My bed is 2.20 x 1.80 m (7'2.6" x 5'10.9").
It's a standard plus size, for which I can buy everything.
It's all a bit more expensive, but not custom made.

He wouldn't fit comfortably, but it's only 2 inches off, from when I have to sleep in a bed that's only 2 meters long, which I just had to do on vacation in Paris.
I have slept in beds that were 1.8 meters long before.
It was a choice between fetus position and diagonally.
That's much worse than he would have it in my bed.

How about Georgia, which suffered a devastating hurricane in late Sept. 24?
Fatalities: 37 people lost their lives across the state.
Damage: Estimated at $7 billion, with agriculture and timber alone accounting for approximately $5.5 billion in losses.

Does Georgia now have to "step up to the plate" to prepare for hurricanes?
Georgia averages one direct hurricane landfall every 10–15 years.
Climate change will probably increase their risk, but their risk of crippling hurricane damage is much lower than other states.
Do they now have to prepare for hurricanes, a 1 in 50 year event, for them?
Don't you understand how INEFFICIENT that is?
Didn't you want to reduce WASTE?

You lot want to eliminate waste, but you have no idea what waste is.

Yes, "Amazing how things change".
And people who don't know how things changed, will show their ignorance,
by linking the current Democratic party with support for slavery,
while the Democrats back then were the conservatives from the South,
who are now ALL in the Republican party.

It's good if you don't want to be associated with slavery,
but then also not try to justify slavery, as your ilk often does.

Very happy for her that she got away. Many girls and women don't.

How many women cannot fight back now, against all the powerful men
who victimized them as under@ge teens, because your sex-offender POTUS
ordered that the Epstein files got buried?

Why were you talking about people not being able to afford groceries?

The US is a third world country for millions of Americans.
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"So, Donald Trump dies and goes to hell...."
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C’mon, at least think up you're own discussion stopper. This is just lazy.

Sure, he got wealthy betting on the decline of the poor and middle class, and now he's predicting an irreversible long-term implosion of the financial system and middle class.

"Okay!"

I guess your both thinking: "That's not me, though!"

By the way, Gary Stevenson's net worth is estimated to be around $3.6 billion.
He's economist, who was very successful as a trader, because he predicted a trend of a continuous transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class, to the rich and the wealthy. He anticipated Economic Stagnation, caused by low consumer demand, caused by wealth inequality, which would keep interest rates suppressed.

When you can anticipate a trend, you can invest accordingly and make a lot of money.

He made money from knowing that WE ALL would suffer. That's pretty scummy,
but he didn't CAUSE it, he just took advantage of it.

However, he didn't see the trend ending or slowing down, and he was getting worried.
He started sounding an alarm: expect a serious crash, fiscal strain, and social fallout, unless governments act with bold redistribution through wealth taxes.
Stevenson predicts not just another downturn, but a long-term implosion of the financial system and middle class, which he frames as irreversible unless foundational changes are made. He has been warning about it since 2020.

In one event, where Trump was invited, he did the following:

Trump seen pocketing FIFA medal
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He 'got gifted' the club championship trophy, while Chelsea got a replica
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He stayed on stage, stealing the moment from the players
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They had to push him to the back, to get him off stage.

What a shameless act of self-worship.
Do you think this is normal behavior for a president???

A message to the super rich
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Oh, sure, and that's why you're hauling them off to concentration camps,
for their own protection.

We talked about the history of the Democrats and the Republicans before.

The Republican Party was once the more liberal party, especially on slavery and civil rights in the 19th century. Over time—particularly during the 20th-century civil rights movement—both parties experienced a shift in their ideological bases, leading to the modern alignment where Republicans are generally conservative and Democrats are generally liberal.

It's not the name of the party that is associated with racism or the support for slavery, it's the ideology. Liberals have always supported equal rights and freedom, conservatives don't care about equality and only pretend to care about freedom, while they still support wage slavery. You yourself think people deserve nothing besides what they work for and even 40 hrs/per week should get you the basics for survival. It's only the happy few that deserve ridiculous wealth, because you think they are super-human.

