The headline makes it sound like the government has discovered
$6.5 billion that was stolen. That is not what the document establishes.
At the time of the announcement, 455 people had been charged, not convicted. So even the characterization of every dollar as “fraud”
is legally speaking, an allegation at that point.

$6.5 billion is about 0.12% of total U.S. health-care spending for one year,
if the number was true. Find me any system that has a lower fraud rate.
Look into Trump's businesses, that have fraud as THE business model.

By the way, not all of those 455 people are people consuming care.
90 are doctors or other licensed medical professionals. The other ~365 defendants include business owners, executives, marketers, pharmacists, operators of health-care companies, and other alleged participants.

The Department of Defense has failed its annual department-wide financial audit every year since these audits began in 2018. The 2024 audit was its seventh consecutive failure. 50.3% of the Pentagon's assets are unaccounted for. Do you think that only 0.12% of that is fraud?
Do you now want to eliminate your Pentagon?

If that were true, you could have sued them for discrimination.
The answer is NOT less disability benefits, but MORE.
The fraud argument is abused to not provide ANY. It's a lie.
They keep pointing to people who don't deserve it, to not give any to YOU, who DOES. You were tricked into supporting your own abuse.

Suppose a hospital has a problem with people faking symptoms
to get treatment they don't need. Would you conclude that the hospital
should stop treating sick people?

Obviously not. You'd say: distinguish the sick patients from the people abusing the system. However, they are telling you that ALL those people
are faking it, just so they can close the hospital and save a lot of money.

I am saying; it's a lie, there are surely people faking it, but that doesn't justify closing the hospital. Fix the damn problem! It's not that difficult.
And I rather have a few fakers, than turning away actual patients.

Trump controls the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court.
When is he actually going to FIX some problems, to help YOU?
Did Elon Musk not eliminate all the waste, fraud and abuse?
How long can they lie to you, before you start noticing?

I'm not talking about a socialism-communism takeover.
You are in the complete OPPOSITE situation.
It's like you are eating nothing but meat and then you are saying:
"You cannot survive on just vegetables, so don't bother me doctor!".

China isn't socialist or communist, it is state-capitalist.

You keep misusing the term 'socialism' the same way lying governments do.
The word "socialist" contains the root word "social" (from the Latin socialis,
meaning "companion" or "ally") for a very specific reason: it was invented to be
the direct polar opposite of individualism. It means an economic system based on cooperation, mutual aid, and direct worker self-management. There is no cooperation, mutual aid, and direct worker self-management in China, they have state-control.

By doing that, you are lying to yourself. You are using the lie that they use to sell you rugged individualism for the working class and state sponsorship of the wealthy,
turning you into the slaves that you say you don't want the people to be.

He keeps misusing the propaganda definition of 'socialism' to accuse me of supporting authoritarianism and exploitation. That's dishonest. We might disagree completely,
but you know that I don't support that. I support expanding democracy, personal freedom, equality (up to the point of equity), and all sort of public programs for healthcare, education, housing, and a social safety net for people who are UNABLE
to work. Isn't it 'altruistic' to take care of people who are unable to work?
So, why do you keep agreeing with him straw-manning my position?

"exceed the minimum"? People are DYING from not being able to afford healthcare.
Isn't the minimum, that you need to SURVIVE? If not, define the minimum, please.
And then explain why that is 'altruism', which is his whole thing, pretty please.

Try asking ChatGPT: "Can you asses this text on cognition?" and copy/paste his text.

Dimension ........................ Impression
Abstract/conceptual thinking: High
Idea generation: High
Associative connections: High
Logical structure: Moderate–low
Evidence/justification: Low
Nuance: Low–moderate
Ability to generalize: High, but overgeneralizes
Metacognitive awareness: Unclear
Emotional regulation in writing: Low–moderate
Precision of language: Low–moderate

"This passage demonstrates considerable complexity of thought, but the quality
of the reasoning is uneven."

Then try the following: "Can you make a list of all the points he is actually making, without filling in for him with your knowledge, and then assess all those points for logic. Maybe you can score those points."
He gets an average score of 3/10.

Try it with any of my texts too. It does require a text of significant length.

It doesn't happen on a children's program, people have common sense.
You won't get damaged from some naughty words or some nudity.
Just because it's allowed, doesn't mean that it happens all the time.
The average American show contains more bad language than most of ours.
We just don't have a list to sanction people for.

Dutch people are direct, without the need for profanities.
There are some reality shows with vulgar people on it.
These programs are announced with a warning for bad language,
so people will know to change the channel. The system is called 'Kijkwijzer' (literally meaning "Viewing Indicator").
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Unlike violence or fear, coarse language does not automatically result in a program receiving a higher age rating (such as 12 or 16) under the Kijkwijzer system.
You seem to be worried about some naughty words and nudity, but violence or fear are generally much more traumatizing. I grew up in a time that the average TV-commercial contained nudity. The result is that I didn't grow up to be a prude.

However, I had bad dreams from seeing Gremlins and Ghostbusters too young.
Both movies were on TV at rating 9+ or 12+, but they were shown at a children's birthday party of a friend, when I was 11. My parents didn't let me watch movies
or series with violence or scary scenes, so some scenes bothered me. I saw those movies again later, and wasn't shaken at all, but for a child that can be frightening.

In the Netherlands, TV free speech is free from puritanical censorship.

A legendary example occurred in 2006 on the Dutch late-night talk show Jensen!. Host Robert Jensen bragged to his guests, Steve-O and Chris Pontius from Jackass, that the Netherlands has no bleeps or filters, telling them: "You can say whatever you want, you can even show your cock".

Taking it as a challenge, Steve-O immediately exposed himself on camera. True to Dutch broadcasting practices, the network aired the episode completely uncensored, resulting in no fines or regulatory penalties. This event highlighted the contrast with American broadcast standards, demonstrating the Dutch system's reliance on viewer discretion rather than government censorship.

In the Netherlands, the government does not police "moral decency" (swearing, nudity, or shock value) on television. If viewers don't want to see a naked body
or hear profanity, they are expected to change the channel.

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However, deliberate lying, propaganda, and state-sponsored disinformation are viewed as a direct threat to democratic stability. Free speech covers expressing opinions, but it does not protect intentional, malicious fraud designed to manipulate the public or undermine democracy.

