Your views, thoughts or simply opinions. The Economy is not well (understatement). I know there are some here that will try to link the country they are residing in as problems of the USA. Sorry the USA cannot be responsible for 100% of the problems in the world nor should they be expected to help repair all problems.
I had decided to not watch the debate, I know where I stand on politics and who I will vote for if I am still alive election day.
BUT as the day passed I am like, "well what the hell?it is important".
Well as soon as the first question was ask about are folks better off than 4 years ago, kamala did not even ADDRESS the question and Trump went off track, he touched on it but not really answering the question.
I have watched debates off and on again for years. And no one seems to understand what the hell the purpose is of the event.
There is the candidates, and there is someone asking questions representing the people and what they consider important.
In this case , border ,economy ,middle east.
Why can't the candidates SIMPLY ANSWER THE FUCKING Questions??
I turned the shit off and watched beverly hillbillies till it went off and turned the tv off.
disgusted.
I coulda watched the full 90 minutes and probably be about to explode. Simple wanting to know what the candidates thoughts are on a topic. instead I get ranting and word salad.
If you watched the debate, even you would have said about Trump:
"SIMPLY ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION!!!"
Man, was that frustrating to watch. Trump just cannot stop lying.
CNN did a poor job pressing him on it too.
They gave him several chances to react that Harris did not.
Every time Trump made a ridiculous statement, Harris got a new question.
On facts and honesty, Harris won this debate 100%.
On saying what your base wants to hear, Trump gets the win.
He did his job of telling his standard lies. Trump didn't answer one question honestly.
And CNN didn't let Harris react to those lies. It was like watching MAGA-'News';
Trump got the last word EVERY SINGLE TIME! What a fucking disgrace!
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Very good, I don't support Israel either. They are doing a genocide.
An ally? Your relationship with Israel is completely one sided.
You send them lots of money and do whatever they want.
You get nothing in return. You are sad little cucks.
They are pushing you into a war with all the countries around them.
You should say: "Behave yourselves or you are on your own!".
This is what you just said in the other post:
"Quite honestly, America would be much better off if other countries DID TURN AWAY. Then we could pay attention to our own problems and not be tormented with the rest of the worlds. America first, THEN once we regain our strength, help those in need. How can we help others when we are weak as new born kittens?"
You are weak as new born kittens, when it comes to Israel.
Well then we’re are you going to put them they certainly don’t belong in a woman’s prison either so what is your brainiac idea to deal with that problem spend billions building separate prisons just for trans gender men i call bull shit
Billions building separate prisons? How many do you think there are?
Just because your media cries about transgenders all the time, you think
there are lots of them, but they are actually a very small group of people.
You don't have to build new prisons, just assign one or a few to specialize.
"Of the total incarcerated population, approximately 5,000 of them identify as transgender."
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You have 1.8 MILLION people in prison in the US. 0.28% is transgender.
You guys are always crying about things that are non issues.
China has 1.69 million people in prison, while they have more than 4 times
the population and are a dictatorship. Any feelings about that?
I would gauge my feelings about china after I read about the return rate of inmates back into to the prisons. Ours have revolving doors because the liberals make sure they are kept warm and cool and well fed with cable tv and books and rubbers. Heaven for most of the type that are in prison .No responsibility's, just lay around all day ,every day.
I am willing to bet conditions in china's prisons deter people from wanting to come back.
I think of all the jobs we give to china, outsourcing our prison system to china should be done quick. It would save the US millions of dollars and when and if a inmate came back, i bet he or she or it would become a peaceful ,productive citizen to prevent returning there.
Do you see what you are doing? I make a point, and you immediately blame the liberals. It's such a stupid idea. High recidivism works in exactly the opposite way
that you think.
The countries with the lowest recidivism percentage in the world are Scandinavian countries. Norway leads with 20%. That's because they don't prioritize punishment, but reintegration. Their prisons treat and cure criminals of their bad behavior and provides them with skills to pick up their lives from the rubble when they get out.
You put your criminals in an environment where the hardest motherfuckers rule
the rest and where everyone needs to adopt a dog eat dog mentality to just survive.
You teach them to be even worse criminals.
Just like everything else in your country, your prison system is also intended to just enrich a few people, not to actually benefit the public. They will never outsource
that to China, because they pay Republican politicians to give them more money
for more prisons and to provide more inmates.
It's a profitable business that doesn't want low recidivism and they suckered you
into supporting that, with lies. Lies that you are now parroting to me.
I listened to that for about 15 seconds, reading words into the document that are not there. No one is going to put 5 years old to work in the coal mines. And doing away with over time, why DUH, if you need workers past their 8 hours, start a second shift and hire more employes. would be cheaper in the long term and get more productivity because the machines,computers,and etc would be operating more hours.
If they aren't going to do anything in Project 2025,
why did they bother to write it down?
You think it is logical to not get paid for overtime?
That's nice for employers; force 10 hours of work onto your employees
and they are working for free for 2 hours per day.
