Your views, thoughts or simply opinions. The Economy is not well (understatement). I know there are some here that will try to link the country they are residing in as problems of the USA. Sorry the USA cannot be responsible for 100% of the problems in the world nor should they be expected to help repair all problems.
I never really had a issue with canada, but really, they don't supply anything we can't make or do ourselves. Automakers went there to dodge the profit eating unions, we can grow our own lumber and etc. they took our draft dodgers and didn't keep them very long,
Sure, the US could make almost everything themselves that they now get from other countries. But why didn't you, do you think?
Being able to make something yourself is not the same as it being economically sensible to make it yourself. It's like saying: “Why do you buy bread? You could grow wheat, beat it to flour and bake your own.”
You don't do that, because your time and resources are more valuable when you specialize and trade with other people who specialize in different things.
The US CAN produce its own wood, but it just isn't always the cheapest or most efficient option. Canada has enormous forests, a large established logging industry, and is geographically close to the US. So Canadian lumber can often be produced and transported to the US at a lower cost than expanding US production.
Canadian auto workers were generally unionized too. Canada had a big market that automakers wanted to serve. The US–Canada Auto Pact (1965) allowed companies to specialize production across the two countries rather than build every model and component in both.
Canada offered skilled workers, established suppliers, and access to the US market. Automakers could therefore build certain vehicles or components in Canada and ship them across the border efficiently.
Companies will always do what is most efficient, because they want to make money. What is most efficient is based on the economic realities of different countries.
My country produces about 11% of the wheat we use to make food and animal feed.
We could grow more, but we already use half of our country to grow agriculture products. We would need to either grow less other products or sacrifice land to wheat that we now use for other things. Wheat is a low value product, so we prioritize higher value products.
Most of the iPhone is manufactured in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India and China, because that it cheaper. They have created the industry to do it there, they have build their supply chain around it and they have lots of cheap labor. If you wanted to make the iPhone in the US for 100%, you would have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars and recreate the ecosystem that has developed in Asia over decades: raw materials → chemicals → specialized machinery → components → subcomponents → assembly → packaging → logistics
And if you did that, it would almost certainly cost substantially more than today's globally optimized version, particularly during the enormous transition period. No one would buy an iPhone that would cost $3000 with similar capabilities of a Samsung costing $600. People who love Apple are a bit weird, but they are not THAT crazy.
We have everything you need.. 20 fold. That's exactly why Trump is so hot and heavy.
We have vast amounts of oil, aluminum, nickel, uranium, and a wealth of other critical minerals all needed for the future. We have more fresh water lakes than the rest of the world combined.. water!
3.9 billion barrels of oil everyday flows south to you at a discount price.. Imagine what the price of gas would be if that doesn't happen.. the list goes on..
This is not a trade dispute to make it better for Americans, this is a trade policy designed by the current administration to cripple Canada to the point of annexation.. simply put. It will never happen.
Oh and the draft dodgers are happy and being looked after in their old age.. There was one that stayed behind tho, and right now he's the one who's behind the wheel of your car
Can be.. Just like liberals finding out you are a conservative. It's not like I hate them. As a stoic it makes that choice to be impossible. It all comes down to me. Rather than listening to their ideas the only thing that comes to their pea-brained minds is thier hate while always pointing the finger to the conservative while never taking accountability for themselves. I just stay away from them.. Its better for them, better for me.. Isolation.
Did you know that the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' are actually not opposites
of each other?
'Liberalism' is fundamentally a political philosophy centered on things such as individual liberty, equal legal rights, constitutional government, freedom of expression, and limits on arbitrary state power. If society IS liberal, they would be conservative in wanting to preserve that.
'Conservatism' generally emphasizes tradition, continuity, social order, and skepticism toward rapid or sweeping change. The current political movement in the US is pushing for historical sweeping change. Therefore, it cannot be called 'conservative'. What it can be called is 'illiberal' though.
Yes, you are correct.. BUT from day one to now the agenda's have changed to progressive using transgenders for removing rights of women... Or labled from liars that are trying to turn this into socialism of rulers that only care about the people's money and not the safety and well being.. Rather than doing anything for this country for the 5th time setting up impeachment hearings at the cost of the tax payer even if they don't want to..Trump has done well since he is closer to constitutional republic than the fucking democraps that are performing a coup to destroy it. So what you are saying was true but not.
