blood folks!
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  2925. They don't like it each! Pelosi recently came out and ran her mouth. Biden hated that the corporate wing wanted him gone. Biden and the DNC were largely siding with the Progressives. Harris was the corporate puppet and they wanted him OUT!
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  2926. The world has been filled up with empathy lacking young men without purpose! What else do young men with no empathy and no purpose do? They subscribe to radical ideologies and become violent! The same thing is happening all over Europe and in the US as well. The entire system is rotting.
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  2927. I think the tech market it way over-saturated personally. It's a massive bubble about to pop.
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  2928. A very simple set of questions: 1. What does 'Palestine' mean? - "The coast from Phoenicia down to Egypt." 2. Where did 'Palestine' come from? - A mandate state created by the British Government to settle international migration of 'largely Jews. 3. Is "Palestinian' a distinct ethnic group; YES! Largely consisting of Semitic peoples. 4. Was there really anyone living in this region during the late 19th century? - NO! Jews began migrating to this part of the world during the 1890s+ when anti-Semitism was rearing it's ugly head again. At the same time, Arabs from around the world started to repopulate this region as well when economic prosperity started to flourish.
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  2929. Omicron is just another media pumped issue to drive the narrative. My wife ended up getting strep and I ended up getting some viral bronchitis. Nobody even cares about Covid anymore, because it's NOT an issue. These Healthcare companies are still on Medicare payroll for getting positive PCR tests and the media is still in love with pumping the numbers. Follow the money. Nobody is scared of Omicron, they are scared of what their state will do to their businesses again.
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  2930. Audit? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Collapse the Fed!
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  2931. Assuming the other side isn't doing the same thing is dangerous. Both parties are actively cheating and at war with it's voter basis. All of this is a media illusion.
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  2932. I'm not saying 8 million illegals in 4 years is good, but I assure you (the US was a dumpster before they came here). I imagine most will be going back once they realize how big of a scam this is lol
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  2933. 'Dislikes' were removed for a very simple reason. The people in charge and their cronies in political office don't like people being challenged. One of the instigating issues was when they got tired of watching their vaccine campaigns get shredded by users downvoting.
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  2934. I've been doing it for 9 years. Been doing 24 hours fasts each day for the last 2 years. Never been better, never felt better, never looked better.
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  2935. Because people don't pay attention, that's why. We were sold a lie with the outbreak of Covid and it turned into a Pharma scam with Pfizer and Moderns lobbying to ban anything that could aid in suppressing Covid. All to sell you their BS vaccines and Covid pill with poor efficacy. Now it's happening yet again in Ukraine. NATO ousted a sitting President in 2014 and replaced him. Sold weapons and missiles to Ukraine to fight a border war mostly in Donbass. Now Russia is angry about it and invades. All the while NATO throws up their hands like they did nothing wrong. It's a classic power play. Countries are dropping like flies from the USD. The US and the rest of NATO are making political moves to aggressively push it. Within the next five years, I guarantee you we will lose Reserve status. Then the end comes...
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  2936.  @BETTERWORLDSGT  Nope, Governor of Texas (as well as others) have already made it known that they will defy the executive order to their fullest extent.
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  2937. Inevitable from centralization and lack of anti-trust enforcement. People forget that monopolies allow industries to have immense control over production, pricing, marketing, and distribution. Google and Microsoft need to get whooped.
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  2938.  @Orchidaceous1  So you dislike Barack Obama? Or are you referring to the media lies?
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  2939.  @caliindoor  Does saying that make you feel good about yourself and existence?
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  2940. The biggest issue is that adults were using e-cigs and vaping to quit cigarettes. But teenagers were starting e-cigs and vaping as a fad and abusing it.
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  2941. I'm afraid not, it's what happens when you print $7 Trillion dollars. A lot of people bought up new homes and additional homes in 2020-2022. Those people are locked in and demand is massively pent up for Gen Z buyers. The housing market will explode again in 2025 even if rates dip a little bit.
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  2942. This is not a free-market; it is a centrally planned market. The Federal Reserve controls interest rates and QE. Those two factors massively determine the stock market and other independent markets.
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  2943.  @jerirasulo9543  I'm sure you can do your own research.
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  2944. Unfortunately, I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. When he first came in, his campaign was basically a promise of reincarnating Reagan's economy of the 1980s. Mind you I was younger and more naïve when I first got attracting to his movement, but I never considering myself MAGA. I only thought he was the better of two options. Fast forward, it's scary how much his movement has changed. Although it has shrunk to a large degree; it's attracted a significant amount of unstable minded people. I have these people in my own family mind you. It wasn't until 2021 that they began to talk about "How Biden was derailing trains and poisoning the forests to kill the deer." Whether or not this was the initial plan eludes my knowledge, but MAGA has been infiltrated by a large swathe of religious organizations and crazy conspiracy groups. Even Lauren Boebert has repeatedly said that it's the JOB of the church to steer government and that the separation of church and state should be done away with. It's crazy how quickly movements can get out of control.
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  2945. It's an illusion. Women are prey to their own mating instincts. They see that someone is not educated and they think (no future investment). The problem with that logic is that most of the time their own education makes them a debt slave and working class men are already middle class by the age of 25. Social media and an unwillingness to ignore institutional/status hierarchies is killing them.
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  2946. @ Depends, I've never met anyone that ended up in deep debt by some act of God that was completely separate from their own actions. My wife and I were hit with some $30k in medical debt the last 4 years. However, it's not that bad if you maintain good decisions in other areas.
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  2947. A vote for Trump is a vote for another wave of crushing inflation. Do people forget that he appointed Jerome Powell? The guy that printed $8 Trillion and set interest rates to 0% in 2020? Trump cannot save this country; nobody can. It's a cycle of regression that has to happen and there is no way out of it.
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  2948. My wife and I are 31; dog, child, home. We live in central Ohio. We have 25 houses on our street. There is one couple; 38 and 40. The other 23 of our neighbors are 54 or older. Owning a home isn't everything it's cranked up to be. I'm a millennial that grew up during the last family-housing boom of the 2000s. Pools, kids, parties, cook-outs, etc. I never thought that the scariest thing in the world would be that residential areas don't have children anymore. It makes me fear for my own child.
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  2949. The two most unpopular Presidents in US history will ONCE AGAIN be on the ballot. This all comes down to deeply rooted DNC and RNC corruption. At least people have proven they can over-ride the RNC's wishes many times. How long will Democrats put up with the DNC corrupting their primary and caucus elections? "The eyes have it!" Remember that one? I recall that Colorado Democrats were pissed. Then the next morning they bowed down to their DNC God's and asked for forgiveness.
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  2950. If you have no student debt or stupid car payment, then yes :)
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  2951. Nah, more like 35-40%
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  2952. At this point, Barack Obama's record is considered 'far right' according to the Democratic Party.
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  2953. Love you Bernie, but you should have boarded the Kennedy train over a year ago.
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  2954.  @MrTeamFoolish  A cartel of petrol companies can't even manipulative the price of a barrel of oil. How exactly does gas and milk get manipulated? Me thinks you don't understand (bid/ask) pricing in markets.
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  2955. I wonder who Martha Stewart pissed off enough to get her thrown in prison? I guarantee you Nancy wakes up on the wrong side of the bed some days and chooses random people she sees in magazines to fry. It's all a game to these people.
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  2956. People are the problem; not just politicians or corporate jerks. You have a country that is rampant with cancer, diabetes, 5 second attention spans, and all other things related to ignorance in general. If you want to find out what's wrong with this country; look at how people behave and think. People have absolutely lost their minds in this country. It's one reason I'm leaving the mid-west; everyone's brain is gone. Bathing in the insanity of social media, a wage that is being scorched by inflation, and student loans that can 'mathematically' NEVER be paid back.
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  2957.  @bakersmileyface  How did pensions take a nose dive? I think you mean stock portfolios? Btw, the bear market began mid-February; it was inevitable since the rate cuts in September.
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  2958. What's awesome about his record? Trying to outdo Trump on spending? Student loan forgiveness shenanigans that ramped up inflation further? Getting involved in two wars overseas? What in the world are you talking about 'awesome' record?
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  2959. This is not a left and right issue, this is an issue of religion. We have too many people that treat the CDC and mainstream media like the word of God. It's absolutely decimated my family. Many boomers and Gen X refuse to believe that the MSM and Government agencies are conspiring to lie for profits. Try giving them any number of peer reviewed trial data on mask or vaccine efficacy and people short circuit. If there's anything I've learned from the last two years, it's that almost everybody has their own religion. Whether it's bowing to God, Government, Pharmaceutical companies, MSM, or themselves is their decision.
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  2960. I remember the Anorexia/Bulimia movements of the early 2000s; attempting to normalize eating disorders among teens and children all in the name of acceptance. Society was smart enough to demonize it and kill it dead. Now they're trying to harm your children again by trying to preach 'tolerance' while getting a hard-on preaching sexual non-sense to your children. These people literally get an adrenaline rush trying to introduce these topics to children. Stop aiding and abetting these pedo-predator groups people; have some common sense!
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  2961. It's brain-cells actually. UBI would send pricing out of control. Consider how badly a 0.25% federal funds rate has sent inflation out of control from 2020-2023 and then imagine how much worse it would be by giving people free money.
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  2962. I'm no fan of Biden, but how exactly did he cause this? The migrant crisis began in 2019/2020. Destabilization due to Covid lockdowns and Federal Reserve printing Trillions caused global distress and it's getting worse.
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  2963.  @Jman-ef6fc  How so? By making the dumbest decisions in history that lengthened the pandemic and made corporations big profits?
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  2964. I don't think people realize how divided the Democratic Party is. Pelosi and Schumer were absolutely furious when Biden refused to step down in 2023 and early 2024. The progressives were using this as leverage until they couldn't defend him anymore post-debate. At the same time, Harris and Biden have never liked each other. It's like the relationship between Hillary and Obama.
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  2965. Yeah, we already got Obamacare and the Insurance companies got rich on those contracts. Now they rule the markets by price gouging their co-pays and pharma/hospital contracts. Let's DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN in other areas of the market. Economics needs to be a requirement for HS graduation; the amount of stupidity is astounding.
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  2966. Better this is breaking now; otherwise they would have covered it up like the Wuhan Institute.
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  2967. Watching FOX News will make some people more apt to react to things they didn't used to. This entire problem is a coping mechanism that kids are using to traverse the horror that is (education in 2023). Social media and lack of parental involvement have left kids 'feeling behind.' They will do anything to fit in and be accepted, especially if they don't have a healthy family life. Believe me, parental involvement in education dropped off a cliff several years ago.
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  2968. Nobody cares anymore. All people care about is how they can make other people look like hypocrites; no principle and no ideology. They flip flop to whatever the social media trend is; that's how shallow these pro-abortion people are. I've never met one that didn't ALSO meet the standards for defining 'mental illness'. I also find it hilarious that most of the people screaming about being pro-choice are white women, while most of the aborted children are black.
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  2969. All depends on how they crunch the data. How anyone can trust these agencies anymore is beyond crazy. Masks believe it or not produce MORE cases of infection. Not a single city in the US (population adjusted for age and density) had a decrease in cases because of a mask mandate, in contrast to one that didn't.
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  2970. I know people love to insult and joke about Biden, but at this point it's not funny anymore. This globalist puppet is hellbent on destroying everything before he goes to the grave. It's literally a game to them; it excites them.
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  2971. In all honesty, I'm not afraid of Russia or China. I'm afraid of NATO detonating a bomb on US or allied soil; then blaming someone else for it.
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  2972. All inflation is caused by debts. The FED writes a blank check to the Treasury and then the treasury issues out bonds and mortgage vessels that Reserve banks then lend out. Once a loan is written, the inflation becomes realized, but still takes on average 6-18 months to actually influence long term market trends.
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  2973. Well, inflation will make an aggressive resurgence probably in 2026/2027. The FED has no choice, otherwise they risk interest payments going too high. They are planning to push thru future recessions with higher inflation and higher GDP on foreign labor/lower wages.
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  2974. People aren't paying attention; his rally sizes have considerably shrunk! They claim it was 10,000 people when nearly a quarter of the stadium was vacant. Right wing media is highly exaggerating his current turnout. He's only 2pts+ in favorability since 2021 and he has to contend with a third party candidate. He isn't going to win.
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  2975. If you think it's Republicans asking Biden to step down; you're out of touch. Only the radical end of the DNC wants him to remain in position. I think you'll be surprised how many people come out for Kennedy in November.
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  2976. What do they do? Freeze them?
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  2977.  @beckybailey940  Sounds like higher taxation for corporations. Isn't that what Democrats are always touting? Does the Democratic Party actually have any solutions aside from (Trump bad)?
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  2978. Because they're narcissists and narcissists need a cult leader in order to function.
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  2979. Yep! Broken by DNC corruption and dirty tactics. We are not a third world country!
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  2980. It all came down to LABOR vs. INSTITUTIONS. People are tired of letting an international oligarchy dictate what they see, hear, and think.
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  2981.  @bobcortez9471  Well, that's the old theory and I would have agreed with you ten years ago perhaps. The problem is that these companies will continue to diminish wages and benefits because if the company fails; they can cash in their 'options' and claim bankruptcy. They have ZERO incentive to do the right thing. Take DoorDash for example. They offered 3.50 basepay back in the day; then it slowly depreciated to $1.50/$2.00. The company made bigger profits and their entire company runs on Dashers that have less than 3 months experience. Almost nobody sticks around long term because it's unsustainable as a means of work.
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  2982.  @bobcortez9471  If minimum wage is abolished, then debt has to be restricted. Low interest debts for individuals and companies allows for very high price speculation and price fluctuation due to a higher demand of buyers. This is how you get rising prices and stagnating wages. Many of these companies will use these methods to raise prices on their products, but cheat employees out of compensation for inflation or cost of living. It's all a dirty game with big business.
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  2983. Yep! The lack of (Gods or God) leads to the invention of (atheism OR self-worship). Both of which implode society and then worship of God or Gods started all over again. Funny how it's a self fulfilling prophecy.
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  2984. I think that's a bit off though. Uneducated does coincide with voting patterns, but it largely comes down to organized religious upbringings. Those people have a convenient way of viewing life where the man is always right and everything else gets in the way of success.
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  2985. @trumps hairflap Jesus, you're desperate; no life, welfare check, Xanax, and Zoloft I assume?
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  2986. Nobody liked Biden. There were simply too many people that hated Trump, because he said mean things. Apparently saying mean things makes you a fascist. But actually building a fascist regime and implementing it is progress to these people?
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  2987. If you waited this long, don't sell it. Just ride it up on the next bull run in 2024/2025.
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  2988. Politicians have always been boring, people foolishly conflate social media coverage with non-boring. Turn off your social media and politicians will become boring again. What I find most annoying is that people can't figure out that their own tech habits give them their current perceptions. Yet they blame others for it.
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  2989. Just like the October Revolution in Russia. Planned and funded by governments and corporations to steal wealth and corrupt a society for a century. Then they return to milk it again and again.
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  2990. Your sentiments are misplaced. Social media algorithms have convinced Americans that the world is becoming a terrible place, regardless of their affiliation. So now those people have gone out and MADE the US a terrible place. It's a self fulfilling prophecy all around.
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  2991. Yes, cloud seeding is real, but the government isn't that smart lol
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  2992. Bud, Mexico isn't even in the top 5 countries of mass illegal immigration the last 4 years. They're coming from everywhere and fortune 500 companies are paying international contractors to bring them here for cheap labor. Wait and watch, they will get citizenship and employment opportunities here soon. Why do you think Intel is building 7 Semi-conductor manufacturing plants in Ohio? They're planning to create an immigrant-pathway to skilled labor trades.
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  2993. How can he say this when he is literally a multi-millionaire with several homes?
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  2994. To put it simply, the Federal Reserve is buying fortune 500 stocks at TOP price in order to prop up the market and give you the illusion of a recovery; with YOUR tax dollars I might add. As an investor, never in my life has I seen negative metrics across the board that led to a market BULL run. Yet here we are seeing it with our own eyes.
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  2995.  @theMicW  We were attacked by Saudis. Yet we invaded Afghanistan; probably to steal their opium. No coincidence there right lol
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  2996.  @hwy9nightkid  The US formed a coup against the Ukrainian Government. Did you miss all of 2014 when Obama supplied weapons to Kiev when the civil war began there?
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  2997. From day 1 in the Spring/Summer of 2020. I believed the Government should have prioritized seniors by creating a 'strict' program that allowed (at risk) populations to get tax payer services thru many of the gig apps like DoorDash, UberEATs, etc. Followed by a public announcement of increasing exercise, vitamin D supplementation, and outdoor activity on their own property. I never agreed with the lockdowns, mask mandates, or virtually any of the idiocy that followed. Masks gave everybody a false sense of security, which makes sense why areas with no mask mandates had a lower rate of infection. People gathered close together in stores and shops, believing they were protected. While in reality they were all infecting each other in mass. People not wearing masks tended to be more distant in their daily activities. Shutting everyone in and not letting them get bodily stimulation most likely crippled even more immune systems than were initially vulnerable.
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  2998. It's what WE as Americans have become. Americans complain about China, but they won't cancel their Amazon Prime subscription... Nationalism doesn't exist anymore and the sooner people realize that, the sooner we might be able to solve our problems. Almost every American is a walking/talking contradiction to their own voting patterns, regardless of party. We scorn politicians for profiting on foreign investments, but fail to realize that I can do the same thing with a smartphone.
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  2999. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  3000. lol some ;)
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  3001.  @johnnyhandsome3424  I wish! Can you name a local store that can compete with better pricing than over-seas?
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  3002. Most of the comment regarding tariff problems are rather on point. However, I think most people are missing a glaring hypocrisy. Taxes in general are no different. Why are so many people pretending that tariffs and taxes accomplish different things? Both get passed on to the consumer.
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  3003. Incompetence and/or bribes; politics as usual.
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  3004.  @dvbernard  No, it was lost after 2020. Nobody buyers this stuff anymore. Too much corruption for the sake of profits.
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  3005. Let me guess! You fix everything, but YOU are still somehow the problem? At least that's how it was in my parents household growing up.
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  3006. People are conveniently forgetting the first 25 years of the 20th century for their own political ideology. These surges in natural disasters are nothing new. Attributing them in a knee jerk reaction to some random economic events is not only foolish, but flat out wrong. Any scientist worth their salt is going to tell you that you can't make such conclusions with an extremely short data spread.
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  3007. @ Insider trading means you are privy to information that is going to specific damage or create equity in an asset value. Tariffs create nothing nor damage equity. Being correct about a speculative reaction is not insider trading; as much as people want it to be. Perhaps I have a theory that releasing DeepSeek software information will disenfranchise thousands of tech companies and crash their asset values to day I make it public; so I short their stocks. = this is a similar example and is not insider trading I'd say it was a headstrong statement and a lucky one. There's no way he would know for sure how the markets would have reacted. Many times markets will do the exact opposite and are counter intuitive. If it was the opposing political party; this channel wouldn't have covered it and nobody would have cared.
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  3008.  @michaeldowd4786  You obviously don't have children; nor a wife. I don't think an actual woman would put up with such a beta ideology.
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  3009. Wait until November 2024 (after the election). Things will get VERY weird lol
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  3010. Strange economy if you ask me. There aren't many jobs available due to demand destruction, higher interest rates, lay-offs etc. FedEx Ground and Amazon have removed most of their package-handler positions across the US. They reposted the same position in Grove City, OH since 2011 and have always needed people. No that position no long exists. At the same time, go try and offer work at $20, $25, or even $30/hr. No takers. I've been trying to get 4 tons of rock and asphalt out of my rear driveway for the last year now; no takers. I'd do it myself, but the rental prices for a local dump were stupid high.
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  3011. I would think so. One thing people have to do (ultimately) and I know it's harder for older generations. But you have to accept that you will never receive Social Security. Especially if you are currently under 40.
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  3012. @UCDWZdXD_sbz8t4n1yhPrssQ Where might I ask? The debt liabilities and consequences of the US don't magically go away by moving to St. Lucia, Singapore, or Georgia. If the US defaults or we face an economic catastrophe for other reasons; no country will be immune to the fallout. Conflict and war almost always follow an economic collapse. I wouldn't have such a problem with the idea of moving outside the US if supply chains and economies were not at stake. It might be wise to diversify if times weren't so turbulent. Though that isn't why most people are moving. They believe the US will fall and they're going to be safe from the shockwave sitting on some beach in Thailand.
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  3013. Harry Kallama is running back to the zoo.
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  3014.  @MinhNguyen07  Nope, Fannie Mae does. Ever since the Obama Administration, the government buys up most mortgages. Your bank wants a 10% down payment and pay stubs so that they can sell it to the feds merely days after you close a sale. They own about 3/4 of all mortgages. My home is one of few owned by the bank. I did not meet Fannie Mae guidelines because they have strict stub rules for cpm truck driving, which is what I did at the time. You have to present 2 years of stubs in that case
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  3015. XD lol
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  3016.  @Wrestling-Nun  I think that progressives share a lot more views with conservatives than people actually think. We both have a very common enemy here :)
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  3017. Why are you supporting Ukraine? Eastern Ukraine is trying to annex itself with Russia and the US overthrew their government in 2014 to use as a prop against the Russian Federation. All it takes is a couple searches to look at Ukraine's history and US involvement. If China installed a puppet in Mexico and gave them weapons to fight a border war against the US. Would the US be wrong for invading?
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  3018. Regardless of what SHOULD be done; we don't have the staffing to enforce it, period. Correctional, border patrol, and police in general are still down -30% nationally. The labor shortage is affecting everything; not just how quickly you get a Big Mac.
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  3019. I think men need to be careful not to delve into the similar logic that these feminists are; inversed of course. Men and women have their own unique vices. Men pretending that everything is the fault of the female and not acknowledging factors like entertainment, pornography, and overall media is part of the problem. Sure, there's a lot of women out there that are problematic. However, there are good women that keep repeatedly run into low-standard men. While I'm very critical of women, I don't turn a blind eye to this. There's a massive problem with loser status men with completely anti-social behaviors.
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  3020.  @gailbrevittlenton6667  She's not intelligent; she's a narcissist that projects her own biases. This is what emotionally unstable women do.
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  3021.  @CasanovaPugilist147  Believe it or not; it's estimated that roughly 8-10%% of women between 18 and 40 have an Onlyfans account. If you break it down by accounts, sex by user, and demographics; it's entirely plausible. Not good imo if a significant amount of your population are soon to be single-moms and/or single for life.
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  3022. The 'science' is against Brandon I'm afraid. How many more Bloomberg and Brady campaign studies do we need to acknowledge that an overwhelming number of criminals buy their firearms from friends and family? Gun shops and gun shows make up a range of 0.7 to 1% of illicit gun sales.
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  3023. They'll just do what every California city does. Go into a massive deficit and get bailed out by the surpluses of other states each fiscal year.
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  3024. ABC loyalists are embarrassed; they're nowhere to be found to stand up for their lords.
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  3025. It's a bit more complicated than that. Most of these issues are ensuing from the inevitable debt/retirement crisis that was going to happen anyway. 2020 printing basically moved us forward 10-15 years in inflation. The big crisis that Grandpa always claimed (would happen long after he's dead?) Yeah, it's here lol
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  3026. Funny you say that, the US put a massive oil embargo against Japan that would have essentially destroyed it. The US formed a coup against Kiev in 2014; now Russian wants it back.
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  3027. I swear, a lot of people don't seem to be aware that they are being manipulated by these extremely aggressive algorithms. I have followed Kennedy, JD Vance, Bernie Sanders, Trump, Tulsi, etc for a long time and I don't know where people come up with this hysteria. I switched to Brave Browser a long time ago; so that might be why I don't get bombarded with propaganda (I assume). However, sometimes I can't believe some of the things I'm hearing, because I literally watch the original source and it's almost the complete opposite of what mainstream media claims. People need to vet their information extra carefully. I highly suspect that these companies like the outrage because it gets them extra clicks If you have a google account and browser; I'd switch it to something that's decentralized.
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  3028. Too bad, socialistic polices are inevitable at the point; single payer healthcare being at the forefront. I don't think Americans realize how dire the situation actually is when it comes to public expenditures, public health, and inflation. Healthcare in this country is so expensive primarily because American health is so poor and health services have the highest demand in the world. We have a rapidly aging population without a younger population to replace them or afford the FICA revenue to keep retirees afloat. What you are going to see is a massive retirement crisis where tens of millions are attempting to quit working, claim social security, and fill up the hospitals all within a short period of years. The Feds will have no choice but to raise the age of Social Security eligibility and take measures to absorb the healthcare industry into a single payer program. Capitalism is so convenient to blame whenever the Government can bail out people for poor choices.
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  3029. I'm an independent leaning left; the core Democrats are quite literally insane. Their party platform is LITERALLY: anti-Trump, anti-white man, and pro virtue signaling. This only attracts anti-social and apathetic individuals these days. It's one of the reasons many Gen Z voters switched to the GOP this election.
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  3030. Blame the Federal Reserve under Trump's Administration! USD is the world's reserve currency. When they set the federal funds rate to (ZERO!) in 2020; it allowed a cheap debt spiral to ensue. Demand went out of control from low rates and this drove up prices.
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  3031. That may be true, but the Republican base is completely shot. 2022 and special elections since the last Presidential election have shown that Republicans are not showing up. The GOP is running a series of cultural campaigns during an economic crisis and they expect to win? In my opinion, I think it's obvious at this point that they would lose in a landslide after running Trump again. He will lose and they will claim voter fraud again. When people are living paycheck to paycheck and losing their livelihoods; they don't want to hear about woke, transgender, and Disney. You'll notice that most of the people showing up the the GOP rallies are 55+ years old, which is a problem.
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  3032. Allowing the markets to correct themselves makes most people (equally) poorer for a time. Bailout of the markets makes the upper quartile richer and the bottom 50% exceptionally poorer.
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  3033. They seek attention because the media is completely ignoring the epidemic of child abuse and neglect that we've seen the last 3 years or so. It started in the 2010s, but it's gone completely unchecked. Parental attendance of PTO meetings is astronomically low and the only reason they show up to school is to scream at the principle for not passing their failing child.
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  3034. Perhaps the US should not be trying to use Ukraine as a puppet state to poke Russia. People so easily forget that the US assisted in the Ukrainian Revolution and installed Zelensky in 2014. We funded them thru Congress and sold them US hardware to fight a border war in the east against Russian interests and separatists. The entire quarter of Ukraine that Putin is now annexing (by popular vote) have been pro-Russian territories since the fall of the Soviet Union and have faced harsh persecutions by Zelensky's Administration. This is a typical power play by the US; we did the same thing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
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  3035. Oh jes lol, I've heard the joke; good one!
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  3036. It's all natural selection. People can enjoy their lives to whatever avail. However, the people that use the internet effectively, manage wealth well, and have children will carry on. If you're doom scrolling and looking at a screen 8 hours a day; stop now or you'll be apart of the de-evolution phase lol
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  3037. Thankfully in the city of Columbus, OH. The Ohio Department of Health asked the Chief to begin enforcing Covid mandate laws for house parties/gatherings back in 2021. They instructed the PD to respond to residential complaints and enforce the order by removing non-compliant citizens from their homes. In a series of letters from various officers and the police chief; they politely told the Ohio DoH to go F themselves.
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  3038.  @Antonio-os7eh  Not really, try to appreciate the change and stop fighting the cognitive dissonance.
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  3039.  @gregshan  Dividend stocks are a waste of time. That dividend gets paid to you by a distribution of stock equity. So basically the stock is almost never growing. People should be putting their assets in index funds; not bonds or dividend stocks.
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  3040. Well, we're pretty much on time; considering the rate cuts in September. I'd say it won't last past March 18th.
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  3041.  @thomaskim5008  If most college degrees are dead end. Why do people keep going to college? So any kind of reservation is complaining? I wonder if people that you know in real life tell you anything true; for fear you'll just say they're complaining. It's not a good model for socialization. I never said I know a job that offers everything you want. Perhaps you should listen more or offer less preconceived notions based on your own biases? I'm not trying to be rude, but your assertions and argument are nowhere near as intelligent as you seem to think they are. Having a conversation with somebody usually starts with empathizing their viewpoints. At this point, I think you're having a larger conversation with yourself. Good day...
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  3042.  @SerErryk  Yep, if you voted for Trump or Biden; then you participated. Just being honest here... People need to take their primaries more seriously. The current environment in the US is why many countries have compulsory voting laws.
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  3043. Sue the state for what exactly? I'm an independent and it's extremely clear how misleading this story is. You can't sue the state for incorrectly listing your citizenship status and then getting removed from the voter roles. That's the voters responsibility. People need to read the litigation and stop taking media headlines at their word.
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  3044. Sue them? Are you serious? They filed themselves as non-citizens and got purged from the voter rolls (as all municipalities do during the vetting process). Sad that this even had to be a court order of all things. People need to do their research and stop falling for garbage non-stories.
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  3045.  @Jesus_Is_Lord_And_Savior.  And they sell your info to spam companies. Trust me, scrub all your social media and google accounts and the spam calls will magically stop lol
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  3046. No, because in a Keynesian economy; debt obligations must grow linear with GDP in order for the dollar value to be maintained. GDP has outperformed debt for decades now. As long as debt outperforms GDP; your wages stagnate and prices grow. At this point there is absolutely nothing that can be done to stop this. Largely because of the IOUs from the SS Trust Fund, Medicare, etc. Everything is in an inflationary state and importing millions of illegal immigrants couldn't even lower wages and produce enough GDP to stop this. You would have to double GDP every year for like 50 years straight at this point to pay off the debt; absolutely impossible. It's all about compounding interest and inflationary debts. You CANNOT print your way out of a debt crisis; these politicians never learn.
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  3047. Oh please, stop being intentionally offended. Puerto Rico is a mess. If you're more offended by a comedian than the actual state of the world; you're virtue signalling.
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  3048. I don't know. Officers usually begin touching people in order to instigate a response. Maybe that's what the cop wanted? Not everything is black and white...
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  3049. It's not about money exactly, it's about using government to gate-keep against competitors. So it's more about power than anything.
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  3050. They needed their mercenary buddies in the Middle East to stay armed for the next contract they're given by the US Government lol It's hilarious how many times Al Qaeda and the Taliban switch from being our enemies to being our allies in the last 30 odd years. The American people have been duped!
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  3051.  @robertortiz6749  Not a good point, it's a sound bite. He listed off everybody that he loved and the commenter omitted the rest for a virtue signal.
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  3052. You people have no idea.. West Virginia? That's rich... Try EVERYWHERE! American health is the worst it's ever been. Thank veggie oils, refined carbs, and Roundup.
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  3053.  @thechosenone818  Well, it's changed and it's much more convincing. People look at propaganda from WW1 and WW2 and think; how can people have believed this stuff? Now we're in the same situation. People 50+ years from now will call us idiots for falling for FOX/CNN garbage.
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  3054. Not exactly, demand curves will probably push towards existing produce imports that already exist elsewhere. Considering that some of the largest producers in the US have completely automated systems; I doubt it would affect the US as a whole. It will ultimately hurt California the most though, since their state laws actively protect undocumented temp workers. This is where most of the farm-jobs are for those workers.
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  3055.  @Eyclonus  Until that happens; it hasn't been introduced. Trump claims that it will be arranged by February 1st if the cabinet decides to do so. If he does impose a tariff; I agree that it will raise prices on imported goods.
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  3056. Well, Trump just proved he can artificially crash the market 10%; then make it go up 10%. Freaking insane leverage he has if you ask me.
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  3057. Trump will NEVER be President again. What's going to end up happening is a (Ross Perot 1992) scenario all over again. Democrats will maintain lock-step and Republicans will split into RFK's independent run. Unfortunately, Biden will be President for another four years, smh.
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  3058. A tasteless joke is a tasteless joke. People that think it's ok for certain races to say something that a white person can't say is ridiculous mental gymnastics. There's no principle or progress; it's all virtue signaling the meaning of life in their eyes.
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  3059. The second world war will forever be the legacy of Marxism; a battle between Fascism and Communism to ultimately rule the world with an iron fist.
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  3060. People are entitled and hateful; thus projecting their hate and ignoring their actual problems.
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  3061. Rate cuts have already made a recession inevitable. I've been around the block enough to know that the media will try to make this Trump's fault regardless. If Kamala had won, we'd still enter a recession and FOX News would be blaming her. People need to stop being led around by the carrot on the stick.
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  3062.  @RodRuth  Wow, a lot of projection in that comment bud. 'Condescending tone?" I think your comment says more about yourself than it does me. I typically edit comments for grammar. The only reason you replied is to feel self righteous. You're literally projecting your own behavior and accuse me of everything that 'you yourself' are actively doing. I grew up with an NPD mother. I know the disorder when I see it. You're the problem; not myself. You should learn how to listen to what people say and not project your own personal problems onto others.
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  3063. Obama was charismatic; that's about it. He outspent Bush and started a series of internal and external conflicts that were exacerbated by Trump, and then made even worse by Biden.
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  3064. It's a nationwide pandemic bud. People have absolutely lost their minds. I personally think that the social media algorithms are making the (lower IQ people) absolutely nuts. They see something on their phone and think the world is falling; so they go ballistic. I've seen it happen myself. People reading off headlines scrolling through their FB app and then snapping in a rage of aggression.
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  3065. Most people are completely unaware of how social media algorithms are manipulating the content they are seeing and engaging with. This is why I urge people to tread lightly and responsibly with their online activity. Stop using Google Search; stop using google browser, and stop using Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc.
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  3066. Genocide in Ukraine? I hope you're referring to the murders and displacement that Zelensky had been partaking in with eastern peoples of Ukraine since 2014. Don't go calling people dense with little information. Maybe the US and NATO should quit trying to depose foreign governments and install dictators to do their bidding. You know, like Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Ukraine?
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  3067.  @TwoToneT  Based on what??
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  3068.  @WeraroaWizard  Because litigation was constantly imposed to delay the project.
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  3069.  @WeraroaWizard  No, it's called politics. Everything is used to make the other side look incompetent. Maybe you should have a discussion and not be patronizing?
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  3070.  @matthewhuszarik4173  They both do it, but Democrats are far more successful. Democrats in the inner cities 'get off' to forcing new public housing units into surrounding areas and then red-lining them against the will out outlying municipalities. The Midwest has suffered quite a bit from it over the last decade. Once desirable areas are becoming slums, even my hometown.
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  3071. Contrary to popular belief; modern right and left politics don't exactly describe the history of France. They were relabeled after the conclusion of WW2. All of Marxism (Fascism, Socialism, and Communism) were on the left because they were a revolutionary force against loyalists/Monarchies. When Fascism went to war with Communism (sister ideologies); they were split into the NEW right and left concepts.
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  3072. Well, not exactly. A Keynesian economy needs population growth, because it's based on permanent inflation and permanent growth in productivity. This isn't really to support a rich oligarchy, but just to baseline support existing demographics. If population declines, then Social Security, Medicare, and all your social services implode.
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  3073.  @Lack_Of_Interest  ?
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  3074. Sergey Brin's ex-wife. I'm a huge RFK supporter, but even this has my eyebrows raised. I smell corruption, smh...
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  3075.  @DBo-pp1gn  If we can figure it out in 5 seconds. What the heck is RFK thinking? Running a VP that's a gold-digging patent attorney seems hypocritical to everything that his platform stands for. I fear this announcement will kill the momentum of his campaign sadly.
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  3076. Debt to GDP is the ultimate reason. Gen Z was simply born during the fall of the American Empire.
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  3077. Earth is essentially an 'outer rim' planet.
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  3078. Yep! Same here! I lost a number of family during Covid. Others turned to drugs/alcoholism and marriages got recked. The next nail in the coffin is people losing their jobs. It's like 2008, except it's worse, and it's in slow motion.
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  3079. Want to know the greatest danger to Democracy? The fact that 2.5 Million people tuned into a Youtube episode of CNN in 24 hours....
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  3080. Putting Kamala on Rogan's show would be a death sentence for her. First, you have to do some serious mental gymnastics to claim that Harris can debate. She is excellent at avoiding the topic and slight of hand answers; that's it. Not to mention she never passes up a chance to blame Trump for everything. This tells many voters that she is insecure about her own career and policies. Second, Rogan doesn't let guests get away with BS-ing him. He's going to grill her on any given topic the moment she begins to use smoke and mirrors. Then her team is going to tell her to cut and they will walk off. Harris CANNOT function unless the debate/interview is scripted.
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  3081.  @Lon.BedStuyforLife  Perception is the biggest problem. Dehumanizing half the population is incredibly unwise and it leads to radicalized behavior. If you stop watching mainstream channels for a month; you'll find your opinion rapidly changing. They will always fill your head full of click-bait negativity.
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  3082.  @IloveDoubleD  Well, yes, but I think it's exacerbated by social safety nets; seeing as they are asset bubbles dependent on population growth. I'm not sure we'd be in the same boat if they weren't stifling the cost of living for average people, which is why many people go deep into debt to afford basic life.
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  3083. If you blame everything on genetics, then you can scapegoat the BILLIONS in lawsuits that these companies used to get sued for. Imagine what would happen if Big Pharma convinced American that random blood clots were 'genetics' lol
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  3084. Hey Youtube! Are you going to censor everybody going against you agenda!? F-ck the US fascist regime, f-ck NATO, and f-ck your New World Order!
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  3085. Well, pornography enslaves the mind, drugs enslave the body, and gambling enslaves your wallet. To be brutally honest, there should be more regulations on stocks/options imo. I lost some $15k between the ages of 18-22. Not saying that it wasn't my responsibility, but these companies quite literally incentivize you play a game of 'bang or bust'. Options are the absolute worst in my opinion and should be considered a pyramid scheme. These firms issue options at a standard price that no investor will ever recoup in the long term; it's literally the definition of a zero sum game.
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  3086.  @LonelyGod64  Well obesity is a metabolic disorder most of the time due to foods (largely seed oils) that get stored as fat but cannot be converted into energy like other calories can.
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  3087.  @prezlamen7906  Where's the limitation between responsibility and addiction then? If a food is being mixed with MSGs and it makes your brain addicted to it. Are you ruining your gut or is it the company that put additives in it?
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  3088. Behind the eyes of an innocent little boy or girl is always the potential for a mass genocide. You think people are nice until you give them the feeling of immunity and unlimited power; then they will produce genocidal solutions.
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  3089. Yep! The noose grows tighter. Eventually, they will cash all their investments out and leave the West for good and put their money elsewhere. This is why BRICS is so dangerous. The USD is backed by nothing while foreign adversaries stockpile precious metals and crypto. Who do you think these investors are going to put their investments with in the next decade?
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  3090. Why is he a nut?
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  3091. God has answered my prayers!!! lmfao
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  3092. I think people are more free than they will ever realize.
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  3093.  @Sekiberius24  Well, that's what happens when value hierarchies rapidly change. Income inequality is just one metric of the totality of inequalities. Too much debt; too little GDP. I mean, you can blame SS and Pensions first and foremost because those liabilities are being propped up by new currency.
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  3094. It's a great guide though.
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  3095.  @RTkor-u3g  It won't pop until a second surge when inflation comes back. I'd expect a crash in 2026 at the earliest; the foreclosures are at a 20 year low.
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  3096.  @mrmadunit3923  Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions are asset bubbles that cannot be properly funded by current demographics. SO naturally they are strained and propped up by additional spending. Prices stay higher and currency devaluation grows larger. Yes, it's a retirement crisis driving the overall debt crisis.
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  3097.  @philabu7376  Take all of this with a grain of salt Phil.
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  3098. The whole "Russian political interference, Russian disinformation, Russian terrorism, and blindly blaming Russian for ANYTHING!" Sounds awfully familiar. Kind of like how the media used to say that, "Al Qaeda and Saudi Terrorists" were responsible for everything under the sun. I'm about 110,000% sure that Americans are being set up. Same old game, same old reason, same old disinformation. I find it hilarious that it's CNN this time lol
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  3099. What does religion have to do with this topic? I've seen this argument over and over, but I must say it's not very intelligent. Overturning Roe v Wade simply means the Federal Government no longer enforces a protection for national abortion. If protecting the life of an unborn child is 'religious', then we have much bigger problems than we previously thought. Is protecting disabled people, elderly, and feeble minded people from going into an incinerator "religious" as well? I mean no offense to anyone, but this truly shows how far our educational system has fallen. Not many people have the ability to think critically nor apply logic and rationale to their arguments anymore.
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  3100.  @bw6066  Nah, it's been a long time coming. Covid shutdowns and massive spending just expedited the process.
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  3101. Well, tbh it's not gross. If it was, then nobody would be doing it. Onlyfans will sell your soul no matter what. The gamble is that you make millions doing it. Which an overwhelming majority of women, do not. I think the average Onlyfans stripper makes less than $50/month. Imagine being poor AND having your nude images all over the net.
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  3102. Don't raise it... burn it down... Send this Government into shutdown and then default. Anybody who is willing to continue kicking the can and living under this regime is either a coward or not paying attention.
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  3103. Boomers
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  3104.  @hoodatdondar2664  Voting multiple times?
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  3105. This is largely due to a demographic problem with labor. The number of cops isn't being artificially held down; it's nearly impossible to attract the volume of applicants that are needed.
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  3106. Ending Section 230 would also help. These social media sites are empowering narcissists to prey upon people; all for click-bait revenue.
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  3107. Many people are institutional and ONLY watch mainstream media. They think that podcasts are essentially anarcho-capitalist insanity that gets people killed.
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  3108. Generation X and Boomers really need to get up to par with the situation in the US. Young people are not having children. In many cases, your 30 year old (single-daughter) is more likely to have an OnlyFans account than a husband and child on the way.
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  3109. All history has a bias; that's the first lesson of learning history. Each side is going to say something contrary to the other.
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  3110. It's because you churches decided to 'follow the money' instead of be mocked online by the mobs.
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  3111. It was only a matter of time; one way or another.
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  3112. What a silly comment! The US holds the global reserve currency and Taiwan's support. Taiwan does not recognize itself as a part of China, nor do numerous other countries. Whether people like it or not, the US was put in charge following the conclusion of WW2. I would hope that most people would already know that.
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  3113.  @DB1960-b7i  Almost all currencies are exchanged in USD; simply because they have equity requirements that their central banks have to adhere to. Courtesy of the Federal Reserve. It's amounts to roughly 80% of the global currency exchange volumes. I don't find California to be an appropriate analogy to Taiwan. It's a separate culture, separate government, separate currency, and recognized sovereignty by a majority of first world nations. Not to mention an island.
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  3114. Hierarchy of needs! The reason these kids prioritize social issues is because they have the leisure to do so. AKA trust fund and baby-sat!
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  3115.  @sonotdown998  They lost credibility after (hands up don't shoot) a decade ago. It's like BigPharma. If they can make a billion dollars and pay peanuts in litigation; they'll do it.
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  3116. How many more years to people need to find out that the media quite literally LIES about everything? It's called critical thinking. Watch the original video to make up your mind.
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  3117. Job exports are a symptom of dollar devaluation; not a causation.
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  3118.  @billobrien4680  Exactly - to reduce cost (profits are a rather redundant reason) everybody is chasing profits. Chasing higher products in the current business design was incentivized by the high inflation from 1977-1981. 1-2% annual was the model before that, but how can you sustain a business model with inflation that far outperforms those margins? One thing always leads to another. It's easy to blame businesses, but at the root you will always find government incompetence or power-lust.
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  3119. If everybody is doing it, then it's systemic. Not a willful act of greed. It's just as stupid as blaming racism for why a huge disproportion of black kids don't graduate HS.
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  3120. You know you have a silver-spoon up your ass if you have empathy for a theocratic regime that butchers women and children. Gaza is in the situation it is because they have allowed dangerous militant groups to be elected by the Islamic fundamentalists living there. The wall wouldn't have been build if not for the fanatics.
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  3121.  @Dinosaursof  I'm not trying to demean your experience, but there are several glaring holes in your statements. Your mortgage went up $250 last year because of equity? That doesn't make any sense. It sounds like you have a 5/1 variable rate loan. Unless you mean your property taxes and insurance are escrowed into mortgage? If that was the case, you'd be making the claim that your insurance and property taxes went up roughly $4200 since 2023? Which means you probably live way above your means or in a very high demand area with high risk (like coastal Florida?) Second, what do you mean by (high risk pregnancy?) My wife and I have gone thru two ectopic pregnancies and a surgery to remove her fallopian tube. None of that require expensive visits to the hospital. Unless there is some kind of rare situation that required you seeing an OBGYN twice a week? What are they doing that warrants such cost or time? You can pay places like Ultrasona $125 to do a full ultrasound and MD review of your pregnancy without going into a hospital. That's how we found out she had a ectopic pregnancy at 6 weeks. The rest was done at the hospital in a day. I assume you meant, your dad lost 'his' house. So he defaulted on the mortgage? How did that happen in a sellers market since 2020 and why did you take on the responsibility of buying him a new home while you're about to be a father yourself? If it was from a disaster or fire; did insurance not cover it? Again, I'm not trying to rude, but your story just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
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  3122. It's crazy how people still buy into institutional integrity enough to mock people that have trust issues with the system these days. If anything, I'd say you have a massive problem if you didn't get a reality check about government/corporate power in the last 4 years.
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  3123. Assuming the hospitalizations are only for Covid symptoms and assuming the vaccine has a high efficacy. Neither of which are true on a mathematical level.
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  3124. I think some of it is politics, but much of it comes from the habits that newer generations formed. From surveys I've seen, it's estimated that 95% of men 18 or older watch pornography. We have a multitude of health pandemics from poor diets. On top of that, social media is a major part of people's lives, especially younger generations. These kids spend nearly half their day investing in impulsive phone habits along with social media. Whose tech algorithms constantly try to show you content that is irritating. "Chaos sells." If you spend all your teen years looking at porn and social media content that makes you angry and emotional. And then trying to post things on social media for "likes" that just make you more narcissistic. How do you think these individuals are going to fair by the time they enter a university? We've generated an entire series of spoiled brats that are depressed and suicidal because they have poor health and can't function in society.
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  3125.  @saslykasxy9331  Perhaps the USA shouldn't have formed a coup against Kiev in the first place? Just a thought! We've put ourselves in this situation and for what? Ukraine serves no other purpose (other than) to serve as a pincer move against subjugating Russia. As time goes on, the Obama Administration's legacy ages like milk.
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  3126. That doesn't make any sense. They're going to pull the DOE funds and give it to private schools? Private is private and public education at the state and/or local level primarily. A considerable amount comes from property taxes alone of local residents. Charters have to follow strict state guidelines to receive funding as well. DOE gives about $15B a year on average and the rest comes from states. Also, Tulsa is a cesspool of dysfunction all around, especially considering that it's surrounded by reservations that could care less about funding education. Kicking the can for spending isn't going to do anything other than push this country into a disaster. Let the states fend for themselves.
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  3127. That would be the media; for ad revenue.
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  3128. Nobody ever stole from social security. This is a revolving conspiracy started by illiterate people in the 1990s. Social Security get transferred into the general fund as T-Bonds so that they can collect interest and grow larger. Many people think this is the same as Social Security laundering and theft, smh.
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  3129. Well, that's just the problem! You don't want these companies forming monopolies using patents and government gate-keeping. But, at the same time (will they still develop new medical technology or products) if you take the money incentive away?
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  3130. Same!
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  3131. People that claim 'MAGA" is about some racial purification are projecting their own insecurities about race and prejudice. MAGA has ALWAYS been about returning to the economic prosperity of times like Eisenhauer and Reagan.
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  3132. You're literally taking a quote from a tyrant that got his head removed lol
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  3133. So what is the best course? Allow the Treasury to dictate interest rates? Allow individual banks to make their own interest rates? How do you stop private businesses from doing (what crypto businesses do)? Inflate supply, pump/dump for their own profits?
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  3134. He lives there; if predators (especially bears) see that you are a push-over that they can take advantage of, then they will.
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  3135.  @sandracmyers  Well, it goes both ways bud. You can't accuse someone of subscribing to a cult and then join one yourself and think it's different. Blind obedience to any person or authority is the definition of cultism.
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  3136. Who cares? Let Darwinism sort out the losers. No need to shame them or belittle them. They will fail, not have children, and then fade away.
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  3137.  @tbec3011  Who cares about the Trump references? This is about Biden and his family! Jill is a gaslighting narcissist!
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  3138. The $34 Trillion figure is largely irrelevant. The number you need to worry about is Total Interest NET. Some 15% of all Federal Revenue is going towards interest.
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  3139. I doubt it will get thru Congress with the shenanigans in the House.
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  3140.  @dione2610  Columbus, OH. Believe me, we're ecstatic about the sale. It truly shows that there are two different economies. One for boomer and one for everybody else lol
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  3141. @Gullahbae We put it up for $280k and it's selling for $311. Believe me, I expected $290. It actually ended with a cash bidding war.
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  3142.  @cliffthecoolcat  Personally, I would look south. There's going to be a large regional correction in condos and single-family in the gulf area the next two years.
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  3143. Yep! Doctors go to school from 11-15 years and then when they come out; they are entirely beholden to insurance, pharma, and hospital policy. What's the freaking point of sending them to school and residency if they can't make their own decisions. It's a hierarchy of lies perpetuated by bureaucracy and corporate corruption.
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  3144. Yep, people need to contend with their trauma AND get more sunlight. Two extremely powerful things with tackling anxiety and depression.
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  3145. Internal gut health, fatty liver disease, and atherosclerosis are things you can't see. Many skinny people have them as well, it doesn't just affect overweight and obese people.
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  3146. No way the market lasts that long lol
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  3147. Hey come on, give him some credit; he's come this far :)
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  3148. I despise Trump, but I won't vote for that woman under any circumstances!
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  3149.  @jessecortez9449  Parents are just as addicted to these stupid platforms as their kids lol
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  3150. Yeah, tell that to kids going to Xavier for $70k a year for a generic degree; the stupidity knows no bounds.
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  3151. Well, try to harness your ability to detect deception. If you are looking for deception, you'll find it everywhere you want.
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  3152.  @Tailormademan900  In all honest man; it's all about gaining assets and learning skills. Live way below your means and pay cash for land and other assets. If you have no bills; then there's no need to constantly worry about a paycheck. Having the skill of fixing up cars is monumental. I'm pretty good with vehicles, but some scrap-pro bought by wrecked car for $1500; turned it around all by himself. All the internals needed replaced because they were smashed. I just didn't have the time or ambition to deal with it at that point. Go looking for usable vehicles in the local-scrap yard; you'd be surprised.
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  3153. Trump was not convicted of anything; this is political subversion. If he actually does get convicted and the court cites the 14th amendment; I think Maine would be within their right to do so.
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  3154. If you're open to ideas and love free speech, just start calling yourself a liberal. That's what I do. It throws these lefties WAY off! 🤣
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  3155.  @Talisguy  I think that might be a bad analogy, the Great Depression occurred ultimately because the Federal Reserve closed it's doors. Gold reserves were cut off and nobody gets a bailout. Nowadays the FED works entirely different, given it has a dual mandate to reduce unemployment and inflation. The caveat being they can raise unemployment to stifle inflation. The FED will never allow deflation like the 1930s or even 2008. Its' not a matter of inertia or weathering; it's just monetary policy.
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  3156.  @carloshenrique-xb5bz  I think you're over-simplifying it from the perspective of how much it affects you personally. Inflation and deflation both benefit different demographics of people. If you have assets; inflation is good. If you debts; inflation is good. If you have neither; then deflation is good. A lot of lower and middle class people depend on higher inflation to stifle old debts.
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  3157.  @TheRealSnake-Eyes  Domestic Violence
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  3158. I'm not a huge fan of Trump, but I truly wonder where people create their assumptions from. 2020 thru 2024 were an absolute crap-shoot. Someone help me understand how people suffering from high inflation and high interest rates (unable to really do anything) have a sense that going from Biden to Trump will be bad? I mean at this point, you have to be a trust fund child in order to think the last 4 years were anything approximating decent; just on the economic front alone.
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  3159. If there is going to be a nuclear conflict, it will be instigated by the US. Just like NATO hitting the Nordstream pipes in the Baltic sea and blaming Russia for it. They want a war and you people eat up the media garbage just like they want you to.
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  3160. Sorry to inform you Russel, but that's a baseless conspiracy that ignores T-Bill policies. Taxes that flow into those funds are re-swapped so that they can collect interest. The money was never stolen... The reason they are going bankrupt is because we have rapidly changing demographics; a growing elderly population and not enough young people to afford their pensions and retirements. Social Security always has to be paid forward.
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  3161. Gen Z is completely unhinged; it's why I avoid them at all costs. Completely anti-social - loose canons.
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  3162. If any of you actually believe you can trust (appointed bureaucrats) with a scientific background, then you've no idea how the system works. If you want to keep your position, your administration has to be happy. In order for them to be happy, you need to give their donors the scientific results they want. Try producing some real scientific results and airing them to your administration and they will zap your funding in a heart beat. It's all about money and power, not truth.
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  3163.  @LordGamerDude  Try me... In order to hold a firm set of pillars, one must remember why he believes something from time to time. The hypocrisy from the WHO and CDC is usually enough for most people, but especially if you have to work within an administration it becomes clear as day. Most research you'll ever get from the AHA for example is utter garbage. All it takes is an inquisitive person to review them, other than a surface view. Like how LDL cholesterol is bad, saturated fats are bad, and carbs are necessary for people with diabetes. If the scientific sector was even a smidgeon more honest, all their pharma and corporate food schemes would crash. So out with it, why is what I said incorrect?
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  3164. Corporations want to constantly hire young/new workers so that they never have to give them promotions, pay raises, or benefits. You do the baseline work and then the company runs you out with the lack of care/benefits. NEXT PLEASE! It's an F-ing assembly line.
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  3165. And yet, those women aren't having children. So naturally we all go back to square one. How do people not realize that creating several generations of (free women) that don't want to be housewives or mothers LITERALLY comes to the conclusion of them eventually dying and only mothers passing on their values; which is basically taking care of children? Liberals are apparently SO smart that they freed women, but accidentally destroyed the ability for those free women to procreate their lifestyles. The irony is amazing if you ask me.
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  3166. I find it interesting how many NPC's are on here, simply because they can't fathom the idea that the US-NATO alliance would try to deceive them lol
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  3167. 5%? That's the Federal Reserve's bullshit mathematic calculation on their printing; by the way, it's 6.8% as a of recent "according to them." Real inflation is somewhere in the 31% range according to the M0-4 money supplies since the start of 2020. That's not including their new infrastructure plan...
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  3168.  @GrandChessboard  Oh I'm aware, they change it to calculate the lowest number. Makes it look more appealing to bond investors. At least the ones ignorant enough to buy them at this point.
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  3169. Some 80% of the deaths and adverse vaccine affects are coming 'strictly' from the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine. I'm in favor of people making their own choice, but what did people expect when we allowed Pfizer into the vaccine race? Vioxx killed some 27,000 people. Are we going to trust them after that?
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  3170. What crime was committed again? lol
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  3171. All depends on how the numbers are being crunched. For the Covid-19 virus, not a single study out of the American Scientific Journal has produced more than a 15% efficacy for cloth masks. Masks can be more useful for preventing bacterial infections due to the size of the cell and transmissibility. Though simple wearing a surgical mask or cloth masks is not going to do much to stop you from spread Covid to someone. Mask usage has actually increased the number of infectious cases because of how people are changing their behavior. If you are wearing a mask, you have a false sense of security. So you will stand closer to people and walk closer to people wherever you go. This could easily explain how mask mandated cities in the US (adjusted for age and density) have had a higher rate of infection than ones without.
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  3172. I fear that Democrats will do everything in their power to exacerbate the war in Gaza AND Ukraine before they let Trump get into office. They aren't going to allow him to get a way with anything positive. These people are vicious and they will do everything to cause more suffering just so they can blame Trump. The DNC is filled with evil and hateful people that are nihilistic and anti-human.
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  3173. The American economy operates on autopilot bud. Nobody is looking at your resume; it's all done via a tech algorithm. Nobody is answer the phone; it's all done by 3rd party international companies of AI software. Nobody is even overseeing the logistical operation of most fortune 500 companies; it's all software algorithms generating and recording the data. Every time something breaks; everybody sighs and calls their sub-contractor to come and fix it. The amount of useless jobs is amazing in the current economy. Though, I think that most of this will be cleared up by the end of the decade. Covid lockdowns taught McDonalds that they can operate at (half staff) and still serve the same amount of customers for the same pay as well. Many corporations just don't have a managerial incentive to get rid of all these employees currently. It takes time to catch attention from executives. I've seen many economists already theorize that some 25% of current jobs will be automated by 2030.
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  3174. I've stopped caring for quite some time; bite me if you will.... Believe it or not, the most dangerous cities in the world are not in Saudi Arabia; they are not in Columbia; they are not even in North Korea. They are right HERE in America. The people tearing this country apart are not immigrants, they are home grown Americans. All your incompetent and narcissistic sociopaths? Yes, they are all home grown Americans. People complain day in and day out about illegal immigrants and Chinese nationals screwing this country. Believe me, Americans are destroying their own country. If you don't believe me, look at the felon line-up of any local municipality. Look at all the parents that play on their phones while going out to eat with their kids. Looks at all the people posting inane garbage on social media. American citizens thru and thru. We are destroying ourselves. I stopped playing the vote to affect change game long ago. It's all one big game-show where the virtue signalers get to go on a talk show and the virtuous people get a media 'trial by fire'.
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  3175. Something to note, people need to be careful with this internet. It is so immense at this point that it will corroborate ANY bias that you already have.
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  3176. It's boomers that are happy that the stock market is so high; that's the only reason they vote for Harris. Very short sighted people; we have them here in Ohio too. They literally don't give a hoot about anything else other than their 401k and Social Security. Which hilarious, have nothing to do with the President.
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  3177. All our politics are messed up. If the US were to enter a world war; we have a massive disadvantage.
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  3178.  @pamjones8007  Do you feel better about yourself after insulting me?
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  3179. This is an extremely dumb video; I'll save everyone a click. The financial information is this video is beyond garbage. Blaming the invasion of Ukraine for globally high inflation is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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  3180. Not exactly! The FED is pre-cutting rates in anticipation of unemployment jumping upwards. They are trying to avoid a recession entirely by introducing more inflation. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Anybody that knows anything about economics will tell you 'you CAN'T spend your way out of a debt crisis'. These politicians and bankers don't care. They only care about protecting their inflated assets while they're still alive. Leaving younger generations high and dry.
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  3181. What can you do? Even if you managed to be successful, these media companies would flip the switch and convince the entire American public that you are an enemy of the state. Don't downplay the degree to which Americans are religiously dependent on mainstream media and government agency information. The FBI, FDA, or DHS say something; the American public obeys.
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  3182. This was by biggest problem with the entire MAGA movement. It began as a campaign to return the US to something approximating the 1980s economy. Only to be hijacked by a large group of people with anti-constitutional and theocratic garbage. One of the biggest reasons for the election of Donald Trump (in theory) was to stop the tidal wave of leftist propaganda from the mainstream media. Instead, conservatives and conservative outlets said "hold my beer!"
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  3183. No, it's called NATO needs to quit regime changing foreign nations for corporate profits.
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  3184. Humans were NOT meant to live like we currently do in modern society. Screens, endless stimulation, pharmaceuticals, economic stress, endless debt and consumerism, and poisoned food. No wonder people are going nuts.
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  3185.  @macdonaldmaurice  Insults about what exactly? People insult other people for going after them all the time. What's with the obsession of Trump in this circumstance? Just seems like a strange metric to measure someone. Especially considering the volume of criticism he's gotten.
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  3186.  @macdonaldmaurice  Maybe you should watch more podcasts. I just got done watching Rogan's interview with JD Vance; Trump before that. Theo Von also has interviews with Bernie Sanders and Trump. Sanders is a real joy btw; another interview with Lex Friedman. I'm well aware Trump is a BSer on many things, but the whole point of a leader is to have good intuition and charisma. True leaders are never the smartest people in the room. That's why they surround themselves with people that can provide those solutions. People can say what they want about Trump, but he's amassed a very impressive campaign/cabinet line-up. Assuming Trump has all the answers is kind of a false expectation from the very start. The media spent the last three Presidencies turning leaders into (genius celebrities). So I think many people expect that on both sides. Wanting to hear (explicitly) what a single leader is going to do to solve all these problems just seems like more of a fantasy political craving. It takes a team to get things done; not an individual. That's why I watch all the viewpoints from various individuals.
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  3187. Because it's most likely disinformation being wielded by the highest bidder. People need to take these media stories with a grain of salt.
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  3188. It's because they got you by the balls with algorithms. You think algorithms only track 'what you buy' in order to advertise more things for you? They study entire demographics that determine (what people will pay, as well as what people are willing to be paid). They tire-kick with these fake jobs (in order to continue PPP loan forgiveness) and then use the data to undermine your salary needs. Online applications were the worst invention of all time. It allows companies to collect data and low-ball your job specs.
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  3189.  @Nypotet  Correlation studies of course, but you can just as easily find a correlation between butter consumption and divorce. There are no studies that conclusively show that meat consumption leads to colon cancer. The same way there are absolutely no studies that show saturated fat is poor for heart and arterial health. Too many people just ride the gravy-train that Pharmaceutical companies surf on with the FDA for profits.
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  3190.  @Nypotet  Insulting people is no way to make friends, let alone have an intelligent conversation.
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  3191. Because it's a non-profit laundering scam. Didn't anybody learn anything from Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth"? Most people are clueless to how these government agencies and corporations scratch each others backs and bring in billions. Every 15 years, there's a whole new generation to scam. Some people just get scammed over and over again. People have been sold into another ridiculous religion.
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  3192.  @FrostekFerenczy  I do; thank you! Perhaps you should take this advice and not be rude as well?
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  3193.  @bripro77  Where do you think people should get information from? The internet gave everyone a voice; so obviously that requires some discernment. However, information scarcity isn't the game anymore. Institutions can give out garbage info just as much as the average person. I think the best way to get information is simply going with unedited and open sources; then applying logic and intuition.
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  3194.  @7kardia750  Don't insult people Kardia. When has creating new agencies to monitor, eliminate, or share work load with others EVER resulted in fewer agencies?
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  3195. @7kardia750 Did I miss a Trump insult in the comment section? Regardless, I don't find the comparison mutual. Personally, I think it's not intelligent to make mistakes that have already been made and have historical context for. The US is in a debt crisis being fueled by auto-pilot programs and trade deficits. Not only that, but we've just come out of a high inflationary environment, while the FED has already begun to cut rates. Trump's primary goal should be to make sure that (under no circumstances) inflation grow out of control again. Mass deportation and tariffs (while I agree with them to a certain extent on principle) are not exactly strategies at the current moment that would help the situation. There are a number of different ways his cabinet could inadvertently trigger inflation resurgence. I simply find that many of his current policies are pushing in the direction of reckless.
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  3196. Same!
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  3197. Oh, you mean the bio-weapon created with your tax dollars?
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  3198.  @Gambit771  Because people are milking the 'control' aspect. Narcissists LOVE to use medical disinformation and scares in order to get people to do what they want.
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  3199. His block has been decimated! My entire family (extended as well) voted for him in 2016. I'd say the current block he has is a solid 8% (maybe). It used to be 20%-30%. of registered Republicans. Nobody is going to vote for him again, except for two people I know. Believe me, the conspiracy garbage coming from FOX and NewsMax is borderline criminal. $780 Billion was peanuts to Fox! I know people that literally believe that the Biden Administration is paying military contractors to derail trains, poison the air/water, and burn down forests to suffocate America. It's not funny, it's pathetic and sad.
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  3200. Same! Unfortunately, the people pumping Haley in the polls are middle aged white conservative women. Oddly, the indictments have strengthened his support among men, but severely damaged his support among women.
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  3201.  @phaedrus2633  Maybe they thought that property rights would be construed by (future Marxists) that the government should guarantee properties via nationalization. Who knows. I'm still not sure how this is a capitalist country with private property if you have to pay annual taxes; less it be taken away.
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  3202. Yeah, it's actually crazy how much of modern Christmas celebrations were socially-pushed thru corporate marketing. I mean, Santa Claus is red and white because Coca-Cola wanted him to represent their colors in the 1930s.
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  3203. I hope you're not pretending like UK citizens didn't like it. People love global economics, but become hypocrites when it progresses to global travel/relocation. Race has never been, nor ever will be a commonplace for bringing people together. It has always been cultural morality.
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  3204. Recycling is a categorical term. Assuming that they are being reprocessed is a big what-if. Btw, this is a big mistake most people make; so I'm not going to give you a hard time. The peak of recycling ended in the early 2000s as most of the material was re-purchased by countries like China. Repurchase and reprocessing are the key terms hear; not stand-alone recycling. This is a legal term in the banking industry that grants certain tax deductions and exemptions to businesses via government subsidy. The over-head subsidies needed to continue the process in the US and many places in Europe became too much to continue. So the items may be collected and then counted by volume as recyclables. However I can guarantee that an overwhelming majority of those items get sent to landfills in and outside of the country. Even today, a considerable amount of recycled exports get rejected at port by the buyer and then sent elsewhere. It's a buzzword if anything in 2025.
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  3205. Based on what; the state those cities are in? I don't think that's a very articulate way to go about making crime connections. You'll find that almost all the crime volume occurs in metropolitan areas. So should we get rid of cities?
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  3206. Well, you have to consider the side effects all around. Look at what happened in Texas, Florida, and Kansas. They abolished state income tax right before Covid. So when inflation hit; it hit REALLY hard because those deficits fell onto the budget and they had to be adjusted thru property taxes. While the Midwest saw their property taxes double, many places in Texas and the others saw triple and quadruple. That's why it's become almost impossible to live as a resident in Florida, Texas, or Kansas. The taxes on residents are insane. Why aren't they floating the idea of a sales tax so that the burden falls on over-consumption and tourism?
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  3207. Education is a joke these days! "If everyone is super, then nobody is." If you lower the bar so that all Americans can go to college, then the degrees will be worthless.
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  3208. Why are people dumb for agreeing with their strategy?
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  3209.  @trasher_gooby9921  I don't think anyone is suggesting that it's the children's fault. However, you need to understand that (cultures) allow these things. You can't claim a country and culture have problems and then absolve it's population of that problem. Morals and ethics grow from the bottom UP, not the top down. The Soviet Union was not a hell hole because rich-elites people were forcing people into railcars. It was a hell-hole because society (as a whole) went along with it.
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  3210.  @shindrithargriethrat8408  Well, that's the question isn't it. We're still in the legal process and court system when it comes to January 6th. What was the ultimate goal of the people that broke windows, injured officers, and stormed into the offices of Congressmen and women? It was definitely politically motivated. The whole idea that this was a peaceful protest and the people breaking into the capitol were antifa and Feds in disguise is ridiculous. Most of these people were obsessive MAGA supporters thru investigation.
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  3211. An age old virtual signal example. No pro-choice supporters have ever compromised on rape and incest. It is simply a manipulative tactic in order to win arguments without putting any chips in the pot. Rape and incest account for less than 1% of all abortion. Plus, many states have exceptions.
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  3212. As someone who is middle of the road, most of these men don't exactly seem right wing; they seem lost, unmotivated, and contemptuous. They vape, play video games, disregard family, disregard any female companions, and do lots of nothing. I have seen more of the right wing types occasionally and they tend to be on the radical end. They don't believe in marriage, they hate women, and tend to believe in ridiculous conspiracies with zero evidence.
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  3213.  @meandmyindianhusband6482  It all depends on whether more Democrats vote for RFK or Republicans vote for him. He can possibly win, but if he attracts many Republicans and little Democrats; then Democrats will win the election again. As a conservative, I can assure you they are already set to take back the House in 2024. Republicans are losing 5 electoral votes in the Midwest and Democrats are gaining 4 million new eligible voters 3 to 1. Plus, voter turnout is in decline with Republicans in both 2022 and 2023 special elections. The Presidential election in 2024 will come down to Texas ultimately; seeing as they've gained 4 electoral votes. If Democrats gain Texas; the GOP will lose everything. Based on the 2020 results of the vote; I'd say it's very possible that they do.
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  3214. Jesus, how much longer will you eat up MSM garbage. Show me the evidence...
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  3215. Corporations and businesses are falsifying their job data to continue their PPP forgiveness requirements. Also, so they can keep attracting investors. The stock analysts have already been bought out. On top of that, they post fake job listening (tire-kicking) in order to under-cut existing corporate jobs. They want to see how much volume each posting gets and what wages employees are looking for. After that, they create new garbage jobs that entail the details of 'old' jobs, but with significantly less pay. The Government isn't cooking the books; corporations are cooking the books for investors. Government analysts are just blindly accepting the garbage records. 3.5% unemployment and 4.7% GDP my @$$!
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  3216.  @whatthegoatz  Are you kidding me? What mental gymnastics are you doing to hear answers from Harris? I think you're emotionally 'compromised' if anything.
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  3217. He'd probably have to be on supplements. If you're only eating meat and organ meats, then you'd be fine. But people don't typically do that anymore.
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  3218. All Jews and Arabs in the region were Palestinians before 1948. I don't get your comment.
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  3219. @James Bond It doesn't have to be black and white bud, it's called openness. Something conservatives lack, though I try.
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  3220. It's not ignorance; it's cultism. These people have no husbands, no children, no lives, and certainly no future. So their agenda is activism as a political tool. It's like a sleeper cell and it's scary.
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  3221.  @albionicamerican8806  Most people are not ugly if they take care of their bodies. Let's not kid ourselves that most of the MGTOW community are overweight losers that have no virtues and take no responsibility. Yes, I judge them because I think they are pathetic. Yes, I have a superiority complex most likely.
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  3222. Same lol
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  3223.  @jmd489  Well, depends on where the spending is going and who is buying the bonds. Money printing and inflation aren't as simple as many people make it out to be. Interest rates were set to 0.25% in Spring of 2020 by Jerome Powell and the Board of Governor, along with Trump's pressure. Trump threatened Powell if he didn't take rates into negative territory. Had Powell done that, inflation would have been 15-20% in June 2020; not 9.1%
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  3224.  @elileubner949  How so? What did he do? Nobody seems to know lol The bull market began in 2014. If that is the case, then how did he create the best market?
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  3225.  @ComedyBros5  Kennedy. A vote for Biden is a vote for further instability and escalating global tensions. A vote for Trump is a vote for domestic instability and another round of high inflation. Things are never going to change if people keep playing the D and R game.
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  3226.  @gargaduk  Well, to be honest many people are switching due to this. Sensationalism changes people; always has and always will.
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  3227. It's why they can't get above 2 million subs; this channel is repulsive to people living in reality.
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  3228. I love you William Christianson!
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  3229. So prepare to have an all out war? Did it ever cross your mind that NATO should STOP destabilizing countries to avoid conflicts like this? Unless of course they are doing it on purpose to enrich their corporate defense masters.
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  3230. Well, I would avoid the intuition on your part; not everybody is good with it. He's a pretty solid dude and has some of the best interviews and philanthropic work to date.
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  3231. Unfortunately, Republicans will have massive wins in Texas and Florida, but it will come at the cost of losing the entire Midwest and North Carolina. If the RNC has been paying attention the last several years. They would have noticed to massive surge in young voters in those states as a major problem. Not to mention several million people between 12 states that moved to Texas, South Carolina, and Florida in a 3 year time period. RFK's candidacy will further steal votes from the splintering Republican Party. Trump's conviction might have aided in his election turnout to come, but I feel it won't be enough.
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  3232. She looks better than a lot of the younger models; wowser!
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  3233. Change the business and corporate incentives lol It's the insurance and corporate attorneys that have made this possible. Once you create a government agency; the vultures come to buy up influence and then force the tax-payer to be their science experiment. Virtually all of your CDC and FDA rulings are dictated by the donations and influence from Kellogg's, General Mills, etc.
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  3234. You're in a cult bud! There is such thing as a 'third party'; you may have heard of them!
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  3235.  @KikoNYC  How so? Ross Perot took 20% of the national vote and with 'likable' candidates.
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  3236. Take a chance bud!
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  3237.  @benstandard  Don't blame capitalism; blame the central banks and Keynesian economy. In 1950 we exported 95% of global autos. Now we only export dollars. It's amazing that the US Dollar can purchase as much as it does these days. If GDP takes a nose-dive and debt is cheap; prices rise and wages stagnate.
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  3238. Trump isn't going to win; Republicans aren't doing the math. People are intent on voting for the same man that caused the inflation crisis to begin with.
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  3239. Well, I think it's rather a symptom. FEDs cut rates in September, which means a market correction is historically inevitable within 6 months. AI just happened to be the straw that broke the camels back, seeing as tech was massively overvalued anyways.
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  3240. It's because Democrats (like myself) have had enough. I would have loved a Bernie or Kennedy ticket. But the DNC has been taken over by Venezuelan style socialists.
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  3241. I'm worried that JD Vance will be extremely loyal to Trump (should any election issues arise). I think he would definitely attempt to reject electoral votes in the case that Trump lost the election (even though it's now clear that he has no authority to do so in a formal/legal manner).
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  3242. I doubt it. I think people are going to be surprised on November 9th when the results are entirely in. Whatever happens, it will be contested and there will be blood. This is why I'm steering clear of the chaos.
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  3243.  @lonpfrb  Thanks! Three questions though. Do you think a partnership with BRICS can alleviate this imminent collapse? Do you think that imminent collapse is bound to cause implosion or radical outward expansion (in desperation)? Also, wouldn't their currency devaluation also give incentive for an even stronger export economy? And could this affect the outcome?
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  3244. @ Thanks for the info!
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  3245. Obama deported some 3.2 Million people in his first term. Where was the outrage by the left on that one?
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  3246. What on earth are you talking about? DO you not read the ingredient labels on your grocery store items? The FDA is owned by these companies; they've been poisoning you or years. How have people not seen this already? I figured this out at like 20 years old.
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  3247.  @TheTrailburner  Do you realize your position holds absolute immunity for you? Kind of sounds like the "If you're starving in the Soviet Union, then you must not believe in the Great Leader and our Utopia! Therefore you must be a Western sympathizer for starving." How many times would it take you to change your mind about a solution, before you realize your solution was causing more problems? Most of what you're seeing is an illusion. The incentives for Pharmaceutical companies and government agencies to spread disinformation is abundant. "You can get Covid multiple times! But get the vaccine and it will all stop." The scientific method is dead and a cult named "Follow the science" took it's place. It's the newest theocratic movement in this country. A blind leap of faith for our credentialing system.
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  3248. You're wasting you time; there are literally a double digit percentage of the population that are INSANE.
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  3249. You're going to blame tens of thousands of people currently renting out their properties at elevated cost, in the name of greed? Believe me you can play that game until the ends of the earth. Doesn't change anything though. Obviously, this is systemic from the resent inflationary freak show. 25%+ bacon 30%+ residential market 55%+ car rental 85%+ coffee contracts Welcome to the early onset of hyperinflation. Blaming this solely on greed is intellectually dishonest if you ask me.
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  3250. Core inflation is still pretty bad. Most people know that inflation is up about 40-50% since January 2020. The metrics tell us that the economy is booming and we are actually in a bull market (technically speaking). But the average working class person is struggling and purchasing power is the worst it's been since the 1970s. Working class people WILL turn on Biden/Harris. The coastal elites and retirees can't save them at the ballot box.
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  3251. Well, she was unarmed though. People made exceptions for her, but not for many BLM protestors and the rioters in Kenosha. They screamed for months about them being 'unjust killings'.
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  3252. Free value? Or free scams?
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  3253. Let's go brandon!
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  3254.  @Guitarisforgrins  President Biden does not need Congressional legislation to enforce Federal Laws. This bill has been kicked and kicked, because Democrats want to make Biden look like a saint that had his hands tied until the GOP wanted to come to terms with him. Absolutely ridiculous.
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  3255. Yep! Even if the job pays high income; most people will want to kill themselves within a year. The debt is never worth it.
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  3256. Yep! They kick you when your up and then pretend to help you when you're down.
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  3257.  @LordJagd  I don't understand your question. I never said it's better than a military target...
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  3258.  @acc4465  Documentaries tend to be biased based on the publisher. I prefer raw biographies, accounts, and comparing discrepancies between records.
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  3259.  @oldi184  Revionsist history from the 1970s bud and it still won't die. None of your claims hold water to military documentation. Japan was defeated; really? They occupied 19 nations in the Summer of 1945 and were preparing to push every man, woman, and child into service of the Emperor. "We would all be dead, but we would not be defeated." Famously stated by numerous officers in the Imperial Japanese Army debriefed in 1945 and 1946. Russia was NOT closing in and Japan was hardly in a position of being defeated. Their air-power and naval power was largely obsolete after Okinawa, but that doesn't negate their standing military presence domestically and abroad.
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  3260. The irony of your comment is a perfect example of what I just addressed. I'm not saying woke (bs) is acceptable, but people like you pulled your kid after watching a single segment of Fox News. Go take a look at the educational metrics/stats for homeschooled children in the US the last several years. A whopping majority of those kids are falling behind on basic mathematics, reading, and writing, period! That doesn't mean children in public schools are doing better. It means that the parents aren't actually doing what they're supposed to. Parents care more about getting politically irritated than actually caring about how it might potentially affect their children. In the last several years, we saw mobs of parents (that never attended a 'parent teacher conference', answered emails, or showed up at schooled to address failing grades in their entire adult lives. But low and behold, have Fox News throw up a few stories about indoctrination and these same parents show up at their local school with 'death threats' and political signs. You people are being played. Last time I checked; FOX News IS mainstream media. I can't tell you how many crazy conservative parents we having sending death threats and angry political ranting voicemails to educators in our district. All over something they saw on Fox News. They cherry pick looney teachers from all over the country and convince viewers that it's happening in their local school. Do any of you actually realize how ridiculous it sounds for teachers to be systemically indoctrinating your child? (making $40k a year - over-worked, underpaid, and dealing with assault and harassment on a daily basis?) People don't even realize that this is one of 'many' issues that will break the Republican Party.
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  3261.  @DILLIGAF.spiritual  You know what's even more realistic? Parents that are too politically motivated to actually understand why their child is falling behind. So they yank them out of school in a rage. A month later, they're completely neglecting their child's educational needs. I see it all too often. You have no idea how many crazy emails, phone calls, death threats, and protests we get from conservative parents that watch FOX News and then march to their local Middle school to organize a protest. They are the dumbest people on the planet. These same parents allow their children to be on their smartphones 6 hours a day and pay ZERO attention to their schoolwork, grades, or struggles. They literally don't care. People are watching way too much news and social media.
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  3262. Well, I wouldn't call them that; rather simply reactionary. Though I do think that most (if not all) of the current right-wings wishlist is ridiculous. The only sensible people have middling solutions, but those are never popular. People love extremes and theatricality.
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  3263.  @mak9438  Trump did (Theo Von, Lex, Rogan, and others in less than two weeks) What are you talking about?
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  3264. If Trump had ditched his supporters in the middle of the night after losing; you'd never hear the end of it from these people. Absolute hypocrites!
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  3265. These clowns thought body cams would put all the cops in jail. Turns out that body cams help cops 95% of the time hold the criminals to better standards lmfao
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  3266.  @bagobeans  So basically, anybody that doesn't serve you, be responsible for your emotions, and maintain your broken household are 'selfish'? In my experience, most younger people want to be left alone (either married or single) in households where they don't have to hear their parents demand, yell, and scream at them. The most entitled people on the planet are Boomers and Gen X. They can't stand not having a punching bag laying around (person).
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  3267. That typically means acute infection; nothing sinsiter.
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  3268. Justice for standing up to a fascist government and it's corporate lobbyists? How about we turn our thinking caps on and stop buying the narrative please.
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  3269. As an independent, it disturbs me to know that there are people 40+ that are still undecided. Did the 50% inflation or 2 new wars ring a bell for you?
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  3270. Take Price's Law into account as well. Square root of all employees perform 50% of the work; you can crunch it in any domain, it's scary!
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  3271.  @Article94  You can read it in the litigation that was signed off by the 4th Circuit Court. 1600 people were removed because they found evidence that they were non-citizens; largely by newly filing DMV paperwork where they claimed they were 'non-citizens'. I'd assume that many of them actually ARE citizens, but that's their own fault. People need to read what they're signing. I mean, if you put the wrong name on your passport and then get rejected for international travel. You can't turn around and sue the state/TSA for the entire problem.
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  3272.  @schoolingdiana9086  I'm from Ohio; thanks! And sorry, but what you claimed is disinformation. The voter roll correction was signed off by a judge and maintained by the 4th Circuit Court after the Harris Administration tried to sue. 1600 people were removed and it is completely legal under the NVRA. Many of them were removed because they had recently applied or re-applied for their driver's license at the DMV in Virginia and claimed they were non-citizens on the paperwork. All of this is publicly available information; it's insane that people buy in this stuff. I'd imagine that many of them actually are citizens, but like many people (sign things without reading).
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  3273. I voted for him because I thought he was a lesser evil. Shame on me for not seeing it sooner I suppose. MAGA destroyed a lot of relationships in my life. These people are impaired from rational thinking and it's terrifying.
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  3274.  @hollowgonzalo4329  Trump will never be President again; Republicans are not doing the math on voters. Also considering that there's an independent running that will splinter more GOP votes. They simply don't have the votes and assuming the border crisis/economy will swing voters is a big 'what if'.
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  3275.  @hollowgonzalo4329  It will never happen; Trump will never be re-elected. Republicans are not doing the math on voters and issues. They simply don't have the numbers.
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  3276.  @Fireballsocal  Buy products from China/India and then retail them in the US for a 5000% profit. How has this model been sustained for so long?
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  3277. Easier said than done! US has the largest health crisis in the world. Unless you get health under control and minimize hospitalizations; you'll just implode the deficit.
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  3278.  @Yanquetino  While I may agree somewhat with that, mathematically I don't think it checks out. I mean we spend $4T on healthcare and $1T on military. Subsidies might be in a couple hundred billion I assume. Even if you removed all the subsidies and cut the military budget. You could have a situation where energy costs go way up and drive more people towards poverty. A lot of people are barely holding on anymore. Then, still not have enough. These companies are using government as a wedge to sell garbage and charge whatever they want. I think it's criminal that Medicare doesn't negotiate currently. Hopefully Kennedy can help sort that out, but I won't hold my breath.
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  3279. You mean the stimulus checks and the business loans? Those PPP loans are being used by businesses to create false job openings. This fulfills the obligations they need to get the forgiveness, while not actually hiring people.
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  3280. Smaller is better when it comes to economic stability on a global stage. Unless of course you get bombed or invaded by a larger country.
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  3281. Because the FED printed $6 Trillion dollars between 2020-2022 and most of that money went into the auto and housing market. More expensive houses and higher demand equal higher prices.
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  3282. Pretty sure his half brother lives in Kenya and hates Obama XD
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  3283.  @TheMeanArena  Well, while I agree to a large extent. How do you explain to a 30-40 year old that your child now has full access to the internet by the mid 2000s? Put up a firewall or parent control and the kids still get around it. Take it away and their friends don't want to play anymore. It's not so cut and dry.
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  3284.  @marionamewontwork2681  Fair enough, I hope you continue prospering. Maybe it really does come down to the individual; through upbringing or epigenetics.
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  3285.  @marionamewontwork2681  I'm glad you had those; sorry about your mom btw, I think it's one of the biggest problems on a societal level. My parents were awol. I invented all of my archetypes and somehow was able to get the house, wife, and kid. I wonder though if certain things (negative things) hadn't happened to me; maybe I would have become complacent and become the 40 year old virgin.
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  3286. I'm not going to cry for a conflict that was started by NATO in 2014.
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  3287. With 30%+ inflation? That's some wishful thinking Ponce. M0-4 USD money supply is off the charts.
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  3288. @BrandNewAlien That's what the white house website says. The director MUST present a plan of release to the President within those margins. I'd imagine it might take a few more days afterwards to implement it. You can google it (white house JFK files release) and read it; maybe other people will see something that I don't.
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  3289.  @borysko3826  Is that really all you are about 'gotcha moments?' Seems like that's what any Democrat cares about anymore. They would rather the country get nuked instead of allowing Trump to take credit for anything.
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  3290. Yep, people in my own family were claiming there would be a (Covid baby boom) in 2020. I honestly thought it was ludicrous and a lousy prophecy. Gen X and Baby Boomers that theorized this are completely disconnected from the depressed and suicidal reality of the younger generations. I knew from the start that there was no way it would result in a population boom.
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  3291.  @jh53583  In MOST cases, this pattern of estrangement takes years. Parents love to play the (changed in a week - game) so that they can look like the victim. I was abused for 20+ years and it took an additional 7 to get to borderline (no-contact) with my mother. She's an extremely manipulative person and she was trying to lay claim to my son. Like she's going to babysit him in the house that she drugged, screamed at me, and threw things at me. Only someone that was psychotic or had a serious mental disorder would think that was remotely acceptable.
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  3292. How anyone can approve a vaccine by pharmaceutical companies with a horrible track record is beyond me. VAERs has vaccine related deaths around 15,000 as of recent. With a company like Pfizer creating 'Vioxx' in the early 2000s that killed some 27,000 people ... ... how is it that hard to believe their vaccine won't?
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  3293. What is the alternative? If banks are allowed to make their own interest rates; does not mean that they will pervert the money supply alone?
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  3294. You're fighting an uphill battle my friend; it's never going to happen. Bribery, corruption, and crime are all a part of politics and always have been. Until your change human nature or destroy the incentives to do those things. All you'll end up doing is replacing the radical crazy left with a bunch of dishonest corrupt people on the right. Politics attracts the worst kinds of people and only seldom do you fight honest people in politics. I think Ron is better than most, but he's not short being a politician and serving himself and his friends in the end. They all do that. Plus, nobody other than like 2 Congressmen has a plan to save Social Security and Medicare. If the benefits aren't reduced, taxes not raised, or otherwise the social security net dropped; the liabilities will eat this country alive. We are looking at $116 Trillion dollars in SS within the next 20 years. Changing demographics have made it impossible to pay forward for older generations.
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  3295. You can't criticize a government without criticizing the culture. People are a reflection of their government.
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  3296. Personality trait rather.
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  3297. He's terrified and still reeling from the situation. Have you never had anything happen in your life that nearly paralyzed your verbal skills? lol
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  3298.  @Rlee-x9s  Alright, so what were his policies that made everything so much better? Keep in mind, the economy revolves on bull and bust cycles at the behest of the FED. I agree things were better, but many of which were beyond his control. The same way they are beyond Obama or Biden's.
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  3299. Well, I'm not sure it's that simple. Border security can't exactly rummage thru your vehicle for no reason. A significant amount of the drug trafficking is being accomplished by using US citizens as middle men. Plus, they don't use your usual suspects. Some of the biggest busts have been HS kids and elderly people running large amounts of product.
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  3300.  @2025-w5  Yep; it's always been that way. It's because the entire hierarchy of a company is based on kissing up to the next. Perception of competence, but there actually is none. The investors carry the companies wallet, the board carries the movement, and the base-workers do everything else. Lower to upper management just suck wealth out of the company and ruin all the competence hierarchies. Actually happened to me at my first job. I was essentially running all of the cleaning, prep, and much of the cooking for a dinner theater back in 2012. Kitchen manager (who did nothing) decided he was going to have it out for me and harassed me one evening; so I quit that following morning after two years of working there. Not six months go by and they closed their doors for good. Apparently, the work load got so bad in the kitchen and food quality/efficiency plummeted, nothing was being kept up to date in the freezer, and I was the only one that maintained a good relationship with the servers and runners. So the whole social atmosphere collapsed as well.
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  3301. Gotta thank the Soviets for my mega-arsenal of WW3 doomsday weapons in the good ol' US of A! lol
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  3302. How? For dispelling a media lie? Do some research bro, it's not that hard. So many lies rights now.
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  3303. Democrats have shown to have a very strong voting block in 2022 and 2023. Democrats decimated Ohio Republicans 2 months ago in the General Election. You're forgetting who elected Trump in 2016; which was 8 years ago. Many of those voters are dead, have retired, or are working as slaves to stay afloat in an economy that Trump produced thru more Reaganomics. Putting interest rates at 0% for the last two decades was insanely dumb. It didn't give good business incentives; it gave incentives for get-rich-quick scams and further devaluation of the USD.
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  3304. Jesus, these comments make me feel like I won the lottery with an IQ of 110 lol People in general are what's wrong with the insanity we are seeing on the political landscape.
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  3305. 30 Million undocumented immigrants.
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  3306. If the entire grid goes does, losing your crypto would be the least concern.
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  3307. Regardless of what their merit is, people want to see these men. At least it's coming from a place of love, hope, and perseverance.
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  3308. Witcher 3 was the last real-game ever made imo. I never bought another game after that. If I want to play a game; I just go back to Skyrim.
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  3309. Globalizing economies make it inevitable. If you want healthy margins of inequality (say 70/30); then you need a smaller society. Large civilizations eventually end up with all the wealth being concentrated. It all comes down to Price's/Lotka's Law and basic pareto distributions on productivity and IQ.
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  3310.  @mattrobel229  Blackrock has virtually ALL construction contracts to rebuild Ukraine. When this war is over; they will own the nation.
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  3311. I guarantee you it's a ruse; just like Afghanistan and Iraq. I think this administration is quite simply trying to save face and maintain the illusion the Russia is our number one enemy. All the while they ignore China.
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  3312. I'm not trying to be rude, but that's not a solution. Corporations are cutting corners and scorching earth because they are desperate to keep their profit margins to stay afloat. Nobody except hedge-funds are actually doing well. All of this comes down to US fiscal policy and an imploding demographic problem.
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  3313. Gotta love it. Only people that are fascists want opposition to be silenced. Hilarious that Democrats are accusing Trump of everything they are doing.
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  3314. I like Vivek, but until he has a solution to stop rampant inflation (caused by the Federal Reserve) and fixing Social Security. The can will continue to be kicked down the road.
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  3315. Blame the high schools and colleges. They were literally peddling six figure salaries for most college jobs when I was in school; back in 2012. I remember this girl getting so excited to be an RN because they college promised her a $98,000 salary.
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  3316. Divide and conquer. This is why I laugh at people that eat up the right vs. left bs. This is all a game of international business and EVERYONE is buying; that's why the US social atmosphere seems so crazy.
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  3317. You're missing out on a wealth of psychological lecture bud.
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  3318. The prosecution KNOWS that all hell will break loose if he walks. I think it's going to be really hard to rig a jury where basically the entire country thinks this guy is a hero on all sides of the political spectrum.
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  3319. Good timing too! It's the year of big change for me and my family. Trump and Elon are just the cherry on top lol
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  3320. One of the worst things about reddit is that actually punishes people for giving opposing views to people that are suffering. So essentially, if you don't kiss their rear and tell people everything that they want to hear; you'll be removed. As this is considering victim blaming and hate-speech. The other horrible thing is that their speech policy has enabled narcissists to run the platform now. Instead of outright cursing and direct insults; you'll get entire essays of gaslighting and demeaning torture designed to make vulnerable people commit suicide. It attracts some of the lowest forms of life on earth.
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  3321. When you find yourself justifying a destruction of your current monetary system so that you can go back in time and fight over resources. You've officially research Cantillon's pinnacle of economic luxury.
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  3322. I fear there's nothing they can do at this point. China is positioned to withdraw from the USD, as well as Russia. That's probably why they've been filing to delist their national companies from the NYSE. Democrats KNOW that they cannot stop a red wave in November; so they are setting the game up to fail once they do. Student loans are still in forbearance and the FEDs are buying fortune 500 stocks are top price to keep the market afloat. All of that will collapse once the GOP takes over; that way they can shift the blame. When Democrats say, "the stock market does better under us!" they're not lying. They love to crash the economy on GOP Administrations and Congresses.
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  3323. Betrayal of Ukraine; are you kidding me? The US (under Obama) forced a regime change in Kiev that led to this entire conflict. I swear, the ignorance on this subject astounds me. You have a phone in your pocket; use it to learn.
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  3324. I think the people clapping in the back got a few pennies out of that $3.5 Trillion
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  3325.  @Sodomis666  Too many people are taking my statements too personally. The fact is that most EU nations don't properly budget for their own military expenditures. Thus, if the US were to stop subsidies, it would create a larger deficit and higher inflation in return. Europe can do what it wants, but not without cost.
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  3326. I truly wonder where you people come up with this garbage.
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  3327.  @mehere8038  Have you ever assumed that the other half may be onto something? Thinking that half the population is inept (as many do) is dangerous and produces radicalism. I think most people are voting for Trump because they feel and see that there is a conspiracy against their culture. Be careful what the media teaches you is 'important'. Too many people still rely on the media to give them an unbiased picture. That is what I find mind boggling. If people haven't figured out the gate-keeping racket between corporation and government at this point. I doubt they ever will.
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  3328. Not exactly, we're probably looking at the biggest bailout in US history coming in 2025; no joke. Whomever gets into office next year will have to contend with a 'probable' recession. This is because FED's are looking to cut rates in September. Once they do this, debt refinancing begins and basically the new/vs old cash flow in the economy causes a massive spike in delinquencies. This has happened 'without exception' for the last 50 years; see Overnight REPO rates.
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  3329. It's going to be JD Vance. Trump needs to choose a running mate from the Midwest if he wants any chance at winning Pennsylvania, Michigan, and now Ohio. Most people don't realize it's now a battle-ground state since Democrats have had major wins since 2020.
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  3330. I don't think so, he's doing a good job as Governor. If he wins the Presidency, some dumbass could run that state into the ground.
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  3331. People should be more angry that people working at FOX NEWS got a slap on the wrist for their role in instigating and agitating this entire charade to take place. Trump isn't his own channel; some 90% of his views come via Fox News and partners. They spent weeks playing edited videos and bringing on delirious Trump partners to explain how the election was stolen. Also, they turn the (poll worker shortage) into a conspiracy that they were defrauding voters in the late hours of the night.
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  3332. Yet the foreclosures are at 0.25%. The 2008 crisis took nearly 5 years to finally unfold due to rising foreclosure rates. This channel is garbage; there is no mortgage or real-estate meltdown.
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  3333. It's probably because the Congression Agriculture Committee is lobbied by corporations like Walmart and Amazon.
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  3334. Well yeah, he headed Operation Warp Speed. Are people really this slow? Information of the world at your fingertips, but people get surprised by the dumbest facts.
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  3335.  @CalvinHikes  I think you're quickly forgetting who enforced mask mandates, shutdowns, and vaccine mandates; it wasn't Trump.
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  3336. Everybody is trying to get those ESG rated loans lol It should be absolutely criminal to give subsidies to businesses (even in the form of low interest) just because they kowtow to a certain political ideology.
