All_Pro_Bills

Somebody told me a while back that you can tell a lot about a person's situation by how much time and effort they spend thinking about the future. Generally, people well off or wealthy spend a lot of time worrying about the future vs. focusing on the present. The poor on the other hand, do not. A lot of the education problem has to do with the culture of poverty. People that value education are people that think a lot about the future. If you've got a decent job and a stable home life you're in a good position to do that kind of thinking. Those White and Asian households that you mention where education is deemed important provide that environment. A lot of black and hispanic households provide this kind of environment too. These are homes that produce the most proficient students and learners. These people learn that putting in the work in the present produces gratification and results in the future. The ability to defer gratification and rewards is a trait almost every single successful person in any field of work share. But if you're working poor or live at or below the poverty level, no matter your race and national origin, its hard to focus on the future when the present is a struggle for survival. In those circumstances, putting a lot of time and effort focusing on the future is not only a waste of time but can hinder the ability to survive under the present circumstances. You can't defer gratification and results or worry too much about the future, you need results and money now to survive. That these people need results now, not later, should be obvious because there may not be a later for them.

I have very little interest in the NBA and absolutely zero interest in the WNBA, but these black lesbians should be happy Clark is making their game more popular. That's the kind of thing that translates to higher salaries and potential sponsorship deals. They just can't stand the idea a white girl is more popular. These black players are racists.

Despite your efforts to absolve the medical community of any responsibility when politicians that instituted lock downs met any resistance they cited the advice of their medical experts and "the science" as the basis of their lock down proclamations. And as an aside, any medical professional that objected to the "consensus" view regardless of how credible their case or the power of their credentials in medical practice and research were threatened with fines and revocation of their medical license along with subtle and not so subtle threats of being blacklisting from the profession. Politicians may have held the medical community hostage to push their agenda but most were willing participants in the operation.

In 2020, Sweden had no lock downs and had a mortality rate 2/3 of the U.S. Its a developed nation comparable to the U.S. The average age of the population is about the same. Perhaps a generally more healthy population could explain the disparity? And if that's correct then I'd argue generally poor health makes people susceptible to all kinds of viruses, bacterial infections, and environmental hazards like air quality. So isn't the real problem in the U.S. we have a disproportionate number of overweight, out of shape citizens with poor eating habits and generally unhealthy lifestyles. Isn't that something RFK Jr. is targeting as a problem?

What exactly does the Democratic party stand for? 1. Love illegal immigrants and prioritize their "needs" over those of Americans. 2. Think men can be women, women can be men simply by believing it. 3. Hate white people while strangely most of them are white people. 4. Think anyone that doesn't embrace the above are racists and fascists. 5. Can't figure out why their message isn't resonating with the public.

One guy expressing displeasure with Trump is just one man's opinion not evidence of some consensus of ex or current military and by the looks of the surge in enlistments it appears most citizens inclined to consider military service as an option are happy with the direction being taken by the administration regarding the military. If you recall enlistment numbers under Biden sagged considerably as a result of DEI and other social justice practices.

The Sargent at Arms reports into the Speaker. No board is present and convened at the Capitol to debate and vote on necessary immediate operational securiy measures. The optics excuse is just that, an excuse because they were assembled about six blocks away. And the optics suddenly didn't matter when the call to deploy was finally made hours after the protest was over. Why avoid the fact Nancy's office dropped the ball? And if it wasn't her then who on site made the call to not deploy? We still don't know as they refuse to say. While the original J6 committee avoided asking questions a new inquiry likely will not. Lies live in the darkness and the truth will once again see the light of day.

The fake news craze went mainstream with Hillary's Russia collusion hoax. The democrats are still getting residual hype from the reruns without ever being able to confirm and prove anything. Just by following the practice of repeating a lie over and over until people believe it. So how stupid are liberals?

In alignment with the separation of powers, the office of the House speaker is accountable for providing security for the Capitol, not the President and the Executive branch. This has been noted and discussed on PPP already. So you're question is irrelevant. And do you remember who the Speaker was at the time of J6? The person in charge that rejected the offer to deploy the National Guard.

This is exactly correct and its been the case since Nixon's executive order eliminated the convertibility of the dollar into gold. And every administration since then has been on a quest to increase the national debt. Now about $36 Trillion. I saw numbers that speculated this bill will add $5 trillion to that figure. Something's got to give and its going to be the US dollar. Where I disagree with Massie is I believe we're a lot closer to the day of reckoning than he suggests. Trump's approach while politically different leads to the same result as Biden. We can argue politics all we want and blame one party or the other but in my view its merely a cleanest pig in the mud hole debate.

Or MOSSAD.