Conservatism attitudes are based on education of critical thinking. Rather than just skimming the tax payer they find ways of independence from government support.
The DSA doesn't represent all socialists. The Dutch Socialist Party wants to control and limit migration. It says people fleeing war and violence should be received humanely, while economic migration should be substantially restricted.
More specifically:
- Asylum/refugees: People genuinely fleeing war and persecution should be protected and accommodated humanely.
- The SP wants faster asylum procedures and better distribution of asylum seekers among municipalities.
- Labour migration: The SP strongly opposes uncontrolled labour migration. It proposes work permits and says only workers who are genuinely needed should be admitted.
- EU free movement: The SP argues that the EU's unrestricted free movement of workers has contributed to exploitation, low wages and pressure on housing, and wants to curb/regulate it.
- Students/knowledge migrants: The party also wants to reduce knowledge and student migration.
- Overall target: The SP currently advocates a net migration figure of 40,000 per year, rather than unrestricted immigration.
That's the Dutch SP responding to the specific needs of my country, which is highly overpopulated. The US is NOT highly overpopulated, so the US DSA doesn't need to limit free movement of people.
The DSA describes abolition as the END goal, and presents its immediate proposals as steps toward a society in which the existing police system is no longer NECESSARY. The basic theory is that you reduce the functions currently handled by police by addressing the underlying social problems, by:
1. Redirect police money into public services
2. Treat mental illness and addiction as health problems
3. Create non-police responses to crises
4. Demilitarize police
5. Reduce the scope of policing
6. Build a different social and political system
You are straw-manning them by leaving that out. It means that you have no response to their actual positions, so you need to make believe that they are crazy. That's a dishonest tactic.
Spare me child.. Its only overpopulated with blue cities trying to mail in ballots and from what I heard Trump has won this fight,.
The places that are overpopulated are where the democrats bullshit minorities while giving threats if they vote for Trump they will lose their free money from the hard working conservative.
The rest of your stupid bullshit is unremarkable. Here's what you do.. Stay in Europe,, the european union's got you by the balls.. Don't come here.. You will lose.
58% of Americans favor allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail.
Trump didn't 'WIN' anything; his stooges gave him something
that should have been decided by the PEOPLE.
That's why The Constitution starts with "We the People"
and not with "We the Supreme Court".
Conservatives are freeloaders; blue states are funding red states to stay alive.
Conservatives cry about taxes and then they cry harder when they need help.
All your MAGA voting farm-boys are kept afloat by subsidies.
Just calling it bullshit isn't an argument.
YOU are unremarkable and a waste of my time.
That is my hypothesis.. I've giving you the opportunity for transparency here. You have not taken advantage which is telling me you are lying. I'm putting this nicely.. The only way you can win this argument is through transparency. If you are confident then show documentation with your argument.. Other than that its "thank you drive through"
I have countered every argument you have put up, correcting your misconceptions and straw-man arguments.
I add numbers, data and often sources. You don't do any of that.
If you want a source for the claim "58% of Americans favor allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail", here it is: only registered users can see external links
Do you acknowledge that the Supreme Court voted 6–3 to allow the Trump administration's mail-voting restrictions to proceed, while the legal challenges continue?
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Congress did NOT vote on the current mail-voting restrictions before they were imposed. The restrictions at issue came from President Trump’s executive order of March 31, 2026, which directed the Department of Homeland Security and USPS to create voter-eligibility lists and establish new requirements for mail ballots.
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Are you arguing that it is constitutional to change in a major way
how elections are performed by executive order?
So what are you trying to prove here.. What is your overall summation of right and wrong? I have no idea what you are talking about.. Is it to contrast democracy over socialism or visa versa..
You have proven nothing. Not to me anyway.,
See, when I get specific, you answer with complete gibberish.
You have a democratic system and Trump disrespects it, by ignoring the wish of the people, ignoring their representatives in Congress, by ruling by executive order, by letting his corrupt, bad faith Supreme Court justices defile your Constitution, or by just doing shit that no one allowed, until he gets ordered to reverse it, and then ignoring the orders. This is completely unconstitutional.
Trying to diminish this to a semantic discussion about right and wrong
is just a stupid trick.
not at all. You're just being a baby. Supreme court has highest juristiction of the country. One Left Wing Judge goes against the constitution then the supreme court of 9 judges over-rules him bringing the subject to conform to constitutional integrity. I agree with the final result.
