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 | 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. |
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Why are all of the senators at house representatives being paid now for not doing their jobs yet so many others are not?
I think a little rule change would help resolve this problem quicker the next time it happens, and it will. How about if all senators and all of the house representatives including their staff do not get paid during a shutdown? I include their staff because the people in power would be more inclined to be personally affected when their staff is not being paid because of their actions. Also their staff interacts with them every day and would definitely be doing what they can to end the shutdown.
A nice simple way to resolve the problem a lot quicker regardless of which party is in power.
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phart what do you think?
But you have a point, I think all the senators and representatives should receive no pay as long as they have the government is shutdown.
Let us take a closer look, Who shut the government down? Let me help you, libtard democrats and radicals.
I know and I bet you know that Trump would never sign off on supporting illegal aliens with free government help.
I am a lot like him, I would not cave on that bullshit. My only complaint is he is not removing these illegal sob lawbreakers fast enough. They came here illegally, thus lawbreakers.
Oh, how many boats have been blown to hell? Sorry I lost count. I do hope it increases though.
I suggest you shut up.
The shut down should never have happened.
But it did.
And folks need to accept the reasons why and move forward.
Non citizens benefiting from tax dollars needs to stop, thus, alot of the problems and disagreements would stop.
I will go as far as to say neither body of government should get any time off until they present a BALANCED BUDGET to the President for his signature. that would force both sides to get rid of the pork and waste
President Trump gave $20 billion to Argentina during the shutdown. Based on his America first policy that he has been touting since his return to office, do you think this money would have been better spent to pay working government employees in general?
Do you also think that part of that $20 billion should have gone to pay low income Americans who are recipients of the SNAP benefits as well?
I also want the snap checked over for fraud.
um, sadly looks like it will go away in 2026
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If Tucker is motivated to do a good job, he's a damn good interviewer.
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Fake news of the radical left.
I think the answer to my question is TMTC.
The same things they are still suffering from?
You just replaced one demented old fool for a worse one.
This old demented fool is destroying people's healthcare and social security.
Americans will suffer and die much more because of him.
Go ahead, Tecsan. Reason 1. Reason 2. Let's talk about the economy. Let's talk about all the extra taxes (tariffs) we are paying. Come on, sweety, let me have it. Tell me how my health insurance would have doubled if the old fart, Biden or if Harris would have been elected.
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Nearly 70 percent of the Dutch population live in owner-occupied homes. This puts the Netherlands at the bottom of the ranking in the European Union.
57.6% of the country's 28.8 million main homes are owned by their inhabitants.france
US homeownership rate was 65.2%,
So uh, ok we don't have free health care, but your citizens don't own anymore homes than ours. And i aint even looked at tax rates yet that cover the health care you have that "prevents" the bankruptcy's.
my current situation is going to cost me about 5500 bucks out of pocket, the other 50 grand+ will be covered by insurance provided by my employer i was retired from. Medical insurance is called a benefit you get from your employer IF YOU WORK for a living and earn it.
You, Phart, always hint people are lazy and that they don’t work. About 63% of the work force either have a job or are actively looking for work.
"Approximately 80,000 visits to U.S. health care facilities by Canadians occur each year, but most are for emergency care, not elective procedures." A lot of them are "snowbirds", Canadians, who migrate from the colder northern regions of North America to warmer southern destinations during the winter months. Millions of Canadians vacation or spend winters in the U.S.. Accidents and illnesses happen, and the nearest hospital is often the only immediate option. Their Canadian provincial insurance covers very little (sometimes only a fraction of the actual cost), so these travelers rely heavily on private travel insurance.
That means they are not crossing the border for YOUR healthcare, they are IN your country when they need healthcare and then are stuck with yours.
However, in some border areas, the nearest U.S. hospital is geographically closer than the nearest Canadian one. For genuine emergencies, people go to the closest facility.
A small, wealthy minority may travel for a non-emergency procedure to access specific cutting-edge treatments, particular specialists, or bypass Canadian wait times. However, this number is a small fraction of the 80,000 visits.
So, there is only a small bit of truth to your claim. I have told you before that American healthcare is ONLY good for VERY RICH people.
[In 2024, the Dutch government paid $118 Billion for healthcare related expenses.
It goes to:
- The Long-term Care Act (Wlz - Wet langdurige zorg): Care for vulnerable elderly people and people with a chronic illness or disability is largely paid from general funds.
- Youth Act and Social Support Act (Wmo - Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning): This care falls under the responsibility of municipalities, but is funded by the national government via the Municipalities Fund, which also comes from tax money.
- Healthcare allowance (Zorgtoeslag): The government pays a healthcare allowance to people with a low income to help them pay the nominal premium for healthcare insurance, which is an indirect contribution from taxes to the healthcare system.
- Income-related contribution (IAB - Inkomensafhankelijke bijdrage): Although this is called a "contribution", it is paid by employers or benefit agencies and flows via the Health Insurance Fund (Zvf) back into healthcare, which is a form of collective financing via a levy.]
ALL other care is paid for by our health insurances. My monthly premium is $194,11.
If I have an emergency, I pay NOTHING, it's all covered by my insurance. For all non-emergency care, I pay at maximum $444 in a year. My premium includes a small supplemental insurance package, which costs me less than $100/year, but pays me $173 for part of my chiropractor costs.
Your situation would cost our insurance $6,470. Our hospitals are more affordable, but provide a better quality of service than yours. However, that is considered a medical necessity. The base insurance covers it, and it will cost the patient $444. If they need anything else that is covered by the base insurance, it would be fully covered.
We don't get our health insurance from our employer, we pay for it ourselves.
We don't lose our insurance when we lose our job. Employers cannot use health insurance as a negotiation tactic, when we negotiate wages and other benefits.
The US does have lower taxes, but we get lots of tax returns, if we have a low income. And higher income people often own their home, which allows them to deduct their mortgage rent.
Don't forget that the US government also pays for healthcare with tax-dollars.
are renting their home.
As I told you before, The Netherlands HAD a very good system of public housing. The social rental sector was massive, reaching over 40% of the total housing stock by 1990. In cities like Amsterdam, this share was even higher. Most social housing was owned and managed by "woningcorporaties" (Non-Profit Housing Associations), which operated under a strict regulatory framework and were heavily dependent on government financial support. These housing associations were created after the war, to build a large number of affordable homes to address post-war housing shortages.
My girlfriend and I lived in one of those social houses for 9 years. The rent was $380/month. It enabled us to improve ourselves, save up a lot of money, and buy a house.
Many people cannot afford to buy a house. Also a lot of people never wanted to.
Many people will regret not buying a house when we did, because the rent has at least doubled and the price of owner-occupied houses almost doubled in less than 20 years, because the right-wing parties privatized the housing market.
We would never be able to buy our house anymore, if we tried today. We have an income between 1.5x and 2x the median. We would be able to get a mortgage of up to about Ђ375,000 ($432,776). There are still houses being sold at that price, but not a lot and not ours. The mortgage would be Ђ1700/month ($1962), which would be Ђ1264 ($1459) after tax returns, if we started today. Those tax returns decline to 0 in 30 years.
However, because we bought that house in 2008/2009, and paid off a lot, our mortgage payments are now $473/month, and we still get $189 mortgage interest deduction.
That means that the $284/month we pay now is less than our rent back then.
He doesn't realise, for instance, that the Dutch don't care to own a property because renting is just as good.
I rent too and I'm very happy. Owning is a headache.
something as simple as having a vineyard for your grape vines for jellies, your garden soil that takes years to prep to get a good harvest, your hobbies? How can you have a hobby that requires a garage with stationary equipment if you don't own the building-land? how can you have live stock on rental property for milk ,eggs ,meat?
How do you folks live and actually have any concept of peace of mind ,happiness, security anything? If you rent ,you are dependent on someone for everything ,including the roof over your heads!
I can't help the dutch don't want the peace of mind of owning where they live.
"Not knowing where you might be living in 4 months" Not in my country.
Our renting system might be broken, but not like that.
We still have laws to protect people from that.
It's also not a choice for most people. There is no IF you rent.
When you are not rich enough, you rent, or you live in a tent.
That's because right-wing governments fucked up our social housing.
Since just 2010, wages climbed by 8%, while social rent house prizes climbed by 22%.
However, many of the social rent houses have been sold.
Many of them were bought up by private renters, which are MUCH more expensive.
The average rental price in the private sector varies, but in the fourth quarter of 2024
it was around Ђ1730 ($1997) per month, or Ђ18.01 ($20,79) per square meter.
That, combined with far too few houses having been built, exploded the prices.
The price of an average home was Ђ239,530 ($276,365) in 2010.
The price of an average home is around Ђ486,000 ($560,681) in 2025.
(They didn't become bigger. What they mostly build now is apartments)
I saw it coming, so I bought my house in 2008/2009, at Ђ265,000 bare ($305,710).
Neighbors are selling their house for Ђ475,000 ($547,970), but we are expecting
that people will overbid that.
Everything is great in my country, for people who have enough money.
It just takes more and more money, every year, to beat the onslaught.
Too many people, who were lucky to do that, don't realize that they did.
Still, they feel the problems around them, and are misplacing blame.
They are thinking: "Our country is great, why are you complaining?
I made it, so why don't you? Go get an education and get a job!"
They don't see that people with a higher education than them,
will never be able to reach the same living standard as they did.
And the only reason is that they are just 10-20 years younger.
That's the difference, only 10-20 years.
The problem is that both the young people who are living it,
and the older people who saw it develop, don't understand it.
It requires some knowledge of politics and economics, and they don't bother.
They only listen to some loudmouth who blames immigration.
They don't want to know the cause of it, just want to stop it.
And then they think people like me LIKE immigration. WHY would I?
I think we NEED to help desperate people, but I DON'T like it.
I want to improve the world, so there are LESS desperate people.
I prefer to help desperate people, without helping them directly.
I want to improve the system, so they can help themselves.
Other people just want to close their eyes for their existence.
They don't understand that it's a sure way to let the world go to shit,
so you'll end up yourself as one of those desperate people.
It's only a matter of time, before the people who beat the onslaught,
also don't manage to beat it anymore.
It is really hard to have to live with such ignorant people.
Mostly, because it's very difficult to SOLVE the very problems
that they are angry about, even immigration, when there are
too many people who don't understand, that you need to understand
the CAUSE of a problem, if you want to FIX a problem.