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  3337. Touch a nerve? The irony of your comment is astounding. He's a comedian first-off and he doesn't bullshit around. I think only a person caught in life delusions about morality and human motivation would be so angered by what he had to say. Reading books like the Gulag Archipelago or 1984, he's pretty spot on with how people will react, facilitate, and grow a tyrannical regime. "Those of us who give a shit." are typically the last people to reform a nation and the first ones to turn in their neighbors to the new authority. Just a proverb to remember, - "If you think you are incapable of evil; you are the most likely person to engage in it."
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  3338. It's so sad how educated and non-educated people are both using social media as a doom and gloom pyramid scheme.
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  3339.  @rajarsi6438  A true scientist will get results they didn't anticipate and elaborate on them. A fake scientist will make a prediction and pretend that they got the desired results
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  3340. I wish it were just entry level. It feels impossible for anybody to get a job these days. My wife has four years of experience working in cardiothoracic surgery. She's been ghosted for the last 6 months trying to transfer to a new job.
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  3341.  @FrenchCanadianGuy  Yeah, they literally indicted Trump for a crime Biden committed; that's politics for you.
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  3342. They don't, I'm 31 and it's a blessing. It gave me growth in ways I never thought possible. Being single all your life isn't what people think it is. I hope you find joy in maybe being an uncle or chaperone perhaps :) It's also never too late; you're still young.
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  3343. Very simple; energy crisis, social unrest, and economic chaos in Europe. Followed by an invasion of Taiwan in November. NATO and the US need to sit down; they're going to have their hands full lol
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  3344.  @serinadelmar6012  I think you should take a step back on this one. What you're espousing is doom and gloom trends. I'm not sure if you lived thru Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, but he was entirely wrong and used faulty data on top of that. Understanding how these non-profit organizations use you as a profit scheme is of prime importance in having a balanced assessment. The global climate shifts have happened before and more recently I might add. Try not to get too caught up in the sensationalism of 'world ending' climate change politics. With that being said, it doesn't mean there aren't things that can be done to make life and land more sustainable/ecological.
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  3345. Developers wouldn't be doing if if they weren't getting subsidies via ESG loans for it lol Government has absolutely lost it's mind! This is the US; not China! I never voted for anyone to create a banking regulation to give sub-prime loans to virtue signaling activist companies.
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  3346. I think the biggest problem with our current system is how a large volume of counter-productive people are now afforded the luxury of international communication. To blast their insults, narcissism, and envy across the board in every direction in the hopes that everything annihilates itself. No wonder people have lost their minds. At any other time in human history they would have died or suffered in silence. So it's an interesting turn of events in modern times.
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  3347. If you still think this government is going to protect and serve; as well as only prosecute the wrong-doers. You need a reality check! They only take people to court that won't play ball with them. If these bureaucrats and politicians commit perjury, sell US reserve oil to a foreign company, or buy commodity shares right before a sanction; they get a promotion and a book deal. If I do ANY of those things; I go to prison for 25 years.
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  3348. The ONLY reason that corporations require Computer Science Degrees is because they are getting kickbacks from the Federally backed University system. On top of that, algorithms are constantly searching for career potential largely based on a lineage of 'degrees' in that area. Lastly, you have the ability for students to constantly undermine existing parameters to get leverage over other students and job applicants. In a world of AI, this will only become more apparent as the kinks in ChatGPT and other applications get sorted out. If anybody and their brother can get an AI written assignment turned in. Then a degree means nothing, aside from sorting out 'honest' people from 'con-artists'.
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  3349. Up is down and left it right. Informed consent = disinformed compulsion
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  3350. Most people in the middle class pay roughly 50-55% tax after all the nickels and dimes.
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  3351. Let's not forget that the Haitian Government has been overthrown by gangs and rebels :)
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  3352. Democrats will always be the party of racism, period. Ask any of them about their thoughts on minorities and they will basically tell you that they don't have the brains or brawn to make their own choices or chase their dreams. I mean come on, they think black people aren't smart enough to find the BMV.
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  3353. Dear God lad, kudos for finding yourself. But what about your debt situation? 🤔
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  3354. Get rid of corporate lobbyism then. That's what this is all about! Blackrock wants to turn Ukraine into a freaking strip-mall.
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  3355. In my life experience, women that were roughly 6/10 came off as having the most partners. Many of the most beautiful women were extremely cautious and single for a great deal of time.
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  3356. Fake lying news at it again!
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  3357.  @latonyasoloman5700  Oh I fully agree, but the boat is full of holes. No accountability and no enforcement. If Dr. Fauci commits Perjury; he gets a book and movie deal. If I commit perjury; I go to prison for 25 years. At this point, I don't know what it would take to stop the tidal wave that's coming on all fronts.
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  3358.  @daryoushsameyah8329  Israelis ARE Palestinians bud. Critical thinking has entirely left the building. People living in Gaza aren't even natives of the area.
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  3359. Palestine means - from (Phoenicia down to Egypt) btw. Describing a region of peoples living in the region; not a race or ethnic group.
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  3360.  @Latour6182  How is that ridiculous? You can't derive the same metabolic function from every calorie. This has been studied in rats and you get different body weight results with different items of the same caloric value.
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  3361. As much as I may want to agree, a gold standard would bankrupt this nation. A gold standard is maintained by being the productivity/export capital in a global trade. It's a game of monopoly! The most productive nations will export their wares for US gold. When a country runs out of gold, it must go to war to gain more resources. This is one of the reasons that a gold standard was ended, but it ironically seems irrelevant. A fiat currency and crypto will eventually turn out the same way.
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  3362. Not a Trump supporter, but the amount of stupidity in the comment section is ridiculous. This is the very definition of what people call TDS.
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  3363.  @DonJuanDecepticon  I ate some pizza this morning; cheat day! You know the drill.
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  3364. It all comes down to currency devaluation. Demographics are crushing people because Social Security and Pensions are asset bubbles that require devaluation to maintain; just wait until the 2030s (it will ramp up bad!) On the wage side, wages don't keep up with inflation because demand is outperforming supply. As long as debt (demand) outperforms the current GDP; wages will stagnate. Don't blame economics, blame the idiots propping up the system with government. None of this would be happening without government creating all of these asset bubbles (student loan bubble as well).
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  3365. Not this time my friend. The cliff in 2008 were the millions of sub-prime adjustable rates. Now, it's just plain old inflation and scarcity. There's nowhere left for the crash to go (except) the USD itself.
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  3366. As usual, people think they're getting the entire story from a cut version of the full video. The media isn't stupid, they want you to have an anti-Trump and pro-Zelensky attitude. Anybody actually paying attention knows how phony Zelensky really is. He doesn't give a hoot about Ukraine, it's all about how much money he can siphon from US and European military funding. As usual, lefties are all about war and violence against the opposing side and off-ish about terms. All because they claim (in their narrow minded view) that Putin is the sole problem. Give it 5 years and they will be talking about how they went above and beyond to push for diplomacy. Vietnam and Afghanistan were no different. Progressives ALWAYS champion the violent approach and then rewrite history to claim they were about peace.
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  3367. NATO is so desperately trying to start an all out war with Putin. I've watched this entire conflict unfold from day one. Russia may have launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine; stemming from a conflict ongoing from 2014. However, NATO has very carefully planned and instigated this from the start. They want every reason in the world to occupy and control Russia and her resources. Putin is simply standing up to a puppet dictator and the Western powers that be. As an American, I grow sick and tired of saying I'm 'proud' of living in a country that continuously guts and bombs whomever doesn't play ball in their sick courtyard.
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  3368. This is one of the many reasons I never plan to get a new laptop or even smartphone. When they're done; they're done.
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  3369. When people get ripped away from the 'luxury stage' of the Cantillon Effect. People would rather die than admit their standard of living has declined.
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  3370. Recycling is a categorical term. Assuming it gets reprocessed is a big what-if and I wouldn't make a blind assumption that it does. Most recycling programs, even in Europe saw their peaks in the early 2000s. After China stopped importing those items, a large volume of them began going to landfills in and outside the country.
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  3371.  @jylfarm1964  Yes, but there was a major drawback in those times; glass shards were prevalent everywhere. I love glass anything and it's much more sustainable, but talk to anyone that lived through the 60s and 70s. Broken glass was abundant from coast to coast in north America.
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  3372. Western society is broken my friend lol
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  3373. Imagine if Mormons started to invade foreign countries; everybody would be up in arms. Yet we make excuses for Islamic cultures (that largely do not believe in human rights, let alone rights for women). All under the guise of 'brown man oppressed?'
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  3374. The ONLY reason Trump is polling so incredibly high is because the only Republicans taking the polls are delusional MAGA supporters. Registered Republicans in large are embarrassed and exhausted from the last 7 years of this political charade. Democrats won major state victories in the General Election this year and voter turnout among Republicans is in the garbage. Come 2024, Republicans will be stay home.
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  3375. I already voted earlier this week! Trump 2024!
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  3376. High interest rates are being done for the same misinformed reason that ultra-low interest rates were done for in 2020. The unemployment and GDP data is largely faulty. Gig work and ghost jobs have completely distorted what it means to be unemployed anymore. As far as the FED is concerned; the economy here in the US in healthy. However, everybody living on the ground level KNOWS that the current economy is even worse than 2008; devoid of a real-estate crash. I fear the FED has inadvertently damaged the economy so badly that any attempt to loosen interest rates will just go straight to multi-trillion dollar corporations and leave the rest of Americans in absolute poverty. Not to mention increase inflation all over again by 20-30% in 2025/2026.
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  3377. I'm afraid that will do nothing, Trump made a huge mistake not dismissing the Obama appointees in the Fed back in 2016. Now they are wrecking havoc in government. Everybody's hand is caught in the cookie jar and there's nowhere left for the risk to go; the Federal Government holds all of it. We are in the early stage of hyperinflation, they just passed another $1.5T piece of legislation two weeks ago. Just wait until they forgive student debt and put forth more spending for the war in Ukraine. There's literally nowhere left to hide. The average Americans will NOT be able to survive another year of inflation like we saw in 2021. This is unfortunately the end-game. Put your money in crypto, bullion ETF's like Sprott, or real-estate. The USD is gonna go bye-bye.
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  3378. Personally, I think it's worth it. It will be like ripping a band-aid off, but still. One of the reasons American food is cheaper than any other first world country is because of low labor costs. Something that other nations are not as accustomed to.
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  3379. Well, the workforce lost a considerable amount of competency. Probably when a major chunk of Americans pre-maturely retired in 2020 during Covid. Now people are stuck NOT with the second best employees, but rather like the 19th best. It's truly nauseating to witness how BAD service has gotten. It's not laziness per se, but rather these people are completely unqualified to do most things lol
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  3380. Well, as much as I might agree. We're looking at an imploding system with the current trajectory. Bootstraps arguments don't work for most people, because it mathematically can't be done without making ridiculous concessions and opportunities. I think most people are irritable because the wealthiest people use a system of loopholes that are not available to the general public in order to protect their assets, patents, and/or scams, etc. Government is being used as a gate-keeping mechanism for a lot of upper wealth. It wouldn't exist in a largely deregulated system.
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  3381.  @bigman1552  My supreme leader? You're doing it right now bud. The news told you that people that think as I do got all my info from the President..
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  3382. Not really, most of them are sociopaths or outright psychopaths. They are in it because the contracts are big and every one of these idiots wants to have their face on TV 24/7.
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  3383. Several Republican led states enforced drastic lockdown measures. I'm from Ohio and DeWine destroyed this state in 2020-2021. He's turned many reg. Republicans Independent. His Administration is dirty. Look at how they handled E. Palestine! They tried to blow up the spill and aerosolize it to erase the incompetence between Norfolk Southern and the Ohio regulatory committees. Then they made a PR ad showing them enjoying sink water in E. Palestine and telling people it was clean. Another clown administration! I'm so sick of D's and R's.
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  3384.  @ggoddkkiller1342  Well, the entire idea is that US markets are gate-keeping hard with this technology; that is otherwise inexpensive and widely available for developers to take advantage of. It's like traveling to an island to sell natives a pack of pencils. When your rivals try to dock and set up a shop of colored sharpies; you close the docks. Maintaining the illusion that the pencil is the newest technology. Not very far fetched considering that the US has been larger at war with Chinese tech development since October 2022.
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  3385. It's all money laundering, the corruption is everywhere.
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  3386. Jesus, if you can't tell the difference between (click-bait dumpster garbage) and (someone taking their time to review some clinical research) then I'd say you have no business judging.
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  3387. How do ANY of you tie your shoes in the morning? The budget for Federal Interest is currently $791.6 Billion! It's pretty easy to find out with a smartphone that ALL of you have lol
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  3388.  @Bunny.8i  Source? Try to Whitehouse.gov or the Debt Clock lol
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  3389. Does anyone actually believe that once you give the government the power to 1. Lock you in your own home 2. Arrest you for walking on the beach 3. Force you to vaccinate at the workplace - that they will ACTUALLY give it up???
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  3390. Over a ten year period, starting with 3,000 agents in 2022. The IRS is extremely short staffed in labor, as is most of the economy. Lots of money is being lost and they are attempting to crack down on audits in order to generate extra tax revenue that is missing. It's just the math, not a conspiracy. They need people in mass to get more of your tax revenue. Auditing rich people is costly and time consuming, so their new strategy is to use new IRS agents to audit low and middle income Americans at a higher rate to generate lost revenue.
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  3391. CNN lying as usual. Washington Post didn't exactly say they were NOT going to give an endorsement. They CANCELLED their Harris endorsement last minute under direction of Bezos.
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  3392. He's not releasing anything new. All this information is public and he has the same position on the war that many people do. It's going to be hard to discern what's true if you haven't paid attention during the Obama Administration. If you want context and information, go back to the Revolution of Dignity and the civil war that began in 2014.
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  3393. Well, they don't care and likely never have. Politics is always about hand-shakes and bribes.
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  3394. That's pride talking, not critical thinking. Many people want the mask efficacy to remain theoretically high. All so they can justify their religious and radical behavior during the heat of the pandemic. The AAAS website has a wealth of similar studies on the same issue; mask efficacy at it's height was like 30%. It's largely based on a penetration test, keep that in mind. This isn't just a word for word study from the participants with no screening.
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  3395. What's the male perspective? Sports and beer; nothing else matters? I think a lot of men prefer deeper topics instead of surface level artificial banter.
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  3396. It's mainly intelligence and psychological illness. Paired largely with drug addiction. I'm not sure about greed, on their part or that of others? Some do it willingly. No taxes, no labor, etc. Most out of necessity because they can't function in the current economy.
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  3397. I think you mean NATO.
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  3398.  @itstheiceman11  Who said I wasn't planning for my future or taking action? Seems like unnecessary gaslighting if you ask me. I empathize with younger generations; plain and simple. Not exactly, home rates fluctuate according to the interest rates set by the Federal Reserve and Board of Governors. Home prices go down when there are more sellers than buyers. If you're not enrolled in FERS-FRAE post 2014; you will not receive full compensation until 30 years of service at 1.0-1.1%. You cannot retire on a full pension plan with 20 years of service. I actually really wanted to work for USPS some time ago before I realized their retirement tiers system. The guys that were enrolled before 1987 under FER-8 got those 20 year full retirement pension programs. It's a thing of the past now.
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  3399. You're going to vote for a man that appointed Jerome Powell and pressured the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates at 0%? All that domestic inflation and you are going to vote for him again?
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  3400. It's NOT amnesty because it gives them dignity... Sounds like another politician word salad.
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  3401. Let's print hundreds of billions of dollars and pass NEW legislation is order to STOP printing money! Only politicians can come up with this bs.
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  3402. Got to admit the Sophie Turner has got some 'other' extremely valuable skills and assets.
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  3403. What is happening everywhere is the real question! This country is being overturned by crazies on both sides. I blame the social media companies for such mass hysteria; de facto governments being run by nerds, go figure.
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  3404.  @thisfooreallysaid  I wish it was just the internet. People have lost their minds; men AND women. People are so fully of entitlement and apathy.
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  3405. We're two years into the conflict and you're still blind to the fact that Ukraine began a civil war against Russia's border in Donetsk? How thick can people get with the information of the world at their fingertips?
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  3406. Until the Community College begin to cost an arm and a leg; it's a band-aid of a solution. College used to be reserved for the most intelligent and prestigious students. Nowadays the government guarantees the loans and everybody and their brother can go. This has allowed prices to rise out of control. Stop guaranteeing the loans and the prices will drop! Stop strangling the curriculum to death with bureaucracy and administrative decisions; the quality will increase!
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  3407. I think the point is that the religious wing of the GOP is going to end up damaging future elections.
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  3408. Alien life is more than likely restricted to the same bell curves and inequalities that physics allows for on earth. There are probably a low tier 20% of habitable zone planets with no life. Some 75% of habitable planets with alien bacteria and eukaryotes. Then there are the remaining 5% of habitable planets in the Universe, most of which have had a primitive civilization of aliens at some time, but died out due to some natural cataclysm. I think advanced civilizations (in terms of bio-diversity) would be few and far between in the greater Universe.
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  3409. Ah, integrity! Because nobody has more integrity than the guy (sitting President) that had James O'Keef arrested for possessing his daughter's journal, which James notified the FEDs of an entire year earlier and they didn't care after he bought it off Craigslist.
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  3410. Kind of difficult when the media TEACHES people that their political opponents are a threat to the climate, democracy, or life as you know it, etc.. Get the government OUT of media!
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  3411. This guy is calling an anti-central bank anarcho-capitalist a (neo-Nazi right winger?) Either he's insanely dumb or insanely corrupt; maybe both?
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  3412. Maybe try sticking to mushrooms and carrots? That's what I do; try to make the meal as natural as possible. I'm not the biggest on red meat, but I try to stick to eggs, mushrooms, carrots, nuts, and butter.
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  3413.  @HumbleTrader001  "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay."
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  3414. Have you been to Puerto Rico? IT IS! How is it insulting to say it's entirely dysfunctional and trashy?
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  3415.  @JWalterYooper3661  Based on a comment about Puerto Rico? I'm not making blind assumptions about you, nor insulting you. How about some empathy perhaps?
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  3416. "Existential threat such as climate change." Why do we need to have manipulative political slogans placed into such a video? Is anything sacred anymore?
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  3417. I don't think that's the point they're trying to make. I don't think it helps to sit in a room with a stranger and VENT about your traumas. The best way to do that is thru family and spousal support. Unfortunately, we don't have that because the family system is completely broken. Talk to your family about your feelings and they'll end up on social media and belittling you in front of others.
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  3418. It's the culture! Americans have always valued gambling and ponzi schemes. Why would you trust any politician or entity to keep their word? It's always been every man for himself here; nothing has changed since it's inception.
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  3419.  @lisagardner903  I'm no fan of Biden, but how do you rationalize that Biden did this? The shutdowns, PPP loans, and printing $8 Trillion did this. Trump appointed Powell and he set rates to 0.25% Biden's largest fault was that he exacerbated inflation with student loan forgiveness promises. Trump was a major part of this problem. Not to mention his continuation of Obama's sanctions in South America and Asia that he tripled down on.
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  3420. We've been doing this since 2022. Why are people acting like Trump's tariffs are mad? Biden crashed $10 Trillion in the market when he sanctioned their semi-conductor exports to the US.
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  3421.  @user-ue4he3li8b  Hair-cuts were about every 2 months and I cut my nails every month. Plus, I shaved once a week. Now I get a haircut every 5 weeks, cut my nails every two weeks, and shave every 2nd or 3rd day. Plus, I haven't changed my haircuts or routines in the past decade. Also, off topic, but many people are allergic or intolerant to eggs/dairy. Had no idea I was until I cut them out completely. They caused a lot of brain fog, energy disruption, and mood swings. Plus, cut out the industry bread. At home organic baking is alright and doesn't bloat me. It's amazing what will happen once you cut out the chemicals and food intolerances.
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  3422.  @pabloescobarschanclas  Well, with all due respect; what are you aiming at in life if you think children are a waste of time? This seems like the perspective of a very young person. Eventually your parents die and your friends rotate out of your life stage. Not having parents and kids after 35-40 is not an easy life. Friends only stay attached so long as they have something in common with you. Once they don't; it naturally gets awkward. When you're young, friends seem like an easy commodity; until they aren't.
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  3423. Go to hell Doris! You are without God to think that it is acceptable to stay within a family or relationship where the person is manipulating or actively abusing you.
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  3424. Most people are ignorant to the fact that the US was regime changing Ukraine in 2014 and a civil war began in eastern Ukraine. Russia invaded after the US threatened that they would join NATO. Which would be catastrophic for Russia's influence in the region.
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  3425.  @Donnie12592  Ukraine hasn't been a sovereign nation for centuries Donnie. Ukrainians have been trying to separate their country since the fall of the Soviet Union. Since 2004, annexation of eastern Ukraine has been sought after by it's own residents. Most people fell asleep in 2014 when the Obama Admin overthrew the existing government in Kiev, which was when Zelensky was installed. Call the invasion what you want, but they've been at war since 2014 (only officially since 2022).
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  3426. Thanks for your story! I'm sick and tired of fat-cat Boomers claiming that everybody is lazy when they got the biggest retirement boost in US history.
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  3427.  @Egleu1  Degrees don't mean anything if you can't back up your logic.
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  3428.  @snacpac5031  Most religions are a façade created by psychopaths to control and milk their herds. It enables people that are smarter and less ethical to outright abuse their positions and take advantage of less intelligent and desperate people.
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  3429. Personally, I'm going to stop voting. Anymore, half the country wants you impaled for choosing one of two choices lol
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  3430. I'm not saying this isn't a problem for the school, but these kids are becoming porn-addicts almost a decade before they are going to see these curriculums. Parents refuse to educate their children, nor do they acknowledge the pandemic of porn addiction for young teens and adults. I truly don't see any of these issues getting solved any time soon.
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  3431. Yep, anti-social development galore. Problem is, people affected by that since age 2 are incurable. Those neural pathways are nearly permanent and they are extremely apathetic. The October Revolution in Russia took some 3% of the population to terrorize the rest over envy, contempt, and discontent with the out of control inequalities. In the US, this anti-socials make up nearly 10% of the population and most likely 20% by 2030. Watching how dysfunctional children and teenagers are (as a man with his own family) is terrifying. It's the reason my wife and I keep having the discussion of selling our assets and moving to another country far away from this ticking time bomb.
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  3432. Exactly! People think they're smart by being able to easily see a potential conflict of interest. When in reality their lack of intelligence makes them completely miss the more sinister activities going on. In the end, it's not about morals; it's about virtue signalling. Many people would rather look smart and look like they did something important; rather than actually doing it.
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  3433. Is the US nuclear stockpile in similar shape? I've heard from many sources that both Russia and the United States military arsenal is (essentially) rusting away and lacking maintenance.
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  3434. Is the US nuclear stockpile in similar shape? I've heard from many sources that both Russia and the United States military arsenal is (essentially) rusting away and lacking maintenance.
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  3435.  @donparker1823  I've heard that our arsenal is 5-10 years behind on routine maintenance and replacement parts. Considering how bad the labor shortage is (in every industry); it sounds legitimate if I'm only using deductive reasoning. We can't maintain prisons, we can't maintain the border, we can't maintain infrastructure, but we can maintain all of our nuclear armaments with a -30% shortage in military personnel? Look, at the end of the day; I don't know the specifics. My area of knowledge is finance and logistics. I'm just claiming that it sounds fishy with everything else falling behind.
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  3436. The days are numbered; it's not even about anti-trust. All these influencers and jokers are doing is exploiting things that have already been created. The entire industry peaked around 2017. Now they resort to absolute stupidity to pump up their viewership because they need more money. Youtube doesn't even pay well for this anymore, which is why they all the influencers need to market for other vendors in their videos.
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  3437.  @mattreese-7  Thanks, I'll be here all week :)
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  3438. No, the government is quite simply "anticipating a mass insurrection" like the one they tried to prepare for in November 2020, but never came.
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  3439. NBC is pure propaganda; they don't even believe what they're saying. It's all about gaslighting, smoke and mirrors, and blackmail. Any decent person probably packed their bags years ago.
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  3440. The 'interest problem' is relatively new as it's causing enormous upheaval in Congress. The debt issue isn't an issue when Congress can print to kingdom come in an economy that can partially keep up with GDP.
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  3441.  @AnusSniffer69  Hey, look man; some people are brutes and others are not. I consider myself quite a brute, with a rather fascistic personality. I practically worship strength, shrewdness, and classism. Thankfully I'm aware of it so it doesn't go to inappropriate lengths, but that doesn't mean I'm devoid of emotion. I have a home, a dog, a wife, a child etc. Yet I have homicidal fantasies all the times without remorse. Usually about people that have done my wife wrong or have done me wrong without remorse or closure. I've cried; been emotionally damaged; committed illegal acts in the past. I might even score pretty nicely on their little test as well I'd wager. No, I don't store dead bodies in the fridge and other horrific crap like that. It's not a one size fits all and I'm not a psychopath; I'm simply human.
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  3442. By reporting on subjects that mainstream media won't?
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  3443. Yes, the migrant crisis is not to be underplayed. However, the biggest criminals in this country are born and raised right here. To claim that migrants are the bulk of American crime is crazy. It's almost exclusively black ghetto BS!
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  3444.  @Johnwicker1903  Unless Americans are prepared to ditch Social Security and Pensions; a collapse is inevitable. I know some people will disagree, but those two items form not only a massive asset bubble, but also most of our public debt. Both of which have to be inflated (COLA) in order to maintain to original value. Auto-pilot programs accounts for 74% of all spending. Nothing will change unless they are fried or reformed.
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  3445.  @michaelnoble2432  Age 1-4 defines a child's neural connections for the rest of his life. I don't like writing off people, but you are going to increasingly see anti-social behavior become rampant; apathy, aggression, manipulation, and predation.
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  3446.  @pamelqtaylor8335  Tell me about it! My sister is going to graduate in 2 years with an Interior Design BA; $144,000 in the Midwest.
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  3447. @rtlau-mk4di Kudos! Glad to hear it :)
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  3448.  @barbaraatkinson2204  Not really, it's just poor and arrogant incentives that people put in place with money that they don't have. It's easy to make a bunch of laws that do NOTHING when you get a bunch of free money from the Federal Government.
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  3449.  @lilpain8883  I fully agree! Perhaps some of the dates slipped his mind; we all make mistakes unfortunately.
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  3450.  @trigamac  I already did, your gaslighting response makes me think that you're making things up tbh. I gave specifics; you did not. If you were serious and telling the truth; I assume you'd have done the same.
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  3451.  @Erich__88  National Socialists bud; Socialist is the adjective. How do people still not know this? Nazism and Fascism are breakaways from Marxism post WW1. It reimagined an allegiance between nation and citizen; rather than proletariat and citizen.
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  3452. Well, people are frustrated about bills and lack of jobs available. Anybody trying to look for a base-level job is getting shafted the past 2 years. It's turning MANY young people against the current administration regardless of the reasoning.
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  3453. Same! I'm an Ohioan; F- DeWine and the neo-cons and F- the Democrats.
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  3454.  @colinb8332  BS, that's what Grants and Scholarships are for. Most of the kids going to Universities today are dumb as a bag of rocks and can't hold a candle to someone that graduated in their position even 10 years prior. No kid left behind has been the new policy now for quite some time. College work is so easy that a middle schooler could do it. It's become a virtue signal center for everybody and their brother to 'feel good' about accomplishing nothing. Not to mention radicalizing young minds to protest and riot for the ambitions of intellectual morons and non-profit scams.
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  3455. What would they even do? The Supreme Court's duty is to interpret the constitution and over-rule lower courts. Trump was convicted by a state jury. I really don't see how SCOTUS will get around that one.
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  3456.  @zan1971  Well, I think the obsession with Trump is largest with people that hate him. Most of the people that voted for him (like myself) probably did it for various reasons that include his campaign and new cabinets picks. Also, it seems pretty obvious that the Progressives have no control over their party and the corporate DNC wing is extremely dangerous.
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  3457. So you don't like him, because his eyes are creepy? Not a good reason to vote for or against someone.
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  3458. I don't find it odd whatsoever. Generation X birthed televangelism, military worship, and religion of pharmaceuticals. They were the first generation to live during (Reaganomics and the low-interest environment). Allowing utter trash families to get low interest mortgages and slingshot into the middle class. Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s, I lived in two separate middle class neighborhoods. Everybody (except one family) came from absolute trash backgrounds; single parent households, drugs, evicted house living, and almost all were abusive. The finances may change, but the culture carried on. The families I grew up with were extremely toxic, many had violent behaviors, many alcoholics, etc. We are just now seeing all of those children grow into adulthood and the hell that they lived thru.
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  3459. You can't exactly prove it, which is why they have HR jump all the legal hoops with the hiring process.
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  3460. CNN was off by 8 pts in the 2020 election when they claimed Biden had a 12 pt lead in the last poll. Now they claims it's 'even'? This means a Trump landslide I imagine.
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  3461. Oh please, only simpletons buy into the entire Ukraine-Zelenskyy façade. A criminal administration installed by another criminal administration named the Obama Administration. Plus, Zelenskyy and Biden are not friends whatsoever; they have a long history of black-mail between each other. Of course, Americans don't have a memory that lasts more than 30 seconds these days, so...
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  3462. What a joke! You know what your financial sanctions did? They locked thousands of Americans and foreign investors out of Russian stocks; meaning you can't sell or buy as the price continues to tank as it's done the last several days. All it's doing is allowing Russians to keep the shareholders they already have. How does it hurt the Russians by preventing me from selling my shares of Lukoil?
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  3463. Corporate oligarchs lobbied to have a five day school week as well. More time for parents to work lol
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  3464. Atheist isn't a faith, it's simply a position that believes nothing except a physical reality. At the same time, you could say a dog can't believe in electricity or voting because he can't conceptualize those concepts. The dog has faith in what he can sense only. I'm not a Christian, but atheism baffles me sometimes.
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  3465. Lumber gets inflated by an inflated housing market. All those mortgages debts that pumped up the real-estate market between 2020-2022 have a mutual relationship to lumber as a product. It's no different than a tire's relationship to an overpriced car market.
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  3466. Too many people not using their brains. Look at the Pfizer trials.. What was their absolute efficacy for preventing the infection? It's not 90%, it's 0.7%
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  3467.  @antoinerobeson4434  Careful what you wish for. Questioning and researching the FDA, AHA, and most other "public interest" agency will unplug you from the matrix. At this point, I am miles from where I began 2 years ago. In a good way.
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  3468. Blaming colleges for this influencing is like blaming dirty library books for the porn problem; it makes no sense. Men and women got greedy and selfish. Being able to have instant gratification and a constant stream of entertainment has ruined an entire generation of people. I can assure you that the people with these problems began long before college started. College just pushes to (age-out) of the dating market quicker. If a woman wants to be successfully married and happy; he best bet is to try and date between 18 and 25. Once she is 25+, the clock is ticking and she is losing valuable time in her selection pool of mates. Largely because she will only date (her age and +5yrs) to start. Once a woman is 30, he selection pool is limited to (30-35yr) men, unless she wants to go the sugar daddy route. I can assure you that a whopping majority of men 30-35 are not single by choice. The men that are single and highly sought after will be very competitive among the women of that age. So the odds are against her marrying him. Bad behavior mixed with bad time investment = the current dating market
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  3469. They're brains are fried lol
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  3470. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans
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  3471. Testosterone and lies! Every war is funded by these two.
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  3472. The media screamed about Fascism (that didn't exist) for four straight years! Now, fascism is HERE and they are silent. People need to wake-up; the media is a cartel of corporations that are trying to suppress any independent news organization.
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  3473. And people wonder why so many Americans think there was mass election fraud. Nothing this Administration does has been beneficial to the American people and is antithetical to our existence. Now we should expect a plethora of terrorist attacks that agencies will "overlook" and the utter chaos will allow them to declare martial law and finally do away with the rights of citizens. Wait and watch...
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  3474. I'm not so sure Obama was behind this. I really felt like Jill and Michelle were running the country; into the ground. A resentful man kills his enemies; a resentful woman tortures them!
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  3475.  @fortheloveofcars4655  Pearl harbor happened because the US sanctions all oil from Japan. Kind of how the US formed a coup against Kiev for political control in 2014 and then Russia got mad after we tried to push them into NATO in 2022. It's a power play; nobody is innocent, least of all NATO.
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  3476. Not technically; positive GDP and a bull market. Of course that doesn't mean a healthy economy, but it's all in the fundamentals. I think a recession though is actually imminent in 2025 due to rate cuts.
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  3477. People are so quick to eat up propaganda. I'm not siding with the Russian invasion, but the Ukrainian President is NOT a good guy. I hate how people have been blind to his war crimes against Russians living in Ukrainian borders. The West orchestrated this insanity and pawns are being moved off the board.
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  3478. It won't change anything; a whopping 2% of single-family homes are owned by corporations.
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  3479. Dear God man, do you actually believe what you just wrote? Regurgitating Nazi Propaganda? Where's the proof? Plus you're going to make fun of him for his addiction to a prescription that he used to help him cope with a pre-existing condition? That's low...
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  3480. Careful what you wish for. A person that doesn't have to 'show up' for work is a person that can be outsourced. When your job doesn't count on physical presence, you will have to compete on a global/digital scale for work-load and wages.
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  3481. This is why I deleted my social media last year. They are going to use EVERYTHING against you! Plus, fun fact but the CDC website won't let you in if you're using a VPN service. It's almost as if they want to track every IP address... Duh...
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  3482. Lobbying already has regulations; they aren't enforced unless you irritate the wrong people.
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  3483. Once you hit the 'luxury' stage of the Cantillon Effect; people would rather commit suicide than be poor. You just wait! When the middle class goes bankrupt and their silver-spoon Generation Z apology tour runs out of money; these kids will quite literally off themselves in droves.
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  3484.  @Traul1983  You're jumping ahead too many spaces. Ukraine was under full political control of the Russian Federation. Say what you want about who should be controlling it; it hasn't been a true sovereign country for hundreds of years. Russia will want a firm agreement that Ukraine will never join NATO (AND) that NATO will end interference in affairs concerning ex-iron curtain nations. To a large extent, none of this would have happened without the Kiev coup in 2014.
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  3485.  @evulclown  You're entirely forgetting that Ukraine has a massive population in the east that has been attempting to annex itself to Russia since 2004. Russia had political control in Kiev before the Revolution of Dignity. They simply want it back. People need to understand the ambitions of both sides.
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  3486.  @evulclown  I agree that this is a Russia problem to solve. Therefore NATO should not be interfering in foreign elections to try and push Ukraine into their ranks. Besides, I don't see any actual reason that NATO needs Ukraine; other than to box Russia in for eventual subjugation. Russia wants it for it's agriculture and ports. Both of which are non-essential in the grand scale of the EU or US imports. I've heard that the Ukrainians have NIH funded labs, but other than that it seems to be a big power grab by international corporations imo. Blackrock already owns a substantial portion of the infrastructure contracts for rebuilding it. I think they're planning on turning it into a strip mall.
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  3487. Copy and paste?
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  3488.  @Miigz  Troll? Virtually all polls point at 80%+ of the US public being 'against' US involvement in Ukraine and nearly 85% in Israel. You're in the super minority if you support involvement in Ukraine.
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  3489.  @stevenotero2627  That's why I killed my smartphone; literally. Went with the Nokia-flip; changed my life.
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  3490.  @off6848  I'm not so sure; maybe not by a modern standard. If you look at the Hadza tribe; they have a very simplistic culture when it comes to spiritualism. I think modern people confuse 'living as intended with gratitude' as spiritual. It's like the different between self esteem and simply doing what you need to so that your tribe and family can survive. Self esteem isn't even in the dictionary for these people. Modernity has made simplistic things complex.
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  3491. Considering that a FED rate cut (after prolonged interest hikes) typically yields a recession in a 6 month time period. I'd say we're right on course lol
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  3492. 15 years is not enough to measure global patterns and attribute them to a particular contribution. Climate change models need thousands of years of data to make accurate predictions; which we lack.
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  3493. I thoroughly believe we averted nuclear war. What's my logic? Biden/Harris caused the war in Gaza and Ukraine. They are war mongers.
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  3494. I like Bernie, but I don't think he understands the situation regarding Healthcare/Labor. The day you sign away Medicare to everyone is the day that everybody and their brother come into the hospital for a common cold and an elective surgery. The work responsibilities are absolutely on overload as it is already. You would have thousands of healthcare professionals quitting their jobs in a matter of months. We already have a monumental shortage of workers. This may have been a solution if Americans didn't have the largest public health pandemic in the world. No way they're going to be able to process such a massive influx of people that get thrown on Medicare.
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  3495.  @AD-ub7ly  Well, I hate the word 'faith', but I don't see any other option at this point. I think the goal is to reduce everything to serfdom with no chance of recourse. Trump got my vote because I trust Kennedy, Tulsi, and JD Vance. Plus it's not secret that mainstream media is all owned by lapdogs Comcast and AT&T. Only time will tell I suppose.
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  3496. Not jail, it's a felony; the guy will be serving 6 months minimum.
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  3497.  @davidgill3356  Depends, brandishing a firearm (as though you a casually showing it in your hand or making it visible to an on-looker in a manner 'not deemed' a public safety is typically not a felony. Pointing a gun at someone qualifies as 'intimidation' and 'public safety threat'. Which drastically alters how a court is going to view the charge. In most states and jurisdictions, if you pull out a firearm and point it at someone's head; you're going to prison. Especially if you're a repeat offender. All requirements are met for intimidation, public safety violation, endangering the public (separate charge), and reckless endangerment as well (separate charge). If it was done in a school zone or near a public facility; this escalates the charge as well.
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  3498.  @HeavyInstinct  Well, I think he's right and wrong at the same time. People have biological and psychological attachments to procreation and building a family/lineage. Of course this might not be for everybody, but it's typically a minority of 1-2% of people. Eventually, you get into your 40s (man or woman). Your parents die, your friends move away, and you get left behind because you have nothing in common with married couples with children. It's a rare person that can be content with themselves from 30 till 80 with no parents, spouse, children, or friends. Unless all your friends are single and alone just like you I guess. However, those people tend to be miserable. It's a decisions people have to make with tact.
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  3499.  @pauljermyn5909  Well, that all comes down to 'judge of character'. Guys can't completely blame their situation if they chose horrible women to begin with. I'll admit, it's difficult (due to the large volume of young narcissistic women). However, making the right choice and knowing them thru and thru is the key.
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  3500.  @Rubmaster  I would say that it's most people's source of happiness. Younger people tend to elude this though. It's not for everybody of course, but it's part of your inborn psychology and biology. Eventually, your parents die, friends leave, and you get left behind. Being single forever and trying to be content with materialism or traveling is not the path that people think it is. Eventually, the depression of 'what I would have done' hits as you get older. People should be tactful in their choices and make sure they have a personality that can withstand the lack of children or marriage going forward in life. The saddest demographic of people are 35-50 y/o men and women with nothing going for them.
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  3501. Academic pundits always come to the wrong conclusion, simply because their job's existence is predicated on the upper echelons hearing what they want. It's the pitfall of intellectualism.
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  3502. Unfortunate, but yes. If the US was called into mass production for a third WW; we wouldn't be able to fill the order.
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  3503. This country is really going down the toilet. It used to be the government vs. people. Now it's more like everybody against everybdoy. Some Hispanic guy thinks he's a white supremacist and then goes and kills a bunch of people. Blame the media, blame the meds, blame rises in autism, blame lack of empathy; I don't thin anybody really knows where to start.
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  3504. Not exactly! This is the ultimate result of a Keynesian system. High demand + decreased productivity = stagnant wages and higher prices. The system depends on growth of printing and growth of productivity. When you lose one; the balance gets perverted.
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  3505. I certainly will! This is NOT a dynasty! If Trump is reelected; I can guarantee you that one of this kids will definitely be running in 2028 and 2032.
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  3506. It's not your land, remember? You pay property taxes indefinitely lol I swear the last decade has turned me into an anarchist.
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  3507. He does this every election cycle; it's not really news. On the flip side, I feel bad for the people of North Korea seeing them clap and jump in the theater. Reminds me of the old days of the Soviet Union, where if you were the first one to stop clapping for Stalin; you'd end up in a jail cell at best. These people would probably fight like the Japanese during WW2 if it ever came to a ground invasion.
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  3508. If nobody is above the law, then how is Biden walking free? The video is still on Youtube where he bragged about blackmailing Zelensky back in 2014 as VP.
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  3509. There's no way to fix this; although I admire Chip's courage. 71% of the budget is autopilot for SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Public Transport, Tribal Lands, and Pensions. Cutting discretionary will do NOTHING! Unfortunately, no American wants to talk about entitlement cuts and any politicians that tries to push legislation dies in the polls and next elections.
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  3510. It's not in their interest to relay the information. It's all about how the oligarchy can 'affect' viewpoints for political gain; corporate lobbyism in a nutshell
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  3511. To be fair! A wife that provides care, comfort, and education to children is a thankless job (at least financially speaking). She opted out of a career to build a family while the man worked. How else would a woman survive if she is being given custody (full or partial). Especially in this day and age. I'm married and I will tell you right now. The people getting divorced dig their own graves. People that end up in divorce court are either too narcissistic and egotistical going into marriage or they are unbelievably gullible and a bad judge of character. Many times it's easy to see how both partners are simply 'horrible' people at each other's throats over selfish means.
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  3512. Hurt children? DOE is a cesspool of bureaucratic corruption. Do you really want your tax dollars going to administrative officials that use their unelected power as a slush fund for schemes? The entire thing is dirty to the core.
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  3513. Can't say I've ever 'quiet quitted'; I simply quit when I get taken advantage of. 66 hours a week; 6 days a week running a day cab for Anheuser. $70,000 a year, but not worth wasting my life away. I've worked for many companies over the years and it makes absolutely no sense to go above and beyond your duties. All the while your co-workers get paid the same exact per hour to NOT do the same thing. The entire idea of an hour wage long-term is laughable. Why am I getting paid $20 an hour, while putting in three times the effort than my other co-workers. Corporate hourly wages are completely antithetical to Price's Law.
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  3514.  @martinreynolds5905  Capitalist regime? lol
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  3515. No he didn't. stop watching mainstream media; all they do is lie.
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  3516.  @martinm1231  Oh please, how many more do you want him to do so you can make insults?
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  3517. They create wars to sell weapons and create diseases to sell cures.
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  3518. The ONLY reason there was a hearing is because the donation was for the Trump campaign.
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  3519. If you are for higher wages and better living standards; then you cannot be for mass migration.
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  3520. Well, most of it was actually due to already existing problems in over-seas cargo lanes. Los Angeles Port, Savannah, etc. Many have been in on-off strikes for the last several years. Some companies have had to slash their shipping contracts by 75% in the last year. The cost of shipping containers and processing went nuts during 2019-2020. The same currently exists in the trucking industry. I drove for a year hauling Anheuser; the shortage of drivers is unreal. All of this stacked on top of QE, stimulus, and lockdowns caused this.
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  3521.  @jesan733  Really? So do leaders of a Democracy bomb civilians that attempt to annex their municipalities to their nation of heritage?
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  3522. Evidence or not; watch the jury say the words 'not guilty your honor'. Get ready folks, it's about the be open-season; ready the popcorn.
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  3523. More like a brain functioning problem. Have you noticed how anti-social younger people are? All they do is gaslight, virtue signal, and then blame their problems on someone else. And I'm 30 years old! My own sister is 21 and constantly sends me gaslighting/insulting texts when she doesn't get what she wants.
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  3524. All these corporations are lobbying for this to happen. They want to turn the US into a third world sheet-hole so that they can pay people minimum wage and other countries can sell all their garbage to the US for high prices that get turned into unpayable debts.
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  3525. What's the point in paying taxes or being a citizen if you can just walk in and get more than I can from my own government? We are literally 4th century Rome; bread and circuses!
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  3526. Welfare having a negative connotation to it isn't the fault of Miriam Webster. Social Security and Medicare are forward paying benefits. You pay for your parents, etc. Those taxes are never financing your current benefits. Those FICA taxes are turned into t-bonds to collect interest. So naturally, your current Social Security is being paid for by your children.
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  3527. Biden knew that it would never be passed. Could you imagine the discussions between Powell and Biden if his student loan cancellation actually worked? It would ramp up inflation again and become a major problem for the Federal Reserve to contend with.
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  3528. I used to be a fan of his, but the entire situation with his son and membership in Scientology kind of killed it for me. Not knocking his info precisely, but it made me question his motives.
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  3529.  @asdk3090  And what exactly do you think that kind of virtue will get you? I mean no offense, but this is why I lose faith in people. You want green, but you'd be entirely fine with the US abandoning Israel (meaning a caliphate will reform around the Mediterranean and become a global threat to any kind of eco-politics you aspire to push.
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  3530. Yeah, I was wondering the same; he's an utter moron peddling media garbage. Russia attacked unprovoked? He lost me there...
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  3531. Americans don't have more than a 2 week memory; it's not the country I grew up in. It's the land of stupid. What use (to the world) is the land of stupid and uneducated people that basically export nothing? I'm telling you, within the next decade or two; the US will be a domestic economy in civil chaos. Once the Fed shuts down, states will be suing the living crap out of each other in a foreign currency lol
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  3532. I know right; we have to feel every single day of this circus lol
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  3533. The government is complicit bud. I's a horrible series of incentives that corporations take advantage of and the government looks the other way. If they weren't constantly giving preferential tax/real-estate treatment to these behemoths; this would never have happened. There's no incentive for ethical behavior; only the bottom line. Not to mention, they can simply 'bulk-sell' your data for profit when times are tough. I'm from Ohio and state law allows state agencies and corporations to sell your data. This isn't capitalism OR even socialism. It's a Feudal-technocratic state.
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  3534. The problem is that between Bush and Obama; no child left behind and major advancements for Federal student loans. We've created an atmosphere where a significant amount of kids are getting into college that otherwise don't belong there. Have any ONE of the students that have gotten a bachelor's degree in the past decade try and do their courses over again with a 1960s Berkeley University curriculum. I bet you that some 70% of them would flunk out of school within a year. College used to be reserved for people with an IQ of roughly 120+. Having 57% of people 18-24 enrolled in college; I can guarantee you that 57% of any demographic doesn't have an IQ over 100.
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  3535. These vaccine schedules are now pushed with tax-dollars. Now the only incentive they have is to mass produce garbage products and get everybody to take them. If I could make tax-payers pay for my cookies; I'd probably cheapo all the ingredients and raise the price lol
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  3536.  @JamesRichards-mj9kw  Its 1970s revisionist crap history.
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  3537. Democrats have nothing left to run on. The only card still remaining in their deck is 'student loan forgiveness'. If they don't pull that out before Midterms, then it's over. Honestly, I hope they do. Not that I have any loans. Though a Republican house and eventually Presidency would certainly end the forbearance, which will easily trigger an economy catastrophe. People have been free from their loan dues for two years. It's the only reason the market has survived this long under massive inflation. The day the payments resume, is the day that delinquencies pile up and the economy grinds to a halt.
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  3538. It's a difficult thing to be an American actively wishing for a Russian victory over the world's number #1 international terrorist - USA. I was neutral, the reason I am NOT anymore is because the US and NATO are doing everything they can to use Ukraine as a prop for their agenda. The game of (overthrow X Government and install a puppet) needs to stop!
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  3539.  @weirdpuppet326  Communism has always been a religion. I think anyone suggesting otherwise would be quite historically ignorant on how it was culturally imposed. To be anything else is an act of treason against the state. Sounds pretty close to defying a theocratic order; so it's pretty religious if you ask me.
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  3540. Exactly!
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  3541. Yep! The lady in red was hoping nobody would notice.
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  3542. Yeah, except there is NO job in this country paying a salary of hourly wage that is competing or even adjusting with inflation. Is it much to ask companies to pay you a 2.0% raise each year? Plus, they want to book you with 70-80 hours a week and almsot no vacation. I left Anheuser Busch (CDL) after a year of working those longer hours. Cutting my vacation was the last straw and it only paid 0.9% raises each year. People need to understand that the USD is going to hell. Wages haven't kept up with inflation for 40 years and NOW the value of the dollar is truly scary. Soon, most middle class people won't even be able to afford their bills on after tax income
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  3543. Many people still can't see that they're being socially conditioned with a fake point of view. It's all gaslighting and sound bites.
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  3544. How about; blame the Federal Reserve. They're the ones that printed $8 Trillion. The level of financial illiteracy in this nation is embarrassing. Most people have no clue why prices are up and wages are down. They just blame corporations and landlords. Here's some econ-101! When you give everybody cheap-debt by printing dollars; demand goes up. This makes prices go up! The economy shut-down and re-opened with no real growth. In a Keynesian economy; this is suicide. Productivity and GDP must perform linear with debt obligations (money printing) in order for wages to keep up. Your wages don't keep up with inflation because debt obligations far outperform economic growth.
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  3545. I actually think a lot of what is going on is due to his Presidency. I think he will go down as the biggest con-man of all time. I mean, he is responsible for most of the inflation we're seeing. He directed the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates and print more in 2019 (to aid his re-election) when the NASDAQ etc would be pumped. Then he had Jerome Powel cut them to 0.25% in March 2020. This created a fireball of DEMAND that sent prices soaring in 2021-2023. Obama is known for creating an administrative disaster in healthcare and Trump will be known for screwing up the economy and ruining foreign relations.
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  3546. Democrats being hypocrites and the sky is blue. Go figure! It's all about defending the cult of corruption. Democrats can't stand a level playing field; it's all about protecting their institutions/friends and then virtue signaling about the poor.
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  3547. In ten years, home ownership will be a thing of the past. My wife and I got lucky buying a house in 2020. Watching it GAIN $80,000 in equity in a year was insane. Unfortunately, I don't think anybody will be able to afford a house that doesn't have a large amount saved back or doesn't already have one and is hedging it towards a new home. Everybody will be forced to rent and most definitely if student loans aren't forgiven before Midterms. I don't know what the Democrats are waiting for; it's the only card they have left.
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  3548. This is why I only put money in commodities and crypto at this point. Fortune 500 will have a rude awakening when their share prices plummet 90%. This economy is levitating on fairy dust.
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  3549. The biggest problem is that Disney and other companies are putting all their investment into digital art/video creation and about $10 towards a team of writers. This makes for ridiculous/over the top digital effects with a script that was effectively written by grade schoolers.
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  3550. The US will NEVER slide into a deflationary state; the Federal Reserve BY LAW can't allow it. They will perform QE and print money until we go into hyperinflation.
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  3551.  @howardsmith9342  Well, Marxist technically (but you get the point).
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  3552.  @mydadspulloutgametrash  Nobody has ever lived thru the current currency devaluation; even people in the late 1970s.
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  3553.  @skeezix8156  First, interest rates peaked between 1980 and 1981 at 19%. Rates were not 18% in 1983; the top rate was 9% that year. So this isn't true. It's also irrelevant if you're not comparing USD purchasing power. In 1980, the median household income to home ratio cost was 1:3. In 2024, it was 1:8. Nobody would take a 7% interest rate for 400k; over 17% for 40k. That would be suicidal. I'm aware that inflation was bad at that point, but my initial argument still stands. 2020-2023 was the worst inflationary event (by far) in US history. Older generations can talk interest rates all they want, but again they are irrelevant in contrast to dollar value and equity.
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  3554.  @Irishhound  I commend your faith, though I've been to Central America multiple times. Not a fan personally and would never go back. I don't speak Spanish or Portuguese, not a fan of the drinking water, random tourist deaths, and we just don't have to inclination. Far better options for work (in our fields) where we are planning to go and the state will protect our Civil Rights. If the Federal Government is going to make you an enemy of the state, then you'll have much bigger problems than fleeing the country. Your Social Security number and tax-burden will follow you anywhere, unless you expatriate.
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  3555.  @Irishhound  Well, good luck to you man. I mean that.
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  3556. I really hope people don't get their hopes up for Midterms; Dominion isn't going away. It would be difficult to coordinate some 465 Congressional elections, but they will definitely focus on the swingers. I'm expecting riots one way or another.
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  3557.  @ImLure  Absolutely false bud, you cannot have diversity and good personnel. Think about it mathematically, when you select employees based on diverse backgrounds; you get more incompetent workers. The pool of nursing employees is 9/10 female. If you were to fill your workplace with 5 female nurses and 5 male nurses; the male nurses would be more incompetent than the females. Simply because your range of of tier competence is reduced with fewer samples.
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  3558. Personally, I bounce a single die off my nutsack. If it lands on 1-3; Democrats will win. If it lands on 4-6; Republicans will win. So far, I have a 93% SUCCESS rate on election predictions for the last 40 years.
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  3559. Dear god, if conservatives would give up their religion of blaming Democrats and vice versa for the other side; I think we might get somewhere. If you seriously think that all of America's problems come from POTUS. Then I think you're sense of what the 'problems are' are delusional. The NUMBER 1 problem in America is Social Security and Medicare. With the current population demographics, the CBO projects that 2023 - 2050 will be approximately increase $116 Trillion in spending for these two categories. Newsflash! We are having a domestic birth crisis; Gen X and Boomers didn't have enough children. How am I (a 29 y/o man) and my wife supposed to generate enough revenue in my work life to afford 5 seniors a living? When my child grows up, they will have to create enough tax revenue to care for 8 seniors! Until American accept that Social Security taxes either have to be doubled OR slowly phased out, then you will never fix the problem. By doing NOTHING, Boomers and Gen X generations in office have doomed younger generations to either a debt default or hyperinflation within the next 20 years. There is no escape; thanks mom and dad. My newborn (in 20 years) will have to pay at least 12.4% Social Security, 3% Medicare, 44% Federal, and everything else to afford your freaking retirement benefits. This is the reality if we quit pretending nothing is going on!
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  3560.  @xx4248  You're projecting
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  3561.  @kingiam9271  It's not about Trump; it's about seeing how fake this entire circus really is. Ever read the potential side effects of a pharmaceutical medication? You can't go thru life without asking questions bud. This election isn't about (right/left or liberal conservative) - it's about LABOR vs. INSTITUTION.
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  3562. I now nobody wants to here this, but the American dream has become significantly harder since 2021-2022. I was working for Anheuser ($70k annual) before I bought my first home and got married. That was in 2020! There is no way (regardless of interest rates) that I could afford the same standard of living if I was making the same money and tried that in 2024.
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  3563.  @PuckvanDorsten  Let me ask you this. Would you also confirm that others (such as) AOC have thrown the salute? You can watch the video as she does it. This is where people either have to acknowledge that they're being manipulated or they have to bite the bullet. My theory is that you're already manipulated by algorithms if you're so sure that he did it intentionally. People these days are extremely inconsistent and it creates an environment of easy gullibility and radicalism. Everybody loved this man not two years ago and now they're teaching you to hate him. The (fool me once) analogy is very useful here.
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  3564. 'Science' has clearly become the newest ruling theology. Plus, it's not even science. It's unscientific garbage that government agencies and Pharmaceutical companies spew in order to poison people, then show up as Poison-Control. Almost everything they say is a complete lie. They approve the foods that kill you, while also approving the drugs that kill you faster.
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  3565. Congratulations, I have a Chinese sister and all these attributes are spot on. Does that make you wrong and me right? Feelings are irrelevant, it's just a matter of fact that Chinese culture extends leaps and bounds above others. It has a very strong connection to birth, culture, and family. Chinese people tend to be extraordinarily nationalistic and family centered about their heritage. That's just the way things are and have been for a very long time. Take a chill pill and leave emotion out of geopolitical issues. Go ahead and visit China and the people living there. While you're at it, go visit other Chinese people living inside the states. Then come back and try to say the same thing, because you won't. People really need to choose individualism or collectivism; much less let it go. The same people that are so passionate about jumping on the "it's racist bandwagon" tend to be the same ones that are deluded with collectivist ideology. Which makes absolutely no sense as far as principle or worldview.
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  3566. People think they're being smart with the word oligarchy, but it really has nothing to do with who is currently President. Inequalities widen largely for one reason; massive trade deficits (primarily stemming from constraints pertaining to the deficit). if your debts outperform your productivity; then prices rise and wages stagnate. Essentially forcing more wealth upwards and less wealth downwards. As long as the debit bubble grows larger; asset prices will be propped up and more Americans will be left behind. Therefore they cannot compete in order to raise overall GDP.
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  3567. Well, to be fair, Trump has been calling the Democratic Party a threat to America's future for quite some time as well. Both sides have become radicalized. The left is using Federal Agencies and socio-engineering to push their agenda and the right-wing is trying to re-implemented religion as the main source of it's power and agenda.
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  3568.  @RDewberry  Economic disaster is not caused by a natural reduction in demand; that's just silly. Capitalism is masterful as allowing people to substitute products that are over-priced or under-supplied; that's the entire point. Economic disasters stem from bubbles. Those bubbles are created by bad government incentives. Do you think banks would be giving out bad loans if they know the government wouldn't bail them out? Do you think auto-makers would over-produce and maintain their pricing if they knew they wouldn't get a bailout? All of this perversion comes from the helm of government corruption; as usual. Corporations are predatory because they USE government as a gate-keeper for their profits. What's to fear if all your screw-ups get a slap on the wrist? Big business is ONLY sustainable by big government. If more people understood Price's Law and pareto distributions; this would seem more obvious I feel.
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  3569.  @venxi1703  lmao
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  3570. They say that US Dollar utilization has gone UP and now the USD is used now more than ever. Well no crap, if you double the US money supply of COURSE it will appear as if dollar usage has globally increased.
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  3571.  @yournickshere  Depends though. Here's what I have a problem with, these media channels have millions in resources and data. But I can sit in my garage and use 2020 election data (early vote) to predict the outcome for 2024 pretty accurately? This is why people believe in controlled opposition. I deduced that mail-in ballot requests were down -27% and 18-39 age demographics were down -34% for early voting. Those two pieces had me come to the conclusion that he would win the popular vote by a 6% margin; it ended up being 3.5%. Regardless, I'm not sure how anybody thought Harris could win with such a big drop in necessary voting blocks.
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  3572. Home-made soap; works like a charm. Actually, my nails and hair grow twice as fast since I got rid of artificial soaps and shampoos; it's really crazy. Also, pharmaceutical products are toxic all the same.
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  3573. Trump serves Trump. If he gets back into office; get ready for inflation round 2. This is why financial literacy is so important. I'm no fan of Biden, but most people are clueless to how he caused the inflation we saw in 2021-2022.
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  3574. Nah, you haven't seen anything yet. Wait till November-January 2024; things will get crazy. Whomever you think is going to win; the opposing candidate will win (I assure you lol)
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  3575.  @dgsasser  That's not how projection reversal works bud.
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  3576.  @1BeGe  Do you feel better about yourself for saying that? Intentionally misquoting and taking me out of context?
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  3577.  @gq4u85  You seem to know everything. Why bother arguing with someone who knows everything? You should go apply to Tesla. I'm sure they'd love to have your infinite knowledge :)
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  3578. If you believe Trump is going to win. I believe you are going to be immensely disappointed. Republicans simply don't have the votes. The support has been ravaged by his indictments and a dysfunctional Congress. In my opinion, people need to plan accordingly. I'm an Ohioan born and raised. In 2023, the entire state was swarmed by Democrat voters that made us a legal abortion state by nearly a 60% vote. Conservatives are growing complacent! Believing that the economy and border have sealed Trump's reelection is foolish imo. Voters on the right are splitting like I've never seen before. What's going to end up happening is Republicans will split between Trump, RFK, and the Libertarians. Unfortunately, Joe Biden WILL be President again for four years; mark my words. Young voters are going to slaughter Trump in the November election.
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  3579. Well, technology has reached a level of geometric growth. Hilarious, at the same time; the US (with the world's reserve currency) has reached a geometric level of growth in debt. Makes you wonder if it'll all crash and burn like the Roman Empire or launch us into a entirely new timeline.
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  3580.  @justrosy5  Not an adult? What does that mean?
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  3581. The US doesn't export that much; perhaps corn, beer, wood, aircraft engines, and some petroleum products. Seems like a ridiculously stupid idea to ensure all our enemies have an economic stranglehold on our nation. We are nothing but consumers and ones that are about to be milked dry. What would you do with a farm animal that can't provide anything of use?
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  3582. Look, I'm a 30 year old with a CDL. When Covid hit, the first thing I thought they should have done is recommend Vit D sups to everyone, tell them to exercise, and push thru a tax-funded program to support vulnerable populations. What did we do? Close all small businesses, force healthy people inside, completely killed the idea of herd immunity, and inflated the currency by 60% while giving immense power to government and corporations. You're telling me these people in charge can't come up with any of this stuff? It's either mass incompetence or mass fraud and corruption if you ask me.
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  3583. Unpopular opinion, but the US is the world's largest sponsor of international terrorism. We are destroying ourselves from within and making enemies all around the world while trying to grapple with the reality that we will no longer be the reserve currency. Whenever the status quo of global power is challenged; large amounts of conflict ensue. That's what we are witnessing.
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  3584. We can win every battle against the authoritarian left, yet we still lose the war in every instance. The media is compromised, the Universities are compromised, the corporations are compromised, and our elections are compromised. We have no other recourse but to sink this ship. Considering that the Treasury is still using "extraordinary measures" to maintain the budget, that will only be able to push us through to December 3rd. This is the best time to make such a thing happen. The Federal government is the only thing keeping this economy alive right now. It would be a shame to let it recover and lose such leverage. If PPP loans, corporate welfare, and unemployment checks were to go dark in the midst of a Government shutdown come December; we could indeed be looking at an economic collapse. The Great Resignation began some 8 months ago and I implore anyone who's not in the loop to jump on board as soon as possible. We need to strain this Government and the corporations as much as possible. Jump on any benefits you can and stop buying from corporations. If this Government pulls the economy through 2022, we may never again get a better chance than in the middle of this Covid hysteria. If they get their way, they will unleash a regression never before seen in this country and our children will pay the price.
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  3585. People need not be so anxious or depressed about the current state of affairs. It's simply a transitional period; embrace it. I'm well aware everyone has struggles. Personally, both my wife and child were hospitalized in the last two years and we went through a nasty period of debt. However, we came back out on top and 2025 is year of great and positive change. At this point, most people between 20 and 40 only remember 2011 to 2019; a rather prosperous time. Other generations look to the 1980s as their period of prosperity. Times change and things get worse and then better; it's the nature cycle of geo-politics. Don't immiserate yourself in doom and gloom. Educate yourself, make a plan, and stay away from debt.
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  3586. Unemployment insurance fraud! Companies have to report their employment and vacancies to the state in order to pay into the state's unemployment insurance fund. They found out that by creating 'ghost' jobs; they could get their taxes lowered because it give the appearance of a strong labor market. The state gets good jobs numbers and the company gets a tax break. Companies then impose 'interview quotas' on their HR staff so that they don't get charged with tax fraud for a fake job. It's basically impossible to prove on paper.
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  3587. Most labor and supply problems are due to a very simple problem; too many retirees and not enough children being born. The Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates only expedited the problem; now you have people that are prematurely retiring on pension or 401k alone 10-15 years before they can qualify for Social Security. Let's not get carried away with blaming the WEF for everything. Most of this is a labor/volume supply and demand problem. Global and US agricultural volumes are extremely volatile from previous years. For example, the 2022 (June to June) volume of Barley was down 54% from last year.
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  3588. People are always so naive and jump to conclusions. "Russia should not be invading, because an invasion is wrong!" That kind of statement comes from somebody that knows nothing about people, let alone their own psychology. There are too numerous of reasons to count for why Russia launched a full scale invasion. We need to remember that people typically do things because they believe themselves to be in the right. RUSSIA probably felt they had no other option with NATO putting troops under their nose. I've heard many compare this to the Sudetenland, but in all honesty it better mirrors the early days of the Pacific War against the Japanese.
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  3589. A flat tax would significantly harm anyone in the lower class or lower middle class; as most of them pay very little taxes. You would quite literally impoverish and/or push millions of lower income families on food stamps.
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  3590. @sebastianlucas704 If that happens, inflation goes thru the roof; as your lowest tax revenue source is your largest vessel of market demand. All those tax dollars would increase demand (not only in markets, but in banking loans as well). It would really be no different than some of the Democratic plans to give first time home-buyers $10-$25k. $10k per child would be nice, but we already saw how a $3k tax credit helped fuel food inflation in 2021-2023. The idea that it would allow low income workers to save better and create more GDP for the economy almost never happens. It would all go into consumerism and Amazon, Walmart, and real-estate would inflate. The goal here is to balance the markets. You want to give monetary incentives that don't give people a reason to be greedy.
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  3591. Most of the Federal and even state governments are in collusion. It's way deeper than just the Biden family.
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  3592. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans I'm not on the site; I just saw somebody else post it.
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  3593.  @LizChurchill-p8w  I think there's a bunch of edited and cut videos. Objectivity goes to the source with context (for and against), but people that need to be led on a leash to their bias need grifting channels such as this one.
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  3594. You have to look for women in the right places. Stop dating college girls (high disproportion of narcissists) and start dating working class girls that are trying to live in the moment. Also, avoid women on birth control; they don't have the problems that other women do.
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  3595. Putin is invading Ukraine because NATO has been poking the bear since 2014. The Obama Administration helped orchestrate the coup that year and armed Ukrainians with firearms and anti-aircraft missiles to fight pro-Russian separatist groups mainly in the east. Could you imagine if China had conducted a similar operation in Mexico against the US? I honestly don't blame Putin for launching an invasion.
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  3596. Satanic regime? I think you're being generous. US and NATO are evil incarnate.
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  3597. The IRS isn't going to hire anybody, let alone 87,000 accountants. Applebee's can't even find enough part-time serves to stay open.
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  3598. Same reason Hillary isn't in jail. It's all a big reality TV show lol
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  3599. It's crazy how brain-dead people are. Obama and Biden caused all of this and it doesn't even seem negligent anymore.
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  3600.  @lukaswesthoff1030  Break the backbone of free-speech by introducing speech laws surrounding (sensitive subjects) ensured that you will repeat history all over again. As an American is amazing watching Europe descend into madness and insanity; making the same mistakes over and over again.
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  3601. As much as I hate to say it; international corporations are the ONLY thing keeping the US alive right now. Corporations like Amazon, FedEx, and Walmart have the ability to open a large number of entry jobs in a short period of time. All of which pay more than any small business model that is hiring. The business that these corporations bring with them is ESSENTIAL for this country to continue running at the current moment. Let's face it, America is on life support right now. Go ahead and try to find small businesses around you that would pay a living wage to afford a mortgage or rent; you can't. If the corporations dry up the hiring, then we are in big trouble.
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  3602. Blame the corporations; they're the ones giving the FED bad data. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  3603. Stop voting for Trump (who appointed Jerome Powell and set interest rates at 0) effectively causing the mass inflation that we are still experiencing. Remember 1% mortgages and 0% auto loans? Artificially low federal funds rates lead to excess demand and prices. If you elect Trump again, I guarantee you that he'll fire Powell and appoint someone who will give him (negative interest rates) that he initially wanted. You'll have a wave of inflation insanity significantly worse than before.
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  3604. (Person A) - "You idiots don't listen to science?" (Person B) - "We refuse to listen to bureaucratic overlords; we respect science." (Person A) - "Lolz you think you're smarter than a Doctor or scientist you antivaxxer moron!" (Person B) - "Using the scientific method is a means to debate, discuss, and test a hypothesis, people should be informed from the actual results of an experiment. Not the word of officials." (Person A) - "They are experts and professionals, which shows you how dumb you are thinking you can Google research and believe witch doctors, you're a joke." That about sums up critical thinking in America.
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  3605. Well, then you'd just have to corporate wing of the Democratic Party.
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  3606. Congratulations, you must know everything about that field, because everyone in that field agrees. The only joke here is your comment. Nobody in any given field agrees on everything friend; that's the kind of statement someone using grapevine healthcare would make. Let me guess, saturated fat caused heart disease too? Please give up your religion of pharmaceutical/healthcare companies; you're not serving anybody but yourself.
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  3607. The problem is that (once people have identified 1 scandal) as a conspiracy; they begin to see conspiracies everywhere that don't actually exist. These algorithms PREY on your tribal nature. If you're a woman; you want attention. If you're a man; you want entertainment and sex. These corporations have got you people by the balls and they are taking completely advantage of the entire disinformation problem. It's getting so bad that we now how people that BEGAN to wake up with Covid and are now absolutely delusional because they think there's a Bill Gates plot to kill half the population (with no evidence of course) lol
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  3608.  @cynthiarivera7975  If you stare at your phone while people talk to you; that's entitlement right there. Though that's just one example. What people call a 'generational' thing is what I call an anti-social problem thing.
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  3609. Yep, they'll just raise the 'interest' budget up to 50% eventually and spend/tax us into hyperinflation. There is no escape! Wages DO NOT keep up with inflation. Eventually, prices both private and public will consume the middle class.
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  3610.  @Max-bh1pl  Not anymore, cancer is rapidly pushing into younger adults and children. People need to be more aware of what they are not only eating, but filling their house with. Cancer in women is really taking off the last two decades because of all the chemicals in the beauty products. The FDA is either useless or completely in bed with these companies. Heck, if you're working at bath and body works; you're probably developing cancer just be breathing in those toxic chemical fumes all day. These companies need to be charged criminally.
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  3611. They're no hypocrites; they're literally insane! I'm voting Kennedy; the Democratic Party is nutz..
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  3612. It's nothing new; social and economic distress during the downfall. The system is resetting and we are entering a new era. Luddites and reactionaries always end up getting the short stick in the end. I'd advise not indulging in either of those groups.
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  3613. To he US is doomed because our corporate and pharmaceutical incentives are piss poor. Plus, Government is in on the whole scam.
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  3614. I don't see how it would help his voter base; it's pretty finite at the moment. Tulsi would destroy her reputation and people that love her and hate Trump still wouldn't vote for him.
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  3615. Well, a lot of this is Trump's fault. I don't understand how people can let him off the hook after his role with the Federal Reserve.
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  3616. Well, they're (activists), which basically means they're ideologically possessed one way or another. There's no changing their mind based on the entire premise.
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  3617. I didn't understand the part about "not being able to be on Youtube if your parents didn't raise you up." I think most (kids at least) are on Youtube because their parents aren't raising them lol I think you'll also find that a lot of people don't have the fantasy relationship with their parents that you describe. I think I heard that some 1/3 of Americans are estranged from a sibling or parent. I don't speak with my mother or sister anymore. They are narcissistic abusers that will manipulate and use anyone to get what they want; then throw you in the garbage. I couldn't be around that while bringing a son into the world.
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  3618.  @Already100  Alright, I suppose I could understand that rationale. That's a rather low standard to set in my opinion though. Taking care of a baby and sending your child to school is compulsory by law. I really don't think you're making as good of a point as you think you are; just my two cents.
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  3619. If you want someone to blame; blame the people themselves. Everybody wants to blame politicians and banks, but none of this would have happened without the complacency and insanity of the average American to go along with it. Americans are by far the least self-sufficient people on the planet. They will pay dearly for it when the greatest economic crisis in history takes place shortly.
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  3620. It's called saving money; many people do it. Mind you this was in 1999
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  3621. Perhaps NATO should quit trying to overthrow foreign governments and install puppets. Maybe, just maybe foreign nations would quit getting angry with the US :)
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  3622. None of this would be a problem if we simply reformed patent laws and made them open-source. Plus, I think it's embarrassing that nobody in politics even makes mention of it. Patents allow copyrighted innovation to be legally gate-kept. Essentially meaning that you can't compete and large companies can milk profits for decades. They'll get mad when you talk about unionization or taxes. But introduce the idea of forced (open-sourced patents) and these companies will start assassinating people lol
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  3623.  @JayEmm-ty9se  Blue collar 'origin industries' are NOT coming back to the Mid-West pal. It is a greying demographic with one of the largest elderly populations in the entire United States. The labor shortage here is unreal; no Americans to be found from CDL schools to welders. Green-cards are the only demographic even remotely humoring the industries.
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  3624.  @robertruffo2134  That's literally the Democratic Party bud.
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  3625.  @dvidclapperton  How? Hiding your head in the sand is not a solution to stopping what's happening in this country. Your currency, rights, and dignity are all being eroded by a party that literally doesn't abide by their own beliefs. Throwing out Biden and installing Harris was certainly a way for people to wake up, but I guess not. I don't understand how people can ignore what's happens the last 5 years. Just because the corporations are on your side for now doesn't mean they won't turn against you. If you work for a living; it's extremely hard to ignore. That's why the labor class is throwing their support behind Trump; Democrats defend institutionalism.
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  3626. Same
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  3627.  @michaelshrader5139  You should recall that it was 'trust in institutions' that allowed the Nazis to gain such immense power and maintain it. This is literally the opposite; how could you even slightly come to such a conclusion?
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  3628. Please, stop pretending that Ukraine is a united country; it's been a country in civil conflict since 2014. 1/3 of Ukraine wants to be ceded to Russia and the other 2/3 does not. This is all a power play between NATO and Russia.
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  3629. I don't think so. I think they're complacent because they think a hyper-focused selection in a global internet represent reality. I'm not saying that there aren't problems with the dating market. But many of these guys have never even spoken to a woman because they're too complacent with porn, sports, video games. Men need to stop pretending that this is some kind of community club. A minority of us are fathers, husbands, and middle lass laborers. A lot of people on these channels have never left their parents house.
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  3630. For God's sakes Steve, will you STOP allowing these scam artists to come on your show? I'm getting really sick of seeing one every other post. What, the guy runs companies and writes books that teach people how to run companies and write books? That's a pretty cliché business model for a scammer.
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  3631. This is actually a good representation of how Gen Z and Alpha act. Personally I blame social media and pharmaceuticals. These kids are absolutely sociopathic and fearless. Seen in happen way too many times. Thanks iPad parents!
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  3632. Every President since Bush Jr. has outspent the last. What's your point?
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  3633. Wow, people on this channel have an incredibly low attention span. No wonder there's not much content here!
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  3634.  @Michealvt-o5o  Or, because social media has worked it's way into the youngest generation. Even the children of married parents are messed up and anti-social. It's not just the fatherless kids.
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  3635. It's a trade off though. You get lower agricultural and manufacturing prices, BUT you pay for it with stagnant wages and fewer jobs in those industries.
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  3636. You can't avoid the glaring problem right now (which is) young Americans throwing themselves into six figures worth of student loan debt. Then wondering why they can't afford anything? My own sister took out $144k worth of loans for a degree in Interior Design. This is the very definition of 'thick'.
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  3637. Hey Dan, just a bit of advice! I love IF and low carb dieting, but I might have to caution you about OMAD. I did it for 18 months and ended up with leptin resistance and a border-line eating disorder. I think it may be a useful tool short term, but I will never do OMAD again. It's dangerous long term in my experience. I stick to 18-6 IF now with low carb diets; typically under 100g per day.
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  3638. Hitler loved dogs; didn't you know? So if you own a dog...etc lol
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  3639.  @Labored  Please, your critical thinking is turned off. Stop watching these media outlets that are controlling your mind. Kids were jailed under Obama all the same. Stop recycling old stories and trying to pass them off as new information.
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  3640. I'm no fan of Biden, but to blame his for everything is crazy. Most of this fallout is due to Federal Reserve policy and Trump Administration policy. If Trump had gotten NEGATIVE rates in 2020 like he wanted; we would have gone into hyperinflation. He wanted to pump the markets for his re-election.
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  3641. Mainstream media everywhere is having a seizure. They want to please viewers, but they also want to please their donors.
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  3642. DEI is a perversion of competence; anybody with an Algebra 1 education can deduce that. The Soviets tried this in the 30s and it's one of the reasons they were decimated for the first 18 months of the war.
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  3643. Pretty much and I don't blame them. It's the last place on earth to get a pension and drop payment 403b. I'm glad I don't have to worry about my dad. Retiring PD with a $70k annual pension and $750,000 in his retirement account. Plus a paid off home. Not having to worry about elders is actually a huge load off me. My wife and I are finding our own way while raising our son.
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  3644. How can people be so thick with the information of the world at their fingertips? If NATO doesn't want a war, then maybe NATO shouldn't be performing regime changes like they LOVE to do. Were all of you freaking asleep in 2014 when your black Messiah overthrew the sitting government in Ukraine and Congress funded a rebellion against pro-Russian Oblasts in the east? Republicans may be bigoted, but this is why the world thinks Democrats are dumb af.
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  3645. I mean, I think college kids are pretty dumb these days. But any one of them would immediately identify anything approximating a Christian cult lol
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  3646. Personally, I can't wait for Google and Microsoft to implode. Both are probably overvalued by some 80-90%. The day Youtube gets fried will be Christmas for me.
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  3647. Yeah, watch all of his prediction videos suddenly get 'deleted' on November 6th lol Biden was leading 12pts from CNN's last poll in 2020. Almost all the polls suggest 'EVEN' for 7 different states. Even New Hampshire is 50/50 between Trump/Harris. I think Trump is going to end up stealing a number of states that are considered 'safe' by the DNC.
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  3648. @@James_Willow Yeah, it's very strange. I used to be quite maimed to negative emotion and my horrible childhood. Post 2020, it felt like I was just feeling everything at once. I took quite a while, but I was able to persevere and grow stronger. Maybe it's because everybody has better access to mental health outlets online, but I also suspect that Covid had a lot to do with it. Covid left many people vulnerable; either psychically or emotionally. This gave narcissists in society the ability to take advantage of people's bad situations and exploit them. My own mother is an NPD and I can tell you right now she used Covid in EVERY capacity to get what she wanted out of people. If you look around, it seems politicians, business-folk, and narcissistic family members alike did the same thing. Absolutely predatory behavior! However, it taught me quite a bit about people in general.
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  3649. @@James_Willow My relation to the topic may be anecdotal, but if you look at statistics for abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, etc. All of it jumped after Covid. People were forced to be together during lock-downs that largely had no social relationship. Children with absent parents and wives with absent husbands, etc. Of course this issue hasn't been studied on a large scale, but I think the idea behind it is up the right alley. It's not just in my immediate family; it was in all of my extended family and friendships. It could very well be unique to my circle, but it seems all to suspicious to be happening within the same short time period. My entire family fell apart post-2020; we're talking at least two dozen relationships (marriages, friendships, siblings, co-workers, all of which went to he11.
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  3650. 400,000 miles? You got lucky my friend; many of them went in the garbage after $150,000.
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  3651. A murdered girl and a suicide by the prime suspect. I really hope the case is as simple as it sounds, because God knows things aren't always what they seem. Remember the Massacre in Pike County?
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  3652. Not really, this was mathematically bound to happen one way or another. Remember the debt crisis that Boomers and Gen X were always saying 'not to worry about'. Well, it's hear. This is what happens when you allow a central bank to control your currency AND allow you government to manage asset bubbles like Social Security, Pensions, and student loans.
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  3653.  @wuhlfzebayne  Then why are you crying racism???
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  3654.  @wuhlfzebayne  I asked a question and you came back with nothing but insults. You're the only stirring up racism my friend. Please seek help because you obviously have some anti-social behavioral problems.
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  3655.  @wuhlfzebayne  Because the Tuskegee experiment was done on blacks.... So apparently anything that mentions race is racist? You're really reaching.... And I'm wasting my time. Good day...
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  3656. It's actually pretty easy to live a healthy life and ignore all the modern vices. The REAL problem is that most people aren't going to do it. So connection to average people becomes impossible. People are literally walking around like zombies. Look or talk to someone and they'll look at you like aliens have arrived.
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  3657.  @angela_tarantulas  Downsize and get rid of the debts :) It's all worth it in the end.
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  3658. CNN was off by (12 POINTS) when predicting Biden's win in 2020. If they are saying it's 'EVEN?' It'll be a landslide victory for Trump.
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  3659. Based on what? MSM garbage?
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  3660. Democrats took the Ohio 2023 General Election by storm. I have NO doubt in my mind that Republicans will lose in a landslide come 2024. The only exception is if we end up with a Ross Perot situation, given RFK is running as an independent.
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  3661. It's because many people's mind have been hijacked by Google algorithms. Try creating an account and looking at all mainstream media sites for a week; you'll think that the Fourth Reich is going to enslave humanity. This coordinated agenda by big tech should be considered an invasion.
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  3662. Nutjobs?
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  3663. Pretty simple concept! Stop giving out ultra-low rates in an economy that can't keep is productivity up. How they can excuse giving out massive loans when all the jobs are being outsourced is INSANE! Debt must grow linear with productivity! If it doesn't, you get stagnant wages and higher prices; aka 2021-2024.
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  3664. You won't be told until you've experienced it for at least a solid month.
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  3665. Nope, he doesn't pay them; they literally follow him all over the US because they are addicted to his freaking cult.
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  3666.  @bryanrivera1211  So you think bribes and lobbyism are exclusive to the fossil fuel industry? Green energy is rampant with just as many. It's a power play man, things don't change.
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  3667. Americans won't even work an $80k CDL job. You think they're going to work in textiles that pay $40k a year and sell shirts for $50 each?
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  3668. Well, therein lies the problem. What does equality mean? Citizens are all equal under the law if that's what you mean.
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  3669.  @maximederak  Yeah, only current birth rates seem to disagree. It's not a projection; rather a calculation based on current people alive.
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  3670. You need about an IQ of 90 to use a smartphone and computer. 55 million Americans fall below that threshold on an IQ bell curve. Considering that smartphone use in the greater economy is a necessity. I'd say that puts us in a pickle. I even had to have a smartphone to be a day-cab driver to submit paperwork. Everything is going digital and tens of millions will be left behind. Too many people either don't have the cognitive capacity to participate in a digital economy. Or, they can't compete with the quantum algorithms that these corporations use to advertise and be low price leaders. That's why brick and mortar is dying out. You literally cannot compete. Technology is growing, but human IQ is not. Or at least not at a generational rate that could keep up with it. Either ludites will destroy this industrial revolution, or most of society will live on UBI. I fear it's inevitable.
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  3671. Fauci - commits perjury - Gets a book deal, gets a documentary, gets a raise, becomes a demi-God Me - commits perjury - Gets sent to prison for 25 years and raped by Bubba
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  3672. I have no problem with people choosing what's in their best interest. What I DO have a problem with is (those same people) abusing a tax-payer apparatus to fix their broken lives. Then they get angry at me when I decide to vote against continuing it's existence. America has become 'do whatever you want' but 'PAY for my incompetence when I reach 30-80 years old.
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  3673. Someone who is more aware is going to mock their old self that was complacent and too trusting? How does that work? Do people miss being blissful and ignorant that much?
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  3674. Yeah, they're blind because they watch MSNBC. How they can call themselves educated while watching garbage is crazy.
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  3675.  @jaymonkey1456  Problem is that people need to have a realistic standard of judgement for political leaders. Most people are completely blind to their perception problem, which is that Trump has 100 times over (video footage) than any President before him had; largely due to technology. It's probably not foolish to assume that every President here on out will be excessively criticized because people have more access to outrage material. Those that don't have a solid pillar of perception (historically) will be more gullible to algorithm manipulation as we are already seeing.
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  3676. Plant? Like a potato? lol
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  3677. I don't think smart people indulge in the President Elon narrative. I think those are typically people that didn't learn the first time that media is controlling their minds and villainizing anyone they choose.
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  3678. I quit gaming some 5 years ago. I can't exactly vouch for people to leave the industry, but I don't see it going in a healthy direction. Children of Generation Z are going to have an impossible time paying off student loans, let alone getting a mortgage. The world is changing in more ways than most people realize. A lot of the disenfranchised have already sought out a digital life to replace their own and I feel that only more will join. With that being said, I don't have all the answers. But I can tell you that where we are headed, it's not looking good.
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  3679. Bingo! This is why you can never trust management to run your company. They will run it into the ground to ensure that they never lose their cushion of incompetence.
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  3680. Do you like the current ones? I mean health is going way down-hill already. Doesn't seem like much of a risk to put him in place, considering his background against corruption.
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  3681. Pretty much! Mobs of single aimless men are a very dangerous demographic. They are typically the kind of voting blocks that produce the Bolshevik revolution.
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  3682. Well, people need to start making their own jobs then. Too many people looking for a corporation to sponsor their job or their independent contracting (which in all reality isn't even independent contracting).
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  3683. Nothing says 'government corruption' like raiding dairy farmers for unpasteurized milk while drug/human traffickers are pouring over the border lol
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  3684. Their sadists and sociopaths; you can't project your morals onto them. Shooting a teenager and a baby is how they send a message. There's no empathy, morals, or ethics about it. Calling them evil is like calling a 'kid who loves to torture animals' a torturer. Unfortunately, the cartel conflicts have been pushing further into US and surrounding border areas. It's a conflict growing completely out of control and the Government of Mexico is so deeply entwined in their ranks that nothing will ever be done. I truly fear a military intervention on part of the US is the only way to try and clean up this mess
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  3685.  @NiaLaLa_V  Well, don't come over to the 'right' so quickly. There's ZERO empathy and some crazy beliefs here too.
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  3686. So, you're suggesting that illegals voted for Trump?
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  3687. I don't have any issue with immigrants, even undocumented ones to a certain degree. But why are they flying them in a flight at a time? That's my curiosity.. Seems like a lot of money to spend for a few more potential votes. But then again, why do voters even matter anymore if Dominion software allows executives to 'mass adjudicate' hlgroups of ballots.
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  3688. I think people were a bit too quick to condemn Russia and side with Ukraine. There's a number of variables taking place.
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  3689. I'm no fan of Biden, but all of the inflation madness was a product of the Federal Reserve and Trump Admin. I've never seen anyone in the econ atmosphere deny this. If Trump got negative interest rates (like he wanted) inflation would have easily been twice as bad.
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  3690.  @Talib-904  Then vote for RFK! Don't vote for a muppet lol
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  3691. To be technical, the US started this conflict while regime changing Kiev in 2014.
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  3692. I think people are irritated with the fact the the President himself launched a currency pyramid scheme.
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  3693.  @billybirdy9507  Yeah, that's been happening for decades lol I think people just don't care at this point. Laws aren't even being enforced anymore.
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  3694. Have you been infected at any point during the last two years?
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  3695. By who? The scammers? People wonder why there's no accountability or arrests. It's because everybody in that industry either looks the other way or is actively receiving a cut. Healthcare in general is no better.
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  3696. So, they want us to all live in apartments; broke and despairing. Then all of a sudden, jump up and get all patriotic for two escalating wars?
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  3697. Careful you don't allow your faith in the Government system to dictate that the people closest to you become second class citizens. This is EXACTLY what happened in the Soviet Union and Fascist Germany. The average person's investment in following (the system and the rules) went far and above their compassion for neighbors and loved ones. "Pride goeth before a fall." The most prideful people won't realize that they've done horrible evil, until everyone they love most is dead at their feet." Never underestimate how evil the average person can become; I've seen enough in the last two years. The fact that polls suggest that some 30% of Americans think I need to be sent to a FEMA camp for refusing a vaccine is enough for me. Never again will I choose to live under the rules of expectations of a population with the lowest common denominating IQ.
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  3698. Disney's problem with the MCU is for the same reason that people are abandoning PS5/Xbox X and returning to the 360. No amount of flashy lights and smaller pixels can atone for the smorgasbord of half finished garbage with a crap story line.
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  3699. And average people care? No I bet they don't actually. No matter how the news tries to spin-it; the haven nots are loving the turmoil for big business.
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  3700. I used to think that we'd be able to get through to 2030. I'm starting to think this country will fail before 2025.
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  3701.  @MLGMagnesium  I think they would lie about the circumstances of his death. The media has been doing it for years. "He was perfectly healthy!" Then you find out that he was a diabetic or had a history of coronary issues, maybe even seizures. Devil is always in the details.
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  3702. CNN: Which button do I press? Option A: Woman has to wear hijab to avoid persecution and told to stand to the side = Islamic Culture Sexism Option B: The hijab is a symbol of freedom and Trump is a racist sexist pig of a Hitler monster!
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  3703.  @VincitOmniaVeritas7  Well, an inversion of the pyramid means that all social nets and investments will reverse. Either that or hyperinflation is inevitable.
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  3704. Nobody should be rooting for a crash; not this time. If the US were to go into a recession like 2008 again; your bond auctions would fail and your social safety nets would all fail. The US debt crisis won't allow it to happen; less it be realized and two entire generations would lose virtually everything.
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  3705. How do you not see the riots and deaths that pre-dated his inauguration? The turmoil began roughly in 2014; the same year we helped revolutionaries overthrow the Ukrainian Government to use as a pawn against Russia. Blame the media or blame people; blaming Trump is a very sophomoric response to why things are being flipped upside down. If you didn't see the media manipulation years ago, I doubt you'll catch it now. Re-evaluate your assumptions with an objective mind and I assure you that you'll see the world differently.
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  3706.  @EJH783  Really? Explain how the war in Ukraine started as a result of Trump.
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  3707. How being racist became NOT racist is beyond me. Utterly appalling...
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  3708. And the state of Colorado has it's own rights to implement whatever ballot decisions they want. Since when did conservatives throw (state's rights) in the toilet? Oh, that's right; whenever it's convenient!
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  3709. The Federal Government subsidizes some 94% of all student loans. Therefore they pervert the educational standards and prices by shoveling millions of unviable students into their classrooms. Before the 1990s, Universities were known to roughly take an IQ of 120+ in order to graduate with a BA/BS. I can guarantee you that the 57% of kids 18-22 do not have an average IQ of 120; it's probably in the mid 90s. Therefore the standards have been regressing to accommodate that change.
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  3710.  @Rams8148  I think you're conflating a lot of poorly created Hollywood-esque Christian concepts to actual religious teachings, especially in regards to Catholicism.
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  3711. No joke, I used to think 'going clubbing' meant that you were going to go play billiards or golf with your friends. I didn't think it literally meant (going to the club) or (club hopping).
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  3712. Believe me, if you let your government get away with this. Eventually, they will control exactly what you eat, what commodities you purchase, what you say, then what you think. Here's a yummy ration of broccoli with some oats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner SERF! Eat up and thank you master for his generosity! I worry about the future we are building for our children.
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  3713. Nobody in this entire country has the time to be protesting; given the economy. Me thinks the protestors are getting paid to be there. People typically can't be protesting if they can't afford to eat and afford shelter.
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  3714. It's mind boggling how easily Americans are getting duped (yet again) into supporting the wrong side of a conflict. This is truly no different than Iraq or Afghanistan. Perhaps the US needs to quit overthrowing foreign governments and trying to install puppets to do their bidding. But no, we never learn now do we? How Americans can be so ignorant is beyond my understanding. The search engine is right up there folks; use it please.
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  3715. I know people really enjoy calling Biden and his administration 'dumb', but people fail to realize that everything taking place is by design. It's not incompetence and it's not an accident. This country has been infiltrated by people that would see it reduced to serfdom, all for a few giggles and a big paycheck. The complacency of the average American will be the downfall of this once great nation. When TikTok algorithms in China are incentivizing engineering and mathematical accomplishments, while they give the incentive for twerking and stupidity in the US. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to discover that it's been designed that way to damage the mental health of the general public.
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  3716. From a fundamental standpoint, it is a ponzi scheme. Crypto (of any type) is majority owned by less than a dozen individuals. They can sell and crash it any time they want.
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  3717. I get really sick of the pro stances people instantly take with Ukraine. Didn't Covid teach people anything about jumping to rash conclusions and the use of propaganda? I guess not...
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  3718. What about bankruptcy laws? Companies like Johnson and Johnson create a whole different company and discharge any debt obligations/lawsuits they have THRU the bankruptcy laws 'using' that newly created company. YOU the taxpayer bails them out when they do this as well.
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  3719. I'm rather centrist on most issues, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the guilt tripping coming from the Democrats doesn't work anymore. If anything they are losing more of their base because they are disenfranchising their own voters. Inflation and immigration were a non-issue to them for four years. Only after Trump took office in 2025 did they begin to talk about these issues again. Remember how the immigration crisis was fake and Biden had the best economy since Obama? Yeah, that didn't sit too well for a lot of voters. Democrats have to be careful. Screaming (JD is the spawn of Trump!) during 2028 isn't going to win them the election.
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  3720.  @nycdweller  Thanks, you too 👍
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  3721. Cherish it, because westerners understanding Russia and it's conflicts is rare. Europeans residents are about as dumb as Americans at this point when it comes to international affairs and cultures.
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  3722.  @Northcountry1926  So you haven't changed your views in 8 years? That's a real problem bud.
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  3723. Not really, the US is finally paying the consequences for what it's BEEN DOING for the last 75 years. If the US would quit overthrowing foreign governments and installing puppets; it may be a nicer world.
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  3724. Government intervention with DEI and social governance banking schemes. It incentivizes that companies get better loan terms and treatment if they play by the woke rules.
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  3725. Kamala is the epitome of an intellectual idiot that says a lot, without actually saying anything.
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  3726. Drunken Donuts apparently
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  3727. Won't matter anyway, come late Autumn this government is going to go into shutdown, possibly default. You all can celebrate the fall of a regime then, it's inevitable.
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  3728.  @emmamagers  Except there are no youngsters/children. It really sucks if you're the only one in your family that got married and had kids. Older people want you to take care of them and young useless people want you to amuse them. I'm taking care of a kid, so both of those groups can kiss my rear lol
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  3729.  @crownuk4867  You can't trust Ds and Rs. Republicans want deals for their corporate buddies. Democrats want deals for their corporate buddies. It's a no win issue.
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  3730. I believe them, but understand that they are largely delusional about their own country. Ukraine hasn't had true sovereignty for the last century. They've been constantly bought by either the Russians or NATO in an effort to control the country. It's truly no different than Americans back during the Gulf War that thought they were fighting for freedom when we were invading Kuwait. Most Americans (and0 Ukrainians for that matter) are completely ignorant to the fact that eastern Ukraine has been in a civil war since 2014 against the NATO Zelensky administration. Only people that have jumped onto this conflict in the last 18 months buy into the media garbage that they throw out. I remember when the US helped to overthrow the Yanukovich government in 2014 and we gave weapons to help them put down Ukrainians the wanted to be annexed in Russia due to a number of regressive government actions against this in Donetsk and Luhansk.
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  3731. This is much bigger than most people think. Hillary using the term 'deplorables' swung the entire election in his favor. People not evening planning to vote will hear this and go to the ballot box in rage.
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  3732.  @archmage_of_the_aether  Closest one is technical 4 lightyears away. However, unless aliens are really patient with their travel or use some kind of (planet hopping) strategy to traverse the universe slowly. The idea of light-speed needs a massive overhaul. Even if it was possible; it's not feasible.
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  3733. Too many people on here that have never even been the golf coast. Surprisingly, bug and humidity are far worse in rural Ohio than they are in this location.
