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"Get back to a merit system and honor."
If only your leaders had honor!
It pessimistic but your right. You have people thinking there loosing their freedom with government run healthcare. The health insurance industry in the USA is a giant grift.
If the government covers that cost, it would make healthcare much cheaper and you would not get turned down for things your doctor decides you need. Better faster service and much more affordable. The Right screams socialism because they want a capitalism grift.
They only want socialism for the rich and connected
Oh like the $40 billion dollars that Trump sent to Argentina? What about the farmer who lost all the immigrants to work there farms and then lost there revenue stream because of the tariffs. What about all the people that are going to be kicked off there healthcare. Cancer research. This list will go on and on, how is anyone of this American first. The only people in America that are first are the rich getting tax cuts when they already are not paying there far share. If you look back at American history you will see that America first didn’t work in the 1920’s , we also used tariffs just like we are doing now, it caused the depression!
The whole "if you can keep it" thing with this country is about effort, so if there's nothing but shitty healthcare providers, or the only one around is shitty, then people are supposed to speak with their wallet to force them to change, which means people will have to suffer to get what they want, but people don't want to do that. Instead, our mouths say "no" and our wallets say "yes", but which one do you think corps listen to...? Inflation is no different. We the people have all the control and power, we just have to unify and be willing to suffer, prioritizing those old school ideologies above our personal comfort.
And for what it's worth, I think the trajectory used to be that the right and left could not be further apart, which is what big money/power wants, push them apart and keep them fighting so they don't spend their time looking at you, but this year has that changing very slightly.
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I used GPT chat the numbers it got are from the U.S. Agriculture Department data shows that as of 2023, the largest group of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients by race was white (35.4%), followed by African American (25.7%), Hispanic (15.6%), Asian (3.9%), Native American (1.3%).
The agency also reported that 89.4% of SNAP recipients were U.S born citizens, meaning less than 11% of SNAP participants were foreign-born.
"The right" isn't what you think it is. Most people I know who say they're conservative are in favor of a single payor healthcare system, myself included.
The thing is most people who are commonly referred to as "the right" these days are actually centrist or libertarian leaning.
Do you think that America shouldn’t have bombed Irans nuclear bomb manufacturing facilities? America wasn’t at war with the Iranians.
How would you feel if Iran bombed American nuclear bomb manufacturing facilities?
It would scare me very much. Now can you answer my question?
America should not have bombed Iran, it is an act of war.
If you can justify America bombing another country without declaring war, you have justified another country bombing America without declaring war...
What is a neutral source? One of the RW tricks is to say anything they don’t agree with is compromised by LW influence.
A good source I like is ground news , we see what right, central, and left news sights say. Then you can get a clear picture of how each is trying to influence the agenda and see what are the facts. Router, BBC, NPR. The RW will say the left is doing something that the RW is actually doing. RW will try and take credit for thing the left did right.
Ok , you’re consistent. 👍🏻
Let’s face it: the last 10 years have been built in labeling anything that doesn’t fit the narrative as “fake news”. Dig around long enough and you’re sure to find data to support an argument. Or vice versa.
A claim was made that 60%+ of SNAP benefits were paid to immigrants. A counter argument was made, and rather than support the original thesis, the counter’s source was questioned. That might work in the world of fake news, but doesn’t work in the real world.
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So did Obama specifically order this, like Hegseth allegedly did? If so, yeah, put him on the stand. You think i give a rat's ass if he goes to jail for something he did? This is the difference, I'm fine with anyone facing justice for what they've done, and I don't make excuses for them.
Psssst…
Maybe you should fix your own before running your mouth about someone-else’s government.
I’m jus’ knowin’…
Are you forgetting who we previously had in office? Botched Afghanistan withdrawal was 7 billion alone. We have also spent a total of 185 billion to a worthless war in Ukraine. Don’t even try and spin that. This administration has outperformed in many areas and had lots of work to do in other areas. Guess what? Year 1 of 4. The amount he has achieved makes me happy. But lots of work to do still.
Healthcare…. The dumbest fucking thing on earth was the ACA by Obama and the subsidies. Well they had a timeline so thanks to the beloved dumb Obama healthcare is going through the roof. Yet the audacity is to blame GOP for the idiotic bill in the first place? Seems backwards. You talk about billionaires? More billionaires are democratic than republican. More money flows through the Democratic Party than republican. They spent 1.68billion to win the election. That is 600 million more than republicans. And they still got beat on all sectors.
Healthcare is also predominantly a money laundering machine, much like education. Problem? Doctors get kickbacks and push medication instead of proper things to do. A little sad? Take a pill, worried? Take a pill. Cancer centers are raving with cash flow and nobody bats an eye or thinks why that is happening.
This is also why Bernie has shut the hell up and looks ignorant (remember him taking the bribe money in 2016? I do) Y’all bitch and moan so much you don’t even give things a chance to work out. Nor look at the larger picture. Real change takes sacrifice.
Stop playing the PR game and simply get down to brass tacks, roll up the sleeves, get shit done.
Trump has been doing that. He isn’t perfect, but he sure as shit is far better than the looney toons with the rainbow hair and she/he on ministering drugs in office and military. The country has gone to the emotional week and catered to them. Tim to move the pendulum back to reality.