What's the common root cause of most of those problems, you ask?
Mostly; exploitation and authoritarianism, the very ideals many support.
One thing you overlooked is that we are all human and prone to mistakes.
Some learn from them and those like you that think your way is the best. socialism = failure.
My country had its fastest development, when it was the most socialist.
My country had the biggest accumulation of problems under right-wingers.
It's the Dutch voters who should learn from their mistakes.
Your country had its “The Golden Age of Capitalism”, “The Postwar Boom”,
roughly from 1945 till 1973. That was actually your MOST SOCIALIST period.
Your economy grew rapidly because of very left-leaning policies.
This was the time when:
- Wages rose along with productivity, so the middle class flourished.
- Unions were strong and represented a large share of workers.
- Income inequality was historically low.
- The government invested heavily in public infrastructure, education, housing,
and science (e.g., the GI Bill, Interstate Highway System, and NASA).
1) High Taxes on the Wealthy
The top marginal income tax rate was over 90% during the 1950s under Republican president Eisenhower.
Corporate taxes were also much higher than today.
These taxes funded public infrastructure, education, and research.
2) Strong Labor Unions
Over one-third of workers were union members in the 1950s.
Unions negotiated better wages, pensions, and working conditions.
Collective bargaining helped distribute productivity gains fairly.
3) Massive Government Investment
The federal government financed housing for veterans, college education (GI Bill), scientific research, and public works.
These policies expanded the middle class and built national wealth.
4) Regulation and Antitrust Enforcement
Industries like banking, transportation, and energy were tightly regulated.
Antitrust laws prevented monopolies and protected small businesses.
This created a competitive but stable capitalist system.
5) Social Safety Nets
Expansion of Social Security, unemployment insurance, and public healthcare programs (later including Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960s).
These reduced poverty and stabilized consumer demand.
6) Progressive Consensus
Both major parties (Democrats and Republicans) largely accepted the New Deal consensus — the idea that capitalism should be managed to serve broad social welfare, not just corporate profit.
Your MAGA hats, Make America Great Again, are referring to your most SOCIALIST period in history, and dumb-asses like you are unable to LEARN FROM IT.
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To be clear, I wanted them to blow those little venezuela boats to hell.
Good way to get that Nobel Peace Prize, General Bone Spurs!
And DESTROYS Her Business
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BREAKING: Florida’s Job Market COLLAPSE in 2025
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$12.5B Paradise MELTDOWN - Florida’s Tourism Industry Is on the Verge of Total Collapse
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Florida Is Facing the Biggest Collapse in U.S. History
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Florida’s Tourism Collapse: Florida’s Economic Disaster Explained in 10 Minutes
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Floridians are hurtling towards economic disaster
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Had florida built it's economy on manufacturing a necessary product or a service people can't be without, better LONG TERM results would happen.
Government run, people leave and are mad, people run, people leave and are mad.
It will come out in the long term as more snow birds seek warm weather over 35 inches of snow.
The only problem is making people see the consequences of what they voted for.
the state is finding out what happens when young people
are not able to afford living there anymore.
Maybe an economy can survive on just service jobs, from old money paying for it,
but people don't want to drive several hours per day to those jobs. When the service people leave, the old people leave too. They are not taking care of themselves.
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So now, a landlord might be forced to rent a building that is in great shape to a low end business that will do much more damage than the rent will cover to repair then either leave the place all fucked up, or stop paying rent and take months to evict. Not a good equation.
If you want to fill store fronts, reduce the cost of building materials ,maintaince and electricity cost. then the landlord can reduce the rent and still make a profit, which is the entire point of being a landlord.
You gobble up all the propaganda from the wealthy they feed you.
IF citys want to fix empty building problems, citys should rent the buildings and use them for shelters, and office staff. instead of doing like our local citys and let large buildings rot while they spend millions building taj mahals.
The 'empty building problems' in cities are the result of people not being able to afford those buildings, neither for renting nor owning.
"just because someone can afford a bulding,liberals think folks should live in it free and tear it up and leave it to others to fix"
BULLSHIT! Capitalist policies have resulted in unaffordable homes and the 'empty building problems' and people are now voting for Zohran Mamdani types, because they have good ideas to force the owners to rent out their property at an affordable price.
The owners prefer to create scarcity, to leave buildings empty, to jack up the price, rather than renting them out at a reduced price. A penalty on doing that can 'fix it'.
Why can you only think in stupid straw-men? You're indoctrinated.
For a median-priced U.S. home (around $402,500) and assuming a 20% down payment + standard lending ratios, the required annual income is about US$ 118,530 (2023). That means the median family cannot afford the median house. Only 20-22% of the American families can afford the median house.
The billionaires will own more and more and everyone else will own less and less,
until you start taxing wealth significantly.
It's simple economics; what are the billionaires doing with their money?
They are BUYING 'things', that are providing them with passive income,
like houses, factories and farms.
Who are they buying from? House owners, land owners, factory owners
and farm owners.
Then those former owners are now paying rent or part of their profits,
to the new owners; the billionaires or private equity owned by billionaires.
That passive income makes the billionaires ever richer, and everyone else,
who used to own something, is now paying the billionaires to use it.
Then the billionaires have even more money to buy 'things'.
You will have trillionaires soon. They don't let those trillions go to waste in a bank,
they will BUY MORE 'THINGS'.
It's simple economics. Is it so simple that you understand it?
American family owned farms are in big trouble, due to Trump's tariffs. Bankruptcy filings specifically for family-farm restructuring (Chapter 12) are rising: 216 Chapter 12 filings in 2024, and early 2025 figures show 259 filings between April 2024–March 2025.
Then the billionaires or their private equity comes in and buys them up.
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Those farmers voted for Trump and now they are losing their farms. FAFO.
Passive income is how people retire early instead of working till they are 90.
So why don't YOU go take out a loan for that median priced home and then rent it out for 1000 dollars a month?
Could you afford to do that?
No strawman, I am talking about YOU buying a second house, maintaining it ,paying all the taxes and expenses then out of the goodness of your heart and a liberal mayors requirements , rent it out for less than a third of your cost? the only way you might break even is if the tax laws were rewritten to allow you to write off all the cost on your taxes.
so you don't have any argument for your policies. They don't work.
No, just like all individual working class people, I cannot afford that. That is only
an option for the owner class, which is roughly 1% to 2% of the population.
They have that 'passive income' through exploitation, which makes it harder
for the bottom 60% of the population to retire at all.
Do you know how I can afford to own and rent out houses?
By working together with (lots of) other working class people.
Better yet, ALL of them. That's called 'public funding'.
You keep showing that you don't understand the concept.
Why is this so difficult for you?
All your arguments boil down to the idea that there are no alternatives for funding 'things', other than those wealthy people who exploit people. There are! It can be the government, it can be well regulated, profit restricted retirement funds and it can be publicly funded non-profit investment funds. It works very well, all over the world.
We had them, only a few decades ago, until our right-wing destroyed them, which resulted in the price of housing skyrocketing.
I told you this many times, but you keep ignoring reality.
besides simplistic thinking as "A enemy of a free country".
It's just a stupid straw-man, not an actual argument.
I am a socialist. What am I ignoring?
What freedom are you giving up, if you replace the wealthy people who exploit you with public funding from the bottom up?
New York City Mayor: Zohran Mamdani - Democrat
Virginia Governor: Abigail Spanberger - Democrat
New Jersey Governor: Mikie Sherrill - Democrat
Proposition 50 (California – redistricting): Approved
Americans are done with the MAGA traitors.
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As for new york that place has been fucked up for decades.
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as for california, fuck em, other states can redistrict to and counter act what they did.
sadly politics is good against evil now,and good is going to have to start fighting dirty
He should be in prison for his treason, the second time.
I know you believe bullshit. There is nothing I can do about that.
Canada talked big a few months ago, um, how does it feel now?
As your Supreme Court judges agreed upon yesterday,
tariffs are taxes; tariffs take money from the American people
and put it into the treasury. This is exactly what is going on now.
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They don't want to be your cuck, because that would hurt more.
he is just a mayor but look what these folks demand that he do.
crazy
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The idiots in Gaza elected hamas "muslims" to run their little strip, look where it got them.
the end of new york being a great city is near
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And when Trump says it, it's true.
Good for you that the US finally made up with China.
I expect all the tariff nonsense to be over now.
Of course I'm just making fun of your article. Trump has achieved nothing.
International trade and the position of China in it is worse for everyone involved
than before Trump's new stupid tariff nonsense.
"As of October 2025, clear signs the American economy is currently at risk include
a rapidly cooling labor market (downward job revisions, stalled payroll growth,
rising unemployment rate), persistent above-target inflation driven partly by tariffs,
and a significant decline in consumer confidence and spending."
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You just cannot react with something substantial.
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"De-risking has caused a major shift in China's export structure away from the US"
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"Europe has belatedly sought to ‘Trump-proof’ through boosting defence investment, strengthening economic security mechanisms, and diversifying trade, including negotiations with certain Latin American countries. The UK is likewise diversifying trade – resuming talks with China and striking a deal with India."
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A working paper from Centre d’йtudes prospectives et d’informations internationales (CEPII) models a strong “trade-war scenario” and projects that U.S. exports of goods would fall by 22.9% (in volume) compared to baseline.
A blog from Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) projects that the tariffs in effect as of September 2025 will lower U.S. GDP and reduce demand for U.S. exports.
It notes that higher U.S. tariffs raise costs for U.S. exporters (through supply-chain effects) and reduce foreign demand for U.S. exports.
The blog from the European Central Bank (ECB) mentions that U.S. tariffs push partners to re-route trade away from the U.S., implying that U.S. export growth is challenged.
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"China-US trade tensions could bring more Chinese exports and lower prices to Europe"
No one, other than your Trump propaganda outlets, is saying that Trump achieved something substantial, but they ALL recognize very negative effects on the US economy.
Despite the fanfare, China gained more than it gave in the meeting and still retains major leverage. For example:
“It came at little cost to China … Importantly … President Donald Trump never once mentioned Taiwan. That was not discussed, actually.”
While Trump stressed the deals, China’s strategic interests were largely preserved,
and China didn’t publicly commit to many of the details.
More concretely, in prior months: On May 30, 2025, Trump publicly said that China had “totally violated its agreement with us” and that he would no longer be “Mr. Nice Guy.”
In June 2025 he said Xi was “extremely hard to make a deal with” and that Beijing had reneged or stalled on a framework agreement reached in Geneva.
