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Leaders of both major parties are fiddling while the country burns.

Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 8 months ago to Politics
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"Democrats have long claimed that they know how to fix things through government action, but six decades of failed social policies have thoroughly undermined that notion. Joe Biden’s recent declaration that he will erase a massive tranche of student debt is remarkable for many reasons. His unilateral, probably unconstitutional, move is a sure sign of our broken government drift towards authoritarianism. The wildly different estimates of its costs, which range from $300 billion to nearly $1 trillion, are yet more evidence that nobody knows what they’re doing. Can you imagine running a business like that? The truly astonishing thing is that no one is claiming it addresses the immense and urgent problem of the high cost of college, which is strongly tied to wrongheaded federal loan policies. Democrats don’t even pretend to have the answer. They are raising the red flag, finally admitting they only know how to throw money at the issue (using taxpayer money to buy votes in the midterms).

Republicans are pointing this out, but where’s their plan?"


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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We should perhaps be openly in favor of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and not be afraid of being labeled "selfish", or afraid of attacks by the "Religious Right"; there are some who speak as if they were in favor of sensible economic policies, but try to justify it in terms of religion. But that won't work. We need to speak against altruism, stand up for man's right to his own life, laissez-faire capitalism, and freedom of thought (and that includes abolition of public education).
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  • Posted by $ katrinam41 1 year, 8 months ago
    It's all madness. If the Repubs (and that's a BIG if) actually take the mid-terms, then work really begins. Promises are being made, flags are waving, all the right words can be heard. When it all falls by the wayside, each district has the duty to either besiege their lying elected officials until they do it right, or have a recall election and put someone into the mess who will honor his/her word and remember that we are the employers. I, for one, have been gradually changing my routines and stocking up on essentials--only a portion of that being food--sinking into grayness as I Galt in plain sight because I believe this craziness will only intensify. I also have little faith in an honest election. The votes and the fraud are already waiting in the wings . This site is one last bastion of sanity and objectivity (mostly) and I will greatly miss all of you when they blacklist our community and throw us out of communication with each other. Meanwhile, keep posting, my friends!
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    “When the oligarchy takes power, an awful lot of punks that thought they were a big deal are going to be left behind. Liz Cheney and Hunter Biden come to mind.”
    That happened right before everyone’s eyes when Harris was chosen for VP over Whitmer. Gretchen thought she had it in the bag. Nobody toed the line on the DNC Covid narrative like her. Too bad so sad Gretch....you’re not diverse enough. Hell now we don’t even know if she fits the definition of a woman.
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    “ I foresee a future court, post-Thomas, all in white robes, eating tofu, ambrosia and unicorn, delightedly pouncing on the "militia" wording, and destroying the Second Amendment entirely.”

    I don’t know wether to be amused or horrified by this statement. Aw hell.....I’ll be both!
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The trouble is that all the messaging they’ve received tells them that the “assembler” is something-ist if it refuses to compile their code.
    Good analogy. The flaw is in the perception of the programmers. Reality is not an impediment to their thought process. They will readily reject it and substitute their own. And I don’t know how we fix that.”A is A” is fascism to them.
    I am obviously BlackPilled and see this state of affairs as irredeemable at this point.
    The root cause of this resides in the Universities. Until the collectivists are purged from higher learning nothing that “good” parents do cannot be undone. For every “kid” that wakes up, two more were just churned out of Commie U.
    Better to create a parallel society. Or, pull the cover over the spider hole and wait for all the screaming and dying to stop.
    Although, throwing rocks at kids in my yard sounds fun too.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 1 year, 8 months ago
    Imagine if someone walked up and stabbed you a couple of times, then handed you a single bandaid and told you to thank them for the bandaid.