Why do you think that needs to happen in the relationship between employer
and employee? Why should the benefit of labor be so one-sided?
reread, I said hire more employees and have 2 8 hour shifts if the employer has that much work.
Not work free 2 hours. over time gets taxed so damn bad it is hardly worth working it even at double time or time and a half like I got.
Do you think you are describing what they are planning accurately?
No pay for overtime is the plan. That is working FOR FREE!!!
$100 of overtime is taxed exactly as much as when you get a raise of $100.
That's how tax brackets work.
Yeah, that is what I do to most of his crap he spews. He is just trying to put Americans down, that is why he takes on-line classes about American politics. He even admitted it in a comment to someone. Remember he is a damn socialist which socialism has never been successful. That is why we have all the ILLEGAL ALIENS. I say send them to live with him, he likes them so much. After all a socialist should welcome anyone.
"Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong,
He is a small man pretending to be big,
He is a faithless man pretending to be righteous,
He is a perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim!"
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Of course you didn't see that, because the "Fair and Balanced" Fox"News" didn't air that.
No I don't, I just watched Jimmy Kimmel Live, for fun.
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Adam Kinzinger is a right-winger, he's just a tiny bit more honest.
and kamala is a woman that "worked" her way to where she is and has done little to nothing but fight to keep innocent people behind bars . And she turned loose alot of violent people to
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Trump deregulated the ban on pesticides. Banned by Obama, but allowed by Trump.
One chemical that Trump authorized for use again was ATRAZINE.
ATRAZINE is the chemical that Alex Jones is saying MAKES THE FROGS GAY.
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They talked about this endlessly, but they still end up supporting the guy who deregulated bans on chemicals that are OBVIOUSLY HARMFUL, even if you just listen to the science.
They are just lying hypocrites, who don't have real values.
You're all accusing Democrats of turning the kids transgender,
but you're voting for the guy who allowed the chemicals that might cause it.
I keep hearing about this, finally read a bit about it,
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What's so wrong with it?
and don't just, "it's unfair or it's mean". Explain why each of these basic goals is so wrong?
Secure the border, finish building the wall, and deport illegal aliens
De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ
Unleash American energy production to reduce energy prices
Cut the growth of government spending to reduce inflation
Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress
Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
Ban biological males from competing in women's sports
I don’t understand why Donald Trump in his four years was unable to complete the wall. I know you’re going to think I might be a little bit crazy but I really don’t think the whole idea is a bad one.
Building walls are not good everywhere but on the border in the southern US it’s not really all that unreasonable. So why didn’t it get done?
Phart, I don’t have the answer to all your questions nor do I want to look them up, but to some of the questions like unleashing American energy… it’s cheaper to buy oil from other countries rather then paying our own institutions to pump, refine and produce our own oil. Why do you think our government spending is not worth it, where do you think the money comes from for building billion dollar aircraft carriers which we have I think 11 of them not to mention all other military craft and weapons. I can’t answer to your other questions because I don’t know enough about them to respond to them… our military cost is imaginable and a strong military keeps others from attacking us. I’m for a strong military. Like I said in the past, get rid of democrat and republican parties and have the country vote on, say the top ten, of our best and one winner is declared as president. I get so sick of hearing about the fighting between our political parties that I’m turned off by it. I don’t want anything to do with it. How about… let’s fund our farmers to grow food for our own country and feed our own people instead of selling our products to the highest bidders, if we have over production then we can make profit selling to other countries.
Who sells the food in your country? The food prices are through the roof, because the companies who sell you food are allowed to price gauge you. Project 2025 eliminates all restrictions on corporations, allowing them to exploit their workers even more, poison the people even more and allow them to price gauge even more.
It doesn't matter to them if some Americans die of hunger (YOU), if the rest of them doubles or triples their profits. Didn't Trump hold up two different sizes of TicTac boxes and say "This is inflation!"? No, it's not, the raising prices are greedflation.
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Why would companies still hire American citizens? Much too expensive!
They can smuggle in illegals to work for some food. That's what happens if you
make corporations untouchable. They will buy your president with a few hundred million and make billions. You will work for pennies, in a death trap of a workplace,
just to compete. That's what happens if you destroy the separation of powers and give the president full immunity.
It also doesn't matter to them if food is poisoned sometimes. There is no need for an FDA checking those things, right? Companies can make more profit, if they don't have to worry about poisoning baby formula, or having enough production capacity to produce baby formula. It's much cheaper to produce baby formula, if they don't have to worry about quality, and they can sell it for much more if there is a shortage every other week or month. That's the free market right? Well, not if all the baby formula producers are owned by just one company. Buy it or have a 'post-birth abortion'.
Everything that you guys are saying for years, will happen under Project 2025.
Food cost to much in this country because labor cost to grow it, process it and distribute it.
Of course illegals get hired to pick crops because to make a profit the farmers can't afford to hire Americans. Not to mention the fact Americans in general are to fucking lazy to pick crops.