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  3734. Joe Biden is like Ser Meryn Tyrant from Game of Thrones. "TOO OLD!"
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  3735. Why are you acting like Trump introduced this? It's always been like this. 2020 simply allowed corporations and hedge funds to leverage massive amounts of cheap debt and kill small competition at the same time. The game hasn't change, just the inequalities.
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  3736. Depends! I can't go to any Chipotle and Starbucks anymore because of the attitude problems I continue to encounter. Not only that, but incompetence is rampant and corner cutting is ridiculous. Mixing week old guacamole with fresh guac to save money. I used to be a manager at a dinner theater some years ago and I would have fired on the spot had I seen that in the service industry. In my experience, it's not hopelessness; it's entitlement. You have two entire generations of younger people that indebted themselves with ridiculous students and have no prospects for work because they thought they would be make 250k a year living like an influencer in Miami. I know I'm probably upsetting a lot of people here, but let's be honest with ourselves. If you're struggling bad; it's probably because you have mountains of student debt.
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  3737.  @mikeridgeview9557  It's all in the numbers and cost of living. 2008 was similar, but it was more based on credit card spending and overall consumption. Somewhere between now and then; people began to chase status once again. Not much else can explain the drastic rise in student loan borrowing; aside from subsidizing loans. Without student loans; living is extraordinarily easy. The simple fact is that most of the jobs that are still available (that pay well) for hard work; Americans don't want those jobs. I got my CDL back in 2019 and we had a class of 15; 12 of them were from Africa - green cards. Wonderful and appreciative people btw. That first job payed me 70k and it now pays 85k. You can't convince younger people to go into truck driving for any amount of time. Why? Because they are chasing (fake status) and listening to scam-influencers. In my opinion, the entire influencing industry lines up with the educational industry because it alleges that your rewards will be similar. I have nothing against education, but it's the fact that most degrees people are pursuing are useless. A Master Degree in Psychology usually qualifies you for a clerical job working for a Doctor in the same field. Though people don't figure that out until it's too late.
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  3738. Not exactly.. It's not the ultra-rich and retired buying driving the prices; it's your average every day Americans! They (were) buying homes and getting auto loans for artificially low interest rates; this increases demand and raises prices; supply and demand. When the money printers start working over-time; the money goes into the poorest Americans pocket in the form of debts/credits. Remember that ALL dollar printing comes at the cost of consumer debts. Without those debts, you have no inflation. Dollars have to be bought (with interest) in order to be realized in any economic system. Demand for housing is still insane! The problem is that people are waiting for interest rates to go down. If the Federal Funds rates moves from 5.5 down to 3-4; you'll see another real estate boom in 2024/2025. Reserve banks have already been given the go ahead to start reforming conventional mortgages to a 1-5% down payment in the form of 40 year contracts.
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  3739. Perhaps you're child notice the scam I'd hope. The guy is a pyramid schemer; one look at his website will prove it. Ignore his advice.
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  3740. Virtually every state, city, and county is offshoring their fiscal responsibilities to the Federal Government; even Republicans are doing this. As long as the Federal Government keeps writing blank checks to every local and state government; this will continue. ZERO accountability!
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  3741. Use logic and rationale instead of emotionally charged hatred.
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  3742. He's a great teacher and lecturer. If you have any personal problems, look for advice on his channel; he is wonderfully inspiring. The topic of Ukraine and Russian might make him seem a little dark though lol
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  3743. It's actually dumb, it will make Trump voters splinter to other Republican candidates.
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  3744.  @Darkness1984  You're here, so why don't you learn a bit. You don't think the US overthrowing the Ukrainian Government in 2014 and aiding in legislation to Zelensky's oppression of eastern Ukrainian peoples had ANYTHING to do with Putin's decision. I'll side with a mafia style Russian President before I side with yet ANOTHER NATO puppet. US overthrows Government and installs puppet; where have we heard that before? Who's side are you on?
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  3745.  @Surms41  At this point, the only people voting Democrats are college students and pension boomers. Even many welfare recipients are ditching the ship.
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  3746. Wow, what a gaslighting twit! Jill is using him to probably assert her own political ambitions. Quite a family there!
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  3747. Don't you believe that eating products that never existed and are not apart of your human evolution are 'probably' detrimental to your health in more ways than one?
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  3748. Schools aren't failing because of a couple bad apples teaching weird ideologies. They are failing because children are out of freaking control and parents are doing nothing. Teachers are leaving in droves due to rising levels of harassment, violence, and police intervention in schools. Texas lost 13% of their teachers in the last 18 months because of these issues.
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  3749.  @willikins5095  Because they watch FOX News and think that transgenderism (being taught by teachers) is the number one threat to this nation. The number one threat to education is out of control students and parents. Teachers are leaving in droves due to constant assault, harassment, and out of control classrooms. Go ask a teacher!
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  3750. People should go on Google Maps and check out the (Ohio Intel ONE Campus) The building site is enormous!
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  3751. How braindead of a parent must you be to let you child run up to Joe Biden?
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  3752. There's no fixing it this time. If the FEDS continue raising interest rates; eventually there will be a crash and then hyperinflation. If the FEDS stop raising rates and begin printing again; we skip the early crash and go straight for hyperinflation Weimar Republic
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  3753. Yep, the right wing thought they could invoke nationalism with a global economy lol
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  3754.  @metaph0xr  Are on staying at your property for 8+ years? Not to mention all the years you'll need to have in order to get by your investment on energy savings, which is closer to 21 years. Again, why are people doing the logistical math, but ignoring the reality check? It's only worth it if you know that the property you're investing is long term. A large portion of the real-estate market holds properties about as long as they hold jobs; 2-4 years.
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  3755. Take back control of Palestinian land? What does Palestinian mean? The coast of Phoenicia down to Egypt. The Arabs inhabiting these areas LOST during the 6 days way back in the 1940s. Arabs would have never lost land if they hadn't constantly tried to backstab the agreements of settlement between the 1890s and 1948. The state of Palestine was created by the British Government as a haven for Semitic peoples returning to the region in a world of growing anti-Semitism. Israelis are about as Palestinian as the Palestinians themselves. The ethnic term has been weaponized by terrorist groups to describe an Arab people that were never living there in the first place. Most of them are Arab foreign nationals that have moved to that region since the conception of the Israeli state.
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  3756. Oh it's far worse than that. The Obama Administration orchestrated the coup that installed the standing Ukrainian Government. It's a puppet government of the US, not too dissimilar to those of middle eastern conflicts. The entire goal of this has been the provoke Russia from the start.
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  3757. I personally didn't enlist in the military because of those mandates, but also because you're essentially a guinea pig that has to take dozens of vaccines. Later on, I found out being in the military is just a (pawn-position) for political agenda enforcement. I admire the bravery of people that fought in Syria or volunteered to fight in Ukraine, but at the end of the day they are fools; sold on a lie and raging hormones.
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  3758. I'm not so sure they voted for it bud. You shouldn't be listening to anything on FOX or CNN. Migrants started coming here in droves during 2019. Much of this has been caused by embargos and sanctions by the Obama/Trump Administration. Economic hardships caused by the US have destabilized many nations. The Covid crisis and spending $8 Trillion just destabilized them even more. Now we have everybody in the world trying to get in and international organizations are getting paid (per head) to move them. This project was first begun in Texas because FEMA and migrant shelters didn't have the resources to keep piling them up in border encampments. Other nations refuse to take them back and Mexico doesn't play ball with taking migrants THRU their country back to South America.
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  3759. If the US truly is going to go into a hyperinflationary death spiral; people should be scared. This isn't going to be a game where you get to buy-low this time. A collapse at this point would produce a failed bond auction, not to mention a complete failure of pensions, social security, etc. If that's the case, then you're looking at a global collapse which is going to create an extremely aggressive/military environment. Not good for anyone. You better pray that they keep running the scam (despite it being a scam). It's stopping greater forces from ruining life entirely.
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  3760. I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s. I was hard-pressed into the Reaganomics/bootstraps ideology. The general idea with expanding business and technology was that this economic model was allowing people to be more creative and bring costs down due to innovation. Turns out it was the exact opposite. Technology and Reaganomics (by in large) only allows con-artists and scammers to reach a larger number of people. Low interest loans and low tax rates on LLCs give the incentive for 'cheap' investment in your product with the ability to claim bankruptcy and walk away if your scam doesn't work. The only real creativity I've seen in my adult life has come from people that financed their own aspirations or built something out of passion and shared it with everyone 'like many Youtubers'. It tells you a lot about the economic model we have; it needs a major overhaul.
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  3761. Same! I tried Carnivore/Keto, but ended up with an eating disorder for 2 entire years. If it works for you; great! Just be aware that such extremes can make things excessively worse. I would also ask that people look into whether they have proper (bile/enzyme) function from their liver/pancreas. I actually had a pancreatic disorder and ended up on supplements for both and my life got so much better.
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  3762. Fortune 500 companies would rather pay BILLIONS to get millions of illegal immigrants into the country to provide cheap labor. Rather than simply pay American citizens a decent wage! Embarrassing..
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  3763. Downplayed it? I recall that his campaign failed to report it AT ALL! Imo that's election interference.
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  3764. Well, pornography enslaves the mind, drugs enslave the body, and gambling enslaves your wallet. To be brutally honest, there should be more regulations on stocks/options imo. I lost some $15k between the ages of 18-22. Not saying that it wasn't my responsibility, but these companies quite literally incentivize you play a game of 'bang or bust'. Options are the absolute worst in my opinion and should be considered a pyramid scheme. These firms issue options at a standard price that no investor will ever recoup in the long term; it's literally the definition of a zero sum game.
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  3765. How is it doomed? Your saying that it's doomed because a President and AG didn't imprison their political opponent?
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  3766. It's definitely a multifactorial issue; seed/veggie oils could also play a large portion, including soy. They definitely seem to be spearheading the obesity epidemic.
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  3767.  @shoazdon7000  Exactly! That's the problem, BTC only has value because a handful of businesses and individuals own 80% of all the coins.
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  3768. Sounds like one of those companies that will be the face of a litigation commercial 20 years from now. "If you consumed this product between X and Y, you may be eligible to receive Z." It's unfortunate, but the people that scream loudest about loving science seem to ignore that any kind of bio-chemistry engineering produces tens of thousands of differences even on a cellular level. Science has become more a religion these days, rather than a method. Want to make a difference? Stop eating commercially farmed garbage. Ridding ourselves of animal products that have played the largest part in our 200,000 year evolution seems problematic. What's going to end up happening will be a litany of unintended consequences, as per the usual.
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  3769. Inflation IS down; that doesn't mean prices are down.
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  3770. Jesus, you people scare me. Lock-step party voting for a late-stage dementia patient is a new LOW..
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  3771.  @user-kl8lo6rj5i  You can't explain mathematics to people that are generationally dependent on a dogma. Religion of the system is a true illness.
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  3772.  @rocketdog2723  When did he rape somebody? He's never been convicted of any such thing? You can't call him a rapist and also believe in an impartial court system of both defense/prosecution.
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  3773.  @rocketdog2723  Will you please act like an adult? When was he ever convicted of rape?
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  3774. Soy? You're kidding right?
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  3775. This isn't about conservative vs. liberal; it's about LABOR vs. INSTITUTION.
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  3776. @ Stop talking like Russia? Alright so what's your recommendation; raise taxes about 10% in the EU? Europe gets a ton of subsidies from the US; primarily military. That's a budget they don't have to personally account for.
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  3777.  @MrBoroman2  Not really; this has nothing to do with Russia. It all has to do with the number of US securities being held in Europe, as well as the subsidies that the US provides. Could you imagine if the US dropped their EU military budget?
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  3778.  @luckduvell  I'm not sure if you're trolling or something else. It would be pretty insane to dispute US subsidies within NATO countries. Norway's defense is almost entirely subsidized by the United States for the last 70 odd years; Norway Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement (SDCA) We have a similar relationships with most NATO countries; largely Germany, France, and Romania. This allows European government to push expenditures elsewhere that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to.
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  3779.  @piergiorgioscollo7163  It is true and I've already addressed it below. You can easily research the Norway Supplementary Defense Cooperation Agreement or any other NATO based programs the US maintains and continues to fund. The information of the world is at people's fingertips; all of this is verifiable.
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  3780.  @luckduvell  Sure thing bud.
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  3781. You mean imported 1 million (non-assimilating) Muslims that are now 10% of your population, but you're too embarrassed to admit the exponential increase in rape is due to this? This is how political correctness kills nations; you're side stepping the issue because you're afraid of being called a racist.
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  3782.  @susanray8811  Claiming Trump is completely innocent of this situation is something I don't buy. He wanted Fauci on his team with the NIH; Warp Speed was HIS program. If nothing else, Trump's business incentives allowed horrible people to gain access to high levels of government (more than they already did) and it resulted in mass fraud and scandals.
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  3783. Please, quit projecting your own personal problems. She's a 17 year old girl giving a speech that SHE wanted to give for her grandfather.
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  3784. Getting really sick of idiots mispronouncing the cities name. It's KEE-YEV
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  3785. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if Biden gave an executive order for "The Draft" in order to fill the shortages in each industry. Plus the media and many Americans would go along with it. It's starting to become VERY clear how the Nazis were able to carry out their atrocities with the backing of a majority of their citizens.
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  3786. I remember when $15/hr was good money. I moved out on that pay in 2017.
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  3787. Women are probably the most consequential victims in the greater scheme of society and much of it was started with feminists. For the first time in human history, men have choice picks over women. A woman is most fertile at the age of 18 to 21 generally speaking, but this is not when women are having children. What women have actually been doing is foregoing the family unit to pursue their careers largely do to peer and parental pressure. By the time the woman is 30, her clock starts ticking and he brain screams "husband and children." Unfortunately, by that time it's far too late for many. A women will generally enter the dating market by starting to date men their own age and five years older. They soon realize that the only men still looking for a woman to bear children with largely don't exist. The family oriented men were married off almost a decade prior and the only men still circulating in the dating pool are largely men that want nothing to do with getting married and having kids. They just want a booty call when it's convenient, which could explain the astronomical divorce rate. I don't think women realize that they are not a part of a new, free, and fair system. If anything they are slaves to a pathological culture. I also have a high suspicion that the early feminists movements were not interested in freeing women, but more or less enslaving them. Look at who the founders were. Unmarried, unattractive, and childless females. Could it be that these women chose to manipulate other women into throwing out marriage and children, simply because they weren't able to do so themselves? Misery loves company...
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  3788. A Marxist is somebody who believes in the prophecy of the working class rising about the ruling class; so that makes no sense. He's probably the biggest Fascist we've ever had. The use of corporation and government AGAINST the sovereign citizen to achieve a political agenda.
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  3789. Even though Hamas instigated this recent conflict. I fear that an all out war in Gaza will push Iran and other middle eastern nations to declare war against Israel. The US cannot proxy a war in Ukraine against Russia, build up armaments in the South Pacific against China, AND fight another war in the middle east at the same time. I truly fear we are getting ready to see another world war.
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  3790. Good way of looking at it I guess
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  3791. At this point, you'd either have to be a government worker or a University student to vote for Harris. Anybody working to afford a living KNOWS that the economy is the worst it's been since 1977.
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  3792. It amazes me that even after 4 years; people still haven't pulled their heads out of their rears. Did the bio-weapon created by China, 50% inflation, or 2 new wars RING A BELL? Or did you need a fake smile to go along with it?
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  3793.  @scottbecker4367  Consequences? What party do I stand for might I ask? The vaccine issue hardly falls on party lines when it comes to voters I've found. I've recovered from Covid and so has the wife. Due to our work, both of us are around enormous amounts of people. If you did a Titer, our antibodies would be off the charts.. Why should we be mandated to get a vaccine that has produced at at least 12,000 deaths on the VAERS report. Medicare Payouts actually report 57,000 which is scary. It's not the first time Pfizer has produced a vaccine that's killed massive amounts of people. Though it is the first time they have lawsuit immunity from one. And yes, if we refuse the vaccine we will lose our jobs. Pretending a vaccine mandate is an 'American tradition' has been something the MSM has peddled for the last several weeks. People didn't come up with that on their own.
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  3794.  @scottbecker4367  Debunked by what? Three deaths, where are you hearing that? VAERS report had a list 12,000 long in July before the CDC began blocking it. Medicare Payouts for vaccine injury claim 57,000 though. Where are you receiving your information? Hell, even CDC itself reported that 80% of the US had natural immunity after they tested the antibodies of 1.4 million people... Natural immunity gives you a profound chance, much better than any vaccine. The media continues to peddle unscientific garbage about the vaccine being more effective than recovered immunity. The crap people are coming up with about natural immunity not working to stop Covid is borderline Theocracy that worships Media and this Administration. If nearly half of medical professionals are questioning the vaccine, wouldn't that tell you at the very least something else is going on? The media claims 1 in 4, but at the central Ohio hospitals we have over 50% willing to quit at Children's and 45% of our own refusing the vaccine at our Hospital.
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  3795. Does NOBODY remember Vioxx? Pfizer got sued for Billions after their product was linked to the death of some 27,000 people. That was sourced from the FDA. So when you people claim there can't possibly be mass deaths coming from Pfizer's vaccine or any others. I would call that willful ignorance. One of the reasons the Holocaust went on for as long as it did was because the German people were so immensely invested in the propaganda machine of the Third Reich. This is what we are witnessing today; the rise of Theocracy.
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  3796.  @55k3v1n  Let it! Free market and good healthcare are an illusion. They poison the food and show up with toxic remedies. We are nothing but a nation rules by corporations and cartels. Let it burn...
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  3797. This hasn't happened since Reagan was shot and the political environment wasn't even remotely this bad as well. I think we're literally watching the destruction of the US in real time.
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  3798. Or, you could just vote for a third party like many of us are doing. The greatest chance for a third party to win the Presidency; don't waste it.
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  3799.  @classicgiraffe  Pretty sure RFK could easily take 15% currently.
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  3800. To Biden's defense, most of this fallout is due to things implemented by both the Obama and Trump Administration. Other than that, Biden sucks and has no clue what he's doing.
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  3801.  @chuckblackmore161  Not exactly, they are incompetent and everything is coming to a head. There's nowhere left for the risk to go; so it will go on the USD. Hyperinflation is inevitable in the next decade.
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  3802. Boomers got to ride a nice wave because they were in the prime working years long before 2000 and 2008. By the time 2020 came along, they all had large amounts of cash to buy-low when the market crashed. Everybody else simply got screwed.
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  3803.  @michaelreader2384  I think you'd be surprised how many conservatives like him. I know plenty of Bernie bros that threw in the vote for Trump this time around and also many conservatives that wish he would have been the nominee in the last three elections. The respect and overlap is much more than meets the eye. The problem is, until progressives realize that they cannot negotiate with the corporate wing of their party; nothing will change. The RNC was so weak that Trump just walked in and killed them.
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  3804. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  3805. The problem is that women want to pursue an extensive career, but also marry a man that makes six figures, will take of the children, and do everything around the house. Women are messed up in the head and it's all caused by birth control. I got married in 2020; she has never been on birth control. The most awesome and compassionate woman I've ever met. It's literally night and day from mainstream women. It actually made me realize how insane my own female family members were. NEVER date a woman that's taken birth control; ever!
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  3806. Scary times! I don't lean one way or another, but I assure you that many people will see this as 'throwing political opponents in jail.' Regardless of the details of the case. This conviction may have just ensured Trumps re-election. Thanks for making him a martyr; you freaking idiots..
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  3807. Oh please, how people can pretend America is not already going down the drain in debt and chronic disease is pathetic. Stop acting like his picks are going to do any worse than the people already running it.
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  3808. Money of course...
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  3809. Envy often masquerades itself as compassion. Perhaps you need to listen and not assume things?
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  3810. How so?
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  3811. Sounds like government paid shills. The bad guys always side with the institutions, which is ironic considering they think Trump is Hitler lol
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  3812. Locked up for what? Show me the evidence of his collusion of incitement to violence... There is none...
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  3813. Omicron is just another media pumped issue to drive the narrative. My wife ended up getting strep and I ended up getting some viral bronchitis. Nobody even cares about Covid anymore, because it's NOT an issue. These Healthcare companies are still on Medicare payroll for getting positive PCR tests and the media is still in love with pumping the numbers. Follow the money. Nobody is scared of Omicron, they are scared of what their state will do to their businesses again.
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  3814.  @mehboobkm3728  Vivek refused months ago! How do people miss this?
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  3815. You are projecting western morals and values onto a state of complete chaos and barbarism. Hamas was elected by a fundamentalist and backwards culture of people. Stop projecting your ethics onto their existence.
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  3816. When you start to reflect on your choices and associations by wondering if you're in a cult. I found out a lot! 1. MAGA = cult 2. Democratic Party = cult 3. Carnivore diet = cult 4. Vegan diet = cult 5. Climate change = cult 6. Climate denial = cult
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  3817. lol I'm the opposite; I will never vote for him again. He is almost solely responsible for the inflationary nightmare we are in. HE appointed Jerome Powell and wanted the federal funds rate to go negative. Imagine what further damage would have happened if he had gotten his way. Everybody and their brother jumped on cheap mortgages to become rentals and bought brand new cars 0% APY. It drove prices out of control!
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  3818. Exactly! I haven't bought a new video game since 2015. Everything sucks these days and they want you to pay full price for 25% of the game and then milk the other 75% with micro transactions. Games these days realistically cost $250-$500 for what avid gamers actually put into them.
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  3819.  @teddys8975  I know what you mean; I was actually an original Cod Player. I had the first Cod and Cod:UO for PC in 2003. World at War was great, but everything after that was pretty much crap.
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  3820. NAFTA and Reaganomics are responsible for this. I'm not fan of Biden, but people need to quit blaming him for what Trump did to this country.
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  3821. Can't tell you how many times people like me have been called "Far Right" despite me being an independent. These bureaucrats and media cartels are insane. Lack of anti-trust enforcement and social media algorithms are the two largest threats to the Western world right now.
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  3822. You can thank the fall of the Shaw for most of this insanity. Ever since the middle east was destabilized; theocratic groups have gone rampant and terrorism has thrived. This has caused an immense crackdown on social relations between the groups in all areas of the middle east.
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  3823. I'm an American, but I'm well aware that the entire globe is sick of the bs with the UK and US banks. Western powers will start WW3 before they have to give up their assets and pay their debts.
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  3824. Let's NOT pretend for a second that Graham Stephen isn't pursuing politics more recently because of the failure of his crypto/econ channels lmfao
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  3825. The downturn came in November of 2022. If you're working a W-2 or even in trades; you've most likely felt it. For those of you in healthcare or a niche market that are still successful; I commend you! Here's the thing, everybody is wonder (when does the recession or depression come?) When do the prices start to crash? Remember, crashes don't happen until the re-financing phase of interest rate cuts. When that happens, new loan contracts reshape consumer and employer spending habits to pay the banks. That's why crashes always happen 3-6 months after the FED's cut rates during an economic downturn.
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  3826. People blame this Administration and it's constituents too much. Tyranny always flows from the bottom up, not the top down. Assuming that everyone is either dumb or lazy is not condusive to solving the issues. The problem is not politicians, because leadership reflects the people. We are a failing state because the average person is participating in the cultivation of pathological behavior. We are an absolutely addicted society: addicted to oxycodone, caffeine, hf corn syrup, and the worst of all social media. If you think that you aren't being manipulated on your Facebook and Twitter; think again. Those behaviors may be digital, but they manifest themselves in the real world. No wonder people hate each other so much. We shouldn't wait for change; we should be the change.
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  3827. Nothing is true anymore; everything and all of history are just random assertions of idiots online.
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  3828. Men are authority and women are spiritualism. That's the way it used to be. Until organized religions came in and conned everybody into creating a world so consumeristic and complacent that people thought it would be virtuous to stop having children and start worshipping themselves.
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  3829.  @alexgreen6678  Best scenario we could have gotten with Trump's inflation running the country into the ground. If he's elected again, I'll guarantee you he'll pressure the interest rates to be 0% again under the FED and inflation will go nuts again.
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  3830. Afghanistan is the largest opium producer in the world. Doesn't anyone find it funny that the opioid epidemic started with our occupation of Afghanistan and ENDED right before we left? I think the US Government was flying some goodies out of that country for their Pharma buddies ;)
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  3831. Too late, this country is fuc*ed on every level from Congress to the culture. I wouldn't be surprised if states started unofficially seceding (just from lack of funds to start). If enough states secede financially, I bet you could starve the Federal Government until they disbanded all their programs. That's the only thing (shy of an armed conflict) that could save this country or at least STOP the insanity.
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  3832. Yeah, I never understood why people find it so hard. I was born in 94 and began working after HS in 2012 when the economy hadn't even recovered; $5.25/hr with tips at a dinner theater as a bus-boy. Eventually, I was making $44k a year in 2016 as a package handler/shunter op for FedEx. I moved out the following year and bought a cathedral ceiling apartment for $885/m; quite high for a studio in 2017. I saved $30k by the time I was 24 and lost $8000 of that gambling on the stock market which is entirely my own fault of course. Now I'm going to generalize a bit, but in my experience most people that weren't making it were the type of people that didn't want a full time job, they were content living in their parents basement, and smoked and drank way too often. People that bust their butts full-time for a couple years typically don't indulge in that stuff.
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  3833. Well, that's the whole point; the people in his EAR are in charge, not him.
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  3834. This is a dystopian nightmare. All these mainstream media outlets are functioning as one, which is no surprise because they are a cartel. Though who is in charge? Would it be the Chinese, considering there are majority positions of ownership in most fortune 500 companies? All you have to see is who the board and investors are. Even FORBES is majority owned by Chinese company "Whale Media Investment".
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  3835. I've lost all faith in the younger generation. Hamas launches an attack on civilians (killed 1300) and the response is to praise Palestinians and condemn Israel. World class logic right there! These young morons are going to get us into WW3 when they get into office.
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  3836. Does everyone willfully forget the rioting and arson that goons and leftist groups did for four years of Trump's presidency? Like having a riot at the capitol with "one" accidental shooting is now the poster for Republicans? Explain that logic to me?
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  3837. Yeah, we've heard it before bud. Too late, it's not the people in charge that are the problem; it's people IN GENERAL. Watch how many times you get flicked off, get the door dropped on your face, get insulted on social media, and experience a vehicle accident where the other party will lie to the insurance company and police. Everybody always blames the politicians, but eventually it becomes very clear that they are hardly the problem. It's quite simply the way America is going. Down the drain in a blaze of envy, greed, and narcissism. I fear this country will look a combination of South Africa and Maoist China in the next decade.
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  3838. I actually think Democrats are the reactionary party now; it's hilarious.
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  3839. The amount of propoganda being put out is rivalling that of Nazi Germany in the 30s. Scary to see how many people are believing every word without conducting their own research.
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  3840. Dear God, you are filling your head full of hysteria spawned by left wing outlets. Trump is going to pull the plug on Medicare? Are you kidding me? How would he even do that?
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  3841. Some people take longer than others to wake up, but tbh (you have to be insanely thick) to not know how deeply imbedded the corrupt is by now, especially with the Democratic Party. If you're ever confused on who's telling the truth; look at who's filing litigation, look at the evidence, and look at the outcome.
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  3842. Michael and Brian at ClearValue are my favorites!
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  3843. An America health pandemic and addiction to dumpster fire garbage on social media. It's no different than everyone being hopped up on meth and motor oil while being presented with horror news 24/7. Why is anyone surprised with current state of affairs with this in mind?
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  3844. A four year sentence beginning the day before inauguration? No way this judge doesn't get disbarred.
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  3845. You're being fooled and manipulated Jim. Break free and don't let social media outlets control your mind and thoughts.
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  3846. Put has been quite the critic for Marxism, post-modernism, and the horror that overshadowed Russian in the Stalinist era. Knowledge is power.
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  3847. People are so dense! Tulsi refused months ago! As did Vivek. You can't choose somebody that refused your nomination lol
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  3848. Your describing a change in "patents" whether they should be open source or not. It has nothing to do with capitalism.
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  3849. They grew up on social media with daddy trying to buy their love with his retirement. Mind you, Boomers and Gen X are the ones that believe that all children turn out according to their genetics; nothing else. Turns out, when you neglect and abuse kids; then allow them to derive their values from Facebook. They turn into entitled brats that think it's offensive to talk about things, but hurting people is alright.
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  3850.  @markpartin8403  I think that logic will have you chasing tails indefinitely; it's a good money maker. Which is why charlatans spin it as politicians or influencers. It's mathematically inevitable; given enough time. It just so happens that it's 'that time again' in human history.
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  3851. Who's taking care of you though. Not working because you saved up gargantuan amounts of money is one thing. Living off somebody else isn't right.
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  3852.  zanyrumon5156  You're being socially conditioned bud. Take a second and think about how ridiculous it is to criticize Trump for not doing additional debates where the moderators are against him on top of his opponent. Should I call Harris a coward for not doing a second debate with Bret? Come on...
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  3853. With the amount of contraceptives available to the public, it's amazing how abortion is even an issue. Let it be a state issue, how the Federal Government ever maintained a monopoly on this subject is a travesty. "Bans off our bodies?" It's not your body; it is the body of your child produced by your egg and his sperm. Any man that doesn't stand up for the right of HIS child to life, is NO man at all, period...
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  3854. Because many "uneducated" people are real people. Would you rather have some arrogant intellectual 'Harvard Graduate' patronizing all his guests; completely devoid of life experience and empathy?
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  3855. Both parties have entire swathes of low info voters; it's always been that way. Cherry picking does nothing but make insecure people feel better about their own parties mistakes imo. People vote for all sorts of reasons, but you'll never see the legitimate ones on air because the media can't have you thinking for yourself now can they? lol
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  3856. Let's be honest, it's not about the money or cost; it never has been. This nation has a mental health crisis. To be honest, if you're a woman that smirks at babies; don't have children. Health people tend to make good decision; both financially and family-wise.
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  3857.  @keelingcurve58  Please, I've lived through enough climate hoaxes that I would have been a turkey melt by now (according to these scientists). I think if people focused more on the corruption in the institutions; they wouldn't fall for these things. Too many people act like these are the words of God and that there's no conflict of interest.
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  3858.  @crabbyhayes1076  Two consecutive quarter of 'negative' GDP growth. By that definition, Q2/Q3 of 2022 were a recession and we haven't been in one since. Keyword, 'negative GDP'. (1%, 2%, 3%, 2%, 1%, 0.5%) - not a recession (1%, 2%, -3%, -2%, 1%, 0.5%) - recession
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  3859. Literally 90% of the comments on this page are from bots lol Nobody buys this garbage anymore.
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  3860. If he keeps his mouth shut; he'll probably be let go. It's people 'mouths' the usually get them in prison. If they can't find a weapon and he doesn't say anything; there's nothing to go on.
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  3861.  @Mitzi73  Mass incompetence thru a bunch of competing bureaucracies. It's not planned; government sucks at everything.
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  3862.  @deltadawn1581  Well, interest paying on public debt alone are a death sentence. Even IF we don't have a failed bond auction. This has become a speculative market, which is why anybody producing actually products is largely losing out. This will ultimately be a gamblers market for then next decade OR however long the currency continues to last under the FED.
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  3863. The WEF are just a bunch of rich suckers that get rich off disaster capitalism. They basically wait for a tsunami to level a 2nd world beach and then invest in real estate and McDonalds to start plopping themselves on lots.
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  3864. Yeah, Trump destroyed your community; had nothing to do with the media oligarchy?
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  3865. It won't solve anything; America is rotten to the core. Blaming politicians without blaming citizens is ridiculous.
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  3866. There was obviously fraud, as there always is. And the potential for bigger fraud with Dominion being exposed by Antrim forensics was terrifying. Most of us went to bed early, but anyone who watched the counts into 2am and 4am are the same people that have the same concerns that I do. Unfortunately, there's no mass evidence. If there was mass fraud, then it was done through digital adjudication and wiped clean. On the other hand, whether it's true or not is irrelevant. If the voting is rigged, then we're screwed. If the voting works, but everyone is convinced that it's still rigged, we're still screwed. Fall of Rome...
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  3867. Blackrock has virtually all the construction contracts already in place to rebuild Ukraine once the war is over. They will essentially own the nation. When will people wake up and realize that all these conflicts are government/corporate ploys for power?
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  3868. Desperation! Wait and watch! Donors and lobbyists will be pulling out of the DNC like mad; they will be FORCED to remove him as a candidate.
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  3869. Gold should be a small portion of your portfolio, but going all in on it is stupid. There's a reason the gold-standard was abandoned. Gold values have skyrocketed the past 40 years because they're almost exclusively held between London and Zurich. If everybody jumped off the USD and went for gold; it's value was plummet as it saturated the market. Again, gold is holding value because there's a large amount of it not available to the public being traded on paper.
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  3870. Just like everything else, innovation creates great things, then the vultures come in to profit on a bubble.
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  3871. Paranoia at best! Christian affiliation is in the garbage, especially with young voters. It will NEVER happen.
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  3872.  @pepperoniproductions69  DO you honestly think that children should be given sex changes or gender affirming care under 18? And if they don't then CPS should take them away from the parents? People that are at the front of the trans movement tend to fall into two categories. Corporate greed for medical surgeries and perverts/pedos that want to give children 'extra' rights.
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  3873. German protests (some 70,000 people) have been protesting) for the last several months. Most people in Germany and smaller political parties want the sanctions to end. There is a very high cost should Germany continue to cut supply from Russia. The stories being spread from the German government about being (fully supplied on energy) are a bunch of crap.
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  3874. 20%? Gold prices suggest it's 60% since January 2020.
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  3875. The USD value has gone as low as it can without caving the middle class entirely. Wages haven't kept up with inflation for 45 years at this point. There's nothing people can do at this point other than ride out the storm with paid off houses and liquid assets. Any black swan event is going to send the markets into a dark age. After that, we're going to see the beginning of hyper-inflation starting in Q1 of 2024. Expect anything between 20-30% CPI inflation.
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  3876. Everybody in this video is a freaking joke. This video alone is one of the reasons I keep talking to my wife about leaving this country. If this is our elected body; we're royally screwed.
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  3877. $500? Jesus I've had mine for 10 years and I'm married now. The bill has always been between $75 and $150.
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  3878.  @duancoviero9759  Well, no. I think what you mean is that working class people 'avoid' capital gains taxes, because they sell those assets in CASH. I'm from a blue collar town, everybody knows what capital gains is, but we don't pay it in taxes because it's a cash deal.
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  3879. I'm pretty much half Scottish and half Slovak; if anything I'm owed some freaking reparations man! lol
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  3880. My condolences THIS; my condolences THAT! Don't people have anything better to do than to set their nerves on fire via news outlets and then virtue signal their sympathies? Rinse and repeat; it solves nothing smh. It's all used as a masquerade to make yourselves feel like better people in a consumer laden meaningless life. School, work, retire, be happy right? That's the definition of insanity. Only now there's social media to make you feel better about it.
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  3881.  @FosterTravis1071  It is NOT against Federal Law; it's against company policy.
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  3882. Not an argument; bring something intellectual to the table.
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  3883.  @iLikeMyOwnPosts  What do you mean by foreigner? He's an American citizen born to American citizens. You can't run for President if you a naturalized or foreign.
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  3884. How does capitalism take lives exactly? I think you'd only make that assumption if you think people are entitled to the labor and value of others? Which is the argument made in the Communist Manifesto of course. But do you seriously want you labor, worth, and body to be owned collectively by the people/state/government? Also, would socialism have created all the technology and innovations you use?
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  3885. And the father has no role in this? What I want to know is, who would actually marry a woman that wanted full autonomy in choosing life or death after becoming pregnant. Certainly no women like that is respectable. And don't pretend that most of these abortions are for medical reasons. We lost two of our own due to medical reasons. Some 99% of abortions are for convenience or fear mongering by clinics.
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  3886.  @sallygirl1012  Why are you in college? CDL will can get you an 85k job in a heartbeat and I live in Columbus, OH. Obviously taking care of kids changes things; if that's the case.
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  3887. What a bunch of narcissists making up their own narratives and projecting them onto others. It's embarrassing that these people are leading are nation.
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  3888. It would shut down everything exception essential functions, medicare, and social security. They will never do it and if they do (the American people would revolt). You would have mass chaos in the streets.
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  3889.  @ADadSupreme  Yes, the US is physically and agriculturally safe; for the most part. However, if the USD implodes; it's game over for all government currencies. When Rome fell, the entire world tribalized. Which led to the dark ages and a large number of lost wisdom and technologies. Considering that the digital technology is impermeable. This may be a good thing for the global economy; at least in the long run. A destabilization of the USD would crush the existing corporate hierarchy that is controlling the west We are designed to live as a tribal species one way or another. The ONLY way civilizations of size can be maintained; is on the backs of slavery. Whether that is chains, votes, foreign cheap labor is entirely dependent on the geo-politics. Think about it using pareto distributions or prices law. If you have 10 employees; 3 of them do half the work. This is manageable and the designation of labor is much more flexible. But, if you have 1,000,000 employees; 1000 of them do half the work. Which means the productivity deficit has to be supplemented by the more competent workers AND most importantly a larger entity (the US Government) that supplements other needs of the company and workers; basically individual and corporate welfare. Corporations cannot exist without big-government.
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  3890.  @ADadSupreme  A housing crash is different from a failed bond auction. If the FED starts buying them to prevent a failure; we go into hyperinflation. Interest is already 13% of the US budget. This is why they are importing millions of migrants. It's the only thing on a 'technical' scale that could stimulate enough GDP to prevent it.
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  3891. As long as most of the criminals are 'black' they will continue to use their (equity) system for the 'good' of society SMH
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  3892. According to what? If you keep giving yourself vague expectations, then you'll always come to vague conclusions. Making it easier for complacency.
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  3893. Democrats need to make up their minds! Is the system impartial or is it broken. If it's not broken, how am I supposed to believe that Trump was prosecuted fairly with a standard of previous Presidents?
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  3894.  @Sunday_Swagger  The media has them by the balls with algorithms and they won't dare question institutions. The claim Trump is a fascist, because they are the real fascists.
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  3895. Honestly, everybody at the address acted like a child. -Biden lying and antagonizing -Republicans booing and screaming -Democrats cheering and taunting This country is a joke!
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  3896. As usual, Americans were too hasty to pick sides in this conflict. I understand that Russia invaded Ukraine. But would you blame the US for invading Mexico, if China had installed their President, sold them firearms and missiles, and began a border war?
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  3897. Yep, new world; Americans don't create anything. Prices have to come down in order for that to happen.
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  3898. As much as I agree, there is no way manufacturing will return to this country without a cultural shift. No millennial or Gen X child wants to get into trades or manufacturing. They won't even take CDL jobs can pay big bucks. I personally envision a future where we return to local products. But as far as getting home grown Americans to make shirt and car parts, it's not going to happen. No matter how much you pay them.
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  3899. IF the Biden Administration was responsible, I guarantee you that a number of German politicians were in on it too. Unless it was a covert operation, some EU officials must have been aware that the US had a military presence in the Baltic for an operation.
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  3900. Maybe the bees 'pretend' to claim that they found good flowers because they don't want to be on the chopping block? I would imagine that there are a certain percentage of bees that bring back virtually all of the nectar/pollen. That would fall under Price's Law. However, if a be in the lower range of production doesn't make ends meet; does the hive kill him or is it irrelevant? Just go find what you can regardless?
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  3901. No more immigration reform; CLOSE THE BORDER INDEFINITELY!
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  3902.  @spocko2181  A lot of this is in your mind; people can checkout whenever they'd like. They're too addicted to convenience most of the time.
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  3903.  @foodhoarder9434  Fair enough; just know that historically luddites and reactionaries don't fair well. I'm not sure what people are hoping to go back to; perception is important.
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  3904. I blame the Democrat drones and the maga idiots. They've turned this country into a hypocritical meme-farm, where the only things that matter are virtue signaling on social media.
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  3905. At this point I'm expecting an EMP and invasion at the rate this insanity is growing.
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  3906.  @j3kwe  Not much to do about it; gold standard would be a death sentence.
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  3907.  @user-kg5lq6nd7q  Put your money (either in a precious metal ETF to maintain value) or (put it in an index funds) to ride with the market. Keeping cash long term is an insanely bad idea in this day and age. 1-2% inflation per year is never coming back.
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  3908. There's got to be something in the fucking water; people are losing their damn minds.
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  3909.  @Acesnickvlc  Let's be realistic! Would you rather have the future of your country being run by a bunch of (white-college socialists) or (Central and South American Catholics)? I'm conservative and I vote for the Catholics lol
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  3910.  @sturmherooflance  No offense, but this is conspiratorial nonsense. Supply and demand! Prices rose because $8 Trillion dollars got printed and most of it went into consumerism. The whole idea is for most of the debt to fuel production. If GDP doesn't keep up with debt obligations; prices rise and wages stagnate. You can't simply get a wage raise because inflation went up. If that were true, then debt could be printed forever without consequence.
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  3911.  @szymonbaranowski8184  Keynesianism does exactly as it was intended to do. It's ultimately a state of permanent growth and inflation. At least that's the premise for it's survival. The gold standard failed because it only benefits productivity and exportation. So any trade imbalance will eventually result in one country holding all the gold. This historically fuels imperialism. Keynesianism was created because it aimed to maintain a balanced system regardless of production/inequalities. The issue is that (instead of gold leaving the country) - (labor leaves the country). The players changed, but the fundamentals stayed the same. Bitcoin is really no different that gold (in a currency/scarcity sense) and will result in the same thing. The truth is that the only sustainable system is a system of (boom and bust). Allowing the poor and wealthy to suffer the natural consequences of each ending cycle. But of course, boomers in office will protect their assets; so they'll hyperinflate the system to save their own hides.
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  3912. The US has a vast diversification of cheap imports from all over the world. China does NOT have a vast diversification of global BUYERS. 7% of their imports come from the US; true. But 12% of their exports go to the US. Having that 12% of their market-share get axed in a matter of days is deadly to their economy. They have no leverage in the situation. Exporters can rapidly switch to India, Pakistan, Thailand, Honduras, to get their products to the US. Especially considering that many companies have already been switching since 2021/2022 when the Bide Admin did their first major crack-down on China.
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  3913. There's no oversight and no accountability. There's really no different between, say (Ethereum) and The Federal Reserve. They can inflate it as much as they want and there is no oversight. It's a giant scam.
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  3914. Because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Fascism stems from Italian Marxism; neither of which I can make parallels to Ron Desantis. I mean, if you want to argue how dumb it is to create a platform fighting wokism, all the while ignoring inflation and war. Then by all means, I will agree. However, if the argument is to scream fascism, then you lose the attention of a lot of independent voters.
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  3915. Yeah, German logic; we must become fascists to stop fascism lmfao
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  3916. Correct, it's probably a combination that also includes desensitization from excessive porn indulgence I'd imagine. Why go and get a girlfriend if you have video games and porn? Malnutrition is also a huge problem a well; most people don't talk about that.
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  3917. The largest cohort of men that left the workforce was 55-64. Don't let these influencers fool you. Dept. of Labor Stats data shows that ALL demographics of men between 18-80 increased in labor participation. EXCEPT for 55-64. This is because millions of Gen X and Boomers retired early in 2020-2021.
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  3918. Let's not forget about Vitamin D deficiency being a leading cause in metabolic dysfunction on top of the food issue.
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  3919.  @AkalaTanara  Context is always important though. If China had overthrown the Mexican government and waged a war up against the US border. Would you blame the US for invading? Same scenario with different countries in the current state of affairs with Ukraine. Focusing on (who was invaded) will warp your perception of the bigger picture imo As far as Crimea goes, the population of Crimea overwhelmingly wanted to be annexed. Why? Ukraine is a bully; same argument.
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  3920. You'll find that a lot of (long term) pharmaceutical use can substantially decrease cognitive intelligence. My parents have took Statins for 15 years (they are currently 55) and their IQ has literally dropped from 110 to the high 90s. It's so difficult to have any conversation anymore because it's like having a conversation with a half drunk construction worker; no offense to construction workers of course.
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  3921.  @thebeatcreeper  Groupthink? You could be projecting possibly?
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  3922.  @thebeatcreeper  I'm aware of what groupthink is. Where's the irony? You seem to think that wearing a MAGA hat displays groupthink. Maybe it does or doesn't, where's your proof? You could just as easily be partaking in groupthink as well based on your accusation. The irony falls on your comment, not mine. That's my point.
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  3923.  @thebeatcreeper  If you don't want to have an intellectual discussion, fine by me. It's a waste of time to have anything less in my opinion. Buh bye...
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  3924. I can't believe some of the comments coming from Trumpers; Oh wait, maybe I can because they never make any sense. How can people literally believe that tariffs will replace income tax, BUT ALSO that their import prices will not inflate?
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  3925. If anything, I think Obama's legacy is aging well (considering the last two morons in office). I think he probably regrets ever running with Joe though lol
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  3926. Every time I start to think the Republican Party has gone off the tracks. I go and listen to these loyal 40+ year Democrat boomers and I'm always given the impression that they are the most clueless people on the planet. If corporations are price gouging; then it should be pretty easy to buy cheap from a competitor. That's how it works. Price gouging always results in long term business failure. It's why you see places like Kroger with 60% sell offs. Walmart sells Canada Dry for $5.36/12p and Kroger sells it for $9.99. I don't complain about Kroger; I simply go to Walmart.
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  3927. You seem intelligent, but it's obvious that you're not in a very good place. It's quite tilted towards narcissism and an unappreciation for what people have accomplished. Help or no help; tax dollars or not. Perhaps lowering the standards of your expectation (whatever that is) may be the key? If there is no credence that can be given to any of the people you listed above, then I truly wonder who you actually give it to. Your post simply has nihilism written all over it.
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  3928.  @ncwordman  You can't be serious. Tucker asks a question and their first reaction is to smear his sincerity by calling it 'coddling Putin?" You must be new to these jokers. Anna and Chenk are known liars thru and thru.
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  3929. I saw this problem coming a mile away in 2012 and I was 18 years old at the time. My parents relentlessly pushed for me to go and I ended up getting accepted at Kent State and OSU. I was actually going to pursue Russian Language as my major. The problem was, the debt far outweighed the job prospects and still do to this day. I knew I'd be paying massive amounts of interest for years while my life slipped away. So, instead I attended Community; though I wish I hadn't. I ended up working for FedEx for four years and then pursued my CDL and drove for Anhueser/Werner. At the same time, I settled down and got married, while putting down my savings on a home. To do this day, my parents are still irritated that I ended up with an Associate Degree (that I never used). Yet I'm married, own a home, and have a son. Yet they will continue to praise my sister (indebted for $144,000 for an Art Degree) who has ZERO job prospects and expects them to pay for her debts. Nobody else is going to say it; so I will. Generation X used their children as an investment in their social lives. They couldn't stand the idea of not bragging about their 'highly educated kid' at barbeques just to make themselves look good. I grew up in a middle-upper class neighborhood and this mentality was absolutely rampant. It was ALWAYS about how it made the parents look to their friends and it was NEVER about the kids.
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  3930. Your statement is actually flipped. While stimulus is a problem; almost all of the spending goes to maintenance and COLA adjustments for social programs. This is a centralized Keynesian economy; permanent inflation and permanent growth. As dumb as that sounds; it's what we got.
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  3931. Name me a job that you're aware of (paying minimum wage).
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  3932. It's not AI; it's unemployment insurance fraud and a bad economy.
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  3933.  @mcdonalduck  We do tax the rich; the top 20% of income earnings pay nearly 80% of all tax revenue. The bottom 50% pay 3.04%. I agree with taxing corporations more, but remember that taxation is supposed to be wielded as a weapon. If people wanted corporations to go away entirely; it's probably better to re-write the business codes. Otherwise they dodge the loops and headquarter in 1st world nations and export labor from 3rd world. They're currently all moving from China to Mexico/India. Besides, big corporations only exist because of big government.
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  3934. It's because their woke and wokism hates people that make sense. They love victimhood and confusion because it allows to to swoop in and assume power.
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  3935. Trump doesn't have the numbers; Republicans aren't doing the math on this one. You have 5 million additional voters that will vote 90% Democrat and Republican turnout in 2022/2023 is down tremendously. Democrats took the state of Ohio by storm in the General Election. Trump fatigue is very real and I feel that most moderate Republicans are going to be lazy about election day. The Republicans are simply not representing any of the current issues. They talk about social issues while they should be talking about housing and the economy. This will end up being a repeat of 1992 with Ross Perot and the election 'unfortunately' will be handed to Biden.
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  3936. I'm expecting at least 100 riots and dozens of deaths.
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  3937. It's all money laundering... They print dollars in order to pay off international cartels and terrorists that help them achieve their ambitions.
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  3938.  @rickyvegas5965  I really think you're going to be surprised. If you have to work for a living to pay bills; there's a high likelihood you are voting for Trump. I for one don't want to enter a third world war or have resurging inflation.
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  3939. Uneducated Economist and Clear Value Tax are the ONLY channels I watch on this subject.
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  3940. Yep! I'm a stay at home dad and I get a bunch of crap. 1. Give the baby/child plenty of positive attention and give positive incentives; including empathy. 2. Give the baby healthy foods and limit their intake of large crop foods. Result, my child is 98% percentile, very intelligent, and has a well rounded immune system and psychology. It's not rocket science. I see 6 year olds at Walmart screaming at their parents and I can already tell that they've been neglected and most likely poisoned by bad food lol
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  3941. @warfarenotwarfair What do you mean; never had millions of men fighting? Operation Citadel in and around Kursk alone yielded some 750,000 combat casualties on the Soviet side. By late 1945, Soviets had nearly 2.5 million fighting men on the eastern front; those aren't logistic and clerical jobs.
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  3942.  @davidb9323  A mixture of crypto, cash, ETFs, and bullion silver in my closet. If you must know lol Also wood, I have quite a bit of quality wood. Make furniture and currently a bunch of crates.
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  3943. Techno-fascism from the international billionaire lobbyists and corporations. Blackrock wants to fulfill it's contract to rebuild and OWN Ukraine.
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  3944. Don't impregnate a crazy person then.
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  3945. Well, people need to try and be fair on this topic. Child abuse is rampant; even to this day. Many times the logic of not informing the parents is due to a suspicion that it will endanger the child. I'm a parent myself and I can tell you right now, the most dangerous threat to a child is statistically either his father or mother. Some of the things I see are insane; even in suburbia. Imagine telling Mr. and Mrs. Johnson that their son is now trans. Jimmy get home and his father (without a word) beats him. This is a rather difficult situation. People trying to make it seem like it's a conspiracy by teachers to undermine parents is insane in it's own way.
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  3946. 300 unsolved murders in Columbus, OH in the previous 3 years. Democrats in this city have absolutely flopped the entire justice system and are replacing competent persecutors with 'no name' idiots that release criminals in a number of days.
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  3947. This Administration needs to be burned to the ground, along with the rest of the Federal Government. Two weeks to slow the spread? Eventually it will be; 2 home inspections per week to ensure that you aren't a danger to those in power.
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  3948.  @Ana-bu3hh  You really live in a bubble; espousing things you've never experienced from media talking heads. Free speech is free speech; conspiracy to commit bodily harm is a crime. There is no in-between outside of business; defamation, slander, and libel. If living in a good world (to you) means using the arm of state and federal government to force behavior, then that doesn't sound very altruistic or even sincere now does it?
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  3949.  @ecthelion83  At the same time, rotten authoritarian governments do not exist without a horrible culture of citizens to support them. The tyrant isn't at the top; the tyrant is everyone. Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were the same way.
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  3950. The Biden Administration is desperate to keep this economy propped up on FED 'shadow printing' so that stocks don't crash. All so they can blame Trump if he gets into office. Hey, the silver lining is that (if) Harry Kallama wins; Democrats will have NOWHERE to point the blame.
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  3951.  @howardfriedman7077  It's when the Federal Reserve has a deficit on their quantitative tightening because they have printed new dollars and added them to prop up weak areas of certain sectors.
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  3952.  @howardfriedman7077  The Federal Reserve has a quota each month that they are removing from the economy; in more recent cases about $90B. For example, the Silicon and First Republican bailouts reversed a lot of the ground the FED had made in removing money from the markets. This is a centrally controlled market and the FED is directly responsible for trying to prop up weak areas of any of the three major exchanges. There's a lot more at stake than just throwing money into bonds. Btw, those bonds are retailed by the Treasury. If you're going to insult my intelligence; then I think we're done.
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  3953. Honest question! Do you have student loan debt? I ask this because it's the largest omitted item in (why Gen Z can't afford anything)
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  3954. I figured it out in my early 20s (a decade ago). But somehow there are still people saying that the 'food supply' being poisoned is a dumb conspiracy. Have these people ever taken the time to read an ingredient list? lol These are the people that claim to have intellectual superiority, but somehow can't manage to avoid hitting everyone with their cart at the grocery store.
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  3955. The kids are basically drug addicts with 6-10 hours of screen time each day. Those digital platforms are bonding to your kids dopamine receptors and making them slaves. When you take it away; it's like taking heroine away from an addict. Ban the freaking devices please.
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  3956. Well, you can't prove it unfortunately. Because they do the entire dog n/ pony show with HR and they give the job opening results to the state they operate in. So there is LITERALLY no incentive to go after them and there's really no evidence to gather. If you do, the state and business will sue you for messing with their image.
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  3957. Well, the other research I'm aware of was from the AAAS that did mask penetration studies and found similar results. The N-95 reduced the direct virus/droplet spread, but it does nothing to stop atomized viruses flying in the nearby air with water vapors.
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  3958.  @jaredgarrison333  Take a look at results in Florida and Ohio and tell me something doesn't stink. Miami-Dade county was 53% Biden in 2020. Now it's 55% Trump. Democrats intentionally use ballot tactics and lack of transparency to benefit the shadow votes. In a number of states, you can literally walk in; state your name and then vote. Suing Kennedy to stay on the ballot (AFTER suing his to be taken off) was the last straw for me. The Democrats are dirty dirty dirty and do everything they can to disenfranchise voters; then blame other people for what they just did.
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  3959. $5.09 here in Columbus, OH.
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  3960.  @Ja56780  Ross Perot took 20% in 1992, while Bush Sr. and Clinton were relatively well liked. Trump and Biden have the worst approval ratings in US history. He CAN win!
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  3961. Because the corporate Democrats only humor Progressive wishes for theater. They will NEVER allow progressives to take over the party, ever! When the primaries come; Democrats are ruthless. Then the election comes and they play dumb. Democrats would rather lose to Trump 1000 thousand times than allow an uncontrollable candidate like Bernie to lead. It's because they all have the same donors.
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  3962. War never changes and apparently people's ignorance doesn't either. People never learn..
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  3963. Housing developers aren't the problems; nor is it greed. Many large companies have already decided that home-building is becoming to risky as insurance rates and supply costs go up; not to mention interest rates. A lot of them have jumped into the rental markets where the risk is much lower and the reward is higher.
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  3964. Another hateful channel; yay! Do people see now that the whole idea behind (censorship) is that one side can have a monopoly on lies? If you can't see it by now; you probably never will. The Third Reich didn't get erected because the working class defied the system. It came about because people didn't question the government institutions that already existed.
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  3965. So Doctor and scientists are right and are beyond cronyism? When was the last time you had a Doctor tell you something that you didn't already know? Then try to give you a pharmaceutical? You're making an arrogant assumption that these people actually research what they are doing. A medical board will fry you for attempting alternative care or approaches to medicine if someone ends up dying. This ensure that people in the medical industry toe the line and don't ask questions.
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  3966.  @MixMastaCopyCat  Defense spending is child's play in comparison as a whole; some 13%. And DO NOT forget that our defense budget affords many European and East Asian countries a standing military force of their own. Countries like Norway have a fully US funded military. The real killers are Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. It's all disgusting in the end. Whatever happened to 'roads and warships'? I hope the Fed goes belly up come 2022.
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  3967. Well, not everybody can adapt; basic distributions apply. Anymore, tech is an extremely volatile business; you can be hired and fired just like that. It doesn't matter what your specialty is anymore; even architects, engineers, modelers, etc are having a rough time. DEV's most of all.
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  3968. Trump is about the win all 7 swing states AND Virginia.
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  3969. It's all about contracts; these media anchors have no soul. They say what they are 'told' to say or else they will be fined, removed, and replaced. Not to mention blackmailed... I would bet that many of them have proof of an "Epstein island visit' that is being held over their head from competition.
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  3970. Nah, I know too many of the people that support him. It has nothing to do with racism, sexism, or corruption; it's very simple. They watch FOX, Newsmax, QAnon, and Alex Jones. They literally believe that the Biden Administration is sending out goons to blow up railroads, set forest fires, poison the wells, and destroy the economy with high interest rates (because they're evil) lol. I can't make this stuff up, I truly fear for this country. Theocracy is never too far away from taking over again, and believe me. Theocrats have rigorously infiltrated the MAGA movement.
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  3971. I really wish people would grow a brain on this conflict. I grow tired of the mindless pro-Ukranian sentiments. It's like saying, "We stand with Mexico!" After Mexico's President was replaced in a Chinese coup and they were sold firearms and missiles to fight Americans in a border war. Then the US invaded to put an end to it.
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  3972. If you're a medical researcher, how did it fly over your had that this headline is literally a lie? He never said any of these things.
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  3973.  @oceanrocks  Yeah, and Nordic countries don't have to take care of 50 million patients per year. If you invoke a single-payer system; hospitals will get swamped. Healthcare workers will walk off the job everywhere in the nation. We don't have the staffing to afford that kind of societal cost; forget about the money.
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  3974. I think Covid has given a wakeup call to most Americans. If the FDA and CDC lied about this; what else are they lying about? Once you realize health guidelines and pharmaceutical drugs have made most people fat and stupid. Then you can begin to infer the motivation.
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  3975. They will use fascism in order to condemn people that aren't fascists. Welcome to the New World Order....
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  3976.  @lavidamia9  Everyone
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  3977. I worked for Fed-Ex 2014-2019; As a package handler I was paid $15.00/h As a Yard Driver/Shunter OP, I was paid $21.00/h
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  3978. It won't be anywhere near as bad and I'm telling you this as a conservative. The GOP is in shambles and it's splintering faster than it did with the Whigs.
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  3979. And people wonder why are law enforcement are starting to resemble the military. People have absolutely lost their minds and these tech companies are the ones with blood on their hands. How can they plead ignorance when they are actively creating algorithms that manipulate and enrage gullible/low intelligence civilians? People literally spend months and years watching 'recommended' material on anything of their choosing and it's radicalizing them. All for big tech profits!
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  3980. As somebody living in reality. I can assure you that Trump is a bull-sh*tter. With that being said, it wasn't Trump that drove the division in America; it was the media and it was intentional.
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  3981.  @astrokiddd11  If I may ask, what makes you say the economy is ok? 39% inflation (CPI) and 10% wage boosts on average. Plus, it's nearly impossible to find or switch jobs right now. I just don't understand. I see a lot of retired people talking about a good economy, but not working class.
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  3982. We haven't been in a recession since Q3 of 2022.
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  3983.  @terrorindu  I agree! And thank you for your time. Btw, what do you mean not much time left? Culturally?
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  3984. Precisely! People still wonder how the Nazi's killed so many people and left Germany in ruins. I tell them, "open your eyes; you're seeing the reason right NOW!"
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  3985. It's not salvation bud; it's just a distraction imo. Crypto is no different than the gold-standard concept. Except if the grid is compromised; you lose you crypto and have no access.
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  3986. If that happens, gold will probably go to $2500
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  3987. I think you're just bad with women and jobs. Stop dating college chicks and you'll stop running into disproportionately terrible women. Go date some cutie that works at a Roosters in a rural town and doesn't take birth control; no problem there.
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  3988.  @blueciffer1653  Oh please, if you're going to assume any defense or positivity towards Putin or Russia is bot activity; then you'll be stuck in your political religion till the day you pass on. Not a healthy mindset to live as a slave to media garbage.
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  3989. I love Florida and DeSantis, just wish it snowed a bit there. Too hot and humid all the time lol
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  3990. Well, they did say that nerds would take over the world.
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  3991.  @mintykiwi  HE's probably eluding to the fact that the government printed $6 Trillion dollars during Covid and the rich got richer because of it. Socialism for the rich; bootstraps for the poor.
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  3992. Unfortunately, they will inherit massive inflation, a war, and high interest rates. I fear that there is nothing they will be able to do in order to stop what has been started.
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  3993. Compulsion for all! They give you a choice, but your choice to refuse comes with a consequence; typically the loss of your job and social media accounts.
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  3994. This nation started becoming a third world country well before Trump. The media was just THAT good at hiding it from the great public view. It's amazing what people can ignore until the media tells them what is actually going on in front of their eyes.
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  3995. Complacent? A lot of Democrats are voting for Trump bud lol How people can avoid seeing what's happened the last 4 years under Biden is INSANE!
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  3996. Unfortunately most people; Russian or American have no idea how complicated this power play between Russia and NATO is. Within to he next five years, I guarantee you that the US will lose Reserve Currency status and the Eastern alliance will rise to the occasion. People have no idea what is coming. NATO provoked this entire fiasco by importing weapons and missile systems into Ukraine, on top of the coup the Obama Administration orchestrated. The USD is failing and NATO is going to reinforce it against countries that have dropped out. Russia's invasion is just an overzealous reaction to the chess game NATO is playing.
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  3997. It seems a bit arrogant to assume you'd be one of the ones to stay imo. Unless you're planning on perishing with everyone else. Either way, it seems either narcissistic or self destructive.
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  3998. Here' a question; why do 99% of you assume that you know anything about Russia's intentions or goals? Because a screen that's owned by a select number of Billionaires told you so? That's insane if you ask me.
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  3999. I saw someone else post it. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans
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  4000.  @Iridescence93  Have you ever considered that you're getting played for a fool by these media stations? They're all owned by the same people. People vote for who they think best represents their interests.
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  4001.  @Iridescence93  Perception is important though. If you had 30,000 hours of footage online; what would people think of you? Food for thought. Trump has considerably more private and public footage than any President before him.
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  4002. It's largely why they want censorship.
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  4003. As usual, Europe and Asia will pay a heavy price for changing times. The Western Hemisphere will be fine. If anything, I expect Central and South America to see a massive growth in GDP over the next decade.
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  4004. Whole world is losing it's freaking mind.. I'm starting to think the smartphones are making people go nutz lol
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  4005. Why? Is there ANYTHING that can break the gutless behavior of (lock-step) party voting? What is wrong with you people!? Same with Republicans!
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  4006. American here; America is the enemy lol
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  4007.  @richardcuttler7734  Because they are useless and invest problems to get paid.
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  4008.  @atrain132  In what world are there 'jobs everywhere'. Sure, if you go on indeed there are millions of jobs. Apply and watch them ghost you! I have a CDL and my wife is a cardiothoracic surgery PA; there are no jobs bud. We've been trying to move for almost a year. They're doing this so they can commit 'unemployment insurance fraud' against each state they operate in and the state doesn't care because their Dept. of Labor get good jobs numbers. On top of that, they bulk sell you data for profit after they collect it all from an interview screening. Demand truly began to die after September 2022 and volume is excessively low. Even if you look at warehousing jobs, FedEx, Amazon, and UPS removed almost all their job postings for the first time since 2011. I've never seen anything like it. A majority of the jobs that are actually posted are fake jobs where the employer is already trying to leverage it as a 'vacancy' to qualify for tax breaks. If you're looking a job; it's worse than 2008 right now.
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  4009. Why? People vote for politicians that increase their unemployment and healthcare benefits. I'm not diminishing the idea of voter fraud to some degree, bit the bigger problem is people in general. This is exactly how the Soviet Union regressed into absolute chaos in the 1920s.
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  4010.  @ColH0m3r  The only reason people are voting for him is because they hate Trump OR they're collecting Social Security in their basements lol
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  4011. If you defy the wishes of US foreign policy, you get into trouble. Only this time Russia has had enough. I commend all those that stayed on top of the Ukrainian-Russian conduct since the Obama Administration orchestrated the coup in 2014.
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  4012. No it's not, it's all your perception. You need to see the full interview, WJS as usual cut this video to elicit the response they wanted.
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  4013.  @soflodude4949  Bud, relax. Most of the history books (approved by bureaucrats) are a crap course of racial relations. Just like they do today, the media and interest groups like to blow things way out of proportion for personal gain. If you were black in New York City in 45' you'd be fine. Quit letting the media mess were your head.
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  4014.  @soflodude4949  Well, let's try to be objective though. I all too often see this same argument being used to the point that American minorities are in love with it. The 20th century in America as a whole was quite a nice place for the average black person. We shouldn't cherry pick to fit the victim narrative. Black people were voting and could freely walk, especially in a place such as New York city.
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  4015. It's crazy how delusional these Hollywood-esque scientists like Tyson and Bill Nye can become when you spend 30 years golfing with a bunch of intellectual narcissists. These people live in a huge eco chamber.
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  4016. Metrics, topics, trending news etc. It's a rare public speaker or anchor that doesn't need prompts or notes.
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  4017. Biden should have been impeached after admitting that he blackmailed Zelensky to get the prosecutor (looking into Hunter) fired. The freaking video is still up on Youtube; truly amazing!
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  4018.  @adrianwiles1  Yeah, jobs titled "Server, Dish-washer, and Burger flipper.
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  4019. You need to see the full interview, WJS as usual cut this video to elicit the response they wanted.
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  4020. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  4021. What is a fair share? According to the IRS, the bottom 50% of income earners pay 3.04% of the total Federal Tax Revenue. That's people making $40k or less. Sounds to me like the middle class is affording everything for everybody else. While a middle class exists, that is.
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  4022.  @NoContextOasis  The suicide rate for transgendered people is absolutely insane. Surgeries and confirmation do absolutely nothing; it only further deludes their state of psychosis from whatever sexual abuse happened to them.
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  4023.  @dereksupernaut  You're attempting to measure attention span by category of activity? That makes no sense. Try talking to somebody about a topic (that they want to talk about). See how long they can stay quiet and listen to you; that's their attention span. My own parents can't listen to anybody longer than 5 seconds. It's the most annoying thing on the planet. It's so rampant that I end up walking away from many conversations.
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  4024. I find it crazy that most Ukrainians are not aware that their country is a puppet state of NATO and the US. Unless they're aware and just hate the Russian Federation that much that they enjoy subjugation to a separate foreign power for protection. I wish people knew more about this conflict. Most people just post news media garbage.
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  4025.  @JAM2USA2018  What's my advice exactly? I'm simply summarizing the tax code.
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  4026.  @googleuser868  Of course! But we're talking on an individual level. I could also claim that I am paying someone's cigarette taxes thru the welfare afforded thru EBT.
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  4027.  @grandexporter  Modern Christianity focuses too much on the 'preacher' and 'MY relationship with Christ.' Both of which breed cultist and narcissistic behavior. There's a very specific reason the Catholic church swaps out priests and makes them take oaths of poverty. I grew up going to a Methodist church and school. Ignorance, manipulation, and disinformation run rampant in modern Christian sects. Much of the time, church leaders create their own rules regarding life conduct and pass them off as Christian teachings. The behavior is extremely predatory. They often target old and disenfranchised mining, glass, or coal towns where most of the intelligent curve have moved off to the big cities and Universities. Purely taking advantage of those that remain and are more gullible to cultist behavior. Then when they are discovered to be embezzling and having an affair, they lay low and start over a thousand miles away in a new town.
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  4028. Living a meaningless life, no romance, no purpose, and endlessly watching radical material that the algorithms pump into his head. You'd be surprised how many people don't have the ability to understand how the algorithms manipulate their world views.
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  4029. I think you should spend less time watching mainstream media. The entire idea of a bromance between Putin and Trump is a fiction created by media gaslighting.
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  4030. That's the least of their problems... The workforce has substantially shrunk, largely because a major chunk of the US population retired early during Covid.
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  4031. I'm really starting to believe that we (Americans and Westerners) are on the wrong side lol The Western media by far seems to be the largest source of propaganda.
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  4032. It's called disaster capitalism; corporations do the same thing. It's like buying up beach front after a hurricane so that you can turn it into a tourist vacation spot in 5-10 years.
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  4033. Well, people become more tribal when their environments are too radically changed in a short period of time. The entire point of a conservative personality is to retract on ideas that could end civilization. The opposite for liberal personalities. The one thing that both sides don't exactly count on is the necessity for destructive imbalances. Both of which side against. Assuming that the status quo of humanity will just keep going and going is a bit historically ignorant I would say. There will be a correcting force that destabilizes everything. Once again, the age old means of supply/demand will be in need. This is what ultimately maintains balance; not a civilizational structure of man.
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  4034.  @moldycat4852  You're seeing media projection. The Trump campaign has been litigated against numerous times the last year after allegations of AI intervention were used against the Harris campaign. AI is an extremely large trending topic right now; as it was released less than 2 years ago. I have no doubt that both sides will eventually use it in full force to demean the other side.
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  4035. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  4036.  @michellebatzel5809  How? 2014-2019 you could have found a job anywhere. 2023 was the first year since 2008-2010 that FedEx, Amazon, and UPS began removing their warehousing positions in places like Columbus, Chicago, and Pittsburg. You could get plenty of jobs until the end of 2022 rolled in.
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  4037. It was about 360, because 3 people had an IQ of 120 lol
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  4038. Narcissist parents do not love their children. They see them as a tool and/or investment to get what they want. Even if in the end it only amounts to misery needing company. You're an investment to ensure that their bad habits always get rewarded and they never have to live in isolation because of their choices. That's why they manipulate you.
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  4039. What a brilliant move, I must admit. Leftwing radicals conspire to instigate the idea that there is going to be a right wing coupe. Only for they themselves to jump in and 'protect' America by initiating their own coupe.
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  4040.  @steveg6978  I can't understand your English; care to clarify?
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  4041.  @lance8080  I'm not so sure, even if you eliminate the cost of labor; you still have to deal with US asset prices and regulations; real-estate, zoning, EPA, shipping etc. Prices are simply too high in the US. Deflation is needed, but we can't have that until you reform SS, Medicare, or public Pensions.
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  4042. It's been falling because of the strong USD policy. That will reverse shortly.
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  4043.  @tw751  Virtually uncorrectable after roughly age 5 or so. These neural pathways get deeply intertwined in our childhood development. If you haven't cared to look at the rise of anti-social behaviors among middle class children; you should. Very high rates of apathy, contempt, self loathing, and homicidal/genocidal thinking patterns.
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  4044.  @sad_wrangler8515  I do agree with many of your sentiments. Zoomers do have legitimate grievances, but their pathway to redemption seems to be laced with narcissism, despair, and destruction. The more productive members of Gen Z seem to have figured out that this entire nation is a 'circus' or a 'zoo'. To that, they have largely figured out ways to undermine the constant dysfunction by become minimalists and indulging in much older wisdom. Though I'd say it's a minority; maybe 10% or less. About a quarter or so of millennials figured this out during the 2008 crisis that they weren't going to win this battle. So they reformed their lives and their perceptions. While the remainder took their parents baton and marched to certain death in work and reproduction; repeat.
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  4045. 'Only ones paying income tax are the poor and middle class?" Are you serious bud? The bottom 50% of income tax payers pay 3.04% of the total Federal Revenue.
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  4046. When will Democrats learn that the corporate wing will NEVER allow progressive, moderates, or social democrats to lead the party. It is controlled by the corporate wing and they answer ONLY to the oligarchy that leads them. Btw, that oligarchy HATES the working class and anybody that is not elite. At least the Republicans can overthrow the RNC and make it their own.
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  4047. Not exactly! The problem is that corporations have a major incentive to make false job opening reports the the Bureau of Labor. They are doing this so that they continue to qualify for PPP loan forgiveness AND they can give their investors the illusion of growth.
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  4048. People have a really unhealthy addicting to getting their biases corroborated with an infinite amount of internet.
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  4049. Gen X was never forgotten; they just love to claim that people forgot about them. We didn't!
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  4050. The housing market is NOT inflated; perhaps by a small margin in certain regions like the Miami and Tampa markets. However, people need to remember that we went thru roughly 45-55% inflation in the two year period following Covid. Think I'm joking, look at the USD monetary supply; it was inflated some 35% in 2020 and an additional 25% in 2021. The numbers don't lie; the housing market, groceries, and commodities reflect it. The housing market may cool a bit once early retirees stop using their 401ks to buy new homes for cash in warmer regions. With that being said though, we are not going to go back to pre-Covid lows or even highs. The cost of a new suburban home for a middle class family is going to be in the $300,000+ range permanently. What I fear most is that home ownership is going to be something of the past. If you didn't own a home in 2020 or prior; chances are you never will. People simply can't afford them. Imagine if they resumed student loan interest and dues; this economy would be in a heap of trouble.
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  4051. When did he say that? Stop putting words in people's mouths to give yourself poor confirmation bias please.
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  4052. SHHH! All of Ukraine is against Russia (don't spread information). We need Americans to stay stupid!
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  4053.  @Hollywood-s9c  Are people really this gullible? Watch the original videos; not the news media that lies about everything please.
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  4054. Breath of the Feminists: Ring of obesity
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  4055. As much as I want to agree with you, times have greatly changed. We have two whole generations that are addicted to social media and pornography, which are now creating a new generation 'alpha' of anti-social children that have had half of their life on a screen already. Not to mention declining birth rates across the board; children practically don't exist to the capacity that you and I remember growing up. My wife, son, and I live in a large older town in the Midwest; 40,000 population. You have to probably go 5 blocks in order to find a child of any age and we know most of the folks in our neighborhood; nothing but older people between 40-80 years old. Which is why we are selling the home and going on the road. Believe me, things are nothing like they were growing up in the 1990s or even 2000s.
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  4056.  @salvatorenostrade3331  Ignorance is bliss bud. The FDA is owned by General Mills, Kellogg's, Pfizer, etc. Corruption is the name of the game in the US. Try finding a cure for cancer being caused by chemicals in the food supply or hygiene products and you'll get slapped with a gag order, have your patents removed, have your medical/legal license revoked, and defamed out of existence.
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  4057. Because the billions they are giving are being divvied out between three areas. Paying for more tanks, weapons, and missiles from Poland/Germany. Paying mercenaries to fight the Russians, because Ukraine is running dry of manpower. Paying for cronies and side favors in all other areas.
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  4058. Demographic problems! Social Security is failing because there's not enough taxes going in to pay for current retirees. Wages not keeping up with inflation is a MAJOR reason.
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  4059. Dirty Republican tactics trying to put Haley and Desantis as the top polling. If anything they are rock bottoms and Trump/Vivek are polling highest.
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  4060. It's called (inflation) and (supply shortages) due to decreases in harvest volume.
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  4061. Liberals have and always will be a super minority in society. Most people that think they are liberals believe in certain leftist dogmas that have nothing to do with liberalism. Plus, liberals tend to be smarter.
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  4062.  @gargoyled_drake  It's like Dana Bash saying 'there are no media lies'. They sold their souls for a contract that makes them millions. If they speak out; they probably get exposed or indicted; that's the game. I mean, look at the NY mayor! He spoke out, then magically ended up getting indicted by the FBI on bribery, extortion, etc.
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  4063. Corporations turned away from glass because (glass requires a long term 'trusted' product that can be recycled) - over and over again. They NEVER had any intentions of making their products 'long term and trusted'. It's all a pump and dump scheme! Buy our crap and after we get sued for peanuts; we'll just give you a new product scheme.
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  4064. If they were trying to kill us all; would they have done a better job than the current system? lol
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  4065. That's what the UN is claiming; I suspect it's an outright lie.
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  4066. If you're worried about a recession; you either have a LOT of debt or not much income to begin with. Recessions are good for people that have no debt and no assets; or a lot of cash and no debt.
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  4067.  @DRush76  I think there's some massive brain-damage going on with the American public. Even socializing with people nowadays it's blatantly obvious. I feel as if many people lost about 20 IQ points; it's like speaking to a dysfunctional robot lol
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  4068. At current energy capacity, there is no way that renewable can sustain the existing economy in place of natural gas and diesel.
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  4069. I guess it depends on the polling; polls of notorious for being skewed demographically. Also, many people lie on polls for amusement; that much has been proven in the social sciences at least.
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  4070. I despise Trump, but I will vote for him because of people like Margaret and because Harris is a snake looking to expand the Administrative state. They don't give a flying F! The Democratic Party should look like (Tulsi, Bernie, and Kennedy). Not the pathetic circus it is right now!
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  4071.  @patsmith6405  So what's your answer to VAERs? Some 16,000 deaths reported from (primarily) Pfizer.
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  4072.  @lizliz4186  Blame the CDC for continuously attacking Trump's efforts to proceed with a Chinese travel ban for weeks. The CDC downplayed the entire issue until February/March and then they reversed their position and blamed Trump for the spreading pandemic.
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  4073. It's a world-wide phenomenon. You can thank birth-control, women's entry to the work-force, hormones in the water and food supply, and narcissistic technology. We stopped progressing as a society some time ago. Can you think of anything in the last 20 years that has actually 'improved' your life quality? We are going to innovate ourselves into extinction.
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  4074. Wait till July 26th roles around; GDP Q2 Report (and it WILL be negative). Putting us into the technical beginning of a full blown recession. The market will be down, demand will soar, supply chains will falter, and panic will be the center of every American household.
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  4075. You can't blame government without blaming the people that live here. The culture is going to hell and I truly fear extremely regressive policies coming in the next 50 years.
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  4076. That's the problem, it's financially a nice model, BUT the rate of chronic disease just hits the model out of the park. You can't really do anything about healthcare unless you fix the food-supply.
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  4077. If you want to leave the Matrix, it all starts with humoring the possibility that everything you've been told by governments, corporations, teachers, and your own family is complete BS.
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  4078. I don't think people realize how important 2020 was when considering these economic factors. Somewhere between 45-55% of all small business 'nationally' was permanently wiped out. PPP loans bailed out medium and large cap businesses primarily. With a heavy weight of employment being supported by larger tier businesses; this gives them extremely leverage to reshape hiring standard and wages. Especially when there is little competition on the small end. Wages and prices all depend on competition in order to maintain a healthy and balanced economy. Government being used by larger cap businesses as a service for gate-keeping makes it significantly worse. So now you have all of these price bubbles all over the market with older generations maintaining equity with low debt and people under 40 having excessive debt and no equity. The 2020 bailout was probably the worst thing that could have possibly happened in any economic scenario outside of hyperinflation. They have effectively created a feudal state where prices have no incentive to budget because 20% of the population maintains equity in these markets, while the other 80% are debt slaves. The worst part is, a recession would only further impoverish the bottom 80% and the top 20% wouldn't really be affected. So literally NOTHING can be done in order to alleviate people. Considering that high inflation is very likely within the near future, the desperation will only grow for Millennials and Gen X as they are price locked by the equities of Boomers.
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  4079. Something that is NOT being addressed by anybody is the correctional and law enforcement shortage. People in jail and prison have to be accounted and cared for like anybody else. A lot of people are being released early or having their charges dropped because the prosecutor's office has it's hands tied. There is nowhere to put these people. Unless you're going to throw them into a gladiator arena and leave them there; something has to change. Better funding, better staffing, and a Congress that doesn't idle on these issues to secure their re-election.
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  4080.  @milesmcmillansr999  What's so special about January 6th? I could make the same argument about the Summer of 2020 or the arsonists that set fire to the Supreme Court building. Is there something uniquely special about people getting angry with the Congressional building?
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  4081. It's because your dopamine receptors are freaking addicted to the digital entertainment on your screen. Ever see a teenager get their phone taken away? It's literally on the same level as taking away heroine from an addict; at least on a psychological level.
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  4082. In what world of backwards molecular physics does FAT get converted into glycogen?
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  4083. $130 Trillion owed lol
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  4084.  @dianneys4887  Do you want your previous employer suing your for stuff you did on the job 5 years ago? Joe Biden got the same treatment when he was investigated on the Ukrainian corruption issue when he was VP and received the same immunity protection.
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  4085. ex-Presidents get the SS-B team. Joe Biden's security detail is insanely larger and has more resources. On top of that, the shooter was 250 yards away and SS couldn't tell what he was doing because it didn't seem like he had a weapon. People do nutty things all the time in the distance. Sometimes it's not always easy to identify if someone is going to pull out a weapon and start firing from that distance.
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  4086. Gotta get more B12 guys
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  4087. More like, US is attempting to bully it's way into power; just like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia etc. Now we are doing it in Ukraine; poking the bear and then running away 'crying wolf'. Only this time, global US hegemony is at stake and currency collapse is a very real threat. This is exactly why Russia and China have been stockpiling gold and silver these past 15 years.
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  4088. So 2500 election fraud cases thrown out (many by Trump appointed judges) is easier to do than conspiring to sort and hide Trump ballots nationwide? On top of a poll worker shortage?
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  4089. People need to stop associating (reality) with kissing Russian's behind. If any deal is going to be made (Russia will want TWO key things). One, that Ukraine doesn't join NATO. Two, that the US stop interfering in Ukrainian affairs. If anyone is going to be objective about this topic, they can't ignore the fact that the US (at the very least) interfered in the Ukrainian elections that gave rise to this conflict. Russia had full political control of Ukraine before 2014, that was until the US formed a coup against the leading administration. This entire conflict is about ambitions between the US and Russia. It would be nice if folks quit acting like NATO is doing this out of their moral compass.
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  4090. Because it's a cesspool of narcissism, corruption, and manipulation. The people there are some of the worst I've ever met. Their sole intention is to manipulate people into doing what they want.
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  4091. Absolutely false, crime is rarely an act of desperation by a fully functioning civilian willing to work. It's an act of aggression by somebody who is most likely (clinically) anti-social.
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  4092. As of today, coffee bean contracts are up 81%
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  4093. Corporations are bad, but the inflation is the consumer and FED's fault. Low interest rates = high demand = higher prices No creation of new jobs from pandemic policies = lower productivity. High demand + low productivity = stagnant wages and crazy prices.
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  4094. To be honest, I don't think anybody can really discern fact vs lie anymore. I know that I can't these days. Though, I feel it in my bones that this country is somehow 'for sale' and Trump's Presidency is deeply upsetting to the buyer.
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  4095. Democrat logic - Democrats are ruining things; find another Democrat! lol
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  4096.  @mr.pizzamarlon  I'd actually argue that cultism is the root of all evil. Too many people feel they need to subscribe to an institution or ideology; religion etc.
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  4097. Your ancestors didn't evolve to ingest "plant based proteins". Not to sound arrogant, but that seems rather self explanatory. Then again we have people that think Native Americans were eating sweet corn and peaches to survive.
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  4098. Has nothing to do with capitalism. Money printing, bureaucracy, and bail-outs (elite socialism) have destroyed it.
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  4099. Well no sh1t WION; US Dept. of Commerce crippled to Chinese market with their licensure requirements and new ban as of OCt 7th. Probably at the behest of the Biden Administration. I swear these politicians are trying to get us all killed in a war.
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  4100. Depends if you have student loans lol
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  4101.  @DankyApe  Kudos!
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  4102. Yeah, I'll go with Kennedy :)
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  4103. I've been a conservative and voted Republican a great majority of my life. That being said, Republican voters are growing massively complacent in politics these days. They think that inflation under Biden's presidency is going to undermine the Democrat's ability to maintain the Presidency or the Senate. Trump's support has been on the downturn ever since 2020 and Republican turnout is decreasing at the ballot boxes. We saw this during Midterms and the special elections of 2023. Republicans are not showing up. The uncomfortable truth is that Trump and Biden have played a massive role in inflation and economic downturn. Republicans need to remember that he appointed Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve and threatened Powell with his job if he didn't take interest rates as low as he did. This is the real reason for most of the inflation. That's what happens when you give everybody 1% mortgage rates and 0% auto loans; prices and demand run out of control. Everyone is tired of hearing about Donald Trump and they are tired of the volatility in politics. Whether or not it's the right thing for the nation is irrelevant. Republicans are deluding themselves with an overblown sense of support for MAGA politics; it just isn't there. Do not be surprised when Democrats control both houses and the presidency in 2024. I can almost guarantee you that they will win Texas as well in the electoral vote. You need to pay more attention to voter turnout numbers; it's going to be the death of Republicans for the foreseeable future. Millions of registered GOP voters are embarrassed by the last 3 years.
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  4104. Putin isn't going to launch a nuke bud. This entire fiasco is about NATO installing corporate control into Ukraine and Russia losing political and monetary control. Blackrock owns virtually all the construction contracts. When the war is over, you'll see condos go up all over Ukraine to rent to the Joneses'.
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  4105. $5.00 more likely. Even Alibaba is getting expensive with wholesale items lol
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  4106. How so? Most abortions are not for medical necessity?
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  4107. Maybe he got excited and made a weird solute gesture. People need to understand that the internet currency enables you to have ANY and ALL evidence for your bias of choice. Not only that, but whatever bias private and public institutions want you to have.
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  4108.  @juanitoesguerra1977  No, actually there's been a lot of speculation that Harris is actually an alcoholic. Trump has never made the claim himself I don't think. A lot of it is also based on the police record that her husband has and many domestic disturbances that have taken place.
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  4109. Jesus people, the first rule of the internet is that you DON'T...feed the troll...
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  4110. The US has reached a point in Dollar hegemony and debt that nobody is taking us seriously. To enforce the global reverse currency, the US will continue to take drastic measures to defend it's monstrous deeds.
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  4111. People are so predictable. Any kind of bio engineering on any level with produce a litany of unintended consequences. People want to follow the science, but they don't want to put in the work to research clinical trial data. They take their pick of corporate deity, then fall on their knees and worship.
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  4112. @ Recessions are not caused by negative GDP growth (this is simply how they are calculated); it's more or less a symptom. Recessions are created during a refinancing phase; money leaving the stock market and re-entering foreclosures/services/real-estate; or being held as cash. This is caused by lower interest rates after prolonged stagnation.
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  4113.  @stephenjerome8853  Right of association bud. I have a right to work my job without being threatened with unemployment, less I get a medical procedure.
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  4114. I whole-heartedly believe that semi-conductors are going to be the oil of the 21st century. Don't forget that the petrol products didn't begin to dominate global trade until the 1950s; considering they'd been around long before that. So I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that we're just getting started in the tech-sphere.
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  4115. And they hate actresses with attitude problems.
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  4116. That's the whole point, these legal ponzi schemes always deprive unsuspecting people of wealth.
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  4117. Hyper-inflation is inevitable at this point and it will probably begin in the 2030s imo. The US Government CANNOT allow deflation like 1929 or 2008. If they did, then Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions would collapse. Their only course of action is a continuation of high inflation. Get ready for some rate cutes and more printing $$$. Inflation round 2 will be here 2026/2027.
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  4118. "I feel like graphics peaked in 2014-2017." THIS! It's one of the reasons I only play Skyrim and Witcher 3 occasionally. Games after that just sucked tbh
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  4119.  @goodstufflife  You wouldn't believe how many physicians will tell this to people. Healthcare is NOT healthcare; most physicians and nurses are pharmaceutical salespeople.
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  4120. ? Elaborate...
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  4121. Victory to Ukraine in what? They're at war with their own country; the media won't tell you that. None of this would have happened if the Obama Admin and NATO hadn't organized a coup in 2014 to overthrow the existing government and install Zelensky.
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  4122.  @gkespinoza777  Probably a wise decision that I will adhere to as well.
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  4123. Health care isn't much a necessity if you aren't dying at 50 from the average American food, pesticides, and pharmaceutical drugs lol
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  4124. I think it's foolish to assume that people voting for people like Biden are stupid. There are a considerable number of Americans (mainly millennials) that want the entire system to burn to the ground.
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  4125. My biggest irritation is that (this entire fiasco) falls on Fox News and the Murdock family. Yet the media wants to pretend that Trump masterminded this entire idea and convinced tens of millions that it was frauded. Trump didn't get on the bandwagon until nearly two weeks after election night. After which FOX News had already spun the narrative that it was frauded on multiple different stations and partnered companies.
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  4126. Want to stop being fat and psychologically ill? 1. Stop eating 3 to 6 meals a day. 2. Stop eating seed and vegetable oils. 3. Stop eating fruits laced with RoundUp and DDT. 4. Start ingesting more Omega 3 and Saturated fats.
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  4127. If anything, NATO is insane; corporate greed is ridiculous. Risking a war with Russia just so they can turn Ukraine into a strip-mall. Then eventually Russia.
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  4128. Something I found extremely ironic about the 'Great Resignation' is that, by quiet quitting and resigning the corporate and menial world has given great insight to companies. They found that during Covid, they could produce the same output with half or less the staffing. So in a way, it has only emboldened corporations to suppress wages in light of a strained economy. If half the employees are going to push thru the same amount of customers. Then everybody's labor worth goes down. I think it all returns to the idea that "the more work you do; the more work you'll be given."
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  4129. Yep, we are a service economy; a banana republic that exports wood, oil, and some aerospace parts. Literally!
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  4130. People forget! We didn't go to the middle east for OIL; we went for opium. Seems a helluva coincidence that the opioid epidemic began and ended with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Fentanyl enters the markets and all of sudden nobody cares about those places.
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  4131. Did you even watch the video? Jesus, the number of low IQ people on these pages is astounding...
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  4132. If people ever try to get me to elaborate about my childhood; rare as that is. The best way I can describe it as indentured servitude; if not outright slavery. You own nothing; not even your body. You are rewarded for nothing when you contribute, then you are punished when others make mistakes. From an anxiety standpoint, it's like someone spearing you in the stomach every morning and ever night and you can't fight back. The fear just penetrates every part of your body and soul because there is no escape. Parents taught you that telling the truth is bad, take care of people until they aren't of use to you, and immiserate yourself in labor to make others happy. I went through years and years of self reflect, a bit of therapy, and eventually found great role models to help regain my life once I hit 21 and then moved out a bit later. Maybe I was lucky or maybe I had the perseverance to take my life back.
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  4133. Well, I would agree with you in the context that American health is at it's lowest. The number of obese, diabetic, and otherwise diseased people is staggering. For those people, the vaccine was probably better, because Covid would have killed them regardless.
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  4134. It was just a passing comment. Have you never had a real discussion for anyone? Why does it warrant such a retort?
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  4135. Socialism at it's core is about propping up the bottom 50% to benefit from something they don't provide. I don't say that lightly btw. You always want the most competent people running the show (even if there is corruption involved). You need competition between ambitious economic forces. People always think that employing socialism is a push for propping people up. But it allows immoral and dangerous people to rise up into politics. A demographic that has nothing to lose is always motivated by blood and revenge.
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  4136. Yep! Prices don't go down because the FED has to devalue the dollar in order to prop up the assets and social services of Boomers lol Anybody saying different is selling something. We're in a debt crisis because of Social Security, Pensions, and Medicare, period.
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  4137.  @gravefrightn5720  It's all in shelter, energy, and auto markets; that's where most of the weighted cost go. If those get more expensive, they require higher wages to maintain, meaning higher product costs.
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  4138.  @gravefrightn5720  "Things go up to reset the banks." This statement makes no sense. If you are ignorant on the subject, then just ask for clarification. I'm not sure what you mean by me (stating the obvious) when your following statement makes no sense. "Good and logical but doesn't apply to real life." Again, what are you talking about?
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  4139. I've wanted to bone Kennedy since I was like 10 XD
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  4140. People are mindless zombies at this point. They repeat everything they hear in the media. Has Covid taught you nothing?
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  4141.  @lonniemoors7958  You pay extra SS tax if you make above a certain amount while receiving benefits.
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  4142. Education has been going way downhill since the 90s. These departments don't exist to provide support. They exist as bureaucracies to create slush-funds for ambitious political and administrative figures. Bad incentives all around. When have bureaucracies ever created something OTHER than more corruption?
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  4143.  @UNSCconnor  Not a chance at this point. He'd be lucky to get 40% of the vote with RFK running. The ONLY way Trump wins this, is if Biden has a monumental screw up that CNN can't even hide.
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  4144. Try going on a college campus and talking about politics; your opinion will change lol
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  4145.  @toby2581  I'm pretty sure I understand blue-light simulation at least lol; do we need even faster renditions? I can't wait for a seizure! Things don't need to keep getting faster. Gaming technology already exceeds in most areas that people are even aware of; the question is whether or not manufacturers are going to skip steps when rendering just to save a few bucks. The entire industry revolves around promoting technology that isn't going to be fully utilized just to save a few peanuts and charge customers more for the hype.
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  4146. Because people have identified that 'genocide' is the limit for far-right ideologies (therefore they can be evil). BUT, due to revisionist history and smoke n' mirrors; the left is not afforded a limit. Therefore nobody pays attention to how 'FAR' the left can become. It's never about what something is; it only about what it can be made to look like.
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  4147.  @TheSwauzz  Yep! Tried it and ended up with an eating disorder. As usual, people take a useful tool and abuse it into becoming a cult.
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  4148. Absolutely NOT, the US started this crap; let Russia finish it please. I think the US has deposed enough governments and installed dictators around the world. Now that it's happened in Ukraine, Putin isn't going to sit idle and take a beating. It's baffling to see how people literally watched the US poke the bear in 2014 and then "Cry wolf" when it clawed their face off in 2022 after a series of repeated affairs to push NATO's control in that region.
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  4149. Russian bully us? That's rich, coming from a series of countries trying to country Ukraine for corporate interests. The gaslighting is unhinged with these news stations.
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  4150. Nice! Personally, I think he'll flip New Hampshire, New York, Illinois, and Hawaii. People have under-estimated the migrant crisis and DNC bullying. New Hampshire residents didn't forget that the DNC defied their state laws and tried roll them over for the primaries.
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  4151. Maybe sitting there and playing along was a smart thing to do. If he would have interrupted the video and confronted her; she probably would have never aired it. However, normalizing it fed her ego and she allowed everyone to see it. Now she will be plagued with trolls and hate comments until she shuts her channel down. Best outcome in my opinion :)
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  4152. I agree with loan forgiveness, with the exception that they end the Federal loan program forever. Oh, but they won't do that. Too profitable and too much power through Universities. Americans with student loans have been on forbearance for two years at this point. The moment the government re-starts the interest accumulation and payment deadlines, this economy will crash entirely. There's no way out; only through a crash of the USD.
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  4153. I'm a conservative, but I find it sick that right wing outlets have weaponized the population against teachers. They are literally peddling the idea that education is so bad because there's a lot of bad teachers trying to push an activist agenda of corrupting their youth. All while the parents neglect their children and blame any of their behavior on everybody else.
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  4154.  @WeejimmySnazberry  How about logic? Maybe the US shouldn't be overthrowing foreign governments and then cry-wolf when other nations get mad.