How the System Works

Instead of a government agency (like the U.S. FCC) fining channels for saying bad words, the Dutch system uses a combination of media law and independent oversight:

- The Press Council (Raad voor de Journalistiek): This is an independent self-regulatory body. It maintains a strict Code of Journalism Ethics focused on truthfulness, verification, and fairness. While it primarily handles complaints via public accountability rather than legal fines, violating these standards ruins a network’s credibility.

- The Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media): This official regulator enforces the Dutch Media Act. While they strictly respect editorial independence from the government, they enforce rules regarding transparency and unlawful content.

- The Ultimate Red Line (Sanctions & Bans): A channel will not get banned for a shock stunt. However, if a broadcasting entity systematically acts as a funnel for covert foreign propaganda or coordinated malicious disinformation, such as violating national security laws or international sanctions (like the ban on Russian state-funded media outlets following the invasion of Ukraine), the government and the European Union have the authority to pull their broadcasting license and ban the channel entirely.

For you personally, I understand that you could use it.
But you would accuse any Democrat who said this of incredible
fiscal irresponsibility.

How about a socialist who decides that you are owed disability benefits?
That's not all the other millions of people who don't need it, but just you
and people like you. Or are you too scared that some brown people get it too?

Covid stimulus was needed, because people lost their jobs.
It was a loan on the future, because people were hurting bad.
It created inflation, but that was worth it, at that time.

Why do you need it now? Everything is going fantastic, right?
Increasing the debt, and creating inflation, just for giggles?

Anyway, he is never going to do it, and will make up some stupid excuse.
And you will believe it, like you always do.

In the very unlikely event that he is going to do it, then he'll just cut healthcare spending even more, or increase the tariffs for everything, so the consumer pays for it. If not, your country pays more interest on that debt, until the next Democratic president is forced to clean up the shit that Trump left.

Trump is trying to bribe people into voting for his party, with a promise of $5000,
while Mike Johnson is spending his time discussing how to steal democracy.

They could accept that they fucked up too much and that the American people are fed-up with them, but they know that they are all traitors and fear that accountability is coming,
so they will try to commit some more treason, to stay in power.

How much do you need to gaslight yourself, to believe that you're the good guys?

For decades, the only thing they have done is murder people, give your money to
the wealthy and distract you with culture war bullshit. When do realize you are conned?

I predicted what it was, before I even clicked on it.
It was dismissed as a lie, by a Trump supporter who was near him for the whole ceremony. I already heard that your side is saying this, before you even parroted it.

Mamdani was the ONLY one who stayed afterwards to personally talk with lots of survivors and victims of the cover-up of the toxic air. He actually cares about them.
Your side only uses them as props and then stabs them in the back.

Trump made this about HIM again, lying that he was there. Trump was in Midtown Manhattan, at/near Trump Tower, roughly four miles north of the World Trade Center.
He cannot make this about victims and survivors for more than a few minutes.

First part: Do I need to care about what happened before humanity even understood that slavery is wrong? DAMN!

Second part: The Islamic Republic cannot be understood without the consequences of the 1953 Anglo-American coup. The coup helped replace Iran's last genuinely democratic-oriented government with an increasingly authoritarian monarchy, and that dictatorship and its repression were major contributors to the revolutionary conditions of 1979. It doesn't prove that Khomeini's regime was inevitable, or that it definitely would not have emerged otherwise, but US intervention was a major part of the historical chain that made the 1979 outcome possible.
In other words; stop trying to fix things, because every time you try, you only make it worse, because your country is filled with stupid people, especially your side.

What relevant information are you even TRYING to provide with the rest?

If the US hadn't toppled their moderate leaders, to install extremists, to steal their natural resources, that area of the world would have never turned into the terrorist breading ground in the first place. Every time they start to get their life back, so they can think about freedom, the US comes to put them back in the stone-age. Why oh why would they hate you? The evil empire is the US. Any time you did something decent, it was for your own control over the world. And when you had that control, you used it to exploit the world for the profit of your wealthy. And you are just their minions.

Having another psychotic episode? Take your pills dude!

Again, if your side requires genocide to defend itself, you're the evil side.
Nazi Germany justified genocide as self-defense too.

Zionists said the same thing 30 years ago.
What they are doing is genocide, even if it was in self defense.
If your side requires genocide to defend itself, you're the evil side.

“ananas is a student of life as well,“
Thanks for saying that. I’m a biotechnology bachelor by education, which is related to the study of life indeed. My personal study is life is the study of reality. As Matt Dillahunty once said: “I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible”. Some people just define truth differently than I do. I reject the notion of "your truth" versus "my truth" when it comes to facts. Something can be true, even if we cannot be absolutely certain of it. Absolute certainty is an unattainable standard for almost everything outside of basic mathematics and logical absolutes. I just follow the method of science, which does not make definitive truth proclamations. Instead, science builds models that represent our best, tentative understanding of reality based on current evidence (wanting to know as many true things and as few false things as possible). If there is a question not answered by sufficient evidence, my reaction is to forgo any conclusion on that question, unless a conclusion is necessary to function in life. If that is the case, I adopt a ‘working hypothesis’, which is not a blind guess; it is the best inference based on whatever limited evidence currently exists. This approach is also commonly referred to as ‘Scientific Skepticism’ or an ‘Evidentialist Epistemology’.

“BUT it is a different life. Totally different.”
Our ideas are different, the way we approach life is different, the way we experience life is different, but the reality of our lives is more similar than you think. Tell me how my life so far has been different from all Americans. I grew up with two parents who loved me. My father worked as a mechanic, and was the main provider. My mother was mostly a stay-at-home mom, except for about 15 years when she worked one day in the week as a pharmacist assistant. My brother and me then went to the neighbors for lunch, in between morning school and afternoon school. We played outside a lot, exploring the neighborhood that was being expanded around us. We had overgrown vacant land to play in, like building huts, playing survivalist, climbing trees and making campfires. This is much different than the current generations, but I don’t think that it is much different than my generation living in the US. Our primary school and secondary school were both Christian schools. They read us all the bible stories, and we took part in all the cultural activities. The stories were presented as fact, just as the basic history, biology, geography and math. They presented the obligatory curriculum of evolution as an alternative theory, very basically, in as few hours as possible, reluctantly. In secondary school, biology was a bit more advanced; they taught how cells work, how cell division and procreation work, and how life can mutate, but the term ‘evolution’ was again a very sensitive topic for them. At least they also didn’t throw in the term ‘creation’. I was only taught more of it, in high school, when I had deliberately picked biologic fields of study.