The “deal” Trump touted was in effect a RETURN to pre-escalation tariff levels
(so little changed) and possibly tilted TOWARDS China.
Analysts say that China mostly got a tariff truce and preserved its key policy positions (e.g., around Taiwan or rare-earth export power) while giving less.
In other words: Trump lost again.
TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out.
and you don't even know how many there were anymore. Do you like that?
The government sending the military into the streets and putting snipers on rooftops,
to keep 'the peace'.
Remember, when people put Republicans out of power, Democrats can do this too.
If you ever try a Jan 6th again, the military can shoot everyone. Agreed?
Don't cry when they put you in the Fascist re-education camp.
These boats are not getting blown up willy nilly, i am sure they have enough info to make a good decision.
Of course the dope dealers with all their money and influence and fear mongering are going to make it sound like a group of innocent fisherman were in a speed boat flying out into open waters for a bigger fish.
Liberals will fall for any lie that supports their cause and supports their hatred for America .
Europe enjoys seeing death and despair here in the US brought by dope. it helps to keep their citizens, I mean subjects, in a tighter grip by the government
It's murder, plain and simple. One of the 273 reasons to impeach him.
There is just no use, because 0 Republicans will ever vote to impeach.
In any case, even if they actually have drugs in the boat, as long as they
don't enter American waters, they are not yours to act against.
Also, smuggling drugs is not a capital offense.
The Trump regime is breaking many laws, plain and simple.
I can't believe you support drug dealers instead of citizens who are being killed by drugs. shheeeeh, and I thought you had a ounce of humanity?.
How many times have you pledged allegiance "to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."?
You guys don't give a shit about liberty and justice for all.
You are fucking TRAITORS to America.
If you start about the "under God" part, adding that in 1954 was treason too,
to the First Amendment.
As i told you before you have enough fucked up thing’s going on in your own country too worry about the United States 🇺🇸 is doing just fine
I'm speaking out against fascism everywhere.
No, the US is doing far from fine.
We are doing fine.
Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
This is applicable to a whole lot of things you deny the existence of.
I truly hope we blow the shit out of more boats bringing poison into our Country.
I do have a better idea, maybe we could get them to turn around and bring that shit to your little country.
because I'm not an American.
I defend my own Constitution, you shit on yours.
Your American values are LIBERAL values, defined by your founding fathers.
You have them rolling over in their graves at 10,000 RPM.
venezuala was the right things to do. What gives you the fucking gaul saying there is no evidence?
All the people that Trump is calling anti-American have birth certificates
saying they are US citizens too.
There IS no evidence, just your regime saying shit.
If you blow up boats and all the people, into very tiny pieces,
you're also destroying the evidence. I think that's deliberate.
It also doesn't matter. Your party called itself the party of law and order.
This is breaking the law, whether you like it or not.
If you want the law to be there when you need it, defend it.
Gas prices have jumped down considerably. Hamas is dead in the water. N. Korea is not threatening nuclear war. Iran is dead in the water but they have big mouths which is the obly thing running for them. Tawain is safe for the moment while china is going bankrupt trump is scheduled to go out there and make deals ending the war in ukraine because without china USSR is dead i the water.
I voted for him for this reason. Israel is not under attack for the longest length of time I've ever seen.. Russia ukraine will end one way oo the other.. There doesn't need to be any proof presented here as far as Venezuela.. The democrats don't even talk about that at all.. The national guard is throwing out illegal immigrants with ICE.. They don't belong here.. Period.. with that said the democrat party with its raping citizens off of money is done.. No illegals in country? No democratic party, no deep state..
You have no idea what you are talking about.. Thank you drive though..
A writing error? Your country believes in democracy, YOU DO NOT.
Your president doesn't believe in democracy either. He wants to destroy it.
You still support Trump after he committed an insurrection.
It's your duty as a citizen to defend your Constitution.
I assume you pledged allegiance (to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all) many times. That republic is based on The Constitution.
Republicans have claimed to support The Constitution, for decades.
That is your side saying that supporting The Constitution is being an American.
Now you are supporting a president who should have never been elected in the first place, but who should also be in prison for treason.
You can think saying "socialist" is an argument, but it's not.
All party programs are assessed by our 'Rule of Law Committee'. My Socialist Party's program has the most Constitutional program of all 18 assessed parties.
The right-wing parties are all violating our Constitution.
You are NOT reasoning, stop fooling yourself.
Everything else you are saying is not applicable. Even if Trump would be the best president ever, he is still a traitor who should have never been elected the second time.
It doesn't make you "American" to support low gas prices or by supporting Israel.
The national guard being sent into American cities, against their will, is Anti-American to the core. How about those state's rights, you are always crying about?
It's not about crime, because Trump is pardoning tons of criminals, rapists and pe.do.philes. He's also pardoning the most corrupt politician ever. It all shows you who he identifies with, and you couldn't care less.
Trump is accusing many American citizens of being Anti-American, for not supporting HIM. The opposite is true. Supporting a traitor to America is Anti-American.
Besides the insurrection, the conspiracy to defraud the American voter, the stealing of classified documents, the r@pe, the hiding of his prostitute visits with campaign money, the corruption with Elon Musk and letting Elon Musk meddle your Congress approved government funding, Trump never stopped breaking the law. Below is a list. It's Anti-American to support a president and his administration breaking the law that clearly and consistently. You utter disrespect for law and order is sickening, and the hypocrisy makes it even worse.
Then there is the clear move to fascism. Liberals and lefties already warned about Project 25 being authoritarian, but Trump denied any association with it, because it had 5% support of the American voters. It was clear he was lying, but your side kept lying with him. Now, Project 25 is over 60% implemented and they are working hard for 100%. Besides that, Trump has been demonstrating every characteristic of an authoritarian. That's everything The Constitution was designed to prevent, by your founding fathers
If you even address these point at all, you will just deny, deflect, or make excuses.
In any case, it's bullshit to say that I have no idea what I'm talking about, because all these point are verified by at least 50% of Americans. Only MAGA is denying them, without good reason, and that side is getting smaller by the day. The majority of Americans want him gone. I'm with them.
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Violation of Constitutional Duties (subject of House impeachments / official findings):
• Abuse of Power / Soliciting Foreign Interference (Ukraine phone call) — House impeachment (Article: abuse of power); allegation that the president solicited a foreign government to interfere in a U.S. election to benefit his campaign. (Impeachment / House finding; not convicted by Senate)
• Obstruction of Congress / Defiance of Congressional Subpoenas (Ukraine inquiry and other congressional investigations) — House cited obstruction-of-Congress behavior for withholding documents and directing executive branch noncooperation with subpoenas. (Impeachment / House finding; not criminally convicted for that act)
• Incitement of Insurrection / Failure to Faithfully Execute Office (Jan. 6 events) — House of Representatives impeached the president for “incitement of insurrection” tied to January 6, 2021 and related efforts to block certification of the 2020 election; the allegation is that the president’s words and conduct foreseeably encouraged violent attempts to obstruct the constitutional process. (Impeachment / House finding; Senate acquitted)
• Undermining the Rule of Law via Interference with DOJ and Special Counsels — Credible allegations that the president repeatedly attempted to influence, pressure, or replace Department of Justice officials or special counsels to affect investigations (examples include public and private pressure on DOJ/AG officials and statements about firing prosecutors/special counsels). (Allegation; documented by contemporaneous reporting, testimony, and filings)
• Violation(s) of the Emoluments Clauses (foreign and domestic) — Multiple lawsuits and legal complaints alleged that accepting benefits from foreign and domestic entities (hotels, foreign state visits, payments) violated the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses by receiving gifts/benefits from foreign states and domestic entities while in office. (Civil lawsuits filed; courts addressed standing and other issues; allegations considered credible in legal analysis though results varied)
• Failure to “Take Care” / Abuse of Office via Conditioning Federal Benefits/Resources for Political Aims — Allegations that certain actions (e.g., withholding funds, leveraging federal resources, or conditioning official acts) were at odds with the constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws and office; raised in congressional investigations and legal/policy analyses. (Allegation; documented in testimony and records)
Law violations proven in court (criminal convictions, civil findings & judgments, jury verdicts or plea agreements):
• Donald J. Trump — Criminal conviction (New York County): 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records (hush-money / Stormy Daniels scheme) — Jury verdict finding guilty on 34 counts (May 30, 2024). (Criminal conviction — jury)
• The Trump Organization (corporate entities) — Criminal conviction (New York) — Convicted of multiple corporate crimes including tax-related offenses; company fined and corporate liability entered following trial (December 2022). (Corporate criminal conviction — jury/verdict)
• Allen Weisselberg (Trump Organization CFO) — Guilty plea / conviction (New York) — Pled guilty to multiple counts of tax fraud and related offenses (plea August 2022); cooperated/testified. (Guilty plea / conviction)
• Stephen K. Bannon — Criminal conviction (contempt of Congress) — Convicted for criminal contempt for defying a House Jan. 6 committee subpoena; sentenced to jail (conviction July 2022; sentence imposed; sentence later served). (Criminal conviction — jury/verdict/sentence)
Civil judgments & jury findings (monetary awards, findings of liability):
• E. Jean Carroll — civil jury findings & damages against Donald J. Trump (defamation / sexual-abuse findings) — Jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in related civil suits; juries awarded multi-million dollar damages (multiple trials; combined awards and judicial findings). (Civil jury findings — damages awarded)
• New York State (Letitia James) — civil fraud judgment against Donald J. Trump, Trump Organization, and related defendants — State court judge found defendants liable for business fraud and ordered disgorgement/monetary penalties and corporate remedies (Feb 2024 decision and subsequent judgment orders). (Civil judgment — state court; judgment and remedies ordered though appeals followed)
Law violations under active investigation or subject to unresolved indictments/charges (open or paused prosecutions, indictments not yet resulting in final conviction):
• Federal Special Counsel (classified documents / Mar-a-Lago) — Indictment and criminal charges filed by special counsel alleging unlawful retention of classified documents, obstruction and related counts; case saw motions, appeals, and at certain points was paused or motions to dismiss were litigated; status shifted with post-election prosecutorial decisions. (Federal indictment / special counsel investigation — ongoing or paused/appealed depending on docket developments)
• Federal Special Counsel (Jan. 6 / election-related federal case) — Indictment(s) alleging obstruction of a joint session of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and related counts tied to the January 6 events and efforts to overturn the 2020 election; charges were brought by the Special Counsel; litigation and challenges to prosecutorial authority and immunity were part of the record. (Federal indictment / investigation — active or in litigation)
• Fulton County, Georgia (state RICO / election interference indictment) — State indictment in Fulton County alleging racketeering and related offenses connected to efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results; procedural litigation included challenges to the prosecutor’s participation (disqualification motions), pauses, and appeals; some co-defendants pleaded guilty while main defendants (including Trump) had filings/pleas of not guilty pending reassignment of prosecution in some phases. (State indictment / investigation — active but subject to procedural rulings and reassignment)
• Other state and local investigations by attorneys general, US Attorneys, and civil litigants — Various inquiries and civil enforcement actions (e.g., financial-disclosure and business practice probes, investigations into campaign finances, and separate state/county investigations) remained open or in litigation in multiple jurisdictions. (Multiple active investigations / civil enforcement matters)
Documented and credible law violations (well-documented allegations, sworn testimony, admissions, or factual findings that are credible but not necessarily criminal convictions):
• Payments and reimbursements connected to the Stormy Daniels matter and related bookkeeping entries — Documented in trial evidence and testimony (Michael Cohen testimony, bank and accounting records); resulted in criminal charges and the New York conviction noted above. (Documented; led to criminal conviction in New York)
• Repeated misstatements of asset values on financial statements used to obtain loans/insurance — Alleged in State AG civil case and found in part by a state court judge as fraudulent business practices (Letitia James civil case). (Documented & judicial finding in civil context)
• Extensive documented contacts, communications, and alleged coordination with state election officials, operatives, and lawyers regarding post-2020 election strategies — Supported by contemporaneous records, call logs, emails, and testimony (used in investigations and indictments). (Documented in filings and investigative records; relevant to racketeering/election-related probes)
• Public and private statements and communications that contradict sworn testimony or contemporaneous records (e.g., disputes over what was said or done in particular meetings/phone calls) — Documented in testimony and contemporaneous notes (e.g., White House and national security staff notes, transcripts of calls) and used as factual support in congressional inquiries. (Documented; used as evidence in impeachment and investigatory processes)
• Serial use of executive or administrative actions that legal analysts concluded posed real legal or ethical violations (conflicts of interest; use of official acts to benefit private businesses; mixing official travel/events with personal business) — Documented in reporting, ethics complaints, and legal analyses; several civil suits and complaints raised these issues. (Documented & credible; varied legal outcomes in courts)
This is all fake crap
I'll try not to be too complicated.democracy is not perfect but what distinguishes democracy and socialism is democracy strives for perfection while socialism remains dormant to itself not only destroying itself but to everythng it touches it destroys.
