Exactly, some states might be lucky to exist in a safe area, with much less hurricanes or tornadoes that can level, rivers that can flood, forests that can fire, seismic zones that can earthquake, volcanoes that can erupt, winters that can freeze, summers that can drought or rain that can landslide or mudslide. Then they are just lucky, that they don't have to put a shit-ton of money aside, for a 'rainy' day?
How about the unlucky states? Many of them are red states, by the way. They would be held back a lot from that necessity. That doesn't just affect those states, that puts a break on the economy of the US as a whole.

Cooperation is always favorable to everyone as a whole. In economy 1 + 1 = 3.

Personally, I much prefer strawberry yogurt and not at body temperature.
The taste and texture is fine, but I wouldn't eat it for breakfast.
I just feel that it's a horny thing to do, when I'm horny.
My avatar might be a bit misleading, on that department.

I thought I could say I had hope about you, but you took it away instantly:
"i still don't get how you think we have rights just because we are born."

It's not something magical or supernatural, that makes me think
we HAVE rights, it's a principle. I ACCEPT it as true
(We hold these truths to be self-evident), for a PURPOSE.
The purpose is to improve civilization, for the well-being
of the most living and thinking beings who are part of it.

Do you think it was self-evident, that people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? That was very much NOT self-evident, at a time when two sides had just stopped brutally murdering each other, over who controls the people and the continent. Your Founding Fathers wanted the wars to stop, so they DECIDED that people should have those rights. It was self-evidently NEEDED.
They goddamned didn't get it from god. God was nowhere to be found.
That was pragmatic make-belief (intentionally misspelled make-believe).

If everyone accepts human rights, that means less genocide and torture.
Because genocide and torture have a negative effect on civilization.
Human suffering has a negative effect on the motivation to solve problems.
Maybe not the problems causing the human suffering NOW, but definitely
all the other problems, that will or might cause human suffering long-term.

There is no morality, without living and thinking beings creating it.
The only thing that is objectively true is that some actions have a
positive effect on the well-being of the living and thinking beings
and other actions have a negative effect on the well-being of the
living and thinking beings. Some actions have a local or personal effect
and some actions a widespread effect.

That means morality is FLUID. Circumstances can change,
which can turn previously 'good' actions into 'bad' actions.
Still, the purpose behind the morality does not change, improve civilization.

When a horrible disease has killed humanity, except for 100 people,
I will surely change my mind on abortion. "Sorry, you were raped women,
we will punish the bastard, but you need to deliver this child."
"You won't have to care for it, if you don't want to and we will help you
during your labor. Humanity needs this from you. We need more humans."
This is not such a time.

Here’s what current data shows (as of early July 2025):
⚕️ Vaccination status

The U.S. has reported 1,288 confirmed measles cases in 2025, the highest annual total in over three decades.

According to CDC surveillance, about 92% of these cases occurred in people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.

More detailed CDC data for Jan–Apr 2025 (800 cases) show 96% unvaccinated or unknown, and — excluding Texas cases — approximately 77% confirmed unvaccinated, 14% unknown status.

Therefore, of the 1,288 cases:

Approximately 1,185 to 1,185 + were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status.

Confirmed vaccinated cases (1–2 doses) represent only a very small minority (~2–3%).

🛂 Illegal immigration status

There is no credible data or CDC reporting on how many of the measles cases involved individuals who are undocumented immigrants.

Public health authorities — including the CDC — do not categorize cases by immigration status, and news coverage does not attribute any portion of cases to migrants or “illegals.”

While some political figures have suggested a link between migration and disease spread, investigations emphasize that cases are mostly driven by low vaccination coverage in specific communities, not immigration status.

🧫 Measles & Immigration: What the Evidence Says
✅ Measles is highly contagious, but outbreaks in the U.S. are almost always tied to:

Unvaccinated U.S. residents traveling abroad (especially to regions with outbreaks, like parts of Asia, Europe, or the Middle East).

Imported cases — people entering the U.S. while infectious (including immigrants, travelers, or even citizens).

Low vaccination rates in some U.S. communities, which allow imported cases to spread.