Work is dangerous,so what? you are getting paid.
Your just parroting propaganda.
Neither labor costs, nor inflation, caused those price rises.
Do some actual research, before you keep repeating the same tired arguments.
From you that is a very dumb answer. The risks of work should be minimized.
They ignore very important safety measures, just to save a buck, because every cent of their profit is worth more than your life. It's ridiculous how you want to go back to the middle ages.
I know full well sadly how dangerous it is to work,won't go into detail but let's just say, first hand experience.
I know what diesel fuel cost to operate a tractor or combine, I know what they cost as well, I also know there is minimum wages that are high for unskilled labor.
Why is fuel high? Because of taxes and regulations imposed on every level of it's being,from pumped,shipped and etc.
you can't prove me wrong unless labor is free and fuel is free, then maybe.
It's just basic math. You can calculate what percentage labor costs are for a company and the percentage they pay for their facilities, water, energy, waste, raw materials, storage, product handling, maintenance, depreciation, taxes, advertisement and legal costs. Then you calculate their risen labor costs, multiply it by the percentage of labor costs to the total expenses and you can calculate how much they need to raise their prices to compensate for the risen labor costs. It is an absolute fact that many companies have raised their prices much more than they need to compensate for the labor costs and every other expenses that have risen. They did that, because politicians blamed inflation and not price gauging. By doing that, all those companies together increased the costs for people. That's not inflation, that's greedflation. It is proven by the record profits all those companies are making.
However, that greedflation increases the actual inflation, because rising costs create job mobility and wage demands. Employees will go look for better paying jobs or start demanding higher salaries.
So you got it the other way around; it's not the higher wages that create the higher prices, it's the higher prices that create the higher labor costs. Inflation is a result of the financial system and capitalism itself. If employees wouldn't demand higher wages, inflation would still happen, but everyone would just not be able to survive from their income anymore. If wages do not get compensated for inflation, that would result in a massive economic crisis.
The economy runs best if the most people have a good income to not just survive, but spend money on everything that manufacturers make.
Get yourself some economy classes, because you have no clue.
You cannot learn how the economy works from every day experiences.
It's 'book smarts' and you have none of it. You have minimum knowledge and maximum confidence. It's called the 'Peak of Mount Stupid', a psychological effect researched by David Dunning en Justin Kruger. Just learn a bit more about the economy and learn that you know almost nothing.
so what is the objective of starting a company and providing a service or product if it's not profit?
You need some schooling, because you keep going to the text book, and I am looking at real world numbers.
Of course PROFIT, but not to the detriment of everyone and everything!
Everyone has a responsibility to the community, no matter if you are an employee, if you are self-employed or if you are an owner of a multinational corporation. If you don't think so, then why are you doing unpaid work?
Starting a company is also just a lot of FUN!
It's way more rewarding than working for someone else.
Our self-employment rate is 16.4%, yours is 10.1%.
If maximizing profit was the only objective, why is yours lower?
Shouldn't that entrepreneurial spirit be taxed and regulated to death
in my country? Wouldn't our labor costs kill their effort immediately?
The unpaid or very low pay work I do and have been doing for many years is full filling my civic duty to my community. I worked a job for a salary until unable to, but I still volunteer and do things for very low rates or free for elderly and fixed income folks.
Of course starting a business is fun, but if you can't make enough profit to enjoy the fruits of your labor it loose's it's flare shortly.
A couple vacations a year, a good car or truck, perhaps boat or camper depending on your interest or income level ,maybe even a mountain or lake cabin.
Why not? it is the purpose of working beyond what is needed to scrape by.
Yes, most of the people I know, who are self-employed, make a very good living on it. Not my dumb as fuck brother in law though, because he forgot to reserve some money to pay his taxes, while spending money like a high roller. Then he had to sell his house.
My own brother is making enough money to earn himself a house worth at least $500,000 in a few years, while doing jobs on the side to pay for the building material. That, on a mortgage of about $185,000. Better than paying a big mortgage all your life.
Three acquaintances are all self-employed. One I think makes about my income, I estimate, the second at least double my income and the third several times my income. Every time I see him or his wife, either has a new, more expensive car. She just got some highly luxurious hybrid BMW monster. All I know he has some business selling his IT skills. Apparently he's good.
When we are talking about employees, you are very supportive of people
not demanding more than just enough to scrape by. What's that about?
Why shouldn't employees enjoy the fruits of their labor?
they should IF THEY invest in themselves to do the job better, or do a better job for the employer. But if they never go beyond the exact responsibility their pay covers, or they don't bother learning more about their jobs to be more versatile for the company then no.
Why "better"? How much "better" do you need?
Do you know how much productivity has already gone up?
That did not result in higher wages, only higher profits.
I repeat; why shouldn't employees enjoy the fruits of their labor?
Don't you see the disconnect?
Nothing for employees, unless they do "better".