I have NEVER supported the exploitation of illegals, I want to crack down on employers who do that. I'll allow legal immigrant labor, under a license system, but with all the same rights and rewards that natural born citizens get. I have warned you that you allowed your economy to become dependent on illegals, and you're hurting yourself, while you are hurting them. That's a whole different issue than supporting illegal migration. The common sense solution would be to legalize the lot of them, except for the true violent criminals. Don't lie that Trump is doing that.

Accidents happen in the strangest ways sometimes.
Good that they wore their safety gear. That's what it's for.

That's pretty good. They're all well below 30, looks like.
I think I can last 10 minutes of that too, but I wouldn't be smiling like them.
It would be good for me, if they invented a sport that I didn't hate and could afford.

This is a pretty good PC building tutorial.
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He did however get completely distracted with his diy projects.
But, I get it, he's a former Apple guy, so cares a lot about how it looks.

Probably, but STDs are no fun either.

You can last 3 songs worth, of this?

I see the image of a truck, for a second, followed by
a notification that the video is not available.

It's not a case of smarts, it's a case of interests and practice.
If you don't have a hobby or need to edit pictures, why would you want to learn?
Of course, it's easier to learn, when you already have other computer skills.
AI brings this ability to everyone who never had the desire or need before.
Still, I wouldn't call it a big contribution to humanity.

There's also a risk of people creating a fake representation of reality with it,
which helps them lie. It also helps people who want to believe certain lies.

I was looking for a tool that can improve a photograph of my girlfriend's uncle who died, for people who want to have a nice picture in a frame of him. I can do it manually, but it takes ages to do it well.

You HAVE seen that. Many times, in fact. You just didn't think about it.
Unless you've NEVER watched Trump shaking hands.

That's what Trump ALWAYS does. (well, almost always)
It's called his “signature tug”.
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Trump has been obsessed with handshakes for decades.
He started doing the tug/yank in 2015 (Mike Pence and Neil Gorsuch).
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How can you not know about it?

King Willem does it too sometimes, but less awkwardly.
He probably did this to Trump, to BEAT HIM TO IT.
Yes, it made me a little bit proud of him.
It's a bit of relief, for letting Trump stay in the palace
and for Rutte sucking Trump off, like a bitch.
It was very useful, because Trump is a child,
who lets that influence his 'decisions',
but that doesn't mean I like it.

Trump:
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We call him (koning/king) 'Willy' a lot, because that's what the comedy channel LuckyTV has been calling him, since 2013. Willy and Max.
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We ridicule the hell out of our king. Even his biggest fans can see his shortcomings.
You don't even allow yourself to notice the stupid things that Trump does.

NEW HIT SONG - Releasing the Files (Trump's Epstein Files Saga)
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‘Don’t want my meat on Page Six!’ what a line

It's only a big one, when Trump talks about it.

It's NOT "all about supply".
It's a thing that CAN work, if you don't want to change the system itself,
but it's a policy of accepting defeat to capitalism.

Is it only important when an outbreak BEGINS?
Can we blame everything Covid related to Trump?
It looks like YOU blame everything Covid related to Biden.

YOU "are blaming a man that was not in office when the outbreak started."

I blame vaccine denialism.
100% of confirmed measles deaths in this recent U.S. outbreak (3/3) were among unvaccinated individuals. The overwhelming majority of cases and hospitalizations were also unvaccinated (96–99%).
About 98%–99% of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are among those who were unvaccinated.

Texas itself is responsible for not vaccinating against measles.
Kennedy is responsible for adding to their idiocy.

Kennedy added to the idiocy, long before he became Health Secretary,
but now he IS Health Secretary, he's doing direct damage to policy
and organization in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

He and John N. Kennedy are completely ruining the name Kennedy.
What a bunch of shit for brains.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Jr., not JFK Jr.) significantly harmed the U.S. and Texas response to the 2025 measles outbreak through several misleading actions and statements:

📉 1. Downplaying the Outbreak
- He referred to it as “not unusual” and misreported fatalities (“two deaths” instead of one), suggesting annual outbreaks are routine.
- He minimized hospitalizations as being for “quarantine,” yet hospitals confirmed children were seriously ill.

Impact: Undermined urgency, delaying critical public health response and public awareness.

💉 2. Promoting Fringe, Unproven Treatments
- Championed non-validated therapies—including vitamin A, cod‑liver oil, aerosolized budesonide, and clarithromycin—as “miraculous”—despite no clinical evidence.
- His rhetoric led to vitamin A toxicity in children, who were hospitalized for liver complications.