I cannot attribute my interest in this field of study to my schooling, in any way. It was purely my own inquisitive mind. From before I was able to read, I wanted to know how things work. I liked it to take a seed form an orange or an apple, put it into the ground and see a tree grow. For my birthdays, I often asked for educational children’s books with lots of pictures, teaching engineering, biology and evolution (dinosaurs). And there were TV-programs that I liked, explaining science in a simple and fun way. They didn’t just show what we know, but also HOW we know those things.

Meanwhile, I went to school and teachers told me about God and Jesus. The Genesis story immediately clashed with everything I already knew. I was OK, with the idea of a god, but not with the story of ‘him’ (God was presented as an old man with a big white beard) creating everything in 6 days. I once just told the teacher that it is not true, because it took billions of years and Adam and Eve were not created from dirt, but they evolved from apes. I don’t remember exactly what she said but it was something like “You can believe what you want, but I’m telling you what we believe. Can you just listen?”. I just decided to do that, and make up my own mind if it made sense or not. I think that this was in second grade, when I still believed in Sinterklaas (character of an old clergyman in red attire, with a long white beard, who is the basis for Santa Claus). When that character turned out to be made-up, one or two years later, it clicked for me that the other old man with a long white beard was just a story too. It was told with similar conviction, but there was even less evidence given for God. At least we saw Sinterklaas all over TV, he visited school, and he brought us presents in a big jute sack. God didn’t show any sign of actually existing. There wasn’t just a lack of evidence for God, there was great evidence against everything they told about God. Then I learned that there were lots of people in history, who had believed in different gods, with different creation stories, that now no one still believes in. Later, I was introduced to other religions, who all claim to believe in the ‘One True God’. That made it clear for me that all those stories are just stories. I can’t disprove a creator of the universe, or the existence of an afterlife, but it’s all part of stories that all contradict each other, none of them have good evidence, and they are all in conflict with very good evidence. It might make other people happy to believe in a delusion, but I prefer to find my happiness in reality, with the people around me. I understand that the world can be ugly, but the world will not improve by believing that there is a supernatural plan behind that. I only see human failure and selfishness behind that ugliness, and you don’t FIX that by pretending. Fixing things require an effort. You find the thing that is broken and you replace it with something that works. After my education, this is the skill I have been improving; finding a problem, analyzing the problem to find causes, including the root cause, then finding the optimal solution to eliminate the cause and FIX the problem.

That’s probably something I inherited from my father; he became a mechanic, because he had been fixing and making things from early youth. His skill was very important, because his father died when he was 11, and he was forced to man up and survive poverty together with his mother. That’s why my father taught me some technical abilities, frugality and independence. In his times, there were two pillars in society; you were either a Christian or ‘a red’ (a socialist). That division was very much similar to your current division in the US. In the US you have more division now than in the past, in my country there are so many different persuasions now, that there is much less division. My father was part of the ‘red’ pillar, because his parents didn’t grow up with religion. Then you were ‘red’ by default. It was living in poverty, experiencing oppression from the government and exploitation from employers, that made him an actual socialist. However, during his youth, the ‘reds’ won by majority of the working class unionizing and organizing. He started working for peanuts, but his skills made him a valuable employee. Better income and massive publicly organized infrastructure and housing construction boom made buying a house available to the working class. Most people could rent cheaply, but my father understood that owning a house means independence from the ruling class. So, he first bought a flat for ƒ11,000 (€ 4,992), with a lot of savings and a mortgage at 12% interest. That’s where I was born. When I was 3, they bought quite a large corner house in a residential area, for ƒ60,000 (€ 27,227). It is now worth at least €500,000. He came from poverty, fixed his problems and made a good life for his family. He taught his sons to be independent thinkers, develop their skills and find what made them happy for themselves.

“that is why our way of life makes no sense to him.“
Your life experiences do differ from mine, but for what I know of it, you could have come to very similar points of view. It’s not your life, it’s what you accepted as truth, that makes you believe different things.

“Had America not came to the aid of Europe when Hitler was doing his thing, that place woulda went down the toilet.”
That is very likely true, but why do you think that it would have been permanent? People don’t accept a lack of freedom and respect for life for ever.
Besides, talk to Guess_Who, who thinks that the United states of America, Led by FDR, funded Hitler's 3rd reich; “When he sent the Jews to the gas chamber he knew what was going to happen..”. Maybe you didn’t read it, but I challenged you; “if you stay silent on this, you are showing a complete lack of principle and intellectual courage.”.

“Ananas for example, can't even enjoy a full size car, his country is so designed he is indoctrinated to think a small tiny car is all he "needs".“
Can you spend the same money twice? I spent some of my money on a car that is adequate for my use, which is commuting 3 days per week, going to family and friends and going on vacation as far as France. It’s not tiny, it seats 4 people comfortably. It has a trunk that is usually big enough for our shopping. If I drop the backseat, it can even hold a big flatpack from IKEA. It has a lot of creature comforts like climate control and cruise control. It has navigation, but the maps are a bit out of date, so I use Google Maps now, which is much better too. It has safety features like ABS, traction control and lane assist. In my country, it is an average sized car. Any bigger car makes it more difficult to find a parking spot. Fuel has always been more expensive in my country than in yours, because we have to import most oil. The government taxes fuel a lot too, to pay for all the road infrastructure, which is more expensive in a country that highly populated. In recent years, the government built FOUR very long tunnels that I use regularly. That costs lots of money. And when your president decided to attack Iran, for no good reason, my gas price went from $8.59/gallon to $11.85/gallon today. Do you think that I regret buying a fuel economical car?

“A few water pumps conk out and he is flooded away!“
My house is built on 0 m elevation. Climate change is raising the sea-level, but fortunately the last responsibility that my government is fucking up is our flood barriers. The last time dikes in the Netherlands failed on a large, nationwide scale was during the North Sea Flood of 1 February 1953. About the same number of people died as in your Hurricane Katrina disaster (2005). Since 1953, we had only 2 deaths from floods in Limburg in 2021. That same flood killed 196 people in Germany and 39 in Belgium. That whole area has an average elevation of around 100 meters above sea level.

