All_Pro_Bills

Nor should we want to be like Haiti.

I'd be interested in how anyone could design a social policy to prevent homelessness. Because there are lots of causes, some chronic and some circumstantial. A person could be homeless because of a divorce, domestic abuse, death of a spouse, bankruptcy, loss of a job, chronic drug or alcohol addiction. Or they could simply have made the decision to "drop out" of society and deal with the consequences of the decision. I'm not a fan of the idea that pushing people out of the neighborhood solves the problem because they still have to go somewhere else. And I don't think a more "robust welfare net" is the answer. Its a do more of what's not working until it works type of solution. I'm not against the idea of helping people but from my experience of helping people it can go one of two ways. They're motivated to get back on their feet and use the support and financial assistance provided as a catalyst for them getting their life on track. Or, they become comfortable with the financial and other types of assistance and chose to spend their time doing nothing much to improve their situation. Because taking the assistance is easier than working. I think any assistance programs should be designed by social services experts, exclusive of any political motivation of any kind, to deal with both situations.

How much does it pay? I'm trying to decide between a gig as a paid MAGA poster or a paid progressive professional street protester.

Become familiar with M2 money supply growth if you want to know what's fueling inflation. I expect this report sets the stage for a Fed rate cut in September which will add more fuel to the fire. In that regard I agree with you that inflation is going to head higher. What they're counting on is real GDP growth will outpace that increase. Will it?

Obviously, the police union is part of Trump's fascist conspiracy to impose "authoritarian" control over Washington DC and soon to follow in 2025 other major cities. Then declare martial law and postpone the 2026 mid-term elections. And in the process, round up the political opposition and put them in FEMA camps in preparation for deportation to El Salvador. 😀

The war on drugs has been waged for decades. So far we've lost most of the battles. A family member worked for the DEA and bluntly said the war on drugs was a farce and pretty much everyone in the agency knew it. Now and finally, it sounds like they're willing to take the dog off the chain. I think the Mexican government secretly would welcome US action to exterminate the cartels. And restore some sembelence of order to the country. But since everyone is in on the take and afraid to rock the boat or get killed for supporting the idea they publicly renounce any US intervention.

Good questions. I hesitate to call 1/6 a hoax. Thete's no doubt some protesters got violent that day but I would call it a wild exaggeration, purely motivated by politics, to suggest the crowd went into the protest with intent to overthrow the government. If that was true then it would be the worst planned and executed insurrection the world has ever seen. As for Pelosi, it's never been investigated, no questions asked or answered by the J6 committee hearings what was going on in her office regarding authorization to deploy the guard. But it sounds like something we should know more about.

Even the guy that invented the PCR test warned of how the amplification factor could lead to false positives and the wrong conclusions about the virus.

What's the plan being proposed by the other side of the isle?

I'm not using polio as a gold standard but simply as an example of a vacine where there's a basic expectation that the shot will keep you from getting sick. In that case contracting polio. The covid shots were initially marketed to the public as just that and when vaccinated people started getting sick the message changed to protection from severe illness and hospitalization while still allowing the transmission of the virus to others. I've read the clinical trial set ups and read outs. The P3 for Pfizer for example mentions immunity. Nowhere do the primary and secondary end points mention the word "protection". By definition if it only provides protection from serious illness the trial should have been determined to be a failure. But public health officials were desperate for a solution. You mentioned flu strains. I mentioned CD388 as an example of efficacy. It might interest you. It's being trialed and touted as a universal flu "vaccine" which does not require tuning to specific strains to be effective. The P2 read backs that up. It might also be effective against covid or other respiratory conditions but to date no trials or data on those.

I think your being evasive. If I get a vaccine I have an expectation it will prevent me from getting the condition the vaccine is designed to immunize against. If i get a polio vaccine i win't get polio. So what percent of people getting the shot were provided immunity from the shot? I'm familiar with clinical trials. I read the results of a trial for a drug called cd388. In a 3 dose trial they reported the highest dose granted immunity from the flu at 75%. That the simple answer I'm looking for regarding covid. I think using real world evidence its close to zero.

