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@Stephen
It's not a matter of "fault" it's a matter of restoring confidence in the FBI by signaling that steps will be taken to ensure the FBI won't be a tool used to take down any political rival, and Trump has already said as much by claiming "this should not ever have to happen to any president"
It's much more important than getting a personal pound of flesh.
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@bmdrocks21
It's a big stretch to say "they have no place" is the same as actually removing the content from the platform. Nevertheless it is worrying that he suggested it.
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@ILikePie5
They also have access to the list of people that moved out of state but never requested to be removed from the voting rolls (like that happens alot)
They have access to every illegal alien deported and know they can use their fake SSN info to manufacture ballots by request. These are people not anywhere near the polling places and the officials know it but do nothing. It's not just dead people either, they check the list of elderly and if they missed 3 or 4 election cycles after a certain age, they can relatively safely use their info to manufacture ballots without being detected for fraud.
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@PressF4Respect
Here you say Democrats are against voter ID laws.
No it's a question. I know how hard it is to address questions. It goes against dogma and saves on the wear and tear of seal flippers.
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@PressF4Respect
Notice something wrong with your statement?
66% is a majority in favor. Why do you think it is not?
Democrats are trained to clap instead of compromise. They could have mail-in voting and amnesty for every illegal invader tomorrow if they only supported security for Americans. Why do the powers that be consistently take the position of anti-security? Seems pretty suspicious to an outsider.
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@PressF4Respect
The Democrats aren't the ones trying to remove mail-in voting. Trump is.
They ARE the ones removing election safeguards. Trump is not. Trump has an issue with that.
The majority of Americans, across the board, favor having voter ID (90% Republican and 66% Democrat) as a way to secure the elections from interference, both foreign and domestic.
Given this, why would Democrats say voter protections should be removed?
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@RationalMadman
Ok I just donated a small part of my trump check to Dart.
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@Trent0405
Since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the extraordinary growth of U.S. trade with China has had a dramatic effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy. The United States is piling up foreign debt and losing export capacity, and the growing trade deficit with China has been a prime contributor to the crisis in U.S. manufacturing employment. Between 2001 and 2010, the trade deficit with China eliminated or displaced 2.8 million jobs, 1.9 million (69.2 percent) of which were in manufacturing. The 1.9 million manufacturing jobs eliminated or displaced due to trade with China represents nearly half of all U.S. manufacturing jobs lost or displaced between China’s entry into WTO and 2010.
The 2.8 million jobs lost or displaced in all sectors include 453,100 jobs lost or displaced from 2008 to 2010 alone—even though imports from China and the rest of the world collapsed in 2009. (Imports from China have since recovered and surpassed their peak in 2008.) The growing trade deficit with China has cost jobs in every congressional district, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
But the jobs impact of the China trade deficit is not restricted to job loss and displacement. Competition with low-wage workers from less-developed countries such as China has driven down wages for workers in U.S. manufacturing and reduced the wages and bargaining power of similar, non-college educated workers throughout the economy. The affected population includes essentially all workers with less than a four-year college degree—roughly 70% of the workforce, or about 100 million workers (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2011a).
Put another way, for a typical full-time median-wage earner in 2006, earnings losses due to globalization totaled approximately $1,400. China is the most important source of downward wage pressure from trade with less-developed countries, because it pays very low wages and because its products make up such a large portion of U.S. imports (China was responsible for 54% of U.S. non-oil imports from less-developed countries in 2010).
The recent COVID pandemic also uncovered an additional cost for those cheap Chinese products: an uncertain and unstable supply chain of PPE and pharmaceutical goods subject to the whims of Xi Xin Ping.
Additionally, the cost to the global environment from the outsourcing of industry to China is nearly incalculable, as China emits 3 times as many greenhouse gasses as well as polluting the oceans over 20 times the rate of the USA.
While I can appreciate your "so sad, too bad" analysis, I am not convinced.
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@Trent0405
Additionally, considering the ongoing cold war with China that the crony corporate media has been desperately trying to obfuscate, it behooves me personally to take anything from the Academia, which are funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars from China, without a healthy heaping tablespoon of salt.
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How about we deal with another myopic problem Academia is responsible for. Chinese trade. Which many "experts" are at odds on with Trump.
On paper, it is great for the American consumer and the economy to have a wide selection of cheap Chinese goods partially subsidized with the theft of intellectual property.
In actuality, the mental burdens of the American worker are intolerable when they are not able to produce the things they want to produce. Underemployment brings a slew of problems to pay for those cheap Chinese goods. It's an unintended consequence myopic academic specialists have no capacity to analyze. The government's over-reliance on these appointed specialists is what chronically causes these problems, so the government puts a different specialist in charge, who then creates yet another unintended consequential problem, and the hamster wheel just keeps on a spinning.
Myopic Academia should NEVER be in charge of anything outside of their field regardless of their protestations against Dunning-Kruger.
Don't even get me started on the Keynesian fiascos of the last half a Century...