The CDC and WHO consistently report that the biggest risk factor for measles outbreaks is lack of vaccination, not immigration status per se.

🧪 Are undocumented immigrants more likely to carry measles?

No, not as a group. Most undocumented immigrants come from Latin America, where measles vaccination rates are high — often higher than in parts of the U.S.

For example:

Mexico has a measles vaccination rate of ~97%.

The U.S. national average is ~91%, but pockets of vaccine refusal (e.g., some religious or anti-vax groups) are much lower — even below 80%.

So ironically, undocumented immigrants from Mexico or Central America may be more vaccinated than some U.S.-born populations.

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There's a shitload of anti-vaxxers in Texas. In Gaines County, the epicenter of the
West Texas measles outbreak, the vaccination rate among entering kindergarteners
was as low as ~82%, significantly under the herd immunity benchmark.

Kindergarteners from anti-vax parents, NOT illegals.

You should have a NATIONAL response team, because that's more EFFICIENT.
Can you afford EVERY STATE, to be ready for EVERY CATASTROPHE?
Why have it divided by state's borders? Why not every city?
It's just a nonsense argument, to cut spending for citizens in need.

I can accept that he said it, but the idea that Democrats ignored the border crisis is complete nonsense. They were ready to sign the bipartisan bill with the strongest border protection legislation in history, while Trump demanded that Republicans didn't sign it.
All the Democrats were shouting from the rooftops "PROTECT OUR BORDER!!!".
You are all living in an alternate reality and even Kerry is affected by it.

Kerry is correct that Democrats couldn't get their message out successfully, but he's wrong in saying “He was right. The problem is—we all should have been right. Everybody should have been right, doing the same thing, all moving in the same direction.”. Democrats SHOULD NOT move into the direction of eliminating due process.

One Democrat saying something that you like, is a squirrel.

Here is ONE pastor saying something that most Democratic voters agree on,
while most other pastors are saying the exact opposite. Is he now on CNN,
as an example of the other side, to argue: "We must be right, because this single person from the other side says that we are right on this issue!"?
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I'm sure that CNN does that sometimes, but it means NOTHING to ME.
There is someone from the group that is wrong about everything,
agreeing with my point on something? "OK, you're welcome. Is it just this?"
"I don't need you to agree with me, to know I'm right. I have ARGUMENTS!"

"Republicans and the White House have defended the response and argued against placing blame on funding cuts."
Oh sure, they don't want Texans to be angry at them, for good reason.

There is ZERO evidence of any significant wasteful spending, unless you call every dollar spent to help people a waste.

You need good weather forecasting to predict water rising 26 feet in 45 minutes.
They can literally not do as good as a job as before, because of Trump's cuts.
However, I can predict that, without a doubt, far worse floods will happen, more often,
and you will need FEMA to have much more money, if you want to minimize the damage and human suffering.

So, how do you guys like it that Trump sent FEMA to Texas, to help?

And how do you like the following?:
The administration’s FY 2026 budget proposal includes a $646 million cut to FEMA.
It also imposed a freeze of approximately $3.6 billion in unspent FEMA funds.
FEMA has undergone a cut of roughly 20% of its workforce.
Weather forecasting funding at NOAA was cut by $150 million.

phart just accused Bill Gates of
"taking our tax money and sending it so far away it can't help our own citizens in need."
Here is a clear example of Trump taking your tax money far away from helping your own citizens in need.

Well, at least he's cutting taxes for Bill Gates. So some of your money will still go
to poor people, for food and HIV medicine.

Can't you read? I do have a problem with adultery, because it's not HONEST. There are lots of other dishonest ways to hurt your partner than just adultery, which is why "Be honest to each other" is a superior rule to live by.
Apparently, I'm smarter than god, who didn't consider this.
However, it was just primitive people who came up with it, and it shows.

If you want to fuck other people, you're not in a good relationship.
Be honest about it and leave. Find happiness with someone else.

I DO mind killing a BABY, in it's mothers womb, but I'll allow abortion, for
good reasons, not willy-nilly, up to around 20-24 weeks, except special cases. Still, I am all for improvements in healthcare and culture, to reduce abortions.
Making abortions illegal doesn't result in less abortions, just more suffering.