No no, remember he knows MORE than our government and how to run it efficiently. He AI searched how much it is to operate each piece of equipment. He deserves the red button
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Tell Me, how do you equate the flood of immigrants in the previous years? How do you find out how many slip through and are provided benefits? The truth is, it is way too early to tell the real numbers. So a quick AI search that was provided is not exactly credible when the previous administration is now for inflating numbers and deflating numbers how they see fit. Look no further than job corrections as an example. Also you can research the vaccines and how harmful they are for you, and how they lied about side affects, and actually how the drugs operated to “stop the virus. So in the end, believing something so firmly is not exactly being receptive or observant. It is the opposite. Some folks, myself included understand that with the crazy last 4 years the tree is going to take a long time to stop shaking. That includes removing illegals and correcting the system. Clearly it needs work.
The general complaints about healthcare and spending are valid, just not the conclusion thinking that this admin is effectively any different. It's a fraud and the people that absolutely hate being fooled over and over by slimy politicians, have been more deeply fooled more than ever by yet another slimy politician. All he did was troll Dems like a low class teenager and people splooshed in their panties for it and then turned the cheek at everything else, but one thing we learned from cheap Jerry Springer Show methods is that people eventually get bored of shiny nonsense that has no substance. The tide is slowly turning. The right vs left corporatocracy billionaire programming is slowly losing its power and people are changing from looking sideways at each other, to looking upstream. People are starting to see, "hey wait, this isn't actually doing anything, my bank account balance isn't going up, debt isn't going down, healthcare still sucks, we're still meddling in other governments, gun laws haven't changed, my wages haven't improved, and the crime in my town is the same".
It is true that calculating exact numbers can be daunting when discussing millions of anything, especially people. However, someone stated “43 million people on food stamps and 63% of them are immigrants” without naming a source. Those are oddly specific numbers, indicating that some level of research and analytics were applied. Just curious about the data’s origin.
You realize you are critiquing one side of numbers vs the other right? All sorts of numbers are thrown out, I am not naive enough to believe them all. But I do believe the flood of immigrants was massive and will take a long time to clean up. Either way a fail on Biden and a massive burden on tax payers. Yet nobody complains about that. Funny
Z, all I’m asking is for statistical validation. If you admit the numbers are fabricated, fine. And are AI-generated results 100% accurate? Unlikely, but I’m willing to bet they are more rooted in reality.
Thanks to President Trump, violent crime is down by 55% in Memphis. In DC, murders are down 50%
In what reality is my point? How do you quantify? Any numbers given are arbitrary at best. That’s the point. Any singular illegal person utilizing tax payer dollars in this country is too many with the problems we are facing within the walls.
Well Obama was President, and Hegseth is secdef—or secwar now, whatever—so we can’t really draw a parallel. For Obama, Panetta, Hagel, and Carter filled the equivalent roles. None of them were charged with war crimes. Nor were CIA directors John Brennan or David Patraes. As far as the drone strikes were concerned, there really wasn’t any fallout. Some corners of the politisphere were unhappy about it, particularly after Obama admitted in his memoir that he was using these strikes to kill people. But we didn’t see anything like what we’re seeing now.
I think it’s relevant to compare the actual strikes. The Obama double taps involved striking targets in territories where no open conflict existed. Namely Pakistan and the Arabian peninsular countries. The double tap was named such because the strike would hit the intended target once, then wait 20-30 minutes specifically for civilian emergency services to arrive, and then strike them again. That’s essentially terrorism.
Here, we’re complaining about a strike on a single target deemed to be belligerent, then a second strike on remaining portions of those same targets. The land based double taps are more offensive to me, but they did not create the dramatic response we’ve seen for the boat strikes.
Are either of them good? I don’t really think so. I personally do not think a president should be using these strikes, but I can’t make a legal argument against it. My contention with this story is that it, much like all the others we see about Trump, presents these actions as indicia of a totalitarian administration. I think this is more business as usual, but the news media is abusing the general public by lying to everyone about this being some unprecedented dictatorial power grab.
Pssst…
People that have no skin in the game usually have the best perspective.
I’m just sayin…
And what a dumb comment. Like L2S can single handedly do anything to fix the govt. he has the same power as you. Which is as near to none as you can get.
Kind of, like if you went into an severely overweight person's house and threw out all their bad food for a week and they lose a few pounds and then you tout that as a major success, but unless you actually address the root problems, it's just a temporary bandaid and things go right back the moment you leave.
There are two angles to reducing crime, proactive and reactive. Proactive would be adding various programs for kids, or having various job programs for adults, basically all the stuff you do to stop crime before it happens. Reactive is everything to do with law enforcement and the judicial system etc., all the things you do to handle crime after it happens. All Trump did was temporarily throw money at the reactive side while doing nothing for the proactive side. Take the SF Bay area for example, they could cut crime in half by doubling law enforcement and adding more prisons/jails, but.....nobody wants to pay for it. That's what Trump did, he paid for it with Federal dollars and it's not sustainable.
We're going to add nearly two trillion to debt this year and we're going to add nearly two trillion to debt next year. Something better and smarter than "eff the Dems lololol" is needed to actually change numbers. If debt were measured in feelings currency, we'd be crushing it, but since we measure in USD, he's just another two-trillion-a-year president like all the others.
Haven't looked into the Obama strikes, but I have some reading to do now, appreciate that. If true, then yeah, trial, war crimes, arrest them all.
Having said that, like I said before, the double tap on shipwrecked people is akin to strafing ejected fighter pilots. Goes against all written and unwritten rules about honour in war.
Rule 47.
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule47
So it is the democrat mayors of these cities fault for not instituting these programs before crime got out of control. Thank goodness for President Trump to step in and save lives. Even if he only saved one life, it would be worth it. Murders are down by 50%, that is a lot of lives saved. I like your analogy though. Arresting the bad guys and getting them off the street to reduce crime is just like taking food away from a fat, lazy, snap recipient person and they lose weight because of it. Good one!
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