“Ananas can't fathom having a gun,he thinks he is safe because the government tells him he is.”
My risk of getting killed in traffic far exceeds my risk of getting killed by a gun. Having a gun in your house is a risk. Even in the US, you are more likely to kill yourself by accident or on impulse, than you are getting killed by someone else with a gun. Then you have the risk of getting angry, shooting someone and going to prison for it. I AM safer without a gun, but mostly I am safer in my country that doesn’t let as many people have guns as your country. Is it freedom to own a gun or are you more free if you don’t need a gun?

“He can not even legally use self defense as a reason to own a firearm.”
Your constitution doesn’t allow for self defense as a reason to own a gun either. It was intended to defend yourself from a tyrannical government. Now you are trying to create one.
If I wanted to own a gun for sports or hunting, I would be able to get a permit, because I have no criminal record. You can ask any AI what regulations are attached to it.

“Imagine living in a country that won't allow you to defend yourself and your family?”
Of course, I am allowed to defend myself. I just cannot own a gun for that purpose. I have a big survival knife and a machete in my home office. I didn’t buy them for defense, but they are there if I need them. I also own some throwing knives, but I cannot find them anymore. If there is a burglar in the house, I will go downstairs with that survival knife (because it looks impressive), to ask him to leave. In the Netherlands, criminals face substantial additional criminal liability for possessing an illegal firearm, and using or threatening someone with a firearm can further increase the sentence. That creates a strong disincentive for burglars to carry guns. It is incredibly unlikely that someone who owns a gun has a reason to come to my house to murder me or my girlfriend, because I’m not a multi-millionaire, criminal, lawyer or a crime journalist. Sometimes people get killed by mistake, but that happens on the street, in seconds. There is no defense against that, even if you did carry a gun. In mass shootings, cops with body armor and training know that they have little chance to actually defend themselves. They cower outside, while children are getting mass murdered. People like you, who think that they are Rambo, might think they stand a chance, but you will just end up killing innocent children and teachers. The fraction of a second that it takes to decide if a person is a killer or an innocent, is the difference that the actual killer uses to kill you. That’s why your idea is nonsense. You cannot defend yourself with a gun against someone who is killing random people. That leaves someone who wants to kill YOU personally. If you feel that you need a gun to protect yourself against that, that’s either a sign about you or your paranoia.

“I could go on, But Ananas is a student of life , just a way different life. A life I question I could even bring myself to live.”
That’s a choice. If your beliefs are based on a philosophy that you feel attached to, it is indeed impossible for me to change your mind. How many people in your country are living a life that they consider meaningful? Are they in fact having a meaningful life or is it dependent on a supernatural connection or assumed rewards in the next life? Are your countrymen feeling happy, healthy, respected, autonomous (in decisions), connected (with friends and family), hopeful and secure? I know that you want to people to be useful, but useful to who? Are they useful if they transport crap products from AliExpress to customers, produce cigarettes or snacks that are designed to be addictive with sugar, salt and fat and maximum profitable by using highly processed ingredients? It’s keeping the economy going, but at what cost? These things are not what made humanity great, it’s our past investments into housing, education, healthcare, social security and introduction of human rights that made humanity great. Did cars make us great, or did it just give employers the ability to make their employees compete with people living 100 miles away, making everyone stuck in traffic for a big part of their lives? Did computers make us great, or did they mostly make people sit behind a screen, growing fatter, instead of going walking in nature, like me? Computers definitely provided me with a tool to use my creativity, have an easier job, and learn about the world, but they also created social media addicted children, consume incredible amounts of the Earth’s resources, and they are likely to put billions of people unemployed with no plans to keep them fed and housed, and maybe they turn into Skynet and nuke everyone. Are we not living a life that leads to huge problems, utter disaster or complete annihilation? To prevent that, do we need scapegoats and division or do we need global cooperation? Are you supporting humanity living that, or do you promote a culture of selfishness for the few and obedience for everyone else? When some people are free to exploit others, what does that do to the others? What is freedom to you? Are you free, if you are fighting to survive or are you free if you have a worthwhile job that covers all your needs and leaves you time and energy to do other things? This is what all Americans who move to my country say they learned; “I have time to enjoy living and spend less time worrying and stressing.”. I think that you could bring yourself to live that life.

Telling Israel to stop their genocide isn't antisemitism.

You would say it's 'defunding the police' or 'supporting terrorism' if it was
Mamdani who would cut $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism.
You know that, so YOU have NO CREDIBILITY.

Telling Israel to stop their genocide isn't antisemitism.

RNC’s Planned Attack Backfires: Jumbotron ‘Thirst Trap’ Stunt Triggers Viral Surge
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No left-wing comedian could ever come up with this shit.
This party has become more absurd than fiction.

No he is not, you're just a bigot for saying that because he is Muslim.

Tell me again how Zohran Mamdani disrespects 9/11 victims.

25 Years Later, Mamdani Administration Opens City’s 9/11 Records to the Public
and Settles Multi-Year Legal Battle
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released more than 170,000 pages
of previously undisclosed municipal records on September 8, 2026, confirming
that city officials (Rudy Giuliani) knew the air and dust around Ground Zero were dangerously toxic in the aftermath of 9/11, despite publicly assuring residents
and first responders that the air was safe to breathe.

New York Times: Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts
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Trump is literally DEFUNDING THE POLICE that keeps New Yorkers safe.

That was to be expected; Iran has been preparing for the US to attack for decades.
I knew all along that this was going to be a disaster.
Still, I prefer that Trump gets stuck in Iran, instead of going to war with Canada
or Greenland.

"Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction
and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.".
That's 100% true. However, that was a while ago, we are not 'in the beginning' anymore.

Many scientists and international bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), argue that human activity is driving a rapid biodiversity crisis. Current extinction rates are estimated to be hundreds
to thousands of times higher than normal background rates.

Economists always projected that carbon taxes would raise fuel prices. However, the policy blueprint usually includes "revenue recycling" (or climate dividends), where the tax collected is given back to citizens via direct rebates or tax cuts to offset higher bills. In places where carbon taxes caused severe political backlash (like parts of Canada or Europe), it was often because the public felt the pinch of the rising bills before or more acutely than they noticed the stabilizing effect of government rebates. Furthermore, recent global spikes in heating and fuel bills have been heavily driven by geopolitical events
(like the war in Ukraine) and general inflation, rather than climate taxes alone.