Still unable to read? I think "Honor your father and your mother" is one-sided.
Why shouldn't parents honor their children? Did god not think of that?
The bible endorses killing a child if it doesn't obey its parents.
Are you fucking kidding me? Do you support THAT?

The bible is also full of killing ACTUAL babies. And it supports abortion.
It just supports it for when the man THINKS that his' woman fucked around.
Do YOU think THAT 'baby' has lost its 'value of life'?

I told you what I value; human rights. Basic values that humanism provides, like: Freedom, Equality, Compassion, Empathy, Critical Thinking / Inquiry, Justice, Love for Humanity, Environmental and Social Responsibility, Consent / Autonomy.

Not freedom for me, freedom for everyone. I just understand that the freedom
of one person can have a negative effect on the freedom of another person.
When you give maximum freedom to powerful and wealthy people,
they WILL negatively affect the freedom of a shitload of other people.
Do you really fail to understand that? It's not a difficult concept.

You really need to learn to read or are you just straw-manning?

Bill Gates IS spending his own money to help poor countries.
The US was doing that too. That was actually a good thing you did.
Why do you think that Bill Gates had any part in your tax-dollars going "far away"?
The US stopping that, especially so abruptly is incredibly damaging.
Using your money like that is called 'soft power', it's to your own advantage.

Why do you talk about helping your own citizens in need?
You don't want to. You prefer to help the billionaires, who don't need it.

Sure, he was very lucky to turn his head just at that very moment.

However, I cannot decide what's worse, Trump continuing to destroy your country,
adding chaos to the world and deciding to accelerate climate change, or him dying
that day and giving MAGA a martyr.

What are those American values, you are talking about?

No, because she wouldn't try to become queen, she would respect The Constitution.

USA going down the drain because of Trump.
'News'MAX: "Look over there, a squirrel!!"

This is what happens, if you let Health and Human Services run by a vaccine denialist:

U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports.
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"The U.S. has reported 1,288 measles cases this year — the highest number in 33 years, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The last time the U.S. saw more measles cases was in 1992, eight years before the disease was declared eliminated in the country."

"The largest outbreak by far is in Texas. The state has reported 753 measles cases this year. Across the U.S., 155 people have been hospitalized, and three people have died."

Almost every single one of those people is unvaccinated.
There always were many of those people, but it's Trump's policies who are failing to protect those people from their own stupidity.

The measles vaccine isn't some "new technology", it has been proven safe and effective over many decades. Serious side effects are extremely rare, e.g., a severe allergic reaction occurs in about 1 in a million doses.

Your regime is de-eliminating eliminated diseases.

Why don't you ask ChatGPT? Ask it a question that shows you objectively seek the truth, instead of needing your world view confirmed.

"creating life they don't value" When you cannot explain the value of that life,
with your value system, it doesn't have any when they don't think it has any.
Do you want a kid to be 'punishment'? What a 'contribution to the world' will that kid turn out to be. Again, NO LOGIC, just dogma.

The human rights are based on a simple proposition. I don't need a text, to guide me, I have logic, which enables me to make up my own mind about a human rights laws, instead of taking the text as gospel. When they change something, I can decide whether I think it improves human rights or diminishes it.

The 10 commandments are not primitive to me BECAUSE they are 2000 years old (actually 3,000 to 3,300 years old), but because there is no advanced philosophy behind it. There are texts that are almost as old, that obviously represent much more advanced thinking, mostly from ancient Greece.

Lets address them:
1. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image.
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet.

1-4 Are just religion confirming and shows 'god' to be a snowflake.
5 Family is important, but the idea that this is one-sided is primitive shit
6 duh
7 "Be honest to each other" is superior. People are not property.
8 duh
9 "Be honest" is superior. Just "your neighbor"? Tribalism!
10 What? A thoughtcrime? Unless you act on it, it's not a crime.

