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@Public-Choice
900+ days.
Nothing is Built.
Nothing is Back.
Nothing is Better.
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@IlDiavolo
And don't get surprised if they propose to defund the army either.
Defunding the police is a precursor to martial law. Democrats will support martial law. Protection for the elites will always be, as we saw with Jan 6. There will always be the convenient excuse to destroy more liberties in the name of "national security." First the Patriot Act, and now Covid mandates taught us that the public is okay with that level of fascism and control over our lives.
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@SkepticalOne
Are you upset that straight white males don't know their place in society? That they won't surrender quietly?
Tell us how you really feel!
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@Double_R
People will blame the closest thing. The fact that the Euro economy is in shambles because they based the value of their currency on the inflated global US dollar is their own failure. Europeans will change what they can while Americans do the same.
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@IlDiavolo
Anyone who says "Defund the police" one year. And then: "We need more officers" the next year needs to have their citizenship revoked for being too stupid to exist in our society.
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Thank the lord WAPO and our savior Bezos to give us the billionaire take on the world we need.
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Clearly, McCarthy should have pulled the fire alarm to stop the votes against him.
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@FLRW
The invasion of Iraq was neither in self-defense against armed attack nor sanctioned by UN Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force by member states and thus constituted the crime of war of aggression, according to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva.
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Or we can let Russians attack anyone they like
It's only fair because the Russians let us attack whoever we want to.
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@Vegasgiants
Just like alabama belonged to southern separatists.
Most people in Alabama are still weird and separate. Our system of states, state sovereignty, and representation by state instead of the general population allow for a degree of systemic balkanization of the nation.
Or we could let the UN draw arbitrary international borders including divergent cultures because that worked out so well in places like Israel and Ukraine. Cause you know just how historically fun and bloody it can get in places like Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Cameroon, Western Sahara, and Ethiopia with all that "diverse-city".
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@Best.Korea
Russia isnt cool anymore, so no.
Well, too bad, because NK is becoming a very close ally of Russia.
When I supported republicans, I always had hate inside me.
I don't support Republicans.
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@ebuc
Both Democrats, compromising with republicans, is my best guess.
Yes, Clinton had to compromise with the Congress.
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Nobody compares the inflation rate to the GDP growth rate.
Voters do. If their pay goes up and the prices go up faster, they won't call it a good thing.
900 days of a bad thing isn't going to be magically fixed in a few months.
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@ponikshiy
It's clearly getting harder for Congress to pass budget deficits lately with establishment Uniparty.
Maybe if people see what budget cuts look like then they won't feel bad when taxes go up.to pay for the swamp.
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@Vegasgiants
Correct. It rightfully belongs to the Russian separatists that had authority before Ukraine violated the 2014 cease fire and started the Donbas war in 2014. A war they have zero chance of winning in 2023.
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@Best.Korea
Is this one of those "look here, think positive, dont look there" mentalities?
Yes. All of your trolling of American stupidity is based on this philosophy.
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@Best.Korea
Today, Russia controls about 7% of Ukraine's territory,
The defense of the Donbas was always the objective of Russia. Russia has not ceded any territory in the Donbas for years while expanding the trench network and mines monthly.
Here is an article where Zelensky admits it is over.
The 2014 Donbas war is over. America will never be able to control it ever again.
You already knew this, and are again, praising objective failures in a transparent attempt to troll stupid Americans.
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@Best.Korea
Despite your transparent trolling, there is no doubt you support both Russia and North Korea as you daily praise the objective shortcomings of America as "positive values"
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@Best.Korea
That while beating Russia in war.
Even if USA sent every trans soldier to fight in Ukraine, they still wouldn't be able to retake the Donbas.
All it would take is some photos of trans people involuntarily mutilated by the same cluster mines Americans bought with their taxes to make the Donbas uninhabitable and also unconquerable. Just like North Korea's DMZ. America doesn't have a prayer in occupying the NK DMZ or the Donbas with boots on the mined ground.
This war has been effectively over for years. The common American pleb just does not want to hear about it, and crony politicians with their lucrative war contracts don't have a financial reason to inform the public of the truth. Russia is weathering the inflation war a lot better than the USA because Russia is just fine producing extra millions of barrels of fossil fuels a day and creating new markets in Asia and Africa. Russia isn't infested with global warming sheep because most of Russia is in the tundra and taiga, and Russia will become vastly more prosperous in a warmer planet as more arable land becomes available to support a dominant population.
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@FLRW
I suppose that's the price society pays for ignoring the downtrodden.
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@Best.Korea
That's for one month. we have yet to make up for 900 days of inflation outpacing the GDP just to get back to 2016 levels.
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@Best.Korea
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@Best.Korea
Except in USA, Germany, Finland, Japan, North Korea, USSR, Sweden, Switzerland, Libya, France, Canada, China, Vietnam, Britain, Spain, Cuba, Italy...well I can go on but you get the point
He said Communism, not Fascist socialism where the government is in bed with capitalists.
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@Double_R
what's your alternative? a third option? or no options?
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@ponikshiy
I have to admit, this is some top tier trolling of TDS reactionaries.
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your obligation to stay informed
This is what free thinking and having a mind of your own looks like folks. This is not right wing or left wing. This is being intellectually superior to those that pick a side and parrot what they hear on MSM. That you are free to form your own perspective without permission.
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@FLRW
It's not the migrants that make those cities a sanctuary for criminals, it's the police defunders that also set the migrant policies.
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@IlDiavolo
Most sanctuary cities have established criminal environments.