Impact: Distracted from proven interventions (MMR vaccine), discouraged reliance on science-based medicine.

🤝 3. Ambiguous Messaging & Vaccine Skepticism
- Publicly stated vaccination is a “personal choice,” while often framing measles vaccines as unjustly feared.
- Stated natural immunity may lower risks of cancer or heart disease—claims unsupported by evidence.
- His mixed signals emboldened anti-vaccine movements, fueling hesitancy.

Impact: Reduced public trust, worsened vaccine uptake, compromising herd immunity.

🏛 4. Undermining Public Health Infrastructure
- Replaced or clashed with key officials (FDA vaccine head, CDC spokesperson) over his misinformation-led choices.
- He delayed critical CDC advisory meetings and reversed routine immunization actions (like flu campaigns).

Impact: Weakened federal coordination and local support at a time when Texas needed rapid response.

🔎 Texas-Specific Consequences
- The outbreak in West Texas and Gaines County, which began in a religious community, became the deadliest in decades with multiple hospitalizations and at least one child’s death.
- Following his statements, MMR vaccine shortages occurred in Texas due to surging, confused demand.
- Local health authorities had to spend millions (over $4.5M in Texas) to contain the disease and counter misinformation.

✅ Summary

RFK Jr.'s actions undermined effective outbreak response by:
- Minimizing the threat.
- Promoting unsafe alternative treatments.
- Reinforcing vaccine hesitancy.
- Weakening public health leadership.

This confluence of missteps delayed containment, increased community risk,
and contributed to the resurgence of measles in Texas and beyond.

They are doing lots of things much better than you.
You could actually learn a lot, from the successes of others.
But, you would rather believe that you're the best at everything.

Sure, if it isn't FEMA, it's either the states or no one.
Do they get any money from Trump to organize their own
Emergency Management, like FEMA, but on a state level?
If not, all those states need to significantly raise state taxes.

When have you last seen Republicans create anything?
They can only brake things.

True, less tourists might result in less infectious diseases.

The difference between the coal miners and the tourist industry is the following:
- New energy brings much more, much healthier and better paying jobs, than the job of coal miner. In total that shift is positive for society.
- The collapse of the tourist industry is not replaced by anything. It's just a loss of your GDP, which isn't compensated by anything else. There are no other jobs coming in its place.

However, you won't have a shortage of jobs, because of all the migrant workers you are putting in a concentration camp. Your tourist workers just shouldn't be picky, because those jobs aren't much fun. That's why you had those migrant workers for them.

Apple AI VS Samsung AI

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What policy's did Biden pass, that resulted in the jobs go over seas? Please list them.
Link your 'policies' to Biden, because you offer NO evidence that he has anything to do with what you are listing.

Why do you blame Biden for AI?

"In his first days back in office on January 23, 2025, President Trump revoked Biden’s AI regulations and signed Executive Order 14179, effectively deregulating federal oversight of AI"

🚨 Concerns & Criticisms
- Labor and consumer advocates warn that removing oversight puts worker rights and safety at risk .
- Meta’s Yann LeCun labeled the rollback a “witch hunt in academia”, fearing it drives researchers overseas.
- Federal AI body (AISI) cuts tied to the rollback could gut safety and equity efforts.
- Some analysts caution that spotty federal policy may lead to patchwork state laws, confusion, and compliance burdens.

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"There’s no evidence that President Biden has signed any legislation that encourages U.S. job offshoring. In fact, his proposals and enacted policies have specifically targeted the opposite"

"Here are several major Biden-era policies that have directly helped bring back jobs to the U.S.:

🏗️ Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) – Nov 2021

$550 billion in new spending on roads, bridges, broadband, EV charging, clean water, transit, ports, etc.

Funded over 60,000 projects, driving construction and forestry-related employment. Analysts found IIJA, CHIPS, and IRA together spurred factory and utility job growth across the country.

💡 CHIPS and Science Act – Aug 2022

Carved out $52 billion in grants and tax credits for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.

Since passage:
$450 billion committed to chip and electronics manufacturing
17 new fabs, dozens of expansions across 21 states
Expected to create 125,000+ construction and manufacturing jobs, with 200+ projects already launched and 135,800 jobs projected.

