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@Best.Korea
"When you're a Human, they let you do it. You can do anything."
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Latest Musk News
- The SEC is suing Elon Musk, claiming the owner of X didn’t comply with a subpoena to testify.
- “Musk failed to appear for testimony on September 15, 2023,” the SEC said in a lawsuit on Thursday.
- The case is tied to Musk’s purchase of Twitter last year and the stock trading surrounding the acquisition.
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@n8nrgim
It's actually, it's common for these elaborate flesh robots to hallucinate elaborate afterlife stories right before they die.
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@ponikshiy
We need to get the top tax rate back to 92 percent like Eisenhower had.
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OMG, I'm a Trumper!
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MSNBC host and lifelong debater Mehdi Hasan makes the case for ad hominems.
He says,
Liddle Marco. Lyin’ Ted. Low-Energy Jeb.
The pundits derided Trump for his “use of vitriolic, ad hominem attacks” and dubbed him the “schoolyard debate champion” for having “insulted his way to the top of the GOP.”
The pundits derided Trump for his “use of vitriolic, ad hominem attacks” and dubbed him the “schoolyard debate champion” for having “insulted his way to the top of the GOP.”
Now, I’m not disputing that description of him, but what if I told you that Trump’s much-maligned tactics were not that different from those deployed by one of the most respected and accomplished orators and debaters in history? Back in Ancient Rome, the statesman, lawyer, and rhetorician Marcus Tullius Cicero was notorious for the invective he rained down upon his rivals. As the classical historian Valentina Arena has pointed out, in one famous argument, Cicero called his opponent Piso, the father-in-law of Julius Caesar, a belua (“monster”), bustum rei publicae (“funeral pyre of the commonwealth”), carnifex (“butcher”), furcifer (“scoundrel”), maialis(“gelded pig”), and inhumanissimum ac foedissimum monstrum (“most foul and inhuman monster”). Cicero, Arena added, also mocked his opponent’s physical appearance, including his “hairy cheeks and discolored teeth.” (Positively Trumpian!)
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@Best.Korea
Putin has 2 daughters he barely ever talks about, do you think one is ponikshiy?
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You all know that Gp is really Matt Gaetz don't you?
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@Stephen
Why has the Christian Church filled our minds of such fearful satanic dogma
To make the TV show Lucifer popular? You all know that I'm Lucifer Morningstar don't you?
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@IwantRooseveltagain
If you had said sex trafficking I would have thought you were talking about Matt Gaetz.
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@IlDiavolo
In Florida, Governor DeSantis said " You loot, we shoot!"
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@Greyparrot
What territories has the USA recently claimed? Did they say they were part of the USA?
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@IwantRooseveltagain
OMG, Dirty Harry got the young guns. The Democrats said to them, "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"
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@Best.Korea
My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
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Republicans want to give part of Ukraine to the Russians. This is very similar to 1938 when Chamberlain got an international agreement
that Hitler should have the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in exchange for Germany making no further demands for land in Europe.
Chamberlain said it was 'Peace for our time'. Hitler said he had 'No more territorial demands to make in Europe.
Six months later, in March 1939, German troops took over the rest of Czechoslovakia. Poland seemed to be the next most likely victim of Nazi aggression and Chamberlain made an agreement with the Poles to defend them in Germany invaded. Hitler did not think Britain would go to war over Poland, having failed to do so over Czechoslovakia. He sent his soldiers into Poland in September 1939. Two days later, Britain declared war on Germany.
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@ebuc
Yes, a surplus occurs when the government collects more money than it spends. The last surplus for the federal government was in 2001.
On August 10, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, one of the largest fiscal deficit-reduction packages in US fiscal history. This law raised the top individual income tax rate from 31% to 39.6%, which increased the average effective tax rate for high-income earners and shifted the federal fiscal balance from deficit to surplus by the end of the century. Given major business interest groups’ criticism of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993’s heavy reliance on tax increases over spending cuts, how was the Democrat-controlled Congress able to pass this legislation? Drawing on archival evidence from the Clinton Presidential Library, this paper shows that the administration and Democratic committee chairs mobilized support from corporate CEOs, including Fortune 500 executives, asking them to lobby key legislators to support the bill. Thus, with business leaders’ support and lobbying efforts, the legislation was passed with a very slight majority.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
The Republicans will definitely vote to shut the government down in 45 days.