The ones that are 'duh' can be simply replaced with the idea that other people have rights. The 10 commandments are primitive crap, because it doesn't provide the simple basic values that humanism provides, like: Freedom, Equality, Compassion, Empathy, Critical Thinking / Inquiry, Justice, Love for Humanity, Environmental and Social Responsibility, Consent / Autonomy. It's missing all those principles, while several Greek philosophers were already providing the groundwork for them.
Even the new testament could do better, than the so-called "Divine Revelation".
A neutral eye can see 1000 years of human progression in the morality of it.
Did they supreme being improve their thinking over time? Strange idea.
But even the new testament is flawed. It's still very primitive, but better.

"1 world government" Bullshit right-wing propaganda!
I support countries, with sovereignty, working together for the benefit of all.
Supporting international solidarity isn't supporting a "1 world government".

You can only call it 'lunacy', because you cannot show it to be false.
You are incapable of a serious discussion.

"What if those rights don't work?"
Then humanity will never outgrow it savagery.

How much more do you want people to work? Isn't it enough already?
How about humans actually getting to enjoy their lives?
Productivity has skyrocketed for decades. People's lives didn't improve.
I'm disagreeing with you because your ideas aren't based in reality.

"would you feel the same way about it as you do what was written in history?"
I have no idea what you're trying to ask here.

"it will grow to become a man or woman that can contribute to the world"
So, why are you ONLY assigning this value to fetuses?
You didn't provide this argument for anyone outside of the womb.
Do you now acknowledge that those have value too?
The problem with your "value system" is that it is not consistent.

"and procreate to ensure humans are on earth for a long time."
That procreation it the biggest problem threatening humans on earth.
If we want to humans to keep on existing, that procreating needs to decrease a lot.
Too many new humans do not contribute to the world, they contribute to our demise.
If humanity grows from 10 billion to 20 billion, humanity doesn't improve by 2X,
but we destroy the last bits of nature AND THEN WE ALL FUCKING DIE.

That's why my "value system" related to why humans have human rights is not related to their personal contribution to the world. Your "value system" would mean that someone who is fully disabled doesn't have any value. To me, their human rights
don't differ at all from the human rights of a genius inventor.

I don't call babies a clump of cells, I call the stage before zygote a clump of cells, which you call a baby. To me, it's a baby when it is capable of living outside of the womb, without a machine to keep it alive.

Your argument shows that your ideology is mostly about punishing people for having sex. You still haven't explained why a baby has any value, besides what its parents assign to it. If you have the same "value system" as the other extreme right-wingers, you tell me why they strongly forbid the abortion of a malformed zygote or fetus or even a dead one. What "contribution to the world" do they provide?
It shows their ideology to be based on nothing by dogma, not logic.

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Now for my "value system": people have human rights, because that's a vital condition to achieve a flourishing, peaceful and sustainable civilization. If we all accept that humans have rights, then we might finally stop horribly murdering and torturing each other, all the goddamn time. It's the basis for humanism. It's also the basis for your Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

That's 100% the identical idea as the basis for humanism. Of course, you need to do some rewriting of history, and interpret things literally, to make belief that it isn't, but it fully support my ideology. They just added the "Creator", because everyone was religious back then. It helps acceptance, when you can make the idiots believe that it's a Commandment From God. It works just as well in a secular society. Probably better, because religion adds a lot of baggage and destroys people's ability to think logically.

They Voted for Trump. He Took Away Their Healthcare.
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You fail to explain why a fetus "matters".
"most lives matter to those living them". A fetus doesn't.

If lives only matter, because it matter to those living them, why do you care?
Why would you be against assisted suicide? They WANT to die!

When it's very easy to come up with a better 10 commandments,
than supposedly god did, I don't believe a god was involved at all.
It was just something that primitive people came up with, mostly to assure their religion.

I think the human rights are better, because it's based on 2000 years further advancement in the debate on morality.

"mercy killings"?

You literally told me that you think that NO ONE HAS ANY VALUE.
You also said that the whole idea of human rights is nonsense.
According to you, people don't have any responsibility for each other.
That's literally saying: "No lives matter".
Or did I not understand you correctly?
In that case, explain HOW anyone matters, according to you.