There are 2 typs of people. One person tries to unify in an altruistic state while socialism has an empty hole where no motter what it steals from it will never be satisfied.
So far with all of your plagueing propaganda the only thing I have seen from you is your egoism.. You remain isolated and unimportant. Eventually evil eventually dies, just like socialism which is based on materiaalsist agendas.
You're a waste of time.
Why facts dont change minds (goose explains)
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"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."
So why is there no responsibility for people to not do drugs?
"Drugs don't kill people, people who take too much of them kill themselves."
I don't support drug dealers, I want to take them out of business.
Legalize, tax and regulate some of them, ban the most dangerous drugs.
I support those policies, BECAUSE THEY WORK. Your policies DON'T.
If I was living in your country, I would be stocking up too.
Mass shootings are not the highest priority, if fascists are gearing up.
My America, my Constitution, does not agree with you. 👿👿
“UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (198
Flag State Consent: A fundamental principle is the requirement for consent from the flag state of the vessel before a boarding or interdiction can occur in international waters.”
Check out the last sentence. These boats are operating from Venezuela supposedly, but, is this verifiable? I believe that if we can destroy them from the air, then we can shadow them until the Coast Guard can intercept them on the water. This is a political stunt to show how tough the Clown is.
America decided they wanted Osama ben laden dead. so people went out into the world posing as someone they weren't, you know,acting ,undercover. so they could get close to where he was. Since these people were operating secretly no one but a chosen few knew who they were and where they were for safety. They work for the government. so they report to someone in the government, They see bin laden and let someone know where. then someone else goes in and shoots him.
OK now back to this drug boat thing. Americans, or other people working for the US government, are posing as fisherman or bar tenders or taxi drivers or something ,down there in venzwalla and they report back what they see, then someone else confirms it with a satellite camera or other means .this info gets sent to someone flying a aero plane carrying some bad shit that goes BOOOOOM! and drops in on the boats saw earlier and the dope is GONE. They can't get on the news and say, "Ok Lady in Florida or Man in The Nether regions of Europe, sam Johnson took this photo graph of the dope in this boat yesterday at 4 pm. Pilot Jack swaki dropped ordnance from a f16 jet and blew it up." it would kinda give away their source of info and get someone hurt or killed.
The only reason you could want drug smuggling boats to get to our coast is if you’re hiding a drug habit are you
“ Following an executive order in August 2025, the U.S. military, acting on the orders of President Donald Trump, carried out multiple strikes on alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean Sea. Most of the known strikes occurred in international waters off the coast of Venezuela.
Key details of the strikes
Locations: The attacks took place in the southern Caribbean Sea, in international waters near the coast of Venezuela. This area falls under the responsibility of the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM).
Targeting: The U.S. military targeted small, high-speed boats, which the Trump administration alleged were trafficking illicit narcotics and operated by "narco-terrorists" and Venezuelan criminal groups like the Tren de Aragua gang.
Timeline: Multiple fatal strikes were announced by President Trump or War Secretary Pete Hegseth during September and October 2025.
September 2: The U.S. conducted the first strike, which reportedly killed 11 people.
September 15/16: A second strike killed three people on a vessel allegedly departing from Venezuela.
September 19: A third strike targeted another vessel, killing three more individuals.
October 3: A fourth boat was hit off the Venezuelan coast, killing four people.
Justification: President Trump and his administration stated that the lethal military force was an act of self-defense, aimed at stopping the flow of fentanyl and other narcotics into the United States. Following the strikes, the administration also declared the U.S. to be in a "non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels.
Controversy and criticism: The strikes have been met with criticism from congressional Democrats, legal experts, and human rights groups.
Critics argue the strikes lack legal precedent and congressional authorization.
Some lawmakers have called the actions an illegal use of military force against suspected criminals.
The administration has provided little evidence to prove that the targeted vessels were carrying drugs or that they posed an imminent threat to the U.S..
Some evidence suggests at least one targeted boat may have been turning around before it was struck.”
IT WAS WRONG. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A COUNTRY OF LAWS. WE FOUGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE TO BE GOVERNED BY LAWS. WE FOUGHT AND LOST MANY GOOD MEN IN MANY WARS TO PRESERVE THAT HERITAGE. THIS? THIS IS COWBOY STUFF AND YOU GUYS ARE SUPPORTING MORE ILLEGAL STUFF ON TOP OF WHAT THIS CLOWN IS ALREADY GUILTY OFF. SHAME ON YOU. 👿
She needs to take her clouded democrat glasses off and see things for what they are
Get the druggies off our streets by what ever means possible
No, Cody, make it legal and then it’s okay. That means that even lawbreakers have rights. And if not, then none of us have rights.
The right of habeas corpus is a legal remedy that protects a prisoner's right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention. It's a court order that compels a custodian to produce a prisoner before the court to determine the cause of their detention. The prisoner can then indicate if their right to fair trial was violated.
Origins The concept originated in the 1200s as part of the Magna Carta.
US Constitution Article I, Section 9, paragraph 2 of the US Constitution guarantees the right of habeas corpus, but allows suspension during invasion or rebellion if public safety requires it.
Application An imprisoned, arrested, or detained person, or any citizen with political rights, can apply for a habeas corpus order.
If they can blow up the boat with a missile, they can disable it or force it to stop.
If they trow out the dope, it would be ON VIDEO. We have SEEN it blow up.
Instead they blow up the evidence and expect everyone to trust them.
Fuck that, your lying regime has ZERO CREDIBILITY LEFT.
The US might be worse liars than Russia now.
What is the drug addiction rate in Russia?
The level of drug abuse in the Russian Federation remains high and according to official statistics of the Russian Federal Ministry of Health and Social Development, the number of registered users of illicit drugs is more than half a million (517,389
Now china on the other hand,
What is the penalty for drugs in China?
China is incredibly tough on drug manufacturers and traffickers. Anyone found with more than a kilogram of opium or 50 grams of heroin is sentenced to death
NOW THAT is drug control.
There is no need for authoritarianism to keep drugs under control.
Healthy and happy people usually don't get addicted to drugs.
That the US has such a drugs problem is because life in the US SUCKS,
for most people. Your solution is making life in the US suck WORSE.
"keep drugs under control". There should be no "control" over illegal drugs ,they should be ELIMINATED.
Your theory is sadly in use in regards to fire ants in our country, control them, everything that would get RID of the bastards is illegal. so we have folks getting bit all the time that are allergic.
Drug control has not worked in this country, judges play paddy cake with the dealers, the users are treated like they have the flu and are turned back out as soon as they can walk and the problem never gets better.
Oh, and i am not agreeing with authoritarianism, just some of the same ideas, similar to how you dodge agreeing with socialism.
Fire ants are a part of nature. They were here before humanity, and they serve an important role in the balance of nature. Find a way to co-exist with them.
Which ideas of authoritarianism do you not agree with?
I see Trump agreeing with all of them. Below is a complete list of characteristics of authoritarianism. They all fit Trump like a glove, and I've never seen you disagree with Trump on anything. You only argue against them with whataboutisms, but never by disagreeing with Trump when he clearly represents them or moves towards them.
Since when do I dodge agreeing with socialism? I AM a socialist.
What I do not agree with is your ignorant straw-man of socialism.
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Complete and commonly accepted set of authoritarian traits:
- Concentration of executive power (weak checks and balances).
- Erosion of the rule of law (selective enforcement, immunity for loyalists).
- Weak or manipulated elections (e.g., delegitimizing results, changing rules).
- Suppression or delegitimization of opposition (political parties, movements, critics).
- Restriction of civil liberties (press, speech, association).
- Delegitimization or erosion of independent institutions (courts, civil service).
- Use of state power to entrench incumbency (patronage, coercion, legal manipulation).
- Dehumanization of opponents / nationalist or exclusionary rhetoric.