Do we know in what percent of the vaccinated population the covid vaccine generated an immune response? I define immune response as infection free where the virus is inhibited from replicating. Unless you suggest a more suitable definition.

Bill Clinton more so. Word is he flew 29 plus or minus times on Eptein's Lolita Express to his private island. This could turn out to be one of those be careful what you wish for situations for libs looking for a lifeline to inhibit Trump's agenda.

Who could have guessed removing a secular dictator that, like others our idiot government has backed removing for 20+ years, would result in a takeover by bloodthirsty jihadist extremists systematically murdering non-believers? Which means pretty much anyone. The biggest goof of the thing is insistence these creeps are "moderates" to make us all feel better about it. Which anyone remotely paying attention knows is a blatant and obvious lie.

The media has already decided the plot here is one of revenge.

The unfortunate thing is none of us have any say in the matter.

The major issues are pretty clear here. 1. The questions of NATO and EU membership for Ukraine. 2. Territorial concessions including Crimea and Donbas. 3. Security guarantees insisted on by Russia. Both side have diametrically opposed positions on each of those. And to this point there is no compromise solution. So either somebody blinks which means Trump breaks ranks with Zelensky and European leadership or Putin backs down, neither of which I can foresee, or its no deal.

Or its like calling somebody a Nazi or a racist. Its a conscious effort and a clever debating tactic used to put the other person on the defensive by transforming a weak or nonexistent argument into something stronger by making a false comparison to an extreme situation. In this case a facility designed, built, and used to systematically exterminate people. To something that isn't anything of the sort. In this case a temporary holding facility to stage deportations. In reality and given logical examination they're light years apart.

Citing a handful of remorseful quotes. It just goes to show you can't please everyone. Job one. Secure the border. Complete. Everyone is happy. If the Dems would have taken controlling the nation's borders as an obvious responsibility of government Trump would have lost. But they didn't. A learning moment largely ignored.

It's all emotion. And drama. 1 or 2 sentences with dire warnings of people dying that leave out context and inconvenient details.

Suggesting I'm defending pedophiles is a weak substitute for a real argument showing why I'm incorrect in pointing out the administration under Biden was less than transparent too. As they readily invoked the ongoing investigation excuse for keeping things hush, hush. It's a fact.

They could possibly invoke the Biden era DOJ/FBI excuse for not answering questions. Something about an ongoing investigation.

What the democrats and the media refuse to pay any attention to, will not talk about, or even acknowledge the existence of, is the subpoenas and grand jury activity around the criminal actions to manufacture and spread the Russia collusion hoax. If anyone is creating a distraction then this is it.

We shouldn't have any blind loyalty to any foreign country. Trump and Congress should dispense of this nonsense. It's a completely ridiculous belief that anyone should be punished for not supporting Israel. Or any other cause for the matter. Its such a stupid idea that I propose we demand unwavering support for Uruguay or Mongolia. How about that? The situation with Israeli is their society is not some homogeneous one-mind entity. The thing nobody in Washington cares to talk about is how ultra-orthodox Jews through Netanyahu have a lot of control over the government. When it comes to keeping the peace they're just as radical and dangerous as Hamas. They compose what they like to call "settlers" that drive West Bank Palestinian residents off the ancestral lands through violence, murder, and government assistance, poison their crops, and slaughter their livestock. They're the group advocating and promoting the extermination of people in Gaza. The fun thing for the orthodox sect is they're exempt from military service. So others do all the fighting. If they were Russians there would be sanctions against them and demands for trials at international courts but our government gives them a lifetime free pass. And just don't dare to say one word out loud to point all this truth out or you'll be tagged as antisemitic.

George Carlin said something to the effect that if politicians suddenly all became "honest" the entire system would devolve into chaos. I'm guessing that will prove to be true as illusions and corruption unwind.