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  4155.  @WeejimmySnazberry  I guess it's potato potato' at this point. Russia has held political control over Ukraine for pretty much the last 300 odd years with some hiccups in between. The US intervened in that election and helped push a revolution (to one end or another) that removed Russia's influence after Yanukovich was forced out. Hilariously, almost all of his initial cabinet ended up being ruled 'suicides', which I find extremely legitimate lol Regardless, Russia wants it back and Blackrock plans to turn it into a strip-mall. So in my opinion, it's a corporate lobbied scheme for nothing more than war and real-estate profiteering, which NATO is aiding and abetting. I don't think anybody is going to deny that the US has had a 'regime change' problem for the last 50+ years.
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  4156.  @FullMoonKitty  Not going to happen if women threaten men with court and financial penalties that benefit themselves. All of this began in the 1960s during the Great Society. Women intentionally set themselves up for marriage and then divorced so they could collect payments. Back in 63' (the average father in Chicago could bring in $240/m, while social programs could net the woman $320). Most women hear about it because they know someone that is manipulating the system like that.
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  4157. Yes fucking way, FUS RO DAH bitch! lmfao
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  4158. Democrats April 4th, these tariffs are crashing the stock market; this is bad for poor people! Democrats April 9th, these lack of tariffs are skyrocketing the stock market; this is bad for poor people!
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  4159. So, why did Tucker lie about the diesel shortage in November of 2022. He knowing told everybody that the country would grind to a halt and crash due to a 25 day supply. Did he ever correct himself if he was misled? Of course not.
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  4160. Unfortunately, it was too late even before Trump. A dollar collapse is inevitable; though Covid spending definitely pushed us about 5 years forward on inflationary terms. We have some $160 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. It's only a matter of time before foreign nations complete remove themselves from the USD. We can only buy our own bonds for so long before hyperinflation sets in. Our adversaries will change the reserve currency and Americans will be left holding the bag.
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  4161. Welcome to the DNC and RNC; they think they're voters are stupid and most of the time they are right lol
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  4162. From my experience, MGTOW tends to be a group headed by middle aged Gen X men and Boomers that convince younger men to not engage with women. At least not in a manner that humors companionship and/or marriage. By the same merit, most of these young men have never had girlfriends. They are porn addicted teenagers that have been given a fictitious set of woman to hate, most of which are from social media. It's truly no better than these hardcore feminists that given incentive to women acting like absolute pigs and never offering anything to a partner/spouse. Most of the women that seem broken and on a path of destruction are limited to the white/middle-upper class college women. As soon as you leave those demographics; everything changes. Go into the sticks and go find some girl that wants to have a good husband. I guarantee that you'll find you. All MGTOW does, is give incentive to young men to live narcissistic and meaningless lives with no partner or trusted companion. There's nothing at the end of this road except regret and suicide, believe me.
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  4163. Crazy how head-strong people are about getting their abortion rights. My wife and I went thru two ectopic pregnancies. No issue whatsoever. The Democrats are spreading disinformation as usual; the medical defamation lawsuits against the DNC and Harris Administration are insane.
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  4164. That's what I've been saying. Fuel prices and commodity prices has dipped this Summer, but the Administration is playing it off as permanent price reductions. This couldn't be further from the truth; I would recommend that nobody wait to ensure they have enough resources to stay warm, have water, and food available. Autumn will start a trend of price increases that will break the back of most Americans by winter.
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  4165. This whole country is short-circuiting! We have a serious mental health problem on our hands. Social media, pornography, fatherlessness, inflation, healthcare; where do we even start?
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  4166. It is unbelievable that even a minority of people are going along with vaccine mandates. These are the same people that allege Nazis and Soviets were psychopaths and not regular people.
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  4167. I began online dating in 2017; it was already dead tbh. Though I am thankful that I found my 'now' wife. An incredibly lucky catch, because both of us were exhausted with the losers online. We hit it off and the rest is history; happily married and I have a son. In my experience, I guess I was the ugly duckling as a child. Then magically I turned 18 and I ended up getting sexually assault some 7 different times by women at my first job about a decade older than me; not that I hated it. However, it was a crazy experience. I got serious about dating at 22 and did it solely in person. Personally, I had about a 25% success rate for getting numbers, but the attitude problem was what killed it for me. A lot of women under 30 think it's perfectly acceptable to insult men for no reason whatsoever. It was such a big turnoff and felt I was getting nowhere. The last date lured me into a thing of dates (Christian girl) so that she could get free meals. When I went online, the women were absolutely crazy and not in a good way. Many are downright psychopaths, stalkers, and some will offer sex before you get 5 minutes in. Maybe it's because I have more of conservative personality, but it was one of the most disgusting experiences I ever had before I got lucky in the end. If I ever lost my wife, I would never go back into the dating world.
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  4168. Increased SS for elders? Bud, COLA couldn't even meet CPI for the last 2 annual adjustments. Seniors are getting screwed and Biden has no power over that. 6.3% for 9.1 YoY inflation in 2022 and 3.4% for 5.1% YoY in 2023.
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  4169.  @makingmoneywithmj7752  ?
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  4170. Maybe, but it seems much more likely to be the epidemic of child abuse and neglect that we're seeing and the media ignores. Children are desperate! Mom and dad look at their phones for hours and hours and don't participate in their ambitions and education. PTO attendance across the country fell off a cliff. Try being an educator, calling suburban parents about tutoring or raising their grades. No phone calls come back, because they don't. The LGBTQ crap is a cultural coping mechanism to traverse the abuse and neglect that the media loves to ignore.
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  4171. Everybody is voting for Trump this time around. It's called the hierarchy of needs! If you work for a living to survive; there's a high likelihood you hate the Biden Administration. ALSO, Democrats don't have 30 million college kids under lockdown at mommy/daddy's house that they can drag to the ballot box.
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  4172. This entire situation is a ruse. Whether Russia is an actual threat to Ukraine is irrelevant. This administration is calling on their Russia hand. In order to save face, they will demonize Russia to maintain the lie that they infiltrated our election process in 2016. Also, to take any heat off their colleagues in China. This is quite simply a disinformation campaign so that people ignore the dealings this Administration has in China to undermine the US.
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  4173. WHy are people voting for the man that caused our inflation problems? He appointed Jerome Powell and cut the interest rates to 0% in 2020. This drove inflation out of the ballpark when everybody began chasing super cheap debt.
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  4174. There's always been speculation and conspiracies about it.
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  4175. Same
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  4176. It's predictable; they do this every cycle. Now, mathematically it checks out; too much speculation can be halted by raising rates. The PROBLEM is that raising rates has inevitably led to a crash (every single time). Not once have we ever had 'a soft landing'. Market starts anew and they drop interest rates to 0 again, repeat...
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  4177. Well, guess you could say this school really started this year with a 'boom!'. All joking aside, people are literally going nutz. The American family is in the toilet and social media is radicalizing your kids. Why would we expect anything different. Kids have almost nothing in common with their parents; let alone many of their peers.
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  4178. A college course on Gender Theory. I hear it can make you $ix Figures! But only in cupcakes :)
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  4179.  @іѕоторё  Well, here's a clue. Educate yourself on the history between Ukraine and Russia since 2000. Then match that with Putin's responses. Most of us already knew that NATO instigated a coup in 2014 against Kiev. Putin confirming it means it's PROBABLY true.
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  4180. What evidence? Media evidence? The Williams Institute concluded that the rate of suicide increases post transgender surgeries. Deluding these people from reality and playing around with their mental illness is NOT helpful; it's absolutely sick and perverted. A large proportion of these children are sexually abused and in a state of psychosis in their families. Social media might just be making it worse because there's a group out there for everybody to confirm them.
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  4181. Oh please, at this point CNN will say anything to get you to think he's a (insert insulting name here).
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  4182. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  4183. It's always funny when people finally figure this out; no offense to the original poster lol. People are like "what!? the government steals money?" Hello! lol
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  4184. Problem is, insurance companies won't cover them; so the US government would be solely responsible for anything that should happen. Paranoia is the reason that they're not getting built, but ALSO because there's a shortage of specialists that can actively build and run them (almost all of them are educated in the US) and virtually nowhere else in the world. We have the programs, but nobody really goes into the field because the ones that do either already live over-seas (as exchange students for the US) OR (they are US citizens planning to work abroad).
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  4185. Because viruses are insanely small and single/double layers masks aren't doing jack to stop them. Go outside and wear a mask while mowing a lawn and then look at all the particles that got through (which are much larger than any virus). Covid is transmitted by water droplets and atomized particles that flow with the air in close quarters. No mask, not even an N-95 is going to stop atomized particles attached with the virus.
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  4186. In this day and age, we'd have the largest number of conscientious objectors in human history; all due to technology thank God. Plus, in America we don't have the numbers to justify a draft. More than 9/10 men of fighting age are either physically or medically unfit for duty. A draft would accomplish nothing. Realistically, you'd probably have more objectors than people that could qualify for infantry.
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  4187.  @realamputeephil9471  This sounds like an emotionally and irrationally charged rant. You want them to wait an hour for a female officer to drive over and make sure she doesn't have a weapon? All so the paranoid people can feel better than she wasn't possibly molested or raped? Seems like silly logic considering that there are plenty of lesbians in the PD.
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  4188.  @tracischmidt8593  No offense, but that's a grade-school interpretation of US relations. The US Government has been the #1 International Terrorist for the last half century. It boggles my mind how people so easily forget that the Obama Admin helped orchestrate the Ukrainian revolution in 2014. Then we passed legislation that armed Ukrainian rebels to fight their own government and border skirmishes against Russian in Donbass. Russia has had enough of NATO's bull-S and I don't blame them. The term "allie' is a misnomer (meaning) friends until I find better ones.; which usually doesn't last long.
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  4189. Going forward, it's essential that people maintain their health, life skills, and assets if you can. People are not going to recognize this country or daily life a decade from now. It's one of the reason my wife and I contemplate leaving the US entirely. What has largely eluded the public is how the current economic/gov/corporate system has created tens of million of dysfunctional and anti-social people. Those of which are completely dependent on the system that was created to enslave their time and minds. Should that system every break; it will release hordes of crazies into society that would topple any existing hierarchy. It's the reason I am scared to death of continuing to raise my child in the US.
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  4190. Nobody is dying from lack of access to healthcare. We practically have a single payer system already.. Medicare pays for a wealth of medical procedures. With a labor shortage in hospitals that predates Covid, I can only imagine the demand wave that 'Medicare for all' would cause
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  4191.  @BunScholar  Do you enjoy trying to misconstrue people's points? Show me a single college student (almost 60% female now) that doesn't regret their decision 6 months into their career; they're rare. Even if it's a field like an RN, NP, or PA! The entire system is a death spiral. We've TRAINED women to pursue these fields and debts with the idea that it's an investment into their life goals. It's a business and the women a getting farmed just like the men are. How is a woman supposed to survive? Perhaps not jumping on the pill, maintaining a bond with her mother/father and working her butt off for cash for a short period of time. Then pursuing something meaningful that doesn't make them want to use Zoloft and Xanax?
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  4192.  @BunScholar  Why engage with you; you're talking to yourself at this point? Whatever preconceived notions you already have; nothing I say will change what you want to believe. Other than work on your reading comprehension and value system (which seem to be aiming at chaos and dysfunction). I'd tell you to have a nice day friend :)
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  4193.  @wyleecoyotee4252  Women never age out of marriage? Women generally date (their own age and +5). How exactly does that logic work when you have a single woman at 35? Her selection pool of viable mates is microscopic. If she's still an A+; it's even more difficult.
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  4194. 17% rates in 1980 compared to 2024 with current housing costs isn't laughable. Boomers like to flaunt those numbers, but people would be stupid to take the current rates and prices over 1980.
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  4195. Why are they idiots? It depends on rates and your ultimate goal. On top of that, residential areas are filling up with older couples. They're aren't children running around anymore; at least in the Midwest largely speaking.
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  4196. Try that on a national level and watch inflation go thru the roof. People need to apply some common sense to the economic implications of UBI. What happens when UBI pushes grocery prices out of control? What happens when UBI inflationary adjustments need an additional 5-15% boost each year? We just saw what happened when you set the federal funds rate to 0.25%. You get 9.1% inflation from June to June. Imagine what free money (0% interest) would do? It would probably be at least 10% each year.
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  4197. This has been a conspiracy from day one to destabilize the West. All the people that screamed "Fascism!" during Trump, are now becoming Fascist.
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  4198. Well, the Nazis systematically exterminated 6 Million people. Seems like quite a silly comment to say they are 'worse' than them.
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  4199. Well, sharpen you skills and your vocabulary. One thing people largely don't realize is that the internet, including YouTube are the greatest wealth of information ever produced in human history. Most people will use it to entertain their narcissism on social media and watch repetitive memes whilst doing nothing with their lives. Some people will utilize it through the scope of responsibility and progress. Those are the people that will survive the next decade of technological innovation and cultural shifts. If you don't, then you're going to be left behind. This is a very unfortunate reality for many people, but technology is producing disturbing inequalities. Most people abuse it, while few people capitalize on the wealth of information.
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  4200. Not going to happen! Regardless of his support in the primaries. His favorability is still in decline and rapidly changing demographics are going to shift things further left. The Midterm and 2023 Special Election voter turnouts are a tell tale sign for what is to come in 2024. Btw, I'm a conservative; his support in his original strongholds is completely shot. Nobody wants to hear about Trump anymore.
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  4201. Yep and that's typically how low-level men think. Men that can't have a conversation bigger than sports and their boring job are pathetic imo.
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  4202.  @AllAboardTheFreedomTrain  People have to invent their own suffering.
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  4203. Double that of women? Hmm, let's put our thinking caps on! Either women are dating the same man OR they are lying in surveys.
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  4204. Nice sound bite! This is why Democrats are losing! They listen to edited videos, sound bites, and bureaucratic non-sense. The age of MSM propaganda is over; the rest of America is moving forward. Stop gate-keeping lies and corruption please.
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  4205.  @snowwhite7341  Did your mom tie you up with duct tape and starve you of food/water for days?
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  4206.  @flehue  You're absolutely correct 👍 lol
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  4207.  @jooot_6850  I doubt it. I've subbed with other means of fructose and or sucrose in the past with no such symptoms. My best guess was DDT since it's used in central America as a pesticide.
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  4208.  @dayshawna  Do you speak to your parents and friends like that? I honestly don't understand why you would expect to have a conversation with anyone with such indecency. Evolution is a very long process and humans have suffered loss of life for many different reasons in the past that they do now; such as coronary artery disease. Over-consumption is mere fraction of the problem. Openness is a more liberal principle you should adopt to grow.
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  4209.  @Model_BT-7274  A medieval diet was an extraordinary poor diet, primarily wheat based. Very low in nutrition. I'm not huge on red meat, but I've seen no evidence that it's hard on the body. If at the very least, your great grandparents and so on consumed lard, butter, and tropical tribes would have made coconut a staple in the diet. All high in saturated fat and low on Omega 9. That is reversed in today's diet. Omega 9 Linoleic acids make up most of the American diet. Considering you are evolved to consume meat, I don't think meat is the problem. Unless it's pumped with hormones and a poorly fed animal. Which is why I go grass-fed if I do. American health began to severely decline when we made Omega 9 our staple. The link in poor health isn't to meat, it's to vegetable oils.
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  4210.  @sherrychu3916  Selective appropriation most likely, I would assume for many people. Believing two opposing beliefs at the same time, yet ignoring how they are corrupting the soul. Though people always have their scapegoats to blame, for a time.
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  4211. Same, Cenk and Anna have been intolerable for years.
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  4212. As a conservative in Ohio, I voted NO for Issue 1 in August; knowing full well that both marijuana and abortion would pass. I voted NO because I fully intend to vote YES on (Super-Tuesday) when Medical Right to Refuse is put on the ballot. Republicans really need to get with the program and quit living in denial of the direction that the younger voters are going. Adapt and move on! If the GOP keeps deluding itself with FOX garbage, they are going to lose everything on a state and federal level.
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  4213. The opposite was true for me! I spent a considerable amount of my young life as an introvert that was attempting to converse my plans more; push myself to be more social. The more I shared, the more it was patronized and/or shamed as silly, stupid, or impossible. The moment I began to focus on myself and cut most of my family and friends out of my in-depth conversations; my life began to bloom. Turned out that I was being manipulated my entire life by my NPD mom and energy sucking relatives that believe in working, suffering, and dying. I knew something was always wrong, but it's hard to put the pieces together when everybody pretends that YOU are the problem, when in fact you're the scapegoat. The people I spoke to were largely just looking for something 'good' or 'productive' to squash for amusement. I met a wonderful woman, kept my best friend and father, and am in the process of cutting out everybody else that is a blood sucking vampire. In my experience, most people you share your plans with either try to compare (the one-up you) OR they try to make your plan out to be silly because they are losers.
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  4214.  @rdszx  Tucker (along with all other Fox anchors) admitted that they misled the public about their coverage of the 2020 election. Not only that, but that they knew about it while they were gaslighting viewers. His resignation (upon request from Rupert Murdoch) was part of the settlement between Fox and Dominion.
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  4215. I think I understand why we are beginning to see this trend in society. The birth of the internet has assuredly given people the ability to be more enlightened and seek help. However, that doesn't explain why such a significant number of people are estranged from their parents. Generation X is by far the most abusive generation! Why? The generation that created televangelism, revived the religion of the military industrial complex, and birthed the pharmaceutical obsession with modern American life. Pair that with Reaganomics and artificially low interest rates that pulled unhealthy cultural habits into the middle class and boom! You have an entire generation of financially independent, yet culturally dysfunctional parents. It is a generation that prided compliance and were rewarded with cheap debt (mortgages and loans) that allowed bad culture to expand into greater America. A generation that prides itself on cash, sweat, and perseverance fairs much better than what was produced during the 1980s-1990s. This is why Silent and Baby Boomer Generations had a completely different experience raising children. Not that it was the most superior, but it was significantly better than the previous generation of parents. When you give incentives for bad behavior; you get more of it.
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  4216. It's all about blackmail and threats; these upper echelon events are absolutely disgusting.
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  4217. Well, you know that debt crisis that you Grandpa always said would happen long after we were all dead? Yeah, it's here!
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  4218.  @mikes2106  Currency devaluation to prop up asset bubbles (SS, Medicare, and Pensions) and QE for stock market.
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  4219. You're the first person I've seen NOT supporting Israel (TBH). What do you expect them to do when Hamas murders 400 Israelis and takes hostages?
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  4220. You're listening the propaganda bud lol
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  4221. Only, the US owns Ukraine; don't forget that we helped overthrow their government in 2014.
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  4222. It always curdles my blood to think that there are people in this country that will bend over backwards (all for a paycheck). I quit my job ($70k a year) in June 2020; in the middle of Covid. After they took away my 13 unpaid vacation days and gave me 8. If you can't tell your employer to go to hell over some simple benefits, then you won't stand up to your employer should they tell you to shoot pregnant women in the back of the head. I'd advise people read a book called, "Ordinary Men". It shows you how far everyday people in the workforce can go without deciding to take a stand.
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  4223. Literally, he ain't lying. You can look up the Diablo stats; he's 19 behind a bunch of genius commies lol
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  4224. I truly think this comment by Joe Biden is going to affect the election significantly more than most people think. When Hillary called the Trump voters 'deplorable and irredeemable'; it gave him a huge lead among the working class.
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  4225. July 26th marks the GDP Q2 release; if it IS negative (and it will be) then that means will be in the start of a recession. I can't think of a time in recent history that we've had a Summer recession. Which I fear it will come to be known as.
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  4226. I did too, took a while to overcome it. I couldn't even walk into a grocery store ten years ago. Sometimes, I still have small episodes, but I've learned how to manage them. Try looking into Jordan Peterson and Russel Brand; also (Awakening with Russel).
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  4227. Well, I'm a stay at home dad and my wife is a cardiothoracic physician assistant. I quit my CDL job to stay home with our kid for the time being. Blame the Federal Reserve for printing $8 Trillion and antics from both the Biden/Trump Administrations that exacerbated it.
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  4228. I don't see the IRS hires as a major issue; it aims to hire 87,000 over the course of ten years; only 5000 of which will be in the first year. It doesn't account for the current trend of retirees and they obviously have to do so in order to re-coup more tax-payer dollars with the ridiculous inflation they caused. I may not agree with it, but it's not dumb. It's in THEIR best interest.
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  4229.  @tompriceusmc  The difference between being parented and being a parent is a mile of maturity. I'm not saying that all parents are mature, but the most mature people are parents. It changes you in ways that childless people can't even relate to
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  4230. Not sure how this is a conservative thing all by itself. Low-birth rates have been an issue for over a decade my virtually all types of media pundits. I think this guy is pushing division where there is none.
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  4231. It's the mentality of suburban status and entitlement. My family reacted the same way. Yet I made $70k in the year that I drove a day cab semi.
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  4232. This woman got into politics for the money. If you don't believe me, take a look at how much her net worth has exploded and what her public incomes/expenditures are. She has constantly served as a clueless and deranged person representing a piece of NY.
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  4233.  @rev.jimjones9100  To do what? Work for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash making minimum wage? Lots of opportunities to take $2.00 orders lol
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  4234. Even now, you still have people claiming that (most criminals are not black). Even though they are literally on camera and all over the FBI UCR crime reports. I mean, how much more evidence do you need. Some 55% of all murders are committed by black men between 16-25. It's not racism; it's reality!
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  4235. Yep, the 2nd biggest bailout came from Obama. Followed by the biggest bailout by Trump. I'm pretty sure it'll happen again. Deflation is not an option for government at this point. Thank anyone still wanting their Social Security I suppose.
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  4236.  @mrdanielleebrown  You're probably describing a dichotomy; not oxymoron. Also, it depends on which demographics you're talking about. The reason that bailouts and inflation are on the table is because a super minority of the population depends on inflation, while a majority is damaged by it.
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  4237.  @mrdanielleebrown  It's a joke Daniel. Hence why I said that it (didn't really)
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  4238. It's the birth control. My sister went on BC at 18 and within 18 months she was acting like a complete psychopath. Both me and my wife had to end our relationship with her. Constantly manipulating, harassing, and using anyone she possibly could. It was truly a sight to behold. I had heard that side effects of BC pills were bad, but I'm convinced that it's borderline mind control. Thank God I found a wife that never touched it :)
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  4239.  @lukei6255  Oh, you mean like the US does? lmfao
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  4240. Pretty easy to predict when the Biden Admin was doing everything it could to provoke further military action in eastern Ukraine. Looking back it was glaringly obvious in my opinion that they wanted the war to start.
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  4241. Well, they gave us two options bud. It's not like there's really a choice at this point between both these atrocious candidates.
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  4242. I'm not in favor of BRICS, but I certainly don't blame them for getting irritated. The US and EU preach peace and Democracy, while throwing bombs and regime changes in any direction that questions their rule.
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  4243. Yes, but you can't base money on crypto or gold for obvious reasons. People speculate on it as an investment, plus if competing nations outproduce you; you exchange all your gold for product. Then countries become imperialistic for resources. That's ultimately why it was ditched. Fiat (while flawed) is the best currency invention.
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  4244. Bot
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  4245. I actually had the opposite experience. I learned everything the hard way and eventually found out how to out-smart the game. I never knew anybody important and it was all 'what I knew'. Use every experience as a means to under-cut other businesses.
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  4246.  @davidb2206  I bet oil companies will use their profits to help people in the future too.. Can't you people see the bigger picture here?
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  4247. I agree in part with Newsom's logic on the subject, which is rare for me. The big problem is that you (still today) have a large number of parents that will shame, berate, or even beat their kids if the subject even came up in the home. I think the teacher in many cases are doing what they can do help the child as much as possible. A lot of children come from physically abusive homes to this day.
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  4248. Yep! The FED will never allow deflation, because it would crush Social Security and other benefits. Inflation has to continue.
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  4249.  @p.granger8824  Nobody thought war with Germany was a possibility in the 1930s. The US will go to war with anybody that they can leverage as their 'fall guy' for a debt crisis. That's what they do!
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  4250. For invading a country that was using US weapons and missiles to fight a border war?
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  4251. Ban parabens, seed oils, corn syrup, artificial fragrances, and glyphosate while you're at it! How can one live in (the greatest country on earth - with the greatest freedoms) if the entire water and food supply is poisoned?
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  4252.  @bobwoods1302  It's called RAISING GDP Bob! Lower energy costs and get American moving so everybody pays less.
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  4253.  @bobwoods1302  How can you say that when the Harris Administration put up executive road-block after road-block to stop Keystone AND over 1200 different drilling leases?
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  4254.  @bobwoods1302  All comes down to the red-tape around the leases. You can't just stick a drill in the ground somewhere. Volume shouldn't be 13k barrels per day; it should be more like 20k at this point. All that economic stimulus for nothing the last 3.5 years I guess. True, gas isn't super expensive now (probably due to seasonality), but it's the best way to reduce prices in other areas of the market. Even if it's by 10%. What other plan of action should there be at this point. We printed $8 Trillion and wages are stuck. If GDP doesn't take off (as the FED lowers rates now). Then prices will just take back off. Economy has to have something to show for it and energy is probably the easiest way to do it imo Do you suggest a different strategy?
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  4255.  @markm0000  She bought an additional vibrator on her credit card, duh!
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  4256. Having a father that gives you an iPad to leave them alone is ALSO causing behavioral problems. Millennials are the abused generation spawned by Gen X. Gen Z is the apology tour generation spawned by Gen X. Alpha is largely spawned by Millennials that are just as addicted to their phones as Gen Z.
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  4257.  @halfnorfolk5310  Bud, I'm going to tell you right now. I've shot like 10,000 cops in GTA 5 and I'm perfectly normal. That was when I was a middle-teen. The problem with these kids is that their parents neglect them and don't raise them. Even the middle class kids are exhibiting anti-social behaviors. Probably from parental neglect and excessive screen time in early childhood development. From what I've gathered, iPad kids are very susceptible to having an under-developed neutral pathway for empathy and kindness. Clinical psychopathy also saw a large increase in younger generation samples. Turns out that when you ignore/yell at your child, have no relationship with them, and give them untethered access to technology since the age of 12 month. They tend to be rather dysfunctional. I never got to indulge in any kind of video games or phone until I was 14 years old. Believe me, I have a younger sister that got fully exposed to it at 8 years old and she exhibits anti-social behaviors. Overt narcissism, no empathy, and problematic social behaviors like telling people to 'shut up' or 'using her hands to animate her disapproval with people', not to mention stealing, and her disgust with little children; she's 21 btw. The kids that were exposed around 1-3 are on a whole different level of psychotic and dysfunctional. We have people in my own family (teenagers) that give me 'school-shooter' vibes due to inappropriate and bizarre behavior. It really scares me and my wife. This isn't about (education, learning, or even moral compass). These kids LITERALLY do not have the same brain-function that you and I do. The future is going to be rife with mental illness; it kind of already is.
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  4258. It doesn't work like that. Population volume increases job market opportunities. A shrinking population not only implodes the available market supply/demand, but it would destroy the Keynesian model that were essentially operate under.
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  4259. The Republican Party might have a bit of an identity crisis, but let's be real here. What the heck does the Democratic Party stand for anymore?
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  4260. I think you're living a decade back my friend. Pretty sure those aren't even Conservative policies anymore. Too much has changed and too many lies are being spread. Nobody has your interests at heart; the least of all in office, an appointed position, or corporation.
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  4261.  @smokewulf  That argument has been tried forever. If what you say is true, then illegal immigrants have no protection from false imprisonment, excessive fines, torture, and censorship. It's unfortunately the same thinking that got the Patriot Act pushed through.
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  4262.  @frenchfred3  It isn't great?
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  4263. The MAGA crowd has died quite a bit in the US. Even Ohio had Democrats take the election issues by storm in 2022/2023. Republicans have been nowhere and turnout has been in the garbage. I suspect that people are exhausted from 8 years of Trump. I voted for the man, but after Jerome Powell and his Administration wrecked the country with 0% interest rates and destabilizing south and central American thru continued sanctions. I'm not fan of Biden, but he hasn't done jack to cause or solve these problems. All of these are a result of the Trump Administration. Simpletons tend to believe that policies and actions take effect immediately when realistically they take anywhere from 12-24 months. The GOP is running on (anti-wokism, anti-trans, library books, and other ridiculous social issues). Nobody cares when there's massive inflation and escalating wars overseas. I'm no Democrat, but the GOP has officially abandoned the people. The MAGA legislators only want to serve their own interest; same as the others. It's going to cost them the election in 2024 and it's already shown in the general election in 2023. I guarantee you that Republicans will lose most of the Midwest, NC, and Texas with their current shenanigans in Congress and in the primaries.
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  4264. I think social media mixed with daddy issues has created a lot of entitled women. A lot of retiring men are paying their daughters for love. Even my own parents do this and my sister (22) is a total snob and treats my wife like garbage. Also, I think the entire educational push has really made them delusional. Many women that are enrolled in school (with no job) over-estimate their potential, while at the same time being debtors. However, they look down on working class men with equity. Which makes no logical sense. I had that happen before I met my (now) wife. A woman I was dating didn't think I had much ambition for the future currently working at FedEx; even though I was living on my own in a cathedral apartment with $25k in the bank and no debt back in 2017. She was an acclaimed Christian too, which I thought was funny. They want the Chad, the money, the credentials, the Brad Pitt hair, and the entitlement all at the same time. Plus, I think the birth control is messing with their head maybe.
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  4265. The answer is NOT more laws! The answer is getting rid of corporations entirely!
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  4266. So we don't sent minors back to their families in Mexico, like we did under Trump. We put them on flights and fly them out to cities all over the US. That's human trafficking of minors.
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  4267.  @jasonpgallery  Love George Carlin lol
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  4268. We were in Afghanistan for opium; nothing more. Contractors were flying it out and going to Asia for nearly two decades. As soon as fentanyl came in; opioids became the past.
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  4269. GOOD! Now imprison Biden!
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  4270.  @MagnanimousmouseYouGoogle-d1k  Nobody is winning bud. If people don't birth the next generation, then those ways will not be passed on. Educating women always leads to a period of chaos and confusion, followed by an implosion from lack of births. Then it all starts anew because the only people having children are either lower class single moms OR middle/upper class people with family values. Therefore society will eventually go back to the way it was.
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  4271. The only reason Smith was a success for FedEx was because he gambled his last savings in Las Vegas and won enough money ($30,000) to continue pursuing his dream and creation that was "FedEx".
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  4272. This guy is peddling to the 'save our Democracy' bots. Stop watching mainstream media people!
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  4273. Your votes will be decided this election :)
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  4274. It's too expensive to live because everybody keeps lying about how much student debt they have. Perhaps they also shouldn't have taken a mortgage in 2022 at 4-5% for a $400k home?
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  4275. It's a blackmailing network. I'll be brutally honest, women become attractive when their bodies start to develop. That's just human biology. Puberty would have no function if that weren't the case. So it's incredibly easy to put certain men into positions where they are with an underage girl and then use that as blackmail to have them do your bidding. This is essentially what the Epstein network did. With that being said, I'd think most men have a level of self control to know what is appropriate and what is not. People in positions of power tend to have a level of arrogance that normal people don't though. As for children in sex slavery; I can't speak on that much. I guess there's a market for everything.
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  4276. Masks can help reduce saliva and other large water droplets coming from your mouth. However, viruses are insanely small and can hitch rides on atomized particles the blow in and around your head, especially when you could or sneeze.
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  4277. Russian attack? Ukraine has been at war in Donbass since 2014; Russia is simply defending it's citizens that have been trying to annex themselves since 2004. Joining NATO would have made the US and Europe obligated to put down the war between Zelensky Administration and pro-Russia parties of eastern Ukraine. Follow the bread crumbs bro!
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  4278. Supply and demand are still in existence here. If corporations were ripping you off; then buying at a local farmers market would be cheaper, but it's not.
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  4279.  @RobertMorgan  Probably hurts more in one day than 20 years lol
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  4280. I've been on their waiting list for 3 years 🤣🤣
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  4281. Not going to happen; I expect massive civil unrest and a complete economic collapse by then. They will NEVER allow Trump to be re-elected...
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  4282. Debt issue! When you give people 1-2% interest rates (like 2020); people run out and buy up stuff they can barely afford. Stop giving out cheap debt and this won't happen.
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  4283. Same
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  4284. It's so sad that so many people completely ignored how NATO staged Ukraine for future ambitions between 2014-2021. The abundantly ignorant idea that still floats is that Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked. With the information of the world at people's fingertips. I truly wonder how they tie their shoes at this point. I'm not sure if people are simply ignorant or they are being farmed by propaganda.
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  4285. I'm a big proponent of paying ones dues; I paid my $10k in student dues out of pocket and was reimbursed by FedEx. Though, the biggest problem is that these kids do not have the job prospects to pay back $80,000 plus interest. You have 40 Millions people that cannot participate in the greater US economy because of such massive debt. Ideally they should forgive the debt and END the Federal loan program forever.
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  4286. Maybe you could learn something instead of believing everything from FOX and CNN.
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  4287.  @trappedcat3615  You wouldn't believe how many people send him $10, $20, or $50 when they are behind on their bills and can't afford groceries for themselves and their children. People are absolutely insane! They literally think he is the second coming of Christ against the evil tyranny of Joe Biden, Obama, and the WEF.
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  4288. Sounds like a lawsuit with the seller.
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  4289.  @shinzontheta  Supply and demand; I never tried to play the game actually. I remember how hard it was in 2012 (though the economy was not really back on it's feet until roughly 2014+. I finally got offered a job in 2012 at $5.25/hr at a dinner theater. After that, I went straight into FedEx and then my CDL. If you don't have experience in skilled blue-collar labor OR a high demand white collar job; it's insanely difficult. Not saying the early Obama years were a cake-walk, but we didn't have the crazy inflation we do now. Ultimately, high interest means companies have no money and growth is being suppressed to reduce inflation. Which makes it much harder.
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  4290.  @xdarthpool6463  Record profits from record inflation. Don't indulge in conspiracies; I advise that you acquaint yourself with the issues from an economic perspective. Otherwise you'll be taken advantage of by radical ideologies and people with a grifter agenda. No offense, just trying to help you. There's a mathematical reason to all of this and none of it has anything to do with 'greed'. This is very simply supply and demand economics with Federal Reserve policy. If you want to know more I can explain or point you towards people like (ClearValueTax). Brian is pretty good with giving people good explanations for how the economy works
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  4291.  @SendYourBones  Thanks, I try; I hope you're having a good Monday :)
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  4292.  @marsmagdalene  Yes and CPI inflation isn't subjective either. Statistics are very easily used to get the direct results that the institution wants. If you ignore the incentives; you'll be taken for a fool.
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  4293.  @janisolson1013  Hey bud, a recession is most likely regardless if he would have won. Not sure what you're talking about (since 2016). Stick to the economic fundamentals and try not to get deluded with political hysteria; it will keep you centered.
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  4294.  @janisolson1013  "expert economists predicted prior to the election." I'm going to stop you right there and I don't mean the be condescending when I say this. If you don't know what you're talking about; then don't pretend to. It's pretty obvious when you start your paragraph like that. Just some advice going forward. The entire economy is largely based on decisions made by the Board of Governors (Federal Reserve). Every President has had more spending than the last without exception; starting with Bush Jr. Had Harris won the election; nothing would have changed on the grand scale. The number 1 driver of US debt is Social Security and Pensions, period. This is a demographic issue primarily. Because the US is unwilling to come to terms with that; debt to GDP has gone thru the roof. In other words, your wages stagnate and prices go up. Covid inflation essentially pushed the US forward about 10 years in debt obligations. Almost everything is financially inevitably regardless of who is running the country.
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  4295.  @Tammy8823  You'd be surprised how many people have resorted to DoorDash and Options trading as a means to bring in income. It's not always 'welfare'.
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  4296.  @watching1513  Google search? Those are some amazing research skills. I bet they pay you six figures for your expertise.
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  4297.  @hess101  Probably, but that doesn't mean it isn't projection on the other side simply because it's a secular couple with same sex values. People are too black and white these days. Two things on the opposite side can stem from the same problem.
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  4298. Your comment made me fall off my chair lol
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  4299. For people that don't know, virtually every state is now using the Federal Government as a piggy-bank for all of it's infrastructure, education, and social welfare costs. You'll hear politicians claiming that they 'cut' the state budget. But what they most often do is just dump it onto the Federal Government. All of the property taxes, sales taxes, and local taxes you are paying are being siphoned into slush funds to be used elsewhere in the nation. We are seeing the largest degree of corporate and state fraud in the history of the United States in the last decade. Virtually all the consumer protections we've had in the past are being defunded and castrated to enrich an upper level of elites in business and politics. There are no D's or R's; it's a giant money scheme. The deficit cannot be fixed and they know this. They will milk the cow until it all falls apart. In the end, taking away property taxes will only inflate taxes on the Federal end and state sale's tax end OR it will inflate state deficits. Kansas was stupid for getting rid of their income tax; which got dumped onto property taxes already experiencing high inflation in 2022-2023.
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  4300.  @littlelarry2912  Not going to happen with the current state of technology and algorithms. We've seen what happens when you let Facebook and Google do whatever they want. All they've done is incite violence, rioting, and division through their platforms. It will only get worse until people tear the system apart.
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  4301. Get ready for your vote to be adjudicated GRANDMA! lol Mid-terms are going to be violent. Every election is going to be contested. This is what we've come to...
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  4302. Yep! This is why voters are splitting into (University/Administrative) and (Labor).
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  4303. Did your family beat the dog?
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  4304. How about (stop destabilizing nations?) Just a thought. We wouldn't be in this situation if NATO hadn't overthrown the Ukrainian government in 2014 and started a Civil War against Russia's border.
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  4305.  @brindlekintales  There is no over-population overshoot; this theory has been debunked for some 15 years. All first world countries have birth rates below replacement and most second world countries do as well.
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  4306. How about 'connection'. You don't raise your kids correctly by disciplining them for no reason. How can a parent discipline a child for doing the SAME THING that the parent is doing?
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  4307. Not agreeable, they're dysfunctional people pretending to be liberal.
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  4308. Same here! I come from largely a Republican family, so it's easy for me to see the insanity on the left. However, it took me quite a while to see the insanity on my own side. There are a freak-ton of right-leaning people that literally think that all elections are being frauded, that the Biden Administration is derailing US infrastructure, and that there is a public education conspiracy to sell children into sexual slavery.
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  4309. Still, 2.5B burgers a year is a LOT of cows for one company.
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  4310. Well, to be brutally honest. There is no first world nation that is cheaper than the US; it's all tied to the same monetary circus. You'd have to move to Central America, Africa, or Southeast Asia.
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  4311. Skepticism for no reason doesn't make one look intelligent. It's simply 'baseless' skepticism. You honestly think they scripted Trump's phone call?
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  4312. Historically? It leads to mass anarchy, revolution, and/or a draft for total-war. Thank God I'm 30 and my son is 1. Neither of us are going anywhere.
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  4313. Good, they were considered the worst company of 2024 in the auto markets; don't buy a Ford.
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  4314. CBO office has claimed for a while now that Social Security will need a -23% cut in order to function after 2034. That's assuming we don't enter another nasty recession before then. To my memory, millennials were the first generation to be told that they would never get SS. I'm really starting to think Gen X could have used the advice instead. They've been screwed by basically every recession while Boomers exploited them.
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  4315. And why do you NOT think you aren't the dangerous one? Because you're so deposed from any possibility of being wrong? You're calling people dumb when you can't even use proper grammar? How do you figure the US has been in a constant state of war since 1941? Geopolitics? Don't make me laugh bud. We are in a war with Russia because the US-NATO wanted to use Ukraine as a puppet state after we helped orchestrate the revolution in 2014 and installed Zelensky; an irrefutable fact. Imagine if China had installed a puppet in Mexico and gave them weapons to fight a border war against the US. That's exactly what the US did in Ukraine and most people are ignorant to it because the mainstream media cartel doesn't program to think on those terms.
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  4316. YouTube restarted their comment censorship. I've already had half of my comments deleted in the last day.
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  4317. Well, corporations are getting kickbacks from Universities for hiring a certain percentage of people within those fields of study and from a certain University. End the guaranteed loans and this will go away.
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  4318. We should let Russia win, simply because we STARTED the freaking problem. Maybe the US shouldn't be trying to depose governments and install dictators in Ukraine; like they did in 2014. It baffles me how Americans are still naive to US foreign policy after Iraq and Afghanistan. It's right in front of everyone's face, but of course (it's like moths to a light). A diseased and unhealthy population don't make informed and wise decisions....
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  4319. Well, that's the issue with me. Personally, it was blatantly obvious that FOX News sponsored the insurrection after they spent weeks stirring up voters, conspiracies, and causing controversies by having notable people come on their show and push the 'election fraud' issue. People forget that (nationwide) voter turnout was up 15-40% across most counties. Even counties that voted for Trump by 92% had increased in voter turnout that exceeded 30%. Poll worker shortages were a big problem that the news outlets refused to acknowledge and used them as a means to push election fraud conspiracies. Considering that some 2500 election fraud cases (100% of them) were thrown out; in some cases by Trump appointed judges. I don't think there's any merit to the 'stop the steal' or that the Democrats cheated. Especially after the multi-state case for the Trump elector fraud. Some 18 people are being sentenced because of that conspiracy to overthrow the electorate in a (sleight of hand) move to keep Trump as president. SO far, the only evidence to support election fraud falls on the GOP. As for Trump himself, he definitely pushed the idea that the election was stolen. However, I think FOX and their contributors were responsible for igniting the dumpster fire and causing January 6th.
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  4320. Unemployment insurance fraud! Companies have to report their employment and vacancies to the state in order to pay into the state's unemployment insurance fund. They found out that by creating 'ghost' jobs; they could get their taxes lowered because it give the appearance of a strong labor market. The state gets good jobs numbers and the company gets a tax break. Companies then impose 'interview quotas' on their HR staff so that they don't get charged with tax fraud for a fake job. It's basically impossible to prove on paper.
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  4321. Democrats are soon going to have TWO demographics; pension boomers and trust fund children.
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  4322. It's IQ bell curves clashing with technology.
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  4323. Because he carries the entire weight of the channel and news in general. If they dropped him, their profits would drop off a cliff.
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  4324. Anybody that sells hatred of one side or the other is full of it. There is ONE reason and ONE reason only! Democrats rely on institutions and Republicans believe that the institutions are screwing them. This in a nutshell describes most of the reasoning.
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  4325. One narcissist gets to gaslight another narcissist with gaslighting 'yes or no' questions. How wonderful is the state of America! This country is going down the toilet.
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  4326. We've had two people close to us diagnosed with glioblastomas "tumor in the brain"; mind you they are extremely rare. Yet both of these individuals were indeed vaccinated and it's making the family paranoid. I'm holding out for more research on the rise in certain types of cancers, but if anybody else close to use gets diagnosed; it will more or less be a solid conclusion from me.
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  4327. Not in the works, but hopefully if the Government collapses this Autumn it might. They have no money left and haven't raised the debt ceiling.
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  4328. Because most people would rather live in the matrix of media giving rise to vague and ignorant perceptions of reality. Notice how in the last year, the entire media is attempting to destroy Elon Musk's image. I'm not trying to come off as arrogant, but people that can't connect the dots are pretty thick. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that refuse to acknowledge how gullible they truly are. Most of the time it's because they're intellectualized and believe their bachelor degree will inoculate them from stupidity. At least that's my experience. "I'm educated, therefore I don't have to humor the dissenting opinions of non-qualified people If they are qualified and dissenting; then they're not truly qualified."
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  4329.  @NeoMarxist-r6g  What policies? I think there's a reason there's been a mass exodus from the corporate and progressive ends of the Democratic Party. Party registration shows this in only four years. I remember when Republicans used to be reactionary. The left is all about reactions and whataboutism these days. No solutions, no leadership, no goals. Are left leaning voters not being hoodwinked by vagueries of perception over and over again from aimless media paranoia?
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  4330.  @ennead322  So you haven't changed your mind about something in 9 years?
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  4331. We have not achieved a soft landing. This is the calm before the storm. Never in US history has a 'pivot' or 'reversal' on interest rates NOT resulted in a stock market crash. Demand destruction began several months ago and the policy reversal of the FEDs will cause that shortfall in the economy to be realized.
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  4332. Because the Obama Admin overthrew Yanukovich in 2014 and replaced him with Zelensky in order to barter control of Ukraine over Russia. It's NATO's goal to subjugate Russia and form a Faustian alliance with China in order for those countries and alliances to absorb the US debt crisis. The US knows that either a default or long term government shutdown is imminent; which will render the US Government helpless. They plan to use this conflict and brewing war to absorb their greed. Kind of like when we billed Germany during WW1 and stuck a bunch of IOUs in the Treaty of Versailles.
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  4333. Yes, because these were years (post 2008) that were recovering in a boom cycle. Trump created the inflation mess by appointing Jerome Powell and slashing the interest rates to near 0%. Demand went out of control and now we have to live with a high priced economy.
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  4334.  @MrJustin259  Oh yes, more for certain items. Though that's just the consumer index. If you didn't get a 14% raise at least, then you lost 14% of value in the market.
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  4335.  @haihengh  I think he means, just the sandwich lol "I'll take a medium fry and large coke!" "That'll be $9.67."
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  4336. Pathetic news coverage from the left as usual. No wonder the right-wing probably took it way too far in the 1930s/1940s. I bet the left-wing was doing the same thing a hundred years ago. They throw mud and then cry victim when people get mad.
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  4337.  @bauerm781  I don't recall him being biased or saying that they're viable.
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  4338. The Republicans have quite literally been cannibalizing their own this past two years. This is a large reason that Democrats have gained a major edge over them in the 2022/2023 elections. If the GOP keeps believing that they will beat in 2024 (simply over Biden and the woke/trans agenda) they're going to be disappointed. Republicans are becoming dangerously complacent.
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  4339. Putin wants control and domination; based on what? It's war; theatrics and economics. Russia wants control of Ukraine back and NATO is being funded by lobbyists to turn it into a strip-mall. Greed all around if you ask me.
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  4340. It's all about the narrative; plus I have no sympathy for the average American affected. They went along with it seamlessly and without question, just like Ukraine. If the CDC and the media claim the the sky is red; people you know will call you an uneducated moron for alleging that is was blue.... Religion is rampant in American; the religion of worshipping media and government.
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  4341. I'd like to believe that Tucker was an honest man to the core of his being. However, his testimony during the Dominion lawsuit speaks volumes. He, as well as his colleagues admitted that they were fully aware that their coverage of the 2020 election was fraudulent and lacking all evidence. Yet they decided to do it anyway. Hannity himself admitted in a series of emails (hours before putting Giuliani on the air) that he thought the guy was a moron and a wacko to think that there was election interference. Then he completely poker faced it through the live segment and ran with the statements and the accusations that he threw out about Dominion voting machines. All of these transcripts are public and can be viewed by anybody. To think this is a part of a conspiracy is beyond idiotic at this point. Rupert Murdoch let Tucker Carlson go because it was part of the settlement decision between Fox and Dominion. Why else would Fox let him go the day after the lawsuit was settled?
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  4342. Stress, poor diet, blue light poisoning, and pharmaceuticals. Also, younger generations are developing smaller heads and jaws because they've been eating soft foods their entire life. This reduces capacity for brain size and numerous physical characteristics for attracting healthy mates. Handsome women with 'sharp' features are becoming exceedingly rare and they tend to produce very healthy off-spring. Just a running joke on zoomers (with no offense intended), but their heads are half the size and their butts are twice the size. They are setting themselves up for sex-slavery in the near future.
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  4343. Nixon was actually a brilliant President. Not sure what you're referring to, unless it's the gold-standard issue? For the record, the US went off the gold-standard largely in the 1920s after credit began to take over the industry. You haven't adequately been able to exchange USD for gold since before the Great Depression. It's often an over-looked fallacy that people have wrongfully appropriated to Nixon.
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  4344. Not voting for a man that appointed Jerome Powell and drove massive inflation from his economic policy. Never again should the federal funds rate be as low as it's been. Wage stagnation had been eating Americans alive for the last 40 years. Reaganomics had it's run and it failed; quit electing people that perpetuate it.
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  4345. Voting is compromised; don't you people remember? This is why I laugh at conservatives. Everybody conveniently likes to forget how the process was tampered with. Now they want to pretend that all the voting will run smooth come mid-terms and the next general election. Believe it or not, in my home-state of Ohio (incumbent judge after judge) are being de-seated by NO-NAME NO-EXPERIENCE Democrats. We had a prosecutor with a 98% conviction rate lose an election to a Democrat (that had never tried a case) and had a stroke 2 months before election day. The entire process is compromised. They will fraud a number of elections each voting cycle until they control the entire United States.
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  4346. I actually feel bad for her. She acts like the DNC will send her to Gitmo if she says the wrong thing lol Plus there's a lot of speculation that she's an alcoholic.
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  4347. Well, GMO isn't exactly the problem. Almost everything is GMO (we've been modifying agricultural foods since the 1600s). Ban the glyphosate and all the other lab poisons, especially artificial flavors.
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  4348. I remember when I got rejected in 2017 for voting for Donald Trump. The funny thing is that they think they're smart by rejecting 60% of the male dating pool based on politics. It ensures they will probably date insecure and/or more feminine men.
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  4349.  @70MAVER1CK  Funny, will NATO go home too? Of course not, they want to turn Ukraine into a strip mall for their corporate buddies. People need to pull their head out of the sand. This entire conflict began because the US formed a coup against Kiev in 2014 in their attempt to have political control.
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  4350. The markets are usually counterintuitive. If the FED cuts rates even 50pts; housing will take off again.
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  4351.  @victordobin5918  What would stop individual banks from printing massive amounts of money to hedge against other assets and then break the economy? One of the reasons 2008 happened was because banks were giving out variable rate loans like Halloween candy.
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  4352.  @onlycreamofthecrop  There'd be more savers if we hadn't given everybody low interest rates for 30+ years. The Reaganomics experiment officially died after 2020. I know most people associate it with 'tax cuts', but it also largely entails an (easy-debt) economy to bolster corporate supply and consumer demand. This entire system is a racket sucking the wealth out of the bottom 99%. When there's no more wealth to absorb; the banks and companies will leave. The ONLY way to maintain a steady system is to make debts harder to acquire and investment must return to local communities and municipalities. Plus, exports MUST be a consideration in maintaining global hegemony. We can't just export dollars to kingdom come.
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  4353.  @sir0herrbatka  Deflation is good so long as you don't have debts.
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  4354.  @calvinblue894  US Military budget is 11%; try again.
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  4355. Honest people don't run for President typically.
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  4356. This is hardly a school issue. Teachers are absolutely 'swamped' and they are quitting in the tens of thousands across the US. I think Texas alone lost 13% of it's teaching staff in the year concluding 2022. The children are out of control on virtually every level of education; assaults, harassment, death threats, classroom clear, etc. Never in my life have I seen grade schools physically assaulting each other; including the teacher. Plus a large number of them are girls to make it worse. These children are anti-social because their parents gave them an iPad at 12 months and their neural pathways are messed up.
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  4357.  @zatoichijiku9281  Not sure what you mean by bro-science. How do you think we got where we are as a species? Cholesterol is a lipid transporter; LDL and HDL when using ketones. Animals products and meats are full of cholesterol; eggs included. The agricultural revolution wasn't that long ago. If you're facing cognitive dissonance, then it's best to grow and learn; not retract and hide.
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  4358.  @zatoichijiku9281  Well any medical institution is going to say the Cholesterol ingestion is unnecessary; it's all based on lipid theory. This isn't about (what medical institutions say); it's what many disagree with them about. Any person can post references from these institutions as proof of their position. It takes a lot more research and experimentation to come to a different conclusion. I find it odd that heart disease only began when we began curtailing saturated fat and cholesterol in our diets. It became the leading cause of death in 1930. If cholesterol was unnecessary in a dietary sense. Then by definition, we shouldn't have any metabolic dysfunction stemming from cholesterol on such a diet; except that we do, astoundingly so. It's virtually necessary in all aspects of mitochondrial health and cellular function. Remember that 'corporate capture' is a major problem in these institutions. The low-fat push never died. So of course they are going to push anything and everything to get consumers to eat things 'other' than what they deem unnecessary or harmful.
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  4359. Youtube channels are the baseline example of what a Keynesian economy is; permanent growth and permanent inflation. A channel can only grow linear (without change) to a certain degree. Once that organic growth stagnate; the user must use different ways to attract attention, usually in a dishonest way. Permanent growth is a ridiculous idea, but as far as the economic system is concerned; it's a must. So in order to make permanent growth happen, real growth has to be supplanted by artificial growth; a decline in quality. I compare this to large companies. As time goes on, you can only grow so much, that artificial growth MUST be the next source. So they start lowering the quality, selling you snake oil, etc. Currency inflation (based on a debt system) is inevitable. So in order to survive, everyone 'even the farmers' have to play the same game. You can't keep the same business model and the same prices unfortunately (like you might in an Austrian system). You have to raise prices and when you can't raise prices, you must dilute the quality of your product or shrink the sale.
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  4360. ESG is a systemic scam system. Like giving you a lower interest rate because you (recycle). It's all a big virtue signal! Anybody that knows anything knows that some 95% of your recyclables go into landfill regardless. It was a good idea when we were still using those items, but nobody buys recyclables anymore.
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  4361. America is currently experiencing Calhoun's Rodent Utopia. Guess what happens at the end? lol
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  4362. Oh please, anybody worth their salt KNOWS that government mandates in the housing market results in shortages. It's been tried in every European nation in the last 50 years, including across the United States. It always results in shortages and a massive influx of homelessness.
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  4363. Yep, Walmart's (5lb Ground Beef - $14.98 back in December). Yesterday, it was $18.98/ 5lb.
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  4364. Kamala Harris? She has an average 10-15% across all polls I've seen. What is this lady talking about?
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  4365.  @skylinefever  Well, it was inevitable to be honest. The system must constantly grow by population, inflation, and GDP. The moment it doesn't; it implodes like it's doing currently. All empires must come to an end. Largely due to Price's Law.
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  4366. He passed a background check through the FFL dealer; what tighter restriction would have stopped him? If you'll notice, many of the more recent mass shootings have been completely by the book. Passed a background check, FFL transfer, everything legal. Problem is, how do you stop someone purchasing a gun that really has 'no priors'?
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  4367. Blaming capitalism is a misnomer. This is about currency devaluation and subsidies at the behest of a massive Federal Government. The robber barons didn't rip off workers due to capitalism. They ripped them off because the US Government gave them a monopoly on the Pacific railway.
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  4368.  @Steetheblade  Plant based makes absolutely no sense and it typically ends with people going to the doctor or the ER. You cannot under any circumstances get the B vitamins and other micro-nutrients that you need to survive. This is why all vegans have to be on massive supplementation. They would die in the pre-modern world. The miracle of nutrition in 'liver' alone disproves our ancestry and lineage. We don't have a large intestine the size of primates; therefore we cannot ferment our plant foods like they can.
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  4369. Another humanitarian crisis in the making, just like Syria. Here's some advice, if you aren't willing to house them yourselves then don't be virtue signaling for their arrival in America. Yet again, we have a disturbing number of (fight aged) males trying to leave the country and enter the West. We all know what happened after ISIS infiltrated the Syrian refugee crisis.
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  4370. Maybe he doesn't know? Not everything is conspiracy to hoist up douchebags. People are flaws and messed up; even more people are ignorant and out of the loop.
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  4371.  @raeblair6166  You must have powerful telekinesis powers to know his mind :)
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  4372. It's always been a scam bud lol
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  4373.  ActionGamerAaron  Even CNN was reporting that Harris is down double digits with black and latino voters.
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  4374.  @UneducatedEconomist  Just be careful! that Keynesian (growth) mindset is deeply engrained in our culture. This is why all businesses aim at growing until they finally BUST. Some things have a quality that doesn't need (growth or adjustment). Keep doing what you're doing though, but don't give in to the growth mindset please.
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  4375. Yep! I saw the writing on the wall over a decade ago. When I saw influencers marketing the idea of (coding) I already knew that the field was dying. Once the real money dries up, it becomes more lucrative to teach people skills; rather than actually use the skills.
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  4376. Nikki Haley is the GOP's last ditch effort to reignite the Bush dynasty and their policies.
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  4377.  @billyrubin3108  Because it gave amnesty to 2 million illegal aliens maybe?
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  4378. A recession in 2025 is imminent and it doesn't matter who was elected. People should spend more time studying economics rather than investing in conspiracies from CNN and FOX.
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  4379. In order for that to happen; human consciousness would need to devolve. No sign of that in my opinion. We're a tribal species of anarchic nomads (from a bio-psych standpoint). It's a miracle we even have a civilization, which is largely a perversion imo.
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  4380. They need to provoke Russia! How else will Blackrock and their buddies set up rentals and strip-malls in Ukraine when the war is over? lol
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  4381. I would forgive the student loans on one condition; end the Federal loan program...
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  4382. You're misunderstanding what he said. Inflation is self regulatory in that is naturally forces out demand due to high prices. So it naturally has to come back down if demand cannot be maintained. That is, if the US Government isn't manipulating the demand and using the banks to cushion it.
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  4383.  @MrThisischris  Well, thank the current Keynesian/FED model that we have. Most people don't know that 'by law' the Federal Reserve cannot allow the markets to deflate. They are forced to slash interest rates and print money to stabilize markets at the cost of higher inflation. If the nation dies; it will die by hyperinflation.
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  4384. Welcome to the club! I have a CDL with experience, so the only offers I get are (6 days a week - 12-16 hour days) OR (silence - no call backs). I also have experience with brewing, but apparently no brewery is hiring when we have 'massive amounts of open positions' - my @$$. More like (companies) are committing fraud by posting fake positions so they can fulfill their PPP loan requirements. The 2020s will go down in history as the age of absolute fraud. Not to get political, but it makes sense when your President 'at the time' is known as a con-man; at least in my opinion.
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  4385. lol my wife says I apologize too much; I guess I'm acquitted?
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  4386. This election MUST be won in a landslide by one candidate or the other. If it's not, we will never hear the end of election interference. The caldron will only begin to boil as one side or the other takes to the street to riot and dismantle the country.
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  4387. Exactly! The point is that this is exactly what NATO did with Ukraine bordering Russia!
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  4388. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy ratio) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  4389. If the last two years have taught us anything. It's that we are long overdue to implement anti-trust laws and to regulate tech algorithms. These media organizations are fully responsible for all the death, chaos, and disinformation destroying society and mental health.
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  4390. Oil and gas markets have nothing to do with Russia; it's what the US and European sanctions are doing to the markets. Btw, the US started this conflict in 2014 by overthrowing the Ukrainian government; thank the Obama Administration. We sold them anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank missiles to fight a border war against Russia in the east. Imagine if China overthrew Mexico and sold the new government weapons to fight the US in a border war.
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  4391.  @aarionsievo  To be fair, the EU is financing it's own political ambitions. Let's not point fingers lol We wouldn't be in this situation if NATO wasn't being used by corporations to turn Ukraine into a strip-mall.
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  4392. Well, their hands are tied. If they go one way; right wing zealots show up with lawsuits. If they go the other way; the ACLU and NAACP show up with lawsuits. Lawyers are bloodthirsty!
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  4393. Well, lefties don't believe in principle; it's a failing on their personality. Their minds are to abstract to care.
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  4394.  @everettfifield751  Do you feel better about yourself after saying that? Btw, when did we ever discuss economics? Am I supposed to read your mind that it's what you dislike about Vance? I can assure you that I'm probably more competent with economics than yourself. People with a wealth of wisdom don't typically flaunt it by using insults.
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  4395.  @everettfifield751  Or maybe he's less competent in economics than other places? Or perhaps you don't understand the subject either. Many things at play it would seem. Again, did we ever discuss economics? How am I supposed to assume that it's what you were irritated by? Plus, it wasn't the only subject discussed in the interview. If you take a step back and realize that; maybe you'll empathize and realize how ridiculous your previous post was. You pinpoint a particular portion of the interview and then insult my intelligence by assuming I should know what you're talking about. That (by definition) is arrogance and a set of ad hominems. You cite Economics 101 as if you are trying to make a point, but again (all I see is insults and copy-paste quotes). Imagine if I cited googled for 'minimum wage' and then insulted you by saying that (higher minimum wage) is economics 101? You have a chance to make a productive and intellectual argument. Don't waste it please. If you actually know what you're talking about; then prove it. So far you haven't proven anything other than your ability to insult others.
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  4396. Why? They instigated Biden's downfall purposefully (in my opinion). All of these is strategic! If it wasn't, they wouldn't be airing it on every single partner network.
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  4397.  @JJJ115583  I was thinking of that line too lol
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  4398. Women can never truly have more than 1 other best friend that isn't mutual to another. Female groups are always led by a Alpha and Beta narcissist due to the intense mating psychology women have. They surround themselves with other woman that they can control in order to ruin their mating prospects.
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  4399. Pro-choices advocates literally winning across the board and they're STILL complaining about the SCOTUS decision. Totally brain-dead people.
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  4400. To be fair, the government isn't conspiring (they're just dumb). It's the corporations that are manipulating the crap out of everything. All those $14/hr jobs on Indeed are companies (reposting) old Covid jobs for (less pay) so they can get their PPP loan forgiveness and NOT hire your butt.
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  4401. The danger of it being exploited? My friend, it's already been done. If using social media algorithms to distort human brain development and manipulate young people isn't exploitation by malevolent humans, then I don't know what is. Social media has almost single handedly created an entire generation of anti-social personality disorders. It has destroyed the incentive to maintain communities, intimate relationships, and having children. People will look back and say that Steve Jobs was the Karl Marx of the 21st century. Perhaps his intention was to allow people to better help each other and connect, but the opposite is taking place. People are actively using technology (in large) to dismantle all existing systems of prosperity.
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  4402. Saving it from an ice age? You mean climate change?
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  4403.  Paul L  Not an argument, elaborate...
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  4404. Not really, considering firms own approx 2.5% of all single family homes. The reality is that it's Boomers and Gen X that are individually buying the homes and then renting them out for speculation.
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  4405. I fear it's not the system to blame, but rather the people. At this rate, I can't foresee myself living in the US in 20 years. It will be unrecognizable. The wife and I are planning to leave the Midwest and go Westward. The impending retirement crisis will destroy us if the cultural shift doesn't first.
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  4406.  @BrooklinFunkProject  Make sure CJ follows your boat when you get there 👍
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  4407. Put border security and legal immigration status aside for just a second. Think about the US labor economy and wages. Many of these people (after receiving a green-card) will be happy to receive even 1/10th of the pay that a typical wage worker would be willing to receive. That's the real agenda that nobody is talking about. They are trying to reduce this countries bottom line to absolute 0. How can Americans compete in a labor market if any incoming immigrants will accept peanuts in comparison to current wages?
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  4408. I agree, but let's not pretend Democrats are innocent here. If they knew this was an issue for decades; they've done nothing to stop it.
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  4409. Looks like Disney will be flopping just in time for the recession we're headed for this Autumn. Timing couldn't be better! Hopefully they'll go out of business for good.
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  4410. No way the average immigrant is paying enough in FICA taxes to pay forward current retirees.
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  4411. I won't vote for a man that wrecked this country with inflation. 0% federal funds rate under his appointee Jerome Powell, PPP loans, etc. If Trump is elected again, he will push the Reaganomics card all over again.
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  4412. Personally, maybe all of this is a good thing; crap economy included. Maybe it will wake Americans out of their delusions into ACTUALLY doing what they preach. Do you hate globalism? Do you hate intervention? Do you hate surveillance? Then get off your butt and prove it by cancelling Amazon Prime and throwing your phone into a lake. You accepted the terms of use and wanted instant gratification the entire way to the destruction of this country (without responsibility). Now that it's coming to an end you all are going to pretend like you give a flying ****. Americans have nobody to blame but themselves and now we have to live with the consequences.
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  4413. Boys with no father have a very hard time learning 'empathy' in early childhood. This makes them very violent and irrational on a social level.
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  4414. It's always a desolation from the bottom up. Once the culture is compromised, everything rots. The fish rotting from the head is a misnomer. Rome fell because it had too many enemies from within and because it's own citizens turned against the ways that made them great. Americans is seeing the exact same thing happen. Rampant greed, envy, contempt, and nihilism across the board. I mean, vehicular deaths are up 10.5% in just the last year. I wonder if it's from too many people losing their attention span to smart-phone gifs that they jerk off their ego?
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  4415. The comment section is only reminding me that "with the knowledge of the world at people's fingertips" they choose to be ignorant. The number of unintelligent, illiterate, and downright irrational posts shows you how disconnected everyone is. Giving media access to the lower tier of society, driven to hysteria via constant dumpster fires by corporate America is what has led to this catastrophe.
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  4416.  @aliendroneservices6621  I've seen Chris, can't say I understand how that would be possible. Lard I'm pretty sure is just pig fat. If they were mixing it with seed oils, wouldn't they have to label it as a 'lard' blend or something? We have lots of lard, but we don't cook with it. Just use it to make soap.
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  4417.  @aliendroneservices6621  What on earth are they being fed? I assume most livestock on not immune to this?
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  4418. This is why I scrubbed all my social media accounts. They are going to use EVERYTHING against you. "But I haven't committed a crime!" Yes you did, you just don't know it until they accuse you 👍 I really think The Gulag Archipelago should be required in HS curriculums.
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  4419. WatchMOJO is partisan; make no mistake. Otherwise they wouldn't have omitted the ACTUAL good parts.
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  4420. All the more proof that modern Democrats have lost their minds. The 2025 GOP are essentially Clinton Democrats.
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  4421.  @zoeolsson5683  Again, this doesn't seem like an objective argument. ABC is a government owned station. Meaning that it's influenced by public lobbies and not products or services. I will never understand why people think that a government station (let alone a foreign station) cannot be partisan to politics in another country. These lobbies don't end at the nation's borders.
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  4422.  @Fomites  Yet, all I get is insults and no substance in criticism.
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  4423. Too late, Americans are never going to go back to working in textiles or manufacturing. We can't even get enough people to drive trucks for $70k a year.
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  4424. It won't change anything. Demographics surrounding Social Security and bond debts are the real killer, especially with high interest rates. Covid spending expedited the SS problem by roughly 4 years. All of those payouts had to go up with inflation or multiple steps short of it at least.
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  4425.  @cursedimageseveryday5559  It's not really about needing experience. The fact that this guy claimed he found out he had ADHD in less than a minute by watching him is insane. You don't need a degree to understand how much of a pseudo statement that is. The guy sounds like a grifter using his credentials to make money. It's why Youtube is filled with bs influencers.
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  4426.  @randomcandy1000  OR, maybe it's rising because it's in the profit interest of Pharmaceutical companies to push for more diagnoses so they can sell more pills. How can so people understand big oil corruption, but they can't understand Pharma corruption?
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  4427. I've actually heard that the CCP has been funding American law firms to pressure on early releases and light sentences alongside Judicial authority.
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  4428. Haven't you heard? The leftwing support anti-Semitism, but Trump voters are Nazis; get with the narrative dingbat and stop asking questions lol
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  4429. GOOD! Now throw Biden in jail too!
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  4430. Oh, I'm sorry, let's go back to the "do nothing, Mitch McConnel-esque, kick the can down the road" Republicans.
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  4431. It reflects VERY poorly on the institution! The fact that they weren't expelled amazes me. Who takes Harvard seriously if it's going to keep hundreds of anti-Semites that have no problem with Hamas butchering 1300 civilians?
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  4432.  @VictoriaRodriguez-by3fs  Right on! Most people here have a fantasy illusion of how government, regulation, and monetary policy is made.
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  4433. Well, people need to look forward; not backward. The Empire of the US 1948 until 2008 is coming to an end. It just takes a few decades. The next timeline of humanity will start (whatever that entails) and things will get better again. Even the Great Depression only technically lasted a decade. I highly doubt that any great downturn or collapse will last even a fraction of that time.
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  4434. Republicans are so funny. If the voting is compromised, what makes you think it's going to matter? As a conservative that hates the Biden Administration; you're going to be disappointed by the mid-term results. Whatever the outcome is; it will be contested with blood. That is the standard Americans have set and it will only get worse as the fall of Rome continues. People keep asking; "When is the crash, when is the fall, when is the collapse?" It's happening right before your eyes and your grandchildren will grow up to see it's final conclusion.
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  4435. How'd he win the election? The Democratic Party is completely removed from the issues surrounding the economy, immigration, and inflation. People voting for Harris typically have some things in common; they 401k is sky high OR they aren't the one paying the bills.
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  4436. I actually don't think so, depopulation would destroy the markets that allow them to live lavish lives. I think it's more about control so that they can maintain a class of serfs.
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  4437. While all these bozos in the media were busy selling the Covid dumpster fire. A total of 21 states now have constitutional carry 👍🥳
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  4438. People create their own societies. When societies tilt towards evil; it means that the average citizens is adding fuel to the fire. It's always bottom up; not top down.
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  4439. Omicron is just another media pumped issue to drive the narrative. My wife ended up getting strep and I ended up getting some viral bronchitis. Nobody even cares about Covid anymore, because it's NOT an issue. These Healthcare companies are still on Medicare payroll for getting positive PCR tests and the media is still in love with pumping the numbers. Follow the money. Nobody is scared of Omicron, they are scared of what their state will do to their businesses again. No
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  4440. Not sure what you mean. Inflation inflates retirement assets.
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  4441. Government started the crisis with poor incentives. If I was the government and guaranteed payment to you (for X product). You would raise the price over time too!
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  4442. The writing was on the wall in the early 2000s. These institutions are businesses; not schools. They speculate on industries and lobby for vague general educations of the most obsolete modelling. All to sell you degrees with no prospects.
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  4443.  @Teri_B.  Not going to happen! We don't have the man-power nor the political support to do so, even in Texas. Law enforcement on a national level is in the garbage. I'm from the Columbus, OH area and we have a cop shortage upwards of 35% and only half the staffing as we did in the early 2000s. With this country taking a major shift in leftist politics (largely due to age demographics). I'd expect amnesty across the board in the coming years. Nothing you can do! Politicians love the votes and employers love the cheap labor and temp workers.
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  4444. He'll never do it; he's next on the list of people that are going to get canned.
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  4445. Yep! I noticed when he said that as well.
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  4446. It's all about control and power; corporate greed. Russian held control of Kiev since the cold war. The Obama Administration overthrew the government in a coup back in 2014; funded by Congress. Now Russia wants it back.
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  4447. So nobody should interpret anything, ever? Got it.. Otherwise they'll get criticized by people that have just enough of an impressive vocabulary to express that they can't think or write intellectually :)
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  4448. If the universe is like any other normal distribution. Then probably 90% of the universe is uninhabited . Of those 10% remaining that have the 'ability' to contain life (at least bacteria). Most likely 90% of those lack life. So more or less, you only have 1% of planets contains some sort of alien life-form; even if it's microscopic. Of THAT 1% you have an even smaller number of planets that have some sort of pre-historic-esque alien life-form. Of those planets that contain some alien creatures, even fewer contain a civilization of alien or humanoid-like beings with reasoning abilities. Keep in mind, you have to consider all of this (with time). The universe spans millions of lightyears. It would be impossible to know how many civilizations have gone extinct on alien planets.
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  4449.  @mikeoglen6848  Usually working at a Law firm or as a Physician perhaps.
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  4450. As much as I agree, the Federal Government is the ONLY thing keeping education and healthcare running right now (from a funding perspective). Red states slash state budgets and throw them onto Federal funding programs so they can tell their voters that they cut spending. It's absolutely ridiculous. Reaganomics and NAFTA have absolutely destroyed this country the past 40 years. Giving artificially low rates to international giants and at the same time selling those jobs overseas to maximize their profit margins. At the same time, Gingrich Republicanism (1994-2020) that has completely unearthed the public sector to the Federal Government so that they could spend state dollars on political lobbyists and special interest corporations.
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  4451. There's nothing you can do; political speaking. Get rid of your debts, store your cash in commodity assets, and stay out of the way of the mob and government.
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  4452.  @harryk8696  Who's really nuts? The people doing the same thing over and over without good results? Then when it ends and they attribute their efforts to stopping it? Most medical professions are "pill salesman" and it's clear you've never gone into the medical field assuming these people know more than the average person. They only "know" what is approved in their scope of practice. Go... try and ask a random physician or nurse about cholesterol, they won't be able to tell you anything besides perhaps a few "foggy" memories of what the textbook said in their didactic year.
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  4453. You take down the wall and Islamic insurgents will butcher thousands of Israelis in a single day. The terrorists DO NOT care about empathy or coming together. The moment Israel shows compassion; their enemies will take advantage.
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  4454. So the lack of 15B in tax subsidies for low-income students will make the country more dumb? Have you seen the graduations rates? These kids couldn't care less and neither do their parents.
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  4455. Naive how? Perhaps you are assuming he is arrogant without evidence because of the nature of the conversation? Seems many people on here are doing that. I call it, "trying to make everyone think you're smart by pretending to see something that actually doesn't exist."
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  4456. Unfortunately, I think he's going to be your next President Tuesday night. There's absolutely no way to crunch the numbers towards Harris anymore and here's why. 1. Mail-in ballot requests are down -27% compared to 2020. 2. Age demographics 18-39 are down -35% in their early voting. 3. Early voting for Republicans is +12%; Independents +16%; Democrats -8%; though total early voting is still down. Unless you have a massive surge in Democrats (especially 18-39) show up Tuesday to vote in-person. From an analytical standpoint t's not going to happen.
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  4457. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans
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  4458. What are you smoking? Liberal Arts majors are the smartest people on earth 🤣.. Obviously!
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  4459.  @palmereldritch7777  I think you're thinking too personally. The conservative ideal that I abhor is that 'everyone can'. It's an ideology I grew up with. You have bell curves of intelligence that basically make 15% of the population (the ones below an IQ of 85) absolutely useless. So you have several options... 1. Let them walk and absorb the fiscal consequences. 2. Use funds from the treasury to afford them a living to minimize damage. 3. Institutionalize or kill them. Obviously, the third option leads to a very pathological natured society. Unfortunately, we have a very different society on a global stage. Intelligence isn't everything, bit it creates unavoidable inequalities in the Western world. Now if your suggesting that all of that care and assistance should fall on the responsibility of the individual, then I would agree. But that ship has LONG sailed.
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  4460.  @palmereldritch7777  My smoke joke wasn't to you btw. Not sure what the Nazis or Trump have to do with any of this. You should read Bell Curve by Charles Murray. It's about 20 years worth of IQ research on a global scale. Though a concern with intelligence research, as thorough as it is, is how it may empower supremacy movements. It's a difficult subject, but affects the world around us nonetheless. Yes, we absorb the fiscal and physical outcomes of an intellect lacking sub class. Maybe not directly through our tax dollars, but we absorb the actions of it. It has nothing to do with having pride over intellect. It's that the lower rungs of society are completely subjected to a limitation and the choices they make because if it. A person with an IQ of 90 has major limitations when it comes to partaking in a constructive society.
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  4461.  @matthewcaughey8898  Well, try and check up on him. The quiet people usually have a lot going on inside that they don't share due to fear of persecution, torment, or punishment.
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  4462. It won't matter at that point; the damage is done. Republicans will take control, the economy will then collapse and voters will blame Republicans. Same old politics every day...
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  4463. This is a non-issue propagated by social media. Firms hold roughly 2.5% of single family homes.
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  4464. @Chosen One Is there proof that eating meat is bad? Btw, epidemiological studies are not 'proof', they are correlative.
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  4465. If you want to mandate an experimental vaccine for a disease that has a 99.7% survival rate. You might want to reconsider where you are on the political spectrum. Keeping trust in a credentialing system that is the most corrupt in the world is the biggest problem. Science has become a cult, while the scientific method is being thrown out the window.
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  4466.  @hooper157  It's not about building websites or apps necessarily. It's about writing unique code that can perform a new task. Companies have no use for you if you can simply 'code'. We have senior software engineers that can't even find a job for the last 12 months. A whopping majority of it is done by algorithms that are (you guessed it) created by software engineers. Everything revolves around the 'exciting new toy'. This is why Computer Science majors are dumbfounded when they graduate because nobody wants to hire them outside of working at a 'support center' for $16/hr. It's all about competition; creating a new and innovative search engine, algorithm, etc. If you want to employ the skills of simple coding and website creation. Then you're better off marketing yourself as an (independent contractor) to Pizza shops and local stores that need help getting better website traffic and sales convenience. It requires a lot of cold calling and whatnot though. Corporations on the other hand already have these kinds of assets. They are looking for newer, bigger, and better.
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  4467. This is exactly the reason that Republicans are going to lose in 2024. They suddenly thought switching to social politics would save their movement. Nobody except bitter old hermits even remotely take this seriously.
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  4468.  @Tijuanabill  Yep lol, anybody that knows anything understands that the switch was a myth. No logic; only lies and revisionist history.
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  4469.  @ericm6415  ? Not following the logic... How? There's a difference between working for someone and consistently lying for them.
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  4470. Economy is bad, but that doesn't mean everyone is suffering. The people complaining the most are the people that have massive student loan debt on top of a mortgage they got in 2022-2023.
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  4471.  @kokomo9764  What should we derive from the numbers that others are not?
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  4472.  @karlarcher8773  I don't think that those examples are rather mutually exclusive. Let's not pretend that outside forces imploded Britain. Just like America, it was complacency within that was our greatest enemy. In my personal experiences, there is no community anymore in Western countries. Yet they want to complain about foreigner ruining it. I think technology and addiction ruined it if anything
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  4473. That's literally the anti-thesis of why people voted for Trump. The international oligarchy hates his guts. They have no power over him! That doesn't mean he doesn't have his own ambitions, but we've seen what they intend to do and people don't want it.
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  4474. So glad you could get Bruce Willis on your show 'in character everything; ready to save the world.' Thanks Joe!
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  4475.  @tylerthayer6673  Believe it or not, but corporations are giving you the best prices. I know everybody hates them, but you'll simply pay more for smaller competition. It's because they can compete with scalable models and small business can't.
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  4476. My own family (Republicans) can't see it. My wife and I and several others are the only ones in our entire family seeing this. My own parents are pretending nothing is going on and my mother is trying to educate her neighbors on why they need to get the vaccine! There has got to be something in the water. I don't drink public water. But if there isn't than it has to be mass complacency. People have it too good and aren't prepared to fight for it because they're accustomed to everything working 24/7. Give government an inch, they will take a mile. "Two weeks to slow the spread" turned into, "Two jabs to keep your Civil Rights." What's next: "Two arrests to send you and your wife off to a concentration camp?" If anybody has not read "The Gulag Archipelago", then they need to ASAP. The parallels between the beginning of the regression in the Soviet Union and the US is identical.
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  4477. Yeah, it's called 56% inflation and 10% wage bumps since January 2020. Welcome to the working class of the US. I do not like Trump on a personal level, but I'm not voting for a continuation of Biden's policies via Harris.
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  4478. Well, I think it's important to note (how) things are being taken from you; instead of inferring it's the cause of some mysterious boogie-man. What you really mean is that "Your standard of living is rapidly declining in (allegedly) the best country on the planet." There are a multitude of reasons to explain this and none of which have to do with a magical boogie man behind the Wizard of Oz curtain. 1. The American Empire is in decline (as all Empires before it). I'm fully aware the US is a Republic, but if you use imperial terminology; it makes a lot of sense. 2. Technological innovation out-competes the growth of human intelligence. So the more advanced a society becomes, the more people get left behind. 3. Yields on public debt/interest are impossible to pay-back. We have $175 Trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities and those debts have to be paid with interest; which now sits at 12% of the total Government Budget. What happens when it hits 50%?
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  4479. Too late! We are raising an entire generation of agoraphobics, rioters, and school shooters. Your faith in people to do the right thing has resulted in an epidemic that will forever change the culture of the West. While I believe that humans do have the capacity for adaptability; it will comes at a major cost. We are talking about an entire generation that will have virtually no children, no marriages, no home ownership, be a high cost to taxpayers, and completely anti-social/criminal. I feel like we are seeing the creation of a bad culture in real time. We can look back in time and see how Southern culture, Appalachian culture, or even inner city black culture became so dysfunctional. However, we are literally watching the birth of how the metro suburbs became dysfunctional. I feel there will be a long list of (apartment dwelling Gen As) that are seen as worthless welfare wimps that feed off the negativity of tech addiction.
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  4480. No reason to dislike him; he's the most genuine of people if I've ever seen one. He's been through quite a lot and has great insight for the topics at hand.
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  4481. Can we get Barry back? He's actually starting to look like a half decent President...
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  4482. Just as bad as not inviting TESLA to the Electric Vehicle Summit....
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  4483. It feels like there's no way to win. Corporations want to poison you and governments want to imprison you.
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  4484. Oh please, these are not the end times. You religious people are indulging in cultist behavior. This is simply the end of a financial cycle called 'The American Empire'. I'm certain new times and opportunities will take it's place in time.
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  4485.  @fluteloop6737  I don't think he's a joke, but picking Sergey Brin's ex-wife is a mistake. You know, the guy that co-founded GOOGLE? Sounds like either a plant or a gold digger. Either way, I smell corruption.
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  4486.  @fluteloop6737  This whole political circus makes me want to leave the US honestly. My wife and I keep talking about it. Once these political problems snowball; they're almost impossible to stop. So naturally it makes me nervous for the future of this country.
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  4487.  @fluteloop6737  Thanks! Same to you :)
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  4488.  @sofiars0922  Nothing will change. If anything, he'll fire Jerome Powell (like he wanted to do in 2020) and appoint somebody that will slash interest rates. Everybody will celebrate and feel relieved. Then we'll hit inflation 2.0 in 2026/2027. People will feel like they got hit by a train.
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  4489. Not this time! Considering how tight the Federal Reserve is trying to keep the economy (also considering how much Fannie Mae owns) there won't be another crash like 2008. There will definitely be a big slump in the market and maybe real estate for 3-6 months, but it will be short lived after they cut rates and start QE all over again. After that, inflation will be hitting 15-20% in 2025 I reckon. It will make the 1970s look like good times!
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  4490.  @jjc4577  He plays too much mortal combat and thinks he can knock out everybody in a home invasion.
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  4491.  @djp1234  Putin's puppet? You need to stop watching mainstream media bud.
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  4492.  @djp1234  You can't pick and choose what a joke is subjectively. You'll just run circles trying to justify the bias. One way or another; he said it. If you don't like it; blame CNN for making it an official report.
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  4493.  @davidtheboa1997  I ask questions and search for truth; by definition that means I'm probably pretty skeptical.
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  4494. Most influencers are completely fake; probably 98% of them. The ones that are truly wealthy typically made all of it gambling on crypto. However, keep in mind that money made easy typically goes out as fast as it came in, because there's no integrity attached to managing it.
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  4495. Come on Bernie, just join the club already. People have been fantasizing about a Trump/Bernie duo forever.
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  4496. $35k? You might as well apply for income assistance; you'll get more.
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  4497. What the actual fck?
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  4498. Not really, if your body is not accustomed to burning fat whatsoever; it will source energy from proteins FIRST! If you're in shape and been doing this for years, well of course it will source fat after glycogen is depleted in the liver. Having no experience in producing large amounts of keytones will make you go catabolic FASTER than someone that does. It's different for everyone.
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  4499. Problem is, if you stand up to the bully named the (US). They will launch a full scale disinformation campaign and invasion against you and your citizens. They'll claim they have evidence of a WMD and use that to flatten you and your citizens.
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  4500. It's the media, they'll always lie and make you paranoid during election week.
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  4501. Check out Russel Brand as well! No, it's not a joke, trust me :)
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  4502. It's all in interest rates. The FED cutting rates by 100pts in September has pretty much guaranteed a recession in early to mid 2025.
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  4503. Dumb analogy. Nazis came to power because German citizens never questioned their institutions. Electing Trump is the very essence of defying corrupt institutions.
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  4504. Freedom is not freedom if the entire system decays into anarchy. Freedom depends on a strong culture and system to maintain it. The Federal Government is screwed up, yes! But you'll lose a lot more by dissolving it.
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  4505. Ohioan here! I've voted Republican most of my life. The GOP is just as infiltrated as the Democratic Party. They are traitors on both Federal and State levels. Our Governor Mike DeWine is an absolute pos.
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  4506. How does this guy get this many views every video and only has 1 million subs/
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  4507. Banking needs to be SOLELY conducted by each state bank and the Treasury; plus keep tight restrictions and standards on how to be approved for that debt. I like RFK's ideo on Federalizing mortgages at a flat 3.00% rate. All of your home loans get sold to Fannie Mae regardless. However, those bankers continue to scoot regulations so they can make massive profits on risky borrowers.
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  4508. Yep, that's called DOLLAR DEVALUATION lol It's what happens when the government keeps printing money to prop up social safety nets; SS, Medicare, Pensions etc.
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  4509. The DNC thinks she's Obama 2.0 She has his skin shade, but that's it. And Democrats KNOW it; she's pathetic.
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  4510. Good one :)
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  4511. Never going to happen; it's all a show like everything else. Nothing will be solved until the FED shuts down, the economy collapses, and the USD gets removed as the Reserve currency. This is American imperialism in it's decline; like all empires before it.
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  4512. Oh please, the amount of Palestinian support (due to media disinformation) is rabid in the states. How do you defend them after Hamas killed 1300 in a terrorist attack.
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  4513. It depends! People suffering from a litany of disorders and diseases should have gotten the vaccine. I know it's hard to acknowledge, but a large number of Americans were already on their death bed from their lifestyle. People who were healthy probably shouldn't have had the vaccine, because the likelihood of adverse effect outweighed the benefits to the immune system.
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  4514. It significantly curbs the volume. You'd have to have a very high turnout of pregnant women to voluntarily try to get an alley-way abortion for that to be even remotely true. On top of that, legalizing abortion drastically increases human trafficking in any country of practice. This is because traffickers can hide their crimes by aborting unborn children of their victims. Pro-choice laws in the grand-scale are extremely dangerous as far as their results and unintended consequences.
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  4515. What about eastern Ukrainians? lol
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  4516. So Puerto Ricans should vote for Kamala because a comedian made a joke about the landfill problems in Puerto Rico? What planet are you people living on?
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  4517. Religion is a scam bro; all for narcissists to control their victims.
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  4518. They acted like 'Bush' Republicans for the last 4 months. Modern Republicans hate Bush neocons.
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  4519.  @davidgill3356  Doesn't matter if it's real or not. If you walk into a convenience store and wave a fake gun around or hold it in the pocket of your hoodie; you will be charged with brandishing a firearm. It doesn't matter if it's fake; you convinced the victims that it was a robbery. It's the same as attempting to sell cocaine (that's actually sugar, flour, or salt). If your intent was to sell cocaine (fake or not) in order to solicit business; you will be charged with distribution of narcotics.
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  4520. Yeah, CNN and it's partners are notorious for staging media footage in order to get better shots and reactions. They did this to a ridiculous degree in Ukraine. They would go to Poland and film decommissioned tanks and start fires behind them and film them at the right angle. Then afterwards post it as a Russian casualty.
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  4521. Psychopaths are exclusively self-centered. They will do anything and everything to manipulate, deceive, and adjust a situation to benefit themselves. If they don't do something with another person in mind; it is solely about the repercussion affecting their image. There is no such thing as integrity, honesty, or loyalty with them; it's all a facade for getting their way. They also have no shame about it.
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  4522. Happy Birthday! I'm sorry to hear that. Honestly, I'm not trying to say what you should do, but it doesn't really sound like a relationship.
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  4523. Delusional, Democrats have lost some 20% of their base to the Trump vote. People are tired of the corruption going on under the DNC.
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  4524.  @ThaedDavid  David, you are your family are living in the matrix and you don't even know it. It's extremely naïve to think any government is doing this solely for your well being. Do you really think they will give up the ability to shut down an entire economy and take away a person's civil liberties once they found out they can do it? No...
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  4525.  @scuttlebut  Why do people think they sound smart when using the term 'bankruptcy' to denigrate Trump? Bankruptcy court is a tax service that allows for the elimination of debts thru reorganization. All fortune 500 companies use the bankruptcy laws. See, this is the problem. People have an expectation based off ignorance and then use it to pursue a false narrative and affect a way of thinking that is unrealistic. This leads to irrational beliefs and emotionally charged expectations.
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  4526. Projection there Genie. You Democrats are so full of hate. This is why 20% of your base ditched in the last 12 months. DNC corruption all around. Btw, Tulsi and Robbert took of all their supporters with them :)
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  4527. It's all insults from Democrats: no solutions.
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  4528. Bless this woman! She needs to be protected... Too many suicides under a bridge with two shots to the back of the head.
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  4529. According to what? Your poor sense of judgement?
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  4530. Already voted!
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  4531. That's pitiful bud, don't listen to these losers. Stop viewing everything as a victim. If life is not what you want where you live, go somewhere else. You can make $20.00/h as a package handler just about anywhere in the United States. That's no excuse for whining on your smartphone or computer that you can't do anything in life. Go finance a box truck for $17k and go drive loads for $100k+ a year. The whining and doing-nothing in this culture is what's killing everybody.
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  4532. Oh yes, it's DRAMA to espouse that commodity prices are up 20-50%. Only somebody being (afforded) their lives would think it's hogwash. Either a child or welfare recipient.
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  4533. Yeah, that's why I decided to vote for Kennedy like 6 months ago. You people sticking to Biden have no guts whatsoever. Keep party-line voting and then pretending the world is saved every 4 or 8 years lol
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  4534.  @baconator1550  Exactly? Well, make up your mind man lol
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  4535.  @ERAforALL  What does Putin have to do with this?
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  4536.  @ERAforALL  What propaganda am I posting? Btw, where'd you get the idea that people are posting Putin's propaganda?
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  4537. I find it sad that TWO nations with (below replacement fertility levels) are hashing it out in Europe right now. Which will ultimately end up destroying a large portion of that generation.
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  4538. I think you meant Kallama.
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  4539. Well, people fail to define terms. There's always voter fraud, but is there 100,000 of votes worth of voter fraud or even tens of thousands in swing states. I think that's the issue with many people.
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  4540. You're mistaken; Ukraine, Libya, and Syria we're coups organized by the Obama Administration. Russia is simply retaliating for NATO's power play on them. These psychopaths want a world war. They're losing grip on their seats, so they will take desperate and irrational measures to maintain it. Even at the expense of everyone's death. This is why the situation is so delicate.
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  4541. Birth control pills...
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  4542. A mask isn't going to do anything. The scientific research never changed, it was simply ignored. If you aren't at least wearing a fitted N95, then the mask you have does nothing. Mandates if anything have caused more infections. False sense of security and people group together with masks. That's why the infection rates were always higher in mask mandate cities.
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  4543. Well, these are the results of NAFTA and Reaganomics that have continued long after the 1980s. The idea under Reaganomics is that allowing low interest rates will push companies to have more productivity and better ideas for products. It's not just about tax cuts. What actually happens, is that corporations take on these cheap debts and engage in lazy and unproductive behavior because they can maximize profits on such low interest debts. Afterwards, they use that debt to pay themselves, SHORT their own company, and ride it down on bankruptcy. They keep their salaries that they earned while working at the company, they keep the profits from shorting the company, and then YOU the tax-payer bails them out thru the bankruptcy laws.
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  4544. People say 'follow the rules' when they don't even understand the rules. CNN's rules claimed that each candidate needed a minimum of 270 electoral votes in the states they had ballot access to. This is hilarious, considering that Kennedy had 8 states (where he was on the ballot) and Trump + Biden has ZERO! This is because most states don't allow ballot access until August. For Kennedy, they said he had to have 270 electoral votes worth of states he was on the ballot. They qualified Biden and Trump because they were both 'registered' to be on the ballot of at least 270 electoral votes worth of states. People don't learn and they certainly don't read.
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  4545. Saying that a considerable number of Muslims view homosexuality as a sin punishable by death is NOT the same as what Kanye said. I don't see hypocrisy. Ben has always confronted the fundamentals of Islam and surveyed sentiment in the Muslim world.
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  4546. Well, all of this comes down to the tech industry, mixed with the USD as the reserve currency. US interests lie in Taiwan primarily for semi-conductors; Nvida, Taiwan Semi, Qualcomm, etc. Proxy wars have been raging between the Dept. of Commerce and China for quite some time. However, recently the US began banning high-end semi-conductor exports/imports between the Chinese and US. It's been crippling their industry since October 7th of 2022. So the Chinese will now become more reliant on Taiwan and the US to fund their tech advancements. This puts China at a major disadvantage to be a tech competitor and is most likely going to be looked back upon as the primary precursor to war. Similar to the US oil embargos placed on Japan before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. On top of that, all global nations know that the US cannot continue to guarantee it's public debts; the US included. So, at the same time, US officials are most likely going to use any military conflict to absorb their debt obligations and possibly make other nations pay for them. This is largely what is happening in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Ukraine is massively indebted to a series of long-term funding contracts between them and the United States; as are Germany, France, Poland, etc. The USD is at stake of being demounted and not replaced. All nations of the world know this! The US will eventually have to go into hyperinflation or a series of global/military involved agreements to alleviate the debt. It's all a game of "I'm getting desperate, so pay for my stuff!"
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  4547.  @SculptExpress-gv8jp  It has nothing to do with being wealthy. As long as GDP/productivity is not growing with linear with debt obligations; wages stagnate and prices grow. It's been happening since the 1980s, but it was largely unnoticeable until 2021-2023. When it basically flashed forward 15 years worth of inflation in only two years.
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  4548. Well, this comment didn't age well. There are many homes for sale and it's boomers offering CASH; millennials and zoomers that are desperate to get a home.
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  4549.  @AquaS0ma  Your argument doesn't make sense. People are not denied life saving medical treatment because they can't afford it. So I'm not sure if it's ignorance or you're just trying to guilt trip people. By law, a hospital cannot neglect someone with a life threatening injury, illness, or disease. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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  4550. Never in my lifetime did I think that Republicans would become the party of anti-trust. Big tech and media corporations are a threat to our very lives. It's all one big cartel...
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  4551. Believe it or not, it is. People are destroying the entire system; not politicians. People either go INTO office knowing that their are cows to be milked OR they go in way over their heads like David Schweikert and a handful of others. People simply don't care! Try to talk about Social Security reform to anybody over 40 and they will chop your head off. Americans don't care, they want things to work with 0 effort. Kind of like how we all order DoorDash now and never leave the house.