- Glorification of “strong leaders” / personalist rule.
- Exceptionalism or “higher cause” justification (e.g. “If it saves the nation, anything is allowed”).
- Militarization or paramilitary tolerance (use or endorsement of violence to achieve political goals).
- Attacks on electoral legitimacy / peaceful transition of power.
- Control or co-optation of the bureaucracy, judiciary, and media.
- Undermining of factual truth and creation of a controlled narrative.
Oh, little idiot where are them drugs going to go if they get blown to hell coming here?
Your previous administration defended and protected your Constitution.
You are supporting treason.
The biden regime was a total failure, he had no idea what was going on. Guess you like a one libtard leadership (you know who).
Besides someone that hates America has no voice. You are from a tiny country that really has no effect on the rest of the world. Sorry to burst your bubble.
nor are they pissing on The Constitution.
The Biden administration was democratically elected,
and acted democratically the whole term of Biden.
They pulled your country out of the Covid crisis.
Trump was elected due to him lying 24/7 and cheating.
There is also good evidence that they rigged election machines to help him win. He should have already been sent to prison for his attempt to steal the election, but this is another crime that he should be investigated for. Then he needs to go to prison, with all his conspirators.
You cannot name anything real that would make the Biden a failure.
If you say 'inflation', thinking that's an argument, Trump is WORSE.
Also, Biden didn't cause that high inflation, Trump IS causing it now.
Trump made the dollar drop 10% in nine months. That's the fastest drop since George W. Bush's first administration (2001-2005), where the dollar fell by over 40% relative to the euro from its peak in October 2000.
Republicans are fuck-ups, all of them, and Trump is the worst.
Your last paragraph is utterly irrelevant, idiot. It doesn't make a difference for Trump being an utter fool and criminal.
Narco subs are going to be the new thing now i bet.
I just read that Trump is going to cut money off from columbia because of drugs. GOOD. They can fix their own drug problem or starve
US ships have always patrolled the high seas for smuggling and/or criminal acts. What we are NOT supposed to do is kill people indiscriminately.
As big of a rabbit hole as this can cause America to go down, I don't think they would have started doing this without just cause and very good evidence.
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Have you not seen the libtards and all their shit for about the past 10 yrs. Hell, their lying bullshit goes back a lot farther than that.
So predictable, when in doubt libtards LIE.
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Even then……well.
People are working undercover in that shit hole country right now risking life and limb to try to find out where the shit is coming from and where it is going and how it is getting there.
The government can't just get on the news and tell everything.
As controversial as this is, I seriously doubt there is much disputing the evidence if we had access to it.
Were you upset when Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and killed without a court trial?
Were you this upset when that poor UPS driver died in your state a few years ago, most likely by cops bullets, without a trial?
Stop being a hypocrite.
Having said that, if Bonnie and Clyde had survived, they would have been indicted and gone to trial. The UPS driver would not have needed a trial.
Some legal and illegal professions have inherent risks. A bank robber knows there are guards and possibly cops present when they rob a bank. But, they are able to surrender and get a trial.
You call me a hypocrite. Why? Because I believe in the rule of law?
The claim that all fishing boats require a transponder and registration number to avoid being in violation in international waters is an oversimplification. Specific requirements depend on the boat's size, its gross tonnage, and the regulations of its flag state and relevant regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). Larger commercial vessels are subject to stricter rules, while smaller fishing vessels are often exempt.
Registration requirements
In international waters, a fishing boat is primarily governed by its flag state—the country where it is registered.
Unique Identifier (IMO Number): The most important identification for international fishing is the International Maritime Organization (IMO) number. This unique, seven-digit number is assigned to eligible vessels, stays with the boat for life, and is required for fishing vessels over a certain size by many flag states and RFMOs.
Flag State Numbering: The vessel's registration number and port of registry, issued by the flag state, must be displayed on the hull.
Combating illegal fishing: Accurate vessel identification is critical for combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which costs the industry billions of dollars each year.
AIS transponder requirements
The claim that all fishing boats need a transponder is inaccurate. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) mandates Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders for large vessels, but governments set their own rules for fishing boats.
Vessel size: AIS requirements vary based on a fishing vessel's length or gross tonnage. For example:
In the U.S.: Fishing vessels 65 feet or longer must carry an AIS transponder when operating in U.S. navigable waters.
In the EU: Fishing vessels longer than 15 meters (approx. 49 feet) must be equipped with AIS.
Transponder classes: AIS transponders come in different classes, reflecting the size and type of vessel.
Class A: Transmits a more robust signal more frequently and is typically required for larger commercial vessels.
Class B: A more cost-effective option for smaller commercial or recreational boats.
Blow the mother humpers out of the water
The way I look at it, I have watched 2 good people turn to absolute SHIT due to drugs and I would MUCH rather see some dope dealers get put out of work and the dope ruined than to see our citizens made addicts.
Cat apparently has never dealt with the aftermath of a person being addicted to drugs or she would feel as we do, get rid of the shit. nip it in the bud
We saw big packages on video, floating in the water. Are you believing that those were not retrieved? So, show the world photographs of those same packages in custody.
Let investigators confirm that those are the same as on video. That's how a truthful administration handles international criticism.
You lot talk a lot about your sovereignty, but you don't give a damn about the sovereignty of other countries. At least have the decency to show the countries some evidence,
after you murder their citizens.
If Mexico blows up a pickup truck with Americans, will you be satisfied with the claim that those were drugsrunners or arms smugglers?
If they are not transparent, don't ask people to trust it. Trump has forfeited his credibility.
Does your administration have a goal of causing international criticism?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post.
In his post, Hegseth said that “our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route.”
READ MORE: Trump declares U.S. in ‘non-international armed conflict’ with drug cartels
The strike comes less than a day after it was revealed that President Donald Trump declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and declared that the United States is now in an “armed conflict” with them in a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
According to Hegseth’s post, the strike killed four men, but it offered no other details on who they were or what organization they belonged to.
The video of the strike posted online showed a small boat moving in open water when it suddenly explodes. As the smoke from the explosion clears, the boat is visible, consumed with flames, floating motionless on the water.
WATCH: U.S. military in the Caribbean an ‘illegal’ threat, Venezuela tells UN General Assembly
Last month, the U.S. military carried out three other deadly strikes against boats in the Caribbean that the administration accused of ferrying drugs.
With this strike, at least three of these operations have now been carried out on vessels that originated from Venezuela.
Those strikes followed a buildup of U.S. maritime forces in the Caribbean unlike any seen in recent times.
WATCH: ‘Do the honorable thing and resign,’ Hegseth tells military leaders who dislike new approach
The Navy’s presence in the region — eight warships with over 5,000 sailors and Marines — has been pretty stable for weeks, according to two defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations.
Officials in the Pentagon, when asked for more details about the strike, referred The Associated Press back to Hegseth’s post on social media.
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What part of why bother working if the gov is going to keep you up ,can't these democrats understand???
five minute speech that Ronald Reagan gave
about tariffs.
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Of course you can dream up crap like the tards always do.
MILLIONS of dollars worth of fraud by a "activist" using homeless peoples information. So crooked. I hope this guy is put under the jail. This is why folks like me roll our eyes when we hear the title activist or reformer or whatever. THis is their true images.
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So fancy, so honest looking. pictured with nancy pelosi, wow, i bet he gets little to no punishment for his crimes of using peoples info to make money
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Your VP is his loyal lapdog. He shares his 'vision'.
Do you want this guy to control your politics?
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Guys like him have a 'vision' for YOU. And they are achieving it.
Watch this interview, completely. It's your DUTY to your country.
Can't spend 1 hr of your life to inform yourself about who you are putting in power,
then start with these short clips.
He can't answer if he wants the human race to endure:
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Talking about the antichrist:
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(see the whole video for his ideas on this)
You guys hate transgenders and transvestites.
Peter Thiel thinks that's nothing ("pathetically little").
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Guys like you don't want ANY modernist changes, but you are supporting THIS guy,
who wants to completely collapse the US and the world, so HE and his tech-bros
can take power. He is funding the tools of total technological control, so he can submit
the people to HIS future, where he is one of the immortal gods who control YOU.
Are you dropping everything you ever said, so you can support this fucking crazy guy, because he is a billionaire who's funding your favorite politicians?
ananas2xlekker are you paying close attention to the insurrectionist now?
Believe we have something to overshadow Jan 6...What a joke that hollywood production was.
So, yeah, Tecsan, we libertares will bury you in the midterms. Go play with your pee-pee while you figure what bathroom you are suppose to use.
Check out fuckhead comey or james the corrupt AG.
Damn, I sure hope that jackass maamdummy wins. Good face for the libtard party.
That's their end goal: TYRANNY. I guess you like that.
He's doing everything that I predicted he would do.
Ok, douchebag, you got your one punch, now go back to sucking your boyfriend’s cock and stay out of my way.
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Grace and Disgrace
On a humid Charleston evening ten years ago, a ninth-grade dropout with a bowl haircut named Dylann Roof walked into a Bible-study class at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church, home to the oldest historically Black congregation in South Carolina. Roof, twenty-one, carried a .45-calibre Glock semi-automatic and eight magazines of hollow-point bullets. He settled into a seat near Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor and a state senator, who was leading a discussion of a parable from the Gospel of Mark. Around them sat a dozen parishioners, all Black, mostly women decades older than Roof.
Roof had set down his creed on a website he called “The Last Rhodesian”: a lonely, seething hatred of Black people, Jews, Asians, and Hispanics.
***He posted photographs of himself holding a Confederate flag and standing at Sullivan’s Island, where hundreds of thousands of Africans had once been sold into bondage.***
“We have no skinheads, no real K.K.K., no one doing anything but talking on the internet,” he wrote. “Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”
In the Bible-study class, Roof sat quietly for forty-five minutes.
***When the assembled bowed their heads in prayer, he stood, drew the Glock, and began to fire—pausing only to reload, then firing again. He loosed some seventy-five rounds.***
Tywanza Sanders, a young barber who had come with his mother, collapsed to the floor.
***As he lay dying, he asked, “Why are you doing this?”
“Y’all are raping our women and taking over the country,” Roof replied.***
He spotted a woman praying under a table. “Shut up. Did I shoot you yet?”
“No,” she said.
“I’m going to let you live,” he told her, “so you can tell the story of what happened.”
