ChiGoose
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1 minute ago, cle23 said:
The Trump appointed FBI Director?
Shh… you can’t be bringing facts into this conversation!Besides, even if it is a Trump appointee, or Trump employee, or someone who relies on Trump for their livelihood, the second they remove their tongue from his ass, they are re-classified as a deep state RINO liberal.
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1 minute ago, DRsGhost said:
You gotta pay extra to watch though-
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Just now, Doc said:
Not "you" you.
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Just now, Doc said:
Yeah, don't talk about it and keep doing what you're doing and it will all go away, eh?
What am I doing? -
Just now, Doc said:
You want a Civil War?
The only people talking civil war are on the right.
Nobody wants a civil war but some people just can’t stop talking about it for some reason.
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1 minute ago, T&C said:
Is this a deflection from the ginormous bill the dems barely got passed? The one that screws most middle/lower class people.
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7 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:
We’re now officially in a Banana Republic under sleepy Joe. Joe is easily the whiniest little beyaaatch ever to be President, a title previously held by Barrack Hussein.
Literally read the words from Trump’s statement. He whines like a toddler who didn’t get dessert.
And screw this banana republic crap. Trump took classified documents from the White House and refused to return them for months. This search is in relation to that.
Anyone who values law and order and/or was upset over Hillary’s emails should be ok with this. Unless it’s really all about partisanship.
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Before we play the classic PPP “jump to conclusions” game, it looks like this is neither some end of law and order nor is it “the big one” that’s finally getting Trump for the election crap.
This appears to be in relation to the 15 boxes of documents he took from the White House and refused to return for months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/politics/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago.html
QuoteThe search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.
Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action being taken to retrieve them.
I am sure that everyone who was upset about Hillary’s emails welcomes this enforcement of the rules around handling of classified materials. -
Just now, DRsGhost said:
LOL. Have we ever had such a whiny little B word for a president before? -
Just in case anyone believes the lie that the Inflation Reduction Act raises taxes on people making less than $400,000:
"The White House has used $400,000 as a rough dividing line for the wealthy relative to middle and lower earners. That income threshold equates to about the top 1% to 2% of American taxpayers.
The new bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, doesn’t directly raise taxes on households below that line, according to tax experts. In other words, the legislation wouldn’t trigger an increase on taxpayers’ annual tax returns if their income is below $400,000, experts said."
However, some are complaining that the other impacts of the law would increase tax burdens on average Americans without raising rates. While there is some truth to that, it is likely that the net effect of the law would more than make up for any increased burden on Americans making less than $400,000:
"“The selective presentation by some of the distributional effects of this bill neglects benefits to middle-class families from reducing deficits, from bringing down prescription drug prices and from more affordable energy,” a group of five former Treasury secretaries from both Democratic and Republican administrations wrote Wednesday.
The $64 billion of total Affordable Care Act subsidies alone would “be more than enough to counter net tax increases below $400,000 in the JCT study,” according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which also estimates Americans would save $300 billion on costs and premiums for prescription drugs
The combined policies would offer a net tax cut for Americans by 2027, the group said."
The bottom line is that poor, middle class, and even many wealthy Americans will be better off financially because of this bill.
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3 hours ago, B-Man said:
ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE DEMOCRAT DISASTER: DRUG PRICE CONTROLS
We have not yet taken the measure of the disaster that is the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act,” perhaps the most absurdly named statute ever. One element of the law that has not gotten enough attention is its imposition of price controls on pharmaceuticals. Price controls are always, and everywhere, a terrible idea. When you apply price controls to a vital product like drugs, the results could be catastrophic.
At Real Clear Policy, my colleague Peter Nelson, who worked at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the Trump administration, where he was in charge of price transparency initiatives, explains:
I coauthored a new report with my colleague John Phelan at Center of the American Experiment which highlights how drug price controls would weaken the U.S. drug industry’s global leadership position and give China the opportunity to control greater market share to advance their national interests.
The package of price controls in the budget reconciliation bill would require Medicare to set prices for certain high-cost drugs and require drug manufacturers to pay rebates to the federal government when price increases exceed inflation. It uses the term “negotiation,” but it operates as a strict price control. That’s because excessive penalties on drug manufacturers for not negotiating make it a negotiation drug companies can’t refuse. Meanwhile, the inflation rebates impose price controls on nearly all drugs covered by Medicare Part D, as well as brand drugs and biologics covered by Medicare Part B.
Europe’s drug manufacturing industry used to be the global leader, but this leadership position eroded over the past three decades and the U.S. now stands on top.
Over the most recent five-year period from 2016 to 2020, the U.S. accounted for 138 of the new chemical and biological drug entities, followed by Europe at 64. Twenty years ago, Europe was on top.
The budget reconciliation bill’s strict price controls create a serious risk that the U.S. drug industry might follow in Europe’s footsteps.
To the benefit of–who else?–China. Much more at the link, and especially in the linked report.
https://files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Drug-Pricing-Report-Final.pdf
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Hey, if you want to shill for big pharma, you go ahead and do that. Personally, I think that Americans should have access to life saving medicine if they need it. -
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58 minutes ago, Andy1 said:
The difference in health between democratic vs republican areas apparently is a real issue. I remember hearing about it recently on radio. I would think that as more laws impacting our health get shifted from federal level to state level, that the disparity in the health gap will widen.