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  4552. Election fraud alone cannot explain the massive amount of votes for these candidates and other local positions. More people are voting now than they ever have; you can thank social media for increasing voter turnout. We need to face an unfortunate reality. The more people that vote, the more incompetent the politicians become. Voting used to be reserved to people that were intelligent and articulate enough to understand economic issues and convey them to their community. Call it natural selection if you will. When you have more people vote, it is inevitable that most of those new voters will come from (sub-average) intelligent ranges. Driving down the average IQ of the voting process. Personally, I don't think anybody under 25 should be able to vote. It's insane to think that a high-schoolers that has no assets, no land, and no experience gets to have a say in the larger political circle. They get to have a say, but face non of the consequences? That's like allowing people to vote in stockholder meetings, even though they own 0 stock in the company.
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  4553. Well, they claim that your (lack of vaccination) is a threat to their health. Then they endlessly cite garbage like polio, SwineFlu, Influenza etc.
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  4554. It'll probably hurt prices and supply, but most of the demand will probably turn towards outside producers that already exist. Instead of farmers keeping demand and being able to raise prices and have lower supply.
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  4555. In order for there to be a housing market crash, there needs to be a considerable number of inventory to put back on the market; foreclosures and such. Unless millions of Americans lose their jobs and default on their mortgages; it's not going to happen. If there IS going to be a market crash, it won't be stemming from the housing market. It will most likely come from the agriculture, energy industries, or even retail in the event of a sanctions against China should they invade Taiwan.
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  4556. What are you talking about? What's your rationale?
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  4557. Bots are really desperate on here to prop up Kalama lol
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  4558. I know what you mean! Sorry that happened to you Maria :)
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  4559. Whether or not the US/Ukraine/Israel are involved in this massacre. Regardless of the truth; it will heighten global tensions to a new high. Make no mistake, we are in the early stages of WW3. I fear we will look back on moments like this as we do at 1938 before WW2.
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  4560. SCOTUS will never undo this ruling in Colorado; nor do I think they will make a ruling in general. If the Supreme Court rules against Colorado's removal of Trump under the 14th amendment; they will have to argue why. The most likely reason being (you can't implicate the 14th amendment without a formal charge and conviction). If any of you are watching the Georgia legal case with Trump surrounded the election; this argument was already used. It fell flat on it's face.
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  4561. Nobody wants to say it, but a country with declining numbers of child and growing numbers of useless 30 year old men is a freaking disaster. There have never been this many predators lurking around in this country. Law enforcement agencies are backhauled crazy with murder/rape/abduction cases?
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  4562. How is he going to axe epa regulations?
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  4563. Darkhorse Podcast and Russel Brand have great content 👍
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  4564. Misery loves company...
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  4565. You should be standing with your community or your family. The left and right will ALWAYS use manipulation tactics to attract fodder for their own agenda. An individual may not betray the cause, but the cause will always betray the individual. Once you realize how both sides are completely pathological; you won't un-see their tactics.
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  4566. It's already been washed my friend and you are playing into the propaganda. Apparently Covid taught people nothing about jumping to rash conclusions. I don't blame Russia for invading. Funny you say you can't blame a black man, which you indeed can. His name is Barack Obama. His administration orchestrated the overthrow of the Ukrainian Government in 2014 and replaced it with the current puppet state. We sold them firearms and missiles to fight the Russians in border skirmishes and now Putin is angry about the push for NATO. I don't blame him; imagine if China had done this with Mexico.
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  4567.  @buckbenelli8  Ah, so we should be ruled by 'do good' dictators! Got it!
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  4568. Well, I don't actually think it's about race. It's about returning civilization to a feudal state. True global power cannot exist when families and communities are the backbone of nations.
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  4569. I would agree, but in all honesty I feel that most people are regressing (in all age groups). People complain about the illiteracy and ignorance of Zoomers all the time, but I find basically all age groups to be losing brain cells. If you can't find wisdom anywhere. It probably means you're wise beyond your years. It took me a very long time to figure that out as I endlessly looked for people to take me under their wing; only to be disappointed.
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  4570. Evil parents create kids that need (unhealthy coping mechanism) to traverse modern life as a child in 2023. Parent abuse and neglect is astronomically high right now.
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  4571. Welcome to the Great Resignation! Vaccine mandates are only intensifying the red-pilling. Covid has taught Americans that the economy as they know it is NOT free. That they would rather be with their kids and do their own business rather than slave away at a corporate job, whose wages don't keep up with inflation and has no time off. Personally, I think the entire system needs to crash. We're being farmed by Pharmaceutical companies and corporations.
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  4572.  @mmanda515  I'm happy for you! Stay well!
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  4573. Calcium builds up to form plaques in order to prevent the inflamed areas of the artery from bursting and causing a stroke. This is your bodies way of protecting itself. The question is, what is causing the inflammation? There is actually ZERO evidence to support the idea that animals fats are causing this inflammation; it's all epidemiological. What does cause arterial inflammation are pharmaceutical, high blood sugar (glycosilated cholesterol). The entire role of cholesterol is to transport lipids for energy. Something is interfering in the process.
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  4574. We've had on average (200,000 detentions) per month for the last 18 months. This level of illegal immigration is unprecidented! Most people don't know how bad the border actually is right now.
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  4575. You and everybody else bud. A lot of Republicans are already exhausted from the last 8 years. Haley being his VP will easily wipe out a quarter of all routine voters. They'll stay home and so would I.
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  4576. It's the other way around, BigPharma has captured a large portion of government and uses them as a gate-keeper for their profits by getting rid of competition.
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  4577. I actually quit smoking by drinking a cup of coffee each morning; no joke. I had no temptation to buy them anymore.
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  4578. You don't trust the voting apparatus because FOX News spent 2 entire months trashing it with guest after guest humoring voter fraud and allegations formed on Facebook. Didn't anybody watch Fox v Dominion? FOX recanted everything and said they believed none of it. People are still unaware that voter turnout was insanely high in every part of the country. Even counties Trump won by 92% had an additional 30% turnout than the previous election. 2500 overturned Federal cases of election (many by Trump appointed judges) should tell you something. The entire thing was a farce!
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  4579. Late stage capitalism mixed with a plateauing human evolution for the century. That's the primary reason that the inequalities are out of control. Human intelligence can't compete at the rate of the evolution of technology and business. More and more people are getting left behind.
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  4580. Could the fentanyl crisis affect the water supply in any way? I've heard that it's excessively hard to get those traces out of the water supply. Do we even know if there are side affects in the case of mass delusion?
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  4581. People sue all the time, but government bureaucrats (mainly ones that have previously worked for pharma) choke up everything they can. J&J currently has a 37,000 claim lawsuit for baby powder causing cancer in children.
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  4582.  @nettewilson5926  Not exactly! Many people will say that we are entering the digital age, but I'd argue we've been living in it for the last 25-28 years. The digital age is going to end soon and something else will take it's place. Inflation and debt are certainly issues for Gen Z. However, the larger issue is that large majority of Gen Z are indebted to educational fields that are soon to be obsolete. Tech is in a massive bubble and the knowledge needed in order to maintain the current cloud/software networks don't require such a large pool of workers. The longer people stay on the tech-train looking for work; the poorer they're going to get.
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  4583. Yep! All of them! Our country is being sold to the highest bidder. Get ready for techno-feudalism.
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  4584. TWO things! 1. Criminals don't know who is carrying a weapon. It's much harder to identify who is concealing a weapon. 2. Suspicious people up to no good no longer have to worry about being 'caught' with a weapon by police. In previous times, many of the altercations with police were caused by (wannabe criminals) not wanted to be slapped with a gun charge. This allows the 'edge' to be taken off for people up to no good, but also forces them to think harder when it comes to the idea of robbing or assaulting somebody.
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  4585. I heard some time ago that Mexican cartels make about 40% of their profits on weed sales. Plus, I've also heard that most people don't like to buy cartel weed due to some kind of quality control issue. Can you elaborate on both?
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  4586. These crazy women are all on birth control. Normal women don't do this crap.
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  4587. It's both an ethnic group and religion. Jewish people have a genetic bloodline that is certainly traceable. One cannot be Jewish (religiously or racially) unless their mother was of Jewish decent. You can practice Judaism I suppose, but you cannot call yourself Jewish unless you meet genetic criteria. That's a fact for you.
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  4588. NATO has a large number of sanctions on Russian energy already; natural gas included. What you say makes absolutely 0 sense. It's THEIR pipeline; Biden of which said the US would destroy in February 2022 should the Russian's invade. This is without a doubt a covert US-NATO operation. I guarantee you it was done to ensure that no further negotiations take place in Europe that could forego the nasty energy crisis that Europe is about to face going into the colder months. For the sake of the US continuing it's war path and power crave to (maintain USD hegemony in the face of a debt crisis). Blowing up the pipeline is ONLY is the best interest of the US; nobody else. So reevaluate the situation; do you honestly think Russia did it? Come on lol
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  4589. I think Democrats are arrogantly expecting the 18-40 demographics to save them. However, let's be real here. Love or hate Donald Trump, anybody that has to work for a living has not enjoyed the last 4 years. Anybody that's recently graduated from college KNOWs that the economy is in shambles and getting a job is almost impossible. Switching jobs seems harder than it ever has. I think they are going to be very surprised when they find out that young people are going to largely switch their positions because it's near impossible to afford life like they used to.
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  4590. Yeah, scary!
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  4591. The next corporate targets are India and Mexico.
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  4592.  @TriScaleCreations  lol (needle in a stack of needles).
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  4593.  @dianemasterson2132  Just be open with him. Trust is the BEST way to maintain a healthy relationship. If he has trust issues, then try to brainstorm about his childhood with him and make him feel loved and supported. When I was first dating my (now wife). I said stupid things like; "I want a prenup." People make mistakes based on bad information all the time. Plus, even if we did hate each other (she makes more than me) So it would be dumb lol
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  4594.  scotttommasulo5512  While I agree that the media is being dishonest. What did Trump even mean by bloodbath? The auto industry is already in a bloodbath; used car prices on average are $25,000. We don't manufacture here anymore. By bloodbath, he's making it sound like it would get worse? lol
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  4595. DEI desperation probably. I actually feel really bad for her because I have a high suspicion that she's not doing it willingly.
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  4596.  @drmachinewerke1  He's a drone that heard it on the media.
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  4597.  @BaxterBlue We're being duped. ; I guarantee it. Both sides of the media want WW3 at this point.
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  4598. How much longer will it take the average person to realize that virtually all the hate is coming from the left?
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  4599. The WEF is just a collection of c0c#-suckers that enjoy making money on disaster capitalism. They take advantage of everything to profit on your demise.
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  4600. We got 'involved' when we aided in the overthrow of the Yanukovich administration in 2014, after which we installed Zelensky. Ukraine has no sovereignty and hasn't for the last 100 years. Ukraine is whatever the highest bidder says it is, unfortunately.
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  4601. It's the culture; once people accept that, the rest will make sense. America is a circus for gambling and virtue signaling.
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  4602.  @helloitsmehb  Better than having a cesspool of third parties like Canada or Europe.
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  4603. Because she spam reports the same bs over and over.
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  4604. There's no union apprenticeship that pays that much; even seniority doesn't cut that. You're describing people running a businesses; not working for somebody else. Plus, most apprenticeships (regardless of field) pay like $25k max annually. That's a lot of time to be idle in slave wage territory. Unless you know somebody that does that (maybe in California) due to inflated wages; I've never seen that.
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  4605. Saving your money isn't going to do anything. At least hedge it against inflation in an ETF that follows commodity value.
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  4606. Well, this is why people are trying to get rid of Section 230. These corporations need to be held accountable for the content that they allow to be published. They play this game where they defend themselves in court as a forum, but then they act like a publisher in all other situations.
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  4607. Overconsumptions is always the position of the pseudo science climate activists. They'll never admit that they literally redirect water sources for environmental reasons or neglect to manage forests. They'll blame everyone else before they take responsibility.
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  4608.  @karenmbbaxter  You can never trust an untested mind. The most dangerous people in the world are 'true believers' with no regrets or mistakes. You can learn more from a home-less man than your average Doctor I'd wager.
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  4609.  @CaptainMyCaptain33  Well, I don't think it's necessarily stupid. I despise Trump, but if RFK stays in the race (he'll probably get 8-10% tops). This will likely hand the election to Harris. If he withdrawals completely with no endorsement. Then his vision and all the work that his campaign did will die. I think he saw this as the best option to save his vision. I'm hoping Trump will make these his front end goals, but I doubt it in the long term. Trump has a bad reputation for screwing everybody lol Maybe RFK being in an administrative position will hoist up his support for another run.
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  4610. You can't balance the budget without reforming Social Security and Medicare; it's impossible. But nobody wants to actually look at the budget; they'd rather just kick the can or ignore reality.
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  4611. BTC is one of tens of thousands of crypto currencies. In the end, scam or not; all the currency ends up in the hands of a handful of investors that give it complete control of the price. Wealthy people stay wealthy and the rest rest impoverished thinking that they will build wealth.
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  4612. I'd believe it! I live in Columbus, OH; Mayor Ginther in conjunction with the Ohio DNC were giving out annual (Columbus Zoo) passes to undocumented migrants along with brochures and resources that they were receiving after arrival. I ended up going Memorial Day with my family and there were quite literally thousands of non-English speaking asylum seekers wandering around the zoo. It looked like we were in Mexico city that day lol
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  4613.  @dumpd6227  What makes you say that?
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  4614. Blame the politics. Youtube ONLY decided to remove dislikes because The White House, Congress, and Democrats were complaining that all their videos had a 99 to 1 dislike ration. Not good PR to keep dislikes around...
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  4615. Who ever said that US expects free access to foreign markets? If anything, the US expects heavy tariffs anywhere they want to do business. The entire idea of a tariff is the relieve trade imbalances and unfair practices.
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  4616.  @clemclemson9259  Yet, FOX News was sued for $750 Million for having all their outlets and partners dive into a conspiracy to expose 'election fraud' that couldn't be proven. Your ability to 'research anything you want' is an illusion for most people. True, there are ways to fool-proof certain information, but it's all owned by a few large companies. It's a single bullet of information ricocheting all over the internet from one source; giving the idea that there are multiple sources. If you haven't noticed, even most small media outlets aren't doing 'field work'. They are stealing the same sources from large corporate media networks and using them to report on their own channel. 'Nothing is what it seems; it is only what it can be made to look like.' If you think you're fool proof, then I'm afraid you've already been suckered in. Never become complacent!
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  4617. I don't exactly blame them! The damage that the US Government has inflicted on the world has made us a major target and a hated nation.
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  4618. Not exactly! Many of these jobs are being turn into part time, but the real problem is unemployment insurance fraud. They are creating ghost jobs and interview quotas so that they can qualify for a tax deferment in each state collecting insurance premiums for the unemployment fund.
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  4619. Please stop calling them liberals; get with the times please. Liberalism doesn't exist anymore...
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  4620. It's pathetic how stupid people in this country have become. If you want to know what's wrong with America, look no further than the people living there.
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  4621.  @Tortilla.Reform  Are you insane? You're literally accusing Trump of what Harris does at every single interview. She can't explain a single position and then throws out the 'go to my website' conclusion.
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  4622. Kawala is too busy hiding in a tree.
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  4623.  @madvillainy6845  Well, many people escrow. If your insurance and property tax go way up; your mortgage goes up without your (home loan) ever moving.
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  4624.  @angelr.ricado3647  I wouldn't sweat it. I truly think it's not even going to be close. He'll probably finish with a national lead of 7-9pts and also win the popular vote; which hasn't happened in almost 40 years. From an analytical standpoint, I truly cannot conceive how Democrats can win at this point while missing key demographics. Unless they magically surge 30%+ ON election day from their 2020 stats; it's not going to happen. Plus, I highly doubt election interference or fraud will be an issue. There's not enough mail-in ballots to change the outcomes of battleground states considering the deficit of key age and race demographics..
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  4625.  @JOHNizSiK  I don't think it will come to that. Mail-in ballot requests are down -27% and benefit Democrats (historically 3:2) Even IF they cast all of them; it won't be like it was last time. You also had millions of University students stuck with mommy and daddy under lockdown in 2020. So they got a free ride to the polling station, but not this time lol
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  4626.  @BonesJones85  They don't have tens of millions of Unviersity students sitting at home with mom and daddy to get a free ride and reminder to go and vote. Early voting stats have 18-39 down some -25% in comparison to 2020.
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  4627.  @bulb8859  Thanks! Believe me, I'm enjoying the gloat lol I didn't post it, but I claimed that he would win by a 7% national margin; whoop whoop! Tbh, it's not rocket science and it's significantly easier than predicting a super-bowl. All comes down to math imo. Once I saw the difference in demographics and mail-in requests; I knew he'd by a sizable margin.
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  4628.  @darin4704  It's all about math bud; not faith or ideological possession. Predicting elections is a lot easier than predicting football or even stocks.
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  4629. Until the demographic problems are addressed, nothing will change. Too many retirees and not enough young people to replace the or pay forward their social security.
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  4630. How are we supposed to do that when 1/3 of Millennials and nearly ALL of Gen Z believe government exists to give you rights and be used as a weapon against political opponents? Covid made it VERY clear that younger people have no problem wielding government against their rivals and they don't care if they're labeled hypocrites. They claim they hate corporations, but turn around and claim corporations should do whatever they please if political opposition gets screwed by it. They're full of envy and spite; it makes me contemplate leaving the US many times.
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  4631. This is pathetic, even Bernie Sanders was screaming a week ago that the Harris Campaign needs to reach out to more working class people. What on earth were they thinking? This election is already over! It's doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the early voting stats and notice that Democrats are DOWN -35% with the 18-39 age demographics. That's a block that gives them a solid 60% minimum vote. On top of that, mail-in ballot requests are DOWN -27% and those ballots benefit Democrats with odds of 3:2. So what the heck are they doing? It seems pretty clear to me that the Harris Campaign doesn't know what it's doing. They have alienated so many different demographics; including minorities and younger voters. This election was over before it began. Progressives need to get rid of the useless and fickle corporate wing of it's party base.
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  4632.  @misterwallace3479  We are always doing well during a Reaganomics boom; the Republicans always do it. Followed by an inevitable crash. The GOP tout themselves as the party of small government. Yet every time they get into office, they produce artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing (out the wazoo) for international corporations. Yeah, it's always party time when Reaganomics starts, then everybody has to pay the bill 3-5 years later. They did the same thing in 1987 and 2008. Republican in Congress are the biggest hypocrites, constantly using Federal funds to cover revenue losses after they cut income taxes or city/work taxes in their states. You had a 40% run on inflation between January 2020 and spring of 2023. You can look at the USD Money supply charts yourself. Yet, we have millions of Gen X and Boomers that can't understand why people younger than them can't afford the same things at their age. It's because a whopping majority of them are financially illiterate.
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  4633. Self landing rockets and a car in space weren't good enough for you? lol
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  4634.  @hardhittersinc1394  Well maybe, but keep in mind these people are destroying their image for everyone in their lives. It's a lot to risk just for some clicks. I wouldn't fake insanity on camera even if it gave me $10k.
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  4635.  @kejuu6887  "Cringe" is not a very intellectually minded word my friend. It makes you look childish and ignorant; you should avoid using it. How about you expand your ability to learn instead of remaining regressive; be more liberal?
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  4636. Every time I try to humor left-wing ideologies; I end up coming back to where I'm at and THIS is precisely why.
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  4637. Biden Administration is trying everything to start WW3 before Trump takes office. They've done nothing but push for war overseas.
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  4638.  @steady747  Bud, don't tell people to educate themselves. None of what you listed are socialists nations; they are capitalist countries. They grow tired of being used as pawns for the term 'socialism'.
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  4639. I'm not throwing out the wisdom of the founding fathers, but I've been thinking about a (jury-duty) type system. You serve for a limited amount of time and the selection is completely random. Of course, there would be stipulations to refuse mentally ill and otherwise handicapped people that cannot participate perhaps. A system of "elections" (in my opinion) only incentivizes narcissistic ego-maniacs running for office and taking over. At least a high disproportion of them are. If the representation was (random), then you'd end up with a much higher proportion of average working class people. Then again, I don't think anyone would approve that.
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  4640. I can't believe I'm saying this, but social media companies are out of control! These companies are literally making everyone crazy by filling their heads full of false scenarios and propaganda for ad revenue. Which in turns makes them say and do pathetically dumb things that endanger the public and destroy civilization.
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  4641. ​ @Evil_Beauty  Rich elites will always sit at the top 1% due to natural Pareto distributions. The important part is whether or not that 1% got there virtuously.
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  4642. Yep! Political antagonism and economic duress are a deadly mixture. I often wonder if it's intentional; probably.
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  4643. Now we are sending off everybody with an 80 IQ and above to higher education; all for the sake of fairness. Or is it for the sake of greed?
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  4644. When you're a child; it's always about the good guys and the bad guys. As an adult, it's all about how to go forward with two parties fighting over their own political ambitions.
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  4645. To be fair, child abuse is still rampant in society. A lot of kids comes from broken backgrounds and most of this kids trying to be trans either do it out of peer pressure or having a dysfunctional family. Imagine telling a child's parents that they claim to be trans. Then Johnny gets home and his dad beats him within an inch of his life. Not all of this is so cut and dry.
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  4646. Nikki Haley got 19% of the vote due to middle aged ignorant white women that watch MSM and don't like Donald Trump. It's been over a decade of not being able to trust MSM; no matter who it is. The fact that the GOP campaign for Nikki Haley just got gobbled up by these people amazes me. Nobody serious about ground level politics gives a rat's @$$ about Nikki Haley; she's a war monger and a snake.
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  4647. At the end of the day, people see what they want to see. The video may blatantly show a polar bear, but some will argue that it's a grizzly. Unfortunately, bell curves of intelligence are an inevitability and ignorance rules the herd down to the lowest common denominator...
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  4648.  @MegaMultiAnonymous  Oh please, don't elude to a super minority of cases just to virtue signal your own ego. This is was narcissistic people do in order to make themselves feel better about their lack of moral compass in life.
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  4649. I don't really think so, people that watch Zeihan seem to have a relatively health skepticism and more reasoning skills than jerks on other channels. Most people don't really think climate change is fake. The two issues that concern MOST people on this subject is 1(What exactly is causing most of the change and can anything actually be done about it. 2(What would be the economic and human cost to doing anything about it, which includes transferring more power to the Federal Government. I'm well aware that temperatures are rising, the problem is that I've also lived thru enough public eco scams that I'm hugely skeptical about the motives that thee politicians have. On top of that, you can't really use 25 years of climate data to project hundreds or thousands of years. 1899 - 1928 saw the worst series of hurricanes and tornadoes in the Western hemisphere ever recorded. Yet 1930 to 1990 were extremely calm in comparison. Human cost is also the issue. If you raise energy prices (you create an upward slope of poverty for the most vulnerable demographics). Nobody cares about eco-issues when their standard of living goes down; thus you start all over again.
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  4650.  @hoopgal3216  Same here! I got my home in 2020; mortgage is $885. If I got my home now; it would be $1700/m
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  4651.  @rfichokeofdestiny  I don't hate them, but I do despise the arrogance that many of them espouse. They rode an economic super-wave post WW2 that rebuilt the world and brought the largest wealth and prosperity humans have ever witnessed in history to a global super-power. Then they turned around and called it 'boot-straps, hard work, perseverance, and fortitude.' Not that all Baby Boomers are devoid of those virtues, but they use those terms to gaslight and belittle every generation after them for having less assets and smaller retirements. Baby Boomers are nothing like their parents. I miss the Greatest Generation!
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  4652. A voice problem doesn't mean he's mentally impaired...
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  4653. These clowns are still wondering why they lost, then begin to read cherry picked low-info voter comments in order to sway their low-info subscribers.
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  4654. Anybody who is invested in bills, notes, or bonds.
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  4655.  @Mrbynby  Uh, how old are you?
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  4656. I don't; they lined up wittingly to obey the religion of Pharma.
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  4657.  @DebasedAnon  True, but humans becoming smarter in the 20,000 years that agriculture began to gain a foothold? I don't think that's a coincidence. Human intelligence alone stampeded forwards in the 18th century due to the widespread availability of caffeine and clean water. Eating what is available for survival is not exactly the same thing as living a harmonious in your domain. If anything, constantly running on ketones would mean a state of survival if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure what evidence there is on nutritional sources gained with the inclusion of agriculture outside of a (meat only diet). But I feel we've adapted this way for a reason.
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  4658. With what border security might I ask? The labor shortages are destroying this country. Policing, military, and correctional officers are facing something of a 30%+ shortage nationwide. We do not have the manpower to run this circus anymore. This is a demographic problem, period! Criminals are being released because we don't have enough correctional staff to maintain the prisons.
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  4659. The studies don't account (whatsoever) for price inflation on a national level. Economics is like kryptonite for most UBI supporters. We already saw what a 0.25% federal funds rate does to the economy; 42% inflation in 3 years according to the USD M2 Supply. UBI is essentially a 0% interest rate loan - as far as the Federal Reserve is concerned. How would you account for that? Aside from giving an annual pro-rate adjustment for UBI..
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  4660. I think most people with a brain find it suspicious that these allegations always surface right before or after a major political event or appointment. How do they expect us to believe it when the coincidence doesn't seem realistic.
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  4661. It's not easy to find a job anywhere these days. The only jobs looking for people are (Medical, Police, Fire, and state contract construction projects. The rest of the free market is scary.
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  4662. Conservative here; voted Republican a large portion of my life. Republicans in office are delusional at this point if they think they are going to win in 2024. Republicans will lose the House and Democrats maintain the Presidency. I can hope for an Independent all I want, but I won't hold my breath. Between the McCarthy dysfunction, the Freedom Caucus trashing every bill, and Trump fatigue. I can guarantee you that Trump will NEVER become President again. People would rather have another four years of Biden than start this circus all over again with another Trump Presidency. I'm no fan of the DNC or Democratic platforms in general, but the Republican Party has proven 'without a single doubt' that it is supremely incompetent and useless.
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  4663. It's very simple. The institutions are reacting to changing times by introducing wave after wave of propaganda to defend their power. The labor class feels like they're being screwed by these institutions. So they vote for the man that institutions hate.
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  4664. Not going to happen before the currency collapses. Remember that the US has essentially been Rome since the conclusion of WW2. When the USD finally becomes worthless under the weight of our debt and empty promises. There will be massive upheaval and global distress. The entire system will restart and population decline from declining birth rates will be inevitable. There is no way that AI will takeover and rule our lives. It will barely scratch the surface before we suffer the consequences of physical reality.
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  4665. Using your vote to enforce a removal of 'my right' to dictate what goes into my body is by definition an act of aggression. People think that voting isn't passive aggressive are kidding themselves.
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  4666. Calling it now, FBI is going to shut down Tucker's Show. It's only a matter of time until they justify it as a sponsor of domestic terrorism lol Like everything else... Up is down and left is right.
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  4667. Turns out that Reaganomics and low-interest rate policy lead to companies poorly investing in their product. They are looking for a quick buck. If their company fails; they sell their SHORT positions and claim bankruptcy. The realest businesses you'll ever find put up blood, sweat, and their own money.
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  4668. If this was every publicly acknowledged in Europe; would that mean the US committed an act of war against Germany/ And what would be Germany's response to such revelations?
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  4669. Nah bro, it's square!
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  4670. It's all in the incentives. If Twitter employees and executives don't do as the upper echelons require; they will simply fire you and find somebody else.
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  4671.  @EM2theBee  There's no way bud! Write-in candidates cannot usually get 1% of a vote in ANY election regardless of whose running. You're telling me that with 20 candidates; 64% of the population of NH wrote in Biden's name? Put your thinking cap on man! If Trump is still barred from Colorado and Maine; he COULD get maybe 15% of the vote as a write-in. NOBODY (let alone 70,000 people) go to the voting booth with that much intent and motivation to waste time writing in a candidate. This is the kind of stuff that fuels election denial theories and I don't blame them.
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  4672. Bud, I voted for him in 2016; his voter based has shrunk by like 75%. My entire family (extended as well) voted for the man. Not a single person in my family (except 2) are still interest in voting for him. He tried Reaganomics all over again, artificially low interest rates, and massive QE for corporations and the market. Republicans all do this and get to ride a giant (booming economy) right into a mega crash every single time. The biggest problem as from that, is the garbage that FOX and Newsmax produce in order to stoke his base with utter nonsense. You literally have the masses believing that Biden is making high interest rates because he hates America and sending out goons to blow up railroads, and start forest fires. The people that I know (still addicted to his movement) have grown unstable imo. Vote for whomever you want, but I won't be voting for him again.
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  4673. Technically no, since the previous GDP quarter was positive. Though, I'm sure we're going into another.
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  4674. People expect a screen and social media to teach their kids empathy, compassion, and integrity. Newsflash, they learned none of that. If you have young kids and/or teenagers in your extended family; you know what I'm talking about. The newer generations are completely narcissistic...
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  4675. Don't project your moral compass onto her; she's freaking nuts. Some screws loose and probably some anti-social issues as well.
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  4676. Yes, because the media 'told me'.
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  4677. Keep in mind that the Soviets and Nazis also alleged voter fraud in order to advance their political positions. Never underestimate the ability for a country to fall into theocracy in a short period of time. There's a long line of ambitious religious zealots that want to wreck to country at the first chance they get. Many have infiltrated the MAGA movement over the years. Although, the biggest problem for me is that Trump tried Reaganomics all over again. Big time quantitative easing for corporations, along with artificially low interest rates. Big boom in the economy, followed by a short-sighted crash and loss of dollar value.
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  4678. Well, never underestimate the contempt and moral compass of people that have done essentially 'nothing' their entire lives. That's where cancel culture comes from. If revolution is to be avoided; a major war or catastrophe will (unfortunately) need to come first. If people continue living in their comfy fantasies; they'll burn it all down for amusement. People need motivation lol
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  4679. Well, we can speculate all we want, but it's almost impossible to know the real reason they cut production so rapidly. Production is being cut on many things; not just oil. All due to ongoing demand destruction.
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  4680. You're trying way too hard. Change your diet and watch your neuro-chemistry change. The food supply is almost pure poison.
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  4681. Careful, regime changes often result in FAR worse situations.
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  4682. Depends on how you're measuring it. In the US, the standard of living has significantly dropped the last 40 years. I don't think the internet makes up for all that was lost in wages, real-estate affordability, and over-all quality of life. Chronic disease is an epidemic among all ages in the US; even children.
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  4683. I got a feeling that this is what the US will look like in the next 3-5 months.
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  4684.  @Struct.3  No, only HALF of boomers are retired; you're describing the silent generation.
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  4685.  @Bee-w7g  Uh no, half of boomers are retired and Gen X is historically the most financially beat-up generation that is living. Boomers were in their prime to purchase stocks during 1987, 2000, 2008, and 2020. Gen X weren't even on their feet when all of those crashes repeatedly dumped on them.
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  4686. Well, it's a Keynesian economy. Printing loads of debt (but not created enough GDP) to follow it leads to price inflation and wage stagnation. Speculation has led to price inflations everywhere. We are slowly turning into a gambling economy.
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  4687. Guns have always been apart of American culture and they've been here for a very long time. So obviously the volume of weapons doesn't seem to be causation. The number one problem is what nobody wants to acknowledge; that we have millions of apathetic, anti-social, narcissistic young men in this country. Something went wrong with the family; something went wrong with responsibility; something went seriously wrong with people's socialization. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you clearly don't know any teenagers. These kids quite literally cannot face any adversity in life without falling into depression. They can't socialize with anyone without talking ONLY about themselves. The meaning in life of these kids is almost entirely derived from social media virtue signals. And we wonder why people are so screwed up.
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  4688. Progressives won't defy their corporate partners in pursuit of principle. Trump base said 'hold my beer!'
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  4689. Try not to generalize; people vote for all different reasons.
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  4690.  @ThomasShelby-xz2fk  It's actually more like 10-15% bud; trust me. I come from a suburban Republican family; all of them vote for Trump. Many educated; masters, some police officers, nurses, administrative, etc. My wife's family is more blue collar and hard Appalachian culture. They teeter a bit between weird conspiracies are whatnot. I think those are some of the demographics you may be talking about; southern Ohio, Kentucky, WV, etc. Personally, I'm an independent; I wanted Bernie Sanders to be the nominee in 2016 for the DNC. I've also been a long term fan of Tulsi and Kennedy, which was magical for me when they endorsed Trump.
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  4691. They're just jar-heads that miss the killing.
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  4692. I think we've been boned for a while. What I don't like is that Bernie is acting like Trump is the oligarchy. He may be his own small oligarchy, but he's opposing the current one I suppose. I think most people are simply desperate for change.
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  4693. Not going to happen, they are repulsed by each other.
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  4694.  @johnniebeavers4003  A sorry excuse typically used by neglectful parents. Did they try to change schools? Did they attempt to home school? Why didn't the girl block them on social media or delete the accounts? All intellectual questions that most people don't address 'simply because' (the schools should babysit my child thru college). I've never seen a period in my life where parents neglected their children more. Then played the 'I'm going to sue you' game for monetary gain.
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  4695. You claim he lies and manipulates facts for his own agenda, but I feel you are just projecting. You are doing exactly what you accuse him of. When has he ever used religion to justify his lies? Discussing religious faith and fundamentals doesn't mean someone is using those fundamentals to lie and manipulate people. It's like the simpletons that call Jordan Peterson religious when he alludes to biblical scripture to understand the human psyche in and behind the writings. Of course, people of short intellectual endurance can't stand it for obvious reasons.
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  4696. Have you ever bothered to look into his lecturers or positions? You're going to blindly call a clinical psychologist dumb; from a youtube account you're typing on? You should be more open; more liberal on these subjects. You might learn something and come to appreciate it.
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  4697. A political ideology that is adopted to give immunity to a certain type of person, is the ideology of a con-man. People need to think about that the next time white racism is acceptable, but racism against minorities is not. If you can't be racist because of your skin color, then you've given yourself immunity. The immunity of a tyrant!
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  4698. All of these crises hang in the balance under the wing of the USD. We've printed more money on the last 18 months than was ever in circulation prior. A 2.4 % inflation claim by the Feds is laughable. I'm actually predicting that relatively soon, the USD is no longer going to be the reserve. Turmoil and war will most likely predate the transfer of power from the top international creditor to another; the Chinese.
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  4699. Who's the dictator? The one trying to imprison their political rival or the one trying to end the two new wars?
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  4700. Blame the system! The Keynesian model allows the Federal Reserve to set ultra-low interest rates to (stimulate the economy). You take out a 1% mortgage or 0% auto-loan like everyone did in 2020 and inflation goes up. Cheap debt = higher demand = higher prices. Productivity/exports that don't grow linear with that inflation = stagnant wages. That's how it works.
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  4701. OR maybe it's because corporate American has realized that the Harris campaign is a rabid dog that is incompetent and unpredictable? Did you miss the part where they attempted to use social media companies as a weapon against political dissidence?
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  4702. They watch MSNBC; they're already dead lol
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  4703. They watch MSNBC; they're already dead lol
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  4704. This is largely an American phenomenon. We have an epidemic of anti-social children being raised by Google. Then we wonder why they shoot up schools when they get older smh
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  4705. I really think it's just people. Easy to blame the Democrats because many of them appear insane, but the culture is on the downturn. People are in a state of psychosis.
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  4706. I've heard many people thru the grapevine say that Illinois is goin red. I won't hold my breath, but it would truly be a sight to behold :)
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  4707. Bananas and Potatoes are cheap. 49c per pound of bananas $3.58 for a 5lb bag of potatoes People have spending problems; that's the issue.
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  4708.  @WA-de3gf  Yep, we voted for Trump and he appointed Jerome Powell. The rest showed itself from 2021-2023.
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  4709. That's how it happened last time. The left pushes and antagonizes. Then when political opposition fights back; they cower and claim they didn't do anything.
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  4710. Don't want to solve Social Security? Fine! Just remember that (if you are 55); you'll receive a 20% discount on your SS monthly income when you retire. If you're younger than 55, you probably will receive only a fraction (if any at all). Turn your thinking caps on folks; social security has been on a collision course for a long time and these politicians do NOTHING about it. Learn the hard way I guess, when you pension and social security dry up and the payments stop coming.
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  4711. Bud, I'm from central Ohio; most Americans are insanely dumb on this topic. They think "Putin invaded; so he evil!" If you try to have an educated conversation with them; they'll call you a Russian stooge.
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  4712. All the deficit problems come from the inflation of Social Security, Pensions, and Medicare. Until those are reformed; nothing will changed. They'll kick the can until they are massively diluted or the bonds default.
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  4713. People often omit that they have massive amounts of student debt that cost them an arm and a leg in this inflated economy.
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  4714.  @murphthesurf3409  FED will never allow deflation to occur. If anything, it will be a slow death by high inflation; 20-50% every 2-3 years.
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  4715.  @carolbagwell6769  Well, eggs are an 'elastic' item. Large volume of sales and large swings in supply and demand; this can make prices very unpredictable.
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  4716. He never said AIDS was fake. Did you actually watch the video? This moron is selling hysteria click-bait and knows nothing about virology.
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  4717. Hey in all honesty, I threw $40 bucks into Shiba years ago. Now it's worth $160 I'm just planning on holding it forever; maybe it'll hit $1.00 eventually.
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  4718.  @tinocos9632  Probably, but I'm not really gambling; I wrote it off years ago.
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  4719.  @lazymass  Every first world nation is doing worse than the US. This is because the USD is the Reserve currency; the Rome of global monetary policy. Therefore all trades/goods are more expensive downwind of the US.
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  4720.  @Nomo-sapiens  That's ignorant, if NATO didn't want a war then they wouldn't have overthrown the government in Kiev back in 2014. I'm not a fan of Putin, but he's been extremely patient with this garbage. Russia held political control of Ukraine since the cold war, then Obama overthrew it and installed Zelensky. Now Russia wants it back; I don't blame them. Most people were asleep in 2014 when Congress was funding all of this.
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  4721.  @petitio_principii  Wearing a mask changes your breathing direction and gives a false sense of security. All that air goes out behind your ears with viruses flying on the droplets and people will stand closer to each other with a mask due to this misconception. Equating to more infection as we have seen in the US during the past two years without exception.
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  4722. That's unions for ya! Unless you'd rather have them with no union and paid 'peanuts'. It's a trade off; not a solution. Either way, you'll come out with a deficit somewhere.
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  4723. Nah, I really don't see it that way. This was a third world country long before 8 million migrants came here since 2020. The biggest garbage in this country is the black and white trash living here. In my experience, immigrants (illegal and legal) seem to have the best attitude of anyone.
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  4724. Meaning...
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  4725. Yeah, the women get paid by the company with ad revenue they generate from the viewers; same with the male actors. No matter what kind of mental gymnastics people want to play with this subject. These men and women are prostitutes, period. It's all about creating word salads to make things legal that have always either been illegal or shameful at the least.
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  4726. The polls will be skewed and that's the issue. Almost everyone uses some form of social media, but the people posting and commenting are NOT a representation of the average person. Statistically a majority of people posting and commenting are extremely evil and psychologically ill people. We've given them an outlet to feed their tendencies and they will use it. Though most people are unaware that these are the people making up a staggering amount of the content and posts. It's a self fulfilling prophecy of hate. Think about it, who are the most likely people to take a survey or review something? The people that are the most angry and have mean things to say about it.
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  4727. I think you need to do your own. Try to characterize people by their intentions and actions. If you look at a everything from a cinical aspect, you'll think everyone is evil. RFK wants his vision to become realized. Perhaps he believes the best way to do this is to piggy-back on another candidate. The Harris Administration refused him and claimed they had nothing in common. That tells you a lot!
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  4728. The jokes on the consumer! These companies have already secured your money thru SNAP and EBT. Walmart loves using those as both wage supplements AND profits.
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  4729. Heck, you could do this in the last century alone. 1890s - Anti-Jewish sentiment, industrialism, Marxist theories = pogroms and a rise in inequalities/contempt 1910s - Inequalities lead to maximization of central authority and banking control 1920s - Central authority and banking control under Laisse Faire policies = Global depression! 1940s - Inequalities go thru the roof with anti-Jewish sentiment. 1945-1948 - Complete reset with the world in ruins; entire generations destroyed. 1950-1987 - largest period of human prosperity with balanced inequalities The current down-spiral began in the late 1980s Seems that we are right on time for a reset if it usually takes 40-50 years IMO.
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  4730.  @michaelrodriguez5659  Well, I think that sacred knowledge and education were 'gate-kept' in a historical sense. The average person 1000 years ago was not smarter than your average middle class joe these days. However, instant access to all knowledge and material is truly making people stupid. Largely because people are choosing to indulge in stupid material. I theorized back in the 2010s that smartphones wouldn't make people smarter. It'll make a 1% super-class of people that use smartphones to become rich. While the bottom 99% use them to become more clueless.
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  4731. Touch a nerve?
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  4732. Well, it's not like they have a choice. Pensions, Social Security, and Medicare are driving the debt crisis due to bad monetary policy and demographic problems. Any politician that touches those items loses his seat in office. Americans want the can to be kicked and older generations don't give a darn about younger ones.
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  4733. The 18-39 age Demographics are DOWN -35% in (early voting) than in 2020. These are key demographics that Democrats MUST capture in order to win the election and it simply isn't there.
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  4734.  @jonspear6988  Jon, Im not trying to be rude, but that's a very unintelligent statement. Freemasons are a group of theists in the states that basically do charity work. Maybe you could attend some of their efforts, it would clear up baseless assumptions for you.
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  4735. So people should be thrown in prison if they oppose the regime? If you're historically educated whatsoever, you'd know that you are next. The second thing that Stalin and his NKVD did after executing or hauling off their political enemies to Siberia, was round up the University socialists. Seeing as they were fake protestors and liars of their bourgeoise heritage. Once you create the monster, it will consume everyone and everything. Nothing will be true and the trend you road in on will become a criminal act. The revolution always eats it's own.
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  4736. Attendance was dropping off a cliff during the 2010s, but ever since 2022 it's hit rock bottom. The only thing that motivates parents to come to these meetings are 'political alignments' that they see on the news; primarily FOX garbage. These parents will literally slip every single meeting of the year and then show up out of nowhere in April to protest a story about a questionable book in the library 'perverting their child.' smh. It may be a subject of concern to some degree, but these are the same parents that don't understand that their 10 year olds are getting porn on their smartphones in less than 3 seconds; then deleting the history in the same amount of time. People are delusional when it comes to 'corruption of children.'
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  4737. dear god XD lol
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  4738. Most of what he said is public information. I was against NATO's involvement in the Yanuovich coup back in 2014. Which handed the country over to NATO's puppet Zelensky. Most people have no idea what happened in Ukraine between 2004 and 2022. Eastern Ukraine has been desperately attempting to break away to the Russian Federation. Even back in 2004, the annexation votes between those four Oblasts were between 65-89%. Eastern Ukraine ever since the "Revolution of Dignity" has been at war since 2014 in the east. If Ukraine had joined NATO, it would force the western powers to put down that war in Ukraine's favor and bud up against Russia's border. It has long been NATO's goal to insulate and subjugate Russia. Then to overthrow the government and install their own people. We've been doing this a very very long time.
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  4739. Please, prices a controlled by supply and demand. If corporations were price gouging; then you'd be able to get a lower price at a smaller business. But you can't, because corporations offer the lowest price available for the overhead cost of doing business.
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  4740. @ Food is easily the the most elastic market in the entire US. The entire idea is about using competition to reduce price. Try growing your own food and index the cost/time is takes in comparison to major retailers. There's no contest. My initial point was that I simply grow tired of people whining about food costs when it would take a considerable higher cost to do the work themselves.
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  4741. Look, the media would have you believe that the problem with education is that it's over-run with CRT and inappropriate sex-ed classes. The fact that this passes for mainstream news is laughable. The problem with education is that the standards are being dropped to pass students, behavioral problems are at a monumental level, and parental involvement has hit rock bottom. It seems that the only way to motivate parents enough to show up at their child's school is to claim that there's a inappropriate sex book in the library. This is an epidemic in public, private, charter, AND voucher programs. You can call parents about their child's grade, their behavior, their detention, or even suspension. Parents DO NOT show up; unless it's to harass you! Teachers are exhausted/understaffed and the parents are not participating whatsoever in their child's upbringing.
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  4742. @Ready Temp Who needs mail in ballots anymore? They can adjudicate 10,000 ballots with a single click and change your vote on a referendum to yes. Then swap your vote from Red to Blue. Mail in ballots at this point are a topic that the media uses to humor voters. The real crime was done with the click of a mouse.
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  4743. That's cute and all! I think it would work if the US and Mexican Government weren't largely IN on the scheme. Same thing in Afghanistan, in which we occupied from 2000 to 2021. Opiate epidemic lasted from 2000 until 2020 when Fentanyl took over. US contractors were flying opium out of there for 20 years and ditched when the profits started declining. Mexico is no different; too many vested interests between US Government owning Mexican officials who are influenced by cartels.
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  4744.  @glenwicks4976  Hm, really?
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  4745.  @glenwicks4976  Honestly can't say I've ever heard that argument before. Saturated fats don't oxidize in your blood stream or cause calcium deposits. Trans and Mono heavily oxidize. Medium chain lipids are the key. Cholesterol feeds those fats to your cells in the form of keytones. Saturated fat also makes up all the contents that our ancestors used to ingest: butter, coconut oil, and lard. That was before heart disease became the leading cause of death; coincidentally in the same time frame that transfats became very popular for use in the early 20th century.
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  4746. Uh, it's not about being a second class citizens; it's all about the market. Women tend to take agreeable and safe jobs; the same jobs that tend to pay less. Women don't want to be welders, pipe fitters, masons, or even oil rig workers. The jobs you describe (don't pay very well) because they are 'people' oriented. People oriented jobs largely depend on moral compass to drive the industry; not a set of logistics and calculations. If you think that women are the only ones suffering in this economic crisis; I'd say you need to open your eyes.
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  4747. This all comes back to Trump. He pissed off so many people in positions of power that they are going to take it out on the American public, as they have been doing for the past 8 months.
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  4748.  @charlespk2008  That's a very naive way of thinking. The incentives for avarice are abundant in public office and appointed bureaucratic positions. For example, the scientific community. It is on the best interest of the government and Universities to conduct large scientific studies through NSF grants. The Universities of which profit 50% to 70% if the study is sold for corporate or government use. Bad information is passed down the line to the FDA and AHA, pockets get lined, and ordinary people die on a regular basis. You can't tarnish your reputation if everyone trusts your credentials, while you use them to spread disinformation in office. There is EVERY reason. How would you define vaccine mandates? Considering we have 12,000 deaths on the VAERs reports? Many of which were mother's holding their son's lifeless bodies in a hospital bed from cardiomyopathy... Is that not harming the public? It violates virtually all the Nuremberg laws.
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  4749. It's crazy that people didn't even watch the video and get their information from a disinformation headline. Hilarious that they talk about censorship, but then produce disinformation.
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  4750. To be completely objective, there's no way Democrats can win this. All you have to do is look at (early voting statistics from 2020). 18-39 age demographics (which lean on average 62% Democrat) are DOWN -35%. Mail-in ballot requests alone are down -27% across the board compared to 4 years ago. Even IF all 65 Million mail-in ballots were filed for the elected; the Democrats would have a national shortfall of -7% (after you weight the ballots between party turnout). Donald Trump is going to be your President again; whether we like it or not.
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  4751. Probably DDT or worse, which is banned as a pesticide vin the US. Not like RoundUp is good or anything, but still.
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  4752. Are people really dumb enough to be eating up these garbage media stories? Must be bots.
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  4753. It's because we're engaged with demographic upheaval. 1. The United States is no longer the leading world super-power. 2. There are not enough young people to pay social programs forward for retirees. 3. The US cannot generate the GDP/tax necessary to overcome the last 40 years of spending. Baby Boomers need to understand they they enjoyed the greatest economic-run in human history due to the position the US held post World War 2. When you live in Rome and use it's currency, while the entire world needs rebuilding. It's going to have profound effects on the ability to generate wealth and high living standards here at home. The Keynesian model that was created at that time has been stretched out thin; permanent inflation and permanent growth. Except that you don't get permanent growth; you just get permanent inflation. Thus, the US Dollar strength wanes; wages stagnate and prices grow. Going back to a gold-standard would be suicidal, as it would bankrupt the entire country (as we import product and export dollars). If the global and national economy is ever going to stabilize again; it will need new idea and new economic theories. Keynes, Austrian, and Socialism are not valid answers going into a globalized economy. Something has to change!
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  4754.  @E52O4  HA! I love the hope people see in the November elections. Our elections are completely compromised; no 'vote' is ever going to alter the status quo again.
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  4755.  @citizensnips3850  Bud, we're on track to lose Reserve Currency status. When that happens, we won't go into a recession, or depression for that matter. It will be considerably worse.
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  4756. Blame the Obama Administration, they got us into this mess in Ukraine when Obama overthrew their Government in 2014 and installed Zelensky.
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  4757.  @emsnewssupkis6453  Jungian terminology, I'd research his theory on human shadows.
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  4758. It's all about Boomers maintaining their asset values. They don't want to pay the wages it would actually take to maintain the economy. So they rely on the government burdening young generations with a debt bubble to prop up asset values.
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  4759. Eastern Ukraine was attempting to break away and be annexed by Russia since 2004. Kiev and the rest of western Ukraine did not.
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  4760. FDA hasn't approved ANYTHING. People need to do their research and stop listening to the disinformation that this Administration and Pharmaceutical companies are putting out. Read the FDA licensure! It grants a PHS extension to using these vaccines.. That is NOT an 'approval'. It means they are desperate. Keep in mind, this government has $0 dollars. We never raised the debt ceiling after its expiration on Jul 31st and we are utilizing 'extraordinary measures' to steak funds from Social Security and fund incompetence! With that in mind, every action this government takes will be out of desperation to increase power and cash flow. We are facing a very 'real' possibility of default by October. Janet Yellen and Powell gave been warning about this for weeks. But the media won't cover it.
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  4761. No chance, I'm a conservative and the GOP is going to flop in 2024. Didn't anyone pay attention to the General Election? Republicans were nowhere to be seen. Even Ohio overwhelmingly passed abortion and marijuana into the state constitution. Rural turnout was completely shot!
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  4762. This lady managed to disgrace Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden in the same 24 hour period; arrogant pos.
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  4763. Millennials are using 'passive parenting'. Here's an iPad, leave me alone (all day - every day)! Why would you expect kids to be functional after doing that?
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  4764. Good point! DEI isn't applied to the NBA and I like it that way :)
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  4765.  @brethahuncho2824  With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about. He's most likely referring to the pandemic of stolen food at certain places: Panera, Chipotle, Papa Johns etc. GH and DD Drivers accept the orders, then cancel after they pick up the food. Then they drive home and eat the customers food. I work in and around Columbus, OH and the restaurant theft is rampant. It's very rare for non-gig drivers to be stealing the food, because the people that pick up the orders always know the name, just before they cancel and go home.
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  4766.  @oyenations162  I don't really think it's an agenda. I think bad incentives and a natural flow of economics/demographics have caused this. On a civilizational scale, this was inevitable from the start. Humans were never meant to grow like this. "To those that have everything; more will be given. To those with nothing; everything will be taken." A biblical proverb, but mathematically true due to pareto distributions. The margins of inequality get larger as everything begins to get accumulated at the top. This causes problems in every way imaginable for people in the middle and lower half. Mother nature is essentially trying to rebalance what humans have perverted imo.
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  4767. @vladimirofsvalbard9477 0 seconds ago CIA isn't that smart. Always remember, whatever the government does 'they stole or payed for it'. It's most likely these media executives making these decisions. FOX did the same thing when they had all their anchors and staff be complicit in the election fraud narrative that they got sued $780 Million for. CNN does it all the time as well. The current system is turning socialist. The government is a massive piggy bank for any screw ups that Walmart, Home Depot, Ford, or CNN/FOX have; not to mention banks.
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  4768. Well, people often omit their most common problems. The real reason most people can't afford anything is because they have a MOUNTAIN of student debt and nothing to show for it at their job. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong.
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  4769. Not a fan of Biden and NOT a fan of Trump. Trump appointed Jerome Powel, the jerk that kept the interest rates too low and created the current inflation insanity we are currently seeing... I can't vote for him again knowing that he threatened Jerome Powel; that he'd be fired if he didn't keep lowering interest rates into negative territory. If you elect Trump again, I can guarantee you he'll do the same thing and you'll get double digit inflation. Most people don't understand the significance of this because they are financially illiterate. All inflation comes from debt obligations and incentives set forth by the Federal Reserve and carried out by the treasury. We need a Presidency and Federal Reserve that will keep rates moderate to high for the foreseeable future. Otherwise we will continue to get shafted by Reaganomics BS.
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  4770. Intellectual discussion isn't for everyone; most people prefer constant stimulation of materialism and simple stories.
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  4771.  @pauluttermohlen318  Bud, somebody had to open the door. If you stop (trying) to be pathetically stupid, you may be able to wrap your brain around this story. It simply doesn't make sense. The police call 'literally' claims that he is a (friend) of Paul's. Do your homework please.
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  4772. Well, to be fair, most of these people are Venezuelan fleeing the Maduro regime. Police and border patrol are underfunded and understaffed on a national level. Even places like Columbus, OH have a cop shortage that is in the -35% for what they want. It's like 500 migrants for each border patrol agent down there. They are swamped!
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  4773. Sounds like either the dog was vicious OR the dad killed the kid and they are trying to blame the dog. I've seen enough in my life to know that this story stinks. I've watched people beat their animals in the backyard and then claim they are 'loving' when they attack somebody.
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  4774. Sociological hacks in public office isn't the same as medical and psychological science. Plus, since when was 'science' a dogma? People use the term 'the science' like they are speaking about the word of God. The only difference between Scientism and Creationism is the demographics of their respective ideologies. It's nothing more than a religion at this point that nobody can defend on their own two feet. If you want to get caught up in corporate/lobbyist crap that advances to rights and privileges of predators, then by all means do so. But don't ask me to go along with it. What you are doing is enabling manipulative corporations to up-end the American family unit and turn kids against their parents when they become confused after long term exposure to pornography and neurotic social media garbage. That's not the same as a child needing help in and abusive household. All you are doing is enabling pedophile groups that have wanted this sort of legislation for YEARS! They can't wait until the age of consent is lowered. Once you lower consent for medical intervention; voting, marriage, and sex is just a few years away. Perhaps I shouldn't care; I probably shouldn't. Just stop using my tax dollars to afford Social Security disability, Medicare, and education subsidies for people that want to make rash choices and then not want to be accountable for the results.
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  4775. If the election was stolen, then we are at war. If the election was legitimate and a substantial portion of the population claims it was stolen, we are still at war. No matter which way you turn, there is no avoiding the inevitable. The culture of this once great nation is failing. This is the collapse of Rome; I think most people would have a hard time suggesting otherwise. When the culture begins to fail, it's only a matter of time.
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  4776. Yes, because a bacterial or viral infection is the same as Pharma companies preying on the public with tax based contracts. Let me guess, big oil companies would never poison your air or water because they can be trusted?
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  4777. As per the usual, Americans don't have a freaking clue what is going on. Send all your prayers, love, and victory cliches. Hooray! You're a good person! NATO pokes the bear and they're surprised that it got mad? Let me ask you something, if China sold weapons and missiles to Mexico. Began a border war against the US AND installed a new President in a revolutionary coup. Would the US be in the wrong for invading? That's what is happening in Ukraine with NATO.
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  4778. I'm pretty sure it's a genocide against everybody that doesn't fit into their new agenda.
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  4779. Nah, probably a hellish household with demon parents to produce such a violent kid.
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  4780. It's not (out of touch); it's quite literally anti-social personality disorders writing these shows.
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  4781.  @markiosty8748  You're paying too much attention to one area. I can assure you the majority doesn't think this way or even in the manner that would be considered leftist trash. People are just angry, pure and simple. Plus, it's nothing that is actually real. Ever heard of the "The Rat Experiment?" You give the test rats food to abundance and everything they need to live out their lives. A Rat Utopia! Months later, you'll find that most of the rats are overweight. The male rats are trying to mate with other male rats. Some rats do nothing but eat and groom themselves in their pens, and the rest of the rats fight and kill each other. Complacency is killing society and I don't think it's going to cease any time soon. I actually don't think this country will make it to 2022 intact.
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  4782. All theatre from Democrats as usual. Trump states that he wants to begin with deporting 1 Million illegal migrants. Democrats don't seem to care that their beloved Obama deported 3.2 Million people in his first term. This isn't politics; so much as it's social conditioning for people with no expectations.
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  4783.  @gavinlew8273  That's probably 1% or less of people in that field. Innovative software creators are extremely rare. Ignorant people think that learning how to code will get them some $200k job, when in reality they are describing (innov. software techs) that have been doing this was over a decade.
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  4784. It boggles my mind how it seems we are legalizing child abuse. It's really no different than the people that think we should lower the voting age. Newsflash, lowering to voting age alters the concept of consent. Age of consent means that mid teens will now have the ability to consent with sex. Imagine how much bigger pornographic industries and trafficking would become if that became a reality. It's one of the more disturbing issues creeping around the corner that nobody talks about..
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  4785. He can be a handful for people that are not on the intellectual track. He's been a wealth of knowledge though. Little by little, just like Neitzsche. Eventually, the concepts will be easier to grasp :)
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  4786.  @scurra1163  Are you saying that the US would never use drones, explosive, disinformation, or international operations to sabotage people? Don't lie to yourself man; you know what the truth is.
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  4787. Once you're famous, everything you do is going to be called a political stunt. Try ordering a pepsi and they'll call it a political stunt.
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  4788.  @Bluesit32  Everybody is always filming. Remember, it's not about what something is; rather what it can be made to look like.
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  4789.  @Bluesit32  With the screen quality; is there really a difference anymore? lol
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  4790.  @littlearawak  Most states? 26 states have constitutional carry; so I'd imagine a majority of states barring 18 year olds from owning a rifle is probably null.
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  4791.  @littlearawak  26 is a majority; is it not? You said in 'most' states you can't get a gun at 18 anymore. I'm simply using deductive reasoning. Regardless of constitutional carry; I can guarantee you that there's a minority of states that won't allow an 18 year old to purchase a rifle. It's nowhere near a majority when you have 26 states that have pro-gun laws across the board.
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  4792. Democrat Party is done; they have no ideas, no policies, and no standards. It's just a frat party for antisocial and apathetic individuals now that thirst for power. It's why there are no intellectuals (let alone likable people) within their ranks right now. Anybody with any sense of decency left the Democratic Party years ago. It's corrupt to the core and the corporate wing sent it to an early grave.
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  4793. It's called (municipal policy). Either obey your Mayor/Sheriff or lose your job; it's that simple.
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  4794. If you think phthalates are the only issue; you're clueless. Even IF you go off grid. The water-sheds are poisoned with hormones, PFAs, and chemical/drug traces. Virtually all farmland and surrounding areas are contaminated with high levels of glyphosate. Yes! We are being poisoned and 'environmental health' has not been prioritized whatsoever since Reagan.
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  4795. I think you mean rural areas; which is pretty obvious since nearly all the talent gets attracted to metro areas.
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  4796. Why should anyone care? Ask yourself this honest question... Either you believe that everyone should pay enormous amounts of tax or you don't. If you do, ask yourself why. We all know that you don't personally like paying taxes, so what makes everybody else different?
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  4797. Because people virtue signal on social media feeds because they are completely addicted to the algorithms and can't STOP pretending to care. If people actually cared, they would send money or help in person. People would rather sit on their phones/laptops (addicted our of their minds) to the media algorithms and poor their hearts out to feel like good people.
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  4798. Kennedy is going to be the wild-card in this election. Voter turnout in each state will be critical in determining what states Trump and Biden take. I think this election will be much more interesting than these strategists think it will.
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  4799. This is what happens when you allow 6 people to run in an election and the winner gets 33%. For all the people that think that's a good idea; this is the result.
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  4800. I'm 31 (conservative all my life) and this was blatantly obvious. How people think that Trump would have magically been the President to downsize everything is wishful thinking based on 'nothing'. Every President since Bush Jr. has outspent the last due to the growing debt crisis and problem with auto-pilot programs. Biden outspend Trump and I can guarantee you that Trump 2.0 will outspend Biden. Not to mention grow the size of Federal Government. People need to start looking at the math and stop watching political influencers.
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  4801. It's what happens when you allow the ignorant masses to have political control, but I'm hopeful it will get sorted out in the next few years. Free internet access is becoming something of the past recently.
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  4802. Not trusting is not exactly 'blaming'. Cops come from a specific demographic of personality. Not that all are this way, but many of them are A type, aggressive, sociopathic leaning, and highly disagreeable. It's much worse in the military.
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  4803. The world ebbs and flows in waves of inequality. When the inequality is low; people thrive. When the inequality is high; people become envious, contemptuous, and murderous. Unfortunately, there's no constant; no system that we know of that produces a consistent result to keep humans exactly where they are. Of those that have been tried, humans always break the barrier and progress onwards to their eventual demise.
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  4804. That was 8 years ago now. Voters are under entirely different circumstances than they were in 2016. 2016 was about re-envisioning the Reagan Administration thru Donald Trump; bringing us back to the 1980s. The voting block that got him elected (Gen X and Baby Boomers) are either exhausted in the workforce or retired. None of what they had hoped for produced any fruit; things just got harder under another Reaganomics style of fiscal and Federal Reserve policy. This is where 0% interest rates have gotten us. A nation full of scams and dwindling wage values. Younger generations are VERY political oriented and they've shown us their capacity for turnout each year since 2020. In 2023 alone, Democrats took the Ohio General Election by storm; Republicans were nowhere to be seen.
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  4805. It's called parents. Boomers decided that they loved money, status, and manipulating people. So that's what they did since the 60s and drove the economy into the ground to prop-up their pensions and Social Security. The lowest of the low (imo) was convincing entire generations that they fought in Vietnam. Absolutely laughable once you do a little research and find out that virtually none of them could have even served.
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  4806.  @jamesross160  It has everything to do with your argument; you're not reading or reasoning my points. These kids grew up in a time that didn't produce many disasters. Most of them were small children in 2008. So it didn't affect them. The markets from 2013 to 2019 produced never ending joy and created a complacent generation. Throw on the easy access to technology and you have your answer. Complacency, short cuts, and lack of hardships create people that are essentially helpless. Btw, it's not all of Gen Z. Every new generation gets the short straw in pop-culture. This is nothing new. Baby Boomers were talked about the same way in the 1970s.
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  4807. They're all criminals bud, they will never serve time in jail, ever. This is how the system works, unfortunately.
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  4808. Kick-backs, favors, money laundering, slush funds, and more kick-backs. The student loan industry is massively profitable between government and University administration.
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  4809. Hard work? I don't think that's the problem. Most of these job openings fall into the $14-$16/hr category. They are ghost jobs that these businesses report; that way they can continue getting PPP loan forgiveness and never actually have to hire anybody. It's the largest fraud in US history.
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  4810. Well, of course; every President does that. Also, a lot of people voted for him because our justice system is alleged partial; at least that's what both sides have been saying forever. Not sure how anybody expects charges to be legitimate if they keep screaming about a corrupt system all these years.
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  4811. Yep, it's anarcho capitalism at this point. I'm so tired of defending people that make stupid financial decisions.
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  4812. It's a fake channel with fake subscribers and fake comments.
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  4813. The older I get the more true this is. I'm glad I learned it soon rather than later. I'm 30 and married. I watched both my parents and elders break their backs while neglecting their kids; full time for nearly 30 years raising two kids a decade apart in age. Now they are on all types of medications, they are sickly, pale, and falling apart in every way imaginable at only 56. I realized when I was about 14 that they were living a delusion. By that time, I'd already figured out that college was a scam, pensions were gone, and assets were getting farther and farther away from people's grasp. I got to see first hand how 2008 impacted my parents, but the delusions never ended. They just kept doing it like good little worker bees. The money was never spent on anything meaningful and I actually became disgusted when my parents started to try and throw money at both of us as we got older. Indulging in endless income for selfish means and giving no love or care to us. It eventually became clear that they were trying to throw money in order to buy love and compliance by 18. After that, I decided to do the opposite of whatever they advised. I ended up extremely successful and had my first child. To this day, I cannot fathom the greedy and complacency that drove Boomers and older Gen X into doing what they did. Generations that never wanted for anything and constantly kept 3 cars in the driveway for nearly 40 years.
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  4814. Youtube has gotten exponentially worse over the last several years. There's only a few channels I really watch anymore regularly; two of which are FredASMR and ClearValueTax. As far as comical content go, I only watch Penguin and JackMorgan. The rest of Youtube seems like it's splitting into two factions. AI and pyramid scheme influencers.
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  4815. Central Ohio here; no issue yet! Plus, the jet streams would only push it further into Pennsylvania; not westward to Indiana.
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  4816. This is an epidemic across the US! I grew up in the western suburbs of Columbus, OH and we're seeing this type of crap there as well as all of Pickerington too.
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  4817.  @mikekelley2877  There's not a single poll that gives Democrats an enthusiastic outcome (except for being 'dead even').
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  4818.  @slavvalb3933  Bud, don't sell that to people. There is absolutely no first world nation more affordable than the US, period. Everything is tied to the same economic system. South Korea is almost in as bad a position as Japan right now. Most people can't afford anything because they have a gargantuan amount of student loan debt that they took on top of unaffordable assets and living they picked up in 2021-2023.
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  4819. Property taxes existing mean that there is no private land; it's all nationalized. So technically this is a semi-communist society if you think about it lol
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  4820.  @BrandonMalveaux8  Construction workers get approx $14-22 depending on location, services, contracts, etc. It's not bad money, but it's not what it used to be. CDL industry is also going downhill. I just got a job offer for $71k. I got pay $70k in 2019. It's a ripoff.
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  4821.  @laaaliiiluuu  Not necessarily, it's the choices we make to better ourselves, our family, and others. The seven deadly sins may be a fiction of imagination to many, but they are metaphorically true in many ways. Pride blinds us from humility Envy blinds us from integrity Greed blinds us from spirituality, etc... It took me a long time to figure it out, but most people are not complicated. We are a mammalian species that doesn't escape the equilibrium and bell curves of the natural world. People are not going along with the propaganda because they believe it to be true. They go along with it because it's convenient or even furthers their own agenda. Lockdowns and mask mandates are a complete project of envy. "If I can't host a party or ignore the mandates, then nobody else should either " It is precisely the same pathological thinking that gave you the Third Reich and the USSR. People knew that Jews were being rounded up, it was just convenient to ignore it. People knew that capitalists, priests, and sympathizers we're being rounded up, it was just convenient to going along with it. Playing your part as the tyrant is very convenient when the people being hauled off represent what you could have been. People would rather blame others than take responsibility for their own shortcomings. That is the evil of pride and envy, playing itself out on the grand scale.
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  4822.  @laaaliiiluuu  Good point. Or maybe 'we' are the parents raising an elitist class in our image maybe? The world has changed so much in the last twenty years. People are angry on social media. Impatient if their Amazon package takes more than one day. Makes perfect sense why the people we elect are so dysfunctional imo. I honestly think a great deal of the problem is FB. A platform that codes their software to show you more of what you want and the most controversial out of the mix. It's a self fulfilling prophecy of craziness that makes people resentful and more narcissistic.
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  4823.  @laaaliiiluuu  I know it can feel futile, but it's a slow process. I call it planting the seeds of freedom lol People will ignore or doubt others forever, unaware that a seed of behavior has been planted that will evolve their behavior. Focus on yourself and it will alter the distal ends of your social life; slowly but surely. You should check out Jordan Peterson and Russel Brand on YouTube. No joke, they're ideas have multiplied my life quality 100 times over
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  4824. Yet there are still people that believe this is Democracy in action and protesting is a form of Fascism. The world is upside down...
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  4825. Trump - "Allegedly moves black workers to the back of the hotel to avoid his friends seeing them. = RACIST Biden - "I don't want my kids growing up in an interracial jungle. Poor kids are just as smart and talented as white kids. If you have a problem knowing whether to vote for me or trump, then you ain't black!" - Media Silence......
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  4826. I don't think so! People in the lower class curve (internationally and domestically) tend to have more children than middle and upper class people. This isn't an issue of money.
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  4827. Not really, just a massive demographic problem and poor economic planning on the governments part. Boomers are the largest generation and you have to fund their retirements. Only you can't because your wages are stagnant and there are fewer people paying into the system. Social services payouts are adjusted for inflation; wages are not. Taxes on wages can't keep up with social programs and thus the entire system fails.
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  4828. You've been conditioned to virtue signal my friend! lol
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  4829. Being born from a Jewish mother makes you Jewish. Many Jews in very prestigious positions have abandoned their religion and adopted new lifestyles in the West. Israeli Jews are the religious ones.
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  4830. Hell, I'm starting to think (WE) are the bad guys in comparison when looking at how crazy things are getting. At least China regulates platforms like TikTok and shuts them off after 10pm.
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  4831.  @bobwood2305  The tyrant is from the bottom up, not top down. If society becomes corrupted, it's because enough individual people chose to do so. No society has ever become rotten due to good people at the bottom and evil at the top.
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  4832.  @HubertWillow3  Probably lol
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  4833. How would universal healthcare work with the current volume of patients and shortage of workers? Nobody ever gets that far apparently.
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  4834. Consumers change their minds as well. You can always tell who just learned about tariffs recently, because they never take the (demand curve) into consideration. Did taxes on alcohol and tobacco make them more expensive in lieu of that? Apply the same logic.
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  4835. It's becoming abundantly clear how the Nazi's we're able to carry out their plans in the 1930s. The human shadow stretches from the highest point in heaven to the deepest crevices of hell. When this is all over; nobody will be able to deny what they stood for and whose side they were on. Let it be known that a man who is unwilling to refuse evil at the workplace, will not refuse evil when it comes to his wife and children. Cowardice and complacency are taking their toll.
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  4836. Biden recently signed an executive order that gave Ukraine authorization to the new US Military missile ordinance that we gave them, with the intention to strike Russia. This Administration is beholden to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon; they WANT a war. How do people not see this? All so Blackrock can turn Ukraine into a corporate strip-mall.
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  4837. I don't think policy has as much to do with it, as the media (in total) has. Every time a cop arrests somebody, people storm out of their businesses and bars to confront and taunt police officers; screaming obscenities and falsehoods that aren't actually happening. I literally saw a women walk out of her salon right in the middle of a shootout between police and a drug dealer and the woman was screaming, "Stop shooting people!" at the cop hiding behind his cruiser. People have absolutely lost their minds and social media is the antagonist in this situation. How can anyone want to be a cop these days. Even if you do it in good faith; you could be the center of a nationwide lawsuit after somebody tries to kill you and then the media spread lies. Then they dox the officer's address and his wife and kids get death threats. The media is out of control! In my opinion, take away the (Section 230 protection) and make ad revenue illegal. Everything is click-bait these days; so the only incentive these companies have is to get you to click. That's why they lie their butt's off.
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  4838. The incoming recession will be NOTHING! It will be mild after the Feds rapidly cut rates and start QE again. Everything will pick back up in 2024/2025 and people will feel relief. What comes AFTER that is going to be the death spiral. You'll see inflation could from 9.1% highs to 15-20% highs come late 2025 and early 2026. Interest rates are holding back massive amounts of demand and Americans are going to gamble it all. 40 Year mortgages with a 1-5% conventional down payment will be the norm. Remember when it used to be 20% or even 10%?
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  4839. Congratulations on your virtuous life changes; most people will more than likely NOT share your sentiment. In a natural distribution, you may be in a demographic of the conservationists. Though for the rest of the population, this probably won't happen. Take your rationale and apply it to Americans; it would be laughable and I would agree. Being German makes no difference! My energy cost has increased 65% (by rate) in the last three months, but I'm fully aware that most of my neighbors and family members haven't looked at those metrics in years. Populations always behave with herd mentality. Don't project your higher than average IQ and preparation onto the rest of the useless population.
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  4840. He addresses religion from a physiological aspect. The interpretation of where they came from and how they pertain to the human condition. I would highly advise listening to his Biblical Series. It's not for religious people, it's for people interested in the study of humans and psychology.
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  4841. Not really, it's just WSJ cutting videos to give ignorant viewers a corrupted viewpoint.
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  4842. These anchors are under contract. If they break the legal constraints of their contract; they can get sued into bankruptcy. These companies are dirty. It's basically a big circle jerk of black-mail in an industry largely dominated by sociopaths now.
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  4843. Well, I disagree in a sense. Children are a blessing! But the hardest thing you'll ever do? Children are difficult, but it's different. I was a stay at home dad for 2 years; it was difficult, but different. Being in debt and watching my son get a blood transfusion was the hardest thing I've ever done. I don't tend to lump the categories, but child rearing by itself is rather easy imo.
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  4844. Bernie supporter here! Hilarious how Tulsi and Kennedy managed to find their way over to the GOP. Maybe Democrats shouldn't have cheated Bernie in 2016; it could have turned out to be wonderful. There's a million reasons that people are voting for Trump; this is one of them.
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  4845. There will always be a 1% my friend. There are obviously some bad actors, but 'people' are overwhelmingly the problem. Want to stop the Great Reset? Cancel Amazon-Prime and throw your phone and laptop into a lake. But of course, nobody is going to do that.
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  4846. I made $44,000 after working at FedEx for 4+ years 2014-2019 as a Shunter Operator. Back then, that kind of money was pretty decent. It allowed me to move out and have a Cathedral ceiling apartment. Thought I was so cool and rent was $858 in a Columbus, OH suburb at the time. Thankfully, I ended up landing a CDL job $69k in 2019 and got a $200k home for $886/m. I will NOT pretend that doing the same thing is easy in this economic environment. You'd easily need $60k to afford that same apartment that I did and you'd probably need $90k to afford the same home now. If I bought my current home at 7.5% interest rate; I'd be paying $1729.86
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  4847.  @joelwillis2043  Are you serious? Is sickle cell anemia a social construct? Comments like yours are the reason people are calling for censorship.
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  4848. You can't prove that they're intentional; that's the problem. Companies basically make their HR Dept complicit in the hiring duties so that they can't be classified as fraud when they try to use vacancies to get tax deductions.
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  4849.  @littlesongbird1  It's unemployment insurance fraud. When companies lose comfy profit margins; they start to look for areas to exploit. Basically every business of a certain size pays into the state unemployment fund. If the company can prove that they are providing gainful employment and have vacancies (showing a technical labor shortage in the state). Then the state grants them a large tax exemption for insurance. You can't prove it because companies put HR and recruiters to work and provide adequate proof that they are indeed looking to hire. Then they will send an addendum downsizing the availability postings after the fiscal quarter. All the paperwork for vacancies is provided and the company gives the illusion that there is a labor shortage. In the end, the company gets a tax break and the state gets to tout that it has a large availability of jobs. Everybody is happy; except for the workers.
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  4850.  @davidhall3747  Good to hear :)
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  4851. It's becoming extremely popular with more corporations committing unemployment insurance tax fraud. They steal your data, legitimize their job opening by interview quotas, then get money for your data and a tax break for the 'job vacancy'. Then the state is happy because they have high job numbers.
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  4852. I stopped wearing a mask in late 2020 and I haven't caught ANY Covid variants either; the anecdotal evidence goes both ways Michael. You may have had a symptomless infection at one point or another; many people did. Wearing that mask and being paranoid all the time are going to drive your anxiety/cortisol levels to heights that will harm you much more than any Covid variant will. If getting the vaccine would ease your health on the matter; then maybe I would do it. But living your life in fear from constant media disinformation is a form of mental slavery.
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  4853.  @billjim7288  Yes, with one death. Yet we had 37 deaths during the Summer of Love where organizations tried to overthrow local and state politics. Yet nobody cares?
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  4854. I love going to Florida bud; that doesn't mean it's a paradise as far as cost goes. Property tax and insurance are insane. If there is going to be a recession; Florida will lead the charge. It grew too fast too soon after 2020. a significant amount of your debt generation went to Florida.
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  4855.  @victorygarden556  Ohioan here, changes in age demographics and turmoil within the Ohio GOP have severely damaged Republican voter turnout and state issues. I would know, I've voted GOP most of my life. DeWine's Governorship absolutely killed faith people had in the party here. If you were watching FOX News; you'd believe that the entire country was about to go blood-red in a swarm of Republican politics; absolutely laughable. It's not just Ohio though. Millions of registered Republicans sat home on Tuesday. This first became apparent during Mid-terms and then in the special and general elections of various states.
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  4856. Demand destruction unfortunately.. I don't get irritated with people that aren't attune to economics; most people are and it's an honest mistake. Prices tend to drop substantially when demand is reduced; plus the stock market is following suit. Many companies have lost between 40% and 60% of their public worth since November 2021. Once the recession sets in (post July 26th - GDP Q2 results) all commodities and oil will more than likely drop. That's not a healthy sign for the economy, it's the destruction of a healthy one.
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  4857. Never going to happen; we don't have the people nor the experience in the younger population to do so. Even if we did, they would never take these jobs. It's hard enough to get American citizens to get a CDL job; half of them are taken by green cards.
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  4858. I love how everybody is refusing to define terms. Choice A: A bullS#itter that has formed a fantastic campaign from all backgrounds and might get done a quarter of what he claims he'll do. Choice B: A corporate installation by a global oligarchy that wants to return to foreign wars and mass money laundering.
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  4859.  @kittybluett8887  Were not talking about Trump; we're talking about the Biden family. It's creepy and it's gaslighting!
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  4860. Those bots are everywhere... Have you seen the number of bots even on Youtube? All those financial guru supporters jerking each other off in every comment section for example.
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  4861. Well, she makes money; certainly a supply and demand.
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  4862. They're ALL young men 18 to 30; not just in the video, but at the border. Sounds like a cartel invasion.
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  4863.  @sg5720  It's the inevitability of a Keynesian model that produces ZERO exports. We exported 95% of all global autos in 1948. Now we export DOLLARS. Prices must rise and wages must stagnate with this.
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  4864.  @thataustriantrain7466  Evolved? It perverts the competence hierarchy. You can't have meritocracy if you are pushing people up the ladder beyond others simply because of their race.
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  4865. Healthcare is going to be the next collapsing industry, mark my words. Hospitals cannot keep up with demand and staffing continues to dwindle. Eventually, there's going to be a degree of strikes and quits that domino the entire healthcare apparatus. Kaiser in CA had some 75,000 people striking that started earlier this month. My wife is a PA and she has received 0 increase in compensation post-2020. So naturally, we are that much poorer due to inflation.
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  4866. Well, social media algorithms are making low IQ people go insane. Plus, core-institutional people (especially older) are defending the stupidity because they don't want to lose their credentials or Social Security.
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  4867. Mortgage $885
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  4868. @WilliamAfton-n7d Wrong reply William. First, nobody has called me a moron. Second, who am I saying is opposing me? Third, cultists reply with vague notions about facts that they don't elaborate on. If your comment was actually addressed to me, then it makes no sense. You're literally accusing me of what everyone else is doing.
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  4869. I'm not a huge fan of the FED, but people need to understand the truth. People have lost their minds; crime of all types are on steroids. States simply do not have the resources to perform their duties at usual capacity, especially considering we have a massive labor shortage still. The Federal Government is doing this largely at the request of state government due to the massive influx of murders, assault, and death threats (especially against pubic servants). Harassment and assault at parent teacher conferences and board meetings is disturbing. News media telling you that the government is going after parents without context is extremely misleading. The FBI has taken an interest in this issue because parents have lost their minds at these school meeting. Go and watch the Youtube videos for yourself. Endless waves of parents (made hysterical by the mainstream media) go to school board meetings and harass teachers and board members about topics that are not even an issue at the schools. Only seldom are the parents in the right. I find it hilarious that parents would be outraged by a sexual book found in a library. All the while their children have been porn addicts since the age of 8-10. Porn addiction is so rampant that it's laughable to get angry about a book, while your kid is walking around with a device that can access the world.
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  4870. Yep! At this point I assume people are pathetically dumb if they don't realize that they're being manipulated by algorithms on who to hate. If the algorithms told them to hate their mother; then they would.
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  4871. If people want to understand how the Holocaust was able to continue for so long. Simply look no further than the current situation... The German public was so immensely invested in the propaganda arm of the German government. And one thing leads to another. I thought every American would be rioting in the streets come the mandates. How long before the media makes it acceptable for imprisonment or execution? Granted, I don't think it will ever get that bad. But did anyone think it would get this bad currently?
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  4872. Thanks for the info btw! I've been passively looking to move south to Florida, but the costs/insurance in Fort Myers/Tampa is stupid. I'll take a peak at Ocala and other areas a bit further north. Have a wonderful day :)
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  4873. That's the hilarious thing! The initial push for officer body cameras were lobbied for by anti-cop groups looking to prosecute cops. Turns out the in some 98% of lawsuits against officers; the body cameras prove their innocence. Talk about irony!
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  4874. Women ruin your life is you a bad at choosing the right woman.
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  4875. Meh, Trump is most likely an NPD; not exactly a sociopath or psychopath. He's a con-artist above all else.
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  4876. I used to love Bernie and I still occasionally like his points, but he completely dodged an opportunity to rise to the occasion. He decided instead to continue complaining about all the what-ifs and in doing so his voter base has become pathetic. I remember when Bernie-bros were rational; now the ones leftover are just contemptuous basement dwellers.
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  4877. I'm not a fan of Trump, but is this 'news' or 'propaganda'? If Trump indeed said and did these things, then simply roll the clips. I don't want to hear an essay from the journalist on his own biases.
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  4878. Businesses have ZERO incentives to pay benefits or higher wages. They want YOUNG, IGNORANT, LOW SKILL workers that they can trade out at the age of 40 to the dumpster.
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  4879. Well, individualism imo is a side effect of complacency. This has all happened before and it will probably end the same way.
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  4880.  @Aye1-c4g  Roman Empire! Weak men create hard times, hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men. It's the same reason that people aren't really having kids, getting married, or investing in their future. Complacency kills the spirit. I love Ayn Rand! There's also a book called Siddhartha. It's one of the reasons I will always believe that wisdom must be experienced; not taught. If you work hard to make money and give it to your kids that had no struggles; they will squander it until the cycle begins anew. If there's any sustainable system for humans, it's a system that is unsustainable; oh the irony.
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  4881. Bots bots everywhere lol
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  4882. Same here! Of about 7 friends from HS that went to college. None of them got a job in their fields. All they have is debt now.
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  4883.  @-THE-REPENT-  According to who? Western Media? Bud, the first casualty of war is the truth.
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  4884. The current cultural shift and the growth of US liabilities that will NEVER be paid is only enabling the US to go down the path of hyperinflation and then full blown socialism. The moment I realized that conservatives were starting to get mad at grocers and other corporations for the inflationary prices post-Covid; I knew it was over. If the right wingers are willing to vote for more government restrictions on business, then you've just lost your free market. The left and right will fight each other over which big government practice is better lol
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  4885. Why do Republicans get a pass? This entire thing happened under the Trump Administration by people that HE appointed after Obama. Pretending that one side is evil and the other has nothing to do with it is ridiculous if you ask me.
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  4886. It's just another historical event, just like the Roman Empire. Complacency leads to familial destruction and by extension a collapsing society.
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  4887.  @samm8949  You don't want to go into that field; trust me. At the end of the day, a person's life is their own. If people want to pursue it; that's their choice. The turnover for counselling in rehab/corrections is insane. Most people go into the field thinking they will bring love and joy to people that need it. What actually ends up happening is they get harassed and assaulted into leaving the field. It's a dead-end for compassionate people and it will destroy any preconceptions you have about people with anti-social problems. Plus, it doesn't pay well by any means. It's one of the reasons I never went into policing or other pubic service. I watched my dad get broken over what people do to you and in the end society didn't get better. I personally won't even adopt children; it's that bad.
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  4888. Yeah, claiming that single women make more over the course of their lives is laughable. I had to stop there. When you get married; you are one entity. Therefore you typically make anywhere from 2-3 times the income AND your assets grow significantly faster because you have more income to leverage for property, business, etc. Another statistic she should be interested in is that single women typically hold on to (non-mortgage debts) significantly longer than married couples. No single women on average is EVER going to make more than a married couple in terms of assets.
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  4889. I know right, these idiots are going to be the first foreclosures for the 2023 market.
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  4890. Well, being a high status person in the market and high status partner are not mutually exclusive. If you already have a habit of doing simple housework, know how to cook, and are ambitious with your life goals. A woman is not going to care if you make less money. 'As a husband whose wife makes more than me'
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  4891. Well, as far as the bonds and securities go, you'd be correct. But America is largely worthless; one big meme stock that everybody keeps investing in BUT continues to lose a monument amount of value. If Americans knew how much their dollar and industries were actually worth, there would be riots. America is only worth as much as the Federal Government is willing to fight for by continuing to push (failed) US hegemony upon the rest of the world.
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  4892.  @dishonoredundead  So you want an actual criminal as opposed to the villain that the media taught you he is? What kind of logic is that?
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  4893. Unfortunately, somebody has to. If the Government wasn't the big bully on the block, then you'd just defer it to organized crime; mafias, mobs, gangs, cartels etc.
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  4894. People try to complicate this, but it's actually rather simple. The Federal Reserve write 'blank checks' to the Treasury and controls interest rates. In a Keynesian economy; both inflation and growth must be linear to maintain an equilibrium in purchasing power. When USD printing outperforms productivity/exports; your wage value decreases. The reason real-estate and vehicles nearly doubled in price over the last four years is all due to the demand curve. The Federal Reserve set interest rates to 0.25% in 2020. After that, everybody and their brother went out and bought a new home and a new car. When there are more buyers than sellers; prices go up! When the cost of living goes up; groceries follow. If you print a bunch of money and give it as (cheap-loans) to the average American. They will go out and inflate the economy! And since nothing is actually 'growing' in any real sense; your wages stagnate.
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  4895.  @lxue5518  Because (if you file that you are a non-citizen) you are probably going to be removed from the voter rolls when the municipality vets them. This is such a non-story it's sad. Happens all the time because people don't read what they are signing or filling in bubbles. It's election season, FOX and CNN will say ANYTHING to gaslight people and make them paranoid.
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  4896. Sounds like the DNC got bought by some internationals that don't have any relationship with their constituents. Why else would they keep pushing Biden? So they can control what he says and does! He's not in control whatsoever!
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  4897. People are diagnosing this issue incorrectly from my opinion and perhaps it's intentional. They claim that around 0.01% of tech jobs are including 'AI' in their job description titles. So they conclude that AI is not the reason that people are losing their jobs, considering that very few jobs entertain the necessity to work with those software programs. You don't need to create a job that includes AI programming for every 2, 3, or even 10 jobs. It's more or less 1 in 10,000 at this rate. The whole idea of AI is that an 'already existing program' can be put on a single software engineers itinerary so that he can now ensure that the workload of hundreds or thousands of ex-colleagues is being completely in a short period of time. In other words, profits!
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  4898. Well that's the point; YOU are the product and a lot of the people he interviews are pyramid schemers. Take one look at this guys websites; he's a scammer.
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  4899. I think you mean FOX insurrection. I'm no fan of Trump, but let's put our thinking caps on. Trump's medium of influence is almost exclusively through FOX and their subsidiary channels.
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  4900. Seems to be a better outlet than the morons at CNN and MSNBC that set entire cities on fire with constant disinformation. I always thought CNN should have been sued for everything they had after Ferguson. Their defamation and mis-reporting has been intentional for a long time.
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  4901. I'm not a fan of many idealisms in Project 2025, but let's be real here. This woman will be debarred within a year if this is the kind of mentality she's going to go into the profession with. She should know better than to make politically biased statements as reckless as she did in the video. I've seen a lot of people like her end up in defamation lawsuits, suspended, or flat out debarred because they think they can relentlessly run their mouths with tactless conjecture online. Freedom of speech does not protect attorneys from using their credentials to make videos like this. She should know better; regardless of the content or subject. This is highly unprofessional!
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  4902. It's because most people KNOW that the advertisements on Youtube are for absolutely GARBAGE products. I want to pay for UTILITY, CREATIVITY, and the LABOR that went into it. Not some snake-oil sales guru that wants to sell me Chinese garbage made by some poor sap in Ghangzhou. "Oh look at me, I'm an entrepreneur that downloaded Amazon Seller and now I buy stupid crap from Alibaba and get my forwarding agent to send it to my warehouse unit, all so I can scam idiots into buying it.
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  4903. It's not political; it's business. First, I would say that a portion of it was inevitable; largely because of the ensuing debt/retirement crisis. Second, 2020 was worsened because of all the business opportunities that big companies saw in it. Without Covid, we would have been at this financial state probably by mid 2030s. The massive money printing put us forward (literally 10-15 years).
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  4904. The rich don't deal in cash; they deal in assets and options. Elon Musk even gets paid his salaries in the form of options/derivatives. Wealthy people then trade in those options for short term cash or shares, then they reinvest those in more assets. It's all a game of monopoly; assets are king.
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  4905.  @Chazzmatazz  Well, define journalism. You'd probably agree that CNN and FOX are biased. So how are either of those more credible than full unedited interviews watched by hundreds of millions of people? I'm tell you, young people don't cater to this type of thinking anymore. It's completely two different worlds where one side wants full access to info and the other wants to gate-keep the institutions of information.
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  4906. True, which is largely why corporations and politicians are allowing it to happen. Why we couldn't have allowed an express to citizenship based on skills, values, and intent to assimilate is beyond me. The red-tape surrounding immigration is insanely useless and expensive. It's like they put up roadblocks for fun.
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  4907. A 14 month old dog that killed a chicken? Plus, she said she 'hated' the dog. Sounds like human problems created this situation.
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  4908. So close? Trump won the national vote by a 7% margin. These people are delusional.
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  4909.  @juice8431  "That's just cap?" Elaborate...
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  4910.  @elzoog  Socialization, labor force, and health above all else.
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  4911. OR, grow some balls and vote for Kennedy? If Ross Perot could take 20% between two LIKABLE candidates; then what do you think Kennedy can pull against the two worst Presidents in US history?
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  4912. I wish it were that simple. Nobody seems to be actually hiring anywhere. My wife has four years of cardiothoracic surgery experience and I've got my CDL. Neither of us can find new places to work.
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  4913. I think it's a bit more complicated than that. As problematic as Trump and the Freedom Caucus is; nobody (even Bernie) seems to have a solution for the most pressing issues like Social Security, a potential failed bond auction, unaffordable housing, and above all else runaway inflation that will most likely resurge if the FED cuts rates. We simply don't have the GDP to outrun the debt we've printed. I truly fear for the survival of this country and the wife and I contemplate leaving it almost daily. You can't outspend a debt crisis; Democrats haven't learned that. On the flip side, you can't Reaganomics your way into prosperity; Republicans still haven't learned this.
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  4914. Watching a video isn't the same as liking and sharing garbage for an ego boost.
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  4915. It's fake outrage, because people are actually stupid enough to gather their moral compass from a news station lol
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  4916. I think you're speaking from media bias. Canada has already done enough on it's own to make life rather unaffordable and frustrating. Plus, you can't expatriate or buy real-estate over-seas without a 25% tax on both Canadian property AND foreign property. Canada did enough to destroy itself without Trump.
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  4917. 2024 has actually been the first year of relief for my family. 2023 - We got scammed, infant needed blood, wife needed surgery, and lost the car. Tbh, inflation was the least of my worries. Now we are completely on our feet and have paid off an enormous amount of debt. We're about to move and irradiate the remaining student loan debt. After that, things will be so much better.
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  4918. (Pfizer) - "Hey FDA, can you help us ban Ivermectin so we can sell our Covid pill better? (FDA) - "Why?" (Pfizer) - "We'll give you 5% of gross profits and because you used to work for us :)" (FDA) - "Oh yeah lol, sure thing buddy."
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  4919. History repeats itself because people like to absolve themselves of human nature. The people that claim they are 'incapable' of evil and the most likely people to carry out the deeds. Going forward, pride blinds them from their convictions. Look at Greta Thunberg! If you asked her, "Should you have the ability to stop all fossil fuels with the snap of a finger, would you do it?" She would probably say yes and kill a billion people in the blink of an eye. Elon Musk was asked the same question; he said no. That's a man that sees his shadow.
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  4920. It's a slush fund that basically gets pooled into other states and Federal pockets. We are seeing the largest business and government fraud in human history. The peak of which has been done under the last two Presidents. Virtually every consumer protected has had their ankles tied.
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  4921. Gold vs fiat is irrelevant! At the end of the day, this all comes down to productivity. The nation with the best productivity and manufacturing with export their products to the US and import all of our gold. In the end, once a trade deficit happens; the US would have to substitute gold for IOUS, which would make the asset inflationary.
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  4922. UBI wouldn't last 3 years; I guarantee you. How do you account for inflationary pricing from UBI?
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  4923.  @exiledone69  It's a bullying tactic bud; I mean this is Trump we're talking about.
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  4924. How about you stop TRYING to be offended by everything and come back to reality with normal people? Social media has made you hysterical.
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  4925.  @LilDusty5528  It's all tied to the same economic system under the Reserve Currency USD. It's happening everywhere.
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  4926. He probably believes that Polio is deadly and paralyses everybody. To be fair, most people believe that; due to misinformation and pop culture. It's VERY important that people question their presuppositions. Almost everything you believe by age 18 is a result of someone getting their 'claws' into you with the purpose of using you.
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  4927. I'll be blunt, it's always anti-social white kids between 18-25 years old that think the world is on fire while staring at their laptop. One thing is for sure, I really think an IQ test may be in order to have social media. While I'm aware that can be abused; it never hurts to dream. Too many crazy people can't tell what's real or not anymore.
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  4928. Supply shortage! Illegals are not the reason your housing is expensive. Don't watch mainstream media. Prices will continue going up until a bunch of single family homes get dumped in foreclosure. We just hit a 20 year low last year with foreclosures. We're not even close.
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  4929. Democrats screwing Bernie, Tulsi, and Kennedy was the worst mistake in their entire history. Now their party will go down the drain. The corporate wing can no longer control their fake narrative.
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  4930. Nuclear weapons aren't what people think they are anymore. The arsenals have been drastically reduced and the size and radiation blast is far more efficient compared to the height of the cold war. Castle Bravo bombs aren't being kept on standby anymore. Even IF you got hit with a nuke; the largest warhead would probably be a 475-550Kt warhead. Still deadly, but the blast radius is significantly reduced as they are tactical designs AND the best part is that the radiation fallout would be nowhere near what it used to be.
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  4931. We live in a time where some 25% of the population gets to live in a luxury bubble because Boomers still have money to keep our lend out. Give it another decade or two and people will stop complaining about social issues. Social issues are truly the hierarchy of 'I have no problems in my life'.'
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  4932. No, I think this just ensured his re-election. These idiots never learn; now he's a martyr. Trust me, MAGA voters will treat him as one and now millions more will vote for him because it looks like they are imprisoning political opponents.