Then why don't you let EVERYTHING be decided by the Supreme Court?
Maybe then voting at all would be useless?
I can READ the Constitution. Constitutional integrity is nowhere to be found among the Supreme Court justices appointed by Republicans.
I'm sure YOU agree, but you should care that the majority of Americans agrees with what's happening in your country, even if it's not what YOU want.
When politicians in my country do what they promised, and they represent the majority of my countrymen, I might not like that, but
I accept it as a democratic choice. I debate people to make them reconsider their choices. I'm not supporting politicians who CHEAT.
That you are incapable of honestly discussing your opinions
about what is happening in the world.
You profess a certain morality, but support the opposite.
If I challenge you on it, you answer with complete gibberish.
It's either a dishonest tactic or you are delusional.
You know nothing about morality or even justice. You can't since you are an athiest. We have nothing in common. Our goals are opposites..You are just a dormant fucktard that will never learn anything.. So let's just calm down ... And you fucking insult me again and there will be shit piles on your page will be coming out of your nostrils..
Theist based morality is only based on fear of punishment.
That's not morality, that's just OBEDIENCE, which is WEAK.
Atheism is NOT a moral structure, it's just the rejection of theism.
I'm not JUST an atheist, I'm also a humanist, which IS a moral structure.
Humanism emphasizes human well-being, dignity, flourishing, autonomy, and reason, rather than grounding morality in divine commands or supernatural authority. In other words; it's NOT based on the made-up demands of a made-up deity; delusion.
Yep, libs want to defund the police and send a unarmed mental health expert into a dangerous situation to try to "talk it thru". Most situations that police are called on, talk is what caused it all to escalate in the first place.
The idea of this bullshit party is to divert the truth by doing this shit such that it gives them a window of stealing from the taxpayer.. To them they are immune to accountability and so far they are getting away with it. The attorney general is said to be ruthless so we will see what happens.. So far there are many mayor's and governers arrested facing decades in prison. Let's see what happens.
Do you understand the difference between libs and socialists?
Your country tried it your way for DECADES. What do you have to show for it?
You have the highest percentage of incarcerated people in the world, but also
the most murders in the modern world and the worst drugs problem.
Well, far as I am concerned when they get the southern wall built, they can start on the northern 1. it is my understanding that alot of illegals come over from canada because of their policys at airports.
A wall doesn't have to be metal or brick and motar. it can be a simple law with some signs saying "stay the hell away or you will be sent to Haiti" and actually follow thru with it when folks disobey.It was more or less said to be sarcastic because nothing will be done about it in the long term.
It would be nice if our President could spend time fixing real problems but at the same time, I am enjoying watching him kick our fair weather friends in the shin once in a while. And besides, the democrats are already getting setup to do impeachments again if they get control of the house and stuff in the fall. So the libtards are worse, they have no desire to govern when they can play pin the tail on the donkey on Trump
He's not spending time fixing problems, he is creating so many
that the next 2 presidents won't be able to fix it all.
How about he stops committing impeachable offenses?
Here are some of his impeachable offenses of just the last TWO MONTHS:
1 Using federal immigration forces in ways alleged to violate constitutional rights
• Rep. Al Green's August 24 impeachment resolution accuses Trump of abusing presidential power through ICE and CBP, including alleged unlawful arrests, excessive force, violations of due process, and suppression of speech.
• The resolution specifically points to the July killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine, alleging that the administration subsequently protected officers and obstructed investigations.
2 Obstructing or undermining state/local investigations into federal-officer conduct
• Green's articles allege that Trump's administration withheld evidence, refused to identify officers, and interfered with state and local investigations into ICE/CBP shootings.
• If established as intentional obstruction by the president, that could fit the historical impeachment concept of abuse of power/obstruction of lawful oversight.
3 Defying judicial authority in immigration enforcement
• The impeachment articles allege that ICE, under Trump's authority, continued detention/removal practices despite court orders and that the administration acknowledged numerous violations of judicial orders.
• Separately, courts are currently blocking parts of Trump's immigration and election-related policies, although a court ruling against an administration policy does not automatically constitute an impeachable offense.
4 Attempting to alter federal election administration beyond presidential authority
• Trump's administration has attempted to impose new restrictions on mail voting through executive action. A federal judge has again blocked implementation, with opponents arguing that the order improperly intrudes on powers assigned to Congress and the states.