But this is for the self-employed people: "A couple vacations a year,
a good car or truck, perhaps boat or camper depending on your interest
or income level ,maybe even a mountain or lake cabin."
THere is always room for improvement.
and there is a such thing as a plateau, things are good as they can get.In other words, your productivity and your salary are maxed out, that becomes your incentive to work for a promotion or a better job.
Don't hear you say that about the self-employed people.
Jobs should be worthwhile and an investment for the future for everyone,
not just the elites you worship.
The ruling class are not some übermensch, in many cases they are dumb
as dirt and don't have any moral core, besides selfishness.
People like that should be at the bottom, not the top.
(My idea of the bottom, not your idea of the bottom
and my idea of the top, not your idea of the top)
The 1's paying for it.in this case,for a while anyway, the taxpayer should be able to vote on what they want done about the issue.
There are a few folks out there that hit hard times by no fault of their own that a helping hand is not wasted on.
And there are those that if you give them food today and a fishing pole , they will be hungry in 2 days because they would eat the food,pawn off the fishing pole and be without again. Those, you leave under the bridge,
The US is ALREADY the biggest oil producer in the world NOW.
You are exporting more than you are importing.
The price at the pump is not linked to supply and demand, because it's a cartel.
They decide how much profit they want and how much you should pay for it.
Donald Trump didn't want to 'fix the border', because that's the single issue
for why there are so many people still voting for him and Republicans.
It's just branding. Republicans brand themselves as:
- The party of strict border control
- The party of Freedom!
- The party of Free Speech
- The party of Law and Order
- The party of Fiscal conservatism
- The party of the working class
That branding is now pure bullshit, and it's time people learn that.
Republicans are the party of servitude to the wealthy and Christian dogma,
nothing more!
Republicans want BIG GOVERNMENT SPYING ON YOUR EVERY MOVE.
They want to make sure you only spill your load in a uterus
and make sure it results in another working slave from age 10 till death.
I don't want that, because I don't want American refugees seeking FREEDOM.
You are hard-working people, but my country is already overpopulated.
I was sure you would like it, because it destroys democracy, free speech and many human rights. You are one of the 15% of extremists who likes that kind of fascism.
The other 85% of Americans don't like it. That's why Trump distanced himself from it.
It even only gets a +1% support from MAGA voters. It's probably not 49% pro and 50% against, because you don't know anything, so it's probably 1% pro and 2% against and 97% who doesn't know.
Some examples:
- Firing all government workers and exchange them for Trump loyalists.
- A word police in the government and civil layers.
- Stripping away non-discrimination protections.
- A NATIONAL abortion ban. (What about 'states' rights'? Hypocrites!)
- Declare public unions illegal and take away union rights
- Strip away any worker rights; do as you're told, legal or not, or get fired.
- Closing the Department of Education.
- Privatize the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- Eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, allowing people to be poisoned.
- Privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
- The Department of Justice (DOJ) would lose its independence and be under control of the President, which is exactly what allows the LAWFARE you are fearmongering about.
- Breaking up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Calling for a ban on abortion pills and criminally prosecuting providers.
- Replacing the Department of Homeland Security with a 100,000-worker-strong immigration department, militarization of the border and an end to refugee programs. (tecsan just said he was not opposed to LEGAL immigration, just ILLEGALS. This destroys LEGAL immigration)
- Giving tax breaks to corporations while raising taxes on the middle class.
- Introducing a new tax on health insurance, making it even more expensive.
- Allowing health insurance to deny people for pre-existing medical conditions again.
(What did Trump promise about healthcare again?)
- Allowing employers to eliminate overtime pay.
- Banning Medicare from negotiating drug prices.
(While Trump wants to take credit for maximizing Insulin at $35)
- Cutting social security, even for people who paid in to it for decades.
- Gradually increasing the normal retirement age from 67 to 69 or 70. (In The Netherlands, we are approaching that too, but Americans die much younger)
- Banning porn.
It is basically; removing all the checks and balances from the government and turning democracy into a Christofascism dictatorship, with a president who can commit any crime to benefit himself and control everyone, except for corporations, because they get all the power to do what they want: exploit the citizens.
I know YOU like that, because you are supporting that all the time.
A large majority of Americans HATE IT.
But you will destroy democracy to push it on them.
Survival of the fittest is pretty much what you support, indeed.
I support civilization and the progress beyond the flaws of human nature.
It's just a question of what kind of society you want to live in.
I would like to live among people who are healthy, happy, comfortable and who
treat each other with respect and kindness.
I don't understand why you would want to live in a dystopian fantasy movie.
You would be the first extra to get horribly murdered in that movie.
Actually, you would just be the bleached bones of someone who died of starvation.
You won't even make it to that dystopian future. Someone like me, with some money,
reasonable health, a brain and living in a mild climate, has more survival potential.