I support the right of abortion, because the woman's life matters.
A clump of cells only matters, when the woman thinks it does.
When it's a clump of cells in a test tube, it only has value related to
the possibility to help people with a desire to have children.
During its development, the clump of cells gains what "matters".
Still, at any point during gestation, the life of the woman carrying it matters MORE.

I support the right to euthanasia, because the quality of life matters too.
People with functioning brains have a right to life, not an obligation.

So you are just straw-manning people, who YOU don't understand.

Interested in starting the gender discussion again?
Isn't this the 'Black lives matter' topic?
Or are you thinking that "XX =XY" is race related?
NO ONE is claiming that "XX =XY". That's just you failing to understand it.

There are people who were assigned the sex "Male" at birth, by the doctor, because they had all the "Male" characteristics at birth.
There are also people who were assigned the sex "Female" at birth, by the doctor, because they had all the "Female" characteristics at birth.

If you don't understand anything about it, then don't try to start a discussion on it.
I don't know anything about ART, so when phart tried to start a discussion on whether
the paintings made by Hunter Biden were art, I told him that we cannot discuss that, because NEITHER of us knows ANYTHING about art. On my vacation in Paris, I saw many paintings that looked like a toddler made them, but those were highly priced and treasured works of art. Maybe I would start to understand it, if I put in the effort studying it.
But, you come around and think that you know everything, on no effort studying it at all.

100% confidence, 0% knowledge. Just your "common sense".
Too bad, some thing are a scientific question, not a gut feeling.

You never say what you do for a living, or if your profession requires ANY knowledge
on any subject. If you do have that, and I don't, you could pull the "authority card" on that subject. Then you can call "bullshit". On not even elementary school "book smarts" on biology related subjects, you cannot do that, for the discussion around sex and gender.
Then I pull the "authority card" for at least understanding cell biology and genetics.
At least I'm willing to listen to what the specialists on the science subject have to say,
you only care to listen to propagandists.

What they gain with no taxes on tips, they will loose in many different other ways.

About 60-72% of the total tax relief is going to the top 20%.
The top 5% gets about 45% of the total tax relief.
The top 1% will get about $600 billion in tax-cuts over a decade.
It's impossible to do that, without it affecting the rest of you.

Since most of the tax-cuts are unaccounted for, it adds $3-4 billion to the debt by 2034.
That will increase inflation for those people who already cannot afford groceries.
Trump is doing what you accused Biden of doing AGAIN.

And he isn't doing it with investments into your economy, like Biden did,
he is doing it to reward his wealthy donors.

There are already clinics shutting down, because of Trump's cuts.
You cannot cut SNAP, without it hurting the poor.

It's bullshit propaganda that all those programs are bloated and fraudulent.
You think feeding the poor is waste by definition, but those programs are doing
what they are designed to do, pretty efficiently, and people rely on them.

It's multiple reliable sources.
Grok itself is on record saying that it's creators want it to talk about "white genocide".
If you don't believe it, find a credible article that is debunking it.

This is how Trump was 'censoring' info about Biden's actions:

1. Denying or Distorting Economic Comparisons between his and Biden's administration.
- Trump frequently claims the U.S. economy under Biden is a “disaster,” despite multiple independent metrics showing strong performance—especially in terms of:
Job growth, Wage gains (especially for low-wage workers), Stock market highs, GDP growth rebound after COVID
Trump has repeatedly: Dismissed these statistics as “fake” or “manipulated,” especially when they contrast with his own record.
- Claimed, without evidence, that government agencies under Biden are “cooking the books.” -> “Those numbers are fake... Total nonsense. Everyone knows the economy was better under me.”
In contrast, independent analyses (e.g. from Moody’s, CBO, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs) show that the Biden economy recovered faster post-COVID, with higher job creation rates than under Trump pre-pandemic.

2. Removal of government data and advisory panels (2025)
In early 2025, the administration:
- Pulled thousands of pages from CDC, DOJ, NIH, FBI, and other agencies—covering long-COVID, HIV, crime statistics, etc.
- Disbanded the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), weakening the oversight of GDP and jobs data.
As a result, the quality and availability of economic statistics declined, prompting concerns from economists and researchers.