• This could be characterized as abuse or usurpation of presidential power, particularly if Congress determines that Trump knowingly exceeded his constitutional authority.
5 Attempting to restrict birthright citizenship despite constitutional constraints
• Trump signed another order on August 6 limiting birthright citizenship in specified circumstances. On August 28, a federal judge expressed serious doubts about its legality, particularly in light of the Supreme Court's June 2026 decision concerning Trump's earlier birthright-citizenship order.
• Again, an unconstitutional executive order isn't automatically an impeachable offense; the stronger impeachment argument would be knowingly and persistently abusing executive power in defiance of constitutional limits.
6 Potential abuse of executive power through suppression of protected speech
• A Reuters investigation reported that federal judges had ruled in 75 cases that Trump's administration violated First Amendment rights, including through actions against protesters, universities, journalists and political critics.
• That establishes substantial judicial findings against administration conduct, but attributing each violation personally to Trump—and turning it into an impeachable offense—would require additional evidence of presidential involvement or direction.
Republicans tried to impeach Biden 17 times. Dems are only at 6 for his 2nd term.
Stop crying, when you voted in the most corrupt and authoritarian president EVER.
So very true.. But the economy is only bad because of the MESS that Sleepy Joe left. Autopen destroyed a lot of things under his fake presidency WE have to be involved with other countries.. unless we want China to take over the rest of the world..
Explain what mess Biden left, and why Trump hasn't been able to fix it yet,
while he controls the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court.
Trump left Joe with a pandemic; ~400,000 US deaths and people distrusting the solution, 6.4% unemployment, a $3.13 trillion Federal deficit, a ~100% of GDP Federal debt held
by the public and a major recession (−3.5% of GDP).
What is it you are trying to blab about now.. for Jesus's sake.. Joe Biden cheated in the election.. the whole world knows that. WHen someone takes a shit on the floor is someone else supposed to clean it.. He took a pile of shit on the floor at the vatican.. The pope was going crazy. He was still shitting in his pants on the way to the airplane. A long trail of fresh shit.
The right thing to do is to make a statement then you take the facts and connect the dots. You just posting bullshit links of fake news proves nothing at all. So I call this bullshit.. Get your facts by connecting the dots of things already proven.. NOT FAKE NEWS.... Do you really think I'm as stupid as you?
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.
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!!
You cheat too.. You make comments and propaganda without looking at the other side. They cheated because they know they can't win straight up. Independent voters will not vote for them. Therefore they force open borders bringing in undocumented votes. China wants this so they send 3 million votes.. This is the only thing that keeps them in power. They have no plans other than to stay in power then increase taxes including gas prices in blue states that rip off the americans and giving the
lout to the illegals forcing them to vote to the left. The rest is to dilute Trumps popular approval.
So my question is to you, sir,,,,Name one thing the radicql left has done for america in order to make it a better country?
Well with all this aside, why is it that I have read 2 different articles about how the dems are already working on impeachment plans IF they win back a majority this fall? I will tell you why, Because the dems do not give a fiddlers damn about this country and are more interested in harming Trump in any shape or fashion they can.Even if it shoves the country off a cliff. this is the part folks like Ananas don't want to acknowledge.
IF the dems went into office next january and actually started FIXING problems, they could earn the respect and votes of the people.
At least 1 dem did vote to keep the supreme court the same instead of letting the dems stack it in their favor.
Just as soon as they take over the house they will go right into impeachment. Not because trump did anything wrong but it gives them political power. What is stupid is they are 0 for 4 tries. They know they can't impeach and remove him but it to them creates downplays his perfomance by lying.
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.
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?
I am not christian. It all comes down to education and reasoning.
If you are a dope or illegal you will support democraps where they give you money which keeps them in power.
So let me ask you this. Are you a dope or illegal?. All of these are lies but let us go down if it is true.. The democraps party did at one time help americans. But at the time there was no radicals.. Which means you have not answered my question? Are you dumb and can't read or are you just plain stupid? Oh and by the way I am over 65 years old. Now I am making more than I did when shithead Biden cheated in the office.
Ananas, When you give people a safety net, they don't need to do for themselves,nor are they motivated to.
Social security is for people that work and pay into it or get hurt trying to work.yet to many folks get it that have never worked or worked very little.