Evolution doesn't happen in a few centuries. Sure, the strongest and smartest survive, but that doesn't carry through on genes. It requires at least thousands of years of consistent environmental adaptation, to evolve to be better suited to the environment. The need to be ruthless to survive in society will only result in cultural evolution.
That culture will just ensure humanity destroys the world's capacity to sustain life.
Don't think Project 2025 is about getting rid of restrictive regulations.
In any case, not for normal people, just for billionaires.
They want horrible restrictions for the average American.
As soon as people see that they are screwed, they will come for your guns,
because they don't want you to have the tools to fight back.
That's point 2 of the 7 steps to become a dictator:
2. Instigate a monopoly on the use of force to curb public protest.
They act like they care about your 2nd amendment now, but that will flip
immediately, when it doesn't help them anymore. It's just pitchforks for you.
All true! Trust me bro!
Do you notice a lack of persuasiveness, if there are no arguments?
At least point to what is wrong.
Do you question that I would like to live among people who are healthy, happy, comfortable and who treat each other with respect and kindness?
In what kind of society do you want to live?
Why is it you are so against people taking some responsibility for themselves instead of expecting the village to carry them around on their backs?
i don't want dystopia, I want peace and wealth and comfort and safety as much or moreso than you do, It just shouldn't be at the cost of freedom to be your own person and being responsible for yourself.
Civilization can do without big conflicts. NATO and the European Union have eliminated conflicts between it's members. That's COOPERATION eliminating war. When there are still wars now, it's always religious fundamentalism, selfish appropriation of natural resources, nationalism and authoritarian leaders who need to distract their population by blaming scapegoats for their own failures, who start and maintain the wars in the world. THAT'S YOU!!
If you had a brain, you would recognize that and you would stop seeing those wars as inevitable. They are always a choice, by people who don't represent our/your interests, but their own interests. You pick the most selfish leaders.
there is greed in some peoples hearts and until that is bred out, you can't have peace.
More land,more money,more pussy, it is all about more.
Another thing,you can't stop war,because EVIL is in peoples bl0od to. breed that out and maybe have peace.
You recognize that, but still you have no judgement of character on the subject.
"More land,more money,more pussy, it is all about more." 100% Trump!
You cannot breed it out, if you pick them as your Alpha leader.
That's the one that gets to impregnate all the she-wolfs.
Or in human terms; the one who gets to imprint all the brains.
I'm not, that is just a stupid straw-man your propaganda keeps telling you.
I'm all about COOPERATION. Survival of the fittest is a conflict model.
If it would work to create a strong civilization, the apex predators (lions, tigers, hyena's and sharks) would be the running the show. But, one of the weaker
Great Apes evolved to rule the earth, because we developed a brain and the power to cooperate. It's the cooperation that build our civilization, not the struggle to survive or selfish conflicts. Humanity prospers most, when we all prosper.
Misery and poverty just constrains people to maximize their potential.
BUT as the day passed I am like, "well what the hell?it is important".
Well as soon as the first question was ask about are folks better off than 4 years ago, kamala did not even ADDRESS the question and Trump went off track, he touched on it but not really answering the question.
I have watched debates off and on again for years. And no one seems to understand what the hell the purpose is of the event.
There is the candidates, and there is someone asking questions representing the people and what they consider important.
In this case , border ,economy ,middle east.
Why can't the candidates SIMPLY ANSWER THE FUCKING Questions??
I turned the shit off and watched beverly hillbillies till it went off and turned the tv off.
disgusted.
I coulda watched the full 90 minutes and probably be about to explode. Simple wanting to know what the candidates thoughts are on a topic. instead I get ranting and word salad.
"SIMPLY ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION!!!"
Man, was that frustrating to watch. Trump just cannot stop lying.
CNN did a poor job pressing him on it too.
They gave him several chances to react that Harris did not.
Every time Trump made a ridiculous statement, Harris got a new question.
On facts and honesty, Harris won this debate 100%.
On saying what your base wants to hear, Trump gets the win.
He did his job of telling his standard lies. Trump didn't answer one question honestly.
And CNN didn't let Harris react to those lies. It was like watching MAGA-'News';
Trump got the last word EVERY SINGLE TIME! What a fucking disgrace!
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I like him even more now. So should everyone with human decency.
you can't put them in a prison with men. Are you mental?
An ally? Your relationship with Israel is completely one sided.
You send them lots of money and do whatever they want.
You get nothing in return. You are sad little cucks.
They are pushing you into a war with all the countries around them.
You should say: "Behave yourselves or you are on your own!".
This is what you just said in the other post:
"Quite honestly, America would be much better off if other countries DID TURN AWAY. Then we could pay attention to our own problems and not be tormented with the rest of the worlds. America first, THEN once we regain our strength, help those in need. How can we help others when we are weak as new born kittens?"
You are weak as new born kittens, when it comes to Israel.
Just because your media cries about transgenders all the time, you think
there are lots of them, but they are actually a very small group of people.
You don't have to build new prisons, just assign one or a few to specialize.
