Electrical engineer. Delaware County NY Pro work, anti grifter.
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Want to understand what changed in America leading to Trump? Here you go. Start with Concrete Economics & go clockwise.
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Ok, let me stereotype here. Very likely she is from upper middle class family. When she grows out of this arrogance she can seamlessly slide in to a good career, life & home & pretend this all didn't happen. Meanwhile those black cops will still be working hard for their money
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We need secure and transparent elections. Confirmed registrations, voter ID and paper ballots that are counted manually. That is what will give confidence in our voting system.
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When my employer told me I had to read âHow to be an Anti Racistâ and âWhite Fragilityâ and lead a meeting for my department on them. I asked my boss âwhat if I donât agree with them?â. Response was âyou have to agree with them. Itâs a condition of employmentâ. I retired.
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Your history is bogus. The Palestinians were never âethnically cleansedâ. They were given half of territory by UN yet tried to wipe out Israel. They have rejected subsequent peace deals. Many Palestinians live peacefully in Israel & enjoy freedom and democracy unlike Gaza peers
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They donât need to consult with the governor and get their approval. Jeez. Do you think Lyndon Johnson asked Wallace for his approval?
Why do liberal/lefties not only not know how things work but not know our own history?
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Corrupt union leaders celebrating that they will now have more money available to steal.
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I think you meant to say âTrumpâ. I donât recall any concern being expressed by US prior to Trump.
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She should sue the department and the city as should other police. They are being forced to work in a hostile work environment in cities that refuse to take effective measures to stop the abuse of police officers. They would have a strong case.
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I hope so but I am holding off on judgement. I just had to look up a medical condition on Cleveland Clinic web site. It told me the condition mostly happens to "people assigned female at birth". So I don't think woke is done yet.
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Sorry. We should be able to eat the food we like and really donât care what political needs you have with people. If you donât like a particular restaurant then donât eat there.
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It is good. But this begs a question: why are planes cleared to be in such close proximity to each other at night when visual contact will be spotty and prone to error? Sounds like this might have been an accident waiting to happen.
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I keep hearing that solar and wind are cost competitive with fossil fuels. If that is true why do they need these subsidies? If cost competitive people who want power will gladly build up this power.
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Agreed. Also in New York harbor there is a huge statue gifted by a foreign country. Sends a horrible message. Letâs get rid of it.
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We need to reform permitting and environmental regs so we can actually get something built in under a decade. Frankly Trump should just waive them all.
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I donât know if most people see it that way. Unemployment impacts a minor section of population. Inflation is noticed and felt by everyone.
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You left out they we have over 100k drug deaths annually and that for much of our population life expectancy is going down. US life expectancy is significantly shorter than all other advanced countries in spite of us spending way more than they spend.
We absolutely need radical change.
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And both liberal and conservative policy people agree it is bad policy. Unjustified and depletes the trust fund a year earlier.
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No actually I donât get a day off with pay. Government workers do. Donât they already get enough days off? Arenât they already inefficient enough? How about this: for every new holiday added one has to be rescinded so the total stays the same?
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LOL. Some dingbats think boomers were buying houses in 1950 đđđđđđ.
Why had Gen Z never leaned arithmetic?
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No it wonât. It will be one necessary to fix a horribly unbalanced economy just as had to be done on 1980. Deficits of 6% of GDP and trade imbalances of $1.2 trillion are both unsustainable and must be stopped. Unfortunately there is no painless way to do it.
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As Lyndon Johnson always said make your opponent count their votes first. Then you know what your target is to beat their number and win the election. This will be a huge, likely fraudulent, mess.
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Yes it does. Numerous economic studies have shown that. Ironically even the National Academy of Sciences study they reference pointed out immigration shifts about $500 billion annual from labor to capital via lower wages. Supply and demand applies to labor.
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If you need a SALT cap higher than 30k you arenât middle class. Stop making absurd maximalist demands that only apply to a small percentage of highly affluent constituents.
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How does one write about space and not know difference between orbital and sub orbital flights?
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In addition to being woke it is all lies. I worked there for a long time. If you are uninsured you simply won't get care there. If you have an ACA plan (Obamacare) they also won't see you as they don't take those plans. And if you have Medicaid they send you to clinic for
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Someone who is 64 is "elderly"? Than why do we still expect them 2 work & not make them eligible for full SS until 67? This spin is absurd
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This is laughable. He is not saying it works fine. âLots of meetings, not a lot of decisionsâ is not fine.