As for illegals not being able to vote, legally no,they can't but they buy fake id's and vote. why do you think I had to make sure my dead mothers name was off the roster? because some damn illegal would buy the info on the dark web and vote in my mothers name.
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.
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?
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.
-Canadian reporter
perhaps the problem isn't your friends.
Being able to make something yourself is not the same as it being economically sensible to make it yourself. It's like saying: “Why do you buy bread? You could grow wheat, beat it to flour and bake your own.”
You don't do that, because your time and resources are more valuable when you specialize and trade with other people who specialize in different things.
The US CAN produce its own wood, but it just isn't always the cheapest or most efficient option. Canada has enormous forests, a large established logging industry, and is geographically close to the US. So Canadian lumber can often be produced and transported to the US at a lower cost than expanding US production.
Canadian auto workers were generally unionized too. Canada had a big market that automakers wanted to serve. The US–Canada Auto Pact (1965) allowed companies to specialize production across the two countries rather than build every model and component in both.
Canada offered skilled workers, established suppliers, and access to the US market. Automakers could therefore build certain vehicles or components in Canada and ship them across the border efficiently.
Companies will always do what is most efficient, because they want to make money. What is most efficient is based on the economic realities of different countries.
My country produces about 11% of the wheat we use to make food and animal feed.
We could grow more, but we already use half of our country to grow agriculture products. We would need to either grow less other products or sacrifice land to wheat that we now use for other things. Wheat is a low value product, so we prioritize higher value products.
Most of the iPhone is manufactured in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India and China, because that it cheaper. They have created the industry to do it there, they have build their supply chain around it and they have lots of cheap labor. If you wanted to make the iPhone in the US for 100%, you would have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars and recreate the ecosystem that has developed in Asia over decades: raw materials → chemicals → specialized machinery → components → subcomponents → assembly → packaging → logistics
And if you did that, it would almost certainly cost substantially more than today's globally optimized version, particularly during the enormous transition period. No one would buy an iPhone that would cost $3000 with similar capabilities of a Samsung costing $600. People who love Apple are a bit weird, but they are not THAT crazy.
We have vast amounts of oil, aluminum, nickel, uranium, and a wealth of other critical minerals all needed for the future. We have more fresh water lakes than the rest of the world combined.. water!
3.9 billion barrels of oil everyday flows south to you at a discount price.. Imagine what the price of gas would be if that doesn't happen.. the list goes on..
This is not a trade dispute to make it better for Americans, this is a trade policy designed by the current administration to cripple Canada to the point of annexation.. simply put. It will never happen.
Oh and the draft dodgers are happy and being looked after in their old age.. There was one that stayed behind tho, and right now he's the one who's behind the wheel of your car
of each other?
'Liberalism' is fundamentally a political philosophy centered on things such as individual liberty, equal legal rights, constitutional government, freedom of expression, and limits on arbitrary state power. If society IS liberal, they would be conservative in wanting to preserve that.
'Conservatism' generally emphasizes tradition, continuity, social order, and skepticism toward rapid or sweeping change. The current political movement in the US is pushing for historical sweeping change. Therefore, it cannot be called 'conservative'. What it can be called is 'illiberal' though.
Conservatism attitudes are based on education of critical thinking. Rather than just skimming the tax payer they find ways of independence from government support.
Trump is destroying the constitutional republic and the rule of law. And there has never been a more corrupt president.
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Common sense: pro-business policies, secure borders, and backing the blue.
Crazy: socialism, open borders, and abolishing the police.
More specifically:
- Asylum/refugees: People genuinely fleeing war and persecution should be protected and accommodated humanely.
- The SP wants faster asylum procedures and better distribution of asylum seekers among municipalities.
- Labour migration: The SP strongly opposes uncontrolled labour migration. It proposes work permits and says only workers who are genuinely needed should be admitted.
- EU free movement: The SP argues that the EU's unrestricted free movement of workers has contributed to exploitation, low wages and pressure on housing, and wants to curb/regulate it.
- Students/knowledge migrants: The party also wants to reduce knowledge and student migration.
- Overall target: The SP currently advocates a net migration figure of 40,000 per year, rather than unrestricted immigration.
That's the Dutch SP responding to the specific needs of my country, which is highly overpopulated. The US is NOT highly overpopulated, so the US DSA doesn't need to limit free movement of people.