By the way, coal jobs lost to competition with oil and natural gas, long before they lost to competition with wind and solar. The horse and carriage lost to competition from the car, that's progress.

Of course you do have a point, but that’s what happens when you leave problem-solving
to corporate centrist liberals: they stick ordinary people with the bill, rather than the ones who became billionaires by creating the problem.

"When saving the planet becomes a business, who's really being saved?"
It's literally your own idea that business needs to solve this problem.
But hey, if we COULD save the world without having to go to war against the billionaires, why are YOU complaining?

I just don't think we can save the world without fighting the billionaires, AT LEAST politically, because they are too much sick with greed. Most of them are old, and many think that their money will save them. It's just the rest of the people who are fucked.

Not true. I posted a list of 34 items.
Single Democratic president/authority: 23
Single Republican president/authority: 5
Multiple presidents / non-presidential authority: 6
That's not half, not a third, that's 1/7th.

None of these accomplishments were implemented with much more support
from Republicans than Democrats.

Nixon signed the 1970 Clean Air Act, so he gets presidential credit for signing it. But the legislation itself passed Congress with enormous bipartisan support.
The vote was 375–1 in the House and 73–0 in the Senate.

Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970. Again, the congressional vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan: 310–58 in the House and
83–3 in the Senate. So Nixon deserves credit for supporting and signing it, but the legislation wasn't remotely something Republicans enacted against Democratic opposition.

However, we cannot give him credit for the Clean Water Act, because Nixon vetoed it. Then Congress overrode Nixon's veto.

None of these accomplishments were implemented against a large majority
of Democrats voting against it.

Only ONE time did a Democrat need Republicans to pass an accomplishment
and that was for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in which LBJ (Democrat) actually needed Republicans to help pass it.

For the other accomplishments, it was either bi-partisan or dominated by Democratic votes in favor.

And there is an important historical complication: the 1950s–70s Republican Party was substantially different from today's Republican Party. On civil rights, for example, liberal and moderate Republicans were often essential to passage, while conservative Southern Democrats supplied much of the opposition. The Senate's own historical account explicitly describes this bipartisan coalition and the deep divisions within both parties.

Understand that the current Republican party would vote against ALL of these accomplishments, and they are in fact trying to cut, gut or destroy them.
And that's a fact, so STFUYS.

You could make everything yourself, but only if you accept the enormous cost of doing so. Why? Because you don't have unlimited resources, labor, capital or infrastructure to make everything. Every dollar, worker and factory used to produce one thing cannot be used somewhere else.

Capitalist economics is based on production finding the best location to make things efficiently, given the resources, labor, infrastructure and supply chains available. That requires specialization and economies of scale. So if you want to move production to the US, you need to be selective about it. Find products that suit US resources, infrastructure and production chains, protect those industries where there is a genuine reason to do so, and attract investors to build the production capacity.

Take fishing rods or golf clubs from Canada. Even if producing them in Canada isn't much cheaper, the factories, workers, machinery and supply chains already exist. Moving that production to the US means spending a lot of money to recreate something that already exists. Investors need to know that the investment will actually make money and that the conditions will remain stable long enough for them to recover it. No serious investor is going to invest billions in production based on a policy that might disappear or change completely after the next election, or as soon as Trump drops dead.

And blanket tariffs can actually make American manufacturing more expensive,
because American manufacturers also depend on imported machinery, components
and raw materials.

So if you want to rebuild American manufacturing, do it strategically and give investors long-term certainty. If you impose blanket tariffs in this chaotic way, you're primarily making imports more expensive for Americans, while also making investment more uncertain. That's not the same thing as creating competitive American industry.

And ultimately, if your goal is an economy based on American production and American consumption, making American consumers poorer works against that goal. Higher prices reduce what Americans can afford to buy, which reduces domestic demand for American businesses. You are therefore raising the cost of producing goods in America while simultaneously weakening the American consumer who is supposed to buy them.
And if those higher consumer taxes are used to offset tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy, you are shifting purchasing power away from the majority of consumers, the very people your domestic economy depends on.

You want to teach me capitalist economics, when it is related to Mamdani, but you don't understand this: it doesn't matter how nice you are to the billionaires who make stuff
(in your vision), if you destroy the purchasing power of the people who BUY stuff.

On top with her tits on my face.

Anytime Christians are shouting "Persecution!", there is likely a story like this behind it.
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Are you kidding? Mayor Zohran Mamdani just took several concrete steps at long-term preparedness and remembrance.

• Made September 11 an official NYC “Day of Remembrance and Service” every year. This is a new citywide designation. It calls for a moment of silence honoring both people killed on 9/11 and people who later died from 9/11-related illnesses.
• Encouraged city agencies to hold memorial ceremonies and educational programs and work with NYC Service to promote volunteer opportunities on September 11. The idea is to connect remembrance with the spirit of service that New Yorkers showed immediately after the attacks.
• Expanded the focus beyond people killed on September 11 itself. His announcement explicitly recognizes first responders, survivors, city workers, families, recovery/construction workers, and people who became sick from toxic exposure in the years afterward.
• Updated NYC's emergency-continuity planning for the first time since 2007. He created a new interagency Continuity and Mission Assurance Team involving emergency management, technology, city services and budget officials, intended to make sure essential government services can continue during a catastrophe.

Your side always talk a good game, but it's mostly a political point to hate Muslims and go to war. Remembering people who died is cheap, but recognizing the health damage of first responders, survivors, city workers, families and recovery/construction workers costs money. If it wasn't for Jon Stewart shaming Congress, they would have completely ignored all the people who are suffering health issues from doing their important work.
That is sickening.

What is his definition of a woman? When I can put my cigar in the front?

Are you talking about cheating on your wife, with another woman?
If that's what you do with a woman, you've picked the right president.
I don't know how you tie that to transgenders though, because you can squirt your cum over the dress of a trans-woman too. And if they had the surgery, the cigar fits too.