What lingers in memory from Charleston, beyond the horror of the massacre, are the funerals that followed—above all, Barack
***Obama at the service for Clementa Pinckney, closing his eulogy by singing the first verse of “Amazing Grace.” That unscripted hymn may have been the most moving moment of his Presidency.***
Yet another moment was still more poignant, and, for many, beyond comprehension.
***Two days after the murders, at Roof’s bond hearing, the families of the dead spoke through their grief. They did not renounce him. They forgave him.***
Felicia Sanders, Tywanza’s mother, addressed Roof directly: “We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautiful people that I know. Every fibre in my body hurts, and I will never be the same. But, as we say in Bible study, we enjoyed you. May God have mercy on you.” The daughter of Ethel Lance, who died at the age of seventy, told him, “You took something very precious away from me . . . but I forgive you.” Obama later said that the “decency and goodness of the American people shines through in these families.”
It was impossible not to recall those words of mercy while watching the memorial service, last Sunday, for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated this month as he spoke at Utah Valley University. Tens of thousands of people filled a stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to honor him. Kirk was thirty-one, with a wife and two small children. The service lasted more than five hours, but the moment that stilled the crowd came when his widow,
***Erika, spoke of her husband’s [Charlie Kirk's] killer in the language of absolution. “That man, that young man, I forgive him,” she said.***
“I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love—love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.”
******President Donald Trump, who spoke next, embraced Erika Kirk, but at the microphone he all but rebuked the spirit of her forgiveness. Charlie Kirk, he said, in the course of a self-regarding and vengeful ramble, “did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent. And I don’t want the best for them.”******
Other Administration speakers, including J. D. Vance and Stephen Miller, echoed Trump, not Erika Kirk.
***Retribution, division, grievance—this is the official language of the regime.***
At the start of Trump 1.0, the journalist Salena Zito wrote in The Atlantic that the press took him literally but not seriously; his supporters took him seriously but not literally. The line was meant to suggest how out of touch the press was. Trump himself told Zito that his true aim was, in her words, to “bring the country together—no small task.”
Of course, this was never the case, and each week brings fresh evidence of the darkness we are being led into: the attack on the rule of law, the weaponization of the state against the President’s enemies, the erosion of civil liberties, the colossal Trump-family grift. The assault is relentless. In the days after the memorial, Trump managed to “unite” the country by renewing his threats against Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian guilty of nothing more than making fun of him; by pushing through a last-minute indictment of James Comey; by convening a press conference where he pronounced on the science of autism—“based on what I feel”—in a manner so reckless that it was guaranteed to sow confusion and anguish among parents desperate for clarity; and by informing the United Nations that America is “the hottest country anywhere,” that he deserves Nobel Prizes for ending “seven unendable wars,” that the U.N. is a useless organization, and that climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” We look forward to next week.
It is not easy to reconcile the act of forgiveness with some of the positions Charlie Kirk once took. They were in moral opposition to the civil-rights-era spirit that infused the parishioners of Mother Emanuel. But his instinct to argue, to engage, left open the possibility of evolution. Trump is long past that horizon. His appetites and his animosities only deepen. Hope lies not in expecting a late-in-life conversion experience in the Oval Office but in carrying out the ordinary work of civic life—in persuading neighbors, friends, even family who have supported Trump to reconsider their decision, one hard conversation at a time. Grace is not weakness but resolve, the Charleston families believed, and politics, too, depends on a willingness to coax one another toward better ground. In that work of persuasion, of politics—slow, imperfect, yet necessary—we attempt to close the distance between what we are and what we might still become. ♦
Get a grip of yourself.
So I replied with similar but opposite, another mentally ill bunch killing using a flag for a prop. Get a grip? You are the 1 dredging up history. The folks are dead, the fellow that killed them is still alive and being kept up on the taxpayers dime. so you should be happy considering you hate religion and everything else.
And then you got this imbecile phart who replied by posting an irrelevant link about Muslim violence.
As I wrote above: What The Fuck?
Know what i mean, CAT?
Leo thinks that a killer should be just let back on the street because the victims family's did what Christan's are taught to do, forgive.
Here maybe Grok can help
Yes, you can forgive someone while still holding them responsible. Forgiveness means letting go of resentment or the desire for revenge, often for your own peace of mind. Holding someone responsible means expecting them to face the consequences of their actions, such as making amends, changing behavior, or facing legal or social accountability. These two are not mutually exclusive: you can release personal anger or hurt while still believing justice or accountability is necessary. For example, you might forgive a friend for betraying your trust but still set boundaries to protect yourself, or a court might sentence someone for a crime while the victim personally forgives them. It’s about separating emotional healing from the need for fairness or change.
What language, in your opinion, should the article be translated into so that phart understands?
This is a rhetorical question. I do know the answer.
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I’m sorry Leo. My last post was inappropriate. This should be a solemn reminder that the goodness of people can overcome the evil in some men’s hearts. Forgiveness is not about the forgiven. It’s about the character of those that forgive.
He says what he thinks, so now we know.
You did ok translating it.
But what does the fact that Trump hates whatever, have to do with the fact that folks are being killed and justice should be served? Just curious.
Oh I loved the hell out of Bondi (10/07/25) roasting the loon libtards, they are such bafoons.
Bet the libtards like that date as much as their beloved Jan 6 BULLSHIT. The only thing they know to do is lie their fucking asses off.
I posted earlier
in a language that I guess that this fellow phart might understand. It's just a guess. But I'm not sure. He might want a translation in Choctaw or Cherokee, but I'm not sure.
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Now this here’s a story I done told before, but I’m fixin’ to tell it again — only this time I’m usin’ words simple enough that our buddy phart, bless his backwoods soul, might halfway understand it. It’s a story ‘bout pain, mercy, and a whole mess o’ what this country’s strugglin’ with.
Starts back in Charleston, South Carolina — hot, heavy air hangin’ over the city like a wet blanket. A young fella named Dylann Roof, full o’ hate and bad ideas, walked hisself into Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church like he belonged. Sat there all quiet while folks prayed, then pulled a gun and did the unthinkable — killed nine good churchgoin’ folks in cold blood.
Now, you’d reckon what came next would be pure fire and fury. But here’s where things turned. Just two days later, some o’ them victims’ families stood up in court, lookin’ that boy square in the eye... and they forgave him. Forgave him, Lord have mercy. One mama said her heart was broke clean in two, but she still forgave. Said the Lord’s grace was bigger than hate.
Then President Obama come down for the service. He gave a speech, but it’s what he did at the end that folks remember — sang “Amazing Grace” right there in the pulpit. Voice crackin’, eyes glistenin’, every soul in the place feelin’ it deep. It weren’t no show — it was somethin’ holy.
Fast-forward to now, and there’s a new heartbreak. Charlie Kirk, a conservative firebrand, got himself gunned down speakin’ at a college. Tragedy again. But this time, his wife, Erika Kirk, stood tall and calm at the memorial and said she forgave the shooter. Said Jesus would’ve done the same, and that hate won’t have the last word.
But then here comes Donald Trump, standin’ at the same event, and boy howdy, his tone was a whole different BEAST. Said he HATED his opponent, didn’t want what’s best for ‘em. Wasn’t talkin’ ‘bout no forgiveness — just grudges and vengeance, like settlin’ scores at a cockfight. His folks cheered, too — folks who’d rather holler than heal, if you catch my meanin’.
The fella who wrote this article — Mr. Remnick — he ain’t just talkin’ politics, though. He’s sayin’ grace ain’t some soft, church-Sunday kinda thing. It’s tough. It’s real. It means choosin’ to love when hate’s easier. It means doin’ the slow, back-breakin’ work of talkin’ to folks who don’t think like you and tryin’ to turn that mule of a mindset one inch at a time.
He says hope don’t come from the White House — not from some speech, not from some savior in a suit. Naw, hope comes from folks like them mamas in Charleston, like that widow in Utah, who choose not to be eaten alive by anger. That kind of grace? That’s harder than shootin’ off your mouth, and a whole lot braver too.
There is still some indicators Ai may have helped you in your endeavors but still, a pretty good first shot at it.
edit, I found a way to do it!
Here is what Grok said,
"can you translate text to redneck style english
I can translate text into a "redneck" style of English, which I'll interpret as a casual, Southern U.S. dialect with a folksy, informal tone. This might include colloquialisms, slang, and a laid-back vibe common in some rural Southern speech. Just give me the text you want translated, and I'll turn it into something that sounds like it came straight outta the holler! For example, if you give me "I'm going to the store to buy some food," I might translate it to "I'm fixin' to head down to the Piggly Wiggly and grab some vittles."
So, what's the text you want me to redneck-ify?
The former girlfriend violated my trust so severally i probably will remain inactive indefinitely.
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you just don't have enough money to satisfy the Plutocrats.
the homeless. Is that 'you personally', that I'm asking that from?
People who are let down by the system, should not be dependent on charity.
I pay around $30 per month in charities. Only a tiny percentage of that goes to
the homeless. Homelessness is not a problem that is created by lack of charity, homelessness is created by right-wing policies. When they 'market' housing,
the market will maximize profit for the wealthy who control it. They turn homes
into a scarce resource to blow up the price, making housing unaffordable for
lots of people. Voila; homelessness.
I direct my government to the homeless. My party's highest priority is building a million affordable homes, and reducing the rent and house prices of all homes.
Before you start about affordable homes again. They are not tax-funded homes, they are publicly owned homes, that take out the exploitation from the wealthy.
They are also not crappy homes. They are safe, comfortable, well-insulated houses,
that suit the needs of the people living it them.
The only difference is that they are not owned by slumlords or private equity, who exploit the tenants, and let the houses deteriorate, to fill the pockets of the owners.
Everyone should be able to afford a home, no matter if they are working, on welfare,
on disability, or on social security.
For people who fuck up their lives themselves, there should be shelters for 100% of them.
And they should get help to put their life back in order.
That shouldn't be funded by charity, but by taxes.
The people who have told you that civilization should solve it's problems with charity,
are the wealthy people who don't want to pay taxes, and make you resent taxes,
with the propaganda they are funding.
And they should get help to put their life back in order.
That shouldn't be funded by charity, but by taxes."
I don't agree with taxes funding it. taxes didn't fuck them up, taxes shouldn't fix them. and how many times do you cycle these people thru this system on tax money before it becomes clear it is a waste of tax money and stop?
there has to be a line in the sand. or the system will be abused.
