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I'm pointing out the governments constant abuse of power. So maybe you should educate yourself on how the law works instead of pretending you know what you're talking about? Try and comprehend this. You search somebody's home with a warrant. You charge them with something. They're arrested and arraigned in court and enter a not guilty plea. They go to court and file discovery motions contesting probable cause along with motions to suppress evidence. The prosecution needs to reveal their sources and evidence that resulted in the issuance of a warrant. Based on how good or flimsy the justification for probable cause is the hearing may result in a motion to reject the probable cause used for the warrant and any evidence seized during the search. Pay attention here, this is the tricky part. In the case of Guilani the government would need to reveal their sources and information that supported the issuance of a warrant to search and seize his property and offices. And either the don't want to do that because they don't want to reveal things they prefer to keep out of the public or they generated some false pretense to support the warrant. So they are never going to indict or charge anyone because they have no real case. Lastly, you should do some historical research on the roots of liberalism. Used to be liberals didn't trust the government and stood against big government and big corporations and their oppression. Now they worship them and serve their needs.

I absolutely guarantee the Feds are not going to go after Trump beyond harassment like the raid on Guiliani. They are not going to take any legal action or file any charges. You know why? One simple term.... "Discovery". Discovery requires the prosecution to open up their files and folders to the defense and provide evidence and information that backs their charges. And provides the defense legal grounds for filing motions to support disclosure of anything they deem required for their defense. Information the government doesn't want to expose. So the government and the agencies won't do that. They want to keep their dirty laundry in the dark. What do you think all the harassment of the former administration was all about? Keeping all their deeds and activities under wraps. But apparently you are incapable of objectively comprehending what's been going on here. Hopefully you'll figure it all out before its too late. And if not you'll make an excellent drone in the service of the State when called upon.

I completely agree with Greenwald and Lewis. These news agencies have devolved to performing as agents for US government dis-information operations for the disseminating of stories aimed as political dissidents and critics of the government and threats to their power and control. I get all that. The sociopaths running the government want to grow their power over everything. And what I don't understand are people on this msg board and elsewhere that endorse and applaud the continued and growing use of State power to control and hinder the freedoms and rights of the citizens of our nation. Truth being they care no more for them than they do for the people they directly attack. They are acting solely in their interest.

One possibility is the Biden's want to know what dirt Rudy collected on their grifting and payoff activities in Ukraine. Some they drum up some flimsy charge to get warrants. Doubtful any charges or indictments will follow as those would generate discovery motions from the defense team which necessitate the government to open up about evidence. That's something nobody inside the agencies and departments wants to air.

I guess it all depends on your definition of racism. Which to this point in our national conversation has yet to be defined. In my view racism is taking deliberate action to harm another person based on their appearance and race and genetics. While words and thoughts can be hurtful I don't see those meeting the threshold of tangible harm. And I don't think it proper to seek to regulate and control the thoughts in each person's mind or the words that come out of their mouths. And while I try to respect and value everyone that's my personal choice. I don't look to impose my view of morality on others.

And... Its education that has the highest correlation to poverty. How many Phd's in electrical engineering live below the poverty level?

Not percentage of. Absolute numbers. And if racism was the "cause" how do you explain that any white people live below the poverty level?

You hit on the central theme of the game played by the advocates of "race is the root cause of everything". What the advocates of attributing all disparities to race do is ignore and dismiss, w/o examination or consideration, other correlating factors and statistics that can better explain a condition or disparity in a more logical manner. Factors like disparities in income and education can explain poverty rates. Facts like there are more white people living below the poverty level are facts that need to be conveniently ignored or discarded to support their conclusions that racism is the cause of povety among minorities. And these facts cannot be allowed to enter the conversation. A fundamental flaw with their thinking, assuming the genuinely want to solve the problem, is that if you operate with blinders and continue to identify the wrong root cause of a problem you'll never fix anything. That's what we've had with all the social programs and plans of the past 50 years. Not addressing the real causes. And what's the answer today? Do more of what's not working until it works.

For the most part all these draft evaluators are information accumulators rather than talent evaluators. They determine the scores of each team based on their predetermined value of the players metrics and stats and the closer a team's draft is to their personal evaluation the higher the score. If they are so good at the draft its a wonder teams aren't rushing to hire them for their open GM slots. Maybe except for Mike Mayock who hasn't exactly set the world on fire with his picks with the Raiders. So I don't listen too much to these "experts". My view of GM's is past performance IS a predictor of future performance.

No, I'm talking about jobs that require highly skilled people with specific experience and advanced degrees in life sciences. That's why my suggestion is ridiculous. And that's why ultimately diversity hiring is ridiculous. Because the bottom line is what's required for an effective and efficient organization or company is to hire and employ competent people rather then keeping score of the genetic profile of your company.