In recent years, Clinton has aligned with modern LGBTQ+ advocacy platforms.
For example, during a 2023 Clinton Global Initiative University conference in Nashville,
Bill and Hillary Clinton spoke out directly against state-level legislative attacks targeting
the transgender community. He warned that weaponizing gender politics poses a significant threat to the country's future and explicitly validated the community by condemning efforts to marginalize them.

He doesn't focus on the theory of sex and gender, he just cares about people's rights
to figure that out for themselves. The government should stay out of your underwear.

I understand the difference; leadership is about the capacity to change people's minds on influence, inspiration, and shared goals, whereas ruling relies on forcing your desires onto others and demanding obedience.
Have you seen Trump at work? HE DEMANDS OBEDIENCE.

Socialism and communism are derived from the words social and commune for a reason; because their core theory is built on collective ownership and cooperation, NOT a ruling class.

Why do I even try to talk some sense into a person who believes fringe conspiracy theories, historical revisionism, and factually upside-down claims? You are explicitly contradicting history, as it is recognized by allies and enemies alike.

There is a massive paper trail showing exactly how the Nazis funded their own regime, mostly through plundering occupied Europe and stealing the wealth of Jewish citizens. FDR didn’t run Germany, nor did he order the Holocaust. The US government actually fought a total war to destroy the Third Reich. Blaming the country that helped liberate the camps for building them ignores the real perpetrators: Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Over 400,000 American soldiers died fighting across Europe and the
Pacific to destroy fascism. American troops were the ones who liberated concentration camps like Buchenwald and Dachau. To claim that the US government and FDR actually ran the Third Reich and sent people to gas chambers completely spits on the sacrifice of those American veterans.

I'm accused of hating America a lot, but what you just said is worse than ANYTHING I have ever said.

To the others on this forum who usually back him up: if you stay silent on this, you are showing a complete lack of principle and intellectual courage.

That's not the same as killing Jews. It's turning away refugees,
which is exactly what you want Trump to do. There are genocides and mass murders going on today too.

In Marxist theory, socialism is democratic worker control and ownership of the workplaces and means of production.
Communism is the ultimate, stateless, and classless society that emerges after socialism.
Democracy is any system of government where power is vested in the people and exercised by them either directly or through elected representatives.

Democracy under socialism is inherently different from capitalist democracy. Marxists argue that capitalist democracy is an illusion (bourgeois democracy) because wealth dictates political power. In contrast, democracy under socialism is envisioned as a radical, bottom-up system where the working-class majority rules society and democratically manages the economy.

In Marxist theory, a political state and its democratic systems (like voting, parliaments, or laws) only exist to manage conflict between different social classes. Because full communism is a classless society, the mechanisms of political rule become completely obsolete.Instead of a political democracy, society is organized through .the voluntary association of producers. Without a state or money, society relies on rotating administrative bodies to manage resources and plan production based directly on human need. Because automation and collective cooperation create an abundance of goods, survival is guaranteed. Individuals are completely free to pursue their creative potentials, erasing the distinction between the governors and the governed.

Personally, I think that communism is too complicated. I prefer socialism as
an end goal, but I would already be satisfied with a hybrid of capitalism and socialism, in which important public services are socialized, but luxury consumer goods would be produced and owned by private companies,
that are regulated and taxed enough to limit their power.

It's not JUST a number, your country pays interest on it.
The US government is now paying roughly $1.1–$1.2 trillion per year
in net interest on the federal debt.

"Humanity evolved from Africa, also the middle east which is in Asia."
I know, so what?

I can spit facts and evidence until hell freezes over.
It doesn't matter, because you will accuse me of lying anyway.
And then you just spit out nonsense without ANY facts or evidence.
You're either delusional or a troll.

Put some evidence towards those killed Jews.

"Leadership vs. Ruling is the same as Utpia vs. socialism."
That's just word salad. I guess, it must be delusional.

What is? Elon's trillion?

Yes, and so they should, because Trump and his cronies are traitors to the Constitution. They are exactly what the impeachment process is designed for.

The Dutch Socialist Party is one of the most democratic parties in my country. Only 2 other parties come close and they are both on the left.

The SP is highly democratic because political power is deliberately organized from the bottom up: members organize in local branches, directly control those branches, elect representatives to higher bodies, collectively control important national decisions, participate in choosing the leadership and retain mechanisms for holding both party officials and elected representatives accountable.

The Republican denied the existence of Project 2025, didn't give you any consistent program to vote on, but expected you to vote for them just because of partisanship. You had candidate Trump promising to fix every problem in the US directly in very short times, and as soon as he got elected not even trying to do any of it.

When you are an SP member, you are involved in writing the program.
Then the representatives will work tirelessly to get as much of it done.
If they don't do their best to do exactly that, they can be replaced with
someone who will, at the members demands. We don't need to wait
for the next primaries.

The difference; you are loyal to your party, my party is loyal to it's members.
I support them, because they represent me, not the other way around.

And my country is more democratic, because I can easily switch to any of the many others. You have only two damn awful and corrupt choices, that have been there for ever and collude together to keep out other parties. In 10 years, we gained 4 new national political parties that gained seats; FVD, Volt, BBB and BIJ1. The BBB was even in the last government coalition. It wasn't a success, but it is giving my people lots of democratic choices that you don't have.

Christian Nationalists aren't Christians either, they are a political movement abusing religion for power and submission. There is nothing Christian about that.

You keep accusing me of lying, but you keep failing to show it.

FDR was MUCH more "radical" than the majority of the current Democrats. Most of them are centrist corporatists. They are about as right-wing now as Reagan was, and you can see it in their policy proposals. You ignore more of my questions than I ignore yours. I would, if it was in good faith and worth answering. Mostly they are not.

Humanity evolved in groups, who worked together to thrive. We do that, because our young are the weakest of the whole animal kingdom. That's why it's our nature to care for each other. And because that's our nature, we became the dominant species on Earth. And you are now supporting to abandon our biggest strength. And the only reason you support that is the constant othering from your media and politicians, because that favors the wealthy. It's divide and conquer.

You are so confident that all illegals would surely vote for Democrats. Is that maybe because you understand that it takes decades of indoctrination to become stupid enough to vote for Republicans, and they didn't have that?

If the other side has anything that makes sense, then you could maybe convince me of something. This MAGA regime doesn't make sense on anything; it's just a cult worshiping a very flawed and selfish individual.
Your side has not just lost independent voters, you're even losing life-long conservatives.