Except in America they're hiding ruthless street crime gang members armed with AK-47s selling drugs and running sex trafficking operations. But I sure can't wait to read the book or see the movie. What Trump's doing seems to be executive overreach and don't worry about Harvard. The US District Court for the District of Columbia will issue an injunction before the weekend.

I read this bill over time will add $5 trillion more to the national debt currently pegged at $36 trillion with annual interest payments of over $1 trillion which is the level carried over from Biden. So I'm wondering, if they can borrow a couple trillion every year why can't the government just eliminate the income tax and borrow all the money they need? Is it simply a distinction between irresponsible fiscal policies that accumulate higher and higher debts that will kill us slowly vs. one that will kill us quickly?

Motorhead - Orgasmatron I am the one, orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand My image is of agony, my servants rape the land Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law My name is called religion: sadistic, sacred w h o r e I twist the truth, I rule the world, my crown is called deceit I am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet I rob you and I slaughter you, your downfall is my gain And still you play the sycophant and revel in your pain And all my promises are lies, all my love is hate I am the politician and I decide your fate I march before a martyred world, an army for the fight I speak of great heroic days, of victory and might I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave I lead you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave Your bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down

And yet with all of its intelligence and law enforcement capability and believing the President was calling his supporters to violence it's never been clearly and logically explained why the government was completely unprepared to handle the event. A thinking person might ask why?

Moody's is simply catching up to the ratings downgrade already made by the other 2 major credit raters well before the tariffs and Trump although he's not helping anything here. So that excuse doesn't fly. And it is all inevitable unless you believe in the Fairy Tale that the current administration or any future administration is going to get fiscal discipline, balance the budget, run a surplus, and pay down the national debt along with consumers reducing their borrowing and ceasing to augment their lifestyle through the accumulation of huge debts. And you think all the beneficiaries, individual citizens and business, of all these Federal entitlement programs and handouts are going to cheer the fiscal responsibility and accept that the end of the transfer payments to their accounts is a small price to pay for fiscal responsibility. Or you think the Fed is going to respond to any crisis by any means other than to flood the markets with liquidity in an attempt to kick the can down the road as far and as long as possible. I suggest we've past the point of no return but absent that, what's your grand forecast for where we're headed?

My conclusion is government deficits and the national debt will keep rising, no matter who is President or what party is in control with the only distinction being who benefits most from the money printing racket. The Central Bank response to any market crisis or disruption to rising markets will be the injection of massive amounts of liquidity (cash, credit, QE, etc) in order to support nominal asset values (stocks, bonds, etc) and keep the party going for as long as possible which at that point something breaks that more money printing or debt creation won't fix. Lots of inflation ahead in the meantime. But yeah, at the end of it all there could be deflation as asset values are crushed by the destruction of capital and paper wealth resulting in deflation but it might be a long time before we reach that point in time.

If Trump can't take the plane I might be interested in a "free" 747 but after measuring my garage I'm not sure its going to fit.

If they're going to eliminate winning the division guaranteeing a home playoff game then why not just eliminate divisions and play a balanced schedule with each team playing the other 15 conference teams one time with 2 out of conference games.

Like the game of Clue I say it was Obama thru Susan Rice in the White House with the Autopen.

For me it's hardly an even fight betwen left vs. right media but instead a case of Fox vs. the entire cast of liberal legacy media outlets. Like 1 vs. 20 or so.

Count by country of US military bases not counting CIA operations. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-overseas-military-bases-by-country See point number 2 - enforcing the petrodollar system. Nixon made this deal way back when with the Saudi's and OPEC. With world oil demand at around 104M bbl/Day at a low ball price of $60/bbl that's a total potential daily demand for 6,240,000,000 US dollars. Ask yourself what happens to all those dollars if settlement changes to local currencies, some other currency, gold or crypto? Where are all those dollars going to find a home? Massive inflation. So the military is there to enforce the system. Anyone trying to buck the system without permission after diplomatic and economic actions fail to persuade them to stop, places like Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria, get treated to the full force of US military power.

You could be asking why the US has something like 600 military bases in foreign countries around the world. And I'd answer that's how Empires work. As for the ME, guarding the oil fields in the region, enforcing the petrodollar trade settlement system, and inhibiting China from gaining a strategic footprint in the region.

Because MAGA are illiterate hillbillies and unwashed masses of trouble making insurrectionists that own no stocks they don't care about the S&P 500 and probably don't know what that is anyway.

Word is they've been trying to unload this plane on the open market for a few years but there are no takers. So gifting it is one of few other options. It's not a personal gift to Trump but rather a gift to the US government. If it was up to me, considering how much retrofit and upgrading that plane requires along with security and surveillance concerns I'd respectfully decline the "gift".