🌿 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Aug 2022

The largest investment in clean energy in U.S. history.

Over $300 billion in private clean-energy investments announced so far; over 330,000 clean-energy jobs created; projected up to 1.5 million additional jobs over the next decade.

🇺🇸 American Rescue Plan & XR Programs

The $1.9 trillion COVID relief law helped jump-start the economy post-pandemic, accelerating the recovery.

Strengthened “Buy American” rules (raising domestic content threshold to 60–75%), directing $120 billion in federal procurement to U.S.-made goods.

🛡️ Executive Orders & Defense Production Act (DPA)

Signed executive orders boosting U.S. manufacturing (“Made in America”) to incentivize reshoring and facility revitalization.

Invoked the DPA (June 2022) to accelerate domestic clean-energy tech production (solar panels, heat pumps, grid components), leading to new manufacturing jobs in underserved communities.

📊 Impact & Job Trends

The U.S. economy added 16.6 million jobs from Biden’s inauguration through early 2025—it’s the only presidency with monthly job creation throughout its term so far.

367,000 manufacturing jobs added since January 2021—the fastest manufacturing-sector growth in nearly 30 years.

Manufacturing employment climbed to its highest level in ~15 years, with nearly 789,000 factory jobs added since Biden took office."

NOBODY’S Visiting AMERICA Anymore — Here’s Why the Airports Are EMPTY
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Handshake Willem Alexander vs Donald Trump.
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Willy owned him!

Is that an argument for why it would be better if there was no FEMA?

You base your opinion only on what you know from the US.
If you don't want to inform yourself about what the rest of the world does,
your worldview on this is totally skewed.

Stop repeating the same nonsense over and over.
There are good ways to stop people "taking advantage".
Some people take advantage of other people, by STEALING.
We have the LAW and the POLICE to sort that out. It's not difficult.

Elon Musk literally cut pediatric cancer research. You're not for helping them.

You're always worried that poor people are taking advantage of a system, but I see a system where the wealthy is taking advantage. Are they working a billion times harder than you ever did? They are taking advantage of ALL OF US. You believe those people to be better than everyone else. You think they have earned what they have, but you are forgetting that they have NEVER achieved their position alone. It's the labor of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people working for them, for too low wages and millions to hundreds of millions of people paying too much for their products or services, that resulted in their wealth.
Their money comes with power. All of them use their power to our detriment and their profit. Some only do mild damage, like encouraging consumerism with cheap stuff that breaks easily or products that go obsolete after a year. Others to more damage, trough pollution or selling weapons to dangerous extremists. You want to believe that all of them are gods, but most of them are demons, to use religious terminology.

I think you've tried, but you couldn't even make Grok confirm your ideas.

I'm NOT supporting "liberal ideas", related to housing.
"Liberal" in that sense mean exactly what you want. Liberalization of housing means: privatization and deregulation. That's exactly what our government did and which resulted in skyrocketing rent and house prices.

I'm not a liberal, I'm a socialist, I support public ownership.
That's the opposite of privatization and deregulation.

First get your terminology straight, before you discuss economic models for housing.

Right wing policies, (neo)liberal policies, privatization and deregulation,
have NEVER on any significant scale resulted in lower living costs for the public.

However, left-wing (not liberal) policies have been proven to work many times.
When governments increase public ownership, regulation, and long-term investment in housing, affordability, quality, and access tend to improve, especially for lower- and middle-income households. This has been tried and done large scale many times, all over the world, to great success.
There is overwhelming evidence that it worked in Vienna, Austria, Sweden, Singapore and The Netherlands, until the 1990s. I have lived the successes and I have seen the results of privatization and deregulation all around me.

Houses are not so expensive because of stupid regulations, houses are so expensive because it's one of the simplest way for rich people to exploit poor people, when a government privatizes and deregulates housing.

I don't THINK that my ideas the only 1's that might work.
There is just a FUCK-TON of EVIDENCE that your ideas DON'T work and mine DO.
Civilization has been building houses for a while now. Right?
All the ideas have been tried and tested, all over the world.
They just keep telling you that you need deregulation, because it makes a small group of wealthy people even more wealthy, over the backs of everyone else.
You just listen to the people who get paid to LIE FOR THEM.

What are you accusing me of thinking now? Did I ever said that?