Undocumented immigrants cannot vote. Only naturalized US citizens can vote in federal, state, and generally local elections.

I do agree that the Democrats haven't shown a lot of plans the last decades. They were just managing the country. That's still better than destroying everything that matters. For plans that improve people's lives, you need progressives. FDR was a progressive; your side would call him a Communist Marxist today. He was so popular that your side needed to introduce term-limits to get rid of him, because he was overwhelmingly popular. This is the time that most Americans want back now. They have seen the absolute failure of your side, they have seen that corporate centrist Democrats are useless, so now those progressives and democratic socialists are winning almost everywhere. There is a wave coming that you cannot stop, because most Americans a sick and tired of being sick and tired. They want a government that works for them, instead for the wealthy.

Sure, everything on the list below would be called socialism, communism, Marxism or radical left by your side, it it was introduced today:

• Social Security — Gave elderly Americans, disabled workers, and survivors a basic financial safety net.
• Medicare — Ensured virtually every American over 65 has access to health insurance.
• Medicaid — Expanded health coverage for low-income Americans, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities.
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Outlawed racial discrimination in employment and public accommodations.
• Voting Rights Act of 1965 — Protected the right to vote against racial discrimination.
• Fair Housing Act — Outlawed discrimination in housing based on race and other protected characteristics.
• Desegregation — Used federal authority to dismantle government-enforced racial segregation.
• Equal Pay Act — Made paying workers differently solely because of sex unlawful.
• Americans with Disabilities Act — Protected Americans with disabilities from discrimination and required reasonable accessibility.
• Child-labor protections — Prevented children from being exploited in dangerous and abusive employment.
• Minimum wage — Established a nationwide wage floor for covered workers.
• Unemployment insurance — Provided temporary support to workers who lose their jobs.
• Workers’ compensation — Provided protection for workers injured on the job.
• Collective-bargaining rights — Protected workers’ ability to organize and negotiate with employers.
• GI Bill — Helped millions of veterans obtain education, homes, and economic opportunity.
• Rural electrification — Brought electricity to millions of rural Americans.
• New Deal infrastructure — Built roads, bridges, dams, schools, parks, and other infrastructure that served Americans for generations.
• FDIC — Protected Americans’ bank deposits and strengthened confidence in the banking system.
• Food and drug safety — Established stronger federal safeguards against dangerous food, medicines, and consumer products.
• Occupational safety standards — Established nationwide protections against dangerous workplace conditions.
• Clean Air Act — Dramatically reduced harmful air pollution.
• Clean Water Act — Established strong federal protections against water pollution.
• Environmental conservation — Preserved public lands, wildlife, forests, wetlands, and other natural resources.
• Superfund — Created a mechanism for cleaning up severely contaminated hazardous-waste sites.
• School nutrition programs — Helped ensure children receive nutritious meals regardless of family income.
• Head Start — Expanded early-childhood education and support for disadvantaged children.
• Veterans’ health care — Expanded federal medical services for American veterans.
• Consumer protection — Strengthened Americans’ protection against dangerous products and deceptive business practices.
• Nuclear arms control — Democratic administrations negotiated agreements that reduced the risk of nuclear conflict.
• Peace Corps — Created a long-running program of American volunteer service abroad.
• AmeriCorps — Created opportunities for Americans to serve their communities.
• Protection of interracial marriage — Federal constitutional protections ultimately eliminated state bans on interracial marriage.
• Protection of contraception access — Established constitutional protection for married couples’ access to contraception and later extended that protection.
• Marriage equality — Extended the legal right to marry to same-sex couples nationwide.

Now your turn; give me a list of things that Christian Nationalists, far-right conservatives or MAGA has done for America in order to make it a better country?

Just another silly thing to distract yourself from what is happening.
Decades of fearmongering about what Democrats would do,
and then your side does it ALL, and you don't want to see it; blinded by tribalism.

• “Jackbooted government thugs” — warned that federal agents would become an armed occupying force; then put militarized federal agents and troops into American cities.
• “The Second Amendment protects us from tyranny” — warned that an armed citizenry was the last defense against government tyranny; then a legally armed American was killed by federal agents, with his possession of the gun invoked to justify the shooting.
• “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny” — warned that federal power would become something ordinary Americans had to fear; then expanded armed federal enforcement against Americans resisting government action.
• “Don’t Tread on Me” — warned against government coercion of individual citizens; then used federal power to crush resistance and override local authority.
• “States’ rights” — warned that Washington would trample the states; then threatened states with loss of federal money unless they complied with federal demands.
• “Small government” — promised to shrink Washington; instead concentrated more power in the presidency.
• “Executive tyranny” — warned Democrats would govern by executive fiat; then made extraordinary use of executive orders and executive agencies.
• “Government censorship” — warned Democrats would silence conservatives; then pressured broadcasters, journalists and media organizations that challenged Trump.
• “Weaponized DOJ/FBI” — warned Democrats would use federal law enforcement against political enemies; then pursued Trump's political adversaries through federal investigations and prosecutions.
• “The Deep State” — warned of an unaccountable bureaucracy; then purged career officials and replaced institutional independence with political loyalty.
• “Political prisoners” / “two-tiered justice” — warned that political opponents would be selectively prosecuted; then used pardons and presidential power to protect allies while pursuing enemies.
• “Big Brother” — warned Democrats would build an all-seeing government; then expanded government access to Americans' personal databases and information.
• “The surveillance state” — warned that government would track ordinary Americans; then expanded the use of facial recognition, location data, license-plate surveillance and other tracking technologies.
• “Election interference” — warned Washington would manipulate elections; then used federal executive power to impose election requirements and interfere with state election administration.
• “Federal takeover” — warned Democrats would use Washington to control hostile states and cities; then sent federal forces into jurisdictions whose elected governments objected.
• “Law and order” — promised equal justice; then increasingly used extraordinary federal enforcement against political and ideological opponents.
• “Protect American jobs” — warned that foreigners would take Americans' jobs; then embraced rapid AI deployment while resisting regulation that could constrain AI-driven job displacement.
• “Globalist elites” — warned that ordinary Americans were being ruled by an insulated elite; then concentrated extraordinary political influence among billionaires, corporate interests and wealthy insiders.
• “Drain the swamp” — promised to destroy the Washington insider class; instead gave the swamp a new business model: billionaires, loyalists and insiders with direct access to presidential power.
• “Nobody is above the law” — promised to hold the powerful accountable; then made political loyalty and presidential protection increasingly consequential to who faces scrutiny.
• “Epstein's child-sex-trafficking cabal” — promised to expose the wealthy and powerful people supposedly protected by the system; then the administration and Republican leadership became embroiled in resistance to demands for fuller disclosure while powerful figures fought congressional subpoenas.
• “End the forever wars” — promised to stop endless foreign wars; then launched/expanded major military operations while American forces remained deeply engaged overseas.
• “America First” — promised to stop sacrificing Americans for foreign adventures; then asked Americans to absorb the human and financial costs of another major war.
• “Lower the deficit” — promised fiscal discipline and smaller government; instead the national debt passed $40 trillion.
• “Freedom” — warned that Democrats would use government to control Americans; then expanded federal control over speech, protest, immigration, elections, information and personal data.