    Now you understand all of the Biden administration's policies and messaging.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I meant "participating" and voting. They are right behind my generation. Virtually ALL my buddies kids are learning as they pay taxes. Any that are getting real jobs, and not living in the basement, are beginning to squint at more government handouts.
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  • Posted by Storo 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The boomer children are already here, and are the ones pushing socialism, “woke”, and all the rest.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don’t believe so. I got myself temporarily auto banned some time ago and I may have said I was cutting back my online presence but I’ve made too many connection here to not keep in touch. Another Vegas trip is in order but those members are long gone.
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  • Posted by GaryL 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    From what I have witnessed, as soon as a new Good Guy gets to DC the very first function they go through is Neutering. Then they get a Spinalectomy and brainwashing to erase the reason they worked to get elected. Yes there are a few, very few, who maintain their pledge to the people but they are in a severe minority.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This has to be part of their calculus, although they have sidestepped several times recently.

    No doubt the Chinese are planning this in the long term. Maybe the business people like Sorros are too. I doubt the demonrats have the strategic skills, brains or patience to think that far.

    When the oligarchy takes power, an awful lot of punks that thought they were a big deal are going to be left behind. Liz Cheney and Hunter Biden come to mind.
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  • Posted by NealS 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But thank God, there are still some still out there willing to take on the job. Their reasons may be different, most are for the money, the power, and the fame. A few are for the right reasons. But then too, it's like the person that joins the military, then when we get into a skirmish they refuse to go. Their claim is, "that's not what I signed up for". That's the way I view most politicians, we only hear about those that speak out and/or actually do something. Some are real, some are fake.
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  • Posted by 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I guess I wasn't clear.
    The armed response would be at the local level - not a mass riot or demonstration, unless there was a federal military response to the killing of the tyrants' ATF and FBI agents trying to confiscate weapons.
    Maybe the feds would start in blue cities and be temporarily satisfied with 50% of the population disarmed.
    I know of many people who would respond with force to any attempt to confiscate today.
    imo, the feds must be patient to avoid that response.
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  • Posted by VetteGuy 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The democrats, some time ago as I recall, started voting as a bloc. This meant that dems from, say, West Virginia, were voting for whatever was best for California. The republicans caught on, and started voting as a bloc in retaliation. Any "sanity" originally posessed by individual members is expected to be surrendered to the party leaders.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "so intent on their phone-matrix they wouldn't even notice if one of their kidneys had been removed" - absolutely hilarious!!!!

    I disagree. They can override the precedent for the individual feature of the 2nd, without a massive riot, gnashing of teeth like the Roe-v-Wade, for sure. The riots might come if they subsequently tighten the knot too fast.
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  • Posted by 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The spending is being funneled to enrich themselves and the corrupeteers.
    imo, it is an intentional goal to destroy America and individual liberty.
    American patriots are the only thing standing between the alien elite and planetary
    dictatorship. They have been working for a return to complete control over the
    serfs for centuries.
    We either stand and fight or kneel as slaves.
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  • Posted by 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That would have to happen after confiscation or it would set off an
    immediate armed response to anyone attempting said confiscation.
    Or they could wait another 20 years when most of those Americans
    who remember freedom are dead, and the younger generations
    would be so intent on their phone-matrix they wouldn't even notice
    if one of their kidneys had been removed.
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  • Posted by GaryL 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Any good businessman who comes along, GOOD is a hard term to describe, will be beaten to near death unless he gets in lockstep with the uniparty. Representing "We The People" is California Dreamin. Based on what we are witnessing right now, any fool who seeks a high position has to have a few lose screws that need tightening.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Investment". People made an investment. It was a stupid investment. Now we are bailing them out. Sounds like banks and car companies...but in this case, too little to struggle?

    This reinforces a negative lesson! Learn math and science; Become an engineer, programmer, teacher, nurse, doctor. Political Science, French Literature? Art? These are hobbies, not real careers. There is infinite factual statistics on the employ ability with such a degree, and it was ignored. Live with your choices.

    FFA, I would be interested in your view regarding the absolutely ridiculous deficit/debt the left have created. Do you think this is an objective, even separate from the liberal spending?
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 1 year, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In my mind he was gloating about this decision, in the face of those who made his life miserable in his confirmation. This is a reasonable irritation, but he was way too excited about this.

    Perhaps there have been other reversals, but few (any?) this close in time, and this seminal. Heller-vsDC is seminal. I foresee a future court, post-Thomas, all in white robes, eating tofu, ambrosia and unicorn, delightedly pouncing on the "militia" wording, and destroying the Second Amendment entirely.
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