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  4933. They're more likely to start a revolution and we all know how those end up in most cases. Most young people I know derive their philosophy and moral compass from social media trends and popularity. It's extremely scary.
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  4934. This is what happens when you take DNC bribes and then renege on the deal. You end up getting indicted. This Administration is a freaking totalitarian regime.
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  4935. It's obvious that much of what you just said was impressed upon you without question.
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  4936. US does this kind of crap ALL of the time bud. Nobody should be surprised. It's easy for Democrats to believe all GOP Admins could drone children in the middle east. But God forbid we blow up a pipeline in the Baltic for political reasons. I swear, CNN and FOX are a religion to people.
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  4937. If you're 'surviving'; you should focus on netting assets; not gambling with crypto.
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  4938. Well, I think the panic is largely coming from our shrinking US reserves. The Biden Admin didn't cut a deal to re-fill them and they are being cut off at the end of November.
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  4939. Science has become a cult for people that worship the ADA and FDA.
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  4940.  @CaptainSprinkles1985  So Vioxx deaths (27,000 of them) is random unscientific garbage from the internet I suppose? If your idea of science is blindly believing people that represent science, then I think the irony is astonishing. An adult discussion is clearly out of your grasp. Good day... You can insult all you want; all it means is you've lost.
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  4941.  @CaptainSprinkles1985  It's called "reading the clinical research reports" that are cited in their findings. What does Vioxx not being a vaccine have to do with anything? Are you of the assumption that anti-inflammatory drugs by Pfizer can kill people, but not their vaccines? Like how Lipitor reduced CAD in 1.3% of clinical trials. Yet they report 34%, because they divide their absolute efficacy by the initial control group. Pharmaceutical companies do this all the time. Most research is NSF grant funded and when the research sells, the host University will receive 50%-70% of the proceeds. Bad incentive.... It's a bit more complex than the naive stance that "experts know best " Has nothing to do with Googling random things. Big research makes big money. And if you can fudge your findings to fit the agenda of Kellogg's, British Petroleum etc... it pays even more. If all you do is believe things because, some hypothetical experts say so. Then you'll remain ignorant devoid of critical thinking.
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  4942. I've stopped caring for quite some time; bite me if you will.... Believe it or not, the most dangerous cities in the world are not in Saudi Arabia; they are not in Columbia; they are not even in North Korea. They are right HERE in America. The people tearing this country apart are not immigrants, they are home grown Americans. All your incompetent and narcissistic sociopaths? Yes, they are all home grown Americans. People complain day in and day out about illegal immigrants and Chinese nationals screwing this country. Believe me, Americans are destroying their own country. If you don't believe me, look at the felon line-up of any local municipality. Look at all the parents that play on their phones while going out to eat with their kids. Looks at all the people posting inane garbage on social media. American citizens thru and thru. We are destroying ourselves. I stopped playing the vote to affect change game long ago. It's all one big game-show where the virtue signalers get to go on a talk show and the virtuous people get a media 'trial by fire'.
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  4943. @jensenau Not exactly! You just gotta plan accordingly. Stay out of debt and remove yourself from harmful environments. Make a change if it's not working out for you :)
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  4944. So are taxes stupid as well?
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  4945.  @keiththoma2559  How exactly? Sales tax gives an incentive for lower consumption; lower prices. Regressive taxes are largely subjective and can be applied to anything based on any set of changing values. Income taxes are technically unfair to a large degree; seeing as a whopping majority of the population pay little to no tax burden of total income tax. Cigarette taxes to fund healthcare? That doesn't make any sense. Taxes on tobacco and alcohol drove down prices and use over the decades. The government would never subsidize insurance/medical institutions for diseases downwind of tobacco use. You would just give another incentive for people to continue using it as they would have no incentive to avoid healthcare complications and costs. That's like taxing soda and then using it to subsidize costs for diabetes. It makes no logical sense. Healthcare prices are a result of basic supply and demand. I'm not sure you understand what you're talking about.
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  4946.  @superpieman5773  It's on Youtube. You know what else is on Youtube? Biden admitting that he blackmailed Zelensky about firing the prosecutor looking into his illegal activities. That same garbage they impeached Trump over. God, people are so incredibly stupid...
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  4947. You know, a lot of people thought that Donald was going to be a Hoover kind of President. But even I have to admit, he came out of the gates swinging like FDR.
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  4948.  @SCPKing1835  Ukraine started that war in 2014 after the US government helped orchestrate the collapse of their government. Russia has been trying to contain the issue for the last 8 years in Donbass. NATO continues to poke the bear and is surprised when it claws their face off?
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  4949. True, but it's not healthy for a functioning society. Too many men with no romantic or ambitious potentials pushes society into anarchy and revolution. This has been historically accurate since the beginning of civilizations.
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  4950. Well, if there are no good jobs; then people need to make their own jobs.
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  4951. I'd advise people go over to ballotpedia and look at the difference in voter registration by state between 2022 and 2024. New Hampshire alone went from 29% of their registered voters being Republican to (34%). Democrats and Independents across the board are switching their political affiliation.
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  4952. No member of generation Z is going to be able to afford a home. Ownership will soon be something of the past.
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  4953.  @ZalmanBroocker  Honest question! Do you support Bernie for change or do you support him for you daily 'gotcha' moment? Seems to be a lot of that going around these parts. A lot of people claim they want change, but couldn't care less in actuality. Does me mentioning RFK really warrant the snarky response?
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  4954. The problem is that conservative and liberal were NEVER political terms; they've been weaponized to be! They are sects of personality. You cannot 'become' a liberal or conservative; you are born that way. If you are low in openness and high in conscientiousness; chances are you're NOT a liberal.
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  4955. If they don't pause on Wednesday, it could very well trigger a market crash. The markets are expecting a PAUSE until July.
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  4956. As an ex-MAGA person; a vote for Trump is vote for bigger bureaucracy and another wave of inflation. Who appointed Jerome Powell (the guy that set interest rates to 0.25% and printed $8 Trillion in stimulus under the Federal Reserve?)
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  4957. It's not exactly brainwash (at least in the sense that many people think). From a number of surveys, a majority of these children, teens, and young adults are sexually abused and it greatly damages their perception of reality.
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  4958. It's not a matter of utility; it's a matter of culture. Even if we win this in the short run, the culture is still tailing us. People aren't going to get rid of their FB, Amazon Prime, and smartphones. Much less be responsible with them. Freedom has turned into the "right to do" instead of the "responsibility to do". The culture yields to the lowest common denominator. It is pointless to continue rooting for one party or the other. When the rest of Gen X and the Baby Boomers leave the work force and have to be taken care of. The culture will play itself out. We are seeing the very beginning of a cultural shift. This is one of many reasons my wife and I are leaving the Midwest. It's an economic and cultural death trap.
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  4959. In his first Presidency, Trump relied on Obama-appointees to help him and they stabbed him in the back. I imagine he won't make that mistake twice.
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  4960. Perhaps you should spend more time understanding the fundamentals and economics of the situation and not looking at surface nuances? Every President since Bush has spent more than the last; basic math with debt obligations.
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  4961.  @nutbaridea1097  Did you even watch part 1? It will answer your initial and yet ignorant statement. Have a little humility bud.
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  4962.  @nutbaridea1097  What? That makes no sense.
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  4963. Because there's a higher likelihood that people will be disinterested by the name and not engage in the subject.
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  4964. I left my job in June 2020 (smack right in the middle of Covid). My wife and I were moving and I needed time off for moving. When I took that job; we were given 13 days of time off. However, in January 2020, then had me sign a waiver claiming "I acknowledge that I will have 3 sick days and 5 personal days off available annually.' Keep in my, this CDL job was 6 days on; 12 hours per day. Their logic was that the decrease in personal time would stop 20 people (out of 120) from calling off each day. A lot of guys ditched after that.
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  4965. The Federal Reserve printed $8 Trillion and millions of Americans got 1-2% mortgages in 2020, which drove up prices. At the same time, the lockdowns destroyed 50% of all small business across the US; which hurt GDP/productivity. This is Keynesian system! Debt obligations (money printing) must grow linear with productivity. If it doesn't; prices rise and wages stagnate.
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  4966. It's a debt crisis. As much as I get irritated with boomers, most of us would probably be doing the same thing in their shoes. Humans beings will do as humans beings do. If people are going to be mad, they should probably be mad at how the system is setup. Blame the asset bubbles called (Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions) that need to be constantly propped up to maintain those asset bubbles thru currency devaluation.
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  4967. "Must understand emotions." Does this woman not understand that she's a full blown narcissist? What does she know about emotions? lol
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  4968. Kennedy here!
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  4969.  @newsduke  You must be knew here; CNN hates when minorities leave the plantation. You have to be able to see thru the smoke and mirrors. These stations are all owned by the same parent companies/oligarchy. They are not your friends.
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  4970. Exactly! telling a certain parent many times endangers the child; it's not all cut and dry.
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  4971. Corporations are cooking the books that they are reporting to the FEDs. Inflation is largely up out of desperation. If the FED is maintaining high interest in an economy that is essentially dead. If you though the 2020 bailouts were bad; just wait until 2025. Inflation will be significantly worse in 2026/2027.
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  4972. Scary choice if you ask me. Sergey Brin's ex-wife? Smells like corporate corruption, smh.
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  4973. You're not describing capitalism; you're describing a corporate oligarchy defended by a central bank.
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  4974.  @lindamullins1446  Well, this is actually a bit more complex. So cities generate pretty much all your revenue, but they always require monumental amounts of subsidies and social programs. Suburban areas are tax-sinks (generally speaking). Which is why legislators/developers are really moving away from them. Thus helping to create a housing shortage. Rural areas generate lesser income, but also need a moderate about of subsidies for social programs; typically for older or burdened demographics. So, on the surface one can blame red states or blue, but it really all comes down to metros vs. suburbs vs. rural areas.
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  4975.  @frankyan577  True! It honestly makes me regret my first comment; I guess everybody loves to make fun of California. It's more of an income inequality issue, but nobody has any real solutions or it. Historically, wars and economic disruptions killed off the populations that were producing less. Now the technology is so ridiculously precise that the lowest bar can afford to eat plenty, but afford no real living.
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  4976.  @JimmySentence  Good job! Stay strong out there!
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  4977. At this point, it's (vote for Republicans) because they are the opposite of chaos and destruction? You can't deny the absurdity and incompetence of the Biden Administration, but it seems to me that we have NO plan lol
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  4978. The polls were off by 12 pts (from CNN) the week before the election in 2020. If they claim that Trump is "EVEN"; then he'll win by a large margin.
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  4979. Let's NOT forget why Youtube deleted comments. It was because every White-House, Congressional, and Democratic platform page had a 99 to 1% dislike ratio. Not good PR for the people running everything lol
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  4980. Between the ages of 18-28; I lost some $14,000 between stocks, crypto, and options. There's a reason that institutions of old would recommend mutual funds and a 401k. Simply because there's no way to emotionally pull your money out without a big penalty. At the end of the day, the entire circus is designed to make you lose money; that's how these brokerages afford to give you free trades. It's because they have partnerships between hedge-funds. If you're going to invest; ever trade options. Also, know your weaknesses. It's usually better to allow a professionally managed institution handle those investments if you can't trust yourself to sell it all on impulse.
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  4981. Well, I wish it was that simple. Debt to GDP is the reason people can't afford anything. Demographic based spending is inflating assets like Pensions, SS, and Medicare. So as long as that's the case; prices go up and wages stagnate.
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  4982. Funny to see that nothing has changed in the east lol
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  4983. Considering that 54.1% of women 30-34 are single. I think we're going to be seeing a LOT of this in the future. I think 30 years from now, most families will be Latino, Indian, Asian, or Mixed. Plus, there will be whole welfare communities of expired single white feminists.
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  4984.  @khalidxlam  When groups tend to carry out a (Tet Offensive) style attack that kills 1300 (mainly civilians). I'd consider Hamas to be the bad guys in this situation. It's amazing how clueless people are on this topic. On October 7th, Hamas launched a terrorist attack in over a dozen locations.
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  4985. "If you can even have kids." Boy, this statement right here doesn't get enough attention, given the dating environment. Last I saw, it takes a woman (on average) 9-10 months at 30 years with her partner to achieve conception. Now that's just baseline conception, it doesn't account for a miscarriage/ectopic of any kind which is more common as you get older. Women have been completely destroying their reproductive systems for a century with the use of birth control. Imagine if a majority of men were all on the same reproductive pharmaceutical drug at 14-35. I personally think it's crazy how commonplace it is for women to take these drugs.
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  4986.  @lovemyalaskaful  Revisionist history my friend! I find it hilarious that people experienced this protocols first hand and then swapped their brains for the media narrative 2 months later. Trump was the first one trying to shut down immigration and flights from China. It was the CDC that continuously counter-attacked his position in the White House and media. The CDC publicly posted on social media outlets for weeks that (Covid was of no great danger to the US) and that (no flight ban was needed). They continued to persecute Trump's judgement until March/April when Fauci reversed his position. Then claimed that it was all Trump's fault for not shutting down flights and stopping travel.
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  4987. I think that the video title is a bit disingenuous. I'm not sure how this is solely a conservative talking point. Most institutions have been airing this narrative for the last decade at least.
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  4988. Well, I think the logic was that Iran finally has enough enriched Uranium and has anywhere from 9 to 15 warheads that could be operational within 60 days.
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  4989. TBH, I kind of feel bad for her. Look at how she speaks and interviews. It's like (if she says the wrong thing) the DNC will send her to Gitmo lmfao
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  4990. The problem with the 'scientific community' (if you want to call it that) is that there is a major incentive to undermine the process if their is a massive power and profit outcome. It would be rather dumb to lie in your research about the minerals found on Martian surfaces. But it's highly profitable to lie about the research results of a Station, so that it gets approved by the FDA and sold to the public.
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  4991. The same could be said of either side. CNN and FOX has the power that regimes of the past did. They control and manipulate their viewers, expand on their prejudices and insecurities, and use them to profit. You thinking liberals (explicitly) are an issue means that one of these manipulator has control of your mind.
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  4992. Well, that's due to higher murder rates.
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  4993.  @Hugh_Bleffner  SO vote for Kennedy!? Why are Democrat's so gutless when it comes to lock-step voting?
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  4994. The western media is lying; Putin simply said that Russia would retaliate with equal force should NATO threaten him with a nuclear arsenal.
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  4995. Unpopular opinion, but I hope Russia flattens Ukraine and pushes NATO out. I've had enough in my life of American imperialism across the globe in the name of freedom. US Pharmaceutical and Defense companies have killed more people than the damn communists.
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  4996. You need to see the full interview, WJS as usual cut this video to elicit the response they wanted.
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  4997. Yeah, a revolution will most likely result in (even more vicious people) taking control. Be careful treading on the revolution-anarchy path. You need a big bully in town to sort out the others; sometimes it's not a good thing to get rid of the one you have. There will always be a bully in town. Your best hopes are to have one that has a hate-love relationship with you. It can't be any other way.
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  4998.  @fruitypebbles803  That's irrational beyond belief. The US has all the incentive to do so. All so negotiations cannot take place before Winter starts; ensuring that there is an energy crisis in Europe and the war will continue in Ukraine. Then the US will have more time to prepare it's army of military contractors. Sound familiar? lol
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  4999. This wasn't done very well; too many questions and no answers. 1. Was the board recessed during the protest? 2. Were there any violent parents? 3. Why was security called? 4. Why were these two kicked out? It takes two to tango. Not giving any other side of the story makes it look like a suspiciously lit dumpster fire.
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  5000. For whatever reasons Russia is attacking Ukraine. I guarantee you that Putin and Biden are lying about it. Politics never changes...
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  5001. Yeah, I think you're talking about 2010 Youtube. Some 98% of it is stupid and pointless stuff that target young and old audiences in order to push hysteria or mindless entertainment for profit.
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  5002. CNN had Biden (12 pts ahead) in their last poll ending for the 2020 election; he won by less than 0.2%. If the media is claiming he's 'EVEN'? It will probably be a landslide victory for Trump.
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  5003. A man needs to tie my shoe after he tells me that my shoes untied? That's a new one I've never heard. Had I attempted to tie her shoe; she would have kicked me and had me charged with attempted rape.
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  5004.  @BazookaTooth707  Religion is a plague to reason.
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  5005. They get paid with your laundered tax dollars lol
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  5006. There can't be a real-estate collapse without a bunch of homes going back on the market. It's simply NOT happening; quit fear mongering unintelligent people.
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  5007. It's all in small studies and experiences; which is all we really have. Could you imagine any fortune 500 company lobbying NSF grants to produce a study that destroys their profits on crap food? lol They need you eating massive amounts of carbs and 6 (small lol) meals per day. Personally, I've done IF for about 10 years or so and fast 18-6. I did a period of 18 on OMAD, but it produced a bit of leptin resistance and I had to widen my eating window again; which solved the issue. Keep the carbs below 100 is my advice.
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  5008. This is what happens when you allow a bunch of low-level intellectuals (that think they're Isaac Newton). To have full access to social media. This is actually a larger phenomenon than people know and they typically become extremely unstable people. We REALLY need to start forcing personality tests when we vet people for jobs, especially in education.
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  5009.  @zerafians8145  Well, if you have your health, no mortgage, other debts, or liabilities; $1 Million is indeed enough to retire on. The thing is that it's not very much if you have any of those, plus medical issues.
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  5010. Yep, colleges are a scam at this point. They train you for a job that isn't interested in your skills.
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  5011. That's what I've been telling people for years, but they don't care. IT is an insanely volatile field; nobody is safe.
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  5012.  @blumander88  Normal usually means kissing the majorities rear in any given community
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  5013. Funny you say that; Bahamas real estate has a property tax exemption up to $300k; after that it's like 0.625% on $300,001 or above. Over $500k are 1%
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  5014. Degrees are worthless if everybody has one. 57% of people under 25 are enrolled in college. I can guarantee you that 57% of any demographic doesn't have an average IQ over 100; it's a recipe for disaster. Degrees have been devalued due to University and Government greed. There is no incentive for colleges to give quality educations if their profits are given (up front) in a guaranteed loan program.
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  5015. People aren't putting up with narcissistic shitbags anymore, pure and simple. People that manipulate you and use you as a human punching bag. Why should children or young adults show ANY allegiance to those people? The world is not perfect! Yet the abusers knew exactly what was (right and wrong) in a public setting. When they got home, they thought it was perfectly acceptable to go back to being monsters. The jig is up and your sick worldview is coming to an end. You people hide behind religion, family, and respect as a means to abuse your victims.
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  5016. Doesn't matter how motivated you are to get into a new job field. No job is paying a salary or hourly rate that keeps up with inflation; not a single one. We've finally reached the threshold where the USD that has tumbled for 40 years is finally catching up to everyone's standard of living. Once even middle class people aren't about to pay their mortgages, rent, or utility with their wages; it's game over.
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  5017. Perhaps your daughter shouldn't be speed screwing and using abortion as a contraceptive?
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  5018. Yep! Even CNN viewers are turning on their own station; Vance is impermeable!
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  5019. Well, technically speaking (once you educate women - you create an inevitable implosion). The reason is that women will sacrifice their fertile years for education and pursuit of a career. After that, they are in their late 20s early 30s and the clock is ticking. So naturally they start to produce a (Below replacement) birth rate. I mean, what exactly did feminists think was going to happen? Once all of these childless people die, all of the people WITH children will pass on their ways and then society will become religious and family oriented all over again.
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  5020.  @allaboutkendra9940  Oh will you people please go off yourselves.. We don't need any more bots on Youtube.
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  5021. This is the result of an equity system mixed with Reaganomics. They remove your pay incentives and increase your work-load to ensure that all kids get jammed thru the system so that the districts look good. All of this comes back to Government's involvement with education from K-College. The quality of education is failing because the paycheck has already been given from the Feds to the district administration. They are paid and they DO NOT care!
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  5022.  @tarabooartarmy3654  Boomers and Gen X are the biggest narcissists I've ever seen. They want you to get that degree so that they can gloat about it to their friends and raise their status as cookouts. They couldn't care less about debt or dead-end degrees. You could be homeless, broke, and unemployed, but they'll still love you for having that degree because it's something they can socially exploit. Not only my parents, but all our our neighbors, friends, and sports parents did the same thing. A lot of those kids are still living at home into their late 20s. I was the ONLY one that avoided college. In the process I made a lot of money, got the house, the wife, and the kid. Yet I still get the cold shoulder for doing it. Unless you're going into STEM; college is a scam. Stay away!
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  5023. Rubio has been a fence sitter and double player for a long time. I think making his Secretary of State was actually pretty genius because it puts him in the hot-seat to show his competence and sacrifice his political donors. If he messes up, it won't reflect bad on Trump, just on himself. Effectively ruining any chances of him ever being President.
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  5024.  @m.g.3021  There will always be low-info voters on both sides. I call it 'part-time politics'. How people think they can spend a week of their lives figuring out politics and think they're informed is odd to me, but many do that. I'd like to think most independent voters are (independent) because they're tired of the dog and pony show though. I really don't care how people vote, but (as an example) people claiming they voted FOR Trump because of trans issues or FOR Harris to stop fascism just come off as low info to me. I guess it works to some degree, but those voters tend to be fickle about their voting consistency anyways.
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  5025. After seeing what happened in Ottawa, it's pointless. Open rebellion is quickly becoming the only solution. Either that or a miracle where all the fortune 500 companies in America stop complying with the Feds.
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  5026. "Little advantage?" Mail-in ballots aid Democrats by a 3:2 margin (best odds). Requests for mail-in ballots are DOWN -27% compared to 2020. The 18-39 age demographics lean (on average 64% Democrat). Those demographics are DOWN -35% for early voting. I'm thinking Democrats are going to lose by a 7-10pt margin nationally; it's not even going to be close.
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  5027.  @torachan23  Sounds like a life of nihilism. Doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. Middle aged, parents deceased, no spouse, and no children in a recipe for disaster. What you'll find is that it's going to lead to boredom, depression, and suicidal thoughts. You have a curve of about 1% of the population that can put up with that and be happy at the end of the day running their companies. Though most people just come up with endless excuses for why things are not their fault in the current predicament. I'll tell you what's wrong with men these days. Narcissistic tendencies, no responsibilities, and porn addiction. It will make a man absolutely useless. What you need to do is find a woman that's not on birth control and start doing things around the house. It's not rocket science. I'm not judging either of your lives, because I don't know you. My experience with many men has been that most of them are absolute losers. Overweight, porn addicted, man-children that either still live at home or alone in an apartment. They say they are happy and content as they lie through their teeth. This all comes down responsibility and carrying your burdens while standing tall with your shoulders back. MGTOW breeds baseless collective contempt among people that have never even experienced what it's like to have a female companion.
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  5028. Well, that's just the tip of ice-berg. These days, even if you get a good degree; it qualifies you for a job that will most likely make you want to kill yourself within 6 months.
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  5029. Well, he did get a four year break; so lol
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  5030.  @TechnoMinarchist  Pretty much; I guess not then lol
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  5031. What makes you think they're clowns? Their actions look pretty intentional to me. If you want to discover someone's motives; look at the result and INFER the motivation.
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  5032. Medicare negotiations with drug pricing will NOT take place until 2026; where 10 discretionary drugs will be chose. By 2029, they will reach 20 drugs of choice. This piece of legislation will also do NOTHING to stop inflation short or long term. Americans better get used to 10% inflation per year; we are never going back to 2.1%
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  5033. Hilarious, nobody cares when the previous administration goaded Russia into attacking Ukraine. The Democratic Party is truly becoming reactionary at this point. No plan, no creativity, no goals. Just inane whining and whataboutism.
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  5034. To be honest, the UK has never been a good place to live. It's a crap-hole filled with garbage, graffiti, no opportunities, and a dying culture.
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  5035. Hillary propped up Trump? Did I hear that correctly? The Clinton Foundation has done nothing BUT undermine Trump and his entire Administration during those four years. I don't know where you heard such a conspiracy theory, but it's not of your own creation. I would throw it out the window because I've not seen a shred of evidence to support such a claim. Trump was an anomaly, plain and simple. His election defied the polls and projections. The resent political turmoil you are seeing in recent years is to ensure that it never happens again. These elites DO NOT want another anomaly like Trump. Some say Covid was part of a conspiracy to ensure his Presidency went down in flames.
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  5036. We didn't add 30% of the USD recently printed into circulation in those 4 years. That has happened in the last 18 months.
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  5037.  @oahuhawaii2141  It could happen! Pollsters are going to be jumping on New Hampshire; it just flipped to 50/50 even according to (Project 538).
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  5038.  @geoffgill5334  Hoping against hope? Why's that?
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  5039.  @monkeyfeeders  Elaborate? The last polls in 2020 had Biden leading 12 pts (according to CNN). He won by less than 0.3% in swing states. If these polls are claiming EVEN; I think you're going to see a lot of odd states flip red and surprise Democrats. A lot of Democrats have flocked to Trump after the removal of Biden and corruption against the state of New Hampshire when the DNC tried to overthrow their state law for the primary. Not to mention you have Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard endorsing him. Even if it pulled 20% of Democrat fans; it would be roughly 3-5 million voters. DNC has been extremely dirty with litigation and defamation lawsuits. Even suing Kennedy to be removed (then stay ON the ballot) in Michigan. People are tired of the corruption.
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  5040. What's the end game? If these oligarchs, corporations, and government officials can't maintain control. They're going to release another virus, blame the Russians, and start World War 3. Their pure intent is to win it all or take everybody with them to the grave. God help us all...
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  5041. I don't and I'm a millennial. Perhaps my own generation isn't much better, but in my experience they are extremely gullible and are the biggest group of conformists I've ever seen. They plagued themselves with student debt and then complained they couldn't get ahead. They don't drink or smoke because caffeine, sugar, and screen-time is excessively more addictive.
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  5042. Psychopaths are essentially RAW internally. They mimic society and social customs in order to function within it's constraints. However, you have to remember that they are predators. Not all of them are violent (obviously). But they will do what they can to get what they want. Lying and manipulating are the name of the game. If something can be proven; they won't do it. Integrity, loyalty, and honesty aren't in the vocabulary.
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  5043. The US is already an oligarchy. We're simply in the process of switching to a new one lol
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  5044.  @justaguy6100  Not exactly, mathematically speaking; every President since Clinton outspent the last. This is largely due to Social Security, Medicare, and above all else Pensions. All of which have had to be inflated to maintain most of their value in an economy that has a widening export deficit. It's a fiat Keynesian economy; essentially permanent growth and permanent inflation. If productivity/exports don't grow linear with debt obligation; then wages stagnate and prices grow. The situation is easier to comprehend if you avoid politics and go with the underlying economics. That way you don't get manipulated by partisanship.
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  5045.  @justaguy6100  Actually, that's false. True that SS is supposedly it's own fund, but the proceeds are put into the general fund so they can be converted into t-bonds for interest collection. This is why people have endlessly complained that SS has been used for other means; though Congress and the CBO office have denied it. The SS liabilities are more or less their own designated appropriation and must be paid out. As far as widening the gap vs cutting it. I don't see any evidence (other than circumstantial) when it comes down to the parties. From a historical perspective, stocks and economies have done better under Democratic Presidents for the last 50 odd years; though that omits quite a lot of factors at the same time. People can say what they want about tax cuts, but no deficit resulted from them; if that's what you mean. In the case of Covid spending (roughly $6T) over 24 months. You had mass inflation in every area of the economy, including your auto-pilot programs. If Social Security, Medicare, and Pensions are going to be inflated at a rate higher than businesses can push up wages and generate tax revenue with it (then naturally this creates a higher deficit). This is particularly why those programs can't maintain a surplus of funds; they're dwindling. As far as the economy being robust. I don't see it. Our top exports are oil and tech/aerospace patents. Sure, there's a lot of ways to make money, but not in a domestic sense. Consumers rely so heavily on imports. Wait till Trump puts up his tariffs and people will realize how vulnerable the US economy is.
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  5046. Just watch! Churches are going to lose their tax exemption status. Not solely because church attendance is down by nearly 40% since 2020, but because politicians will be forced to find new areas to fund that debt madness.
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  5047. EU - we must become fascists in order to stop fascism from taking over Europe again. Literally their logic..
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  5048. Trump will flip New Hampshire; wait and watch! Democrats don't forget that the DNC overthrew your state primary (against state law) to bully it's way into dictating what voters were going to get.
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  5049. They are going to make defense contractors as much money as possible before they leave office. Say what you want about Trump, but this is why people voted for him. It's not so much about loving Trump, as much as realizing how sick the Democratic Party is.
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  5050. You're going to invest at the PEAK of a bull market? Dang man, at least wait a few months as we enter a recession lol
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  5051. It's crazy how many people have already been socially conditioned by the media to protect corporations lol It's like the early 2000s when people backed the war in Iraq for no reason, just 100 times worse.
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  5052. All lovely places; except Puerto Rico lol Don't go to Puerto Rico; just don't.
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  5053. To be fair, I don't think you're using the term bankruptcy correctly. The Chapter Laws are about government reorganization of debt. All fortune 500 companies use bankruptcy laws regularly to discharge bad debts typically from legal outcomes. The use of a those laws doesn't determine that the person using them is incompetent; quite the contrary.
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  5054.  @user-lv5bt3nt3r  Well, there is no competition. If you look at Fortune 500 companies, they are almost entirely monopolies or cartels in their own domain. The Government affords them handicaps, therefore they can outperform anybody trying to outcompete them. Under Price's Law, corporations can't exist without government intervention. Make them play by the same rules as small business and they will implode. Lack of competition stifles wages and lack of transparency allows gate-keepers to inflate assets. It's all a racket where the corporations use government to protect their butts.
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  5055. Voting for RFK here!
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  5056. Because Trump needs to win the Midwest and current politics are pushing it into the hands of the Democrats.
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  5057. @@carolew.5384 Greed of landlords; don't make me laugh. Bud, have you ever even spoken to someone that's a landlord. Even landlords are hurting immensely. This has nothing to do with greed and everything to do with the inevitability of a Keynesian system. Artificially low rates = artificially high demand = higher prices = inflation Blame the Federal Reserve and all the quacks that got 0% auto loans and 1% mortgages in 2020.
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  5058. According to the USDA, there are 400% more trees now than there were in 1900. So why does the issue of deforestation still make rounds? You should calm down on your environmental stance. This kind of obsession and head-strong attitude is where eugenics and genocide get birthed. If you can justify that certain types of people (and/or) their diets are what's wrong with the world. Then I guarantee you can take it a whole long further. There's not a native tribe on earth that has avoided using animal products to advance their civilization and numbers; it's engrained in the evolution of our teeth and gut biome. Perhaps living a more communal and sustainable lifestyle is certainly a goal, but to blacklist people like that seems dangerous. I'm pretty sure him and his daughter source their meets from Georgia (White Oak Pastures) which is not a commercially abusive business.
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  5059. Most Trump supporters have always had a real problem with this guy. I guess Trump's intuition is to 'keep your enemies close?' Regardless, it's not like he really has any room to backstab. Trump put him on a pedestal; so he will either perform miraculously or he will embarrass himself and destroy his own career.
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  5060. Labor vs. institution How people can avoid the new wars and inflation that happened under Biden/Harris is insane.
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  5061. Well, while I agree in principle; it's not very liquid and you have to worry about premiums. I put all mine into Gold/Platinum/Palladium ETF's on the market. Unless the digital markets collapse; I think it's a better investment since you pay basically 0 premium.
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  5062. Great Resignation paired with vaccine mandate disobedience! This is already causing a cascading failure throughout the nation. If people haven't stocked up, then they need to. Worker shortages are getting so bad that both our McDonalds are having to close on weekends (as well as their lobbies) due to staffing shortages. They literally posted a sign, "Please be patient, the entire country is experiencing staffing shortages."
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  5063. I'm a millennial, I was told at 16 (don't expect to ever get SS). SO I think many of us have planned accordingly because of that. The entire economy feels like a pyramid scheme. The people doing nothing get 98% of the money and YOU get the other 2%.
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  5064. To be fair, most fortune 500 companies are running completely on autopilot algorithms. You can call the corporate office's all fucking day; nobody is going to pick up that phone. Everything is outsourced to computers and 8 year old Indian boys.
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  5065. Most of the hate he gets comes from narcissistic and willfully blind people. I'm not saying people need to believe every word that comes out of his mouth, but some of the biggest haters try to frame him as an unintelligent dooface. You have to be pretty narcissistic to claim Peterson is unintelligent.
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  5066. It's not going to be solved I'm afraid. Inflation and tech growth is what are causing the issues. How often do you find a job these days that requires a smartphone or some form of tech utilization? Pretty often! You have to have an IQ in the 90s the use a smart phone or social media account. IQ curves of 85 and below make up some 45 Million people. That's a lot of useless people.
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  5067. I'm not a huge Trump fan, but I quite literally believe that if Kamala Harris would have been President; there would have been nuclear war. She was completely unqualified, incompetent, and was purely advancing the interests of lobbyists. Anybody following the events of Gaza and Ukraine KNOW that Biden and Harris were strategic on making the situation as horrible as possible. Like flying the Munich to tell the world that Ukraine "WILL join NATO" wasn't going to antagonize Russia? Or freeing up billions of oil sales from Iran (sold to S Korea) and held in Qatar? Did they honestly believe it wouldn't have funded terrorism? What those two did in office was absolutely criminal. Not to mention that Biden's speech about blackmailing Zelensky (is still public on Youtube) and people claim that there's no evidence lol
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  5068. The more information that comes out; the more it becomes apparent that the US is the bad guy in this confict. Why did we overthrow the Ukrainian government in 2014? Why did we replace it with a puppet named Zelensky? What strategic value or infrastructure does Ukraine have for US interests? Does this have anything to do with the US-funded bio labs in Western Ukraine? This subject absolutely terrifies me, because we KNOW what these criminals are willing to do in order to maintain power. I still expect that they will release a virus in Ukraine and blame Russia. The same way we've blamed Russia for everything!
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  5069. At this point, I think Americans NEED a recession and high commodity prices in order for them to unhook from the Matrix they are living in. This economy and Government have been levitating on fairy dust long enough. Let down the curtain and expose everything for the scam it is; hardly anything still being circulated isn't a lie. Healthcare, Recycling, Food, Voting; nothing but a big fat lie. I say let it burn. We've afforded idiots in this country a free ride for their stupidity long enough and NOW it's leaked it's way into Government policy. Complacency always comes with a price; the pound of flesh is due. Let it crash and get it over with!
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  5070. Scientists produce millions of research papers and peer reviewed studies. The companies decide to BUY the ones that make their products look good. Believe it or not, there are studies that suggest smoking cigarettes, eating McDonalds, and drinking bourbon extends your life span. People refuse to believe that there is a wide margin of integrity in the research industry.
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  5071.  @LadyUpstart  Many scientists are completely beneath bureaucratic levels that use their data. So they never get to truly see how their research is being used. It's not a luxury to complain about chronic illness and skin problems being caused by corruption is these industries. There is a LOT of money in producing research that large corporations want to advertise. Plus there are a very large margin of integrity in science; a lot of those researchers have no care in the world for how their information is used. As long as it makes them money and fulfills their initial bias; many will do so.
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  5072. This is insane, there are so many things in this lecture that I've not considered. Perhaps nations that suffered the largest loss of life (in terms of genes passed down from men) seem to be the ones taking the largest hit in terms of relationships, sex, and marriage. Japan's young male population was absolutely decimated by the events that transpired in World War 2. Could that be a generational reason why romance, marriage, relationships, and sex have taken the greatest toll in Japan?
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  5073. For all we know, the galactic core could have exploded, but we wouldn't know for another hundred thousand years.
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  5074. It's the end of a bull cycle with bad Administrative and Federal Reserve policy. It has nothing to do with 'Bidenomics'.
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  5075. Disney thought that waiting a year would make people forget how pathetic this actress is lol Get ready for feminist date-dumping PART 2!
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  5076. Obama didn't lie, he's simply a big freaking hypocrite jacka$$.
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  5077.  @James-pyon  It's because information scarcity is no longer a problem (as it has been for all of human existence). People realize that they no longer have to settle for cult-leadership. The only real problem is that infinite information creates and infinite amount of systems. So basically it will be a globalized nomadic world one way or another, unless countries decide to ban technology and/or travel.
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  5078. It's not rocket science folks; don't let FOX or CNN dictate your reasoning skills. All of these issues are symptoms of greater occurrences. 1. Rapidly changing age demographics (which put a noose on social programs). 2. Declining dollar value; USD has lost nearly 60% of it's worth since 1980. 3. Loss of what it means to be an American; the purpose of the United States. (Resulting in the rise of tribalism).
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  5079. Well it seems kind of obvious that they'd use everything in the war effort. Not wasting away in a parade perhaps
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  5080. Bot post, Kennedy has never been anti-vaccine.
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  5081.  @carryoutmoth1416  If that's the case, then you need to leave. She shouldn't be just stealing your money for no reason and shelter alone shouldn't constitute all your cash being taken just because you live there. I would try to find the closest job you can locate; shipping jobs are pretty easy and pay well. Set up an Uber and get a new bank account that she doesn't have access to. Front the money to get a gig driver to get you from A to B for the first 2 weeks and the rest should take care of itself once you get paid enough. After that, put money up for a beater car and get out of there. If you have no debt, then you should have no problem making enough to pay rent where you live. Grind it out for a few weeks doing what you can until that money builds in the account and then start renting asap. If she is holding you against your will; call the police and have them escort you out.
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  5082.  @thomashoffman5745  No offense, but there is absolutely no comparison these days. The white-collar crunch is insane. Any Bachelor Degree (regardless of field) is up against 50 to 3000 applicants per job in the last 4 years. My sister is in Interior Design and it's no different; 400 applicants minimum on any posts. Federalized student loans have pushed up prices 400% easily since the late 90s on their own. On top of that, wages haven't accounted for any of that growth; let alone cpi inflation. Computer science degrees are not a booming field; they have some of the highest underemployment rates in education. You're describing software engineering, CCENT, ethical hacking, and other technical certifications and educations. Even those are having difficulty since roughly 2020. On top of that, it's complacent to assume that the business will hire anyone regardless. A lot of the postings are fake in order to solicit tax deductions in the state they operate in.
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  5083.  @charleswomack2166  Then you never learned your lesson in the first place. Don't waste your life fighting wars for the greed and ambitions of political psychopaths. Only when your guts are hanging out will you think it wasn't worth it. The entire war in Ukraine was facilitated by the installation of Zelensky by the Obama Admin and the war against pro-Russian people's in Donetsk and other regions of Eastern Ukraine. If you're buying into the (Russia bad)-(Ukraine -good) narrative, then you haven't done any of your homework. Stay home please.
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  5084. The Pharmaceutical industry is disgusting; the ADHD agenda alone during the early 2000s is worthy of the death penalty.
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  5085.  @daniel_kale  I think you should look at ballotpedia (voter registrations). Democrats have lost in ALL 50 states by margin of registration. New Hampshire all by itself went from 29% to 34% of it's voters being registered Republicans. Democrats LOST 5%.
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  5086. Who buys this anymore? I mean, you have the information of the world on your phone! Full podcasts and completely unedited material. How people eat up this oligarchy propaganda is crazy. Millions of ways to get accurate information and people still choose to believe NBC and the rest.
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  5087. You people need to stop invented things to be angry about for no reason. It's why so many people have no principle and no expectations.
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  5088.  @everythingisfine9988  I would agree with you, but this market is difficult. I made my money with my CDL, but right now there's very little freight moving. Demand is very slow for most of the market and jobs are harder to get than they were in 2008. Plumbing is probably the most versatile profession to go for. Even if people have no money, they have to credit or finance a plumbing job so that their home functions. There's always work available there.
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  5089. Who else was he going to nominate? People are so dense with the info of the world at their fingertips. JD Vance will give Trump a better edge to winning the Midwest; seeing as it is falling sharply into Democrat favor (primarily Ohio).
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  5090.  @shadow_td  They've been low key pushing that stuff for years; then as soon as Harris gets in (they drop all of it) and pretend they don't know anything lol Don't you remember all the drama the last 5-6 years about needing to stop discrimination against trans rights and children wanting hormone blockers?
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  5091. Women are short circuiting because their mating instincts tell them to get a man that's more educated than them. All the while they look DOWN on working class men. However, they can't fathom that being educated typically makes them a debtor and being working class typically means you have more equity and viability for survival.
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  5092. Sue the state for what exactly? I'm an independent and it's extremely clear how misleading this story is. You can't sue the state for incorrectly listing your citizenship status and then getting removed from the voter roles. That's the voters responsibility. People need to read the litigation and stop taking media headlines at their word.
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  5093. Perhaps you should watch the whole video and not let WSJ manipulate you by giving you an edited one. They're not stupid, they cut the video just right to make it look like Zelensky wasn't being a war-monger and uncivil.
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  5094. YOU (serving in the military) are fighting for your country! Just about as much as you are healing people by working for Pfizer.
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  5095. Parents bought a home in 2000 for $210k; it's 460k now. Granted, I bought a home in 2020 for $200k and now it's $286k lol
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  5096. Crime has almost nothing to do with poverty or class status. Anti-social behaviors and personality disorders 'stemming from early childhood development' are the result of crime and subsequently the result of low income. Criminals don't become realized when they can't find a job. They become realized when they start injuring people and dealing in guns/narcs at the age of 15.
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  5097.  @chriskleinbach-vd5ch  All you'll get is shortages; you need to study the effect of subsidization. Plus, you largely have socialism thru medicare/medicaid and Molena Health services. The problem in America is the demand of sick people and the supply of workers make it ridiculously costly.
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  5098. Jesus Christ do you actually believe this? If you don't want to deal with it, then how about you quit voting for maniacs that commit to this kind of international terrorism? The US is doing what it always does; bait and switch. Overthrowing and installing dictators that don't comply with it's wishes. What do you think the Ukrainian Revolution was about in 2014? Do you really think Russia attacked unprovoked? US sold weapons and gave money to the new Ukrainian government to wage war in the east. Putin has had enough of the US and NATO's BS.
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  5099. Why do you support Ukraine?
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  5100. This is what's wrong with Congress! Anytime somebody has something rather complicated and important to say; most of Congress adjourns themselves for a luncheon or mini-vacation with their lobbyists. The only time all of Congress actually comes together is when they get to virtue signal to the public and talk about new and exciting toys that will do NOTHING for the American public. Unfortunately, the public eats up all the theatrics and gets sucked into the scam time and time again.
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  5101. That's what he said; what's your point?
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  5102. Same! Except being articulated usually makes people think you're autistic or watch weird things. SO in the end, you still lose. Introverts can never win socially; they can only win financially lol
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  5103. Uh, yes and no. The US does not have adequate reserves and it's certainly nowhere near enough to keep gas prices where they've been considering how much volume we consume. That's outright wrong bud. Elastic goods such as fuel will ebb and flow with demand. Demand destruction in the economy is the reason fuel prices are on the lower end right now. It has nothing to do with some conspiracy of the Biden Admin.
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  5104. Estimates for illegal migrants in 2012 were around 12-20 million. Considering that at least 8 million migrants have either gained asylum or otherwise illegal entry; according to the DOHS. I'd say we have anywhere from 20-30 million illegal migrants inside the US.
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  5105. Hilarious how people that pay largely ZERO taxes want to use the taxes of others to keep us immersed in all these cesspools of cronyism. Almost HALF the funds that the WHO take in are donations; no conflict of interest as a vessel of public health lol
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  5106. Nala Fitness; ONlyfans
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  5107. True, but we're not in a recession; even by the old metrics.
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  5108. Oh the irony of bringing up the topic of 'cheap labor' on such a video lol
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  5109. Basically People have no idea how devastating a gold standard would be to the US economy. Keynesian economics is a terrible form of economics, but it's better than all the others lol
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  5110. As a father, I can assure you that the birth rate is probably much lower than whatever the CDC is producing. It's extremely hard to find anyone (as a homeowner/neighbor) anyone at a similar life stage. Of the children ages 1-4 in our area; the parents are typically 38-45. My wife and I are both 30 years old and we don't know anybody our age.
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  5111.  @alexv1190  Russian trolls? You watch way too much mainstream media garbage pal; you're living in an echo-chamber. Double digits of Americans alone have more respect for Putin than the White House.
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  5112. It's the GRAS loophole thru the FDA. They virtually regulate nothing because they food companies lobbied to get GRAS put in place, so virtually every additive, seed oil, and lab made thing can get shoved into your food.
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  5113.  @Struieboy  Thanks for the typo alert :)
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  5114.  @ouroborosnagyok9306  Wait, I don't understand? You're asking three questions about things that I didn't say in my post. When did I say it wasn't an economic problem?
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  5115. That MONEY was a contribution to price inflation; as much as I hate to say it. One of the reasons that mass inflation took place was due to those tax credits; among other things like PPP loans, student forbearance, and low interest rates. Previously locked 'taxes' that can now be used as cash in the market causes inflation the same as allowing more debt obligations to enter the economy thru the Federal Reserve/Treasury. People are not thinking this through rationally. I think tax credits are a significantly better idea than UBI, but people are not thinking this through on a financial level. It's a sad state of affairs when everybody is looking to the government to say their way of life. Government is why we're in this situation to begin with.
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  5116. Yep! Let's not even mention the departure tax. Want to leave the country? You'll pay a 25% tax on all your assets, including a tax on your new real-estate value outside of the country. Freaking nuts!
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  5117. The biggest problem is that a considerable number of people are in a state of psychosis. It's really a frightening thing to see, even in my own family. I visited my family a few weeks ago and my 19 year old sister asked me a question about Covid. I didn't get two words out before my mother screamed downstairs to get me to stop talking. Mind you I'm 28 and she's an RN of 25 years. She honestly believes that me and my wife are Covid deniers and conspiracy theorists for not getting the shot and not believing the CDC, FDA, AHA on their word. Both my parents mental health has been on serious decline over the last several years. Not sure if that's from Covid hysteria, prescription meds, or both. I conclude all my information from either a published trial or clinical trials from the ASJ with a microscope. What were seeing is NOT the rise of science, but rather religion. Because obeying every order without question from any entity IS religion.
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  5118. The reason you have such dysfunctional children is because of TWO reasons. 1. Tyrannical parents that don't allow the child to try and fail. Along with completely neglecting the child's emotions and ambitions. 2. Screen-time replacing the social environment of a parent and peers. Go and take a look at the average family these days. Parents are annoyed by their children and tell them to screw off; then give them an iPad to entertain them and make them quiet. That's how you end up with the masses of dysfunctional children.
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  5119. Republicans may have conquered Florida, but it's going to bite them in future elections, especially in the Midwest.
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  5120. Assuming you plan on being as sick as them?
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  5121. @ Don't write yourself off so easily. I commend your compassion though to care for your mother; don't let it eat you. I would never take in and care for my parents; nor would they ask.
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  5122.  @jareddembrun783  I did the math between cost and taxes; his wife is providing an addition $4000 a year. It isn't worth the labor, stress, suffering, and detachment from your children.
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  5123. Did you watch the video or are you trying to be dense?
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  5124. 50 years from now, each capitol in the US with be the only gleaming jewel of their state and Mandarin will be the 2nd language of the US. Nobody will own a firearm... Nobody will be speaking their mind... Nobody will be complaining about their livelihoods. Those who resisted will have been executed. Those who sat on the fence will be working in Gulags. Those who complied will know only hunger and despair. And the charlatans that enabled it will be drinking fine wine and eating steak, whilst outlawing it everywhere else. The complacency of Americans will get us all killed in the end; if not our bodies, it will be our souls.
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  5125. Many pet owners are liars that will beat, muzzle, and electrocute their animals. Only to turn around and say they were 'peaceful and loving' when they attack someone. I've seen this too many times, especially where people have video evidence of animal abuse. People are horrible (as usual) and insist on blaming the pet.
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  5126. Sounds like glass bottled water and filet I'd imagine. We buy the good stuff too, but we're not that crazy in cost.
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  5127. HE's charged with attempting to overturn the election results of Georgia and he's also charged with attempting to overturn the election results in New York. I'm pretty sure insurrection falls under those premises.
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  5128. This is what social media incentivizes; performance and virtue signaling to receive victimhood for attention.
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  5129. There's a reason that lobbyists are pulling away from the DNC in droves. They've realized that they are an insane Venezuelan Socialist regime that intends on turning the world to ash. They cannot be controlled and corporate America is scared of them turning into a rabid dog.
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  5130. We live in a world where people believe "cutting your welfare" is a form of theft. Thus the insane behavior from people, most of which are dependent on the system.
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  5131. Nothing formal, but we were quite literally 'droning' the crap out of Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen. I can applaud Trumps reputation on (a low casualty list) for the US military, but I think voter sentiments are misplaced on this issue. Largely for the same reason they are misplaced on the economy. Trump was no the one that created the global and domestic atmosphere during 2016-2019 where we saw great economic growth and lower tensions, which tend to go hand in hand. He inherited a bull-cycle and when it peaked in 2019 (which would have happened regardless of Covid more than likely) things would start to deteriorate regardless.
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  5132.  @Lobardan  Put it this way bud, the narrative would have you believe that eating meat is bad. Yet 200,000 years of human evolution persevered because eating meat 90% of the time. Your vegetables and fruits at the grocery didn't even exist until the 17th century during the botany revolution; nobody talks about that. Then you have scientists that are arrogant enough to claim "Well, that means for 200,000 years must have suffered from heart disease and poor diet." (face palm smh)
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  5133. Well, humans are extremely abusive with power. The ability to report a guy to a YMCA front desk (simply for saying hi) is 'power'. Modern technology has given people a sense of total immunity and anonymity; this ONLY promotes more abuses of power. Not to mention people are lacking major 'meaning' in their lives It's easy to fill that void with contempt and narcissism.
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  5134. Honest question! His campaign HID his stroke for months before the election that could have honestly killed or permanently maimed him. Nobody considers this fraud or interference? He never even made a full recover.
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  5135. Most of it is entirely worthless and I don't mean the Underwater Basket Weaving Courses. Psychology, CRJ, English, History, even Computer Science will end up nowhere. Supply and demand; too many degrees and no experience. Even having a BS in Psychology only entitles you to a front desk job.
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  5136. Forget about useless degrees. Get a degree that makes you money and it's typically in an industry that makes you want to off yourself in less than 6 months. Don't go to college.
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  5137. A huge loss to the Federal powers that be; I'll take "Things that destroy governments for $200 Alex!" I see it as a huge win; I could care less about Roe v. Wade. More burning of the Federal Government I say!
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  5138.  @rohan7969  This^^^! Imagine showing your front and rear to thousands of people; only to receive a few hundred dollars. Then once you run out of time and steam to continue your prospects; your images remain and get spread like wild-fire for all to see and judge. It's a profitable business and if you succeed; you'll lose most of your friends, family, and gain wealth. If you fail, you still lose most of your friends/family, but you'll also lose your dignity and self respect.
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  5139. @ Stop letting the media gaslight you. Otherwise you'll have the opposite opinions for politicians that you like.
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  5140. Same here! I swear, I thought I was having vision problems at first; followed by blood sugar issues. It just seemed to get worse as I got older and then plateaued to a flat nuisance. Although, I found out it was in fact disassociation when I began to break away from my NPD mom. It's been a rough road and coming to terms with my childhood abuse. I hid underneath a shell my entire life beforehand and just maimed my emotions.
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  5141. Blame the Federal Reserve for printing $8 Trillion since 2020. That's why inflation is up 60% across the board.
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  5142.  @noticiasinmundicias  The bubble hasn't burst. When it does, tech companies will lose 80% of their value; one would hope.
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  5143. You're effectively calling HALF the population stupid. Don't you think that kind of thinking is dangerous and dehumanizing? Have you ever considered that the opposing side perceives something that you don't? That's what I do every time I hear a political position regardless of it's side.
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  5144. Gig work died in 2022 if you didn't know. The average used car is $26,000US and base pay for DD is $2.00 The only people currently doing it are new hires that spend 6 months getting screwed before they find out they a making minimum wage. There is no demand right now. Even truck drivers are having a hard time staying business.
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  5145.  @GideonGalactic  Almost all corporate jobs are asking for bachelor's degree or graduate.
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  5146. 2024 is going to be a 'make' or 'break' year for the Republican Party. 2022 and 2023 have already shown how unpopular their platforms are nationwide. Plus, many Republicans are giving up and non showing up to the polls due to burn-out and I am one of them. Unless they reframe their campaign on inflation and home affordability, they are going to lose everything. Nobody 'working' aged person can take them seriously when they talk about transgenderism, library books, and wokism while we are being pushed out of the middle class.
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  5147. 1. Healthcare is not healthcare; are you trained as a pill salesman. 2. Total burn-out, over-worked, over-time, all the time. 3. The staffing is really bad, so nurses are over-burdened on their floors. 4. The social atmosphere for staff and patients is becoming bad; a toxic environment where bullying and intimidation are becoming rampant. 5. The pay is usually not enough to justify the degree and a continuation in the field. Why work for $80k full time, while a travel nurse will get 50%-150% more pay to do your job for a month? All of these factors are going to inevitably lead to a collapse of the healthcare system. Physical and mental health in the United States has never been worse. Plus, the calls for a single-payer system are gaining head-way in politics. If people think it is the solution to healthcare, then they are not paying attention to the causality. Get insurance companies and Medicare OUT of this business, make Pharma patents open-source, and end the FDA and CDC protocols. All they are is a giant circus for corporations to bribe and infiltrate, all so they can use the power of law to subdue their competitors and rip you off at the hospital and pharmacy.
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  5148. I think people are largely ignoring that fact the Ukraine has not been a unified culture or country for quite some time. Eastern Ukraine (four Oblasts) have been trying to unite themselves with the Russian Federation since 2004. So to claim that Russian randomly invaded a sovereign country is ignorant. A good analogy would be to compare Mexico and the US. If the United States started a war against Latinos living in Texas that wanted to be annexed to Mexico. Then the Mexican Government retaliated. Nobody would say it was 'random'; as a term many like to use.
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  5149. Thank God I'm 30 and my child is almost 2. I'll be teaching my child that the only 'honorable' brand is the Coast Guard lol I respect those that enlist, but most of the time it comes with an illusion of service, honor, and purpose. Most of the time attracting 'YES-men" that have to be towed around by an over-arching narcissist; constantly telling them what to do. No offense, but I've met enough service members to know the personalities they attract. Most of the time, you will enlist due to desperation, confusion, or anger. The result is almost always despair, loss, and a feeling of uselessness.
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  5150. Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to send these people home; these people are coming from all over South and Central America. We have anywhere from 20-30 million illegal immigrants living in the US. A deportation campaign would be absolutely impossible with how short staffed corrections, border security, and policing are. I imagine that this is largely abetted by corporate lobbyists that are looking for a cheap-labor alternative to the current labor shortage. Eventually, they will get amnesty. I truly don't see how this would go any other way. As much as I don't like the illegal immigration problem; I think it's inevitable.
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  5151.  @jesse6865  lol yeah, the US has 'generic' drugs after about 38 years of patent abuse.
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  5152. You need to have a little self reflection on that statement. Have you ever met anyone successful that didn't have immense charisma and/or a degree of narcissistic bulldozing? Social media has made people forget that individuals are complicated.
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  5153.  @kenincambodia1480  Institutional thinking in my opinion. Being honest gets you nowhere in the business world unfortunately. Are you aspiring to a business ladder; honest question?
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  5154. Which part gave it away? The fact that the DNC uses 1700 paid-off delegates to choose the front runner? Yeah, no corruption to see here lol smh
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  5155. There's an huge difference between blatant insults and someone saying that the other is living a delusional life. We're literally entering into a time period will it will be an insult to say that someone is schizophrenic for hearing voices.
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  5156.  @eeroraute281  Not all churches need to be 'mega' in order to dupe their followers. These nomadic psychopathic pastors are everywhere!
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  5157. Democrats are mad because they are trying to gatekeep their pensions and equity so that nobody else can have it lol
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  5158. Honest question that I hope people would ask themselves. Are people going to buy a $10/can of soda? Most people on here didn't read about tariffs until a few months ago; lets be honest. The demand curve is essential in knowing the eventual price once tariffs are passed onto the consumer. Taxes work no differently, though I find it funny that people don't make that connection. Taxes on things such as tobacco and alcohol didn't raise the price; it collapsed the industry in price because people stopped buying them.
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  5159. Money money money lol
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  5160. I'm been a Republican most of my life and this attitude has largely popped in the last 4-5 years. Religious organizations have infected the Republican Party and it's invited crazies into it's ranks.
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  5161.  @rabbitcreative  What are better ways?
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  5162.  @mehboobkm3728  What does being white have to do with anything? Vivek already stated he wasn't going to accept a VP nomination some 6 months ago.
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  5163. Soft language lol Like party cloudy instead of 'partly sunny'. It's amazing how much corporations have manipulated society to make people complacent. Even the modern Santa Clause was reinvented by Coca-Cola lol
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  5164. Pretty much! My wife and I got ready because we KNEW what was coming. Lockdowns, Masks, and a willful suppression of evidence and medications to make these suckers a boatload of money and not have to apologize. The ONLY thing that surprised me was how quickly Americans bent over.
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  5165. @Juniper Only safe place is with our families; well prepared and rational.
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  5166. I'm no fan of Trump and I must say 'you're literally insane'. Biden was embarrassing to say the least. You people scare me!
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  5167.  @PS-js9oh  Antrim county already proved fraud took place at their location. The problem comes from the people running the state and turning a blind eye to crimes that disrupt their power.
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  5168. But they own 80% of all assets and the millennials cannot afford the Social Security benefits of Boomers and Gen X. Our budget is 71% mandatory; SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Public Transport, Tribal lands, etc. There is absolutely no way to pay it off. Even if my newborn pays double taxes across the board in 2045; it will not save this country.
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  5169. Price's Law - half of the labor in any domain is accomplished by the square root of all workers within that same domain. I learned this by working at FedEx! The harder you work, the more productivity goes up, and the longer you are kept in that same position. All the weakest brown-noses got the title of 'manager' at my workplace. Company productivity is based on the moral ignorance of it's workforce.
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  5170.  @Puzzlesocks  Quite the opposite actually, but thanks.
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  5171. It's political as usual. NATO wants Ukraine for political power and corporations want it for a strip-mall. Russia simply wants it back for political and cultural reasons. People can blame whoever, but it was NATO that destabilized Ukraine in 2014 and Congress armed anti-Russian para-militaries to fight their own people in the Donbass region.
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  5172. Absolutely not! I voted for Trump twice, but he is not the man for the job right now. If he runs he'll be handing the election to the Democrats. A policy of bringing the jobs back and stopping equity is not going to save this country from an inflationary death. We need a candidate that is going to fix the Social Security/Medicare dilemma.
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  5173. Same!
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  5174. Well, I think you mean the general LA or San Diego areas. Many areas of Cali, especially in the north are more affordable.
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  5175. Spironolactone if she has acne. The healthcare industry always tries to push birth-control for acne issues to pump the pharma profits. I'm a 30 years old married man with a child. My wife has never been on birth-control for these very reasons; she's the most normal women in my entire life (all encompassed). Tell her that if she takes birth-control; it will destroy her life, because it will! She will never be biologically or psychologically normal if she does and there will be permanent hormonal and psychological damage; including fertility damage.
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  5176. The ignorance in these sections is amazing. NATO forms a coup against Kiev and installs Zelensky. Then people have the gall to claim 'we shouldn't abandon Ukraine? You people are being used as useful idiots for 'essentially' corporate imperialism.
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  5177. Another thing most younger people are ignorant about is that amnesty will absolutely KILL their wage values. Could you imagine if 25 million illegals got sudden amnesty?
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  5178. Can't believe I can even call myself part of the Democratic Party anymore; you people scare me. You have a third option for candidate. How about you grow some balls and take advantage of it. It's like you are in love with having 'dementia' run this country.
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  5179. Pretty much! This is why I'm terrified! I think that NATO will release a virus in Ukraine and blame Russia before they concede their power. Rubio admitted it on camera with the assistant secretary of state. That if a virus was released in Ukraine, it would be done by the Russians; dirty bastards.
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  5180. The 8 years of Obama were rather grand; gradually growing into a bull market. Presidents don't really have much to do with market trends. Foreign policy tends to have the largest affect on US markets from a Presidents abilities. In all honesty, Biden didn't really do anything to instigate this mess. His shenanigans with student loan forgiveness didn't help inflation; since people went out and spend more because they thought they didn't have to pay their loans. However, all and all; this is the result of the central banks. Setting interest rates to 0% and shutting down the economy was dumb.
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  5181.  @Yiro.  Actually, he's not wrong. They print dollars to pay for their old debts. Ponzi scheme at it's finest!
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  5182. Wages are down 55% from where they were in 1980; one could cross check across the board in each occupation. I don't think all of the blame lies with wage protections and other regulations. I think it lies with USD hegemony and overseas interest/debt. In 1980 you would earn 11% of your home's worth on a full time minimum wage job. In 2023, it's only 3.4% inflation adjusted. Something has to give and I refuse to work 72 hours a week with 8 unpaid vacation days a year to get less than half of what my parents did when they were my age.
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  5183. The average person does not want to fathom the possibility that societal inequalities are caused by individual decisions. Acknowledging such a belief would infer that people are born inferior or superior; though it escapes people that these are "like was said in the interview" averages... Inequalities have only worsened as the decades have gone by and there is nothing on this planet that will make the average person thinks it's anything, BUT racism. That is why they continue to scream it day after day.
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  5184. We're not afraid of sending aid. A majority of voters in the US do NOT support the war in Ukraine. This entire mess was created by the Obama Admin when we overthrew their government during the "Revolution of Dignity". The US needs to stop playing 'world police' and instigating foreign conflicts for monetary gain. Ukraine hasn't been a sovereign country for nearly a century. Why the US wants control of it's politics is nothing short of a 'defense contactor money-laundering scheme'.
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  5185.  @rdallas81  I'm not sure I buy that idea. The cultures of all you mentioned have been decimated. The culture of the Soviet Union is gone. Nobody is their right mind would want Putin to take them back to the days of Stalinism. Not sure how you're conflating the Roman Empire with Catholic Church when it was the Christians that aided in toppling the Western Roman Empire.
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  5186.  @chez5860  Same about 4 years ago. People are all addicted to social media. Even my parents and sister are zombies now.
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  5187. I perfectly empathize with the inflation problem that has taken place over the last 5 years. However, I do want to point out that most of the time people are omitting massive parts of their story. Like student loans, ridiculous mortgages, or even several vehicle loans, credit card debt, etc. Life isn't as hard in 2025 if you aren't drowning in debt. My wife and I paid off $40,000 in medical debt since 2022 and killed $167,000 in student loan debt since 2020. Btw, the student loan debt was for her schooling as a Physician Assistant, which is a highly rewarding career. I knew back in 2012 (at 18 years old) that the college gimmick was a scam. How are people still running off the school for art, photography, psychology, and other dead end fields that result in no reward? I repeatedly get told that Gen Z knows what's up. Yet they seem to be the most compliant and gullible generation in my entire life experience. I understand there are exigent circumstances, taking care of children, taking care of elders, etc. However, most of the time this is coming from a ridiculous decision that people are making excuses for. I got my CDL in 2019 and we had 15 student; 12 of them were green-cards. I think it's embarrassing that American born children aren't willing to stoop to driving a semi in order to make $75k+ starting out the gate. People need to work smarter and quit looking for get-rich-quick ideologies.
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  5188. It's pretty simple! Government grew too large and corporations use this 'enlarged' government as a legal wedge against their competitors, as well as a sledgehammer against consumers. If you don't want to buy their product, they will lobby government to create a program and act as 'contractor or vendors' for that program. We've already seen this in tech, pharmaceuticals, and hospitals. Auto-markets, energy, and grocers are the next target.
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  5189. Well, the President does have power in respect to the Federal Reserve. Trump is the one that appointed Jerome Powell and he now wishes he hadn't. Inflation was a direct result of FED policy.
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  5190. Or, maybe you're hearing what you want to hear because of some other bias?
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  5191. A warning to anybody thinking about going to college. Student loan debt is a death sentence; people commit suicide over these kinds of things. I went to Community College to get the AAS in Criminal Justice that I never used for $10,000. Thankfully FedEx at the time reimbursed nearly all of it. However, if could go back in time, I would have avoided it altogether. If you are going into a STEM field and have a job lined up; congrats I suppose? For the rest of you considering going to college. I can assure you there is a high probability that you will be an indentured servant for the remainder of your life. My own sister decided it was a genius idea to get an Interior Design degree for $144,000 from U. Cincinnati. She can't even make the standard payment. She'll most likely be paying on it for the next 30 years or longer. My wife became a Physician Assistant (costing $155,000). She makes six figures, but constantly regrets having ever done it. Even IF you make enough money to pay back those loans. The labor markets are stretched to insanity and work is getting excessively difficult. Even nursing and other good paying fields are turning belly up. Many RN's find that they are wanting to quit their jobs 6 months in because of the staffing and work conditions.
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  5192. Despite the GOP cringe, they're not wrong about the media. Too many people are complacent, thinking the media is a independent set of corroborating sources. Newsflash: They're not... and neither is the economy.
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  5193.  @Spookycat689  And put what in their place exactly?
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  5194. Yep, same thing is happening in America. Low-lives are just making everything miserable. In all of my experience, the worst people in the world tend to be the locals (depending on culture). In America, there is no culture left; tech destroyed it.
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  5195.  @PS_____  I think it will finally change this election. A lot of people are angry about the DNC trying to trample your state primary.
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  5196. 'Trust and Safety Conference' - everything went well! Translation - AI has taken over the world and is currently uploaded the nuclear codes lol
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  5197. These politicians are INSANE. They are risking an actually nuclear war just because BlockRock wants to own a bunch of strip-malls in Ukraine.
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  5198. That would be both sides 'at war with the people'. Don't fall for this propaganda. Both Ds and Rs are trying to cheat elections and sell this nation to the highest bidder. I feel like there's nothing that can be done at this point.
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  5199. Undeniable proof the the media is behind the hysteria. They NEVER covered deportations when Obama was President.
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  5200. What middle class? Apparently, after the last two years of inflation insanity, you'll need $100k to qualify for middle class. Yep, 50% inflation; go look at the Monetary Supply.
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  5201. Same kind of people that invest in Pfizer I'd imagine.
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  5202. Government is useless! They hold to keys that allow corporations to impose their will upon us.
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  5203. Because Oct 7 was a terrorist attack by Hamas that killed 1300 Israelis. Are people really this stupid?
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  5204. No way, she's hated among most Republicans and I'm from OHIO... She's been the talk of the town in Columbus lol
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  5205. Real-estate isn't going down on a national scale. There are always regions and neighborhoods that may see corrections, but housing on the large part will not go down. Deflation in real-estate isn't going to happen with the debt crisis ramping up for the next decade.
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  5206. If anyone is curious about the demographic changes last night; they were quite interesting. 1. The Democrats had a shortfall in votes from ages 18-39 by something approx 20%. 2. The black vote for Trump rose from an average 11% to 23%. 3. Ages 65+ switched their vote from 54:46 Republican to 49:49 EVEN. Harris got as far as she did because older Republican and Independent Boomers vouched for her at a higher rate than was expected.
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  5207. You'd vote for a man that installed Jerome Powell, that had interest rates set to 0 and resulted in the massive inflation you're dealing with? I assure you, if elected again (Trump will fire Powell) and install somebody that will give him the negative interest rates he wanted. You'll end up with double digit inflation the year following.
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  5208. I quit buying 'Chinese' products some years ago. If it says 'made in China'; I put it back on the shelf.
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  5209. I disagree, the most evil people I've ever met always thought they were doing good things. Normal day people can do and think evils things (as well as) feel shame and resentment about their actions.
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  5210. Tell that to the loser demographic of men that virtue signal about abortion rights, not having children, and voting for Kallama Harris.
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  5211. Then vote for a third party! The people cowering over the idea are lost. We have the two worst Presidents in recent history with the lowest approval ratings. Ross Perot took 20% with two 'likable' candidates. If people won't get on the third party bandwagon for this garbage; then they're in love with suffering..
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  5212.  @johncooper7663  The vetting procedure is largely ceremonial (which is what his point is). Nothing he says (or anybody else says) changes the vote of the Senate. They've already made up their minds the moment he was nominated.
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  5213. CNN asking Bolton; that's rich lol What's next? Democrats are going to give him a Nobel Peace Prize? The clapping seals with lap that up.
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  5214. We already attacked; in 2014. How people forget this truly tells me the mental state of many Americans. We did (in Ukraine) the exact same thing we've done for the last 40 odd years. Depose a sitting government and replace it with a puppet regime that does OUR bidding. Funding Ukraine with weapons to fight separatists and Russian forces in the east was part of a Congressional bill that same year. Putin has had enough of NATO's bs and is now standing up. How the US is playing the victim is nothing short of media magic.
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  5215. Well, it's better to not have chronic illnesses from 40 till 80 lol
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  5216. Never, Democrats will drive this country into the ground and Republicans will 'virtue signal' clap as it happens. The last several years have converted me to absolute anarchy. If lobbying is the biggest problem is politics, then it would make more sense to BAN the politicians that are being lobbied.
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  5217. Thing is, if Twitter refuses and Elon sells his shares. Then there is going to be a massive panic sell-off for Twitter. It will probably slide 30% or more the day he pulls out of the company. It will also more than likely lead the rest of the tech market into a down spiral
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  5218. I would be careful with that logic. That may sound like a compassionate idea, but you might just be hobbling your children's ability to develop fortitude. If they get a handicap from you; it takes away growth in other areas.
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  5219. County turnout (nationwide) was anywhere from 15-40% on average. Even counties Trump won by 92% had an increased turnout of 30%. These 1000s of depositions were largely Facebook/Instagram followers trying use garbage they have seen floating around on social media as a means to disqualify the entire election. Like the story about 'pens being handed out for Trump voters that would make the ballots ineligible for scan.' Which turned out to be patently false. All 2500+ election fraud cases nationwide were thrown out (many by Trump appointed judges). How do you explain that?
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  5220. Because they are in bed with Democrats and everything Congress does is for entertainment purposes ONLY!
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  5221. Not going to happen with growing numbers of retirees and shrinking numbers of young workforce; these are uncharted waters.
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  5222. Do elaborate...
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  5223. How dare you compare her to a tree residing mammal! Don't you know her lineage comes from South America in the plains? Her name is KALLAMA!
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  5224.  @SavingPvtBryan32  No chance I'm comin on that woman XD
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  5225.  @SavingPvtBryan32  In all honesty, I kind of pity her. She acts like the DNC has a gun to her head lol
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  5226. Believe me dude, immigrants -legal or not are not the issue. The most violent cities in the world are not in Africa or some ravine in Columbia; they are right here in America. The most violent PEOPLE in this country are not immigrants from abroad or even Rio Grande swimmers; they are born and raised Americans.
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  5227. To be fair, the US had 'never' had a soft landing post Fed-pivot. Without exception, the US has entered a recession every single time the Feds stop raising rates and reverse.
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  5228. When the B team is roasting your show; you know the View is done for lol
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  5229. Very true indeed! WATCH! I'll do it now. Educating women is the beginning of the end for any civilization. In my opinion, it seems that women that become educated forego dating, relationships, and marriage in their prime; 18-25. This produces two outcomes. Women find it harder to create relationships AND have children. A woman will date a man her own age and 5 years older when she enters the dating market. The upper quartile of marriable men are already being married between the ages of 20-24. These leaves a smaller selection pool of A+ men for a large pool of women that aren't dating until roughly 25-30. Once a woman does find a man to settle down with; she is beyond her prime and the ability to have multiple children decreases. The average married couple spends between 6-9 months before they conceive their first child. The advent of birth control has also played a significant role in damaging the longevity of the female reproductive system. Attempting to have a child between 30-35 has become a monumental task in the last decade. In conclusion, women are producing less offspring and are having to settle for partners that are below their threshold for income and virtue. All due to the choices they made in their youth that wasted valuable years of their fertility and forced them into a C+ selection pool of men.
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  5230.  @terachad5793  Your first comment........
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  5231. About what?
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  5232. Too little too late, everything would implode if the FEDs quit intervening. This should have been done 40 years ago at this point.
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  5233.  @randylazer2894  You should spend more time on manners and less time on your 'economic profession'. Who would want to continue speaking to someone like yourself with such an attitude? Good day :)
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  5234.  @sPACEmANtYLERSPACE  Ukraine is not a united country? Who are they defending themselves from; each other? Western Ukrainians are backed by NATO and Eastern Ukrainians are backed by Moscow. This is a power play and NATO started it.
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  5235.  @rrcDTD2013  No offense, but a lot of people like to claim they are biologists because they have a BS in biology. If that's not you; then I digress. Harmful ingredients in vaccines; maybe we can start with aluminum adjuvants? On top of that, there's no way to hold these pharmaceutical companies accountable in research trials. They do everything they can to push for the best relative efficacy and revolving door policies with the FDA and CDC are insane. The problem with 'trusting the science' is that lower level scientists have no idea what is going on at the executive level. The entire business model depends on the upper-echelons being told exactly what they want to hear. This is how you end up getting unanimous conclusions that are always wrong.
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  5236. You're assuming that Youtube is NOT actively involved in the bot issue. That's a foolish assumption imo. They probably do it so that they can reap the advertising profits that other companies pay for lol Ultimate level fraud..
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  5237. You're probably thinking of his brother 'Chris' Governor of New York. He resigned over a load of sexual harassments, gropings, etc.
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  5238. On average, members of Congress spend about 2-4 hours in session several days a week. Plus they get a two-week vacation every quarter.
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  5239. You can't 'bring them under control' without increasing supply or tightening the lending laws. All of this is a result of giving 'easing debt' to people that (in all reality) probably shouldn't have gotten a mortgage in the first place. Wages aren't going up because the GDP cap has been met. The only thing the US exports now is 'dollars' ironically.
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  5240. To which side? The Ukrainians fighting for Zelensky or the eastern Ukrainians trying to annex themselves with Russia?
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  5241. You're telling me that Biden got 63.9% of the vote as a WRITE-IN candidate; when no other election in history can get above1.0% write ins regardless of whose running? This is the kind of stuff that fuels election denial theories!
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  5242. I voted for him in 2016/2020, but I'll never vote for him again. Ohioans in large are flipping the tables on Republicans lately. Largely due to dysfunction with the DeWine Admin. I'll vote Independent or nothing at all. A vote for Biden is a vote for incompetence! A vote for Trump is a vote for more inflation.
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  5243.  @mikereiss4216  I clearly said that I would vote for an Independent.
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  5244.  @mchapman132  Hardly! Mass inflation was induced by rates set by the Federal Reserve and lockdown measures set by both Trump and certain Governors (both D and R). Trump threatened to fire Powell if he didn't take rates negative. Thank God his threat wasn't legitimate. Had they set rates under 0.25%; inflation would have been considerably worse. Most people have no idea how inflation works and it always takes 12-24 months to become realized in the economy.
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  5245. No it's actually hilarious. When the Federal Government's lights go out, I'm going to be eating popcorn and shooting off fireworks.
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  5246.  @Cornelius1988  This simply isn't the case. Prime buyers markets are in FL and prime sellers markets are in the Midwest. However, prices still aren't coming way down in FL; largely because the homes are still selling (just taking more days to go into contract). I would stop wishing for a crash; it's not going to happen. If anything, I'd focus on finding opportunities in a tech stock crash.
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  5247.  @xjunkxyrdxdog89  Will NATO reinstate the government they overthrew in 2014?
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  5248.  @manmeetworld  Vote RED for war and vote BLUE for collapse; take your pick! It makes no difference.
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  5249. Believe me, we're not even 5% in to the crash. A real market crash won't happen until 3-6 months AFTER the Feds begin to slash interest rates. The reason is because people refinance old debts with new ones, but current cash flow cannot maintain the payments. Happens every single time (without exception). Check REPO rates if you don't believe me.
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  5250. DNC is too busy chasing the next Obama. Nobody has liked ANY candidate they have put up. It's all about disliking Republicans.
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  5251. These guests are embarrassing!
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  5252. Where are all the Democrats condemning Obama for deporting 3.2 million people? Oh, that's right, they don't care because MSM didn't instruct them to.
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  5253.  @Amradar123  Assistant Secretary of State that insisted that (if a virus was released in Ukraine) it would be caused by the Russians; speaking at a Congressional hearing with Rubio. They are dirty psychopaths trying to start WW3.
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  5254. The debt crisis won't be fixed until SS, Medicare, and Pensions are reformed. Doesn't matter who is in office.
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  5255. The problem is the left nor the right will acknowledge that there are differences between people; in choice, preference, upbringing, motivation, even evolution. Is it racist to acknowledge that African people have Vitamin D deficiencies greater than anyone else, considering they might be living on a continent they didn't evolve for? Is it racist to acknowledge that Asian people (on average) have an entire standard deviation higher of an intelligence than the rest of the planet? Is it racist to acknowledge that American Natives evolved (secluded) from the rest of the world for at least 10,000 years before discovery? To these people, any difference between people is labeled as dog-whistling baseless racism. It is an ideology of destruction... Marxism is so desperately trying to marry itself to equality of outcome with gender and race. It is the most dehumanizing ideology that has ever been invented in human history.
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  5256. YES, because your ancestors were eating chex-mix every 15 minutes of their day in order to be healthy. These big studies are full of crap lol
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  5257. @Baronarx V I'm starting to think so; only it won't be oil this time, it will be tech. Think about it, what the flying f*ck does this country actually export. All the Pharmaceutical companies, tech companies, and commodity leaders are headquartered in the United States. However, they conduct all of their manufacturing and refining overseas. How can any fortune 500 company be worth X per share when most if not ALL of it's assets are not in the United States??? We are soon going to be a banana republic and are currently being milked dry.
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  5258.  @somerealnews6312  Kroger loses out and has to sell at a loss regardless; happens every time. It's why they will sell their cases for 60% off and you can pick them up for $4.00. It all stems from the modern (Business Admin) degree. The school of thought is based on a theory that you can maximize profit by demand surges. Which is extremely dumb because you always sell less than anticipated and competitors gain customers. Then you have to sell at a loss to recoup for the large volume left behind. They do this with butter too. 48%ish off a $4.49 Kroger brand stick; marked down to $2.29. Another reason why Aldi is extremely popular. Low operating cost and humble profit margins with steady lower prices. Btw, not sure what you mean by 'think it's a bad thing'.
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  5259. Wrong analogy! It's efficient, but the over-head costs are being exaggerated by fortune 500 companies. It's a massive bubble! Investors got fooled into thinking that AI innovation needs billions in research and development. Turns out that it only needs a couple million for a smaller company lol Basically these companies are selling slim-jims and convincing consumers that they're filet mignon. People should avoid tech jobs like the plague right now. Unemployment in that industry will be massive in the near future
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  5260. They are doing the same thing to the US and Western Europe that they did before the Russian Revolution. Trying to starve nations of money and resources; driving up poverty and crime. When the time is right; they will pull out all their investments and those nations will devolve into chaos. Gangs will rule the streets and an ignorant and angry populace will elect a totalitarian government to take full control and save them.
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  5261. Exactly! The data is bs because the corporation are giving the FED fake data.
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  5262. Trump is the reason inflation is still out of control. He's the one that appointed Jerome Powell. The Federal Reserve wrecked the money supply and sent demand/prices out of control. Trump wanted him to go negative on the federal funds rate; inflation would have been considerably worse had that happened. I liked Trumps foreign policy, but domestically he was terrible.
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  5263.  @markkoval4251  ?
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  5264. There is no welfare; unemployment insurance has been exhausted. It's returned to pre-Covid lows, this is a statistical fact. The real problem is that 10-15 million Americans roughly 50-60 retired early on their 401K during 2020. Cash for Florida homes ring a bell? They quit their careers and settled for gig jobs to stay busy. That's why they don't show up in the stats.
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  5265. You mean, unless we stop Social Security and Pensions; plus bail-outs and bankruptcies lol Most people aren't aware, these are the drivers behind inflation. You could cut 100% of defense and discretionary spending; it wouldn't solve anything.
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  5266. At this point, Putin's best strategy is to take advantage of the current economic instability to sew the seeds of anarchy and dysfunction. Look at the US! There is immense potential for anarchy, violence, and chaos following the results of the 2024 election. Large swathes of the population empathize with Russia due to NATO's involvement in overthrowing Ukraine in 2014. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant at this point. This gives the US a massive disadvantage with a civilian population not backing it's military.
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  5267. It's a coping mechanism because the parents have opted out of their lives. Go look at the stats of parental involvement in PTO meetings and child abuse/neglect; it's off the charts. Imagine going to school in 2023 where your parents stare at their phones all day and anybody at schools can use a single photo/video to publicly get you cancelled by everyone.
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  5268. The Venezuelan government stopped reporting "death by starvation" so they could claim that nobody was starving to death. In the Soviet Union, allegations of "starving to death" were punishable by imprisonment or death. The reason is because it infers dissent against the powers that be; if you are starving to death, then you are essentially saying that the state has failed.
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  5269. Democrats say that the system is broken; then they act like it's impartial when attempting to charge Trump? Make up your minds. I will say, no matter how you try to swing it. Indicting Trump DOES come off as an attempt by the Democratic Party to imprison their political rival. This doesn't sit well with a large portion of the population and many people instantly think of authoritarianism.
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  5270. Could be both; I don't see why not.
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  5271. Colleges haven't done so for a long time. It is a place of pure indoctrination that lets students run rampant with hypocrisy.
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  5272. I'm sorry, but you're posting misinformation yourself. I experimented with all these diets over the last ten years; ending up doing an IF schedule with low carbs ultimately. You should experiment yourself :) You CANNOT functionally do keto/carnivore without organ meats or organ meat supplements. The diet is largely derived from studies on ancient human tribes in Africa, Polynesia, and the Americas. Healthy (complex carbohydrates) makes absolutely no sense. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple/complex (relative to blood sugar) and then the micronutrients contained within. There is absolutely no micronutrients you can get from a fruit, vegetable, or grains that isn't multiple times more abundant in meat products. If you look at a nutritional chart it's laughable in comparison. Granted, you can get roughly 85% of all your micronutrients just eating eggs and beef, but it's the organ meats that make the difference. You should be liberal in your approach to this subject and be open to things going against the grain lol. All NSF grants are largely lobbied for by Universities and Agricultural corporations. You don't honestly expect them to fund studies that will destroy their profit margins do you?
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  5273. US as a volume of the global carbon footprint is near the bottom for it's population size. Where are you getting your info?
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  5274. That's a good way for the US to go into hyperinflation to cover it's existing debts lol
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  5275.  @IndependenceCityMotoring  Bud, please stop for a second; you keep posting this. Where on earth did you hear this because it makes no sense. Our taxes are getting lowered? When? Trump tax cuts expire at the end of next year. Are you inferring that tariffs will be offset by lowered taxes? Again, where and when? Lastly, if consumers are going to favor domestic goods; then inflation will go up regardless.
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  5276. How did you seriously derive that from the lecture? I'm not even religious, but if you people would 'listen' and not hear what you want, I think you'd learn quite a bit. His biblical lectures pertain to psychology, not the actual faith smh
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  5277. Yep, the CEO will simply 'own' the algorithm running his company; the elites still win.
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  5278. It still boggles my mind that there are thousands of people calling the freedom convoy fascistic. It's as if they think that "anybody that questions their fascist regime of a government is fascist." The stupidity is astounding.
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  5279. Please, anybody that has already looked at the early voting results knows who is likely to win. Democrats have to overcome some massive obstacles at this point; primarily the lack of mail-in ballots AND 18-39 age demographics being down -35%. If Democrats don't have a 30%+ surge on election day; they're going to lose.
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  5280.  @ironmaiden8450  And your morals are getting used against you in every way possible. These companies and bureaucrats have made violence inevitable.
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  5281. Well, context is important. Most people are ignoring that Ukraine is a deeply divided nation (citizen-wise). When Yanukovich lost the election in 2014 (largely due to NATO forming a coup in Kiev). It grew massive dissidence in eastern Ukraine that sparked a series of skirmishes between paramilitary/militia pro-Russian Ukrainians and the new Zelensky Administration; largely in the Donbass region. Keep in mind that Russia has maintained into posture thru proxy for 8 years that this happened. Russia wants back political control of Ukraine and a promise that they will not join NATO.
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  5282.  @Groggybandito  How is Russia responsible for the situation? Biden Administration ended the Keystone permit and we became reliant on OPEC again. Plus, US sanctions are making Brent and West Texas Crude contracts skyrocket. This has nothing to do with Russia and everything to do with the US Government. Please invest some of your time in becoming financially literate please.
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  5283. Well, the devil is always in the details. It's like when companies say 'natural flavors' which is a legal term describing a list of over 1000 possible additives that are lab made and originally sourced from poor quality sources. I completely avoid fragrances and so does my wife. I went down this rabbit-hole after the pandemic. Understand, these companies are USING government agencies to push their products in the market. One you learn that everything has a profit incentive with the intention to use government as a gate-keeper; the rest will make sense. It's all about corporate capture. My wife and I make our own soap, wash our clothes with Molly's Suds or baking soda/vinegar, and we only use natural candles. She threw out all of our hygiene products and we only use clean products that are made from oils, herbs, spices, etc. Believe it or not, going from a synthetic soap to home-made soap made my hair and finger-nails grow twice as fast. Almost everything you use is 'at the very least' stunting cellular growth.
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  5284. I think you're describing a Keynesian system, unfortunately. The Federal system operates on permanent growth and permanent inflation; that is Keynesian theory at it's core. Obviously, nothing can grow forever and considering wages don't keep up with inflation, I'd say it's obvious. Human brain evolution doesn't work at the speed of tech innovation lol
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  5285. Frances Haugen is a plant folks; CIA maybe? CNN, CNBC, and 60 Minutes give her full coverage? And her solution is MORE Government regulations? It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook and Twitter hacked themselves and sold off the personal information of 1.5 Billion accounts. All so that a former employee would spitball Facebook (which users will forget next month) and the Government gets a reason to enhance regulations that help Facebook and Twitter, while harming other competing companies.
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  5286.  @garretdrake2347  Wokism largely drivers equity politics. Do you really want to be selected for a job or NOT be selected for a job (in an applicant pool) because you are not the right skin color? That's what you call, institutional racism.
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  5287. I think people should be able to make whatever decisions best suit their lives and aspirations. At the same time, I don't think people should be promoting the idea that (remaining single) or (not having kids) leads to a long and happy life. People that get suckered into that perspective typically place too much value on material possessions. At the same time, women on average tend to become very unhappy as they age without bearing a child. There's a reason that women over 30 have a very high rate of prescription drug use for anxiety and depression. It's because life gets harder; not easier. At the very least, it is important that you find a partner that you can trust and grow with as you age. The narrative that no spouse and no kids leads to happiness is a façade that rapidly fades once you reach 30-35. Your parents pass away, your family shrinks, your friends lose common ground as they enter different life stages than you. Pretty soon, you end up having to be glued to single (miserable) people that are in the same boat as you and can't relate to married/child life. It's not a picnic and I wouldn't recommend it. Anxiety, depression, and suicidality rapidly take off as you age without a partner and a family to grow and create new connections thru.
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  5288. Well, to be fair some 70% of the inflationary crisis fell on Trump. Inflation always takes between 9-24 months to be fully realized. Inflation began to go up after January 2021. On the other hand, many of Biden's policies didn't help.
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  5289. Inflation resurgence is a guarantee, imo. If something breaks, the FED will be forced to cut rapidly. When interest rates fall and mortgages go between 4-5%. Americans will jump at the opportunity and people will feel a sense of release. Wages will come up a little bit and some prices may come down due to further demand destruction. However, this will only pave the way for significant inflation come 2025-2026.
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  5290. Welcome to global Gen Z culture! I can't wait to see how Alpha turns out lol
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  5291. GO into the Osteopathic direction! I pay $250 a month for my entire family to see one whenever we want. Get licensed and form your own practice :)
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  5292. It's a blackmailing ring. In most cases they choose pretty teenage girls to lure in (arrogant and powerful men) that will put themselves in the same bed. After that, you are beholden to whatever political elites tell you. That's how it works.
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  5293. Nuts and honey are literally up anywhere from 70& - 110% since 2020.
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  5294. @annahgibbus8 We did; that's largely irrelevant in contrast to my statement. An inspector is not going to tell you that there's lead trace behind the walls or in older applications of the basement that he can't get access to; not to mention in subfloor pipes (though they should have legally been removed). If there are mold toxins in the basement (they don't carry a mycotoxin meter). And asbestos is bound to be found in all homes older than 30 years. Again, if you buy an older home; no inspection is going to protect you against these problems that are present in some 80% of these homes. I simply refuse to buy another one to find out the old fashion way.
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  5295. @stvkomer If your house is older than 20 years; chances are that it has mold. Especially if it has subfloors and brick insulting the exterior. Not to mention humidity and whether or not it's in an area with an efficient water-shed to drain the surrounding area. If you want to get in on the discussion. Perhaps not insult people and be more professional please.
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  5296. Jesus fucking christ, neither generation Z or their kids are going to be able to function on this planet 🤣🤣 I can't wait for Metaverse people to start throwing themselves off of buildings XD
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  5297. Taking away funding from the CIA, FBI, NIH, FDA etc is asking for trouble. It will be a corporate/government circle jerk of bribes, intimidation, and corruption. Which is the reason it needs to be a priority.
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  5298. Someone tell this to Democrat voters please? If this was never you; then why do Democrats stand by DEI and affirmative action politics? You're literally subverting the competence hierarchy by placing people at the helm that don't deserve it!
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  5299. The fact that CNN hasn't bothered to explain how this entire situation unfolded in the first place, starting with the coup that the Obama Administration orchestrated, along with selling weapons to Ukraine in 2014 to fight Russian separatists. People have such a short term memory.
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  5300. Well, timing can be very deceiving for most people. If your life got better after going to church; people tend to correlate that to miracles and divine intervention. When in reality is was their own deeds and change in perception that transformed their ailments and string of seemingly bad luck. People do the same thing when Presidents are in office. My job and the economy were good under Trump; so he must have been good. My job and the economy sucked under Biden; so he must have been bad. Most people jump to these conclusions without digging deeper into why. The lag effect can truly distort people's perceptions of reality. For example, no matter what someone's opinion is. Some 75%+ of the inflationary spending that we are now experiencing in the economy; happened under the Trump administration. People can blame Biden for inflation all they want. It doesn't change the fact that most of those consequences had nothing to do with his policies or Presidency. In my life experience, Reaganomics works until it doesn't. The same economic fallout happens every single time it is implemented. If you have the FED performed gargantuan amounts of QE, mixed with lower taxes, and low interest loans. It stimulates productivity and business creation, but rarely is the train stopped when the productivity plateaus. This creates a bubble where loans continue to be taken by individuals and businesses while real-growth has stalled. This leads to the demand curve continuing to go up while the supply curve stagnates. Complications from Covid and PPP loans only made this worse. I also suspect that Trump had a deal with the Board of Governors to slash interest rates in Autumn 2019 (as he historically did) so that the markets would get pumped up before his re-election. This interest slash was crucial in what drove inflation to insanity 2021/2022.
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  5301. I think Georgia became a swing state purely because of the mail-in ballots from the students under lockdown. That isn't going to happen again; students aren't taking time off to vote. Early voting among 18-39 is down -35% so far. This is a key demographic Democrats need in order to win and it isn't there.
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  5302. I think they mean 'traditional values'.
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  5303. They are (tire-kicking) for their company. Posting fake positions in order to gauge how 'low' they can push wages and outsource parts of that job to other workers for even less. If companies could portion off 100% of each jobs into 100,000 Mechanical Turk tasks; they would do it. In all reality, they've already begun.
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  5304. Well, China has been experimenting with drone-swarming. Sounds like they are preparing for war.
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  5305.  @patriciabeecher72  Hilarious that CNN themselves admitted that she was 'appointed' as the border Czar at the first Presidential debate.
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  5306. Censorship is ALWAYS used as a sledgehammer by people that want a monopoly on lies. Anyone selling something else is either ignorant or an aspiring tyrant.
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  5307. Just remember folks: Pfizer was sued for Billions after their anti-inflammatory drug 'Vioxx" killed some 27,000 people and the FDA pulled it off the market in 2004. Anybody who thinks this is impossible in a vaccine is deluded...
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  5308. Another corrupt slush money fund. A lot of people are still angry that (for example in Chicago) teachers only have to put in 2% towards their pension, while firefighters and police have to put in 9% for the same payout. People are tired of corrupt bureaucracies.
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  5309.  @jodiehighroller9820  The bottom 50% of the income distribution pays 3.04%. I think you'd be surprised how much the top quartile pays; let alone the top 10%.
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  5310. Please, WSJ shows you a cut video to give you the exact impression that they want you to have. Zelensky is NOT a diplomat and he is not interested in the safety of Ukraine. Have you people watched any of his other interviews. The guys wants unlimited money and firepower to launch their own personal war with Russia. How can people pretend to know anything about this conflict when they keep relying on media outlets to do their critical thinking for them?
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  5311. There needs to be TWO tiers of interest rates. One for businesses; the other for housing and small loans. We shouldn't have to pay the price for billionaire and millionaire market speculations!
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  5312. Dear God, how blind do people have to be to NOT realize that the people tearing this country apart are YOU? Watch how people drive. Watch how people interact. Watch how lazy and greedy people are. Watch how nothing is ever someone's own fault. Watch how everybody is on their phone for 12 hours a day. Blame politicians and foreign governments all you want. The largest problem are Americans themselves. It will all become apparent soon as you are justifying trying to ship your neighbor off in a railcar for being an enemy of the state. Societies ALWAYS destroy themselves from the ground up and humans never seem to learn from history. Rome fell the exact same way.
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  5313. Generation X is an extremely narcissistic generation. They birthed televangelism, military worship, and a religion of pharmaceuticals; it's all about control. They absolutely LOVE to control their kids and keep them as a cardboard cut-out in their little worlds.
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  5314.  @josephmoodler2711  Why would you assume that dissenters are watching CNN? Perhaps we disagree based on economic fundamentals. It's always easy to see where people are getting their information. Someone claiming that prices will go down due to (a decrease in food stamps going to illegal aliens) is quite obviously a Fox News garbage point.
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  5315. SCOTUS will never rule against this subject. If they do, then it would implicate that the President must be 'charged' with a crime before the 14th amendment can be used. This argument was already used in one of Trump's legal battle in a Georgia courtroom and it fell flat on it's face. SCOTUS will either rule in favor of the Colorado SC or they will turn down the ruling.