The point is fixing it isnât something you can do on hit and run basis. You have to be there years to drive effective change.
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Gotta love it. Headline says "America is failing to attract new scientists" and then it turns out the graph is actually about... web page views. But there are dupes out there who read the headline and not the graph so they foolishly believe it.
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Kirk wasnât a Nazi or a fascist. But he was a bigoted race baiter. And in the U.S. we have the 1st amendment so I donât need your permission to point that out.
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This isnât civics. Nothing in our constitution or laws requires our government to operate this way. This is corruption and dysfunctionality and needs to change.
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Ambassador to France is not a job it is a patronage position. You get these honarary positions mainly for campaign fundraising.
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Absurd that they couldnât airlift those things out. Shows how this was not planned at all.
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That isnât a meaningful comparison. 2008 was the financial crisis which changed the political dynamic.
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Paying in at 15 doesnât matter if you work to 65. SS only counts 30 highest paid years.
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The guy is right. No one should be eating food on public transportation. I donât want to smell your mess nor see your mess. Eat at home or in a restaurant, not on a bus.
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Frankly I am starting to think this whole thing is a set up. The riots are tiny with very few injuries, no deaths, & little property damage. So why the huge coverage in UK? Likely the government wants to use this to push forward a censorship regime.
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This is nothing to do with urban planning. It is culture. Not going to be replicated or most any Western country any time soon.
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Exactly right. And Trump has a legit grievance. ICE agents being attacked while enforcing federal laws. Local law enforcement was not protecting them. Hence national guard needed to allow federal government agency to keep functioning and enforcing laws in that state.
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Per Monroe Doctrine Europeans are to stay out of North America. Danes need to adjust to that reality.
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The US has lots of bank loans and government debt and yet we don't have train stations (or airports) that look like that.
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Abortion isnât a big issue for me and Iâd be inclined to leave things as they are. That said, that manâs arguments are insane. He could have taken it a step further with that logic and said highest rate of abortions are black people & do we want more Black people.
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If you watch any TV, not just BBC, correct?
That is a tax. I think that qualifies as "state funded"
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This showed what was bad about Kirk. He just lies and BSes and hope no one knows better or checks.
He said state Constitutions required a profession of faith. Um, no. New York Constitution said no such thing. But because most people wonât go back and find much less read old documents his lies go unchallenged.
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Pretty worthless explanation. If you are willing to go back to events prior to someones life to explain their current circumstances then virtually everyone can claim some sort of "unfairness".
Also, even if the goal is worthy he didn't explain how putting people into positions which they didn't qualify based on merits (ie, test scores, grades, etc) solves that problem rather than simply create new problems such as the perception that some are in positions for which they are not qualified.
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Yes, but back then alcohol served a purpose. Drinking alcohol was safer than drinking contaminated water, which is likely why humans started drinking it. Navies around the world used alcohol on long sea voyages simply because it kept.
Also, it was a pain killer in at a time when other pain killers scarce or non existent.
Also, it was a hunger supressant when people often lacked for food. The Continental Army gave troops rum when they lacked food during American Revolution.
Now none of those reasons for drinking it remain. It is a pure negative.
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The city and state werenât stopping rioting. Rittenhouse was in Kenosha and asked to help protect a car dealership. Definitely not ideal but the recklessness was by the authorities who allowed the chaos, much more than Rittenhouse.
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What I want to know is who are the people who haven't been paying their rent and why. Most people kept their jobs. Many people got $4,000 in cash payments. And unemployed people got huge extra payments on top of base UI. All stats show income up, savings up, & poverty down.
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BS. It is a mass violation of our laws and an influx of people we neither want nor need. We want laws enforced.
If the laws were enforced we wouldn't have to get into a big argument about semantics.
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Yeah. Most of us do. Just like we have places to live, food, cars, etc. Amazing what you can get when you work.
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You gave a massive tax cut to people living in New York and California paid for by everyone else. Why?
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Yeah we want violent criminals like Barco in our country. We donât have enough criminals and need more.
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Jeepers. You know you have a crap bill when you make posts like this.
If you want to fund ICE make that a stand alone bill.
You donât have to radically increase the deficit to fund ICE
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This is not actually true. Space X competes for and wins lots of commercial and government launches. If they didnât exist someone else would win the launch and it would still happen.
The only launches that likely wouldnât happen at all without them are the Starlink launches.
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I have to put my cards on the table.
I am generally pro Trump, like a big part of his agenda, and voted for him.
But stuff like this pisses me off.