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@FLRW
2045.
You know how political promises go.... You and I probably won't be around to blame the person for this broken promise by that year.
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Name calling? What name did he call the Crown Prince?
Of course, after that was the fist bump heard round the world as Saudi quietly turned the spigot off while also demanding that Jared Kushner be rewarded for opposing Biden....
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@cristo71
“There are no solutions, just trade offs.”
Nuclear power was always the viable energy solution. It's a shame corporate fossil energy companies sabotaged it in the 70's.
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because the waste is impossible to dispose of
Lol, seems like corporate energy propaganda is still highly effective after 50 years of the same song and dance.
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Well according to your source, California imports 55k GW out of the 183 GW consumed....that's near 1/3 of imported dirty energy...
And 10 percent nuclear is so laughable for a state that boasts such high-tech advances. As a former navy nuclear mechanic, that's just unconceivable.
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Right, meaning not produced in California
Doesn't matter. That electricity would not be produced if Californians did not buy it. So California is directly responsible for the emissions produced from the 9% of imported coal energy. Fun fact is, Californians talk a good game about being clean, but they have no problem getting their hands dirty with imported sources. NIMBY is only skin deep, just like most vainglorious Californians.
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Here is a comprehensive answer as to why Arizona gas is 2 dollars cheaper at California's border.
Certainly high CA taxes are a big part of the difference. But another big part is the unique refinement requirements of the Golden State, a cost that passes through to the buyers. CA has a great many regulations on expensive fuel additives that gets passed onto the consumer. Another difference that has been largely ignored is that CA has NOT benefited from the fracking revolution. Most states buy inexpensive local U.S.-developed petroleum products. But CA has for decades all but banned drilling, even though CA has oil reserves that rival the vast oil reserves of Texas.
Also CA won’t let pipelines be built to bring in gasoline from other states. The result is that California refineries buy most of their oil from foreign nations, including Saudi Arabia. Again, consumers pay for the trans-pacific transport costs a pipeline could have saved.
Since the Biden blunder that severed ties with the Crown Prince over stupid name calling, CA is suffering a severe shortage in the supplies of crude oil. Iraq and Brazil are the next 2 suppliers, and Biden just recently pissed all over Brazil's president, so that just leaves the US colony Iraq as a steady source for California.
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Total Non-Renewables and Unspecified Energy
127,248
66.65%
(per your posted source)
also, 9% of imported electricity is from coal...ewwwwww
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There's nothing "clean" about electricity production in California.
More than half of California's electric grid relies on fossil fuels producing 2080 lbs of CO2 emission per 1000 kWh from coal, and for natural gas, 1170 lbs of CO2 emission per 1000 kWh.
Prices are high because taxes are high. California promises to save the planet with these taxes, but it's just a scam to get money, like most corporate grifters. The planet isn't going anywhere, but your bank account is.
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@cristo71
I suppose today's fatcat politician lounging in his mansion reads the Constitution as: "promote the general's welfare"
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The Federal Government is supposed to promote the general welfare of every American.
good word: supposed
And yet we get crap like the Iraq debacle, Ukraine corruption, Patriot act tyranny, brutal, unfair, and arbitrary Covid lockdowns, unchecked unsustainable debt, planned inflation, race baiting policies based on skin color, destruction of private health insurance plans, unsustainable government regulated housing, unsustainable green energy mandates, mandatory sexualization and sterilization of children against a parent's wishes, mandatory taxes to support illegal invaders, massive crony bank and corporate bailouts, and a mandatory sketchy vax subsidizing crony corporate big Pharma.
All under the "supposed" illusion of "the general welfare"
With welfare like this, who needs destitution?
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@CoolApe
Full-Coverage Unborn Victim States (30)
Alabama,Alaska,Arizona,Arkansas,California,Delaware,Florida,Georgia,Idaho,Illinois,Indiana,Iowa,Kansas,Kentucky,Louisiana,Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota
These states recognize a fetus as a person under fetal homicide laws.
I never could understand how abortions laws are allowed to coexist with fetal homicide laws...
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our economy would collapse and our population would be shrinking.
Both of these are happening. The child rate is at 1.94 right now. Anything below 2 is below replacement level.
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@Double_R
Using Trump as an excuse for bad behavior on both the left and the right.
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@cristo71
there is also science, medicine and healthcare, corporations, and, of course, the press…
All fields that are today heavily dominated, regulated, and controlled by the government.
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@cristo71
Today, it is more or less a collection of echo chambers, with each complaining about its ideological counterpart.
I think it's evolved to a worse standard, in that billionaires now own the most watched venues, and news is simply an extension of the oligarchy fighting among other oligarchs behind the scenes. It's an evolution of vested interest biases. The same people pulling the strings on the WH administration also pull the media strings.
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@cristo71
There used to be a time when the motto of a free press was to report "without fear or favor"
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@Double_R
The Bill of Rights, (the first ten amendments), is designed to protect the rights and freedoms of American citizens from potential abuses by the government and its institutions. These amendments include vital protections such as freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to bear arms, safeguards against unreasonable searches and seizures, the right to remain silent during an interrogation, among numerous others.
The Bill of Rights sets limits on the government's power and authority, which ensures that Americans have certain fundamental (inalienable) rights ensuring individual liberty that the government cannot infringe upon without due process and a compelling reason. The purpose is to protect citizens from potential abuse of government authority and government institutions and to uphold principles of individual liberty and justice.
The Bill of Rights protects the people from institutional abuse by the government.
Do you agree?
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