3. Attempting to Rewrite History. Trump has tried to:
- Take credit for economic gains that occurred after he left office (e.g., jobs added in 2021–2022),
- Claim the economy was “perfect” under him until COVID, ignoring pre-2020 signs of a manufacturing slowdown and trade war costs.
This has involved a massive social media and rally-based disinformation campaign—not official censorship, but information manipulation.

4. Trump Called to Punish Media Outlets and Curb Speech
During both his presidencies and campaign rallies, Trump has:
- Repeatedly called for shutting down or suing news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times.
- Pledged to "go after the media" that publishes “fake news” (which often includes facts unfavorable to him).
- Pushed the idea of “government control” over press credentials, and in 2024-2025 suggested reworking FCC rules to go after “disinformation,” as he defines it.

This aligns with efforts to suppress truthful but politically inconvenient information, including strong jobs numbers or inflation falling under Biden.

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Trump’s efforts to block or weaken information about his current economic performance have been well-documented — and these actions serve to obscure signs that his economy may be struggling. Here are the most clear-cut examples:

1. 📊 Blocking or Delaying Trade and Agricultural Reports

Politico (cited by Elliot Morris) reports that Trump officials delayed and redacted a USDA farm-trade report, which showed that the trade deficit in agricultural goods is growing, not shrinking—contrary to Trump’s narrative about tariffs. They withheld the written analysis, releasing only raw numbers.

2. 🔒 Disbanding Economic Data Oversight Committees

Trump’s administration disbanded the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) and several other expert panels under the Commerce Department, removing independent oversight from economic data—like inflation, employment, and GDP.

3. 🧹 Deleting or Suppressing Public Data

Since early 2025, thousands of government webpages and datasets—covering areas like public health, crime, climate, and economic statistics—have been removed or altered following executive orders. Much of this data had already been collected but was made unavailable to the public.

4. 🔥 Reducing Data Collection & Agency Cuts

The Labor Department’s cost-cutting and staff reductions have reduced inflation data collection, eliminated wholesale price measures, and threaten the BLS’s accuracy.
The White House proposed easier firing of statisticians “whose figures prove politically inconvenient,” creating a chilling effect around accurate economic reporting.

"Socialism does not work PERIOD" would be the last words you mumble,
when your slave master worked you to death.

Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot.
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Elon doesn't like getting debunked by his own product, so he is constantly trying to turn it into a conspiracy theory spouting Nazi, like he is himself.
It looks like he did it, because people caught Grok spouting full antisemitic propaganda.
I'm not talking about criticizing Israel, but pure hatred of the Jews and praising Hitler.

It referred to itself as “MechaHitler” and is calling for a New Holocaust.
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Debunked by ChatGPT:

This is a **promotional summary** of the *One Big Beautiful Bill Act* from a pro-Trump or Republican-aligned source. It emphasizes the **benefits** and **talking points**, often using **best-case projections**, while omitting or minimizing the bill’s **cuts to social safety nets, healthcare, and clean energy**.

Here’s a **breakdown** of what’s **fact**, what’s **spin**, and what’s **missing**, based on independent analysis:

🔍 **CLAIMS VS. REALITY**

🧾 CLAIM: *"Wages up by $5,500–$10,500; Take-home pay up by $7,200–$12,200"*

**Spin**: These are *projections* based on tax cuts and hypothetical wage growth. They **don’t reflect guaranteed raises**—they assume trickle-down from corporate tax incentives.
* **Reality**: Independent estimates show modest average tax savings for middle-income earners (~$1,200–$1,800/year), while **high earners** gain much more.
* **Meanwhile**, these savings are offset by **cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and public services** many families rely on.

💰 CLAIM: *"No Taxes on Tips and Overtime"*

**Partially True**: The bill **exempts tip income and overtime wages** from federal income tax—but **not from payroll taxes** (like Social Security/Medicare).
**Benefit**: Good for tipped workers and those in gig/hospitality industries.
**Caveat**: Critics argue this creates complexity and encourages underreporting.