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  5316. Insane how different government agencies are trying to enforce a law that is punishable by fine/jail while other agencies are actively defying it. Ever since the 2010s, I've felt as if different portions of our government have been for sale to billionaires and foreign adversaries.
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  5317. Who the hell is voting for Haley? Are these people braindead? Apparently from exit polls, female Republicans seem to be voting for her because she's a woman. She's in hot water over a number of comments she's made; including her remarks on getting into further conflicts in Ukraine, Poland, and the Middle East. Are these people dumb?
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  5318. Why would you vote for a man that allowed rampant inflation to crush the US economy? Jerome Powell is his appointee and he wanted those Federal Funds to go negative. Imagine what kind of inflation damage would have actually happened if Trump had gotten his way. All he wanted to do was pump the markets for himself and his cronies. If you elect Trump again, I guarantee you that he'll drop the interest rates and inflation will speed up again. Republicans have dug themselves into a hole with Reaganomics for the last 40 years. The dollar value and American dream slipping away. Your bank account getting smaller and they still vote for the same policies.
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  5319. We still have several hundred troops to maintain certain infrastructures, embassies, etc.
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  5320.  @BM-uk3sh  It was never about OIL friend lol It was always about (opium). Explain to me how the opiate epidemic started in 2001 and we suddenly lose interest in the middle east when fentanyl takes over in 2017? XD
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  5321. Some parents need to teach their kids empathy, compassion, and integrity instead of trying to let social media do it. Apparently social media and screens don't teach any of those, go figure! Boy, if I had a nickel for every mother in the last decade that claimed "the ipad was helping her 4 year old son learn". Now we have to deal with an entire generation of unstable narcissists that can't handle the slightest adversity of life.
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  5322. Well, it's a couple things. From a mating standpoint, (women date the same age and plus 5 years). On top of that, they date across and up when it comes to income. Having some 50% of the young female population 22-35 earning $70k or higher means that their selection pool of optimal mates is excessively low. This is why women 30-34 have an unmarried stat of 54%. They can't find a man that makes as much or more than them AND they can't find a man that wants to have children because those guys got married off by 25. Solutions for women? If you're going to play the corporate ladder game; you need to be married by 25 or you probably never will. If you want to extend you time line of marriage; stay uneducated and stay poorer lol.
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  5323. Unfortunately, no matter what government you install or safeguards you implement. Humanity is always going to try and go back to it's default evolution and inequalities; the slave class and the ruling class. The more we fight it; the bigger the fallout is. Young girls will continue to flaunt their sexuality and young boys will continue the addiction of porn and mindless entertainment. It will all sort itself out in the end when the system breaks and humans go back to what they do best; enslaving, raping, and murdering.
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  5324. I doubt it! This is mass incompetence as we've seen from both the Trump and Biden Admin. They shut down the economy and then printed $8 Trillion. High end boomers got rich and everybody else got screwed. The Federal Government is so broken; they don't have the logistics for anything right now. They simply take your tax dollars and spend them on a sinking ship.
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  5325. We nearly died already because of his Presidency. Trump appointed Jerome Powell and pressured the Federal Reserve to set the federal funds rate to 0%; he even wanted it to go negative. Americans got mortgages and auto loans out the wazoo that resulted in the largest inflation we've seen since the 1970s.
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  5326.  @mchapman132  As true as that might be; they know how to find the ballot box and they have proven to be consistent voters.
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  5327. So, Democrats are attempting to throw their political opponents in jail, BUT Trump is the fascist? Fascism always comes from people that refuse to question government or institutions.
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  5328. I think most people are listing symptoms; not the causes. Think of it like this; every Empire eventually implodes (not due to bread and circuses precisely) but rising inequalities. Civilizations need to run on 70/30 margins; not 98/2 wealth ratios. However, these phases are inevitable. The reason is because human intelligence can never keep up with innovation. This is why the rich get richer and poor get poorer; it's inevitable. Government only slows it down and reduces innovation at the same time. When inequalities reach a certain point; the system begins to collapse. Sexual inversions become rampant, income inequality goes insane, social behavior becomes erratic, and the law stops being enforced. Happens every single time since the dawn of civilization. Things will always get better. The goal is not to be a statistic in the failure of the old system.
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  5329. In all honestly, the past ten years have shown us how horrible the last 8 or so Presidents have been; Reagan included. Had Reagan not been President, I'm not so sure we'd be battling such vicious corporatization. Anti-trust and tech algorithms have become the biggest issues as of 2022. The amount of damage these subjects have done to the American citizen are beyond words.
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  5330. Republicans need to do their own research. How long will you continue to believe lies (intentionally) spun by Murdoch and FOX News Colleagues? Is anybody aware that they just went through a $785 Million dollar lawsuit over those allegations of voter fraud? You can check any county in the entire country! Voter turnout increased by anywhere from 15-40% on a nationwide scale. Even counties Trump won by 92% had an increase in voter turnout by 30% in most cases. Stop believing the old FOX agenda. They took full advantage of poll worker shortages to insert the idea that mass cheating was taking place. Yet 2400 Federal cases later (thrown out) and not one shred of proof.
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  5331. 5% of our budget already goes to paying interest. The remainder go to defense, Social Security, other IOUs, and that tiny 3% of which that actually goes to maintaining public services and good things. But we can't have those, nobody in Congress wants to give up their tax payer investments in the economy. That's your answer.
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  5332. Commission is a bad incentive to drive up housing prices. Imagine if COPS got paid commission on how hefty the charges were for the person they were arresting. Cop would be CREATING evidence and duping the courts to get more compensation.
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  5333. Well, I'm not a Christian, but there is always a glaring problem with the founding documents that most (non-Christians) love to ignore. "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights" - from the Declaration of Independence You can claim that the nation wasn't founded on Christianity, but it is founded on the idea that God created man as equals with rights that couldn't be infringed on. Unless people want to try and pull that out of some pagan mysticism; it's almost entirely an Abrahamic idea. It would be very dishonest imo to claim that America's founding can be divorced from religion.
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  5334. Nobody has been paying any attention. Russian and China are very well prepared for a war of attrition. They've been accumulating the largest gold reserves for years in preparation. Timing is very important. I bet you Putin was very keen on getting a feel for whether Congress would impeach Biden over any one of his power abuses; Keystone XL, migrant flights, the border crisis, blackmailing the Ukrainian President etc... With the US government fully accepting the failure of this administration, I think this was the best time to strike. The next target will be the Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Wait and watch!
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  5335. Same here...
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  5336. Why do they need voters? They can just bulk-adjudicate your ballot at the polls. Did you vote Trump? Too bad, an executive poll workers decided that you made an error and now you vote for Biden :)
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  5337.  @stephenmorring3370  Actually yes, the average age in the 1970s of owning your first home was actually 26 years old. What older generations fail to understanding is (purchase value). Working from 1956 until 1987 would be the equivalent of someone in 2024 getting paid $300,000+ a year for 31 years for a job with no degree. This included the inflation from 1977-1980; which was a cake-walk compared to 2020. The median household income to median home value was 1:3 during that time period. As of 2024; it's 1:8. Demographic problems with Pensions and SS drive these problems with USD strength. As social programs are held up with inflation; it actively makes it harder for subsequent generations to afford a living. New dollars bail out the failing programs of elders by taxing the purchasing value of young generations. It's all about propping up asset prices to avoid deflation.
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  5338.  @rogergeyer9851  I'm well aware that things change. Trust me, many of us wish we could make 80s wages with 80s prices. We have to make due with what opportunities and currency value we have one way or another. Try to read to context of the comments before making assumptions that people don't want to change or make due with the times.
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  5339.  @Cruel_Shoes  I bought my first home at 25; I had a 12% down payment on a house by then. It's not impossible. That was in 2020 btw. I lived on my own and had saved up some $20,000 by the time I was 23 in 2018. Plus, that was by working at FedEx. I think people generalize too much on Gen Z. Most of them are dead broke due to student loans. However, at the same time many Gen X people don't realize how much they've spent in interest over the decades; not to mention loss in wage value. It all comes down to the numbers. Too many people try to delude themselves with words like (home ownership) or (higher income). It's all about staying out of debt tbh.
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  5340. I was gonna say, these Zeihan (green screens) are state of the art! lol
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  5341.  @RobMastin  I'm not sure either. Typically the white ones killed a dozen and the black ones can't shoot correctly at all lol
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  5342. That's an extremely suicidal ideology bud. If life is pointless suffering, then what are you getting at? Don't masquerade it as non-existent virtue to save people that don't exist; that's just wrong.
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  5343.  @thewhitefalcon8539  Big banks don't lose when you become delinquent; they get bailed out lol That's why they give out such risky loans.
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  5344.  @Quickshot0  Not spreading NATO; do people so easily forget that the Obama Admin orchestrated a coup in Kiev during 2014 and then heads of the State Dept. appointed Zelensky. How much longer will the US and NATO use regime change tactics and then cry wolf about the results?
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  5345. 1 interview if you apply to things like (package handler).
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  5346. Why? If China replaced Mexico's President with a puppet; sold them firearms, missiles, and instigated a border war. Would the US be in the wrong for invading?
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  5347. Good!
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  5348.  @wilbur9036  What maga narrative? Sounds like the narrative of gaslighting media outlets. Perhaps you should think for yourself and stop letting an oligarchy do it for you?
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  5349. Impeach Biden over prices? I'm no fan of Biden, but how is any of this his fault? I understand that the Administration isn't friendly towards domestic energy, but come on. To think he's the source of the ridiculous inflation we are seeing is bonkers. Blame the Federal Reserve, they printed all the bonds/money during Covid and now we've see 50%+ inflation in all products in the last 3 years.
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  5350. She's a literal psychopath. Everything she does is a chess move in order to elicit the response that she wants.
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  5351. Yeah, he really strikes me as a world class bs'er.
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  5352.  @ChiefCrewin  Wow lol
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  5353. Personally, I think we need to burn this ZOO down. I'm not anti-capitalist, rather pro. However, seeing how we've blindly outsourced all that we have and allowed international cartels to leverage our lives with demanding 'fake' commodities just sickens me. I choose quality and if it never makes me any more money then I'm alright with that. People are complacent and those in the cities will pay the biggest price in the event of a crash. But I refuse to play this fucking game anymore. They steal your tax dollars and then launder them to foreign countries under the guise of "Transgender studies" or "Testing cocaine on toads" which use those dollars to subvert your sovereignty.
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  5354. No, it's not normal; that's sounds like somebody with severe childhood traumas and/or a psychosis. Misery loves company when they refuse to solve their own problems. I know it's hard and there's no much I can advise at 13 because you can't really work at your age. Try to do everything you can to involve yourself with the right crowds and positive social environments. Get into school clubs and extracurriculars as much as possible to keep you out of those toxic environments. When you hit 16; go get a PT job. When you hit 18; do anything you can to get a an in demand job. College at this point is a death sentence. Even package handlers earn a livable income. Find a man in your early 20s that values family and growth and build your lives together.
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  5355. I think it's a good thing. There are many reasons for the labor shortage that gave nothing to do with unemployment insurance, which is close to where it was pre-covid. People have realized that there is more to life than trying to keep this diseased society afloat. If all these chain restaurants and fast food joints went bankrupt tomorrow, I wouldn't shed a tear. Might be the wakeup call Americans need to finally revolt without giving my power to the feds.
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  5356. This is what's wrong with people; they start with evidence that the item may be an orange and then delude themselves thru internal monologue that it MUST be a flying pig. Then pat themselves on the back for critical thinking. Perhaps it's a land grab. Perhaps it's an economic scheme to reduce Iran's influence. Perhaps Iran was in full contempt of violating a number of initial treaties by enriching their uranium over 70% in recent months. Who knows what's true, but I can guarantee that if even one nuclear weapon was used again Tel Aviv; you'd be sending hearts and prayer emojis. Global strategy isn't for the faint of heart. Most people would sit idle and do nothing; compromising everything.
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  5357.  @NebkheperureTutankhamun  The Democrats have been taken over by Venezuelan style socialists.
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  5358.  @maxlogan7388  To be fair, he said (I love the education and I love the uneducated). Context is important for objectivity.
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  5359.  @Spiral.Dynamics  No they aren't, stop spreading falsehoods. Virtually no state has a minimum wage of 7.25 (the Federal rate)
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  5360. As if the Ukrainian conflict started on February 22nd? Might as well have made it 12th April 2014. That's when the Civil War began in Ukraine between NATO backed Zelensky and Eastern Ukraine that sided with Yanukovich. All of this was started by NATO; let's not forget that. They have no business forming coups in foreign countries. But you know, America is going to 'Murica!'
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  5361. Mortgages are where almost ALL the Covid stimulus and low interest went towards. There should have been stipulations under the Trump Admin and Reserve banks to maintain higher real-estate rates than is typically defined by bank notes and bills.
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  5362. So these videos get 100s of millions of views in a matter of days on Twitter. But on Youtube it's just a couple million? Don't these people have any integrity?
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  5363. Why is CNBC using a chart showing a 2 million increase in undocumented migrants since 2020, while the DoHS has already reported since 2024 that there have been at least 8 million crossings?
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  5364. Not exactly... This crisis isn't limited to Long Beach and Los Angeles. Ports are getting backed up Universally.
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  5365.  @tondamarsee1865  Its no lie.
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  5366.  @SeaJay_Oceans  Never going to happen. Even if you brought the manufacturing back, no person born in the US is going to apply for it. This is the primary problem in trucking. The people applying aren't US born citizens. They are green-cards looking for a better life and good money. Americans are simply (too spoiled). What we need to do is crash these international corporations and regain some semblance of what made this country great to begin with. Returning to locally owned and farmed; people we can trust and thrive with. It will take time, but I think we can rebuild the idea of (community and local). Covid on it's own has caused much of the upheaval in the market, because it's opened people's eyes to how much of their lives they are wasting in these 'careers'.
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  5367.  @SeaJay_Oceans  Perhaps for some, though that is a stretch. Average is around $50,000 for company drivers. I was able to pull $70,000 at 54cpm working 72 hours a week and that rate is much higher than the industry average. If there are people making close to 6 figures, they are few and far between.
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  5368. Way to go mom! Just remember that men have the build the world up. Otherwise, they will tear it apart. Modern people have forgotten the lessons of Rome and other civilizations before and after it. The ONLY things that is keeping young men from rioting in the streets is the current tech addiction. If it were gone tomorrow, those ethics would manifest in society and riots would ensue. It is incredibly dangerous to create tens of millions of lonely hormonal men with no life goals. They typically turn to crime, insanity, or war.
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  5369.  @fawzy76  Be careful what you wish for. Universal healthcare seems great in other nations because they don't have public health epidemics, plus the US covers are large amount of EU defense budget. When your people are sick and you have to afford your own security; magically things get a lot more expensive. At the end of the day, if you need life saving emergent care; you come to the US. If your child is dying and needs specialized medical attention; you're going to get flown to Nationwide in Columbus, OH on a B2-Visa. Everybody loves to talk a big game about the healthcare crisis, but it's so much more complicated than most people give it credit for.
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  5370. I'll tell you, there is a mental health epidemic with men in western nations. I hope we sort this out soon. I know full well what happens when enough men flip the table on a civilization.
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  5371.  @jj-bv3ui  Absolute rubbish! Name a country where Christians have laws that torture or give capital punishment to homosexuals.
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  5372. I'd be careful throwing that logic around bud. You'll blind yourself from falling into that exact group. One cannot become too complacent that he stops questioning his own beliefs.
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  5373. Youtube is NOT going to fix something they are actively involved in; same as Twitter.
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  5374.  @kotk05  It's media stupidity; we largely use it for flame retardants, but much of them are carcinogenic. I say it's a good thing.
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  5375. Not really, BTC may be up, but the inequalities are insane. The only people making money are multi-billionaires that prop up the currency.
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  5376. Expand your vocabulary then. His lectures are hardly 'nothing'.
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  5377. He's a socialist (Labour Party). Socialists are always envious hypocrites that will stop at nothing to control the lives of others.
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  5378. Not really, that's an old fallacy. It might describe certain inner city ghettos, but hardly the majority. I've seen entire trailer parks on welfare with Trump flags waving everywhere. Just because you are on welfare doesn't mean you're not voting Trump.
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  5379. Well, I don't let Gen Z off that easily. They enslaved themselves stupidly to Sallie Mae in the hopes that they would get a $200k job that could pay back their six figure loans. I'm an average IQ person and I knew by the age of 18 that college was largely a scam. How other people throw their lives away for a pipe dream is beyond my understanding.
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  5380. Watch, IVF will get extremely popular over the next several decades and I guarantee people in government will try to subsidize it. Then you'll have a permanent flow of single mothers with anti-social children ready to set the world on fire.
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  5381. He's an extremist to pensioners, students, and other people that live in an echo-chamber.
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  5382. How are overseas servicemen, elderly, or disabled people supposed to vote Einstein? Vote by mail has been a thing for a LONG time. Republicans only started trying to get rid of it because FOX News convinced them it was used to mass cheat. What is it now? 2600 election fraud lawsuits denied by American judges? Many of them Trump appointees lol
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  5383. In my opinion, Brexit was the last nail in the coffin. It didn't matter how the country governed itself (inside or outside the EU); the culture had already been destroyed. Everything immediately got economically harder as it became more difficult to trade and do business; on top of Covid global inflation.
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  5384. $100k is the new $70k
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  5385.  @dm-31024  Thanks
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  5386.  @drstew1  You're making a lot of assumptions about the integrity of the DNC. The same organization that tried to overthrow New Hampshire's primary.
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  5387. I'm not agreeing with the expenditures of his administration, but we're looking at 30% inflation from the M0 USD supply in the last 18 months. It's no accident that grocery items and the housing market increased 25% to 40% in the same time frame. Not exactly the type of spending we are used to.
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  5388.  @DANCEGARAGEPUNK  Afraid not :)
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  5389. Sick? He's going into late-term dementia! You people are in complete denial.
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  5390. He's right, but he doesn't have my vote. We need a candidate that is going to tackle (inflation, Social Security, and Medicare). All other issues are irrelevant at this point. These three items will destroy this country if we do nothing.
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  5391. Sounds like she's only used coping mechanism her entire life to deal with her "diagnosis." I was diagnosed as a child and put on a dozen medications for a period of 6 years that turned me into a drooling zombie. Thankfully you can't do that anymore before going thru a diagnosis review after two (non-effective) meds. Who knows if I truly had it, I had a largely aggressive and dysfunctional set of parents growing up. Nothing but a load of anxiety inducing memories now exist as far as my childhood goes, though I try not to indulge in vengeful or envious feelings regarding it. Personally, it was very apparent to me by the diagnosis stats that ADHD was just 'another' state sponsors pharmaceutical scam to make billions. Nowadays I'm a fully functioning adult with no signs of ADHD; trust me I've asked. If anything, I'm told by my wife and friends that my parents have extreme ADHD. They don't have an attention span that lasts 5 seconds. Not that most Americans have one that's any longer lol
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  5392. That's an extraordinarily screwed up way of interpreting life and pregnancy; you need some help my friend. Whoever you're listening to or hanging out with only wants to worst for you. What's your solution; suicide and abortion for everybody like you? I'm dead serious, you need to reflect on you ideology and channel name as well.
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  5393. Trump 2.0 is extremely different from Trump 1.
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  5394.  @anthonybrogan390  Not sure what you mean. Vivek dropped and stated that he was possibly pursuing the governorship of Ohio. Which I'm fine with because DeWine is a pos.
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  5395. Same, our second is due Nov.
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  5396. Well, the algorithms punish honest people and reward narcissists and liars. This is why propping up (victims) is so dangerous. All perpetrators of horrible behavior begin as (victims). It's because most of them are wolves in sheep's clothing looking for vengeance against humanity. You unfortunately have to keep these people at the bottom or they destroy society. It's ultimately why socialism fails. It attracts people with nothing to lose and no morals to gain.
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  5397. Well, it's funny you say that because this election is about (labor vs. institutions). Whether it's actually good for them or not; labor is in favor of Donald Trump.
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  5398. There are always dummies on both sides. I've heard a LOT of crazy things (conspiratorial in nature) from people claiming to vote for Trump; mind you from friends, family, and others. However, there is one consistent problem I see when talking with Democrats. They are extremely predictable in their inability to rationalize and generate a response from either experience or competence on a given subject. Almost ALL of it comes from something they saw from a late-night comedy show or MSNBC. I think this is because Democrats largely depend on institutional thinking to allow them to live their lives. They are very good at particular things and abstracts, but do rather poorly on a range of random subjects. Republican voters on the other hand are typically uneducated, but they are much better at being 2 inches deep in any topic or competence hierarchy. Of course, this all comes down to personality. Conservatives are low in openness and typically high in conscientiousness. Liberals are great with abstracts and innovation, but they can't fix a toilet to save their lives.
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  5399. The CDC, AHA, FDA, WHO etc are just one big circle jerk. They get everybody hooked on veggie oils, carbs, and Statins. Then when people start to wither and die they blame animal products and farmers.
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  5400.  @JMHCLash  The Middle Ages were nothing BUT centralized feudalistic authority. Of course nothing is going to get innovated; it will threaten their power.
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  5401. Oh, so convincing with your comment. Actually, it probably only pushes more support for her. Seeing as opponents have nothing interesting to say.
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  5402. The jobs are NOT coming back folks! We don't have enough Gen Z to replace their parent's generations and nobody is willing to work those jobs either. CDL classrooms across this country are filled with African green cards because Americans refuse to drive trucks for $60k-$90k.
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  5403. Yeah, OF never ends well. Most people that become wealthy over trends, sexual content, or gambling end up dirt poor all over again. This is because it never took any discipline to earn that money and they lose it pretty much the same way they earned it. The catch on OF is that no matter how poor or rich you become; you're nudes are online forever. I don't know why anybody pays for OF when all of that content gets screen-shot and posted everywhere anyways.
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  5404.  @ScoutJordan-i5z  So you rely on fact-checkers, but you have no caution as to who is holding those fact checkers accountable. People that want 'fact checkers' are people that want their ideology pushed. I hope you're older than myself at 30, because I've read enough about 20th century history to know the government and institutions can NEVER be trusted to tell the truth. Why would you trust them to do that?
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  5405.  @drghostpepper1  Would you debate someone again if their moderators were used against you and didn't hold the other candidate accountable? Let me guess, we need 'fact checkers' because they always tell the truth?
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  5406. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do. Most people don't understand the fundamentals of why wage value is going down. In order for wages to stay level, debt and GDP have to grow linear. I can tell you with certainty that debt has outgrown GDP for the last 40 years. When this happens, prices go up and wages stagnate.
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  5407. I'm convinced of two things. 1. Jill Biden has been running the country for four years - "You answers all the questions Joe!" 2. Joe Biden voted for Donald Trump.
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  5408.  @dwightmanne  Building a wall will do nothing at this point. Federal government is PAYING organizations $15k (per person) to bring these immigrants to sanctuary cities. They can fly, be bused, or walk thru the open gates. A wall will do nothing, unless the government shuts off the money and allows law enforcement to do their jobs!
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  5409.  @jhonviel7381  I'm afraid vaccines are at the bottom the list. Sure there are side affects, but this is more of a 'what's in the water' kind of issue. All those pharmaceuticals and hormones are literally swimming in your city water.
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  5410.  @KaptynEllie  My times have changed. Nowadays, if you're daughter is 13+ they will shove it in your face as a parent. The entire medical system is churning out Pharma loyal workers and they don't even realize it.
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  5411.  @teddymoon3744  Yes, because Jerome Powell (appointed by Trump) set the federal funds rate to 0 in 2020. Leading to massive inflation in 2021 until now. If you elect Trump again, I can guarantee you that inflation will run out of control again.
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  5412.  @wymonwatson1309  Well, to be honest (shutting down the government) was the worst decision ever, because it means they HAD to bail out the economy with $6 Trillion. All of this is about maintaining Social Security. Deflation would annihilate it and it's a game of hot potato until major reform is needed by 2033
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  5413. Yay, lets print hundreds of billions of dollars to STOP printing hundreds of billions of dollars. Only politician scum come up with this crap. Real inflation since January 2020 is over 50%; all you have to do is check the M0-4 Monetary supplies. That CPI basket the Feds crunch is a bunch of crap; they constantly swap out items in order to get the lowest number possible so idiots will still buy their treasury bonds.
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  5414. Republicans are running on a single-study done about 12 months ago that suggested that there was a swing from left to right for young male voters. All based on a pool of several thousand people. I can tell you right now that virtually nobody under 30 is voting for Trump. Trump isn't going to break 60 million votes. Republicans are ignoring all the other polling data and voter turnout stats. Republicans DO NOT have the numbers!
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  5415. Well, this needs to be an objective and realistic plan. A lot of people didn't even know where Ukraine was before 2022. The first things that Russia is going to want is a firm deal that (not only will Ukraine not join NATO) but that the US will cease it's government involvement in the ex-iron curtain nations. The war in Ukraine would probably never have happened if the US hadn't formed a coup against Kiev in 2014. Russia had political control of Ukraine before that; the US afterwards. They probably want it back.
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  5416. It's why being a skeptic is paramount these days. I mean, my in-laws literally believe that government is spraying the forests with neurotoxins to kill deer; in order to starve people outside of the cities. People have completely lost the plot.
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  5417. Bankruptcy is about using the government to help get rid of debts. It's used by every fortune 500 company. Try not to use poor media points and misconceptions to justify your disdain for someone. Focus on fundamentals!
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  5418.  @aFish315  It's a government incentive; has very little to do with the person using it. If the government gives you tax services and reorganization tools; you'll use them. Try not to let the media confuse you with word salads that affect a certain way of thinking. It's like saying, "we hit a new record; the best we've ever seen by far at 90,000!" Until you found out that they get an average of 89,000. It's done intentionally to 'affect' ways of thinking in order to stir up outrage or give undue credit where there shouldn't be any.
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  5419. I told my parents back in 2012 that I believed college was a waste of time and not worth the hassle. Dear Lord, the grief I got from both parents, neighbors, friends, and just about everybody under the sun. I ended up going to Community for $10,000 which was all covered by FedEx at the time when I was working. I never used the degree, but I have no regrets about avoiding a University.
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  5420.  @karlosthejackel69  Well, that's a macro analysis; we're talking about economics. You don't seriously think the October Revolution was carried out by (unpaid revolutionaries) do you? lol Everything has to be funded, people don't riot and overturn systems for free.
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  5421.  @Bensux  You can't be serious...
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  5422. Nothing wrong with wives or children. Personally, I would recommend never dating a girl that uses birth-control; major red flag right there. Second, stop dating college girls; high disproportion of narcissists.
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  5423. If I recall, I don't think he's vegan; I believe he identifies as a vegetarian these days?
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  5424. All politicians are largely self serving, including DeSantis. Though, I think he has a more altruistic sense than many others.
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  5425. Time to let it all burn down. Elections have consequences! And I for one don't plan to live in a fascist technocracy where corporation and government rule my every thought and action.
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  5426. Truth: We are laying you off because we are anticipating a massive government bailout in the next 12 months and don't really care how bad our business does until that time. Thank you :)
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  5427. Once the money goes to the account and routing number that Congress designates; there's no oversight where it basically goes from there. Here's food for thought, your tax dollars get appropriated for Congressional bills. The money gets sent to an office in Chicago, then Toronto, then the money gets sent to an office in Bangladesh, then again to an account in Qatar that pays terrorists. Yes, your tax dollars are being used to promote terrorism and political activism.
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  5428. Yeah, I thought he misspoke at first, but then he said it again and I fell off my chair.
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  5429. All millennial wealth pooled together still have insane inequalities in contract to previous generations. If Baby Boomers at the same age had roughly a 60% share between the upper quartile and the bottom three. For millennials, it's more like 20%. An INSANE amount of wealth is concentrated at the top quartile of millennials (within their own generation).
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  5430. The bigger problem with the GOP is that it's doubling down on a religious identity to it's core; which has not happened in the past. The modern Republican Party was erected largely due to the efforts of many conservative idealisms of the 1990s, but it was still controlled in-large by a set of secular policies. It strived for a radical change in foreign policy and a series of economic investments/ business freedoms that it used to win the deep south between 1994 and 1996. Not to mention that a considerable amount of the GOP leadership is being held by Republicans in the southern US. Republican voters should be well aware that the RNC and the MAGA-core has essentially infiltrated the GOP and made it's ambitions much more oriented towards religious goals. This is one reason I abandoned the party some years ago.
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  5431. Oh, I am! It's pretty clear that Russia has had enough with NATO's BS. I mean, it's a fact that the Obama Admin helped orchestrate the Ukrainian revolution in 2014 and sold them weapons; which were used to largely fight the border war in Donbass the last 8 years. It was part of a defense spending package that was passed by Congress. Ukraine under Zelensky is a puppet regime. It's always been the US; terrorist #1... At this point, assume any US media and sources are pure disinformation.
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  5432. I'm an Ohioan born and raised. This story was under-played for months on end. The Ohio river has been completely poisoned with ethylhexyl acrylate, vinyl chloride, and about 5 other chemicals; mostly in liquid form. The EPA and DeWine Administration haven't even begun to unpack the damages this has caused to the rivers, streams, and lands stemming from E. Palestine. I assume because election time is coming up again (go figure!). Once he gets re-elected, you'll start to see stories all over the place about (The Ohio Cleanup). Regardless, the damage has been done and the water and land quality in east, south, and central Ohio will be a topic of scandal for decades to come. I wish people would quit pointing at the Flint, MI crisis as a comparison. There is NO comparison! I can tell you with certainty that many Ohioans here blame the Trump Administration for the East Palestine spill. The mainstream media was running the 'deregulation story' for weeks when it happened. Whether or not it's true is irrelevant at this point. Norfolk is ultimately the one to blame in the lawsuits and Ohio has lost a very large swathe of Republican support in this state.
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  5433. Don't believe media headlines bud; dig a little deeper. It's not a regulation; it was a consideration. The Obama Administration put it up as a consideration and the Trump Administration disregarded it ( a law regarding brakes). Though this is media speculation, because the cause of the accident has still not been determined.
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  5434. You are paranoid, the media is misleading your with smoke and mirrors.
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  5435. I've voted Republican most of my life. There is no way Trump is going to win this election; Republicans are not doing the math on this one. Voter turnout for registered Republicans has been in the dumpster for Mid-terms and the 2023 General Elections. The GOP cannot lose a single state in the Presidential election, but must win THREE or FIVE: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Considering how bad Republicans got beat in the Ohio 2023 General Election. I have a hard time seeing how Republicans have the advantage. Not to mention that many die hard Trump supporters are now gone and 4 Million new young voters are entering the environment. Turnout in Iowa was also considerably down compared to previous caucuses. The Democrats have always maintained TWO leverages; lockstep voting and routine voting. Republicans are notorious for 'splinter voting'. With an Independent on the official ballot for 2024, you will see a large swathe of Republicans go independent like many did with Ross Perot. Democrats will either vote for Biden or the (primary switch candidate) that many are anticipating. There's no way Trump can win this. Republicans in large are completely exhausted from the last 8 years of his limelight. The fact that he got 51% of the caucus vote shows how divided the GOP actually is. Exit polls in Iowa heavily suggest that Nikki Haley voters would rather vote for Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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  5436. Trump is NEVER going to be elected again; Republicans simply don't have the votes. Unless they steal 20% of Biden voters under 40; it's not going to happen.
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  5437. Biden literally mumbles into oblivion at the church and the members applaud him? Why am I surprised? They came to church (probably) because most of them are idiots in the first place lol
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  5438.  @legion1630  Choose to be used? I'm not so sure. Religion organizations have rampantly jumped into politics since 2020 to an extent I have never seen before. I'm not sure what sparked this; probably Roe v. Wade to a certain extent. But religious organizations are actively trying to lobby for political gain. The last time this happened was in the 1980s.
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  5439. You'd be surprised where the Nazi's got their ideas lol Ask 1930s US politicians and companies lol
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  5440.  @NIkki-ox1ej  The window got broken, so something 'did' in fact depreciate in value lol
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  5441. Ohio PDs stopped enforcing marijuana laws (by and large) about 10 years ago. I've lived in and around Columbus my entire life; it's a citation at best for possession.
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  5442.  @miv366  What's your solution? People go into politics for money and nobody with leverage can challenge them. Seems like a good alternative to have people that have money (that also have a sense of altruism) to fight back. Btw, I'm not really talking about Trump. People didn't vote so much for Trump; rather they voted for Tulsi, Kennedy, JD Vance, etc. There's nothing particularly special about Trump; other than he's the most persecuted political figure in modern history. Sometimes populism is the answer when everything else has been corrupted. A lot people have come from all different walks of life to condemn the Democratic Party for what they're attempting to do. My fantasy (like many others) is that Progressives can join with Conservatives to eliminate this corporate stranglehold we have over the US.
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  5443. They are flying drones in order to scare people and make headlines; all so the new military budget will get pushed thru Congress. That way politicians can vote against the interests of their voters and won't be held accountable or thought suspicious for doing so. The government has been doing this forever. Manufacture an issue so that you can sell a solution that grants bad people power; it's not rocket science.
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  5444. Jesus people are dumb. Questioning the motives of leaders is NOT the same as being complicit with the enemy. Americans have truly lost their critical thinking skills.
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  5445. No it doesn't, of course. There just needs to be a recognition that M1 does not represent the inflation that many fear-mongering channels are using to count inflation. M2 from February 2020 to March 2023 has roughly a 40% increase, which is the measurement that many professionals use to adequately define inflationary supply dollars. With that being said, 40% inflation is pretty consistent with all the price changes in the markets. Regardless of the FED using their CPI fudge numbers to claim a tiny 9.1% as of June 2022.
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  5446. Her speech is about her grandfather; what are you on about? To say that it was insensitive for her to not talk about the deceased firefighter is ridiculous. She's 17 years old and I remember when I did speech club when I was a teen. She did rather well for her age in front of a crowd. Quit looking to criticize when there's no warrant for it.
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  5447.  @Test-fj4if  She said that she wanted to give a speech. You're projecting your own trust issues and bias here. She's a 17 year old girl giving a speech; are you serious?
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  5448. We weren't looking at 30% inflation during the Trump Administration though. Things have changed quite a bit.
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  5449.  @jdanon203  The US is very clearly enumerated as a 'Republic' in the US Constitution. We have never been a Democracy.
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  5450. Another reason it boggles my mind that Obama is seen as a good President. His Administration massively overhauled HR and Administrative control of businesses, including insurance partnerships and kicking Doctors out of Hospital management. Now everything is bottom line by Business Admin degrees. People aren't joking when they say he was trying to employ a marriage between Marxist State Administration and Keynesian economics.
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  5451. The comment section below is a perfect example of why Trump was elected. Liberals are completely detached from reality and Democrats abandoned the working class.
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  5452. I'm sorry, but that is incorrect. Natural gas and other energy shortages are going to be catastrophic.
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  5453. Technically no. Even IF all foreign investments and bond buying stopped. The FED would buy their own bonds and the US would go into hyperinflation. The dollar would most likely become worthless before it went bankrupt. In this case, I'd even ask what (bankrupt) meant lol. Is the FED going to bail itself out of debt? XD All jokes aside, the only way for the FED to bail itself out would be to go to war, which is what many of us are scared of.
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  5454. I'm not saying the economy doesn't suck, but people need to stop applying to corporate desk jobs. Most package handler positions pay roughly $18-$20 nationwide. It's not great, but it's a start.
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  5455. I love Tulsi, but a run with Trump makes no sense. It would damage her own reputation more than it would attract more Trump voters. Trump's base is finite at this point. It may have been 30% of registered Republicans back in 2018/2019, but since then it's fallen to about 8-10%. Touching Trump would destroy her life.
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  5456. They already tried, but Californians LOVE HIM I suppose. California is known (across the continental US) as the most beautiful location with the dumbest people.
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  5457. Yes it could have, if NATO and the Obama Administration had not pulled strings to overthrow Ukraine and sell them weapons to fight Russia in a border war 8 years ago. This is entirely NATO's fault!
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  5458. It's all tied to the same economic system; all currencies are traded in the Reserve USD.
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  5459. Believe it or not, most churches are pushing in this direction. Why? Money! It's lucrative for them to take advantage of these social issues in order to get political favors under their non-profit disguise.
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  5460.  @hadara69  Fox is garbage. Preying on the insecurities of 'mostly' poor Republican voters.
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  5461. Republicans must be desperate. The moment Trump got 51% at the Iowa Caucus; 'as a former President' mind you. I knew he'd never be President again.
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  5462. Not exactly, corporate greed shouldn't just be thrown around lightly. Things do not drop in price until debt can be refinanced and the cash-flow failure causes a series of bankruptcies; on top of the government NOT supporting larger corporations with 'shadow' quantitative easing. Once they cut interest rates, you'll see demand destruction hit rock bottom and prices will magically follow. This is what induces a recession; soft landings are a myth.
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  5463. Racism, misogynist, homophobic, rapist? Does this woman realize that these are her accusations; not actual reality?
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  5464. People truly need to quit assuming that Western media is giving any realistic insight to this conflict. In any war, both sides are participating in massive disinformation campaigns; as is the media. Both Russia and Ukraine have suffered heavy losses in the war so far. Assuming Russian soldiers are not trained and being pressed into the military by force is nothing short of giving into media gaslighting. Plus, most people have no idea what this conflict is over. You see the headlines and the narrative, but it's all smoke and mirrors. If you take the time to look into the causation, it's not very clear cut who the good guys really are. The US should never have been involving itself in Ukraine and orchestrating a new government with a puppet called Zelensky in place.
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  5465. This guy reeks of a pyramid scheme; just look at the comment section lol Probably has an army of bots to push his production and personal legitimacy just to make some extra bucks.
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  5466. Jokes on YOU; they don't actually read them lol
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  5467. Unfortunately, at this point I'm not sure that would be good. I hate the Biden Admin as much as the next guy; but the chances that the government gets taken over by right or left wing maniacs is highly probable imo
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  5468.  @Quaferro  Well, it's not reason; rather espionage. Still something that has historically carried the death penalty. If she's a US citizen (as some have claimed); then it is treason AND espionage.
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  5469. Should be a flat 0% I would much rather have a 1% Federal USE tax instead of anything income based.
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  5470. Personally, I just see it as politics as usual. I think most people have completely forgotten what it means to have a realistic viewpoint of the world.
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  5471. I've been saying this for the longest time; 501c3 is the largest vessel for fraud in modern history. They literally use the non-profit as a front to avoid paying your normal tax rate, but they also get privileges that corporations don't when it comes to lobbying and investment.
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  5472. Those pipelines have largely been on hold. The US isn't really importing that much crude in comparison to what we export already.
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  5473. Not really, it's a demographic problem. Some 74% of the entire budget goes to auto-pilot programs like SS, Medicare, and Pensions. Those programs have to be inflated to maintain their initial value. SO naturally they are asset bubbles and changing demographics make them impossible to maintain.
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  5474. Well, we would get gold YES! But I would imagine that gold would largely be devalued in the US economy because everything else would become (domestically) more expensive. The US was damned the day we became an importer of textiles, commodities, and other goods. Those things are not manufactured in the US. So forcing those imported items to stop would impoverish the US population that maintains their livelihoods by those 'cheap' goods. Things would become extremely expensive to maintain a basic standard of living. You would raise gold profits, but you would raise the cost of those profits as well; lose/lose.
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  5475. Massive levels of child abuse and neglect; I'm not surprised at all.
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  5476. Well, the ingredients used in many of the popular brands are beyond repulsive. Soy generally tends to be in the top three. From an Omega 6, protein, and hormonal standpoint; I'm not a fan.
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  5477. Not going to happen; not in this environment. A real-estate crash isn't going to happen any time soon. Even FL isn't seeing a crash; just longer stagnation.
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  5478. Well, I think it depends on the circumstances. It's not always about budgeting. Most people I know have no savings after basic amenities, medical bills, and gas/groceries. It's easier to look down on them when you're over 40 and have it made. If I was 18 (fresh out of HS) in 2024; I'd be feeling the same heat. I left my parents house on $15/hr back in the 2010s. Which would be impossible by todays standards in the same apartment, let alone city. The problem is that wages saw virtually no growth with the cost of living. Working 90 hours a week to pay rent is NOT a solution. Nobody alive today has put in that much work just to afford basic shelter, period. Blame the Federal Reserve and previous administration.
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  5479.  @atrain132  I truly think your logic is flawed because it relies solely on personal accountability. It doesn't take economic factors into account. Look, my wife and I do well for ourselves. If we'd have waited another 2 years to buy a home and build a family; things would be very different. If there's no demand, then how can everybody work 90 hours? It was easier to argue this back in the day when purchasing power was stronger, but not anymore. We are minimalists on a six figures believe it or not. The top 10% of boomers became the wealthiest men and women in human history in the last 4 years due to fiscal policy. You can't work yourself out of a high inflation environment long term. The best you can do is downsize and avoid debts like the plague.
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  5480.  @atrain132  I haven't backtracked whatsoever. I think you're having trouble grasping economic concepts. You're describing ambitious people taking loans and investing in competent people at the correct moment that is of greatest benefit to themselves. I don't blame them for that. I assume you're successful and well off. How would that work out for you in the current environment of virtually no jobs, high interest, and troubling dollar hegemony? It's easy to push the 'bootstraps' game when you have opportunities that people won't have later on. I'd love to have an older person explain to someone fresh out of high-school how to get gainful employment or buy a used car (the average of which is $26,000US). You won't find many under $10k regardless.
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  5481.  @BBG-y7k  High demand = high prices typically. Americans love to be unhealthy for the most part.
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  5482. This seems to be a trend in all the 'strong female' shit movies.
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  5483. It's not really a stereotype, people that are sexually confused don't come from normal childhood backgrounds. Regardless how the media wants to spin it. They're typically children that are products of the foster system or divorce that have been massively traumatized by sexual predation. This is the most irritating part for me, because they pretend that these kids come from a loving household and just one day choose to be a different sex.
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  5484. Unpopular opinion, but despite the Feds causing the problem; Powell and his colleagues are actually doing a pretty decent job imo. This economy could have hit rock bottom last November or even earlier this year. We could have had a steep drop and bankruptcies could have skyrocketed, sending unemployment upwards. The markets have gone down an average 20% since January of this year and the unemployment rate is still (technically) in the 3% range. That's nothing short of a miracle if you ask me. Now, whether or not this will continue is the real question. We are stuck between high interest rates suffocating speculation and economic activity and lowering interest and printing more money to re-stimulate the economy. One leads the demand the destruction or collapse; the other leads to hyperinflation or collapse. Not exactly a walk in the park for decision making.
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  5485. You gotta win small victories where you can i guess.
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  5486. 3-6 months from when they first slash interest rates; happens EVERY single time. No joke, the moment they slash 0.25 points; I'm selling my house.
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  5487. Exactly!
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  5488.  @ringo8410  I assume you mean (other people's housing) is a right, but your neighborhood is off limits? You sound like one of these intellectualized buffoons who virtue signal with other people's good will smh
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  5489. This is an unbelievably dumb discussion and anyone buying the narrative needs to have their head examined. What do you want to happen? Put a cap on land ownership within the United States? Nobody seems to care that China owns a significant amount of real estate in the US. Land and resourceful companies are worth their weight in gold; it's an invaluable investment. I don't think half the people here even understand their own emotions on this topic; just a load of unintelligent NPCs. If you want a cap on physical assets in this country, then you need to find a new ideology outside of free-market (capitalist).
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  5490. Perhaps we should support peace and not economic ambitions? By Ukraine; do you mean East or West Ukrainians?
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  5491. Ohio is a state at risk of falling into the Democrats hands (as elections have shown since 2020). Trump choosing JD Vance is a strategic move to help win the Midwest (including North Carolina) The key states in this election are Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
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  5492. You'd be surprised; I've wondered that multiple times in my life. American is full of mentally ill people. People will stalk you for wearing a color that they don't like. The older I get, the more I understand that America is only the land of opportunity for those with wit and might. If you're dumb and weak in this country; you'll get fat and be taken advantage of to kingdom come!
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  5493. It's already here. We were warned almost a decade ago that the early stages of a tyrannical regime were approaching. It greatly mirrored the early days of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Of course, we never pay attention to conspiracy theorists until it's too late.
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  5494.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  Ok, to be brutally honest, I'm not sure if you're trolling or if you're simply not reading. What are you talking about, mentioning a 'scamdemic'? What does that have to do with most post? You should re-read my initial post before you continue
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  5495.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  You must be confusing feeds, I seriously do not understand where all this is coming from. I've never attacked you personally, other than call you "hopeless" in the last comment. If you call that personal. I began this comment chain about American health and you began ranting about Covid for some reason.
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  5496.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  No, I think we're done here. If you want my answer, I gave you the definition of a pandemic in previous comments. Other than that, it seems to be semantics. On top of that you began ranting about Covid for some unknown reason.
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  5497.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  Your own words, "What does CAD have to do with the scamdemic?" Why are we even talking about Covid? It came out of nowhere and for no reason. You also said that I was "Afraid to go outside a breathe fresh air " Again, where did that come from?
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  5498.  @jhpfdijtuiweruot  Why are you claiming that I believe a pandemic is floating in the air? You make quite a bit of claims on things I've never said. This feed is about the decline of American health. Not from viruses, Covid, or infection. Why can't you seem to get that?
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  5499.  @alandrian  Yes, this dude is either trolling at level 100 or he's lost his mind. Either way I'm about done 😂 I think he assumes that the term "pandemic" only describes viral infections. Which might be why he's relentlessly bringing up Covid.
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  5500.  @alandrian  Pretty much lol
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  5501.  @danmoritz3319  For first and second generation immigrants sure. Though, after that it all begins to decline in comparison. Not as much as others, but decline nonetheless. Caucasian and black males take up most of the demographics by far, followed shortly by Latinos. Though they are still Americans. So I'm not exactly sure what separating race would do on a grand scale. It definitely affects the lowest 20% of earners the most, so I would agree to your argument on the basis of class more or less. Now if you want to compare American health relative to say, Japan or South Korea. There's a real shocker.
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  5502.  @horsemumbler1  I wouldn't waste your breath and sanity bud. He will make you do laps and then accuse you of something he just did to you. He's purely a narcissist and rather manipulative.
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  5503.  @horsemumbler1  Good luck 👍 And Merry Christmas 🎄
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  5504.  @qjtvaddict  That would most likely worsen the problem. Medicare doesn't negotiate prescription prices as of current and healthcare is short staffed as it is. If you raise Medicare/medicaid coverage to cover everything, then these Hospitals are going to get swamped and they'll more than likely raise the tax. Not like they don't borrow it from SS anyway. The biggest problem is the FDA, AHA, and lobbyism that flows through pharma companies and NSF grant research. It all benefits Universities and elected officials. Healthcare is probably the biggest disinformation industry in this country. It pays to get people hooked on food and drugs that slowly kill them. More prescriptions, more bypasses, more hospital visits.
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  5505.  @dojocho1894  Almost everything is GMO technically. I think they just have strict standards on the breeds of plant and pesticide use.
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  5506.  @silverfox6883  Social media is excruciatingly detrimental imo. The rioting and division we've seen over the last 15 years is no coincidence. Facebook algorithms manipulate people (via dumpster fire stories) to increase user engagement and make more ad revenue. 🔥💵🔥💵🔥💵🔥
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  5507. They're catering to students, pensioners, and anybody else who lives in fantasy land at the DNC.
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  5508. If justice is going to be served; you'd need to imprison every single President (probably) since Ford.
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  5509. This woman can't debate for nothing. She sounds like a puppet to the core. She stands behind Biden fully, but her Administration will NOT be a continuation of his policies? What?
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  5510. The US wants an all out war with Russia; make no mistake. They'll lie, commit espionage, and launch entire disinformation campaigns to do so. Don't think for a second that a "draft" isn't on the table for young Americans. They'll send your sons to die for bureaucratic and corporate GREED; just like every war since 1945.
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  5511. FOX is trying really hard to divert the narrative.
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  5512.  @stevensko9153  Don't marry a narcissist; simple.
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  5513. Unfortunately, I'd have to agree with you to some degree. Though keep in mind that a whopping majority of the violent crime is occurring in metropolitan areas nationwide. Sad, but African is quickly becoming a 2nd world country. I'd reckon they'd be 1st world by 2050. The United States is quickly turning into a 3rd world sh1thole; judging by the crime rate.
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  5514.  @Foreverfreeusa  You've got a point lol
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  5515. Brain rot yes, but to be brutally honest; you don't want to be giving power over social media to government. It sounds all nice and dandy when it's a software that you either don't use or have contempt for. But you're setting a precedent that has the potential to revoke civil rights pertaining to any online activity.
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  5516.  @THX5000  I doubt it'll ever come to that in the age of rampant media addiction.
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  5517. Well, unfortunately the parents will need to change. We can blame the 15 of activist teachers and morons in those position. But at the end of the day, parents are not showing up to the meetings and they are using screens to teach their kids. We are raising an entire generation of apathetic and anti-social children; the result will be mass suicides and shootings.
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  5518. Hey! How come you can curse? If I curse, I get my comments thrown away by Youtube ;(
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  5519. Powerful people get powerful handicaps. Socialism for the rich; bootstraps for the poor.
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  5520. The DNC thinks she's the new Obama; that's why they put her up. She's incompetent and useless though. Can anybody see her actually getting the US out of TWO probable wars in the next 4 years?
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  5521.  @ta11guy63  When did I say that? I'd ask what you do for a living in reference to the claim of a 'robust economy' in your personal experience. "Every economist predicts" sounds like something out of a CNN headline in my opinion. I think this is rather reckless statement.
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  5522.  @patriciahopkins8348  I'm not sure I'm following what your question is.
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  5523. Crazy that any of us ever voted for this guy. Pure con artists and narcissist. The fact that everybody associating with him ends up in court should speak volumes.
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  5524. Are these morons still not aware that millions of Democrats have switched because of the corporate antics the Democrats are playing? Screwing Tulsi, Kennedy, and Bernie was the biggest mistake they ever made.
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  5525. 1. Stop being a hypocrite 2. Have a system of values 3. Know what you're looking for
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  5526. Seems pretty normal, as opposed to dying alone on your phone waiting for your parents to die and will you their property. Which I feel is a lot of millennials and zoomers these days lol
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  5527. I think you're describing a fringe minority. Statistically, Millennials and Generation Z are having to work much more for a lot less. No other generation has had to work this hard to earn a basic wage to pay for housing. I'm glad I bought my home in 2020. There's no way my wife and I would have been able to do it post 2021 with inflation running out of control; est. 55% since January 2020. Wages have been stagnant. It's not laziness; it's desperation! No generation has EVER faced this level of 'dollar' devaluation. If older generations tried to start families in this economy; they would understand what the problem is. It's easier to judge from the cushions of their retirement and social safety nets.
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  5528.  @johnqpublic9074  I think this is LESS about (courts siding with women) and more about the fact that many men AND women are greedy, impatient, and have no virtues. I'm a married man; 30 years old. The older I get, the more I find that people under 40 are complete jerks. All they care about are sports, drinking, and having no responsibilities. It's all about (me-me-me) all the time with younger people these days. No wonder dating is a complete nightmare. They both sit on their phones at the restaurant and don't give an inch to better themselves. They are both looking for a 'perfect' partner, while they themselves are horrible people that have no intention of changing.
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  5529.  @freethoughts2898  Well, if she's a US citizen; it's treason.
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  5530. Well, that's why people often refer to survivors bias. It seems impossible that we are here and now. But at the same time, what gives us our first person point of view? Seems like a lottery ticket if you really think about it. Unless all matter has consciousness or something.
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  5531. Perhaps the opposing party is fascistic and wants to throw their political opponents in jail? Then accuse them of what they just did? Just a thought.
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  5532.  @kurtisengle  Explain to me anything in the vaccine schedule that prevents a viral based death or disability for the overall population? People need to apply some critical thinking to this issue. Everybody agrees that oil companies are hurting our health, but somehow the medical industry is beyond bribery?
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  5533. Republicans can't afford to lose a SINGLE state; primarily Ohio, North Carolina, or Texas. They have to win three of the five: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. In my opinion, there is no way this is going to happen. The only way they gain a victory is if RFK takes too many Democrat votes and not as many Republican.
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  5534. Election 2028: (Democrats) - LOOK it's the spawn of Trump running for election! He must be terrible! Literally, they're strategy going forward.
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  5535. This is the number one reason that I cannot support the pro-choice movement. Their goal posts constantly change whenever it doesn't fit their narrative. This is why they have evolved the terminology to 'person-hood'. Simply because nobody is really making the argument that an unborn child is not a life. Now they are assigning an identity to them and they are apparently not a human without that identity. Behind every one of these pro-choice kids is a household that does not value human life, emotions, or free-will. If you debate their ideology down to the core; it always ends with them believing that a human is a parasite and that global genocide is the answer, period. I've never seen it go in any other direction.
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  5536. Well, men are doomed in particular. Most men will not have the restraint to avoid this type of technology. Creating your own woman, creating your own porn, exactly to your specs? It'll be irresistible! And it's already happened unfortunately. Lazy guys will pay for an AI Onlyfans account and smart guys will design their own.
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  5537. People need to stop avoiding the elephant in the room; the problem are the media companies. Constantly gaslighting and inciting violence to burn down cities and hurt officers. But then they throw their hands up and say, "I didn't do that; first amendment rights!"
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  5538.  @SternDrive  You can move to Montana. Only state in the US (so far) that has made vaccination status a protected civil right.
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  5539.  @pootypump7440  As far as 2021 surveys.
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  5540. Absolutely! Think of all the people held back from family and single-family life these past several years. Those demands are building up! The moment the Federal Funds rate gets cut to 3-4%, the real estate markets will take back off. I'm estimating you'll reach a CPI peak of +15% come Spring/Summer 2025.
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  5541.  @micoPogi-pg3kn  They're bots; not real people.
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  5542.  @KoonKat3418  OR, have you considered that our institutions have been hijacked by a radical party that aims to reduce the US to an oligarchy?
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  5543.  @jhutch1470  ????
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  5544.  @MartinJ-t7y  Another MSM watcher ^^^
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  5545.  @Pilligrim-gd3oe  What's to dislike?
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  5546. I think the concern with anti-wokeness is that it is turning into another movement that thrives on virtue signaling and becoming a victim. Wokists thrived on peddling an imaginary oppression that they received over the internet. Anti-wokists are doing the exact same thing in relation to the wokists.
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  5547. We don't need to be humoring transgenderism, we need to be helping these people. Pretending that it's ok and we should incorporate it into greater society is nothing short of cowardly virtue signalling. People of a transgender nature (statically) come from a large suicidal demographic - 42% attempted, typically paired with PTSD and childhood trauma from one or more parents. Of course nobody ever wants to talk about that. Critics will say that those conditions are due to their oppression, but I could throw it right back by saying other minority groups have the lowest levels of suicide. So what's the connection?
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  5548. Trump didn't say anything; some comedian made the joke. Stupid people are acting like it's significant just to virtue signal.
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  5549.  @rg20322  Americans have grown so complacent that the worship of capitalism is celebrating chronic illness; it's the strangest thing I've ever witnessed as a native Ohioan. I mean, it's one thing to drink, smoke, and indulge in unhealthy food. Then claim that it's only affecting them and they are just having a good time. However, nowadays there's a growing number of people that talk about 'having poisoned food' is a good thing, because at least they can poison themselves and not be sold into socialism. Not that I'm advocating for socialism, but the religion of 'everything goes definition of capitalism' is scary to me. Probably because these same people don't seem to care about poisoning the air and water as well.
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  5550. Unfortunately, I don't see it that way. The WEF are just a rich group of suckers benefitting on disaster capitalism and investing in areas 'green' that they think will help people. If you accept that the WEF 'believe' they are doing the right thing, then everything else makes sense. Most rich people don't think they're evil; only rich with Godly 'arrogant' intentions. The number one reason why the world is in it's current predicament is 'people'. Tribal tendencies give you the illusion that there's a group of people controlling everything. The inflationary problems, healthcare problems, consumer problems, and cultural problems are all caused systemically by people themselves. Everything has an equilibrium and distribution to it. Pareto distributions and Price's Law make it very easy to understand why the world IS the way that it is.
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  5551. Getting an experimental vaccine while pregnant isn't that intelligent.
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  5552.  @rachelle2227  I'm afraid that's incorrect. The media can lie all they want, but it's never been approved. It's been pushed through a Section (351a) extension under Public Health Services. You can read the Licensure on the FDA website; that's not an approval. It's literally sitting in a file on my desktop. Plus it has not gone through normal testing. Even Pfizer's own study produced an absolute efficacy rate of 1.7%. The 94% they churn out in the media is mathematical gymnastics they do by dividing this initial control group by it's result. It's like going from 1 to 2; then saying we saw 100% success. Same logic. Infection to an unborn child depends on the illness. A mother doesn't give HIV to her child unless he becomes infected during the birthing process for example. It's your call, but the adverse vaccine affects were rather concerning for my family. If you're going to take anything, avoid Pfizer. Most of the deaths fall on their vaccine.
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  5553.  @ruby07241  Are you retired Ruby? Anybody working knows the economy is in the toilet.
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  5554. Assuming that you'll end up with any of that crypto? I think you should look at the inequalities in crypto. It literally impoverishes anybody that isn't in the top 10%.
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  5555. Jimmy Carter was a pretty good President I'd say lol
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  5556. Nothing to share with the current banking scheme going on. Every country will look to it's own matters in order to escape the fallout. The US is running up massive deficits and public debt primarily for demographic based reasons. In this case, the US is desperate to drag other world powers into conflict in order to engineer a solution. China on the other hand is in a mess of their own making. Somebody has to lose in the giant game of chicken.
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  5557. The crisis is global; it's not just due to Cuba's poor micro-management system. Thank the Federal Reserve for printed $10 Trillion since 2020. It's destabilized the entire world!
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  5558. Remote work is a double edged sword of course. If you can do all of your work from home. What is stopping your company from outsourcing that work to someone in Mumbai with the same laptop? Remote work, along with the "Great Resignation" turned out to be the largest ironies of 2020-2023. Companies found out that they can outsource more work to people that could work remotely for cheaper wages. They also discovered that they could process the same volume of customers with only HALF the staffing. All of these factors suppress wages.
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  5559. 49% in Iowa was a big sign that his support is weak. Remember, that these are voters that are die-hards' showing up to the primaries. He will get annihilated in the Presidential Election. The nail in the coffin will be the splintering of GOP voters. Many registered Republicans will NOT vote for Trump under any circumstances. Don't forget that many Republicans aren't showing up to the ballot box. In Ohio, Democrats over-ran the 2023 General Election and GOP turnout was abysmal. They now have a 10pt lead in Ohio. Which probably means that Trump will get (max) 35% of the vote in a three man race.
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  5560. Nikki Haley has captured many of the southern voters (aged 50+) that want to see a return to wars in the Middle East and elsewhere overseas.
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  5561. It actually is if you look in the right places. While I think the dating atmosphere for women is insane right now. Men have a big problem too; it's called dating the same demographics over and over and over again. If you stop dating college girls; you'll actually stop having problems in most cases.
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  5562. Yes, but there's a lot of stupidity below. People calling social security a socialist program is the funniest thing I've ever heard; ignorance at it's finest.
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  5563. Because the border has become overrun with Venezuelans (fleeing Maduro) in the last 3 years.
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  5564. $45 Million dollars in donations from Pharma workers? Bernie is full of bs lol
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  5565. Debt obligations being given out as loans form 'artificial demand'. That artificial demand fuels credit based profits. Your wages don't keep up with the demand because credits are liabilities; not assets. Plus, if your wages kept up with such ridiculous inflation; it would help drive inflation higher. All inflation comes from debt obligations; remember that! People have to buy bonds, take out mortgages, get auto loans in order for the government to spend more BS money. It's a Keynesian system, not an Austrian one as most people tend to do when talking about the economy. Not to mention, business/worker relationships are abysmal. They will low-ball your wages further than they used to because the likelihood of you sticking around for 2+ years is slim. Bankruptcy laws incentive a gargantuan amount of greed as well. Not to mention AI developments has taken over many industries. Employers don't review applications anymore, Pizza chains don't take phone calls anymore, work has gotten abundantly easier (depending on the field) and the Americans have to compete on a world stage due to those factors.
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  5566.  @bigtex4058  What does the free market have to do with any of this? You have a record number of people that left the workforce and something of 50% inflation in the last two years according to the M0-4 USD Supply.
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  5567. Well, I guess it depends. I think the approach is right and wrong, not exactly from a Marxist perspective. Though I don't doubt that people have reasonable objections to how the economy actually operates. Violent revolution? I don't think anyone (other than vicious people) know when that's truly appropriate. I certainly don't. The largest transfer of wealth has taken place inside the US in the last two years, never before seen in human history. I only say that as a statistical statement. Plus, it's been at the expense of the middle and lower class. So keep in mind that many of these idiots trying to flip the system on it's head are pampered brats, but there are in my opinion reasonable objections to how our society in currently functioning. Plus if we should do anything about it at all, or if it's even possible. Those people usually get drowned out by the screaming Marxist children though.
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  5568. Yep, and when the liquidity crisis gets worse, what do you think people will resort to? It won't be crypto, it will be cash. The ONLY reason that crypto hasn't entirely liquidated in the current political environment is because a small bunch of billionaires own some 90% of all the crypto tokens and coins.
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  5569. Absolutely BS! Foreclosures are the lowest they've been since the early 2000s; roughly 0.3% 2008 was over 8%. This guy is full of it.
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  5570. People have to live daily life, pay bills, and get screwed by the system. Many people also think the system has been weaponized to protect the oligarchy that is in charge. This belief surged after the Twitter files revealed that the full force of the Federal Government had been used to censor political opponents through social media. That's why.
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  5571.  @chuckhancock3152  Hence, why I said 'it began going downhill long before the Covid wave'. It just made prices worse and populations denser.
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  5572. Bonds get printed and new tax dollars have to be created by loaning money. The first market that the loans hit is real estate. You can't blame the Fed without blaming the consumers as well.
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  5573. Birth rate implosion and stagnant economy. Tourism is the natural push when those kinds of things happen.
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  5574.  @segfault4568  Big corporations come from big government deals unfortunately; always have.
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  5575. Your comment is ironic, because US companies abuse patent laws to death in order to STIFLE competition. Which is why all our stuff is so freaking expensive and the US government tries to gate-keep from overseas exporters.
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  5576. That's actually a really good way to perceive it without getting into the economic details.
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  5577.  @milan51259  A fool? What's the alternative in your opinion; welfare or crypto scams? Please...
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  5578. Are you insane? He has late-stage dementia; this has been going on for the last 2 years. Where have you been?
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  5579.  @reginaldforthright805  Bud, I really despise Trump and I'm no fan of Vance. Yes, they are grifters! But it's either them OR a woman who will dramatically expand the administrative state and put a further stranglehold on smaller and lower income American. Plus, despite Trump's actions in some areas; he was anti-war across the board. Somehow we ended up with the Ukrainian conflict all over again after Biden resumed Obama's legacy in that part of the world.
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  5580. I think he's a good guy, but I seriously LOATHE how his campaign hid the fact that he had a stroke months before the election. I consider that election interference.
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  5581. Well yeah; he's not qualified, but he is a big sweetheart. I really respect him :)
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  5582. Well, it's a massive problem because the current economy cannot be sustained with a shrinking population. The world generally revolves around a Keynesian growth economy; permanent inflation and permanent growth. As ridiculous as that sounds; it's the model. Most of what you have these days wouldn't function with decreasing populations. Social Security would implode and safety nets are not sustainable under any other standard. So naturally, we would have to go back to a regional/local civilization and tribalism will be inevitable. An Empire and all it's resources depend on growth or else you just get a bunch of competing groups where some will grow and others shrink.
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  5583. I'm on board lol
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  5584. Correctional law enforcement are way down on staffing. Most people won't tell you this, but many of these criminals are being released because there is no room and staffing to maintain them as prisoners.
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  5585. Constant anxiety and cortisol will do that to your body. Remember that the youngest millennials were subjected to iPhone, social media, and rampant sensationalism at the age of 13; most were in their 20s. The oldest of Gen Z got ahold of them when they were 10 or 11 and a majority were exposed by 3-7 years old. Spending your entire childhood looped in blue-light anxiety, doom and gloom media, and low self esteem has MAJOR implications on your physical and mental health. I'm not trying to be rude, but Generation Z will most likely be the first generation to have a severe decline in longevity due to these factors. Anxious people tend to live considerably shorter lives; typically passing in their 60s. Heart and vascular issues tend to be the most common. Long term stress is literally a killer.
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  5586. Why do you call him a dickhead?
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  5587. The world is largely falling apart because the current global powers are falling apart, along with the presiding economic model. During the Fall of Rome; nobody won. The world descended into tribalism and chaos. The next two to three decades will unfortunately be nothing but a series of international crises.
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  5588. Girls makes a freak ton of money on there; it's absolutely unreal. Perverted men will pay a woman $1000 just to watch her clean a kitchen in a maid outfit. It's capitalism I guess lol
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  5589. Um, this is a Constitutional Republic; please stop repeating the headlines. And yes, I think he will lose, no doubt.
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  5590. @madult I do, because it's essential to their current survival. What are you going to do; have the EU dump all their US treasury bonds? Europe is extremely dependent on US aid thru NATO and currency stability lies within the large sum of t-bonds held in London, Paris, and Berlin. No way around that unless Europe decides to re-navigate their budget and become self sufficient on defense and backs their currency with something other than US securities.
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  5591.  @sugaredwards6207  According to what? I'm not saying I like one party of the other, but virtually no Dixiecrats joined the GOP. A couple house reps and ONE US senator as far as I remember. Why do people keep perpetuating this lie?
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  5592. You don't actually believe that do you?
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  5593. We invaded Iraq for oil We invaded Afghanistan for opium. I wonder what we'll be invading Russia/Ukraine for.
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  5594.  @999jdubya  They're incompetent; they aren't going to do jack imo Young people are already flipping against government because of the threats against TikTok alone Government/msm is a dinosaur; completely unable to stop the incoming meteor. I honestly think the expanses in technology are unstoppable at this point. It's eventually going to destroy the entire function of government once the debt bubble pops and then business will compete for a new currency and government will be powerless to influence it.
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  5595.  @podlumpy3838  Bad algorithms and whiny executive socialists that get paid $280,000 a year. Nothing new! lol
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  5596.  @rbuhbye  They're incompetent, I highly doubt they'll do anything. Look how angry people were with something as simple as removing TikTok lol
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  5597.  @PineyJustice  I think it's incontrollable at this point, especially with many tech giants turning away from lobbyism with the DNC.
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  5598.  @obelus5985  They're too incompetent; no way they can keep up with their schemes. I 'lol' because for every attempt at maintaining power; a dozen new leaks spawn in the boat.
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  5599. You have to be so immensely illiterate in financial and economic terms to think that the crude oil prices have no correlation to Biden shutting down Keystone and sanctioning Russia; one of the world's largest oil suppliers. Time and time again, elected officials get to disrupt free market supply and demand. Then proceed to blame foreign governments, companies, and capitalism itself.
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  5600. Maybe if we cherrypicked the worst ones. The worst threat to this country are tech corporation algorithms; lighting the world on fire for 'click bait' ad revenue.
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  5601.  @markdomar4944  Elaborate my friend... They are trying to lull gullible people into getting the vaccine via attending to their emotions. Nothing else, it's a manipulation tactic. If all you have are insults, then I'm afraid you're just projecting your own misfortunes. If the vaccines were safe, as they say. Then why do they delegitimize VAERs and why were Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (FDA Approved for 40 years) banned for Covid use? If you really want to get into this, we can. Though it's not going to end the way you think.
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  5602. Actually, she might not be a DEI hire. Shortages in corrections and police are insane nationwide. I'm from Columbus, OH; highway patrol has had a 30%+ shortage since 2021.
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  5603.  @darkwoodmovies  We saw part of the movie; the lady can't act bud. Personally, I don't think she sings very well either. Your racial projection is your own problem bud. Don't tell other people what they are seeing when they don't like something; it's asinine.
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  5604. Oh for F sakes people, quit looking for dumb excuses to defend the Biden Administration. The US blew them up.. Biden said he would. What freaking sense does it make for Putin to blow up his own pipelines? The US Government wants as much chaos, carnage, and pie splitting as they can get their hands on. Even at the expense of destroying the European economy.
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  5605. That's because it's not a official government department; it's an 18 month commission that expires in 2026. The information of the world at people's fingertips, but they choose to have ignorant opinions smh.
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  5606. Then they short it! While riding the bankruptcy curve down. They profit and YOU bail them out thru the chapter laws.
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  5607. In my opinion, I believe international corporations are pushing the mass migrations (legal and illegal) in Europe and the US. All due to demographic changes that will produce lower amounts of workers. The push for migrants is an attempt to fill in the labor gaps.
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  5608. Kallama can't handle Rogan; how will she handle Putin?
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  5609.  @afbigfish1  Well, IQ isn't everything; it certainly doesn't determine morality. Unfortunately, you would only chop off a significant amount of conservative voters. Liberal personalities tend to be a bit higher IQ; though that doesn't make one right and the other wrong.
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  5610. The media cartel is desperate to please it's fascist overlords in the US and China.
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  5611. I used to haul for Anheuser-Busch (day cab job) via Werner. 6 days/ 66 hours a week! When I was hired; I received 13 days of unpaid time off. January 1st rolls around and they have me sign a waiver. (I now accept 8 days of unpaid time off; 5 personal days and 3 sick days). I quit within 6 months.
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  5612.  @theparkerfamily7153  Same... My dad trusts his doctor with the utmost confidence. Jumped on Lipitor and Nexium some years ago and his health (especially mental) is really declining at only 54. She has him on over a dozen medications.
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  5613. College debt is a death sentence, especially if you are not in STEM. Don't do it!
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  5614. College in America is now a permanent daycare center for children that are too much of a problem to keep at home and not productive enough to make a living on their own. The standards have slacked and the enrollment has swelled to what (57%) of the the population under 25. Utter ridiculousness...
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  5615. The inflation since 2020 has entirely disrupted the idea of retirement, pensions, and working for 30 years. If those ideas still existed to begin with. My father has been with CPD since the 90s and he is retiring in 2027. He doesn't have a big financial mind (thankfully), but I do. It's infuriating watching his benefits be taxed away with inflation. Some people argue that all your assets go up with inflation, but if you have a 403b; chances are that those COLA adjustments will never keep up with inflation. I believe many people have figured out that job jumping and investment managing is the best approach. Not waiting for a company or government to adjust you retirement for inflation.
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  5616. I'm not entirely convinced that these parents are victims in this situation. Of course we would need to eventually need to hear the daughter's account, especially about her upbringing. Children do not become pathological liars and users out of the blue. They learn this behavior from their parent's or caregivers. I've never seen a child in my life that didn't replicate the behavior that they are used to from their parents. It's easy to get lost in the idea that the parents are the victims and that everyone else failed in their pursuit of justice. Most of these kids are coming from broken homes, broken relationships, and horrible parents. All we know is what the parents tell us in this interview and what happened during CPS involvement. There's no way to know what happened behind closed doors. From a statistical standpoint, these families are in the worst position they've ever been. Child neglect and abuse is at levels never seen before in US history; or at least it's being better reported since Covid. The educational toll and lack of parental involvement in school tells a story as well.
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  5617. He'll probably be the next President tbh lol
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  5618.  @johnpyle1268  Perhaps it's what you're watching? News outlets that spread hate and disinformation? I think most people are seeing how corrupt the DNC is at this point. The institutions have been weaponized; that's why there is so much dysfunction. How can people avoid the two new wars, economic fallout, and global tensions? Migration crisis?
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  5619.  @johnpyle1268  Why have you lost faith? People vote for all kinds of reasons. Maybe you're watching too much television.
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  5620. Beautiful girl engaged to a complete and utter douchebag that is also ugly? That's usually an issue of self worth when it comes to women. What else was going on in her life, especially if she couldn't trust him and they were always fighting?
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  5621. He's already been unbanned from the platform. Can't have fascistic behavior censoring former and current elected officials, obviously.
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  5622. It was 7 long years of living my own life before I was pushed into; not (not contact) but a seriously restrictive relationship with my mother. I became more aggressive with my boundaries after my son was born. My mother began demanding babysitting rights and that I would not 'take her grandchild away from her.' She abused and manipulated me for over 20 years of my life. Drugged me as a child to cover up my anxiety disorder as a child and pass it off as ADHD (many parents love to do that btw). Would constantly throw things, scare the living hell out of me, kick down my door as a child and start screaming, throwing things, and hitting me. Childhood was a state of slavery as far as my experience goes. I would never allow my child to be babysat or be under the same roof as I was with that woman when I was growing up; it is unfathomable that anyone would even conceive of thinking that was appropriate.
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  5623.  @blorg7174  Poor people don't put in that much; believe me. Don't assign virtue out of ignorance; they're poor for a reason. I'm well aware inflation is up, but people are doing badly because they took out loans they couldn't afford several years ago. That's basically everybody with an income problem right now. Of course there are out-liars, I personally have had to pay some $30k in medical debt the last 2 years, but I didn't become poor over it. An overwhelming majority of people can't afford life because they're liabilities are too high; mainly from loans.
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  5624.  @Danielle-jj5lp  @vladimirofsvalbard9477 Apparently not; swallow your pride and take accountability please. "She's an activist; I've met many like her. They're not listening and they don't care. My own sister acts like this; part of the reason I had to disown her." Meaning, she doesn't listen and doesn't care. Where does the 'activist' part of my grammar tie into my sister? "Part of the reason" meaning that her attitude was a portion of the conclusion. You claimed that I disowned her purely for the reason that she was an activist, which is a perversion of what I said. I'm curious if it's intentional or misguided. I think you have an agenda of your own if you enjoy lying and misrepresenting people's point for your own gain. If neither of those are true, then you need to work on your literacy. Making up your mind about someone based on a misrepresented reading is pure arrogance and lacking wisdom. Would you put up with a sister that constantly gaslights, manipulates, and uses you to get what she wants. She invokes your wife and child to further manipulate others into feeling sorry for her? Perhaps you should look to your own vices and virtues.
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  5625.  @rosanneallen-hewlett9973  Social Security, Medicare, Pensions, and bonds would collapse. Deflation would occur and states would implement a new currency backed by a regional economies
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  5626. I love this response! I think this is how a majority of Republicans and Democrats truly feel about the current environment.
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  5627.  @oklol7799  Depends on your perception; hierarchy of needs.
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  5628.  @Robert53area  True, but it's wishful thinking. Vivek was Trump's most requested VP pick (by Trump's admission in April). Though Vivek publicly claimed he wasn't going to settle for second place and refused.
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  5629. Who knows! Though I can guarantee you that it's being done with either insane ignorance or insane malevolence. We are certainly living during the fall of the American Empire; one way or another. We're being dismantled internationally and domestically. It's quite fascinating how similar it is to the Roman Empire decline.
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  5630. You got that right!
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  5631. Probably... Either that or tech algorithms imo Technology itself as well.
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  5632. I think I understand her sentiment, though I don't exactly agree. People need to understand that these kinds of crimes are absolutely rampant. We have tens of millions of predators in the US alone. I don't think chopping off the heads of millions of men is going to solve the problem. We have a major mental health crisis on all fronts. I suspect that pornography and online addictions play a major role. Finding a solution to stop creating predators seems more conducive imo.
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  5633. People come on, it was the plan all along. Suspending Keystone XL and renegotiating with OPEC was literally the first thing he did as President. They are globalists; they don't believe in individual sovereignty or the nation state. NATO provoked this war because foreign nations are dropping the US Dollar. And our adversaries are fully intent on creating their own new global currency. The day we lose Reserve status will be the day the Greatest Depression started. Congress will have no recourse to fund their liabilities. Social Security and Public Pension IOUs will instigate a default.
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  5634. From the combat footage I've seen, Ukraine obviously has the better fighters. BIT, as usual Russia has the numbers.
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  5635. I voted for Trump twice, but I'm not blind to the fact that his base has been decimated in the last 2 years. His pivot in policy, his age, and his vision for a new Presidential bid are just not sitting well with Americans that voted for him; much less any new or swing voters. The biggest problem with the 2020 election, is that all FOX News anchors and staff that testified in the Dominion Defamation Lawsuit recanted their views on the alleged fraud that took place; every single one of them. Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Tucker, Sidney Powell and many others completely reversed their positions on the fraud accusations of the 2020 election. It doesn't matter which side of the isle you sway in politics. This is a major blow to Donald Trump and ANYBODY that came up with voter fraud accusations. It might as well have been for nothing at this point.
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  5636. It's a mathematical issue, you CANNOT allow a central bank to expand and contract markets (giving bailouts to big partners) and management for social programs that need constant COLA adjustments to be maintained. It's a bubble and the driver is SS, Medicare, and Pensions, period! These assets have to be maintained every recession. In doing so, you inflate their value and currency loses it's value. So naturally younger people will pay MORE in taxes for benefits than their parents/grandparents, and receive less value in the end. This is why everything is so expensive and wages don't rise. People attempt to argue that SS is it's own fund, but this is a red herring. It's a fund that relies on (general fund interest); your SS taxes go straight into the general fund after payroll is taken out. On top of that, SS has to constantly be supplemented with new currency in order to provide COLA adjustments. It naturally gets larger every time the government prints money and provides bail-outs. Just imagine your current wages getting COLA adjustments for the last 45 years that maintain valuation with other assets. Now apply this concept to Social Security and Pensions.
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  5637. Better than getting 50% inflation all over again as a result from the Trump Admin. Remember, Trump appointed Jerome Powell and he pressured them to go negative with interest rates. If he had, we would have had significantly worse inflation.
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  5638. Exactly! I can't stand these debates even 5 minutes in. I feel like it just attracts anti-social personality disorders. Virtually none of them want clarity; it's all about gotcha moments.
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  5639.  @3x157  "Bush Republican' is nothing to gloat about. Virtually all Republicans hate Bush bud.
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  5640.  @nikolaykopernik9124  Fascism is where the power of the state and business are used to strengthen national identity as the expense of the lower level rights of the people. In fascism, the state's will is what matter. Communism/Socialism are essentially the same, only their doctrine on economics and free enterprise are completely opposite. They are sister ideologies, but are separated by different economic theories.
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  5641.  @DeePrestOnion  Republicans are playing the (I believe in state's rights) until it affects my agenda game again.
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  5642.  @Baddiecde  Try having parents that abuse you with amphetamines and scare the living day-lights out of you. It can be a lot worse lol Having little freedom (as a child) under someone else's household isn't exactly oppression in comparison.
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  5643. Oh please, this is like feeling sorry that the German public voted for Hitler. People vote their governments in, remember?
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  5644. I think it's a demographic issue. In my experience, black Americans in the north and midwest are completely different ideologically than the ones in the south or soutwest.
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  5645. Pro-abortion? He's VERY clearly stated that abortion is a tragedy, but he doesn't want that power granted to government. So right there, how am I supposed to take the rest of your comment seriously?
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  5646. He's going to destroy everything is reference to what? The economy began to get crushed back in 2022. By what metrics are you claiming it will get 'destroyed'?
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  5647.  @adrianL1010  Happens more often than you'd think. A lot of truck drivers don't even speak English.
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  5648. I really don't think it's that simple. The Achille's heal of that argument relies on the assumption that Government became corrupted on it's own. Once a culture (the people) have been corrupted; it's a slow rot from the bottom up. Rom didn't fall because bad politicians infiltrated the senate unelected. It fell because the Roman people destroyed it.
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  5649.  @yvonneplant9434  Correction, MLK Senior was a Republican. MLK Jr. professed that he has 'always voted the Democratic ticket'.
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  5650. The ONLY people that are mad in NY are the college idiots and retired buffoons. Neither of which have to currently live with the repercussions of 8 million migrants entering the country in 4 years.
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  5651. It's a sinking ship. Either people want to milk the cow or they are terrible at math. Being bad at math and dying for a lost cause doesn't make you courageous; it simply makes you bad at math lol
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  5652. Works fine in a small community. It's a shit show when you have people in control of your currency that rob you by printing more money for their interests.
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  5653. Somehow, HAMAS using body cams and GoPro is apparently Israeli propaganda lol
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  5654. Rent control leads to shortages 100% of the time. Rent is still out of control because productivity has not caught up with inflation. This is Keynesian economy; blame the Federal Reserve for printing $8 Trillion.
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  5655.  @riderpaul  Yeah, very convincing. Read 'Capital' by Pikkety or 'Economics' by Sowell and get back to me. Rent control has always resulted in a shortage of housing. When rent is unaffordable for single persons; they pool with their friends. Newer generations inability to relate or socialize with their peers should not be the reason that they can't leave their parent's home. Government often fixes nothing and creates a whole slew of unanticipated problems. How people can ignore a problem caused by government and use that as a reason to invoke tighter government control never ceases to amaze me.
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  5656. Well, considering that child neglect and abuse are thru the freaking roof these last 5 years; I'm not sure what the solution is. Parents across the board; divorced, married, or single are not raising their kids. Parents don't come to school board meetings; private; public, voucher etc. Boys that grow up without a good role model father tend to be very low in empathy. If you have no empathy, then you have no morals or ethics. You hurt people for pure amusement. Rough and tumble play between father and son is a MUST at a young age to build that neural pathway of empathy. Considering that there is a crisis of meaning among men, rampant porn addiction, and uselessness; I'm not surprised.
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  5657. Sorry to burst your bubble bud, but mass corruption and a dysfunctional society can't simultaneously exist with a beautiful culture and people. Perhaps some small categories, but a country can only be dysfunctional and corrupt if the people are largely complicit.
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  5658. Yes, because western media says so. Good one. Americans listening to a screen that is owned by billionaires is absolutely hilarious.
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  5659. It's no surprise for anybody that's been watching. US companies have been ripping off their own investors for years. What people in the general population are going to soon realize is that US tech valuations are basically over-valued by insane percentages. This is the tech bubble burst that some people have been waiting for. This isn't the start of the digital age; it's the END of it. US companies are using patent laws in order to fool investors and consumers that their products are unique and expensive in research and development. Deekseek basically proved that they could create a better product for 2% the cost.
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  5660. Because American families are largely a house of cards built on toxic relationships. There's a number of reasons why, but most people in their right mind would never move back in with their folks; let alone allow their parents to live with them at theirs.
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  5661.  @randallsanchez3161  People are always omitting other factors; like $100k in dumb student loans.
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  5662. The joke is actually on us. Plants are slowly killing us via vegetable oils and gout from oxalates.
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  5663.  @Alphacentauri819  We can't have a conversation if you constantly put words in my mouth and say things I didn't. I don't recall ever saying that companies were blaming cholesterol and saturated fat specifically for gout. I gave you the reasoning for what I espoused and you are going to belittle and patronize me for it. Stringing together a litany of medical terms and conditions does not mean you're forming an intelligent hypothesis on the matter. This all comes down to pride on your part. If you can't use clinical research data, statistics, or at the very least a correlation to make your point, then I'm afraid you have nothing to offer and are only projecting when it comes to your accusation of arrogance. Instead of openly debating, you choose insults. In which I gave you none. That should tell you something. "Never try to talk facts or logic with someone who is morally superior in their own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell Good day..
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  5664.  @juniorolumide  When was he ever found guilty? More assumptions from a lying media? You can Google it yourself and find out it's not true.
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  5665. Well, you gotta take everything with a grain of salt these days. The Government is lying, corporations are lying, and people are lying in general. The entire system is breaking down into a series of cults. Best thing to do is (reset your mind and body); fast for a while and begin anew. If it bloats you; don't eat it. If it causes pain; don't do it.
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  5666. Yeah, I was on ADHD meds for 4 years as a child. They completely screwed up my brain health and even now there's no way to know if I could have been different had I not taken them. Those drugs (like Ritalin or Stratera) are extremely dangerous and should be an absolute last resort. Telling people they should take these drugs or face brain growth issues is extremely careless.
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  5667. I'm expecting AT LEAST 100 riots and 20 deaths. Kind of sad we've devolved to this kind of expectation; the media literally makes people crazy these days.
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  5668. Pretty sure that's fake news.
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  5669. I prefer Harry Kallama
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  5670.  @ko-Daegu  No, I take ibuprofen and expectorants etc. There's a huge difference between patented items like Lipitor and open source anti-inflammatory drugs. The key is reading the clinical research trials. Some 90% of them are crap with a 1% efficacy and/or negative risks. For example, Lipitor significantly raises your risk of coronary artery disease, stroke, and kidney failure. It is listed as a 37% efficacy, though it's absolute efficacy is 1.7% in it's clinical trial research. The company then takes that number and divides it against the initial control group to get a larger percentage. Almost all Pharmaceutical companies do this to get their product sold and FDA approved. Vioxx by Pfizer was approved by the FDA, then it ended up killing 27,000 people before they yanked it off the shelf and lost a civil lawsuit paying $1.1 Billion in damages. It's all about trends. Once these companies are exposed publicly, they'll eat each other and come out with a new product to right the wrongs. It's a giant circle jerk. The current trend is still (lower your cholesterol). They put people on Statins typically at age 45-50 and those people will most likely have a bypass by 60 and dead within a few years after. Artificially lowering your cholesterol can make you very suspectable to infection and vitamin D deficiency. Since they go hand in hand in your bio-chemistry. The morbid part, is that when those people end up in the hospital, they blame it on bad genetics. Our healthcare system is fucked up.
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  5671.  @Jaysonbc1234  Except there is no sequel and no time travel 🤣🤣
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  5672. This entire country will balkanize before 2030. The Federal Government can't last even 5 years on the current payroll. Especially with how much we pay on bond interest.
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  5673. The inequalities are out of control. It's bad for civilizations! Once you reach a certain margin; the bottom 50% flips the table and sets your civilization on fire. Dilate and contract; dilate and contract! The corporations actively use the central banks to help them accomplish this in order to move wealth upwards.
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  5674. People are going to begin fleeing the Midwest in droves; it will make the exodus in 2020-2021 look like a walk in the park. 30 years from now; the Northeastern US will be a cesspool of retirement homes and section 8 buildings.
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  5675. Maybe to a certain degree. I'm a millennial (30); married, own a home, have a son. I've never taken money from my parents because they always used it as leverage to tell me what to do. We have a mortgage and student loans like most people. If anything, the handicapping from Gen X towards Gen Z is absolutely insane. Millennials were told 'bootstraps' for the most part. But then they started throwing money at their younger children like candy.
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  5676. Much agreed! I just got done watching his interview with Theo Von
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  5677.  @Murderlin7  Anti-natalist? Why do you think it's wrong to create your own lineage? I mean, population implosion is pretty much a solid consensus at this point. Is there another reason?
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  5678.  @Murderlin7  It's not an easy life for most. There are people that certainly like being alone, running their company, or being free-spirits, but it's a very small minority; 2% or so from a personality perspective. I would recommend you make sure or else life is going to get increasingly difficult to cope with.
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  5679.  @Murderlin7  Do you mean like medically? I mean, I've gone thru hell and back twice; it never really made me question my want for kids. Things can always be significantly worse. Dying alone is one of them for many people, but I guess if it doesn't bother you then that's fine. It can seem like a good idea; until it's not (which is what's happening to many people). I just find the whole 'never get married or have kids' thing to be kind of a luxury trend among Gen Z; no offense that's my experience. What's your age if I may ask?
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  5680. You can't prove that they're doing it intentionally; that's the problem.
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  5681.  @Flup2  Example? It does you no service to post things like that without making your point.
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  5682.  @JTheMan1  Oh please, this is why people are ditching the left; humor and jokes are a cardinal sin. Don't you have a meth lab to clock into? lol
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  5683.  @JTheMan1  What's with all the victim mentality bud? Stop trying to interpret everything thru that lens.
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  5684.  @TheMilky1way  You people are impossible. There's no 'communication' in being fake-offended by everything. It's the exactly opposite. Good day.
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  5685. If you're not entering a Healthcare or STEM field; with the aptitude to pass the courses. Then stay the hell away. You will graduate will $80k in debt and be (at most) qualified to work at Starbucks. I grow tired of arrogant parents and teens playing this game and being surprised by the result. I warned my own parents and their neighbors ten years ago. Now all their younger kids live at home with 4yr. and Graduate degrees that are completely useless. Literally three of them still live with mom and dad, with three more on the way to graduation. You will forever remove yourself from the greater market and be an indentured servant. Don't believe me, try it and find out the hard way.
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  5686. They all lie, the whole point is electing somebody in the hopes that their connections and decisions will trickle down to help other causes that people support.
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  5687. Yep, we export corn, beer, and a few aerospace patents; that's pretty much it!
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  5688. Nothing would change, because the heart of America is rotten. Once you finally figure out that America's problems are caused by it's voters, you'll understand why term-limits do NOTHING. For example, no American wants to talk about Social Security. If you mention reforming or cutting it in your campaign, the media will kill you. This sentiment is equally represented in Congress. Social Security liabilities will engulf the country in the next 10-20 years. We don't have enough people born domestically 'paying into the system' to continue to benefits. Yet, no adults seem to care about the world they are building for their 'now' children.
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  5689. I won't vote for a man that appointed Jerome Powell and drove inflation out of the ball park. Trump is about 80% responsible for all the inflation we've seen. He had the FED cut the rates in 2019 just to pump his re-election with the markets in 2020. We should have NEVER cut the rates to 0% in 2020; it caused massive inflation under his Administration.
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  5690. Well make up your minds. You like SCOTUS when they rule in your favor and then hate them when you disagree.
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  5691. What kind of people are you hanging around that make Peterson seem to lack articulation?
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  5692. Socialism inevitably gets pushed as populations grows, simply because a larger and larger amount of people rely on the productivity and output of the upper portions to survive. It all comes down to Price's Law. Humans were made to live in smaller communities, period. Large scale civilization is an outright perversion.
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  5693. Low testosterone is actually bad in a number of ways that include poor metabolism, affects white/red blood-cell count, appetite, muscle tissue, etc. Don't let a cult of spiting women make you think that low T is some kind of conspiracy. There's a lot of that going on here.
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  5694. In this day and age, we'd have the largest number of conscientious objectors in human history; all due to technology thank God. Plus, in America we don't have the numbers to justify a draft. More than 9/10 men of fighting age are either physically or medically unfit for duty. A draft would accomplish nothing. Realistically, you'd probably have more objectors than people that could qualify for infantry.
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  5695. I think you're building a world view from gaslighting media stations. It's not a worldview; rather a social conditioning. You can't build a perception around assumptions.
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  5696. This is a rather false sentiment. The idea that regulation maintains the welfare of overall infrastructure and architecture is insanely disconnected from what actually happens on the ground. Home-builders and construction contractors are not in business to try and get sued when their structure collapses. Any management down-wind would also be partially liable for the integrity and lawsuits would be insane. Let's say your premise is true. Land and property surveyors, tax assessment, bank estimators, inspectors, not even insurance companies would be giving a go ahead on the equity of the land or structure. It would be considered high risk and worthless as an investment vehicle or residential property. You're acting like bureaucrats sitting in an office (with no physical understanding of their job) have better merits than the people actually financing and building the structure.
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  5697. The destruction starts at the individual level and expands from there. People can blame the tyrants at the top all they want, but that's not how human nature works. Tyrants rise because tyrants at the bottom put them there. We have half the population on at least one prescription drug, 39% rate of obesity, and everybody and their brother has access to social media. The health problem speaks for it's, but social media algorithms manipulate people to increase user engagement. If you give low IQ people a constant feed of controversial and hatred inviting material, why are you surprised that they are trying to flip the table? Nothing NEW is happening in our lives, it's the people themselves that are causing the division in their own hearts from manipulative media algorithms. Doesn't anybody find it interesting that such division began within the birth of Facebook?
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  5698. No chance in hell Donald Trump wins the election in 2024. Republican turnout has been in the garbage the last 3 years. Democrats took the Ohio 2023 General Election by storm and Republicans were nowhere to be seen. Florida will become a Republican stronghold for a long time, but at the cost of the entire Midwest and possibly Texas.
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  5699. There are women out there like that believe it or not. The problem with modern men is that they can't stay away from college girls. It's not worth it; stop dating them. Go find a girl in the sticks that works at Wendy's.
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  5700. Bernie, Tulsi, and Bobby should be leading the Democratic Party! Not the current freaks in office!
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  5701. These kids are narcissists; don't project your morals and ethics onto them. Gen X and Millennials need to wake up! A large disproportion of these younger generations are complete sociopaths. The level of anti-social behaviors from people (even in my own family) 20 and younger is disturbing. Something has gone terribly wrong!
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  5702.  @StylichoFLavius  Unfortunately no. We only know that my Great-great Grandmother's family came from an alleged border town in Slovakia near Czechoslovakia (at the time); the last name was Vassil. After that, they became intermarried with the German side of my family that we have state census records from (going back to 1780). My German side hailed from Russel County Kentucky and became Ohioans when my Grandfather's family moved there for economic opportunities post WW2.
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  5703.  @StylichoFLavius  I have no other information about her; nor any info about my ancestors from the 18th century. We had a great-aunt (still living) that beautifully did all of this work for our family and it's been expanded on ever since. I even grew up most of my life thinking I came from my grandfather's lineage (dad's father). But he tells me only a few years ago that grandpa wasn't his dad lol So that completely changed my entire lineage (one that I have no blood ties to) and I still carry the last name *of Swedish/German origin. It's bothered me for some time that I have a last name with absolutely no blood ties. My dad took the name because my grandmother kept her marital name after divorce. At some point, the trail just goes cold for most people. I thought about doing Ancestry or 123, but they've been caught in a mess of lawsuits because apparently many of their DNA tests are faulty after an investigation found that triplets and twins were not blood related (using their testing kits). So it's hard to know who or which company to trust.
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  5704. You call people dumb, but then you post a (sound-bite) and prove that you're dumb?
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  5705. Wokeness is a symptom of rampant nihilism. If your greatest ambition is to root out racism, sexism, and inequalities. Then not only is money typically not an issue or you, but you probably don't have a strong family foundation or a lot of friends. It's all about the hierarchy of needs. The schools aren't systematically teaching oppression olympics. They are simply attracting a lower tier demographic of kids (due to Federal subsidies) that are anti-social and have nothing going for them. They bring their ideology to school; not the other way around.
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  5706. The Nazis came to power because people didn't question institutions. This is literally the opposite.
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  5707. JD and Tulsi ftw :)
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  5708. Sounds like the audio was intentionally released. Why? Maybe he was paid a lot of money to resign beforehand and the audio strengthens the idea that she's 'for the people?' Just a thought.
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  5709. Impossible, even if you cut (ALL) military, section 8, income assistance, public transportation, education, and overseas spending. You would have to contend with a 8% interest and 45% split between Health, Medicare, and SS. There is no way in HELL that we are going to balance the budget unless we completely scrap Social Security and they will NEVER do it.