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@Trent0405
Well Fauci doesn't give a crap about your 100 studies regarding mental health, suicide rates, and long term economic distress. This is why we don't have academics in charge of anything outside of their specialty.
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@Trent0405
Is that a yes or no answer, because that is Fauci's position.
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@Trent0405
So you would be fine if Fauci was the president and had us in quarantine until a vaccination was developed?
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@Trent0405
So what, I don't want any academic with a narrow field of knowledge making command decisions involving hundreds of non-feild related variables.
For example, Dr. Fauci knows a LOT about viruses and infection vectors. He knows absolutely nothing about physical and mental health problems due to an extended quarantine with reduced income. If Academics were in charge, we would be dealing with a different kind of disaster, the one government is also notorious for. The crisis of unintended consequences. The narrow scope of academic experts should be taken as a puzzle piece. Not a whole solution. This is why we don't elect a specialist to make command decisions that require a much, much larger skillset.
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@Trent0405
Biden's positions are generally backed by the academic community..
I wouldn't want my government-funded college professor to be in charge of anything above maintaining the coffee machine in the staff lounge.
Those who can't do, teach. Especially today's college professors who haven't left their cloisters in decades.
Let's look at the successes of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos. These people shouldn't ever be in a classroom as they would make students cry and bleed. They are people who have grit and drive to get through problems and manage the hierarchical and political complexities of running global companies.
People who teach enjoy the thinking and deep analysis of a problem. I think in many instances they have a better understanding of business problems than the people running the companies. What they don't have is tolerance with dealing with various liability variables, stresses and demanding stakeholders that might distract them from their goals. Teachers typically compartmentalize problems as theories to action. They don't think about the larger scope of regulatory complexities, stakeholder battles, internal politics outside of their specific theory, and frame of reference. I find academics are usually right at exploring the big ideas when you see things at 100,000 feet. What they aren't good at is seeing the issue straight in front of them because it is about just what is the most practical decision based on resource allocation and risk assessment, and the saying "those who can't do, teach" is not an insult. I believe it is about personality and what you want out of a job. I can tell you right now I would be the WORST investment banker, which is me saying I would be the worst millionaire you've ever met.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Libs: Free voter enrollment when you collect a Driver's ID, even if you are an illegal invader.
Also libs: People don't have ID to vote.
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I'm not supporting anyone till October. There are running odds Biden might not make it to October.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
or have internet access?
More information you won't find on CNN.
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@n8nrgmi
You won't find out on CNN. They regularly cut away from the feed when that information is presented so that they can push their socially irresponsible narrative to appease their financial endowers.
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You simplify laws from 2000 pages of legal gobbledygook to 2 pages of basic common sense so that they cannot be manipulated by politicians, judges, and their special interest cronies. Second, you take away all the politicians' "pork power". If they have no ability to give things away, they cannot be corrupt. Why did Britain go from one of the most corrupt governments in the early 1800s to one of the least in the mid-1800s? Because of the abolishment of the mercantilist Corn Laws and the adoption of pure free trade without tariffs or other protectionist measures. There were simply no officials to bribe anymore. This was also the period of greatest economic growth in Britain. The two trends work in tandem.
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“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
― Milton Friedman
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@PressF4Respect
There's not a single Democrat that needs Trump to explain how to hold secure elections.
Not one. At all.
I remember reading somewhere that you usually don't change anything by waiting to elect the right person to do the right thing. The fastest and most efficient way is to get the wrong person to do the right thing.
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@zedvictor4
Homeostasis will occur at some point, probably not in our lifetimes, but probably way before we can find a way off this rock before we drown in our own feces.
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@PressF4Respect
There's not a single Democrat that needs Trump to explain how to hold secure elections.
Microsoft doesn't need your unsolicited opinion on how to code software either.
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@Stephen
I am still amazed why it is that he is not being criminals investigated?
That would make Trump just as bad as Obama for using the FBI to destroy his opposition.
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@ILikePie5
kaY
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@PressF4Respect
You're not going to convince Trump until you are willing to do the things to make mail-in voting secure, like using proper ID.
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@PressF4Respect
I would remove fraudulent mail-in voting if it was proposed.
You're not going to convince Trump until you are willing to do the things to make mail-in voting secure, like using proper ID.
Otherwise, you will have community organizers running around looking for people unwilling or unable to vote and they will use their info to manufacture votes. Impossible to detect that kind of fraud.
Election security and integrity could be enhanced by ensuring:
- Voter registration rolls are current with correct addresses. At a minimum, persons who have died or moved outside of the district should be removed from the rolls.
- Voters are asked to provide a valid signature and a photo ID whenever appropriate, upon registering to vote, and voting in-person or by mail.
- Voters submit absentee and mail ballot requests in writing to ensure only registered voters receive ballots with signatures and photo IDs validated.
- Partisan and campaign workers are prevented from harvesting and delivering ballots. A voter’s ballot should be treated as sacred and secret and generally should not be given to a third-party non-election official.
- All persons registering to vote, voting in-person, and receiving absentee ballots should be notified that they are subject to perjury charges if they vote under false pretenses.