Really makes it hard to believe the GOP actually is “pro-life” since they oppose policies that help people live. -
31 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:
A chance at life isn’t the same as cradle to grave assistance. Anyway, Medicaid exists for a reason.
That may explain why health outcomes are worse in GOP areas than Dem ones.
GOP: once you’re born, you can go die for all we care
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GOP senators remove $35 cap on insulin from reconciliation bill.
They only pretend to be pro-life, but they are very happy to have poor people die.
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5 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
way too cynical to credit Liz with doing the ‘right thing’ for right thing sake, I believe it’s her strategy for the Whitehouse.You may be right, but I don't see her path there. Her brand of not being a conspiracy-believing loon has no home in the modern GOP and she disagrees with Dems on most major policy issues.
Does she run in the GOP primary? If so, I can't see her going anywhere.
I can't see her running in the Dem primary.
Independent? Maybe, but at that point, she's just playing the spoiler and would help re-elect Trump should he run again.
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2 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
While none of this is or should be surprising or unpredicted, it is an absolute delicious irony the dems are upholding the Cheney family as virtuous
Yeah, I don't get why people are so quick to label something / somebody either all good or all bad without any nuance.
Liz Cheney doing the right thing and upholding her oath of office at the expense of her job is definitely admirable. But it doesn't change who she is or the policies she pushes. Same for her dad, who is absolutely an awful person. Glad he's on the right side of this issue, but it doesn't make him a hero.
It's possible to appreciate somebody for a particular action or position without having to lionize them as some great hero. Some people are even suggesting Liz should run on a centrist ticket with the Dems. Absolutely ludicrous. Some Very Online Brain happening around the Cheney's.
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1 minute ago, Gene Frenkle said:
Holy crap - Dick Cheney just eviscerated Trump! Dick ***** Cheney of all people! I actually can't believe my eyes and ears.
What do all the Trumpophiles do now? My guess: throw Cheney under the bus. You loved this man! Obi-wan and Anakin vibes here. You were the chosen one! LMAO
They will say he’s a RINO. Anyone who doesn’t toe the line is a RINO or somehow a democrat.-
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29 minutes ago, B-Man said:
He will "decide" what is free speech or not.
1. He's wrong. Lying is protected under the 1st Amendment. Otherwise, the people on this board claiming the election was stolen would be in jail.
2. He also will not decide what free speech is. That is not the job of a senator.
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16 hours ago, BillStime said:
Is Orban talking about the globalists or the (((globalists)))?
It's so hard to keep these conspiracies straight at this point...
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32 minutes ago, Doc said:
The question is: how do you prove fraud occurred if ID isn't being checked? The answer is: you can't. That's why I say that while we can't prove it happened, we can take steps to make sure it doesn't happen in the future, or at least as much. But Dems are trying their best to prevent voter ID from being shown, for obvious reasons.
You absolutely can do voter verification without ID, just like you can do authentication in regular day-to-day things (like logging into your email) without photo ID. It depends on the state, but generally your voter record includes your name, address, signature and other pieces of data. It's why you have to know all of that information and provide your signature so they can validate before you vote (or in the case of mail-in ballots, it's checked when the ballot arrives). The idea that there are hordes of people out there who both know all of the data for everyone else including signatures, and are going around voting in other people's names is ridiculous and has never found to be true.
I think that voter ID laws would find broader support if they were crafted to solve a problem that actually exists and set up in a way to ensure people have easy access to the right to vote.
But about 10% of Americans do not currently have government issued photo IDs and many of the proposed laws are very specific in carving out certain people, such as not accepting photo IDs from state colleges but allowing other forms like hunting IDs. After Alabama enacted a voter ID law, they closed many DMVs in areas with a high proportion of black residents, making it harder for them to get the ID they need to vote. Many of these laws are not actually about preventing fraud, they're just to make it harder for the "wrong" people to vote.
Ultimately, any kind of bipartisan electoral reform will likely add a photo ID requirement to get GOP votes, but that should only happen if the IDs are both free and easily accessible. Otherwise, it's just making it harder for the people to exercise their franchise.
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Job creation is a hallmark of modern Democratic presidential administrations
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7 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
I don’t think so it was 698 billion I think. The280 and then the other 400B people are talking about.
Maybe I misread it.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out. I would not be surprised if there was pork in the bill, but was the pork in there when it passed the senate with 80+ votes or was it added after?
I pulled the text from (what I believe to be) both versions of the bill and ran a compare on them and found the only difference to be a removal of a single line about taxation of benefits. Which doesn't seem to be a giant slush fund thingy.
However, I am willing to admit I'm wrong. I could have pulled the wrong versions of the text. Or maybe I don't understand the implications of that sentence because I am most certainly not a tax expert. I just wish that the people complaining about how it changed would point to the specific language that changed.
I appreciate you providing insight and evidence into this conversation.
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54 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
It’s right there in the CBO estimate I posted up thread and referenced several times.
I looked through that and I definitely could be reading it wrong, but wasn't that dollar amount in the version passed by the senate in June?
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Didn’t realize Bingobongo was a big fan of Hillary having classified emails on her personal server. Huh. That’s weird.