I hear you. When I suggested we hire a few inexperienced high school drop-outs to improve our diversity profile in the areas of experience and education nobody seemed to get the comedic value of my statement! Such is the plight of virtue signalers as there is no room for humor, joy, or happiness in their world. While such a move would negatively impact the team's performance in all possible ways our social justice score would stand out and perhaps qualify us for some recognition or reward.

Yup. Refusing and evading quantification might be systemic too. But in the year 2021 what's the system being referred to (is it public or private, covert or overt, formal or information, organized or individual acts), what attributes of the system are racist, what are your statistical benchmarks, and how are you measuring and counting it to validate and support the theory there is "systemic racism"? Otherwise, you're just arguing and advocating subjective data points vs. some objective theory backed by what might constitute proof. Right now "systemic racism" is more or less a marketing campaign slogan. But I'm willing to be educated. If anybody's got quantification vs. one or two anecdotal stories or some history lesson from the 1860's or 1950's I'd be interested. To add, I'm hearing more and more corporations, including the one I work for, bowing and praying at the alter of systemic racism and saying they're going to change and do better in things like minority hiring. I don't know about how anyone else looks at this but if I was a minority candidate that was passed up for any job opening or promotion at any of these firms that are prostrating themselves asking for forgiveness I'd sue their asses for everything I could. They're more or less admitting they screwed you.

The fundamental issue is what was their source(s) of the false story that Giuliani was the target of "Russian misinformation"? It seems ironic the story itself was misinformation. And more critical I expect they all knew the story was false before they reported it. Which has other important implications. Of course they will all say as news outlets they need to protect their confidential sources but do those protections extend to liars and people that plant false stories for political gain and to cause harm to others? Perhaps something for the courts to look into if lawsuits against news outlets follow? As for the source my guesses: A misinformation source inside the US intelligence community. A misinformation source inside DOJ or the FBI. A misinformation source inside the Dept of State. A misinformation source from a House committee like the Intelligence committee.

I'm thinking all those imaginary voters that cast ballots to springboard Joe from a marginal candidate to the Democratic nomination on Super Tuesday and to the Presidency in the General Election forgot to tune in to the speech from fantasy land the other night. But that aside why did the President that got the most votes ever produce such lousy ratings?

Always someone else's fault! That's a good insight. I can certainly concede to the point Trump dodged responsibility. Its one of the reasons he lost the election. But isn't blaming someone else the basis of all liberal ideology? Without a doubt it is. Now I'm not suggesting they have a monopoly on skirting blame but its their number one go-to move for sure. To prove it all you have to do is listen to their words, look at their actions, and at what remedies they propose. Always and everywhere absolving the "victim" of any and all responsibility for any and all outcomes.

What was the deal with the masks? Were they planning to go out and rob a bank after the speech? A room full of completely vaccinated people that can't get sick. All for show I guess and more patronizing virtue signalling.

Simply, your existence entitles you to nothing more than life, liberty, and the freedom to make your own fate and think for yourself. But we're in an era where an epidemic of entitlement is everywhere driven by the idea somebody else better off "owes" you something.

Many felt this provision was inserted by Trump in the previous administration's tax package in order to "stick it to" wealthy blue state Democratic contributors and supporters. That seems quite plausible. And the idea now with Congressional members from these states is to give those party loyalist pulling in $400K+ and responsible for close to 90% of all donations to the party their deductions back. How this contradiction resonates inside the party with the current "tax the rich" message is unclear. One alternative which is these states cutting their state and local income taxes to directly give back money appears to elude consideration and their thoughts.

It seems all these tax code changes may be DOA in Congress as there are 20-25 Democratic house members that are signaling they will not support the administrations legislation unless the SALT deduction limit of $10K is eliminated as part of any tax package. The administration to this point has expressed no interest in removing current State and Local Tax deduction limitations.

Yes all these things are happening and they're not good. But the thing is, I agree with a many of the goals and objectives the liberals have laid out. Where we disagree is how to get is all done. How to pay for it all. One of my primary life philosophies is "take care of yourself first" If you don't or can't do that how can you be in any position to help anyone else? And my main disagreement with their approach to all their ideas is all the benefits of all the programs are granted to specific individuals or groups and the costs of all the programs are socialized and put on the backs of other individuals or groups. It doesn't seem equitable that someone pays the whole dinner check and doesn't get to eat based solely on the premise they can afford it. Remove all the political rhetoric and social goodie-goodie talk and it all boils down to who pays for it. I think it was Milton Friedman that said there are four ways money gets spent. They are: 1. You spend your money on yourself 2. You spend your money on someone else 3. You spend someone else's money on yourself 4. You spend someone else;s money on someone else. Guess which one's the liberals prefer? Yes, number 3 and 4. There's our problem. The lib's are like the friend you have that when you split the dinner check they order a burger and fries. And when you pay they order surf and turf, a couple appetizers, and dessert plus a half-dozen mixed drinks.