The DSA describes abolition as the END goal, and presents its immediate proposals as steps toward a society in which the existing police system is no longer NECESSARY. The basic theory is that you reduce the functions currently handled by police by addressing the underlying social problems, by:
1. Redirect police money into public services
2. Treat mental illness and addiction as health problems
3. Create non-police responses to crises
4. Demilitarize police
5. Reduce the scope of policing
6. Build a different social and political system
You are straw-manning them by leaving that out. It means that you have no response to their actual positions, so you need to make believe that they are crazy. That's a dishonest tactic.
How about actually making an argument?
The places that are overpopulated are where the democrats bullshit minorities while giving threats if they vote for Trump they will lose their free money from the hard working conservative.
The rest of your stupid bullshit is unremarkable. Here's what you do.. Stay in Europe,, the european union's got you by the balls.. Don't come here.. You will lose.
Trump didn't 'WIN' anything; his stooges gave him something
that should have been decided by the PEOPLE.
That's why The Constitution starts with "We the People"
and not with "We the Supreme Court".
Conservatives are freeloaders; blue states are funding red states to stay alive.
Conservatives cry about taxes and then they cry harder when they need help.
All your MAGA voting farm-boys are kept afloat by subsidies.
Just calling it bullshit isn't an argument.
YOU are unremarkable and a waste of my time.
Point to ANYTHING that I was lying about and show why it was false.
If you say "Everything", like before, just provide 1 good example.
I add numbers, data and often sources. You don't do any of that.
If you want a source for the claim "58% of Americans favor allowing voters to cast their ballots by mail", here it is: only registered users can see external links
Do you acknowledge that the Supreme Court voted 6–3 to allow the Trump administration's mail-voting restrictions to proceed, while the legal challenges continue?
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Congress did NOT vote on the current mail-voting restrictions before they were imposed. The restrictions at issue came from President Trump’s executive order of March 31, 2026, which directed the Department of Homeland Security and USPS to create voter-eligibility lists and establish new requirements for mail ballots.
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Are you arguing that it is constitutional to change in a major way
how elections are performed by executive order?
You have proven nothing. Not to me anyway.,
You have a democratic system and Trump disrespects it, by ignoring the wish of the people, ignoring their representatives in Congress, by ruling by executive order, by letting his corrupt, bad faith Supreme Court justices defile your Constitution, or by just doing shit that no one allowed, until he gets ordered to reverse it, and then ignoring the orders. This is completely unconstitutional.
Trying to diminish this to a semantic discussion about right and wrong
is just a stupid trick.
Maybe then voting at all would be useless?
I can READ the Constitution. Constitutional integrity is nowhere to be found among the Supreme Court justices appointed by Republicans.
I'm sure YOU agree, but you should care that the majority of Americans agrees with what's happening in your country, even if it's not what YOU want.
When politicians in my country do what they promised, and they represent the majority of my countrymen, I might not like that, but
I accept it as a democratic choice. I debate people to make them reconsider their choices. I'm not supporting politicians who CHEAT.
about what is happening in the world.
You profess a certain morality, but support the opposite.
If I challenge you on it, you answer with complete gibberish.
It's either a dishonest tactic or you are delusional.
That's not morality, that's just OBEDIENCE, which is WEAK.
Atheism is NOT a moral structure, it's just the rejection of theism.
I'm not JUST an atheist, I'm also a humanist, which IS a moral structure.
Humanism emphasizes human well-being, dignity, flourishing, autonomy, and reason, rather than grounding morality in divine commands or supernatural authority. In other words; it's NOT based on the made-up demands of a made-up deity; delusion.
Maybe it's you who should calm down, stoic.
Did they then pay that trillionaire to play with rockets?
Your country tried it your way for DECADES. What do you have to show for it?
You have the highest percentage of incarcerated people in the world, but also
the most murders in the modern world and the worst drugs problem.
that the next 2 presidents won't be able to fix it all.
How about he stops committing impeachable offenses?
Here are some of his impeachable offenses of just the last TWO MONTHS:
1 Using federal immigration forces in ways alleged to violate constitutional rights
• Rep. Al Green's August 24 impeachment resolution accuses Trump of abusing presidential power through ICE and CBP, including alleged unlawful arrests, excessive force, violations of due process, and suppression of speech.
• The resolution specifically points to the July killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine, alleging that the administration subsequently protected officers and obstructed investigations.