There is the communicated purpose and the ACTUAL purpose.
I'll tell you a secret.... They are LYING.

I told you while they were doing it that everything they reported was untrue.
You could have used a search engine to confirm everything I said.

You wanted to believe the lies of a billionaire, who you hated before, until he bough Twitter and started filling it with bullshit and memes that your side likes.
Then he got access to your government to cut appropriations for anything that he doesn't like, and to steal the information that the government has on its people.
Then he got everything he wanted for SpaceX from your president. Billions and billions of your TAX DOLLARS to fill Earth's orbit with his satellites.
[Until they start colliding, destroying all the satellites in a chain reaction and making space impassable for decades, destroying actual important functions that we rely on, like weather forecasting.]
It made him the first trillionaire. He sells you bullshit about data centers in space
and going to Mars, but it's just a scam to steal tax-dollars, investments from dumb Americans and 401(k) holders. And there is nothing I can tell you to make you see it.

He DID cut off non US projects. He also cut food for American children
and poor old people. He cut cancer research. Then Trump cut money
that kept people's health insurance on the edge of affordable (now it's not).

He cut a lot of things that people relied on.
And do you see that in your deficit? Obviously not.

You think there should be a lot of free money that he didn't cut yet,
because you see no change. Right?

Wrong! He is taking everything that he cut, and then he gives it FOR FREE
to the wealthy and shady companies that his sons are starting up.
I guess that they needed it more.

Good people doing their best for an elephant, even when it's a dirty job like this,
always raises my hope for the world. I very much need that, so thanks.

Joe Biden cheated in the election? TRUMP was in charge!
The whole world saw Trump goof off, Americans didn't like it either,
all the polls showed that he was going to lose the election, and then he did.

A year of investigations and NOTHING to show for it.
You have NOTHING but lies and bullshit.

Meanwhile, Republicans are already trying to steal the election in Texas,
in a brazen way, like they ALWAYS do.

1. Mid-Cycle Gerrymandering
Redrawing congressional districts before the normal redistricting cycle to lock in more Republican seats.

2. Restricting Mail Voting
Making absentee voting harder through tighter eligibility and identification requirements.

3. Imposing Proof-of-Citizenship Barriers
Requiring documentary proof of citizenship that could prevent otherwise eligible voters from registering.

4. Aggressive Voter-Roll Purges
Using voter-roll reviews and removals that critics say risk sweeping up eligible voters.
Important qualification: Texas's 1.2 million “suspense voters” have not actually been disenfranchised; they can generally still vote after confirming their address.

5. Closing Polling Places
Eliminating dozens of Election Day polling sites, potentially increasing travel and wait times.

6. Restricting Where and When Texans Vote
Moving toward precinct-based, single-day voting and limiting flexible voting options.

7. Encouraging Voter Challenges
Supporting efforts to challenge voters' eligibility, potentially intimidating or deterring legitimate voters.

8. Tightening Election Administration
Adding stricter ID, registration, ballot and voter-verification requirements.

9. Weaponizing “Election Integrity” Investigations
Using allegations of voter fraud and noncitizen voting to justify investigations and tighter voting restrictions.

10. Closing Republican Primaries
Trying to restrict Republican primaries to formally registered Republicans, changing who can influence GOP nominees.

11. Undermining Confidence in Election Results
Promoting fraud narratives and election challenges that can create grounds to dispute unfavorable results

And here are the sources:
Texas GOP — Election priorities/platform
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Brennan Center — Texas: Legal Protections from Election Subversion and Voter Suppression
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Brennan Center — Texas: Limits on Voter Eligibility Challenges
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Brennan Center — Texas: Protections Against Intimidation of Voters and Election Workers
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Brennan Center — States Requiring Proof of Citizenship
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Associated Press — Texas “suspense voters” and the 1.2 million claim
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Associated Press — Tarrant County polling-place cuts
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Houston Chronicle — Tarrant County polling-place closures
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Associated Press — Noncitizen voting claims and efforts to change election rules
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Reuters — Federal effort to restrict mail voting
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Texas Secretary of State — 2026 election rules and limited ballots
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CHEATING!!! And no investigations needed, because it's on their OWN platforms.

You are a complete numbskull and unable to make a decent point, ever.
The topic was "the economy is only bad because of the MESS that Sleepy Joe left".
He had nothing but a claim and you had nothing either. Only bullshit.
You couldn't even bring yourself to say: "But the DOW...". NOTHING!!!
Do I need to make your points FOR YOU?! IT'S EMBARRASSING!!

This guy was fined by an AI red light camera in a different state,
so he went to a local city meeting to address the issue:
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He's definitely NOT a liberal, and he is addressing issues that Republicans
(used to) care about.

C'mon, this is an awesome campaign ad.
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Find me one from a Republican, that is fun, without being hateful.

I think the issue is that they try to solve everything with repression,
instead of treating people with dignity and providing them a decent chance
of a worthwhile life. If you treat people like animals, they become animals
and the only thing you can do is put them in a cage.

Is that supposed to be applicable to this topic?
You're only showing that you have no valid arguments.

This is just a joke of course, but renaming a lake that you share with your neighbors, shows that Trump has no shame. It disrespects 400 years of history and the history of the indigenous people who named it. Anyway, the next president will undo everything your repugnant president did, to restore some credibility and alliances around the world.