Politicians should not use the coronavirus pandemic to significantly alter the way elections are conducted to achieve political objectives and power. The voter’s right to freely and fairly select his or her national, state and local representatives should be preserved. And the only way to do that is to ensure that any increased use of mail voting is accompanied by strong safeguards, including voter ID, to protect the integrity of our elections. The future of our constitutional republic and U.S. national security depends on it.
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
Not only that, the Conservative party does not encourage censorship and thoughtcrimes. That's the other party.
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There is nothing anyone can know with 100% certainty, no matter what the source is.
Life is all a series of choices based on probabilities and risk assessments. There is no trust, only the best information at the time. Trust is a label you assign to something AFTER you made the probability calculation in your subconscious mind. Never before.
The best way to get more accurate at probability calculations and risk assessments is for a person to actually take risks. Otherwise, your life will be riddled with choices based on poor risk calculations by default. like a newborn. Even if you try to learn from the mistakes of others, you won't understand the mechanisms of the consequence if you have not actually experienced a parallel situation.
Imagine you saw a person die in a car crash. If you have never seen a car or driven a car before, you might assume getting into a car will kill you. It would demonstrate poor risk assessment. Only by taking the personal risk of riding in a car or driving a car can you understand the mechanisms that are involved in calculating the actual risk of death due to being in a moving car.
This recent COVID 19 event demonstrates how diverse the public is on personal risk assessment accuracy. Some of the pop videos are downright comical.
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@ILikePie5
Let him talk. People need to see what TDS and Orangemanbad looks like.
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@Stephen
Only a blind man buried six foot under could miss that this was clearly intended as a parting joke.
No it wasn't Biden wasn't laughing at all, nor smiling. He actually got combative with the host right after he said that. Biden was clearly offended by the suggestion that he should be questioned on whether he had policies to help the black community.
Yelling at the host saying "take a look at MY record Come on!.." that's not comedy, that's frustration, anger, and patronizing. Like how dare the media question him.
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@HistoryBuff
that that is all that will matter to a large chunk of the population.
yeah, if you don't vote for him you aint...fill in the blank.
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@PressF4Respect
Biden is a joke mate.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
the same democrats that say we must provide ID to illegal invaders also says we cannot provide voter ID to blacks because..reasons.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
it's inherently racist to believe the shade of skin of a person determines their ability to get an ID. Or anything else.
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@PressF4Respect
I agree with Trump. Fraud shouldn't be allowed.
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@ILikePie5
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@zedvictor4
The real question is, at what point will Planet Earth cease to be life sustaining?
When all the tardigrades are gone of course.
Until climate alarmists get their shit together and come up with some real deathy numbers, it, as Avenatti would say, " doesn't move the needle for me."
We need some real alarmists with the balls to use the B word, considering the 85 million net new babies being dumped annually on the planet like an open fire hydrant in the street.
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@fauxlaw
Since the planet is not getting any bigger, eventually homeostasis of the human species must occur at some point. Maybe not in your lifetime.
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@fauxlaw
Another man-made disaster World War II still doesn't come close.
the 60 million humans killed during the 6-year war was easily replaced IN A SINGLE YEAR in 2015 with the 84 million newborn net people added to the planet.
What do you think it will take to achieve homeostasis?
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@zedvictor4
What about post 64?
The most recent greatest man-made catastrophe, Communism, was only able to affect about 10 million additional deaths a year.
That's far above any of the dire predictions of death due to climate change, yet still falls 74 million deaths short of homeostasis.
What do you think it will take?
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@fauxlaw
In 2015, there were approximately 141 million births.
In 2015 around 57 million people died. The world population, therefore, increased by 84 million in 2015.
Due to climate change-related food shortages alone, the world could see a net increase of 529,000 adult deaths by 2050.
This is the LEAST conservative death toll I was able to find due to climate change.
84 million subtracted by .5 million = 83.5 million increase in the human population per year.
Climate change has as much power to slow the growth of the human species as a fly has the power to stop a car by smashing into the windshield.
Even Covid-19 is a royal joke at slowing that juggernaut. COVID probably won't even reach 1 million GLOBAL deaths for 2020.
Now stack that against the 84+ million ADDITIONAL humans being added to the planet EVERY year. It would take something 100 times more deadly than Covid-19 just to put the human species into homeostasis, let alone actually reduce the population
And people think there are actual threats to the human species? Give me a break.
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@zedvictor4
We already have historical evidence where terrestrial climate change occurred over a matter of days, not years such as with meteor impacts and supervolcano eruptions. Humans survived one such sudden climate change 70,000 years ago with stone tool technology.
To claim the current climate change threatens the human species ignores a vast amount of known historical fossil, geographical, and anthropological data, not to mention the technological explosion in the last century.
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@PressF4Respect
Sure, the pope is rich, but I'm pretty sure he isn't THE most financially powerful individual in the world.
You probably had zero incentive to investigate.
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@ILikePie5
Not gonna lie, I have been wanting to use that word in proper context for YEARS.
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