"Of the total incarcerated population, approximately 5,000 of them identify as transgender."
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You have 1.8 MILLION people in prison in the US. 0.28% is transgender.
You guys are always crying about things that are non issues.
China has 1.69 million people in prison, while they have more than 4 times
the population and are a dictatorship. Any feelings about that?
I am willing to bet conditions in china's prisons deter people from wanting to come back.
I think of all the jobs we give to china, outsourcing our prison system to china should be done quick. It would save the US millions of dollars and when and if a inmate came back, i bet he or she or it would become a peaceful ,productive citizen to prevent returning there.
that you think.
The countries with the lowest recidivism percentage in the world are Scandinavian countries. Norway leads with 20%. That's because they don't prioritize punishment, but reintegration. Their prisons treat and cure criminals of their bad behavior and provides them with skills to pick up their lives from the rubble when they get out.
You put your criminals in an environment where the hardest motherfuckers rule
the rest and where everyone needs to adopt a dog eat dog mentality to just survive.
You teach them to be even worse criminals.
Just like everything else in your country, your prison system is also intended to just enrich a few people, not to actually benefit the public. They will never outsource
that to China, because they pay Republican politicians to give them more money
for more prisons and to provide more inmates.
It's a profitable business that doesn't want low recidivism and they suckered you
into supporting that, with lies. Lies that you are now parroting to me.
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why did they bother to write it down?
You think it is logical to not get paid for overtime?
That's nice for employers; force 10 hours of work onto your employees
and they are working for free for 2 hours per day.
Why do you think that needs to happen in the relationship between employer
and employee? Why should the benefit of labor be so one-sided?
Not work free 2 hours. over time gets taxed so damn bad it is hardly worth working it even at double time or time and a half like I got.
No pay for overtime is the plan. That is working FOR FREE!!!
$100 of overtime is taxed exactly as much as when you get a raise of $100.
That's how tax brackets work.
Are you against illegal immigration or not?
He is a small man pretending to be big,
He is a faithless man pretending to be righteous,
He is a perpetrator who can't stop playing the victim!"
[Adam Kinzinger]
Of course you didn't see that, because the "Fair and Balanced" Fox"News" didn't air that.
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Adam Kinzinger is a right-winger, he's just a tiny bit more honest.
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You're the boy who cried 'wolf' too much.
So now Kamala is too tough on crime?
She was a prosecutor, defense is the lawyer's job.
Deciding what punishment fits justice is the judge's job.
Your link doesn't exist. Probably taken down for it being disinformation.
"Poll: Half of Gen Z voters support Harris, one-third back Trump"
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I must admit, I expected that to be higher. Still, are you proud of that?
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Trump deregulated the ban on pesticides. Banned by Obama, but allowed by Trump.
One chemical that Trump authorized for use again was ATRAZINE.
ATRAZINE is the chemical that Alex Jones is saying MAKES THE FROGS GAY.
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The same thing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly suggested that chemicals in water are impacting sexuality of children."
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They talked about this endlessly, but they still end up supporting the guy who deregulated bans on chemicals that are OBVIOUSLY HARMFUL, even if you just listen to the science.
They are just lying hypocrites, who don't have real values.
You're all accusing Democrats of turning the kids transgender,
but you're voting for the guy who allowed the chemicals that might cause it.
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What's so wrong with it?
and don't just, "it's unfair or it's mean". Explain why each of these basic goals is so wrong?
Secure the border, finish building the wall, and deport illegal aliens
De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ
Unleash American energy production to reduce energy prices
Cut the growth of government spending to reduce inflation
Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress
Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
Ban biological males from competing in women's sports
Building walls are not good everywhere but on the border in the southern US it’s not really all that unreasonable. So why didn’t it get done?
It doesn't matter to them if some Americans die of hunger (YOU), if the rest of them doubles or triples their profits. Didn't Trump hold up two different sizes of TicTac boxes and say "This is inflation!"? No, it's not, the raising prices are greedflation.
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Why would companies still hire American citizens? Much too expensive!
They can smuggle in illegals to work for some food. That's what happens if you
make corporations untouchable. They will buy your president with a few hundred million and make billions. You will work for pennies, in a death trap of a workplace,
just to compete. That's what happens if you destroy the separation of powers and give the president full immunity.
It also doesn't matter to them if food is poisoned sometimes. There is no need for an FDA checking those things, right? Companies can make more profit, if they don't have to worry about poisoning baby formula, or having enough production capacity to produce baby formula. It's much cheaper to produce baby formula, if they don't have to worry about quality, and they can sell it for much more if there is a shortage every other week or month. That's the free market right? Well, not if all the baby formula producers are owned by just one company. Buy it or have a 'post-birth abortion'.
Everything that you guys are saying for years, will happen under Project 2025.
Of course illegals get hired to pick crops because to make a profit the farmers can't afford to hire Americans. Not to mention the fact Americans in general are to fucking lazy to pick crops.
Work is dangerous,so what? you are getting paid.