What you said might be true but I've said the exact same thing about poor and uneducated inner city residents that for generations use public assistance as a career path but many here and elsewhere are blind to the similarities and comparisons. And did you ever work in a factory? I did working for 6 years including my time in college to pay my bills so I understand the things people complain about. If you did you should know too. But none of that addresses by key point which is the US created the "monster" that is now China under less than clear intentions. .

China's created a large number of rich oligarchs that have become billionaires because they are officials of the CCP so its another version of crony capitalism. But absent from the debate here is the understanding of the true motivation and intent for the US to create a formidable economic and growing military competitor. Because that's what a series of US administrations over the past 40 years accomplished starting with the granting most-favored nation trade status to China and then encouraging businesses to move production to China and out of the U.S. Mostly done under the absurd notion that they'll adopt of system of democracy through engagement. So all this helped China grow and caused great harm to American businesses and cities and citizens in exchange for "every day low prices". Lots of people in America consuming cheap stuff sitting at home on welfare and public assistance with no jobs and no prospects because the US government encouraged the shipment of their jobs to China. And here we are today bitching about China's ambitions and the threat they pose when its our own fault by starting the process going in the first place. "Reap what you sow", right?

What tax cut? Mine went up! And I wasn't too happy about it either. I wouldn't characterize what's going on as progress unless you're goal is destruction of our economic system and a falling standard of living for everybody. If you think we're making progress that's your choice but I expect you're in for a rude awakening very soon.

The question is where are the funds for all this coming from? The US government is broke and doesn't have any funds to do anything. 80% of the Federal budget is borrowed money every year. The only way the national debt is serviced is by issuing more debt to pay off older debt coming due. That meets the definition of a Ponzi Scheme. The Federal Reserve acts as a money laundering agent for the US treasury and their policies are the number one cause of income inequality as massive amounts of money and debt are funneled into the financial markets where those assets are majority owned by the 1%. Capital used to be created and generated by productive activities but no longer. Its just printed or created by a few keystrokes on a balance sheet somewhere. Our defense budget is about $800B a year and is bigger than combining the spending of the 2-12 countries on the list. Many of which our allies. Yet we are in no major conflicts at the moment and keep spending more. Our industries and productive capacity have been gutted and moved offshore, many to the aforementioned China. 10's of thousands of small towns and businesses have been destroyed. The economy for all purposes has been financialized and most people make "money" by moving "money" around. Bi-coastal financial cities and states have sucked assets out of the middle. 20% of the labor force works for the government at some level. For every 13 workers there is one person on long term disability even though most of the dangerous jobs have been eliminated. Everyone from the top on down is feeding like a pig at the public trough. Our education system is in shambles and college costs are out of control and out of alignment with the "value" they produce for graduates. Many of which can't find jobs using their degree. Our health care system is controlled by price fixing monopolies at all levels of the delivery system. Hospitals, drug companies, insurers, etc. Housing prices are out of reach for many and the cost of food is rising rapidly, which hurts the poorest most, and price inflation is picking up everywhere. Meanwhile, businesses can't find workers because the governments COVID relief payments are so generous that people make more sitting at home. So until either we're forced to or decide to cut and eliminate all the dead wood and passengers on the bus here this dysfunction all continue or it will crash on its own weight at some point. We are going to build back better nothing. Meanwhile, China can funds all kinds of projects like the Belt and Road initiatives. Is quietly colonizing Africa and making all kinds of deals and arrangements for resources and markets around the world. Our government is focused on the folly of maintaining the current world order. China runs trade and budget surpluses, its central bank holds trillions in reserves, and they have the productive capacity to generate capital to fund all kinds of domestic initiatives. The Chinese are raising and educating generations of scientists, engineers, and other professionals and we are producing social justice warriors along with unskilled and unemployable woke generations that are functionally useless. I say the war is over and we've lost unless we get smart and eliminate all the hustles and cons and get serious. That requires social and political cooperation which as we know we're short on these days. And the infrastructure legislation as currently defined is less infrastructure and more special interest spending.

As the left keeps reminding everyone they hold the moral and ethical high ground. So saying Trump did something as a justification for similar actions or behavior by the Biden administration seems a bit hypocritical and conditional. And while Trump was pretty bad I think this administration is headed in the direction of becoming the worst Presidency in the history of the country. Or maybe they end up killing us all starting WW3 with China and/or Russia? Whatever your political or social views my advice is to be prepared for the biggest financial and social crisis of your lifetime and its your choice to be a casualty or a survivor.