What I want is that even people who have a 60 IQ still can live a worthwhile life.
My girlfriends cousin has 2 children who will never be able to "live out their lives" without help from humanity. They would be proud of being independent, if they ever achieve that, but they will most likely need some help, for the rest of their lives.

You are telling me about "pride and independence", but the video showed people
who have lost all dignity. It's a shameful result of your society.

I would take pride in a country that doesn't let down ANY of its citizens.
I support people who have the goal for humanity to be better than what we came from, to shed our savagery and selfishness, people who care about others, and strive for a more just and compassionate world and our continued existence.
That's something you are incapable of understanding.

Yep, I think it's very weird that people like you, who's life was stepped on by the system pretty hard, are the strongest opponents of a system that wouldn't do that to people
and the biggest supporters of a system that kicks people down even harder.

People with an IQ of 60 shouldn't be living like that.
They cannot take care of themselves, isn't that OBVIOUS?
Don't you think that the government has a job to do here?
I know you fear "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
But there are not many people living like this, in countries where it does.
But SOMEHOW, you think this video supports YOUR worldview. Yeah, that's WEIRD!

If that happened to me, I wanted the whole world to come help.
Likewise, when I see people in need, I also want the whole world to help.
That's, sympathy / empathy, but also just reciprocity.
We don't have much control over luck / bad luck in the world, but we do
have control over how we treat (other) people, who are dealt a bad hand.

However, I understand that there is no unlimited pool of money,
so I support a system that uses the money most efficiently.
I think that's always a system that shares the risk with the biggest group.

It's like with insurances; you share the risk with other people,
instead setting aside money personally, for when something happens.
Almost no one can set aside enough money for a new house, when it burns down,
so you share the risk with a million or more other people.
Still, an insurance company could go bankrupt, if it only insured one city,
and there was a big fire burning down a lot of houses.
That's why you want to share the risk with as many people as possible.

The one thing that limits the size of the group is solidarity. People need
to feel some empathy for others in the group that they share the risk with.
They don't want to pay for people that they don't care about. They forget
that it's beneficial for everyone to maximize the size of the group, as soon
as people that they don't feel empathy towards are helped by the system.
That's what you see happening with FEMA.

Are we talking about ANYTHING fraudulent? I'm not denying that.
It's just not the billions that you say it is.
And Elon Musk and his gang haven't found ANY real fraud.
Where are all the lawsuits then, when he found ALL that fraud?

Your country already has audits of all your government agencies. They always find SOME waste, fraud and abuse, but where Elon was looking, those are some of the cleanest agencies you have.

In November 2022, the DoD failed its FIFTH consecutive audit, reportedly unable to account for 61% of its assets—amounting to roughly $2.1 trillion out of a $3.5 trillion total asset base.

It is 100% clear that there IS a lot of unaccounted money in your Department of Defense. Did Elon go there?
No, of course not, because Elon himself gets lots of money from the Department of Defense and he doesn't want any investigation on how he's spending that money.

Your social security system was audited in 2022 too:

SSA Financial Audits: “Unmodified Opinion”
The FY 2022 Agency Financial Report (AFR) marked the SSA’s 36th year producing audited financial statements and the 29th consecutive year receiving an unmodified opinion (meaning “clean” audit)

For Old‑Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) from FY 2015–2022, only 0.84% of total benefit payments were improper, though this still amounted to $71.8 billion.
How much are they cutting Social Security?

A 2021 SSA OASDI accuracy review found:
99.3% case accuracy for overpayments, and
98.3% case accuracy for underpayments.

Dollar accuracy rates were similarly high: 99.4% for overpayments and 98.5% for underpayments.

Administrative costs in 2023 were about 0.5% of total benefits paid (roughly $7.2 billion expense against $1.38 trillion payout)

Related to Medicaid and Medicare.
Medicaid: ~$81 billion in improper payments
Medicare: ~$31.7 billion in improper payments
How much are they cutting again?

When you want to make systems more efficient, that takes a lot of effort.
You cannot just CUT waste fraud and abuse. That's primitive thinking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore, of the 1,288 cases:

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

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

🛂 Illegal immigration status

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🧪 Are undocumented immigrants more likely to carry measles?

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

For example:

Mexico has a measles vaccination rate of ~97%.

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

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

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

Kindergarteners from anti-vax parents, NOT illegals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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