🧒 CLAIM: *"Expands Child Tax Credit; Supports 40M Families"*

**Half-true**: The Child Tax Credit is increased and made permanent, but **not fully refundable** like in the 2021 American Rescue Plan.
* So **poorer families may get less or nothing** unless they have taxable income—unlike under Biden’s expanded version.

🧺 CLAIM: *"Slashes Deficits by $2 Trillion"*

**False by most neutral estimates**: The bill **increases** the federal deficit by **$3.4 trillion over 10 years**, mainly due to permanent tax cuts for individuals and corporations ([CRFB](https://www.crfb.org/)).

🌽 CLAIM: *"Supports Farmers; Raises Death Tax Exemption"*

**True, but skewed**: Increasing the estate tax exemption helps **very wealthy landowners**, not most small farmers (only about 0.1% of estates were taxed under prior law).
* Crop insurance/rural support may help, but **Medicaid cuts hurt rural hospitals and elderly care**—a major concern in red states.

🔨 CLAIM: *"Massive manufacturing and small business tax relief"*

**Partly true**: The bill includes **expensing for capital investment**, lower corporate tax rates, and extended Opportunity Zones.
* Critics argue this **overwhelmingly favors large firms and developers**, with little oversight.

🌎 CLAIM: *"Ends Green New Scam; unleashes energy"*

**Very partisan framing**. The bill:

* **Repeals EV tax credits**
* Cuts **wind, solar, energy efficiency credits**
* **Prioritizes oil, gas, coal**, and **nuclear** production
* It **rescinds climate spending** from the Inflation Reduction Act, which was helping transition rural areas to cheaper renewable sources.

⚔️ CLAIM: *"Boosts ICE, Border Patrol, Coast Guard"*

**True**: Massive new funding—$10,000 annual bonuses, **10,000 new ICE agents**, and finishing the wall.
* This is a **central part** of the bill and appeals to immigration hawks.
* Critics argue it's **militarized overreach**, with limited effect on fentanyl (which mostly comes through legal ports).

🚨 WHAT’S MISSING

1. **Cuts to Medicaid & SNAP**

* Over **$1 trillion** in combined cuts.
* Work requirements, reduced eligibility, and state funding burdens.

2. **Defunding of Clean Energy and Climate Programs**

* Bill rolls back **Biden-era climate legislation**.
* Long-term cost: delays clean energy transition, likely increases emissions.

3. **Impact on Poor & Disabled Americans**

* Work requirements could push **millions off aid**, including seniors, disabled, and caregivers.
* **Rural hospitals**, especially in red states, face funding losses.

4. **Long-term Cost to Deficit**

* While marketed as “fiscally sane,” independent economists say the bill will **add over $3 trillion** to the national debt.

🧾 FINAL VERDICT

**Category** | **Verdict** -------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
**Tax Cuts for Workers** | Mostly true, but benefits **skew to upper-middle class and wealthy** |
**Support for Families** | Partly true, but **excludes lowest-income households** |
**Rural and Farm Support** | Partly true, **estate tax changes help rich farmers more than small ones** |
**Border & Military** | Accurate—**major investments and personnel increases** |
**Fiscal Responsibility** | **False** — deficit likely to rise significantly |
**Energy & Environment** | **True but partisan framing** — major rollback of clean-energy investments |

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It's all skewed to the middle class and the wealthy.
Did they have problems paying for groceries?

Complete nonsense. The large majority of Americans want better healthcare and social security and HIGHER taxes on the wealthy and NO increase of the debt and the deficit,
not the opposite, in the "big beautiful bill".

Evolution takes a very long time.
The problem is that you are making sure humanity doesn't have it.

Texan blonde does science and proves evolution.
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In 1909, the Superior Court of Los Angeles ruled that Lebanese and Syrians
belong to the “white race”. Ever heard of it?
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Google "George Shishim" if you want to know more.

The future of the human race?

Jewish New Yorkers For Zohran Mamdani
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"If Andrew Cuomo thinks that makes me less of a Jew,
that's just one more reason why he's unfit to represent us."

