tkhayes

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  1. yeah I always get a kick out of right wingers who do not trust the government, and think it should be dismantled and yet claim to 'believe in the constitution', which is apparently all about personal freedoms and nothing else. They seem to ignore and gloss over all the parts of the constitution that specifically define the government and in many cases, its widespread and expansive powers to govern. cherry picking - much like they do with the bible and so many other things.
  2. Of course you have specific numerous chapter, line and verse examples for your claims right?
  3. Fundraiser by Elena Cardone : Stand with Trump; Fund the $355M Unjust Judgment (gofundme.com) - these people would.... Mind you, they are woefully short, and knowing the history of trump fundraising, there's a pretty good chance that someone will end up with criminal charges related to even this GoFundMe.
  4. The agency follows whatever 'continuous improvement' guidelines/rules they are provided with by congress and legislation and within the boundaries of the funding they have to do just that. I am pretty sure that the majority of the problem is capitalism and the false belief (generally in the USA) that it has a solution for every problem. The goal should be healthcare, but the goal is not that, it is about money/costs and funding, much like the private system. We do not have a healthcare system in the US, we have a profit driven money making system that sometimes provides healthcare if you can afford it.
  5. I doubt Trump is quaking in his boots at all. He is a narcissistic sociopath, and he actually believes he has done nothing wrong, and he also believes he can do no wrong and he also believes that he should not be held accountable for anything he does or has done. Fear is not something he can comprehend. he is perfect and he believes that. The reality will be far different that his perception of it, and all that means as he loses case after case is that he will become more unhinged.... BECAUSE he is a narcissistic sociopath.
  6. we spend more that we take in, which is why we have a deficit. Name any program that the majority of Americans want to slash or eliminate and then show us how much money we would actually save by doing that, and I bet it doesn't even make a ding in the deficit. The answer is basically 'no programs should be cut' for most people if you really got into the nitty gritty of it. We have the programs that we want, we just refuse to tax at the level needed to pay for them because "taxes bad, programs good". And if you discuss Americans being unwilling to pay for the things that they demand, the argument invariably shifts to "Well, the government just wastes everything we give them", which accomplishes nothing to solve the problem. but yeah, taxes are very low in the USA, but I think Americans complain more about 'high taxes' than other countries. I think other countries pay higher taxes, but actually get something for their money, especially education, which gives them the ability to understand what they are getting for their money. In the USA there is a concerted effort (falsely believed) that by cutting government, somehow the country will be better off. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/18/electric-vehicle-price-drop/ more affordable than ever
  8. yup - try calling your senators. The best I have gotten in the past 3 years is an answering machine. I am willing to bet that Bezos (et al) have all the senators phone numbers and I bet they answer when he calls.
  9. First they came after the journalists. We don't know what happened after that.....
  10. That;s a pretty slanted skew on what was said - typical conservative.....
  11. good luck on the GOP ever backing down from the lies and deception. It worked for Hillary back in 2015-2016 - they made her a criminal demon and then not even an LEO investigation at any level once Trump got in office...... and their base is fucking stupid enough to believe anything they tell them.
  12. Apparently I misread the headline. I never got how Mitch gets elected so much, everyone I know in KY hate him, but he still wins. We could use a good die-off of many in House, Senate and presidential candidates.....
  13. absolutely. They will put the craziest MF in there they can find. And if Trump wins the election, there will be mass resignations across many agencies. That used to get a Prez to a point of resignation, maybe impeachment, but Trump and the GOP are HOPING for this as part of the strategy of putting the craziest Trump loyalists in power.... removing the last checks and balances in the system. There would not even be enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling if they ruled against Trump. McConnell leaving is another loss of that check and balance. one less brick in the wall. Assuming there is a special election, the Democrats should be unlimited amounts of money to get someone elected in KY.
  14. why does there have to be a 'why'? Pretend you have the answer to 'why'.... what difference would it make and what would you do with that information? see where that goes into an endless counting of jabs with no outcome or purpose
  15. 'Stand your ground' law now associated with more deaths from guns (scrippsnews.com) - difficult to find good data, largely because government is not interested in tracking much of anything to do with gun violence
  16. 'that comment'. I notice you had no comment whatsoever on the ACTUAL executive summary that I posted from your referenced paper. Please, quote that executive summary, especially the parts of it that support your 'summary'
  17. Soon enough, Trump will also ally with whatever country or leader will help him pay his bills. That alone is a security risk for the USA. Oh wait, he is already doing that.....
  18. or actually advocating for the overthrow of democracy in America, which makes them complicit in it but could actually have nothing to do with Russia. I have been saying it for decades that there is a significant double digit portion of the American population that would hand power over to a dictator because that America would be 'more like them and what they believe'..... and it is really easy to loot the country when it is in chaos than when it has checks and balances.
  19. Never mind, as usual, someone else is doing your work for you https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter12.pdf Executive summary is page 1770 as is ACTUALLY a summary, hence why they called it 'Executive Summary'. It says nothing about what you claimed in your first post. In fact, the executive summary pretty much contradicts everything you said in several paragraphs and comes to completely opposite conclusions that you managed to derive. You do realize that taking a single page from a document that has at a minimum over 1800 pages to make a case is the very definition of cherry-picking and is also the near perfect example of bad research and incorrect conclusions.
  20. It's one 'Table 12.12', assuming a chapter 12 and likely 11 other tables, figures, drawings, diagrams or whatever. Link to it all please.
  21. nowhere on that page it there a title calling that a 'summary'. Try again. Link to the entire document please..... you're the one that posted it - let's see the entire thing.
  22. you are linking to a single page of a document that looks like it has literally hundreds of pages? and basing your claim on that single page? research much?
  23. There's a lot to be said for that statement yes. People are often power hungry and groups of people more so. It is why we have checks and balances.... Trump is looking to remove the checks and balances that impede him.
  24. gun laws are neither 'liberal' nor otherwise. OTHER COUNTRIES have guns, effective guns laws and less death, injuries and the like from gun violence. The USA stands alone in trying to justify the lame ass excuses it continuously spouts for justifying its open access to weaponry But I am sure that you have overwhelming evidence to show the massive reduction in death, injury and crime due to the lax gun laws in the USA, right?
  25. Yeah, I am sure that dead woman is cheering for the freedom she preserved for her country...... I mean, the MOST important thing is that 2nd amendment rights were preserved.....