Neither labor costs, nor inflation, caused those price rises.
Do some actual research, before you keep repeating the same tired arguments.
From you that is a very dumb answer. The risks of work should be minimized.
They ignore very important safety measures, just to save a buck, because every cent of their profit is worth more than your life. It's ridiculous how you want to go back to the middle ages.
I know what diesel fuel cost to operate a tractor or combine, I know what they cost as well, I also know there is minimum wages that are high for unskilled labor.
Why is fuel high? Because of taxes and regulations imposed on every level of it's being,from pumped,shipped and etc.
you can't prove me wrong unless labor is free and fuel is free, then maybe.
However, that greedflation increases the actual inflation, because rising costs create job mobility and wage demands. Employees will go look for better paying jobs or start demanding higher salaries.
So you got it the other way around; it's not the higher wages that create the higher prices, it's the higher prices that create the higher labor costs. Inflation is a result of the financial system and capitalism itself. If employees wouldn't demand higher wages, inflation would still happen, but everyone would just not be able to survive from their income anymore. If wages do not get compensated for inflation, that would result in a massive economic crisis.
The economy runs best if the most people have a good income to not just survive, but spend money on everything that manufacturers make.
Get yourself some economy classes, because you have no clue.
You cannot learn how the economy works from every day experiences.
It's 'book smarts' and you have none of it. You have minimum knowledge and maximum confidence. It's called the 'Peak of Mount Stupid', a psychological effect researched by David Dunning en Justin Kruger. Just learn a bit more about the economy and learn that you know almost nothing.
You need some schooling, because you keep going to the text book, and I am looking at real world numbers.
Everyone has a responsibility to the community, no matter if you are an employee, if you are self-employed or if you are an owner of a multinational corporation. If you don't think so, then why are you doing unpaid work?
Starting a company is also just a lot of FUN!
It's way more rewarding than working for someone else.
Our self-employment rate is 16.4%, yours is 10.1%.
If maximizing profit was the only objective, why is yours lower?
Shouldn't that entrepreneurial spirit be taxed and regulated to death
in my country? Wouldn't our labor costs kill their effort immediately?
Of course starting a business is fun, but if you can't make enough profit to enjoy the fruits of your labor it loose's it's flare shortly.
A couple vacations a year, a good car or truck, perhaps boat or camper depending on your interest or income level ,maybe even a mountain or lake cabin.
Why not? it is the purpose of working beyond what is needed to scrape by.
My own brother is making enough money to earn himself a house worth at least $500,000 in a few years, while doing jobs on the side to pay for the building material. That, on a mortgage of about $185,000. Better than paying a big mortgage all your life.
Three acquaintances are all self-employed. One I think makes about my income, I estimate, the second at least double my income and the third several times my income. Every time I see him or his wife, either has a new, more expensive car. She just got some highly luxurious hybrid BMW monster. All I know he has some business selling his IT skills. Apparently he's good.
When we are talking about employees, you are very supportive of people
not demanding more than just enough to scrape by. What's that about?
Why shouldn't employees enjoy the fruits of their labor?
Do you know how much productivity has already gone up?
That did not result in higher wages, only higher profits.
I repeat; why shouldn't employees enjoy the fruits of their labor?
Don't you see the disconnect?
Nothing for employees, unless they do "better".
But this is for the self-employed people: "A couple vacations a year,
a good car or truck, perhaps boat or camper depending on your interest
or income level ,maybe even a mountain or lake cabin."
and there is a such thing as a plateau, things are good as they can get.In other words, your productivity and your salary are maxed out, that becomes your incentive to work for a promotion or a better job.
Jobs should be worthwhile and an investment for the future for everyone,
not just the elites you worship.
The ruling class are not some übermensch, in many cases they are dumb
as dirt and don't have any moral core, besides selfishness.
People like that should be at the bottom, not the top.
(My idea of the bottom, not your idea of the bottom
and my idea of the top, not your idea of the top)
There are a few folks out there that hit hard times by no fault of their own that a helping hand is not wasted on.
And there are those that if you give them food today and a fishing pole , they will be hungry in 2 days because they would eat the food,pawn off the fishing pole and be without again. Those, you leave under the bridge,
You are exporting more than you are importing.
The price at the pump is not linked to supply and demand, because it's a cartel.
They decide how much profit they want and how much you should pay for it.
for why there are so many people still voting for him and Republicans.
It's just branding. Republicans brand themselves as:
- The party of strict border control
- The party of Freedom!
- The party of Free Speech
- The party of Law and Order
- The party of Fiscal conservatism
- The party of the working class
That branding is now pure bullshit, and it's time people learn that.
Republicans are the party of servitude to the wealthy and Christian dogma,
nothing more!
Republicans want BIG GOVERNMENT SPYING ON YOUR EVERY MOVE.
They want to make sure you only spill your load in a uterus
and make sure it results in another working slave from age 10 till death.
