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Post by sj on Aug 9, 2024 10:48:09 GMT -5
From a funding standpoint as well, the military would have a tough time picking political favorites. Biden increased the military's budget and US defense contractors are profiting nicely thanks to the US funding the proxy war in Ukraine.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 10, 2024 11:51:44 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Aug 10, 2024 16:38:52 GMT -5
These are the type of people who would rule America following a collapse, except that they'd be far more ruthless and employ violence against their enemies without government to reign them in. Best avoid a collapse. To do that, Democrats are going to have to learn basic Economics, how to balance a budget, and that "dumping trillions of $'s on the streets" isn't how you fight inflation. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 10, 2024 17:13:52 GMT -5
These are the type of people who would rule America following a collapse, except that they'd be far more ruthless and employ violence against their enemies without government to reign them in. Oh for sure. If there was a massive collapse in the country I have no doubt religious whackos would convince some in the populace that "this is the result of men abandoning the word of god". Their first thing to do would be to kill anyone visibly LGBT in their community. Even tho Jesus never said anything about homosexuals. Jesus did teach not to get divorced for no reason, but I have no doubt a divorced fundie whackjob could murder LGBT people without feeling a hint of guilt. Christians have a history of pogroms against Jews when times were tough economically in Europe for over a thousands years. The LGBT community is a bigger target in modern times. Best avoid a collapse. To do that, Democrats are going to have to learn basic Economics, how to balance a budget, and that "dumping trillions of $'s on the streets" isn't how you fight inflation. I thought we talked about this before? We literally just had a Republican leave office in 2021 so it wasn't long ago. Trump put trillions onto the national debt while cutting taxes. A sure fire way to accelerate a rush towards collapse if I ever heard one. Modern day deficit spending started under Ronald Reagan. Huge boost to military spending and huge tax cuts. Its really late in the game to pretend Republicans don't spend money or make the deficit bigger |
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Post by sj on Aug 10, 2024 17:32:13 GMT -5
I don't remember mentioning Reagan, Trump, or Republicans in my post, so to say that I'm pretending anything about them is a huge contrivance out of thin air on your part.
The fact is we've had Democrats the last 3 and half years and most likely it's going to be Kamala the next four years. So it's perfectly relevant to discuss them - their deficit spending and debt creation. Passing the buck has to stop sometime, otherwise there's no hope in reversing the problem. "We've been dumping trillions of $'s on the streets" is direct Kamala quote and we've had bad inflation during Biden/Kamala, so yes, she does need to learn basic economics.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 13, 2024 8:26:47 GMT -5
J.D. Vance really loves his eyeliner and apparently crossdressing
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Post by sj on Aug 13, 2024 9:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 14, 2024 20:35:55 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 14, 2024 22:08:26 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Aug 15, 2024 12:04:38 GMT -5
Your post of a college age JD Vance doing something stupid is contextually relevant w/ Kamala's statement "18-24 college kids and kids are stupid." Kamala retroactively giving Vance a pass for doing stupid shit in college. lol I don't know about RFK, nor am I a supporter of his. I don't follow the channel either. It's just the YT video at the top when i searched YT for "Kamala says kids are stupid." There's nothing in that video but Kamala speaking. Is this ok or is it deserving of censorship? |
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Post by sj on Aug 15, 2024 12:22:45 GMT -5
The CCP is a shadowy government in that in their president is (unofficially) a figure head/puppet. I've watched interviews with a Chinese billionaire/defector (to the US) and high ranking Hong Kong business leader, who both said that the CCP is actually controlled by five (or six?) wealthy Chinese families. This would explain the "secret coup" where nobody actually fights for leadership.. no combative exchange of words, no sort of retaliation whatsoever. It make sense if Xi was never really calling the shots in the first place, and these five or six wealthy families were in control and decided a change was needed, due to the mass public unrest & protests going on there in China. It's a funny/odd story too, because they had Xi declared "president for life" not that long ago. www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276 |
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 16, 2024 8:24:31 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Aug 16, 2024 8:51:18 GMT -5
Some of the wording is very iffy. It literally says Vance wrote the forward to " a book" written by this guy (not the book on Project 2025). |
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Post by sj on Aug 16, 2024 8:57:21 GMT -5
I doubt it's going to matter either way because, like I said earlier, they can't afford to let Trump win. I've already accepted that Kamala's most likely going to be president for the next four years.
I read that they have a cozy cell waiting for Trump at Rikers Island (prison) and the Judge is set to sentence him (next month/September) to at least one year in prison. If true, he'll be sitting out the elections in prison, unable to run his campaign or counter any smears for the two months running up to the election.
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Post by Cop on Aug 16, 2024 11:06:45 GMT -5
One can only hope. The less I have to see/read about what he's been saying, the better...
Unless it's Shane Gillis playing him, then I do want to hear...
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Post by sj on Aug 16, 2024 11:50:16 GMT -5
One can only hope. The less I have to see/read about what he's been saying, the better... Unless it's Shane Gillis playing him, then I do want to hear... Trump's campaign style is too negative & angry and he repeats the same lines over & over. It's exhausting just listening to him. Kamala tells people what they want to hear. If she sticks to the script/teleprompter (avoiding her off-script word salads) up until the election, I'm betting she'll be elected. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 17, 2024 13:36:29 GMT -5
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Post by sj on Aug 17, 2024 13:50:56 GMT -5
I worked at an automotive finance company in the early 2000's. Many parents would also co-sign on high $ car loans for their kids and get screwed when their kids didn't make the payments.