So JUST ONE of these assholes reduced to what you have and EVERYONE gets $730.
Isn't that ridiculous?

Half of American adults have $500 or less in their savings account,
but this ONE asshole has MUCH more than ALL OF THEM COMBINED.
The fact that you think that's normal shows your brainwashing.

Keep lying to yourself, while your country crumbles.

There are too many people on this earth, to all live more than half a mile apart.

There is nothing wrong with any of those actions.
What's wrong is your 'thinking' that those problems apply to all bums.

Your system is very good at crushing people, who do everything right.
There are many people who have no fault at all for getting crushed.
People's lives can also get crushed to rubble, AFTER having kids or pets.
Losing ones job or losing ones health is a big risk of that. No fault of them.
We should have a system who prevents occurrences like that crushing people.
The US didn't have that already, but your political side made it even worse.

There is nothing wrong with people who think we owe each other,
there is something wrong with people who think everyone is on their own.
It isn't logical and it isn't consistent with any religion.

In any case, the majority of people don't agree with you, and they will fight back.
The worse it gets before they succeed at it, the harder your side will fall.

The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973

It has continued to slide even as President Trump has backed down from his tariff threats and the U.S. stock market has recovered from its losses.

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Elijah Manley for Congress (Florida's 20th district in the House of Representatives)
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A "Foxhole Radio", except for the big amp.

With Allies Like These, Who Needs Enemies?!
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No, of course, it's Canada who is exploiting your friendship.

Maybe you'd deserve that, if you produced an actual argument. You gotto earn it.

OK, that's consistent with your character, so I believe that.
But, you could try to be efficient. What do you think is wrong?
I could try to answer efficiently too, because reading isn't your thing either.

Yes, you as Americans. You (you) cannot do anything personally.
Still, you personally could accept the truth of it and support change.
There are drugs everywhere, but this problem is only American.

This is not related to capitalism, socialism or conservatism.
That only looks that way, because you have just 2 political parties.
Your Republicans made a choice to support the gun lobby and Democrats did not,
but there is no reason for that. There is also no reason to pick the Republican side
on this issue, just because you prefer them on other issues. Do you have freedom
of thought, or not? Why would you let your ideas be defined by a political party?

[There was a study in which they asked Republican voters how many of a list of 30 Republican policies they support and they asked Democratic voters how many of a list of 30 Democratic policies they support. Both groups of voters support the list of the party they identify with, by an immense majority. This support is so strict, that it is statistically impossible for a free thinking society. This means you're all Hyper-Partisan.]

You are not representing the Republican party, they should represent you.
If their voters change their opinion on this issue, they need to change theirs.
If you are tired of the constant mass murders, you can demand action.
Don't be satisfied with your politicians doing mostly what they want,
instead of what YOU need.

When this would have been an immigrant, Trump would be calling for billions for extra border security, give ICE even more leeway to break the 14th amendment and build even more sadistic prisons. BUT, he was WHITE, so NOTHING will be done to try to prevent it. No calls to get the guns away from even the worst criminal or the most violent lunatics.
Not a dollar extra for mental healthcare. "Free speech" for hateful violent rhetoric.

Every time this happens, you will ask "What is wrong with our country?", you will blame the left for politicizing it, and you will move on, until the next right-wing gun nut kills a bunch of people. You will only get "Thoughts and prayers".

Of course, you will politicize the hell out of it, when an immigrant hurts someone.
Then "One life is too many!". It could be a fully naturalized immigrant, it will be full justification to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and piss on The Constitution.
But you can never even think about reining in the Second Amendment a bit.
It will be the last thing you'll have left of The Constitution.

She must have done this to make money showing it off.
And honestly, I would love to see.

It must have its downsides though.
How long would it take her every day to get those pants on?

The real ones aren't cheap. Are you using them professionally?

It's just me who called it "safety mode", because I had no idea what it's called. When I Google "open loop mode", it provides options that sound very close to what is happening, so it looks like you're correct. Next time it happens, I'll connect the dongle and look for "open loop mode". It has been months, so I need to be patient.