And why does a poor person that doesn't work deserve the same quality home on someone else's dime as someone who works and pay for it themselves? No no, a free house is a cheap house to get you buy until you decide to do better for yourself.stop coddling these poor folks or they will always be poor.
Why should You or I work what we can and live in minimal housing so those that won't work can live in the same thing paid for by us?
Falling out of a womb entitles you to nothing once you become a adult
being a disease first surfaced early in the 19th century. In 1956, the American Medical Association (AMA) de- clared alcoholism an illness, and in 1987, the AMA and other medical organizations officially termed addiction a disease (Lesh- ner, 1997).
If it was actually as simple as being a Illness for alcohol, ok, so then a person is sick, they would go to a dr and get medicine or a treatment for it and pay for it and go home. If they had money for the liquor, they have money for the dr, problem will be fixed.
Disease, Ok ,so how much government tax money gets spent to treat cancer? not much at all. medical bills pile up and insurance and the victim pays the bill.
Same with heart disease, insurance and the victim pays for the care.
Granted some government tax money might be sent for research, but you and i both know that a cure won't be public because it would upset the apple cart of the system that profits from control and treatment of cancer. If it's cured, the cash cow disappears.
So with this logic, again, tax money for fixed dope heads? NO, Hell no. it was very preventable. DON'T take the shit in the first place and you can't get addicted.
Don't drink and you can't get addicted. Prevent the issue by never starting. and Never starting can be fixed by putting away dope dealers and stopping the flow of it into our country.
I could use the excuse of it runs in the family if I became a alcoholic. both my dad and grandfather drank to much, thank God my dad quit Many years ago and is over it. quit cold turkey. So i know it can be done.
That's showing that you have a problematic idea about 'normal' disease too.
When people have diabetes or heart disease, I expect more than to "go to a dr and get medicine or a treatment for it and pay for it and go home". That's just exploiting people's health for the greed of 'Big Pharma'. People get disease for a reason. Their bodies are damaged from the unhealthy life that capitalism has created.
The profit incentive for making people ADDICTED to unhealthy food is causing disease and harm to society. Addiction? Yes, sweet, salty, fatty food HACK our brain. Our brain has evolved to want sugars, salt and fat, because it used to be very difficult to find in nature, when were dependent on it for our survival.
There is no food that you can catch or pluck in nature, that contains the combination of sugars, salt and fat. When we eat it, our brain send the signal: "YES, we found the best source of food EVER!". That IS a dopamine rush,
which is the basis for most addictions.
The problem is that the worst factory foods contain the most sugars, salt and fat. Then you eat much more of sugars, salt and fat than the body can handle.
They also put in the most unhealthy versions of sugars (saccharin, not fructose)
and fats (trans-fats and oxidized fats). Lots of things that hurt the body and
almost nothing, like vitamins and minerals, that the body needs to stay healthy.
Doctors should not just subscribe medicine or a treatment, they should help patients eliminate or reduce the root cause of the disease, which is addiction
to unhealthy food.
STILL, that isn't the full problem, because capitalism has also made heavily processed factory garbage, which they sell as food, CHEAPER than unprocessed REAL food. The result is that poor people can only afford to eat garbage.
Many American children have breakfast and lunch in school. However, the budget, and therefore the infrastructure, is not adequate to feed them fresh healthy food. That results in the kids eating mostly heavily processed factory garbage. If there are some healthy food options, the kids don't eat them, because they are addicted too. If adults are unable to kick the addiction, do you expect children to?
Children are our future, but they have (the first signs of) disease before they even leave school. When PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz are sponsoring kid's meals, they don't do it to make kids healthier, they do it to sell more of their unhealthy products.
Why it is MY responsibility, when I didn't cause their suffering?
I don't like charity, because it sucks as a solution.
It's just fighting the symptoms of the disease, a bit.
Why do you even think that lefties and socialists are about generosity?
I also don't think that you are all about selfishness.
If you were rationally selfish, you would support socialism,
because then you would have good healthcare and better living standards.
Propaganda just made you support the selfishness of the wealthy.
You're sort of being generous, just for people who don't need or deserve it.
You don't HAVE to care about people to be a socialist. It helps, but it's not necessary. We ALL have to LIVE in society, and that society is better when we don't allow a minority to exploit the rest. The 'rest', the 99%, is you and me (you MORE than me).
Some of us will probably immediately stop being a socialist, if they end up with
a big fortune. As long as you're not part of the wealthy, who exploit the rest,
and make life objectively horrible for lots of people, it's just RATIONAL.
We see a problem, we understand the damage that is causes, we understand
the CAUSE, and we want to convince people to support the SOLUTION.
Those people got destroyed by the system, so I want the system to help them.
The system is not MY responsibility either, but I live under it and I think it's doing
a piss poor job for many people, so I choose to be politically active.
Food stamps are bullshit. The state should pay you enough money to live on.
Of course it starts with regulation that prevents accidents like you had,
and good healthcare, so much less people NEED those social systems.
Your government failed you, because it has been too right-wing for decades.
Why does it make sense to you, to make it the most right-wing ever?
He couldn't fix everything.
Wasn't your case denied by a judge? Who appointed that judge?
Just because this happened to you under Obama, doesn't mean it was his fault.
I don't blame Trump for anything just happening under Trump either.
There should be a logical connection.
(Like with Bush causing the financial crisis, by completely deregulating the finance industry, resulting in a house of cards of derivative products designed to scam people. It completely fell apart, causing the 2008 crash. The smart people saw it coming years ahead. Bush's deregulation was designed to let the wealthy exploit the working class, and it did, even when it crashed.)
When Democrats are allowed to run for more than one or two presidencies, they could actually start improving the system and provide Americans with benefits they never had, like an effective system of disability benefits. The problem is that every time they have organized something, Americans vote for Republicans again, who destroy it all again. That's why the country with one of the highest GDPs in the world feels like living in the poorer parts of Europe for most people.
No one who has your health issues is denied disability benefits in my country.
And that was not the right-wing parties who implemented that.
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Just so you know ananas2xlekker I did not watch your youtube link...
I know it would just be something you think supports your loon ideas. Sorry, you are a damn loon ananas2xlekker
You could be a democrat to, and vote to make the changes you see fit. IF the majority agrees with you,then shit will go your way.if not, oh well.
Oops, spoiler.
It must be written by a democrat
Youtube "bows" to Trump.
No, Youtube learned a hard lesson about censorship.
they show kids how to ride on plastic tables towed behind cars and getting hurt without a second thought, but they censor someone they don't like what they say.
and like good little cucks, they suck his dick. PATHETIC!
YouTube didn't break any laws, they only blocked content that violated their TOS.
They are a private company. They could have a TOS rule against picking your nose.
The only thing they are obligated to do is follow their own TOS consistently.
YouTube Community Guidelines / Policies
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'Child safety' is part of their Guidelines. If they are showing kids hurting themselves,
that's a good reason to flag the video. I do that sometimes.
Free speech is not a right to say whatever you want, especially not on platforms owned by private companies. Freedom of speech is primarily the right to criticize the government. That's what Trump is cracking down on.
He's now assigning the term 'violent conduct' to speech he refers to as anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity. That is a clear violation of the second amendment.
If you agree with it, you're stupid, because this can easily come back to bite you.
Those terms can easily be interpreted as what you do, when the Democrats are in power again. Don't think I will show any sympathy, if you are harmed by your own crack-down
on free speech.
Anti-Americanism: You shit on The Constitution all the time.
Anti-capitalism: Tariffs are Anti-capitalist.
Anti-Christianity: Jesus loved the poor and the sick and hated hypocrites.
You will be so fucked when Democrats start using the precedent Trump is setting.
Trump himself was banned for inciting violence, towards groups of people and towards specific people. That's not just illegal speech, but it most definitely violated YouTube's Community Guidelines / Policies. Trump received at least one strike when YouTube removed content for incitement and temporarily suspended uploads.
YouTube would have surely won the case against them, but they are afraid of him
abusing his power against them even more, so they bow down. Those millions of dollars are therefore a clear bribe.
When will you ever learn to understand your own law?
"Yep, Trump is extorting money form companies again,
and like good little cucks, they suck his dick. PATHETIC!"
And he went on to justify his claim.
And I'm 10000% sure that the fascistoid, phart will do anything to refute this fact. It does not matter, he'll say, that trump extorted money. His god can do anything he likes. And, using his usual response tactic, he'll diffuse the matter in petty ways such as referring to another person, probably democrat, who has also extorted money. And he'll say: "see? those far left people also extort money." He'll do anything to avoid attaching even the slightest responsibility to his dear leader and his cronies.
What you miss about this is the double standard that folks like myself keep trying to open your eyes to but your blinders won't let you see.
liberals can take money, fuck everything and so forth and it is ok but let 1 conservative get a kick back and oh my , all hell is supposed to break loose.
That's every Republican president, for decades.
They all leave your country in a fucking mess.
Then Democrats get voted in, to fix that mess again.
And when they don't do that quickly enough, stupid Americans vote MAGA.
Now your country is turning to shit, quicker than ever before.
Democrats should just say: "Fuck you, we don't fix your shit anymore!".
OR IF they decide to give it another try, it should should be FULL SOCIALISM,
because anything else will not fix the US quickly enough, for stupid Americans.
The 'Earth will keep turning' for a while, but the shit will hit the fan soon. I hope that boneless Chuck Schumer won't give in to the demons, to prevent some shit.
Republicans shovel money into their own pockets and the pockets of the wealthy.
Democrats want funding for Medicaid (for low-income, disabled, elderly), subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), public health programs, Food assistance, unemployment insurance, ensure government agencies are staffed sufficiently, public media funding as a source of independent journalism and cultural programming, Development assistance, health programs abroad, diplomacy, global initiatives, infrastructure, scientific research, environmental protection, education, preventing ACA premiums from rising and to keep coverage affordable, and keep debt interest discretionary.
Trump cutting all those expenses will not reduce the deficit or reduce
the tax-burden on the average American, it's just intended for more FREEBIES for billionaires.
You just said: "I can't get a small monthly check that was SUPPOSED to be there for me from the government after doing my part.", but then you support Trump taking away your chance of ever getting anything like that.
Democrats want that for you, Republicans just want you to be dead.
The people that work and pay taxes should be the priority of the programs in place to help, not those that have done nothing.
well maybe Trumps tariffs are doing some harm?