Jared would have been great at NASA and likely made it more effective. And that would have been his job, irrespective of if he disagreed with Trump on some things.
We need people in government who can get things done, even if we disagree on some things.
This isn't putting America first. This is putting Trump first.
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newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizzâŚ
From the person who gave that really classy phone call to a reporter....
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Ha. Love it. Never did my census form and it mattered!!! Love the state of NY but do not want to empower the wild mob who run it.
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Itâs shocking and appalling to me how many police killed and injured on the job. Such a disgrace that rather than being shown gratitude so many people disparage them.
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#HillarysEmails such a joke that HRC now wants transparency fast. She could have had it long ago if she turned over what she had.
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Hence the non-payment of rent seems like nothing but a scam and people simply taking advantage
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Is it just me or do these ballots discovered months after the fact seem to trend very distinctly one way?
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This is some bad history. For example, the US has been protectionist and only minimally traded with other countries for most of its history. Far less than other countries. If you want to assert otherwise you better start coming up with some facts.
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This sentence makes no sense. What does âsold themselves to their Chinese factoriesâ mean?
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No, it was the union AND tariffs. Without tariffs keeping steel production in US the union would have had no leverage & no ability to win higher wages. That has been happening for decades across manufacturing sector. Union rights meaningless when they can outsource your job.
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Don't get what the issue is here and wish they would have said. As an American tax payor I find it annoying they are detaining her: either the visa issue should be fixed or they should just put her on an airplane (preferably at her expense) back to UK. Something doesn't make sense.
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This has little to do with housing. These are overwhelmingly mentally ill people. So options are force them into psychiatric facility or tolerate this.
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Korea is radically overpopulated so this is likely a good thing. Country will be much more livable with fewer people.
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@PeterMoskos I know you don't get the Rochester news so I thought I'd share this:
whec.com/local/teen-driver-iâŚ
A 17 y.o. arrested at least 13 times in past year for auto theft and other crimes hit and killed a 92 year old man during a chase. Bail reform going great.
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Yeah. Cause they use paper ballots in Canada and they count them by hand!! What an idea! Maybe the U.S. should do that.
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She was fired and you cheered it. So do you support this sort of thing or not? It would seem you yourself donât abide what you wrote in the New York Times today.
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Absolutely true. But you should only have to compete against workers in your own country for jobs. Employers shouldnât be able to decide labor is expensive so letâs bring in a lot more workers to drive wages down. They could do that with burrito wrappers too and we could get people from Africa to wrap burritos for less than $1 an hour.
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El Salvador was literally one of top three homicide countries in the world. They locked up about 1/2 of 1% of population and the entire problem went away. Crime really is about a tiny minority of the population even in the worst areas.
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This is a lie. Dems cutting Social Security via inflation which is wiping out trust fund and making Social Security insolvent
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Not to worry. Physicists don't understand it either. It is known to be true based on compelling evidence, just as quantum mechanics is, but it isn't something that you can really comprehend.
An insight that may help though is how you perceive scales, sizes and properties of materials isn't at all how they really are. As an example, you think of your desk as a solid object because that is how you, as big as you are and with the senses you have, perceive it. But on the level of atoms that same desk is overwhelmingly, and I mean overwhelmingly, empty space. How we perceive the world with our senses simply isn't how the world is and that is a big part of why we don't comprehend many things.
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He isnât wrong. You should get vaccinated. If not, then you should probably wear a mask and/or get tested regularly.
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Itâs more subtle than that. Poverty is all relative (âpoorâ Americans would be rich in many countries). Putting these people on an isolated island & let them scrape by to survive & their perceptions of what poverty is would shift so much they wouldnât consider anyone in US poor
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So what got built? Can't see anything from that picture. Here in Upstate NY nothing new has been built. I'd be surprised if much of anything was built in Wisconsin. I know they allocated $42 billion for rural broadband and they have literally not connected anyone yet.
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What is funny about this is that the House likes to bill itself - "The house of the people". But when the people actually show up they shreek in horror.
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âKind ofâ. âThe government worksâ. Pretty low bar he is setting there.
âI was expecting more easy winsâ. Those donât exist for the most part. That doesnât mean the government couldnât be 2 to 3 times more efficient. It means it takes more time and effort than he has to spare.
I fixed ambulatory clinics in NYC largest private hospital. Doubled efficiency. But it took six years of 60 to 70 hour weeks to do it. Most fixes had nothing to do with coding or computers. I have no doubt fixing the VA would be the seem.
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