Sure, you don't get to file bankruptcy with student loans. But you get student loan forgiveness and bank bailouts on the taxpayer dime which, from the debtor pov, is far better than bankruptcy. Regarding (personal) bankruptcy, you're financially wrecked for at least 10 years - even making it difficult to qualify for jobs in the US, because eligibility for most white collar jobs is dependent on credit score.
The compare you always like to make is student loans to (corporate) bankruptcy, which is apples to oranges. 99.9% of us are never gonna be CEO's and, thus, corporate protections under bankruptcy do not apply to the majority of people.
Imagine someone buying a $100k car, a $400k home, or massive credit card debt, and they're unable to make payments. Then u say, 'man, they're really getting fucked.' lol.. Same difference, because it's not like they're hiding the amount you borrow. You go into it with full disclosure of your loan details.
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Post by sj on Aug 17, 2024 14:11:33 GMT -5
I had about $60K in student loan debt when I graduated college. Even back in the day, before student loan forgiveness, if you paid any attention at all to your personal budget and determined you couldn't make a payment, you'd simply request a deferral (put your payments on hold). And they'd let you do that as many times as you needed. In this regard, student loans were much more forgiving than other types of debt that either don't allow deferrals or only a very limited number of them. However, I graduated with a useful degree. Many people choose worthless degrees because they don't do research before picking their major. The information on pay and jobs growth is easily accessible on bls.gov, so there's really no excuse (other than laziness) for picking a degree that leads nowhere. www.bls.gov/ooh/home.htm |
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:24:09 GMT -5
The thing about hate speech (in America) and something liberals never mention is that it's already explicitly illegal. Has been for decades. Therefore, Musk couldn't allow it on Twitter/X even if he wanted to.
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 18, 2024 12:28:35 GMT -5
The thing about hate speech (in America) and something liberals never mention is that it's already explicitly illegal. Has been for decades. Therefore, Musk couldn't allow it on Twitter/X even if he wanted to. Musk chose to unban actual neo-nazis. Many Republicans flat refuse to buy electric cars so Elon's whole public right wing turn is a Hail Mary pass to get right wingers comfortable with buying Teslas |
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:30:39 GMT -5
The thing about hate speech (in America) and something liberals never mention is that it's already explicitly illegal. Has been for decades. Therefore, Musk couldn't allow it on Twitter/X even if he wanted to. Musk chose to unban actual neo-nazis. Many Republicans flat refuse to buy electric cars so Elon's whole public right wing turn is a Hail Mary pass to get right wingers comfortable with buying Teslas Source for the neo-nazis? If half the country truly refuses to buy his cars, then Tesla won't be able to compete, they'll go under, and you win. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 18, 2024 12:33:02 GMT -5
Musk chose to unban actual neo-nazis. Many Republicans flat refuse to buy electric cars so Elon's whole public right wing turn is a Hail Mary pass to get right wingers comfortable with buying Teslas Source for the neo-nazis? If half the country truly refuses to buy his cars, then Tesla won't be able to compete, they'll go under, and you win. |
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:35:15 GMT -5
I've never met a Replublican/conservative opposed to EV's based on politics. Fact is, most people (regardless of their politics) just don't want them (due to the added cost, short range, lack utility/cargo due to so much of it dedicated to making room for the batteries), high cost to replace batteries. You yourself, an SUV driver and progressive Democrat, are case in point.
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:37:15 GMT -5
This only pulls up far-left sources. But of course it would - it's Google. Go you. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 18, 2024 12:43:02 GMT -5
I've never met a Replublican/conservative opposed to EV's based on politics. Fact is, most people (regardless of their politics) just don't want them (due to the added cost, short range, lack utility/cargo due to so much of it dedicated to making room for the batteries), high cost to replace batteries. You yourself, an SUV driver and progressive Democrat, are case in point. I'm not a registered Democrat because they aren't really left wing. Over and over polls show Republicans as being very hostile to EVs: www.eenews.net/articles/whats-behind-the-republican-hatred-of-evs/I bought my SUV because when my last car died I was living in Alaska and my job as a Field Tech required me to be mobile. So I went to an Alaska vehicle search and searched by 4WD/AWD by cost and my SUV was near cheapest and only had 50,000 miles vs the others that had 100,000-150,000. I bought it cash the next day. Anyway one of my relatives has cancer so I have been seeing some of my more redneck extended family. Out of the blue one of them says "Know what's stupid? Electric cars, good luck with that". That's a direct quote. I don't own an EV because not cost effective and I live in an Apartment not a house so no plug. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Aug 18, 2024 12:45:53 GMT -5
This only pulls up far-left sources. But of course it would - it's Google. Go you. So any source in Google is far left? What do you consider trustworthy news then? The Daily Stormer? Lol |
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:47:02 GMT -5
The problem with relying on strictly leftist sources are their years and years of labeling anyone who disagrees with anything they say as a Nazi or even Hitler himself. It's like they believe there's a Nazis under every rock.
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:50:09 GMT -5
This only pulls up far-left sources. But of course it would - it's Google. Go you. So any source in Google is far left? What do you consider trustworthy news then? The Daily Stormer? Lol Yes, I checked the top half dozen search results for media bias check and verified - all were left and far-left. None were just left of center or moderate. |
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Post by sj on Aug 18, 2024 12:52:51 GMT -5
Daily Stormer doesn't show in any of the four pages of Google search results, using the exact search you specified. So now you're just lying your ass off?
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