I don't want that, because I don't want American refugees seeking FREEDOM.
You are hard-working people, but my country is already overpopulated.
The other 85% of Americans don't like it. That's why Trump distanced himself from it.
It even only gets a +1% support from MAGA voters. It's probably not 49% pro and 50% against, because you don't know anything, so it's probably 1% pro and 2% against and 97% who doesn't know.
Some examples:
- Firing all government workers and exchange them for Trump loyalists.
- A word police in the government and civil layers.
- Stripping away non-discrimination protections.
- A NATIONAL abortion ban. (What about 'states' rights'? Hypocrites!)
- Declare public unions illegal and take away union rights
- Strip away any worker rights; do as you're told, legal or not, or get fired.
- Closing the Department of Education.
- Privatize the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
- Eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency, allowing people to be poisoned.
- Privatize the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
- The Department of Justice (DOJ) would lose its independence and be under control of the President, which is exactly what allows the LAWFARE you are fearmongering about.
- Breaking up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- Calling for a ban on abortion pills and criminally prosecuting providers.
- Replacing the Department of Homeland Security with a 100,000-worker-strong immigration department, militarization of the border and an end to refugee programs. (tecsan just said he was not opposed to LEGAL immigration, just ILLEGALS. This destroys LEGAL immigration)
- Giving tax breaks to corporations while raising taxes on the middle class.
- Introducing a new tax on health insurance, making it even more expensive.
- Allowing health insurance to deny people for pre-existing medical conditions again.
(What did Trump promise about healthcare again?)
- Allowing employers to eliminate overtime pay.
- Banning Medicare from negotiating drug prices.
(While Trump wants to take credit for maximizing Insulin at $35)
- Cutting social security, even for people who paid in to it for decades.
- Gradually increasing the normal retirement age from 67 to 69 or 70. (In The Netherlands, we are approaching that too, but Americans die much younger)
- Banning porn.
It is basically; removing all the checks and balances from the government and turning democracy into a Christofascism dictatorship, with a president who can commit any crime to benefit himself and control everyone, except for corporations, because they get all the power to do what they want: exploit the citizens.
I know YOU like that, because you are supporting that all the time.
A large majority of Americans HATE IT.
But you will destroy democracy to push it on them.
I support civilization and the progress beyond the flaws of human nature.
It's just a question of what kind of society you want to live in.
I would like to live among people who are healthy, happy, comfortable and who
treat each other with respect and kindness.
I don't understand why you would want to live in a dystopian fantasy movie.
You would be the first extra to get horribly murdered in that movie.
Actually, you would just be the bleached bones of someone who died of starvation.
You won't even make it to that dystopian future. Someone like me, with some money,
reasonable health, a brain and living in a mild climate, has more survival potential.
Evolution doesn't happen in a few centuries. Sure, the strongest and smartest survive, but that doesn't carry through on genes. It requires at least thousands of years of consistent environmental adaptation, to evolve to be better suited to the environment. The need to be ruthless to survive in society will only result in cultural evolution.
That culture will just ensure humanity destroys the world's capacity to sustain life.
Don't think Project 2025 is about getting rid of restrictive regulations.
In any case, not for normal people, just for billionaires.
They want horrible restrictions for the average American.
As soon as people see that they are screwed, they will come for your guns,
because they don't want you to have the tools to fight back.
That's point 2 of the 7 steps to become a dictator:
2. Instigate a monopoly on the use of force to curb public protest.
They act like they care about your 2nd amendment now, but that will flip
immediately, when it doesn't help them anymore. It's just pitchforks for you.
Do you notice a lack of persuasiveness, if there are no arguments?
At least point to what is wrong.
Do you question that I would like to live among people who are healthy, happy, comfortable and who treat each other with respect and kindness?
In what kind of society do you want to live?
i don't want dystopia, I want peace and wealth and comfort and safety as much or moreso than you do, It just shouldn't be at the cost of freedom to be your own person and being responsible for yourself.
If you had a brain, you would recognize that and you would stop seeing those wars as inevitable. They are always a choice, by people who don't represent our/your interests, but their own interests. You pick the most selfish leaders.
More land,more money,more pussy, it is all about more.
Another thing,you can't stop war,because EVIL is in peoples bl0od to. breed that out and maybe have peace.
"More land,more money,more pussy, it is all about more." 100% Trump!
You cannot breed it out, if you pick them as your Alpha leader.
That's the one that gets to impregnate all the she-wolfs.
Or in human terms; the one who gets to imprint all the brains.
I'm all about COOPERATION. Survival of the fittest is a conflict model.
If it would work to create a strong civilization, the apex predators (lions, tigers, hyena's and sharks) would be the running the show. But, one of the weaker
Great Apes evolved to rule the earth, because we developed a brain and the power to cooperate. It's the cooperation that build our civilization, not the struggle to survive or selfish conflicts. Humanity prospers most, when we all prosper.
Misery and poverty just constrains people to maximize their potential.
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