I think even ananas2xlekker knows this. But Remember alekker likes to talk perfect scenarios as explained exactly in his tard books or internet searches.
while Trump has cut taxes for the wealthy. It makes everything more expensive.
It's the opposite of what people like you gave as a reason to vote for Trump.
Why don't you give me a list of the tariffs that other countries had on the US,
before Trump's trade war? Show that you can do some internet searches too.
This is a spoof video the farmer made.
Splorn is not even a real crop, he is actually cutting silage, the machine behind him is a silage cutter.
BUT Here is what I wanted you to ses Ananas, folks like you are so eager to jump on Trump you don't think for 2 minutes.
Cnn actually reached out to this farmer for a INTERVEIW on national tv!
His video was stolen and run on a liberal network.
Occupy Democrats
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Don't just make up shit, show facts and cause and effect reasoning.
Couldn't accuse any of the shooters of being liberal or lefty or Antifa?
I have not seen any right-wing outrage.
Just acceptable side effects of the 2nd amendment, I guess.
follow the money, what a concept!
No investigation, because Trump ordered his DOJ to drop the case.
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"In the past George Soros' Open Society Foundations has funded the Indivisible Project with its last grant for $3 million in 2023. Notably, Soros' OSF has handed the Indivisible Project $7.6 million in grants over the past eight years, according to its website."
and a "Dark MAGA" offering $100 for people in swing states to sign a petition, which requires to be registered, and handing out prizes to only MAGA voters, is not.
Why is it not the same for?:
- Americans for Prosperity (Koch network, economic freedom focus)
- Heritage Action for America (Heritage Foundation’s political arm)
- Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
- Turning Point USA
- MAGA Inc. (supports Trump & GOP candidates)
- Congressional Leadership Fund (supports House Republicans)
- Senate Leadership Fund (supports Senate Republicans)
- Club for Growth Action (anti-tax, pro-market GOP candidates)
- Cato Institute (libertarian, Koch-backed)
- Hoover Institution
- Manhattan Institute
- NRA Institute for Legislative Action (gun rights)
- Federalist Society (judicial nominations, law)
- Daily Wire (funded partly by wealthy conservative donors)
- PragerU (funded partly by wealthy conservative donors)
no amount of Milton Friedman quotes are going to stop the other 9
from figuring out what the problem is.
And i bet they will be to stupid to save any seeds so they can grow MORE food.which may be how that 1 got it all to start with. he was hungry and planted seed and grew it.
there is more than 1 way to solve a problem. some of those ways require work,and those other 9, i bet 7 won't be willing to do that work.that's why they may be hungry
Funny how you assumed he did any work for it at all.
Maybe he just found a big crate full of food and doesn't want to share it.
You would probably kill him yourself, if you were in that situation.
you are very unusual. and i don't consider my self a defeated man. Although i will say, the system has fucked me over a few times. the fact i still get out and try to do for myself and help those around me has allowed me to live a reasonable life. I don't eat sirloin everyday, wouldn't if i could. but i have what i NEED.
I would offer to work for my portion of the food. and if I saw someone trying to harm him to get the food for free, i would probably crack their head with a club.
thieves are the lowest
He didn't work for it, but you are willing to work for him, while he is not sharing
the resource that he did NOT work for himself. He just acquired it by LUCK.
What 'value' is behind that idea?
That is 1 of many things the Bible says that prompts you not to like it, it in so many words says if you work you don't eat. you think everyone deserves everything for just falling out of the womb
That's why he should share it. He might have first pickings, but that's it.
Great apes understand this type of ethics. It's strange that you don't.
"you think everyone deserves everything for just falling out of the womb"
No, I don't. But I think they deserve more than nothing.
Your founding fathers understood that.
after Brian Kilmeade said "just kill them" on Fox'News'.
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lady tells Trump supporter to put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger.
Naw we don't have a leftist extremism problem.
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that they're fascists and scared of anyone disagreeing with them.
not all of them are peaceful drum beaters and you know it.
"Individuals involved in the movement subscribe to a range of left-wing ideologies, and tend to hold anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-state views. A majority of individuals involved are anarchists, communists, and socialists,[7] although some social democrats also participate in the antifa movement.[5][8][9] The name antifa and the logo with two flags representing anarchism and communism are derived from the German antifa movement.[10] Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, credits Anti-Racist Action (ARA) as the precursor of modern antifa groups in the United States.[11][12]"
Does that sound like a book club that is peaceful to you? Communist, anarchist? Really??
It's just people who are anti-fascist.
I guess if charles manson was anti-facist you would excuse him of all his crimes?
Afti-fa: ZERO.
The FUCKING KKK isn't on the terrorist list.
I don't care for your hypotheticals, this is another fascist move
from your criminal regime. Literally LAWFARE.
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade proposed giving homeless people "involuntary lethal injections". He said "just kill them", to make sure that everyone understood.
That's past fascism, you're now real NAZIs.
There comes a time that I won't reject violence against your side anymore.
When you turn to actual NAZI's, you're the enemy of humanity.
People stopped rejecting violence as soon as a small part of it was because of something they didn't like.
Death is not the only concerning crime. how many MILLIONS of dollars that could have helped the needy were spent to fix damage from antifa and it's bullshit?
The kkk hasn't killed anyone in a long time, so are you saying they are ok now?
Don't be the evil side.
SO with your logic in mind, Trump would be right to Side with PUTIN. You would be putting your support behind Putin because a few people you agree with's word is enough proof to enact violence against the nazis.
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Putin said that Russia was acting in self-defense, that its goal was the "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine, and claimed that Russia had no plans to occupy Ukrainian land. He threatened severe consequences for any country that intervened. The invasion began immediately after Putin's announcement. "
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He has already encouraged violence on homeless people. Attacks increased.
The people who don't like to be called Nazis:
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No anti-fashist would ever do that. It's such a pathetic lie.
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now you sit there and type it with a straight face that this won't be abused to censor conservative speech? You can't do it.,
"Weissman added that platforms may also find it challenging to differentiate sarcasm, serious posts and sincere discussions about sensitive subjects, adding that over-removing content will be the only way they will be able to avoid liability."
Does that sound right to you?
We get on here and argue back and forth, use sarcasm everyday, are we trying to destroy the world,? No we have a open dialog that allows us to speak and discuss. this law would take that away if we were in that state.
in the 'Freedom of speech' topic.
They are:
- Incitement to imminent lawless action (e.g., calling for violence right now).
- True threats (serious expressions of intent to harm someone).
- Obscenity (narrowly defined, not just “offensive” content).
- Defamation (false statements that harm reputation).
- Fraud (knowingly false claims to cheat people).
- Child exploitation material (entirely excluded).
- Certain national security exceptions (e.g., classified info leaks).
Jimmy Kimmel didn't and doesn't violate ANY of those limits on free speech.
The state’s civil rights laws that are mentioned in the bill are broadly based on those categories of the limits on free speech, though it simplifies some of the legal detail.
It's the Californian legal limits on free speech.
ALL U.S. states have civil rights laws, but they differ in scope, enforcement, and how much they brush up against free speech. None can legally go beyond the First Amendment floor set by the U.S. Constitution, but some states regulate more aggressively in gray areas (e.g. harassment, hate crimes, discrimination in public life).
Every state has laws that prohibit:
- Violence and threats (true threats, incitement to imminent lawless action)
- Harassment and stalking (especially when directed at individuals, repeated, and unwanted)
- Hate crimes (enhanced penalties when crimes are motivated by race, religion, etc.)
- Discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations (race, gender, religion, disability, etc.)
California does have one of the more stricter civil rights speech-related laws:
- Broad Ralph and Bane Civil Rights Acts give both criminal and civil remedies against threats, intimidation, and interference with rights.
- Strong workplace/education harassment laws extend to speech that creates a “hostile environment.”
SB 771 would further expand liability to algorithmic amplification online. That's NOT censoring speech, that introducing stricter enforcement of legal limits on speech.
Are you saying that conservative speech is by it's very nature violent, threatening, harassing, stalking, hateful or discriminatory?
Well, cry me a river, you should learn to respect the rights of the people you damage
with your speech then.
Conservative speech is NOT violent or anything else. it is just the liberals INTERPRET it that way because it goes against their little agenda.
No one has a problem with conservative speech that is NOT violent,
but every time your speech has been restricted, it has ALWAYS been
speech that directly calls for damage to some people.
There is no way to interpret it in any other way.
You are just claiming that you have the right to do that.
Meanwhile you are arguing that criticizing a president is NOT allowed.
The whole PURPOSE of freedom of speech is criticizing the powerful.
None of California's laws is limiting that important right.
The problem is that you want to use your speech to attack minorities,
in favor of the powerful. That's tyranny, the exact opposite of the purpose of free speech.
That's not 'their little agenda', that's what your founding fathers intended.
soros = antifa. Fuck all them PRICKS.
I guess we have to be vigilant with your thinking, I do believe the tards have been invited to debates, but the idiot dems seem to prefer violence. Good luck with your loony thinking ananas2xlekker.
Sure, I think Soros is anti-fascist. He's old enough to remember what they did.
"Born in Hungary in 1930, he lived through the Nazi occupation of 1944–1945,
which resulted in the murder of over 500,000 Hungarian Jews."
My thinking has never preferred violence, but there is a point that talking is over.
We cannot let history repeat itself. My pacifist streak is running very thin.
That's useless and only emboldens your side.
It can of course happen. There are some stupid people on the left too.
I don't visit the websites that conspiracy theorists visit.
I am a RARE case, but there is nothing 'extreme' about my opinions.
I'm not proposing to hurt anyone or break any laws or force something
on vulnerable people, I am proposing a democratically supported shift,
to change a system that I think is exploited by a selfish minority,
to the detriment of everyone else.
Humanity has gone trough similar shifts before, but mostly as violent revolution,
by the oppressed majority, killing the oppressing minority. That always happened when humanity was pushed to its breaking point. I'm seeing humanity heading to one of those breaking points again. This will result in some violent revolution at some point. It will not necessarily result in a better system, because chaotic times are unpredictable. That's why I propose a non-violent solution, that results in a sustainable state for humanity. I think that is the opposite of extreme.
Are you really a commie?
Your brain works better if you do not drop it in a blender.
No, I'm a socialist.
Communists support a centralized government owning everything.
Socialists support citizens and workers having shared ownership of everything.
Show some sign that you are able to understand ANYTHING,
before you make fun about someone else's brain.