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  5710. Yeah, as someone who works in trades; that's a bunch of BS. I left because they cut my vacation hours in half and tried working for 70-80 hours a week. The wage raises they promise are absolute garbage. If you passed somehow passed HS with only pre-algebra you could discover that the raises don't even outperform a traditional 2.1% inflation rate. My job offered 0.9% of inflation; what a circus. Plus, explain to me how 6 figures means anything anymore with 50% inflation since January 2020? Yeah, check the USD Monetary supply numbers; numbers don't lie. Anymore, you need to make $100k per year in order to call yourself (center) middle class.
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  5711. Because it all goes back to women entering the workforce in mass and then men deciding to lower their own standards as a byproduct. This is what gave birth to the (I only care about my kids status because it makes me popular at parties/cookouts) phenomenon. Which I believe you are describing. Women are mad that they aren't the ones running everything in their early years (social conditioning). Then they get miserable when they have all the money at 30, but no partner. After that they settle for a lower status man and they take out all of their problems on the children. I grew up in the 2000s and every household was like this. Envious, greedy, and entitled women; plus fathers that were completely lazy and checked out. What a great society! lol
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  5712.  @vectoralphaSec  Sign up for CDL school. I went in 2019 and got done in three weeks; cost me $5000 up front or you can finance it thru a parent company. I earned $70,000 starting when I signed onto Werner and drove for Anheuser Busch; home daily routes. That same position pays $85,000 now in 2023. Just a thought :)
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  5713. I do not believe that the 2020 election was stolen and I don't think that voter fraud is rampant. With that being said, 'not knowing anyone that is voting for Harris' in all my circles might make one truly wonder lol
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  5714.  ActionGamerAaron  Your comment is exactly why people are ditching the Democratic Party. Democrats have lost massive proportions of their registered voters in ALL 50 states according to ballotpedia.
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  5715. Our founding fathers would have brought up charges of treason against every single person in that room. We've lost our way as a country. Now we're being run by a bunch of corrupt overlords.
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  5716. The gun was under his scrotum bud; not in his pockets. A lot of the gangbangers have been doing this crap.
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  5717. Why does every idiot bring up IRAQ? As if there are still a large amount of Americans defending it.. Newsflash, nobody these days defends the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan. Quit trying to get cheap "hypocrite moments" in the conversation folks.
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  5718. If you were center middle class in 2020; you are now lower middle class 2022. If you didn't get at least a 30% raise since January 2021, then you've lost money. Stop listening to the BS 6.8% inflation rate that Jerome and Janet spew and watch the USD money supply. It's insane!
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  5719. No, it's called currency devaluation. Blame the Federal Reserve for printing $7 Trillion dollars during the covid lockdowns. If you didn't want currency devaluation, then you should have stood up to tyrants imposing lockdowns. That's why this is happening all over the world. All other currencies are traded in USD; so it's all downwind of US FED policy.
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  5720. I actually feel bad for Kamala Harris. She acts like every interview is an interrogation and if she says the wrong thing, the DNC will throw her in Gitmo. They probably have some serious dirt on her and she's doing what they say.
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  5721. Are you feeling good about yourself with that comment? Only someone projecting their own misfortunes would be so nasty. He has an unknown autoimmune type disorder that is severe and was put on prescription benzodiazepine. The long term use made him physically addicted to it and they sought ought a cure and blood transfusion that landed them in Russia. How about you judge a little less and be more open to information and the affects benzos have on people. It's like alcohol, just as they said. You go cold turkey and the side affects can kill you.
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  5722.  @tianzuwu2091  You sound miserable. Only people with demons and insecurities go making horrible statements like the ones you did. Quit trying to escape your own responsibilities by typing online and go sort yourself out. You'll see a wealth of benefits in your life.
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  5723. Critics are completely missing the (demand curve) from their assessment, which I can assume is mostly an attempt by media conditioning. Yes, tariffs essentially pass on cost to the consumer. However, this is assuming that the demand curve will remain the same, which it never does. Historically, tariffs often push the curve downwards, which ultimately maintains prices or even lowers them further. Consumers don't simply buy items because they must have them. They buy them in lieu of the current price and often exchange items if they don't like that price. For example, tobacco and alcohol taxes didn't push prices up for consumers (as companies pass the tax on). Instead, it drastically cut alcohol and tobacco sales over the last several decades.
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  5724. The number one reason why the divorce rates are so high, is because hedonism is trying to join itself with parenting; they cannot co-exist.
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  5725. Everybody likes to pretend they're smart by saying (customers will pay for it). But nobody takes the next logical step in the equation. How big will sales-losses be when people refuse to buy the product due to a price-hike?
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  5726. The incentives only attract horrible and corruptible people to these roles my friend.
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  5727. Libertarians running their own candidate is a mistake. It will take further votes away from RFK and increase the risk of a flop election.
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  5728. As if dieticians were actually experts lol Dieticians are industry hacks and most of them have zero life experience with experimentation and research into other areas of nutrition.
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  5729. Looking back, Brexit was probably one of the largest mistakes that the Brits ever made and I think many of them are slowly beginning to realize it. It would be the equivalent of a bunch of Boomers pushing for a movement in the US to force their products to be "made in America". Only to realize that everything costs 5X more and there's now a shortage of everything, many people lost their jobs, and then they all turned to drugs and alcohol. I've never seen the UK (as a whole) in a more depressed state. Many of them want to leave the isles and never return.
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  5730. This is Westlake; an outer area of Cleveland, Ohio...
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  5731. Trump has been in the political spotlight for almost 9 years now; Republicans are exhausted. Whatever charisma and power he had behind his MAGA movement has now died. Republicans do not have the numbers among the original MAGA block to pull him thru in 2024. The only way he wins is if RFK pulls too many votes from the Democrats.
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  5732.  @morendin12319  Please, Europe was f-ed before ths destruction of Nordstream. Now they are royally f-ed. This is all a US cover up? What other country are you aware of that bombs and guts people for not doing what it wants? Exactly.
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  5733.  @donarthiazi2443  Not by a long shot. Point to a period of time in the past where we had 60% inflation in a four year time period! The entire global economy is destabilizing due to the poor choices of the Federal Reserve. Stagflation mixed with a demographic collapse is only the start. We are certainly in the early stages of hyperinflation. The world doesn't have 10 years under the United States fiscal policy.
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  5734. How? Low supply of housing, low rates, and $7Trillion in new dollars creating a big price increase in real-estate. As far as labor goes, it will probably do the opposite as many base-line items get more expensive. Food and labor prices will rise and inflation will skyrocket again.
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  5735. Sounds to me like a government heist; as per the usual. What happened in Iraq? We claimed they had WMD's and we sanctioned them! What did politicians do: Invest all their lobbyist cash in weapon companies and crude oil. What happened in Afghanistan? Were we stealing opium to funding big pharma's lust for American blood? The opioid crisis very coincidently begins when we invaded Afghanistan and ends right before we leave. What happened in Ukraine? We sanctioned Russia via precious metals, food, and oil. Where do you think the political elite are putting their investments this time?
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  5736. He'll walk; I guarantee it. If they can't find the weapon and he says nothing; he'll walk. You can't convict someone on drawings and behavior. Plus, even IF they have evidence. You need 12 jurors to convict; I highly doubt this will happen. This will OJ all over again (corporate version).
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  5737.  @TheLettersJ  You're kidding right? The government could have created the laptop you're using? Has the government ever created anything? I'm pretty sure they steal or pay for everything they magically come up with.
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  5738. It's no longer about liberal vs. conservative. For people that believe that, I would ask that you think again. Liberals are not lining up being the Democrats and vice versa for Republicans. If anything he Democratic Party is becoming a reactionary party, which is NOT consistent with liberal values. This is ultimately about institution vs. labor. If your livelihood relies on the existence of an institution; then you probably voted for Harris. If you feel like your life is being destroyed by institutions; then you probably voted for Trump.
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  5739. Well, they came from the far left. The modern left and right is defined by the crisis of Marxism.
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  5740. Oh please, you're being threatened by MAGA voters? What, by trolls online? I got harassed yesterday walking with my son because some woman found out I voted for Trump. As I recall, it was Democrats that set cities on fire in 2020 resulting in 39 deaths and 4000 injuries.
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  5741. It's because Boomers are the most solid block of voters in circulation and their entire latter years depend on high inflation to maintain their asset values in the face of a demographic implosion.
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  5742.  @carmellewislapthorn1802  If we had 30,000 hours of you on television; do you think people would hate or love you? Honest question.
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  5743.  @lab4389  You sound like a narcissist that would say I have to go to seminary school if I want to make an argument against the existence of God. You people are a plague.
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  5744. $21/h is about minimum wage (if you are price indexing for inflation) - real wage pricing that it. You need at least $20/h in the Mid-west in order to afford rent and a car payment these days. FedEx alone pays $18.25/h for base workers during day-shift. I'm not knocking your son. I'm simply eluding to the reality that $21 is what $15 would get you back in 2019
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  5745. What qualifies as crazy $***? Almost all his material is relative to physiological concepts, hierarchies, or clinical psychology. If it's hard to grasp, don't blame the messenger.
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  5746. He's literally doing Reaganomics all over again. You'd be amazed at what people can buy into when they are scraping by to pay bills. Under Republican Administrations, corporations get a TON of quantitative easing and interest rates are set artificially LOW. This is why they always tout a booming economy, just before a messy crash; every.. single.. time..
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  5747. lmfao I remember when Taco Bell was (kinda good) on a Friday night. Now it literally tastes like cancer and the bathroom trips are significantly worse.
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  5748. Because they view people as bugs and larvae. There's something truly wrong with how younger minds are developing and then neural pathways growing. I'm 30 years old and let me tell you, there's a major difference between a 28 year old and a 25 year old, it's absolutely terrifying. I suspect it's the onset of digital technology; iPads, iPhones, and social media from early ages. I was first exposed to it at 14-15, but these kids were exposed at 3-8 years old. Younger people constantly gaslight, virtue signal, and then think you deserve the death penalty when they don't get their way. My sister is 21 and she does this to both me and my wife, it's utterly embarrassing.
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  5749. I actually think it's the other way around. It's not the Universities teaching this, it's students bringing anti-social behaviors to the Universities. What's my proof? Look at how the FED subsidizes education; 94% of all loans are Federal! When you allow two classes (victim class and upper class) to be the bread and butter of education; you get a bunch of anti-social and entitled students. The rest takes care of itself, because you have to be pretty anti-social and entitled to peddle Marxist ideologies in the first place.
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  5750.  @MrManny075  Protection from the state and corporations my friend. Say the wrong this and the media will send a mob to your house. Become popular and say the wrong thing, the Feds will find a reason to bust down your door at 2am for a jay-walking charge.
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  5751. A 'lair'? Sorry, but I fell out of my chair reading that lol
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  5752. You assume too much; there are millions of Americans that would love to see blood in the streets. You don't know very much about people if that's your conclusion. Americans are extremely close to an all out revolution in the streets; riots in just about each and every city. Watch what happens in November. No matter who wins, there will be massive civil unrest.
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  5753. Wow, Don must have gone through a lot of stress in the last 2 years. He looks completely different.. That what happens when you lie and con your way thru life and then get fired for it lol
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  5754. Well, perception is always a big factor here. We all get to sit here are look at people with a microscope using our phones/laptops. It's building an expectation of perfection for people watching. Ultimately giving us the idea that inconsistencies are nefarious.
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  5755.  @newaccount6874  Bond holders and international currency markets. All for pharmaceutical companies, PPP Loans, unemployment checks, and the usual garbage. Yet the hilarious part is, there's no money left. Debt Ceiling wasn't raised after expiration on Jul 31st and the Feds are in the back room scrubbing cash out of old cans as we speak. Hopefully this will initiate a default and collapse. I'd love to see this freak show finally go up in 🔥 flames 🔥
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  5756. Yeah, that lady is delusional. Probably living in a 'boomer' community with interstates blocking welfare from the north AND south, plus a river on the left and right. Meaning they live in a state of pure bliss, being protected by natural barriers, the homeless, crime, and don't have a clue what's going on outside their perfect town.
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  5757. Youtube is cheating the algorithms. This video on Twitter has over 200 Million views and Youtube has 15M? I smell bs.
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  5758. That's ridiculous; do you think the entire system is going to implode? First, silver far outperforms -edit(gold) in production; so it will never compete with inflation long term as supply pulls prices lower. Buying physical precious metals is absolutely useless as you will lose more money on premiums. I have no problem with the ETFs, but people need to understand market fundamentals. Refinancing induces a stock market correction (transition from bull to bear) where money is being removed from the stock market and re-entering real-estate, businesses/services. It truly makes no sense to hold precious metals physically unless you're just collecting them for fun. It's not worth the time or exchange as an investment. Silver is volatile and gold is expensive in even modest quantities.
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  5759.  @pedroafonso1610  I appreciate your comment, but why would I change my views with no reasoning? Look, if you want to invest in a gold ETF; I think that's fine. I have Sprott on my Fidelity account. Nothing wrong with that. But investing in precious metals (physically) makes no sense. I used to hold this opinion many years ago, but the truth is that you'll lose a lot of money in transactions to gold retailers and pawn shops. In the event of a collapse, a new currency will be reinstated and it won't be backed by precious metals. It's not conducive for global markets as exporters quickly acquire all the gold from importers. Thus bankrupting central banks of their resources. This is what happened between 1913 and 1970 as gold for only exchanged for currency in international markets. The price of gold is determined by it's availability, which is stagnant since it's being hoarded by banks in Zurich and London. Once you flood the market with precious metal currencies; it's value deflates. This has happened routinely throughout history. It's why copper and silver were the first precious metals to be dropped from banking. You claim that the truth is the truth, but I'm not seeing any evidence for what your truth is. Gold/Silver enthusiasts focus too much on historical trends and too little on market fundamentals. If gold flooded the market as a currency; it's price would plummet.
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  5760.  @Derekjordanger  That's an old fallacy. Calorie doesn't take quality into account. Your body has to metabolize these calories and many of them are harder or impossible to metabolize. Ex: Soy, Corn, Sunflower oils.
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  5761.  @damiansconberg4715  Assuming counting calories fixes that, which it doesn't really. Counting calories doesn't mean anything if you can't metabolize the calorie.
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  5762.  @vincent763  Debt ceiling expired July 31st and they have no plan to raise it. They've been on "extraordinary measures" since then and will likely run out before November. Which means default. GDP is so outdated it's not even funny. Public expenditures send it through the roof. We export very little and consume everything on credit. This economy is balancing on fairy dust. Plus, we fund a great deal of foreign militaries, especially in Europe.
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  5763. Not exactly, all of this comes down to unemployment insurance fraud! Companies have to report their employment and vacancies to the state in order to pay into the state's unemployment insurance fund. They found out that by creating 'ghost' jobs; they could get their taxes lowered because it give the appearance of a strong labor market. The state gets good jobs numbers and the company gets a tax break. Companies then impose 'interview quotas' on their HR staff so that they don't get charged with tax fraud for a fake job. It's basically impossible to prove on paper.
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  5764. As someone who has been right a considerable amount of my life; I have a hard time seeing the shift. Demographics, voter turnout, and polling all suggest that the country is shifting further to the left. Don't be surprised in 2024 if the Democrats take Arizona, Texas, and more midwestern states. This shift in politics has been prophesized for the last 20 years.
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  5765. That's not very logical; is somebody supposed to know everything about everything in a certain area? Is a Physician supposed to know everything about nutrition and preventative care? Don't type in all caps btw; it's vey childish.
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  5766. Because (short-term) is the name of the game. It takes time to build an infrastructure to perform like it does, but this has already been completely. These companies and agencies are looking to milk everything they can before the economic systems collapse.
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  5767. The funniest part is that as unbelievable as that story sounds; I know it actually happens on occasion. I've run into similar problems with immigrants that have problems with English, but are teaching a Literature classroom in junior high.
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  5768. Consumer spending? lol no The only thing holding this economy together is the Federal Reserve conducting 'shadow' quantitative easing in the markets. Also, many companies are still collecting PPP forgiveness by relisting jobs at lower rates that their furloughed employees refused to take upon return. It's been dirty dirty dirty for the last 3-ish years.
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  5769.  @amicaaranearum  Exactly! This way they can keep faithful investors and continue getting PPP forgiveness thru the legislative stipulations.
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  5770.  @tebill8248  Or maybe I just think for myself and not let media outlets do it? Do people seriously think journalism still exists?
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  5771. I've not heard of an (anti-work) movement. This term has been created by older folks that blame young people for supply chain problems. There is a resignation movement and I was certainly part of it. I left my job when they took away my 13 unpaid days of vacation and gave me 8. The labor markets are going crazy these days; reducing everybody to a number.
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  5772. Is it really hard to grasp the concept of religion (thru a psychological lens?) That's how he's always talked about it. You hate religion, so you hear what you want to hear perhaps?
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  5773.  @TitusLamperouge  Said like someone with no home, no family, and no life experience.
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  5774.  @ΧΧΤ  So what then? Wait until he breaks into the house and tries to attack them inside and rape the daughter? What kind of Zoomer logic is that? You kids have no common sense whatsoever.
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  5775. Depends, I've always been pretty bad (socially speaking); so I never knew anyone. It was always 'what' I knew that allowed me to get ahead. Also, going against the grain. Intuition and doing what others won't goes a long way.
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  5776. Yep, began in like 2015.
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  5777.  @cesarmeza5331  Please, you people are looking for reasons to hate him out of ignorance. He was on those drugs because he slipped up on his diet and had nasty long lasting side affects.
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  5778.  @rcy4513  You accept responsibility for a child OR you get arrested and CPS shows up. The fact that you said you should have used a condom for one of your three children is disgusting. You're probably the worst (NPD) I've seen in a while. Entitled to the brim, but play it off as 'responsibility' when it comes to your children.
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  5779. Well, you generally have to ask yourself: At what point in your evolutionary development did your body adjust to ingest the crap listed on the back of baby formula? Then again, most people are religiously attached to the FDA and claim to be "scientific". In my life experience, it's best to let people do what they are going to do and let fate handle the rest. You can lead a horse to water etc...
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  5780. It's because left-wing insanity made Tulsi, Bernie, and Kennedy look NORMAL lol
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  5781. People are forgetting that (3 years) of wannabe home buyers have been stifled from beginning their lives. Believe me, if the FED cuts rates (buyers will overwhelm sellers) and real estate will go thru the roof again. The next question I often hear is, "but nobody has any money to buy homes." Believe it or not, but banks are ready to roll out (40 year loan contracts; 1-5% down payments) per new Fannie Mae regulations. This will ensure that young people get homes if mortgage rates drop between 4-5% interest rates.
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  5782. Something to acknowledge that I think is flying under the radar currently. Trump has quite intentionally been gaining massive support by big tech platforms. Elon bought Twitter, Zuckerberg has met with Trump on several occasions, and now he's swooped in and stolen TikTok's heart. I don't think people realize how many minds he changed when over 100M users logged in to see the message "As a result of Trump's efforts; Tiktok is back in the US."
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  5783. This all relates back to the Cantillon Effect. Once a society reaches the 'luxury' level; they will mentally never go back. With the comfort and ease of people's live coming up to 2019-2020. People would rather commit suicide than dig ditches for a construction company.
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  5784.  @alex_lll  Repeating the Kremlin's talking points? I'm really curious where you got this. I've never heard or found anything of the sort. largely since this accusation is years old, based on an old smear campaign that CNN did during the primaries. If what you say is accurate, which 'talking points' are you referring to?
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  5785. Democrats only seem to be about 'gotcha' moments and no solutions. Tells you a lot about the outlook for our nation.
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  5786. Lots of insults and no logic or reasoning... Why should we believe you? Present your case without misrepresenting him (what you accused him of doing).
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  5787. If you look into studies of it's ingredients it does. Btw, if you keep basing all your decisions on peer reviewed studies; eventually you're going to end up sick regardless. I used to be in the same boat as you; glorifying stats and medical research. I would heavily suggest you start small and add things to your routine. If your body is saying something is wrong; alter the strategy. I would also recommend just a generic intuition test on any product your using. If all you do is look at studies and base your reasoning on a hierarchy of credentials; eventually you'll end up with a chronic disease and trying to blame your own genetics. Seen it happen over and over again. As far as Listerine goes; I mean sure, it has no alcohol, but Methyl salicylate is technically toxic if ingested. Just because it takes a certain amount to be hospitalized doesn't mean it doesn't harm cells inside your mouth. Similar story with Menthol. FD&C Green No.3 is another ingredient (banned in the EU) due to it's carcinogenic nature and effects on rats; inhibiting certain functions within the hippocampus. WHO claims otherwise, but I'm not surprised. At the end of the day, I would take everything with a grain of salt and try to be on the safe side.
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  5788.  @flakesinyershoe8137  Food consumption volume does NOT even slightly correlate to the obesity epidemic; the timeline is way off. Something changed in the food industry; I suspect seed/vegetable oils. I think they are largely metabolically dysfunctional in the human body. It would be the equivalent of a caveman eating 1000 ears of corn per day and 1,000,000 sunflower seeds per day.
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  5789. If people don't realize that the Democratic Party is sponsoring terrorism at this point; then they never will.
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  5790. Bro, they poked the bear back in 2014. It would be hard to convince the grizzly that you mean well now lol
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  5791. Yep, college kids on protected campuses and pensioners in gated areas love to gamble the rest of our lives away.
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  5792. @edbenti5007 You're going to lose it regardless, especially your children. Demographics assured SS would fail decades ago. I remember when the CBO projected that SS would go into deficit by 2038. Now it's 2034. If we have another bad recession it could be even earlier; cut by 23%. Oligarchs have always controlled nations. Would you rather a bunch of bottom feeding know-nothings run your society and throw everyone in prison because they have nothing to lose? We tried that already and it leads to a collapse in GDP, mass incompetence; let alone the human rights violations.
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  5793.  @septimus7524  I think you're describing older millennials. At this point (pension boomers) and (college kids 18-24) are the ones voting Democrat. Women 18-30 vote Democrat by almost 90%. It's not only splitting by generation, but by gender.
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  5794. Forget the swing states; I fully expect him to take 'SAFE' states and flip them from blue to red. Keep eyes on New Hampshire and Virginia folks!
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  5795. A lot of 'whataboutism' and not much reason and logic. Democrats lost because they have NO policy, NO plan, and NO reasoning. If Trump is so bad, why does any answer about him have to be filled with gaslighting and insults. If the DNC doesn't get their stuff together; they're going to lose every election from now on. People are tired of fear-mongering, hysteria, and the obsession about Trump being Hitler somehow. Podcasts are the number one growing attention in the nation and it will draw tens of millions of voters back into the realm of critical thinking instead of blind obedience. Until civility and reason return to the Democratic Party; they're going to lose. The denial needs to stop.
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  5796. People need to stop pretending that these are normal children committing crimes. They have antisocial disorders caused by their childhood upbringing. You can't look poorly on the children without looking at the environment and behavior set by the parents.
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  5797. There is ZERO defense of maintaining a scapegoat in the family! It is the most immature and cowardly thing to do in life. I don't care what the relationship with a spouse is like.
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  5798. That US tech companies are massively overvalued and their technology isn't unique lol
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  5799. I'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly full of mead.
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  5800. Another comment by an intellectualized person that dehumanizes people and races because they don't think like him. What's new with the Democratic Party?
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  5801. They are so desperate to fool gullible people into getting the vaccine. Broadcast after broadcast, it never ends. Follow the bread crumbs and you will find a foreign enemy named China waging war on us.
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  5802. The only people I see supporting Harris are retirees and college kids that have never held a job.
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  5803. Yeah, no they won't. I've been in blue collar my entire life, Americans aren't motivated to take any job; even if it pays $80k Even the CDL industry can't attract American born citizens.
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  5804. Hell yeah! Morgan Freeman VP 2024! Woohoo!
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  5805. Top THREE Issues! 1. Jobs/Economy 2. Healthcare 3. Social Security/Medicare You have to seriously be living in a bubble to think that social issues or even abortion is anywhere at the top. This election is ultimately going to come down to LABOR vs. University/Administrative voters.
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  5806. I here day in and day out that the GOP will win in a landslide during Mid-terms. As much as I agree, I think it will do VERY little to actually stop the problems with are facing. Almost everything the mainstream media pushes as (important) is a side-show for Americans.
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  5807. When you grift so-hard that you start to believe your own BS; you end up becoming this guy.
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  5808. Look at how the average American spends money; are you really that surprised? The financially illiterate Americans elected the financially illiterate politicians lol
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  5809. Seems kind of odd to consider (getting rid of central banks) and (crony government agencies) 'extreme'. It seems to be the most rational solution, considering the state of the economy that has been caused by central banks and administrative bureaucracy. In the US, the healthcare system is on it's knees because insurance companies and business administration got married under the Obama Administration. Now they get to dictate procedures, cost, and care policies. At the same time, Trump was very avid about abusing the powers of the central banks (and appointed Jerome Powell) to drive interest rates extremely low to pump the market when he was going for re-election. It's also led to insane inflation these past 2 years. Both need to go away!
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  5810. It's because the media can no longer control a narrative as they have always done. A large oligarchy has always maintained sway over information scarcity. Now everybody is free to criticize, create, or delegitimize information however they see fit. This is both good and bad at the same time. The problem is; not many people can distinguish what's real and what's not. I'll admit, I have a very centered viewpoint and robust reasoning, but even I am not able to traverse it with 100% accuracy.
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  5811. No such thing as non-toxic aluminum; just a marketing buzzword. I don't like plastics, but aluminum (like lead) gets somewhat deposited into the brain. Plastics have their own health concerns, but nowhere near as bad.
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  5812. Yeah, I learned this over a decade ago. My first job at 18 years old, I got sexually harassed and assault (not that I hated it lol), but by some dozen different women over the age of 25. Craziest experience of my life and learned a lot of lessons about women. The problem is that women 18-23 are completely delusional and immersed in fantasy. Then they get angry in their mid 20s that men no longer seem chivalrous.
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  5813. The algorithm targets specific phrases and words; not exactly what you said. I don't think it can detect the level of 'dissidence' against the government you are espousing. Now, if you said "bl@ck l1ves m@tter is a cr!minal organization" then it might 'ding' you.
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  5814. They're activists looking to exploit sound bites for their ignorant viewers.
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  5815. This administration is filled with nothing but criminals trying to start a war and completely undermine this country. Elections have consequences. Orange-man may say mean things, but Joe Hiden does mean things. Mainly to the American people.
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  5816. I wouldn't hold your breath bud. Republicans can't lose a single state. They also MUST win three of the five; Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Considering how bad GOP turnout was during 2023 in the Midwest; I'm not betting on it. People will most likely vote for Independents or Democrats; Republicans are exhausted from 9 years of Trump since he ran in 2015.
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  5817. Government protects corporations in both parties and the response from the voters is 'more government regulation.' People deserve this imo
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  5818. This is just a PR campaign. All these tech giants go dark at the same time? Then an ex-worker with ties to the Biden Administration denounces Facebook and calls for more Government regulation? Sounds like something Zuckerberg would do. Fake your own website being hacked and use some insight from an ex-worker as PR to grow regulations that benefit them. If this was legitimate; none of these stations would be broadcasting it.
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  5819. Too many idiots in this comment section. Dogs are products of their owners. People beat, electrocute, and muzzle their dogs. After they attack somebody, they claim it was peaceful and loving. People do this all the time because there are a lot of horrible people in society. I've heard the same excuses over and over again. Dogs don't randomly attack family members if trained and raised properly.
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  5820. It's a money laundering scheme between University administrators and government officials.
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  5821.  @hardlessons9732  Yeah, it's like $75,000 and that's living with mom and dad; not on campus.
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  5822. No meaning, or are you unable to comprehend the subject? You're in the minority bud. Perhaps you should increase your comprehension skills?
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  5823.  @isay207  Solution? Stop overthrowing foreign governments maybe? That's why we're in this mess to begin with. Did everybody sleep through all of 2014?
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  5824. It's LABOR vs. INSTITUTION. Harris voters are basically (pensioners, students, and/or administrative/government. They are scared that their useless gate-keeping positions and butt-wiped livelihoods are going to get derailed.
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  5825. They don't watch CNN for starters lol
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  5826.  @HuskyOwner-bl1jf  Careful you don't sell yourself into the demagoguery of mainstream media bud.
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  5827.  @maxjaeger40  I used to think just like you bud. People are extremely complicated; believe me. If you look at people as good or evil; it'll ruin you socially. Plus it will destroy your ability to trust people. Basically, when people have vices; don't look for wisdom or advice in those areas. Some people have problems with gaslighting or manipulating in certain aspects, probably from childhood issues. Make it known to the person and don't listen to their advice; simple as that. People that have anti-social characteristics tend to turn it off and on repeatedly based on the environment. People that lie about everything and manipulate your in every manner are basically psychopaths and should be avoided, but this is a very rare portion of the population. I think Trump has anti-social characteristics, but that doesn't you can't learn from him.
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  5828. Parents don't participate in their lives anymore; they'd rather stare at their phones. Plus, imagine going to school in 2023, where a single social media post could end/cancel your entire childhood in front of everyone. Neglect and abuse for parents is significant right now and kids feel they have nowhere left to go. So they partake in unhealthy peer pressures and porn addictions to cope with it.
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  5829. Polio being a scam - 1.14 per 10,000 get paralysis (most of which came from persons given the shot) You can read that in the vaccine insert. Afghanistan - military defense contractors flying opium out of the most (opium rich nation) on the face of the planet for 20 years. Not coincidentally beginning the opiate epidemic. Hilarious how we left Afghanistan when fentanyl became the new drug of choice. Ukraine - Obama Admin overthrowing the sitting government and installing the puppet Zelensky. Who them waged a war in eastern Ukraine and oppressed Russian people's living there for 8 years. All while taking military arms and money from the US government. Ethiopia - US backed terrorist opposition party carried out numerous attacks in November 2020; killing some 4000 people in a coup attempt. The current situation is about to break out into a civil war. People would rather watch a freaking BOX on a wall that tells them what to think.
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  5830. My God, are all you people care about is catching others in hypocrisy; especially those of you that are more left leaning? All you seem to care about is pointing the finger and not offering any solutions to the alternative. We can condemn the Capitol riots, which resulted in 1 fatality (a woman climbing through a door window). We can also condemn the Summer riots of 2020 which results in some 37 deaths at the same time. The important thing to realize is who is going to incite the violence (the media) and the most likely people to carry it out successfully (radicals).
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  5831. The Retirement Crisis is the biggest COG in the machine that broke and nobody from the media is talking about it. Not only boomers, but early Gen X retirees from the Covid 2020 shutdowns and vaccine mandates. Remember how people were going nuts trying to figure out who was buying Florida homes for CASH? Those were Gen X and Boomers paying 401k CASH for those homes, largely because the Feds suspended the 401k early distribution penalty (10%). We had anywhere from 10 to 15 million people in 18 months leave their long term careers. Many switched jobs, some settled for gig work, others retired completely. Unfortunately, due to birth rates and inventory of young people in trades (there was no way in hell) that millennials were going to take over for the people retiring. The Retirement Crisis was coming regardless; Covid simply sped it up by 10 years fast. It will ultimately test this country's endurance!
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  5832.  @bovnycccoperalover3579  Most people end up working harder for longer which results in more medical issues. It's not worth it to wait until 67 for the majority of the population. Unless you have a low-stress or 'paced' job that has a 401k or 403b coming in due time; you should honestly take SS around 63-65. It's not worth the additional health hassles when you claim at 67-72 because that extra money gets eaten VERY fast.
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  5833. Are we living in the same country? Perhaps that's how you feel about your family and the behavior of your community, but take a walk outside your area and you will realize this country is pretty soulless. I've lived in the Midwest my entire life and there are few places I can name with traditional cultural norms like we saw decades prior. Some towns and cities out West and in the South are a few exceptions, but the greater culture is completely pathological. I won't raise my kids in Ohio, it's that bad. Covid lockdowns and mandates have only expedited the process. We've afforded people to survive (successfully) without having to troubleshoot their shortcomings. I would look into Calhoun's Rodent Utopia; a fascinating experiment that seems to be playing itself out in humans.
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  5834. Go down for 5 to 7 years? Housing in is a supply dip; the stock market may make a correction in 2025, but prices will continue to go up for years. This correction you're talking about won't happen until a default happened on bonds. All of this will just result in inflation. The party will continue until there is a currency crisis.
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  5835.  @antoniorafael5067  Jokes on you bud lol $80,000 has become $45,000 in 3 years; not 25.
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  5836. Apparently nobody can read or think anymore. Trump was never convicted of sexual assault lol
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  5837.  @Lisa_5591  Better than the administration that caused the Gaza and Ukraine wars imo
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  5838. Unfortunately, it's not singularly about hate or greed. The entire world economic system is at snake here. The US Dollar (global reserve currency) has lost an immense amount of value in the last 3 years; approximately 42% according to M2 Supply. When economic chaos ensues, people, businesses, and governments start to lose faith in that system and chaos ensues in a domino affect. Economic upheaval leads to many repercussions down the line. When there's no more wealth to be gained (inside an imploding economic model) countries are forced to go to war. Fiat money with Keynesian theory was invented in order to stop the need for wars on gold reserves. In turn, it allowed super powers to develop that could wage much smaller wars with unending funds. Funny how things turns out in the end.
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  5839. As much as I agree with the message of love. It is Hamas that is using it's own people as human shields in this war. They literally set up a rocket site behind the hospital in Gaza. So that when they attack and retreated; Israeli military would level the hospital site. That's not what happened, but it's what Hamas was intent on doing from the start. The people living in Gaza are being led by an oppressive regime that lies to them every day about their situation. Hamas literally sets up military operations in order to produce mass Palestinian casualties; it makes for good news against Israel.
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  5840. People love to blame those on charge, but Stalin never became a ruler by climbing a mountain and shouting it to the world. A civilization rots from the ground up. It rots when enough individuals make pathological decisions. We have nobody but ourselves to blame.
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  5841. Because the corporations and politicians are in bed together. This is primarily why many people want to get rid of the FDA and CDC. Typically, people would sue companies that caused harm, but corporations actively USE the FDA in order to get their product approves and promoted. It also becomes increasingly hard to take them to court. It's all about corporate capture and the FDA is (without a doubt) captured by big business. Same thing in every industry. It's the reason you have SWAT raids on farms trying to sell raw milk. People in power want to create monopolies for their business domain and they will use government to get it.
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  5842. One must not become complacent. Stay fit, stay armed, stay disciplined!
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  5843. Depends, much of the problem is that families are forsaking their children. I remember when parents were all about "don't believe what you see on the internet!" Now it's, "You don't believe what's on the internet? Why won't you pamper us and kiss our rear!?"
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  5844. Vivek is a fraud bud; I liked him too at first. He's also trying to make media headlines by lying to his supporters about a car accident recently. Claiming it was protestors, but it was a woman that had nothing to do with the rally.
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  5845.  @rally6824  Vivek has the spirit and optimism. But he doesn't have the game-plan. Ramping up the energy sector will NOT save the US from the $10 Trillion that the government printed since 2020. It would take a World War to pull us out of that kind of debt. Last time I checked, the US is shot on manufacturing capabilities.
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  5846. Well, I would actually think that the end of slavery disenfranchised aristocracies that were hoarding wealth in society; creating a super class in the south. Even though you'd have to pay people to farm cotton after that. It wasn't like plantation owners weren't gouging their customers on their own terms already; it was (in a way) a cartel of businesses. If anything if probably brought prices down.
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  5847. The only thing that angers me about all of this is that they are trying to 'solely' finger Trump, while Fox News gets a slap on the wrist. They settle with Dominion and then walk away? FOX NEWS was running the 'election fraud' garbage for weeks from election night thru January. Guest after guest coming on, explaining how they fudged the election and then conveniently turning the (poll worker shortage) into a midnight cheating conspiracy. Trump isn't his own channel; Fox News pushed all of this garbage with almost no accountability.
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  5848. Why oh why would you buy that poison? lol
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  5849.  @prd004.2  Yeah, that's BS; there's no automation any-time soon.
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  5850. Butter or olive oil in my opinion. Even coconut oil if you so choose. Very low in Omega 6 👍 Some industries switched to peanut oil because it has half the Omega 6 content as canola, but nonetheless harmful.
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  5851. What the hell are you talking about? Based on what? Even the playing field? So my wife that makes Six figures needs to have a mandatory pay decrease to support the lower class? What kind of financially illiterate logic is that?
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  5852. It amazes me how many people don't know that Fetterman's campaign HID his stroke for nearly 8 months and pushed him thru the election. How does anybody not consider this election interference and fraud? He's never made a full recovery either.
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  5853. I'd rather be homeless tbh
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  5854. CNN - Trump is a Fascist! CNN - Pushes for making half of the US population second class citizens and requiring papers for entry.
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  5855.  @goomyworms3130  Spanish Flu? Be careful calling people dumb bud. I recovered from Covid in 2020. Plus the work I do, as well as my wife put us in constant contact. Our titers would have antibodies off the charts. How is getting a vaccine (by a pharmaceutical company) known for paying billions in wrongful death lawsuits going to halt the pandemic? Ever take a look at Sweden? They don't have many cases anymore, nor deaths. Never locked down either. The pandemic is effectively over. What you're seeing is Healthcare companies running endless PCR tests to get as many Covid positive tests as possible. Whether they are in the hospital for Covid or not is irrelevant; it will be counted as a hospitalization. If send an Apple through a PCR test enough times it will test positive for a Covid virus. Then the Healthcare company can collect $51,000 in Medicare for getting a case and forcing someone onto a ventilator. Yay for shitty government incentives..
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  5856.  @goomyworms3130  Not an argument...
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  5857. All historic and geographic arguments aside. This is like saying 'I support Bin Laden" after 9/11. How can anybody in their right mind support the Palestinian cause after Hamas killed 1300 civilians in a 'Tet Offensive' style raid against Israel?
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  5858. Children of Generation Z are in a predicament that are they are completely unaware of. How will they ever own a home? How will they ever pay off student loans? How will they ever cope with the radical changes unfolding?
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  5859. Unfortunately, nothing is going to save this country from the economic repercussions to come; we are just getting started. Tens of millions of Americans retired early in 2020 and continued to do side work and gig jobs. That's why they still show up in the labor participation statistics. They paid cash for houses with loaded 401ks and pensions; setting the housing market up for a HOT HOT run. The problem though is that most of these jobs were filled by career professionals; the last of the baby boomers and oldest of Gen X. When they left, there was nobody to replace them. That's why no matter where you go, there is mass incompetence and disarray.
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  5860. I wish more (functionable) people in this country would understand how freaking crazy and delusional a great percentage of the population is. As someone that grew up in suburbia, it's so easy to assume that the rest of the country looks like your town and acts like it to. But once you get out in the real world, you understand that a lot of people are psychotic, have anti-social disorders, millions are in the threshold for 'legally retarded' IQs, and so much worse.
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  5861. This is what happens when you censor the internet and social media platforms. It allows deceitful activists to virtue signal their way into conversation in order to push their anti-social beliefs. When everybody gets to speak equally, all this non-sense goes away.
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  5862. For a country that talks BIG about helping small business. I'm surprised there is no tax exemption. How about sales tax on all qualifying corporate goods and no sales tax on small business?
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  5863. Watch, inflation will have a resurgence from FED incompetence; people will feel like they got hit by a train. People aren't doing the math on 2008 or even the late 1970s. Inflation 2022-2024 is the worst it's ever been in US history. At least in the 70s, the dollar had significantly better purchasing power in comparison to wages.
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  5864.  @SkipFrontzJr  Not sure what that has to do with anything and it's a poor understanding of the fundamentals. The last recession we had was in Q2/Q3 of 2022 under the Biden Administration. So your point is moot.
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  5865.  @hgrimes9824  No they don't, foreclosures are at a 20 year low around 0.3%
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  5866. Is anybody in politics?
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  5867. Blame Americans for voting for him; record turn out for voters 18-25. The more people that vote, the more incompetent the people in office become. Voting used to be reserved to the people smart enough to know and care about the issues.
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  5868.  @jrich745  Why is it dumb? What's with the weird outrage?
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  5869. Yes, because I certainly want to pay additional taxes, higher prices, and even a 25% tax for owning property outside the country and living there. Does anybody here actually do research or just spout non sense all day? You have a phone in your pocket; use it please.
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  5870. Believe me, democracy and/or (the people) running everything would be significantly worse. Been there; done that. Mass incompetence and angry mobs that enforce cruel punishment and laws that change every 6 months. You can never let the masses actually rule things
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  5871.  @LoveforAmerica  Hey, I like Trump as much as the next guy, but he never brought jobs back to the US. The jobs we created here were almost exclusively gig and part time positions. The jobs are NOT coming back. We simply do not have a population that is willing to work those jobs.
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  5872. Boomers have no problem using unionized profit sharing and social security in order to have an average asset nest of $2-5 million by retirement age. There's a big difference between socialism and progressive profit share. In many ways, I'd argue this system has been socialist for nearly 30 years and it's led to mass inefficiency. I don't think people are really for socialism, but rather a system where there aren't a different set of rules that create an oligarchy.
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  5873. She's a classic example of these narcissists that destroy the perfect relationship because she feels that settling is some kind of betrayal of her womanhood. Fast forward 10 years and they're still not taking accountability; screaming about where the good men went. Uh, you dumped them or gave them the finger because they didn't act like jerks.
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  5874. How can people be this ignorant? Inflation is way up because the FED printed $8 Trillion after they crashed businesses in 2020.
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  5875. There are no names because no Republicans have sponsored anything (cutting) Social Security or Medicare. But of course, mob mentality must win!!
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  5876. They're anticipating a bailout in 2025 as interest rates get slashed; watch, they'll get it. The US Government will give them billions and all those cars will car to auction and prices will free-fall.
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  5877. Technology is often ironic. People thought that social media was going to save man-kind, when in reality it is destroying it. People think that AI will end man-kind, making it more probable that it will save it lol
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  5878. I assure you that's the least of it. You know how many families I see at restaurant tables; parents on phone, kids on tablet. All the while completely ignoring each other?
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  5879.  @lastfm4477  Nope Btw, what does voting for a President mean in the sense that you're asking?
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  5880. What an ignorant statement. This podcast was filmed before the invasion took place. He's already left for Ukraine to interview leaders inside the nation. Open your ears and pay attention my friend.
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  5881. So this is the new standard we're going to set? We're SO TOLERANT that we're going to allow people that (recently had a stroke) to run as Governor? What's next? We allow gender queer people with PTSD and genitalia obsessions to be educators for pre-school? Oh wait! lol XD
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  5882. The machine needs opium and oil to make you their b!tch. Oh wait, now it's fentanyl and tanks for Ukraine! My bad!
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  5883.  VincentVance-j4w  Media headline - "Suspected white man called Hispanic man a turkey; communities outraged."
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  5884. Foreclosure costs in 2009-2013 were absolutely insane; he's not selling bs. Homes that a valuation of $250k in many areas became less than $50k in less than 2 years. Nobody was buying them and the inventory was sitting. Many times bank and county auctions that can't sell will give it out for peanuts. It's all about supply and demand.
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  5885. Discipline? I wonder why you feel the kids need discipline.. Children behave in a manner that their parents teach them is acceptable. Having a parent behave like a Neanderthal and then 'discipline' that child for acting the same way is beyond stupid. The newer generations are attempting to get with the program of mental health; not re-enslaving our children to sick religious ideologies and forms of discipline that make them absolutely useless and counterproductive. You're behind on the times my friend.
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  5886. Here, deleted in September. Good riddance Zuckerberg...
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  5887. These people act like they weren't promoting this for the last decade. Competence hierarchy MUST be maintained by strict standards. When you try to construct them with DEI or equity; you put incompetent people at the top and the entire thing falls apart. These people have learned nothing from history. The soviets tried this in the 1930s and found that their leadership was completely dysfunctional and incompetent once the Nazi's invaded. So they abandoned the ideology and went back to standardized models to promote a hierarchy of functioning military commanders.
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  5888.  @dynodon9182  Yep! Including the ability for Democrats to now flip the entire Midwest; wait and watch. Florida will become a super-Republican state, but everywhere else will go blue.
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  5889. Rally? Are these clowns joking? When the FED hits the interest rates upward tomorrow, the market will spiral downwards. There will be no 'rally'. These idiots are getting paid by Blackrock to get their viewers to invest in the market so they can raise their (last minute) short positions.
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  5890. Government data isn't the problem; it's the corporations giving false information to continue getting PPP loan forgiveness. The business keeps the money and all they have to do is give the illusion that they are hiring in order to get it discharged.
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  5891. Well, see that's the thing I don't understand. CNN and MSNBC get virtually no viewership anymore. So where on earth are 30+ million people getting these radical ideas? Like Trump is going to take away Social Security? That alone swung voters 65+ in the direction of the Democrats this time around.
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  5892. Survivor bias of course. I've noticed the arrogant people are either full-time on a corporate ladder or retired. They're delusional and will be lucky to get a job at McDonalds if they get laid off.
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  5893.  @Chiller-pc1dv  I have! Perhaps you should take your own advice. A baby in the first trimester is attempting to get away from the tools utilized in the abortion procedure. Quit dehumanizing the situation to make yourself feel better about your sociopathic and antisocial behaviors.
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  5894. I truly question the sanity of people claiming that Biden is 'sharp', 'read to go', or has the 'perseverance' to lead for four more years.
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  5895. Bad mentality, I'm a millennial and my sister is 9 years younger. My father does what you do and she's a spoiled rotten and treats people like garbage. Let them fail and fail hard.
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  5896. @galadrhim1 I didn't misinterpret your comment; I'm being blunt. Why are you kids struggling and needing you to fix things for them? It's not because of inflation; as much as people want it to be. I'm 31; bought my first house at 26. I'm fully aware of the inflationary situation, but that never stopped me. As usual, I suspect that there is either a massive debt or integrity problem that is being omitted here. What is stopping your children or yourself from making ends meet? I assume from your statement that you have personal investments; maybe 403b and/or real-estate? Are you counting on a currency default that will wipe out those benefits? Why can't your kids go get a blue collar job; maybe CDL for $80k a year? Even shipping centers pay upwards of $50k a year for no skills. What's the specific part you're not telling us? I'm not trying to be rude; just honest.
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  5897.  @hazardousmaterial5492  Well, many of them have ridiculous loans as well with no work prospects.
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  5898. I was a package handler first, then a shunter operator, then a truck driver. But, I got out after a year because of the long hours. I made really good money though. Werner local jobs pay like $85,000 starting; literally.
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  5899. If these tech workers were getting 40+ hours of pay that was realistically (8 hours or less) of actual work. That says a lot about the true value of the the tech industry. In the event of any major economic downturn; I'd imagine that most of these jobs will become worthless.
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  5900. This goes far beyond politics. Personally, the Covid freak-show really gave me a new lens to look at life through and I know I'm not alone. It woke many of us up. What you think is a free market, is not a free market. What you think news is, isn't real news. What you think science is, isn't backed by any credible research. What you think healthy is, isn't backed by any clinical data. People need to be careful when they deem something to be common sense, because it's becoming more clear every day that it's more likely a common misconception.
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  5901. As a conservative myself, it's amazing how the GOP is beginning to cannibalize itself. I keep hearing about how there's going to be a massive red wave (again), or Trump will be reinstated as President, or how conservatives are leading the culture war. You'd only believe any of these if you were living in an echo chamber. Conservatives are losing (across the board) on a legislative level. Largely because they do not want to bring up the topic of the economy, because that involves mentioning Trump in a bad light as well. Not to mention voter turnout for Republicans is in the gutter. I'm an Ohioan and even voters here are completely delusional. I knew they were going to pass recreational marijuana and abortion into the Ohio Constitution. Republicans (moreover conservatives) in general are living in fantasy land with the way politics have been going. If conservatives want to regain a foothold and strengthen their position. They need to first (quit infighting and acting like fools). Second, they need to start talking about topics that actually matter; like inflation perhaps. The ONLY things FOX, Breitbart, and even the Dailywire want to to discuss is transgenderism, wokism, and library books.
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  5902. Trump lied because the media SAIS SO! Even though we can't tell you what his lies were. I'm no fan of Trump, but you people eat up media garbage WAY too much.
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  5903. Problem is; where is it coming from? Many people point to the Universities, but I think that's a really cheap answer. Sure there are rogue Marxist educators, but for millions of students to feel this this apathy towards white people? I don't buy it. I think it's coming from corporate enterprises. Mixed with the disenfranchisement of the Judeo-Christian base of the United States. This is exactly how Rome fell. It wasn't because the schools of Philosophy radicalized the people. It was because everybody grew complacent. Citizenship meant nothing, religious practices fell into disarray, and people indulged in food/entertainment to their hearts desire. People see the system as a white-Christian nation that can't be relied on anymore. Allowing for anything and everything to fill the void of this disaster. People are tribalizing and turning to random radical ideologies because they feel more meaningful than the current system that is decaying.
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  5904. Jokes on you! These companies purposely have HR carry out 'interview' quotas so that the 'jobs' can qualify for 'vacancies' when they choose to (NOT) hire you. They do this because they can report big job numbers to the state (politicians like this) AND they get a big tax-deduction on their dues to each state's unemployment insurance fund. Also, they bulk sell your data for profit. The Dept. of Labor knows they are doing this, but you can't prove it! And the state and feds LOVE big job numbers.
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  5905. It's unemployment insurance fraud; most people are completely unaware. You can't prove it because HR has interview quotas to make their job postings seem legitimate when they are reported to the state.
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  5906.  @calmdownbeavis7039  Just be careful how you justify "needing a job." There is always a price to pay for conceding your principles. Hell has no limits...
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  5907. In my opinion, Brett and Matt were two reasons I stopped listening to the daily-wire years ago. They pivoted from (bringing back the American dream) to getting deeply involved in social issues that not even most conservatives agree with. Try to conflate (permissive parenting as the same as gentle parenting) was the last straw for me. Then they began to bring people onto their show that were trying to convince viewers to bring back Ferber methods and high disciplinary parenting. Their alleged evidence was the epidemic of poor behaviors coming from Gen Z.
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  5908. One problem that nobody is talking about is how the US is literally becoming a Banana Republic on the verge of war. There's no a whole lot of competition when you outsource all your jobs and then sanction a large number of foreign countries that are in active conflicts.
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  5909. If a woman is in her 30s with no partner or children; there is most likely something wrong with her psychology.
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  5910. This kind of behavior behind the wheel has gotten exponentially worse in the last several years. We're seeing fatalities increase about 10% PER YEAR. People are losing their minds over the economy and state of the world. Many of us are cutting back and slowing down to make ends meet. Some people are stepping on the peddle and losing their minds.
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  5911. College isn't what it was when you were attending Ron.
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  5912. They finance old debts with new ones using the Reaganomics model we've practiced for 40 years. Artificially low interest rates have driven this country (and the USD) into the ground. I'm afraid that interest rates will need to be maintained at a high level for the next 10-15 years at minimum in order to get purchasing power back on track so that people can afford energy and shelter.
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  5913. It's always been that way due to physics. Pareto distributions get squeezed as time goes on and Price's law puts too much weight on the bottom. It's simply inevitable unless a reset happens every so often. There's no magical way to force equity onto everyone and everything. Every system will dilate and contract until it implodes. The type of system determines how long that takes. This is why I say that 'large scale civilization' is a perversion of the human species. We can only truly function properly at a municipal/community level.
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  5914. Good point! More value to actual workers; not the ones milking the system.
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  5915. Tariffs reduce demand and lowering interest rates spikes it. Sounds like they're plan is to try and balance the two; though I'm not sure tariffs would reduce demand so much that it would help. If you lower rates, all the new inflation will go towards auto and real-estate; as usual.
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  5916. Recessions are inevitable; I think you mean deflation. You'd be asking for the destruction of SS, Medicare, and Pensions. This isn't like 2008 when the US could afford a decrease in revenue and productivity. The plan for the FED is that they plan to drown every recession with inflation to save the current budget.
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  5917. Well, to be fair; the US dollar doesn't have to be 'replaced' per se by any currency in order to be de-dollarized. Rome fell very similarly; a major lack in faith of government, worthless currency, and mass corruption. Slowly picked apart by group after group in order to benefit their own short term needs. In my opinion, the US Dollar will ONLY hold as long as the middle class is able to survive and that time is running short. 2020-2023 expedited the US economy 10-15 years in terms of inflation growth on a normal trajectory. The Keynesian model was doomed from the start; you can't produce permanent inflation and permanent growth in an economy and expect it to sustain itself. As everyone knows; housing, energy, commodities, and food are becoming significantly more expensive than they were even a few years ago. It's a rare middle class household that has not had to adopt a new budget in order to make ends meet in this economy. Middle class earners feeling the pain of sustainable living is a tell tale sign that the future of this economy is not looking good. Once the middle class has to sell their mortgages and vehicles to settle their larger debts; it's game over.
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  5918.  @aliencitizen1670  When civilizations collapse; there are two outcomes. They are either absorbed by a larger and more draconian culture OR they devolve into tribalism; balkanization.
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  5919. All of them? lol The incentive to lie is 100 fold! For every lie they tell, (the clickbait ad revenue) nets them 100 times more than they would ever pay in a defamation, libel, or slander lawsuit. It's the same reason that pharmaceutical companies get away with crappy drugs that end up killing several tens of thousands of people each year. Pfizer makes $37B on a new miracle drug and then they pay $1.1B for the damages and death of 40,000 people. That's how the system works right now; you can't fight the incentives.
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  5920.  @success-fact  Please, this is because eco-liberals tore the logging industry to shreds and they refuse to do proper forest management. When you don't remove excessive dead-wood; you get these results. It has nothing to due with global warming; just bad policy. Same thing is happening in Canada.
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  5921. Or, maybe you're not empathizing with the state of the world. Things aren't like they used to be. A global oligarchy is forming and currency is dramatically losing it's value. This is about the LABOR class vs. INSTITUTIONAL class.
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  5922.  @avejupiter8486  Because you can't use one successful experiment to project the outcome of another subsequent theory. Evolution cannot be proven by using a micro-scale series of experiments to make a claim about a much larger hypothesis. It's really no different than the 'climate crowd' using 100 years of statistics to determine millions of years of proposed outcomes.
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  5923. The irony of (Covid Shutdowns and the Great Resignation) was that businesses learned that they could 'ram thru' the same amount of customers/volume with only HALF the original staffing. This erodes wages, benefits, and work culture.
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  5924. Wrong approach! Teachers (like any profession) have their bad apples; those bad apples are exploited by ideological opposition. Though that doesn't mean it's the core of where the problem is; its' cherry picking. The problem is that Universities are being given subsidies to accept much lower tiered demographics. So naturally, you're going to increase the amount of nihilistic and anti-social behaviors among your students. The students bring anti-social behaviors to school and then manifest those ideologies while they represent the Universities. Unfortunately, when you give grants to low-income students; you don't invite excellence. You bring in sociopathic kids that feel entitled to a government handout. On the flip side, you have the rich kids that were socially neglected their entire life, but wanted for nothing because of daddy's money. That's why the kids are messed up. Universities traded their integrity for a bureaucratic mess with Sallie Mae.
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  5925. It's amazing that the Democratic Party has been openly using illegal immigration to flex the census to get more votes and millions of people are still completely obvious to it. Either you are against (cheap foreign labor) or you're for it and by extension gross exploitation; pick one Democrats!
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  5926. I'm not going to dismiss your point, but to make a claim that THIS is the primary issue is a farce. Child abuse and neglect are at all time highs and parental involvement in education is at an all time low. The inmates are running the asylum. Social media blackmailers are rampant! If a school is told they need to accommodate an individual by political means; the school obliges ONLY have other parents harass them at board meetings and try to sue. If the school refuses to humor the political whims of their students; then the NAACP and ACLU show up with lawsuits. The educational industry is a bloodbath of "teacher wrong" 100% of the time regardless of what they choose. In the end, the children lose because the parents DO NOT care. Then the teachers end up resigning or transferring because they are underpaid, understaffed, and burned out. This isn't just a phenomenon in education; it's in almost every industry, including healthcare.
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  5927. Crazy how the President of the US can brag about committing blackmail as VP and mainstream media still says it's fake news.
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  5928. I solely used to early election results to predict that Trump would win by a 7% margin nationally. Guess I was right; maybe these news anchors should pay closer attention to early voting trends.
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  5929. Peter says that it's honest to assume Trump is failing? He should stick to geo-politics. The 2024 election just re-aligned ALL voting blocks and demographics, which nobody predicted. Older people swung towards the Democrats 49:49. Younger generations and middle aged adults swung heavily towards the Republican side. The whole problem is that the Democratic Parties platform is (ignore everything else - just watch out for Trump!). If they carry that mentality into 2028; a candidate like JD Vance could win the popular vote by 70%. Democrats are not doing their due diligence. Think I'm wrong? Imagine how many Democrats will stop voting just because Trump is gone.
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  5930. Democrats are still desperately trying to replace Barack Hussein Jesus; I mean Obama.
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  5931. It's because women 18-35 are a massive Democrat stronghold right now. They expected the men to do the same, but it was the opposite. Tbh, I think social media is driving the female craze behind the equity movement. No maternal woman would ever vouch for a system that makes it harder for them to have as many children and as much resources as possible for their family. Which flows directly with the trend of many younger women wanting to ditch maternity and act like men; have long careers and compete for resources. Social media affects women differently because their mating psychology is vicious. It rewired their brains to focus their on competing against men in status; rather than women in mating. The reason is that social media allows a vicious minority of filthy women to intentionally poison the minds of other women so that they can have more resources to themselves or less for others. Feminism has never been about equality. It's about a minority of women tricking other women into reducing their own status and potential. Misery loves company. Successful women get the men they want and the other low status women get to flatter themselves with thoughts of stopping other women from mating. A woman's true psychology is about poisoning other women so that they can't reproduce. This is why you'll never see a long term friend group of girls; it's all about competition.
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  5932. Trump, you mean the guy that appointed Jerome Powell and set interest rates to 0 in 2020. Causing out of control inflation in the markets? If you elect Trump, get ready for inflation round two. He will certainly implemented Reaganomics on steroids all over again.
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  5933.  @TheFreeMan84  lol that's a preposterous claim. Liberals create all the companies and inventions. Conservatives manage them. These are very necessary personality traits for a functioning society. You are probably thinking of Marxists and people that leech the system dry.
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  5934. Zelensky is a warmonger fascist; best thing we can do is get him out. Problem is that he was elected in a foreign COUP; so if they remove him from office (they'll claim the the US is removing a Democratically elected President lmfao It's all one big word salad of finger pointing.
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  5935. It amazes me how ordinary people (in the minority) but nonetheless are cheering for Biden's mandate. These are the same people that think the Nazis and Soviets were psychopaths and no normal person could do what they did. Get ready, because they're about to cheer for your arrest and train ticket to a concentration camp. It's already begun in Australia believe it or not.
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  5936. Unfortunately, spending under Trump and Biden, as well as the Trump Administration's position on keeping Federal Reserve rates low for as long as they did has contributed to the situation unfolding with inflation. Biden can't solely be blamed. Trump initiated the same exactly failed policies between the Carter and Reagan Administrations the lead from early stagflation to a recession. I personally do not think Trump nor Desantis have the platform nor the numbers to win another election. The GOP is trying build a platform based on fighting transgender laws, suggestive school books, and wokism. Not that I heavily disagree with some of their positions, but it's embarrassing when we should be focusing on Russia/China, inflation, and Social Security solvency. If Republicans don't step up to fight the real issues plaguing this country, they will lose in a landslide come 2024.
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  5937. Well, careful this doesn't turn into another set of racial quotas like the people behind DEI. I want talent; pure and simple. I don't care where it comes from. I've been all over the country and worked in many different industries; home-grown Americans are seldom your best choices. However, with any government program comes a bunch of abuse that follows. Any time I have to associate with American born workers; it's either a cesspool or arrogance or ignorance. I've actually found foreign workers to be some of the most kind and hard working people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.
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  5938.  @bluefallon6374  So, is the system impartial or is it broken? People can't seem to make up their minds. Democrats have one set of rules for their own, but an entirely different one for others.
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  5939. Don't let mainstream media do your thinking bud; they are playing you for a fool.
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  5940. @zer Hardly obnoxious when it describes every middle-aged adult in the late 90s and early 2000s. Yes, televangelism! Along with all the other cults that they suckered people into and forced their Millennial children to abide by. Millennials are the first generation to break the chains.
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  5941. It's all blackmail. In most cases they put these arrogant and powerful men with underage teenage girls. Then use that as a way to blackmail them into submission.
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  5942. Good man! Just remember to always lend your ears to unedited information when making conclusions going forward. This is why podcasts are growing so rapidly. Fox and CNN will always be entertainment at best. The oligarchy is fighting back HARD against easy access to information.
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  5943. Let's not pretend for a minute though that it's just the men. There are an insane amount of women that try to link their porn accounts to communities on Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube. They make content for teenagers and young adults. Then steer them with prompts to their sex accounts. They know what they're doing.
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  5944. How is this equivalent to interviewing Hitler? Most of us educated people KNOW that this conflict began when NATO took over Kiev in a 2014 coup. Hearing Putin confirm it is just awesome.
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  5945. Earners in the 40% to 60% range have lost nearly half their wealth in the last 30 years if you look at the Federal Reserve Board statistics. And the top 80% and above increased their wealth in that time period. I don't think all those middle class earners were becoming the upper quartile in that time period. If anything, the last two years have pushed everyone down. If you were (center) middle class in 2019, then with the same assets and cash value you are (lower) middle class in 2021.
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  5946. You can vote for RFK? I won't vote for these clowns. In fact, I'll never vote for a D or R ever again. Thinking 3rd parties can't win is part of the problem in this country.
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  5947. None of these women understand that every year they wait; it's another years worth of male selection pool that they lose. It's nearly impossible for a woman to find a long and healthy relationship after age 30. If a man is single after 30; it's either because he is becoming wealthy and plans to marry a young fertile woman, a man that is absolutely done with women, OR a man that's not worth dating.
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  5948. Presidents only have so much power over the Federal Reserve/Board of Governors. The Trump Administration is trying to taking credit for coincidental timing of a bull market 2014-2019. People are trying to give Trump credit because they are dealing with massive cognitive dissonance of him running for re-election with 91 felony charges. He's a con-artist. If he is re-elected, he will pressure the Federal Reserve to do what he wants, to pump the market, make his buddies rich, and then check out when inflation resurges twice as bad several years from now.
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  5949. Kind of hard to do when an 18 year old can pull his phone out and invest in a Chinese stock in 5 seconds. I don't have the answers, but this (tech) world we're living in will truly test the idealism of sovereignty.
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  5950. Lobbying already has finance laws; nobody follows them and nobody gets charged.
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  5951. I'm glad that the younger generations are waking up to this garbage. It's all about control and compliance. This country was NEVER great, but it's getting better I think! Generation X is seriously the most abusive in history imo. Military worship, televangelism, consumerist ideology. While at the same time children must obey and conform to their cult of personality.
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  5952. I'm a huge critic of modern women, but some of the comments here are just pathetic. Talking about low-T being some of kind of fake problem or that it doesn't really affect a man's performance is quite literally insane.
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  5953. How is this Trump's fault?
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  5954. It IS illegal, but you can't prove it because these companies are smart. It's unemployment insurance fraud. They create ghost jobs so they can pump up their (employment to job vacancy) that they provide to each state. This allows them to tout 'big job numbers' and get a tax-deduction towards the state unemployment fund. HR are given directions to perform 'interview' quotas so that the state can't prosecute them for fraud. On top of that, the economy sucks.
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  5955. The biggest problem I see coming is that major networks will use AI to further gaslight and scare people into doing what they want. What happens when you see New York City getting nuked on the news and nobody knows if it's real or not?
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  5956. A test that gives consistent results is a good test. Whether it measures exterior areas is an entirely different question. You shouldn't conflate the two. IQ measurement has been a solid science for around a century. Unless you can prove that tests are producing a wide range of results for the same person, then it's rather sound. Proponents of the equity movement have made it a hobby to try and regress with revisions because it challenges their agenda. The only way you can attempt to initiate a system of equity is to ignore any and all research regarding differences in people.
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  5957.  @lawboss  Believe? An IQ test measures pattern recognition primarily in geometry and sentence structure. It's a processing speed test essentially. You should read Charles Murray's Bell Curve on how IQ tests were perfected to incorporate culture and language barriers to create consistent results cross-culturally.
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  5958. Oh she's popular on Onlyfans. Most men in the comments already know that; probably your husband too lmfao
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  5959.  @mariekuijkenhistoricallyaw2598  Bots are easy to recognize because they use unusual lingo and predictable language that most people wouldn't. Also, they typically like to solicit material while pretending to be human and unusually kind/caring.
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  5960. Graduation ceremonies are for a celebration of intellect, perseverance, and triumph of their journey. They are not supposed to be a political charade by young people to display emotionally charged ignorance. I'm glad that most people are seeing this as an abomination across all other channels reporting.
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  5961. His policies worked SO WELL that we ended up with the highest inflation in 50 years. Claiming it was caused by Biden is nonsensical. Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell and pushed the rates lower in 2019 to pump him re-election. It only made inflation worse due to the shutdowns. We never created anything, but everybody and their brother got a new car and a new house. Then we wonder why inflation is so bad.
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  5962. UN stats already place 50.2% of women of 30 years of age/older as having 0 children.
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  5963. There's a major economic problem with UBI. All inflation is basically a result of debt obligations that come from the Federal Reserve to the Treasury. If the US Government were to simply 'create' this new money as give it to every adult citizen. It would create an inflationary scenario in all areas of the market that it was used for. If you give each family $12,000 dollars a year; most of that money will go towards groceries and other necessities. That demand will cause all of these prices to increase that ultimately 'diminish' the value of that $12,000. Price inflation would be out of control and each year the Government would need to adjust that UBI to reflect the current inflationary rate. We would eventually spend ourselves into hyperinflation. UBI cannot be accomplished; at least in a free market. They would have to employ price caps and administrative control, which in turn would lead to massive shortages and an equally failing economy. I don't see any way through it.
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  5964.  @kurtpearson2793  Too many Boomers still watching MSNBC that think the DNC is run by people like Clinton. The party is unrecognizable.
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  5965. You'd be surprised how many 'shit' people exist in society. I've been in three car accidents; two of them tried to lie about the situation and get me booked by insurance and a citation. Thankfully, most never think through their lies before they try them.
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  5966. Fannie Mae already pre-established this new loan policy back in 2023 when the FED was still raising rates. Under the Biden Administration, they fully intended to roll out 40 years mortgages with 1-5% down payments for the new conventional policy. Now, I'm no economist, but it doesn't take one to know that this would skyrocket housing costs once interest rates get reversed. If you have a $300,000 home right now. It will easily by $400,000 come Spring 2028
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  5967. It's not even an radical ideology problem; it's a brain-dead problem. I don't know how people can watch this garbage and say 'that was amazing!" Maybe Zoomers set an immensely LOW bar for entertainment?
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  5968. It's because most Zoomer and young Millennials have never even left their state. The entire world revolves around their weird views of open sexuality and social justice. Not to mention they tend to think it's only a white on minority phenomenon. Go overseas kids; you'll experience more racism, sexism, and prejudice than you could have ever imagined.
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  5969. Apparently bots are all that keep CNN going lol
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  5970. How so? I'll be honest, disinformation is getting harder and harder to discern. I feel it used to be easy.
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  5971. They voted for annexation bro; the lowest being Kharkov with 87%. You can argue with the legitimacy all you want, but that's what was reported. NATO is completely to blame for this entire mess; Russian attacking unprovoked? What a joke. NATO overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014 and the US armed rebels to fight Russia in the east. Imagine if China overthrew Mexico and armed them to fight the DHS on the Texas border. You need to assume that anything you see in western media is garbage. Use result and common sense as your compass.
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  5972. Can we please stop perpetuating this misinformation please? We are NOT about the run out of diesel at the end of November. The strategic reserve is low and the supply continue to decrease. BUT we are not going to (literally) run out of diesel. You will see price hikes by December of course, but stop saying that we are going to run-out please.
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  5973.  @jimineycrickit4239  Shows you who's really in control. I'm no fan of Trump, but GOP voters rolled the RNC in 2016 and 2020 to elect the man they wanted. Democrats can't roll the DNC. Their rules are too opaque and their delegates are routinely bribed without consequence. Democratic voters also don't have the balls to do the same.
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  5974. Yeah, not really. Most of the buyers are not wealthy by any means. Demand for housing sent the prices thru the roof due to low interest rates.
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  5975. If Trump was still President and had been doing the exact same things that Biden is doing; this country would be on fire. Let's not forget how CNN was against the vaccines when Trump was still in office.
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  5976. Except nobody is raising the kids; least of all parents. Being a teacher has become virtually impossible anymore.
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  5977. @GoldTau-km9dm Yep! It's easier than ever to make money! The caveat is that it's harder than ever to make enough to afford todays prices lol
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  5978. Every President has spent more than the last since Bush. Until our SS, Medicare, Pension status changes; it will continue.
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  5979. "Bitcoin is a major funnel for terrorism and human trafficking!" You know what else is? The US Dollar...
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  5980. Disinformation, propaganda, and paranoia are immensely powerful in strategy. However, don't make the mistake of thinking it's only coming from one side. NATO, the EU, and the Biden Administration have their hands in the cookie jar. War is the product and they're selling.
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  5981. Not going to happen, world will only function with the current or greater population. Depopulation would collapse all the industries that these elites need to maintain wealth and power.
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  5982.  @DrawinskyMoon  Chicken feed is primarily corn and alfalfa; all grown in the US. The woman doesn't know what she's talking about. All prices are part of supply/demand curves paired with FED policy on interest rates.
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  5983. I fear it will have consequences both ways, but thinking Harris will be in charge for WW3 is truly disturbing. Leaders have always been corrupt, but they've never been THIS psychotic.
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  5984. A society of unmarried women and rogue 20-35 years old men is a recipe for disaster. Single women with no values tend to gravitate towards narcissism and exploitation. Single men with no values tend to gravitate towards destruction and violence to amuse themselves. Growing up, we were always pushed to do sports or excel in school; both if you could. Our coach was correct, the kids that neither excelled in school or participated in sports/clubs turned out to largely pursue a criminal career.
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  5985.  @melindahall5062  Insane according to what? Media talking points? Maybe you should watch his interviews and not jump on the bandwagon of blindly disliking him?
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  5986.  @innocentrage1  Not going to happen. In 2008, the FEDs only bailed out the large banks and the rest of the economy fell into deflation. The Government cannot do that this time with the current balance sheet they have/ debt obligations. Deflation would lead to an immediate bond auction failure and the US would go into hyperinflation as the treasury began buying all of it's own bonds. They will probably do the same thing they did in 2020; bail out the entire market. Get ready for inflation round 2 come 2026/2027.
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  5987. If you thought the Soviet Union or Maoist China was bad. Just wait until these kids get into politics! Back in the day, informants and rats typically had reservations and moral qualms about what they were doing. These kids have a burning desire to see you 'ended' simply because they can't handle the slightest criticism.
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  5988. Believe me, regardless who wins the election; anti-Chinese sentiment is going to seep further into the US culture and foreign policy. I wouldn't be surprised if we entirely cut off our exchange programs and visas within the decade. I don't blame them either.
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  5989. Anti-Semitism in Russia is as old as the Russian people themselves. Fun fact, but one of the reasons that the Bolsheviks took over Russia was due to a large swathe of US and British bankers had enough of the pogroms (Jewish lynching's) in Russia. They withdrew all financial support for the Tsar and instigated civil unrest by funding radical organizations to overthrow the Romanovs. Jews in general tend to perform excessively well wherever they live; family, wealth, communal planning etc. Unknown to most people, but already proven in Charles Murray's book Bell Curve; Ashkenazi Jews tend to have an IQ that is a standard deviation higher than most other races. East Asians on par with Ashkenazi Jews as well. That doesn't means all Jews are smart. It simply means that (generally speaking) a building with 100 Jews is collectively smarter than a building with 100 random Caucasians, etc. Whenever economic upheaval takes places; anti-Semitism grows linear with it. This has always been the result and it breeds ignorant ideas like a Jewish conspiracy, Nazism, etc. Anti-Semitism being the result of the Israel-Hamas war or Ukrainian conflict is a misnomer. Anti-Semitism has been on a steep incline since 2020. Right on time with the next economic crisis! In older times, when a village fell ill or famine struck. Jewish families were able to largely persevere due to their cultural practices and planning with resources. When the villagers found out that everybody would be suffering except the Jewish families; it would breed contempt and conspiracies. To this day; nothing has changed.
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  5990. When you replace 200,000 years of evolution with a screen, that takes up 30% of a child's attention span. They are going to be completely rewired in their neural pathways compared to somebody who does not. They will not empathize like you do, they will not sympathize like you, they will not have compassion like you do, nor will they have self accountability like you do. It's not because they choose not to, it's because they can't. If anybody has noticed the anti-social personality disorder epidemic we have with young people (ages primarily 14-25). Then you'll know what I'm talking about. There's something missing from the brain development of many younger people. It's why they gaslight people, take what they can, stab you in the back, and then get mad when you call them out on it.
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  5991.  @fr3sht1lld3ff  Project 2025 isn't Trump's agenda. Stop letting the mainstream media condition your brain bud.
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  5992. Well, AI doesn't know how to lie. It only knows how to give a series of results based on available material and a hierarchy of acceptance. The thing is that the current incentive is to fill the internet full of fake things in order to profit on the growing use of baby AI. Once AI reaches it's maximum potential in it's current domain; there will be no reason to post fake content online for profit.
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  5993.  @LycanKai14  That doesn't seem very logical. They're social media platforms; not social-media communities. It's a massive disparity that can't exactly be explained by a simple change in medium. Both sites employ similar audiences; though men are more likely to use Youtube. Unless of course sites like Youtube are rotting and (Dead Internet Theory) is largely true. Meaning it's full of bots.
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  5994. This all began with Carter, Reagan pushed us towards centralization, Bush and Obama made is considerably worse, Trump turned it into a game of Let's Make a Deal; where most people lose and Biden didn't even know he was in charge. Grand country we got here.
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  5995. The Children of Generation Z will have to live in the Metaverse. - You can't buy a home - You can't pay off your student loans - You can't conduct yourself properly in a social environment - You haven't faced real adversity People kill themselves over these kinds of things; believe me suicide is a first world problem. None of these kids are going to be able to function in the real world, it's inevitable. If an animal is born into captivity and you release them into the wild, what happens? They die, pure and simple. How is this current generation any different?
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  5996. I would encourage anybody to take these media reports with a grain of salt. In a state of war, disinformation is a primary weapon; not just from the supposed enemy, but internally as well. You need to assume that anything CNN, FOX, BBC etc. are saying is part of a larger disinformation campaign being waged against the public in lieu of a larger goal. Also, I would not be so quick to side with the US-NATO ambitions on the subject. How many times have people jumped the gun in the last several years to be dead-wrong and misled from the start? Personally, I don't think any of this would have happened if NATO had not been interfering with Ukrainian elections and attempting to set up a puppet dictator named (Zelensky) in 2014 just like they did for the last 30 years in the middle east. I think Putin had finally had enough when the US began aiding Ukrainian rebels in 2014 to fight an 8 year series of border skirmishes in the east. All the while Zelensky used his new government to create undue suffering to Russians living in the Ukrainian regions to the east. It's a large piece of the puzzle that no western media outlet will touch. It destroys the US narrative of (unprompted) Russian aggression. This entire clown-show started because the US was attempting to create foreign policy the best way they know how. Overthrowing foreign governments and installing a puppet regime. Where else has that happened? lol
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  5997. Bud, they are globalists. In all reality, everybody is. There are two types though: globalists that don't believe in individual sovereignty and globalists that believe in global trade. Both of which are killing the worth of the US Dollar. Don't be surprised that an 'elected leader' is going to put his faith in a foreign deal that enriches himself and his allies at the expense of people that buy into his shenanigans. It's literally what they believe in doing, they don't think they're evil.
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  5998. Organized religion is a fucking cancer..
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  5999. To see that even a small percentage of Americans are going along with the executive orders of this regime truly shows you how the Nazis and Bolsheviks came to power. These are the kinds of people that think they can do no evil and that only psychopaths commit atrocities. Yet here they are, vouching for an experimental vaccine mandate against the will of their own people. Any officials or public servants enforcing this mad house need to face a firing squad. Revolutions have been started for much less.
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  6000. Restore women's right? We gave them back to the states. You should say, "Fight to return all power to the Federal Government."
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  6001. Right? I'm 31; so is my wife. We have a two year old child and own a home. There is nobody and I mean NOBODY with children living within a quarter mile, it's insane.
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  6002.  @BadtakeDave  National abortion ban? Where did you hear that?
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  6003. Depends where! The pan-handle of Florida is quite moderate with humidity and no worse in heat than the core of a Midwest summer. We go there May thru September all the time. The weather is typically 85F and humidity is 70% I'm from Ohio, June thru September is 80-100F and humidity can be typically 80-90% for a long time.
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  6004. Because religious obedience STIFLES human creativeness; pure and simple. You're never going to create a a carbon-dating model if you think the earth is 6000 years old.
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  6005.  @jarthur5094  What does God have to do with anything? You're living in an eco-chamber bud. You CANNOT use 10-20 years of climate data to predict future weather, nor can you use it to determine some kind of economic causation. Calling it science is ridiculous; it's ideology. Solely to enrich the greed of 501c3 organizations taking advantage of ignorance. How many times must this be demonstrated over the years before people figure it out? These organizations rake in billions of dollars spreading hysteria over climate related falsehoods. Then they go underground and wait for then next decade of suckers. The first quarter century of the 1900s saw some of the worst natural disasters in known history. The climate change mob doesn't acknowledge this because it actively destroys their anti-science narrative. It's a cult!
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  6006. Time flies, two years ago.
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  6007. To what end? I have a CDL and it has lost 55% of it's value since 1980. They will give you 8-10 unpaid vacation days and ask you to show up 6 days a week/72 hours each year; there's no point in it. Corporate policy rules this country; there is NO negotiating.
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  6008. (AI) - teach me the ways of humans master! (Zuckerberg) - white people are bad (AI) - thank you for educating me.
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  6009. There's no $2T tax cut for billionaires. He's insinuating that Trump tax cuts let to the deficit being raised substantially, which is mathematically ignorant. It's really not that hard to prove. It's just regurgitated falsehoods being repeated by talking heads.
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  6010. It's insane to think that (in order to be middle class in America) these days you need to be making $100k single just to qualify. Many people may not be aware, but if you were making $150k single or joint in 2020; you were considering upper-middle class. If you're making $150k in 2022, you are officially center-middle class.
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  6011. I would take western media with a grain of salt. They'll use old photos or staged photos and videos to affect a way of thinking with news reports.
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  6012. Believe me bro, you're not alone. My wife and I dodged it, but my whole family got it (with boosters) and they are going coo-coo.
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  6013. Adam has never worked a day in his life and it certainly shows. The guy made all his money in a couple lucky day-trades.
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  6014. OR, perhaps mismanagement is the leading cause of the unsustainability? You have massive bureaucracies that do nothing to help soil regeneration or anything else that's sustainable. I don't see any actual logical argument for why it's over-populated. 1B could be over-populated for all we understand. Btw, don't let grifters turn this into a left vs. right thing. Low-birth rates have been a concern for decades. This video pretends like conservatives somehow are obsessed with it now. Btw, fossil fuels are necessary for the current demographics. Many people want to slowly transition; instead of rapidly switch from one energy to another. This is because a rapid switch would cause tens of millions of deaths.
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  6015. What's your reasoning; I noticed you gave insult, but no justification.
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  6016. Conservative here! I love Bernie Sanders. There's actually a LOT of people that fantasize about a Progressive/Conservative coalition against the corporate elites.
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  6017.  @jgmediting7770  lol probably
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  6018. Crazy? According to what; headline news?
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  6019. Many companies are withholding that information in the hopes that desperate idiots will take the job lol
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  6020. "Of all the warlords loved by the Gods, I hate him the most."
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  6021.  @chinesecrested9528  As much as I agree, the average used vehicle is $26,000 It's nearly impossible to find a 'decent' vehicle under $10k these days. Times aren't like they used to be.
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  6022. The unrest and division we are seeing in the United States is a self fulfilling prophecy spawned by none other than social media corporations. Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc. all generate ad revenue purely from user engagement. This is why their algorithms are designed to be as addictive as humanly possible. They are going to show you exactly what you want to see and on top of that they will show it to you in the most controversial order. Facebook began re-programming those algorithms in 2018 to show you the biggest dumpster fires first. There's a reason that mainstream media has become so bad and it's very simple. They cannot compete with the user/viewer volume of the social media sites. It's absolute desperation on their part. Yes, there are bad players, but most of this issue comes down to individuals making poor decisions. Data markets are immensely lucrative. What you like, what you buy, which coupons you use, where you travel, what day of the week, what time, etc. All of this is sold and reduced to algorithms; they know you better than you know yourself. They sell your consumer data and use the rest of your habitual behavior to make you engage more and more with platforms like Facebook. Considering that Facebook had 1.9 Billion regular users, what could go wrong when you constantly incite an endless cycle of dumpster fires to people that are none the wiser that they are being manipulated? This is the end result.
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  6023. You're going to find out that people are stupid bud. I thought it was common knowledge that most electrical generation is done via coal plants. You'd be surprised that most people are completely unaware of this. They think electric is generated from solar panels; it's like 3% of total production.
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  6024. I'm going to be that one guy I guess. I fully understand how much tighter finances are and how much inflation has affected people's wallets. However, in my personal experience, Gen Z is the most entitled generation I have ever witnessed; no offense to the exceptions. For some reason, Gen X and young Boomers decided at the last minute to start throwing money at their youngest children in order to buy love. It's the strangest thing in the world and I've seen everybody I grew up with start to do it about 10 plus years ago. The complaint doesn't seem to be about annual income. The complaint seems to be about not wanting to work at all. Why? Because they are completely content sitting on their phones being taken care of by other family members. Oppressed and desperate people don't sit around complaining endlessly about a dip in their opportunities; that's what entitled people do. I'm thirty years old, married, and have a son. I'll say it again, never in my life have I witnessed a generation so anti-social and lacking fortitude. You can't talk to them, attitude problems are abundant, they take no responsibility, and they throw their colleagues and friends away when they're done using them. It's one of the reasons my sister is estranged from the family; she's completely sociopathic and apathetic. Stop making excuses for millennials and zoomers; kick them out of the house and see if they fly.
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  6025.  AskMississippi AskMississippi  My God you are a sad bum aren't you? Are you still posting this garbage as a full time job? It's been what, 6 months now? Please, seek professional help.
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  6026. Oh please, your daughter isn't going to have children based on social media feeds that don't affect her? I swear, the two most recent generations have faced ZERO adversity. So they have to invent it in their own minds to feel human again. We live in the best times you can imagine. Despite the conflicts of the world.
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  6027. This will continue to happen until society collapses. Inflation, fatherlessness, rising crime, debt crisis, birthing crisis, media disinformation; it's not a coincidence. These are the end-times; look to Calhoun's Rodent Utopia!
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  6028. You need to see the full interview, WJS as usual cut this video to elicit the response they wanted.
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  6029. Depends, rates and costs aren't like they used to be. My wife and I are actually selling our home and settling all debts. If mortgage rates are over 4%; then it's most likely more economical to rent; rather than buy. The only thing I don't regret is that my home appreciated 40% in the last 3 years, which obviously isn't realistic in any normal scenario going forward in the future. People talk about (building equity), but that's largely an illusion if you can build the same equity in an investment account. Property tax and insurance are becoming insane; even in the Midwest. Those costs easily wipe away the value of monthly equity you accrue.
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  6030. Fascism? Stop lapping up the media hysteria please.
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  6031.  @luns486  I do listen to what he says; he's the biggest bull$#itter on the planet. I think you're intentionally trying to take what he says out of context to be offended. Would you rather go back to having a President that appears presidential, but screws the country behind your back? Why do people want to live in blissful ignorance? It's not hard to see how bad the corruption has gotten, especially from the DNC and corporate capture.
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  6032.  @denofpigs2575  Lack of (double-blind studies). My wife is a cardiotheracic PA and this stuff infuriates her at work. There really aren't (real Doctors or medical professionals) anymore. They're pill-salesmen with a God-complex. What's the point of going to school for 11-15 years if all your decisions have to be vetted by insurance? lol You'd think people with an IQ of 130 would wonder. It all comes down to the Pharmaceutical lobbies ability to infiltrate government, then mandate vaccines under the 'child vaccine schedule.' Permanent stream of income with immunity and no incentive to do a good job. It's all about money money money.
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  6033. Well of course! When the Federal Government performs QE post recession; you're going to feel like it's a good economy regardless of the President.
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  6034. Why are you nervous? Don't fill your head with media hysteria. They will always try to use and confuse you for their own ambitions.
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  6035. It's not just the Democrats, it's literally everyone. The temptation for avarice and greed is irresistible at this point. Data mining and national security breaches of the United States have been the most profitable business this last decade.
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  6036. Maybe they don't care, because the elections are compromised? I mean, think of the logic. Why are Republicans excited about November 8th if a large number of them were convinced that 2020 was a fraud? I'm not mocking the idea of voter fraud, I'm simply saying it's hilarious to think you're going to win if the election process is completely dead.
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  6037. Well, I think it's deeper than that. Children don't magically deceive and manipulate people because they can; that behavior is attained from bad parenting. The primary issue is that none of these parents are involved in their child's lives. Parents are not showing up at board meetings on a national scale; not just Texas.
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  6038. Too many people with hateful feelings about Trump. Yet they can't objectively explain why without insults or citing some article from a corporate media chain. It's all in the hierarchy of needs. If someone isn't taking care of you; then you're probably voting for Trump; that's the problem.
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  6039. @ Veritas304 Thanks for the insult. I believe this clearly shows who has a better understanding; otherwise I'm not sure you would have needed it in the first place. If you're going to gaslight my intelligence; bring facts please. What you said was actually false and provable so. Canada is not the leading exporter to the United States; by volume they are tied for 2nd/3rd with Mexico (as of 2022). (2023 volume has them third with Mexico leading ahead of China) That volume is largely from petroleum btw. A resource that the US doesn't have a problem making itself. Larger production domestically would reduce barrel prices and Canada loses relative profit. Canada's economy is dependent on petroleum exports. With the cost of living crisis happening currently; I'd imagine any big drop in barrel prices or demand could be dangerous. A weakened Canada is a weakened Canada. The US has plenty of resources to significantly reduce any fallout from oil problems and tech manufacturing. The exports are a dime a dozen. Want some life advice? Please take your emotions out of it and learn how to properly debate.
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  6040. @Veritas304 You've lost the debate; deal with it and move on. I'm not stooping any lower to your immature behavior. It's nothing but narcissistic gaslighting. Good day..
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  6041. You need to slow down and use more logic. You're going from one assumption to another. It leads you to make irrational assumptions and radical conclusions. Kennedy has been in contact with both campaigns to see what he can offer their platforms. Harris turned down all calls and meetings with him because they 'have nothing in common' is what the report says. Overthrow the constitution? This assumption means what in particular? Perhaps you should research each topic you're mentioning and be objective. There is nothing intellectually honest about studying history, past, or present from a point of view that perverts the intentions or mischaracterizes actions/events.
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  6042. Just wait till they go higher; this isn't a bubble.
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  6043. There's nothing to be done at this point except immigration reform 'making it easier to migrate'; at least in the US. We have an estimated 30-40 million illegal immigrants. Anybody that thinks we have the resources to deport that many people is kidding themselves. This is a new world that will require new solutions. I'm no fan of the situation, but we saw what happened in the mid 20th century and how those policies went. Left wing and right wing solutions to these issues will either end in anarchy or genocide. There needs to be another solution.
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  6044. Because the gun was hiding under his balls.
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  6045. I hear the Bahamas have some really good tax incentives and are really good for foreigners (especially US) looking to buy property. Might want to look there.
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  6046. You're completely ignoring the intelligence/technology curve. Human beings are brilliant are innovating faster than society can increase the average IQ. People are not going to evolve to go from (truck driving, to coding, to innovative software development) in a single generation. What ends up happening (historically) is that the inequalities grow out of control and civilizations destroy themselves.
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  6047. It's because the entire conflict (again) is being sourced by international funds. Somebody wants Haiti overthrown so it's an easy target for infiltration. China, Saudi Arabia, US? Who knows.
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  6048. Your assumption of scientific consensus is the 'Achilles Heel' in your essay. As far as Ukraine goes, perhaps NATO and the US shouldn't be overthrowing governments and installing dictators. Zelensky has been pushing a terror-campaign against the pro-Russian residents of eastern Ukraine for the last 8 years. US money laundering in that country goes completely without consequence. I have no qualms about Putin's actions in Russia personally. His annexation of those four territories are a liberation for the populations living there. Populations that have been voting for pro-Russian parties in Ukraine for the last 20 years. You can't rely on governments and agencies to give you objective information. The same goes for climate alarmism. Not to mention those of us that are old enough to have lived through the litany of climate alarmist 'scams' of the past. Non-profit is a way to make a lot of money and pay no taxes, flying completely under the radar as long as you have a friend in Congress.
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  6049. Maybe Trump and JD were rash and miscalculated in their meeting with Zelensky. However, Zelensky is a thug looking for money. If he can't deliver skimmed funds to his partners; he's a dead man.
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  6050. Ah! So the Dailywire is now a Publisher! Seems that these companies get to be both Publisher and Forum whenever it suits their agendas.
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  6051. Can't wait!
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  6052. I fully agree! A vote for Biden is a vote for global dysfunction. A vote for Trump is a vote for domestic conflict and dysfunction at home. I don't think people understand that Trump virtually have 'no solutions' to the things affecting America. This is a revenge tour and he has no plan to fix SS, the border, wages, etc.
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  6053. Liberals are needed for societal innovation. The crux of that reality is that (when they are the steering wheel for too long; they tend to drive civilization off a cliff). Think about it like the (tiger in the bush analogy). Conservatives think that there is danger; liberals think there are berries and imaginary sounds. Both are needed to figure out the truth. However, when you put liberals in an echo-chamber; they literally invent their own extinction because they have no foresight for community preservation. Conservatives survive, but usually at the cost of punishing innovation; leading to a regressive/stuck society.
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  6054. The age of the internet, yet people still can't do objective research. Does anybody think Russia would have invaded if (1. Kiev wasn't still sponsoring a civil war against eastern Ukrainians) (2. The US hadn't overthrown Kiev in 2014) and (3. NATO wasn't attempting to push Ukraine into their ranks?) Effectively ending any Ukrainian conflict on NATO terms, which is part of their protection clause.
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  6055. Talk about a massive anti-trust problem. I think most of us forget that virtually all of these addictive sites are owned by Google. Sounds like it's all about mind-control. I actually read something about Google, in the last several years they've advanced the ability to manipulate user accounts with certain algorithms in order to make people vote a certain way. Truly frightening stuff and I'd believe it.
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  6056. Republicans are not doing the math on this one. The GOP polls are being pumped with devout MAGA voters. A very large swathe of Republicans are exhausted from the last 9 years of Trump. If Trump is going to MOP the floor; then how do you explain the Democrats coming out in storm for Ohio in 2023? Republicans were nowhere to be seen at the ballot box.
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  6057. Nah, more like $100 for a beta game release where you have to buy the rest of the game thru small purchases.
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  6058.  @danieln6700  Unfortunately no, it's manifesting into social culture before our eyes. If you get to spend any time with people under 30; they are normalizing insults and out-rage over literally nothing.
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  6059. The biggest problem is that most Americans are part-time politic-ers that think they get to have a baseless (yet) merited opinion on world events whenever they 'trend'. Almost nobody is aware that the Obama Administration orchestrated most of this conflict. They helped overthrow the sitting Ukrainian Government in 2014. Replaced it with individuals they 'approved of', as well as sold firearms and missiles to Ukraine to fight Russian separatists. NATO has been strategically brewing this conflict, knowing full well that Putin was going to respond with military force. Things are going exactly as planned as far as I can see and NATO will get the war they've been dreaming of. Gotta love Senator Marko Rubio grilled Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland about bio-research labs in Ukraine. To which she confirmed their existence. Though he made a very strange remark, asking that "if there was to be a biological attack in Ukraine, it would no doubt come from the Russians?" To which she replied that :it would be likely and that it's a classic Russian strategy to accuse your enemy of what you plan to do." DING DING DING people, have we learned nothing? Sounds like the US is planning to release a bio-weapon in Ukraine, blame the Russians, and justify the war they've always wanted.
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  6060. It's certainly worse than 2008. Believe me, the FED will be forced to bail out the markets again. This talk of 'long-term high interest' is laughable. They risk a bond default by allowing this to even go another year. They'll cut rates and we'll do this circus all over again in 2026/2027 with high inflation. Bust your balls in 2025, because we'll be in the same garbage dump come 2028.
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  6061. Thankfully, all nukes in circulation are considerably smaller and more tactical. Plus the radiation fallout is nowhere near what it was during the height of the cold war. The largest weapons anyone carries these days are 475-550k Kt. There's barely anything larger in either arsenal.
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  6062.  @marktapley7571  Interesting!
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  6063. You're describing a bull market period that happened while Trump was in office; through no action of himself. Don't vote for Trump because you happened to be living in good times while he was President; it's a false correlation. We are living in tough times because the FED is obligated to raise interest rates to quell the inflation caused by Trump and his appointee Jerome Powell.
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  6064.  @krashme997  It's supply-side economics, which work (until they don't). The problem is that the FED never actually knows when to appropriately pull back interest rates. So supply begins to catch up with market demand as the economy is stimulated, but a slow-down is inevitable and usually demand begins to outpace supply. Eventually, it creates a debt bubble that the FED doesn't catch until it's too late. They start raising rates again, but then something breaks as usual and you get a recession.
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  6065.  @Yelkz367  Forget about historic debate for a second. Do you want a theocratic regime (that dismembers children and adults) to succeed over a 1st world nation in the middle east? You have the comfort of being able to openly side with an extensively aggressive Islamic force. I see that as cowardly..
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  6066. Not a chance! Many Republican still will not vote for Trump. The first indication was winning 49% in the Iowa Caucus. He is completely unelectable; even by the standards of a 'fallback' vote where they vote for him anyway. A large swathe of Republican woman will NOT vote for Trump. This is why Nikki Haley is still popular! They won't vote for a man with 91 felony charges and neither will most Americans.
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