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"The word 'God' is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses; the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish," - - Albert Einstein 1954
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Netflix Plans to Raise Prices After Actors Strike Ends!
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President Trump said in a statement in 2020, "Ah Luv Putin and Communist born USA First Ladies".
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"The United States condemns Russia's fraudulent attempt today to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory. Russia is violating international law, trampling on the United Nations Charter, and showing its contempt for peaceful nations everywhere," President Biden said in a statement in 2022, as his administration announced fresh sanctions on Russia for its annexation of the Ukrainian regions.
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Mental illnesses are common in the United States. It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (57.8 million in 2021).
Isn't that Trump's base?
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@Greyparrot
I know you own a bank. My 1100 sf house has been evaluated at $2 billion. Can you loan me $500 million?
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Conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin called President Trump the nation’s “first Jewish President” during a Hanukkah party at the White House in 2019.“It’s an honor to be here with the first Jewish President of the United States,” Levin said. “And if he isn’t, he should be.”
Trump smiled in response to the reference.
Trump smiled in response to the reference.
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Well, the Trump administration did have the highest unemployment rate (14.8%) since 1940.
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@zedvictor4
Remember that the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2015, after a five year study on devoutly religious people, said they will now consider an unassailable belief in a deity or a higher power to a point where it impairs one's ability to make conscientious decisions about common sense matters, as a mental illness.
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@Barney
As a group of neuroscientists seeking to sum the field up put it in 2012, “Humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures...also possess these neurological substrates.”
Should we really be eating eggs? Isn't that pro-abortion?
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@ponikshiy
Kick Trump Out! Kick Trump Out! Kick Trump Out! Kick Trump Out!
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@IlDiavolo
You know that I am really Bryan Mills, don't you?
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@IlDiavolo
“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career."
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Sanctuary cities and crime
Abstract
Sanctuary policies may attract criminals and lower the opportunity cost of crime, while these policies produce a spiral of trust that supports police and raises informal social control over crime. I estimate the dynamic effects of sanctuary policies on crime rates at city level. This paper finds (1) no evidence that sanctuary policies cause an increase in any crime, (2) some evidence that they may lead to a decrease in property crime, and the effect is strengthened over time after the adoption, (3) the increased trust between residents and police is likely the reason for the negative effect.
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Senate Bill 100 (2018) requires 100 percent of California’s electric retail sales be supplied by renewable and zero-carbon energy sources by 2045. To keep the state on track, last year Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1020, establishing interim targets of 90 percent clean electricity by 2035 and 95 percent by 2040.
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@Best.Korea
Yes, and also see if they had bone spurs.
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@zedvictor4
Who you referring to you old duffer?
You and me. I know we haven't reached our peak yet.
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@Best.Korea
I don't know, I think some people reach their peak at 100.
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@Best.Korea
So you are saying MMGA (Make Morals Great Again)?
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@CoolApe
At what age do you tell a child that they are going to die anyway? You know, from cancer ,car accident, old age.
Do you say, God is moral and designed you to die?
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More abortions means less flash mob store robberies.
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@Greyparrot
Both of these are happening. The child rate is at 1.94 right now. Anything below 2 is below replacement level.
Yes, this is why we need open borders. I don't want to wait in a line at McDonalds.
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@zedvictor4
In 2022 in the UK, incomes for the poorest 14 million people fell by 7.5%, whilst incomes for the richest fifth saw a 7.8% increase.
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See, Gp is a lot smarter than we thought he was.
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@Best.Korea
This is all due to poor design. Who creates anything with 3.7 trillion parts and thinks they are all going to work?
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Well, Trump did give himself a $2 million tax break so the the Debt would increase 40 percent like Putin wanted.
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@Greyparrot
In 1949 The Debt/GDP ratio was 93 percent. In 2022 it was 123%. How else are we going to pay down the debt?
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@Greyparrot
Yes, get the top tax rate back to 92 percent like Eisenhower had.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
The only way for the USA to get back on track and show the World that the USA doesn't let rich people do anything they want
is to make Trump serve 20 years in prison.
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