2 Obstructing or undermining state/local investigations into federal-officer conduct
• Green's articles allege that Trump's administration withheld evidence, refused to identify officers, and interfered with state and local investigations into ICE/CBP shootings.
• If established as intentional obstruction by the president, that could fit the historical impeachment concept of abuse of power/obstruction of lawful oversight.
3 Defying judicial authority in immigration enforcement
• The impeachment articles allege that ICE, under Trump's authority, continued detention/removal practices despite court orders and that the administration acknowledged numerous violations of judicial orders.
• Separately, courts are currently blocking parts of Trump's immigration and election-related policies, although a court ruling against an administration policy does not automatically constitute an impeachable offense.
4 Attempting to alter federal election administration beyond presidential authority
• Trump's administration has attempted to impose new restrictions on mail voting through executive action. A federal judge has again blocked implementation, with opponents arguing that the order improperly intrudes on powers assigned to Congress and the states.
• This could be characterized as abuse or usurpation of presidential power, particularly if Congress determines that Trump knowingly exceeded his constitutional authority.
5 Attempting to restrict birthright citizenship despite constitutional constraints
• Trump signed another order on August 6 limiting birthright citizenship in specified circumstances. On August 28, a federal judge expressed serious doubts about its legality, particularly in light of the Supreme Court's June 2026 decision concerning Trump's earlier birthright-citizenship order.
• Again, an unconstitutional executive order isn't automatically an impeachable offense; the stronger impeachment argument would be knowingly and persistently abusing executive power in defiance of constitutional limits.
6 Potential abuse of executive power through suppression of protected speech
• A Reuters investigation reported that federal judges had ruled in 75 cases that Trump's administration violated First Amendment rights, including through actions against protesters, universities, journalists and political critics.
• That establishes substantial judicial findings against administration conduct, but attributing each violation personally to Trump—and turning it into an impeachable offense—would require additional evidence of presidential involvement or direction.
Republicans tried to impeach Biden 17 times. Dems are only at 6 for his 2nd term.
Stop crying, when you voted in the most corrupt and authoritarian president EVER.
while he controls the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court.
Trump left Joe with a pandemic; ~400,000 US deaths and people distrusting the solution, 6.4% unemployment, a $3.13 trillion Federal deficit, a ~100% of GDP Federal debt held
by the public and a major recession (−3.5% of GDP).
You're only showing that you have no valid arguments.
The right thing to do is to make a statement then you take the facts and connect the dots. You just posting bullshit links of fake news proves nothing at all. So I call this bullshit.. Get your facts by connecting the dots of things already proven.. NOT FAKE NEWS.... Do you really think I'm as stupid as you?
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!!
lout to the illegals forcing them to vote to the left. The rest is to dilute Trumps popular approval.
So my question is to you, sir,,,,Name one thing the radicql left has done for america in order to make it a better country?
IF the dems went into office next january and actually started FIXING problems, they could earn the respect and votes of the people.
At least 1 dem did vote to keep the supreme court the same instead of letting the dems stack it in their favor.
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?
If you are a dope or illegal you will support democraps where they give you money which keeps them in power.
So let me ask you this. Are you a dope or illegal?. All of these are lies but let us go down if it is true.. The democraps party did at one time help americans. But at the time there was no radicals.. Which means you have not answered my question? Are you dumb and can't read or are you just plain stupid? Oh and by the way I am over 65 years old. Now I am making more than I did when shithead Biden cheated in the office.
Social security is for people that work and pay into it or get hurt trying to work.yet to many folks get it that have never worked or worked very little.
As for illegals not being able to vote, legally no,they can't but they buy fake id's and vote. why do you think I had to make sure my dead mothers name was off the roster? because some damn illegal would buy the info on the dark web and vote in my mothers name.
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.
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?
FDR killed many Jews. Woodrow Wilson killed Jews as well as henry ford and thomas edison.
I hate democrats and I hate replicans. Just a couple are worth hearing what they have to say.
Leadership vs. Ruling is the same as Utopia vs. socialism. You're a socialist right?. you and me is like oil and water.
Humanity evolved from Africa, also the middle east which is in Asia.
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.
FDR killed many Jews. Woodrow Wilson killed Jews as well as henry ford and thomas edison.
I hate democrats and I hate replicans. Just a couple are worth hearing what they have to say.
Leadership vs. Ruling is the same as Utpia vs. socialism. You're a socialist right?. you and me is like oil and water.
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