POLITICAL THREAD

[Catemus]

The Commonwealth will soon condemn property in Knott County “to build homes for flood survivors” if the owners do not agree to sell. Is this legal? When did we get to the point that government can take property from an owner and give it to another in the form of a “housing project?”

Is welfare out of control in this country? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, since we know that it is. But is this project a representation of how extreme it has become? Is Kentucky becoming like Louisiana where hundreds of thousands are voluntarily locked into generational welfare?

How is this happening in what is supposedly one of the reddest states in the Union? Is vote farming a cancer in both parties equally?

When is that Elon Musk spaceship supposed to be ready to head for Mars? Anybody know the price for tickets?

Eastern Ky. county considering eminent domain of property

The property’s taxable value is 2.5 million dollars.

www.wymt.com

 

[vhcat70]

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What? He wants to start WW3?

 

[vhcat70]

Agree. Should’ve been taken down over the Pacific.

What's illegal about it flying over Pacific?

 

[jameslee32]

Comparing works by Jewish authors to pornography and grooming materials.

Your modern left, everyone.

No, he's one of yours.

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[hmt5000]

This should be fun. Lots of talk Antifa, now come. The body bags will be waiting for you. Kiss your mama good-bye before you leave the house.

Yea. Ask the NFA coalition how that worked out in KY. They were talking about shutting down Louisville by shutting down every road into the city. Once they started to realize that Louisville politicians couldn't protect them in Meade, Bullitt, Spency, Oldham and Shelby co's they just shut down downtown.

 

[exemjr]

I bet you haven't forgot about cake...it gets mentioned 137 times a day on here.

With all the talk here lately about cake and balloons, I feel like I'm reading a play-by-play of a birthday party. If there's a world record for most number of posts about a cake in a week, Dion undoubtedly shattered it.

 

[bigblueinsanity]

The Commonwealth will soon condemn property in Knott County “to build homes for flood survivors” if the owners do not agree to sell. Is this legal? When did we get to the point that government can take property from an owner and give it to another in the form of a “housing project?”

Is welfare out of control in this country? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, since we know that it is. But is this project a representation of how extreme it has become? Is Kentucky becoming like Louisiana where hundreds of thousands are voluntarily locked into generational welfare?

How is this happening in what is supposedly one of the reddest states in the Union? Is vote farming a cancer in both parties equally?

When is that Elon Musk spaceship supposed to be ready to head for Mars? Anybody know the price for tickets?

Eastern Ky. county considering eminent domain of property

The property’s taxable value is 2.5 million dollars.

www.wymt.com

It's both legal and constitutional. The big issue here is the land company who owns that land is intentionally jacking up the price because they know the county needs it.

The county needs it because about 10-12% of their population became homeless overnight from flooding. Fema predictably gave them essentially nothing, so they're still homeless and with no means to ever obtain another living situation.

So there were two options. Either the dumba$$ epa lift their block on dredging, which causes these floods to be so devastating or buy land on which to build permanent housing. The epa would not budge so there had to be a large land purchase. Only one such swath of vacant land exists and its owned by a holding/investment company, who wants an astronomical amount because they know it's desperately needed.

I'm not personally much on eminent domain but in a case like this I think it's justified.

To your other question - yes this will absolutely lock even more into generational welfare. The government caused the problem decades ago by stopping dredging. Then they refused to make it right via fema. So now this will be the only option for many families who once owned their home/land.

 

[AustinTXCat]

the balloon meltdown continues! hide your kids from the balloons!

 

[Freetaxreturn]

It's both legal and constitutional. The big issue here is the land company who owns that land is intentionally jacking up the price because they know the county needs it.

The county needs it because about 10-12% of their population became homeless overnight from flooding. Fema predictably gave them essentially nothing, so they're still homeless and with no means to ever obtain another living situation.

So there were two options. Either the dumba$$ epa lift their block on dredging, which causes these floods to be so devastating or buy land on which to build permanent housing. The epa would not budge so there had to be a large land purchase. Only one such swath of vacant land exists and its owned by a holding/investment company, who wants an astronomical amount because they know it's desperately needed.

I'm not personally much on eminent domain but in a case like this I think it's justified.

To your other question - yes this will absolutely lock even more into generational welfare. The government caused the problem decades ago by stopping dredging. Then they refused to make it right via fema. So now this will be the only option for many families who once owned their home/land.

This is for dion and plat to explain, they know everything and have all the answers as well as lol man clown 🍺

 

[OHIO COLONEL]

Was reading about the caddie at Pebble Beach who collapsed in the 11th fairway yesterday who they say was basically dead and had CPR till the ambulance got there. The foursome included Lukas Nelson....Willie's son.
Didn't know he had a son in the music biz.

Yet another death/near death that looks fishy.

 

[Freetaxreturn]

For our resident libs

 

[dbmhoosier]

I'm sure all the new IRS agents they hired are on it.

 

[55wildcat]

Why would China send a spy balloon when the current administration basically gave them the keys to the WhiteHouse ,a corvette garage, not to mention Swallwells spy.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

Why the hell don’t we send 6 or 8 balloons over China see what they do. All thes tough guys here who hate Russia hell China is by far the bigger threat to the globe. Send in the balloons. We have appeased the hell outta China and made them rich. We ll confront Russia but piss our leg for xi.

Launched from where?

 

[mdlUK.1]

 

[Wildcats1st]

Launched from where?

From my Everest. Come on man I’m no scientist I just know it’s doable. Follow the prevailing wind patterns and add some type of propolsion device as it seems with the balloons sent over cr and USA. Launching a weather balloon is simple

 

[BarnabusStinson]

Obviously, Hunter the Crackhead Pedophile was disseminating classified info he received from his demented dad, to the highest foreign bidder. Instead of inquiring about this illegal & incredibly damaging revelation, the Marxist anti-American fake news Nazi media is providing defense for these & any of the myriad of abhorrent crimes this dynamic duo has committed.

 

[Freetaxreturn]

I’m positive that @Dionysus444 and @Platinumdrgn and the rest of the lib lot already knew about this but kept it secret because of fear that global warming would have on them

 

[Catemus]

It's both legal and constitutional. The big issue here is the land company who owns that land is intentionally jacking up the price because they know the county needs it.

The county needs it because about 10-12% of their population became homeless overnight from flooding. Fema predictably gave them essentially nothing, so they're still homeless and with no means to ever obtain another living situation.

So there were two options. Either the dumba$$ epa lift their block on dredging, which causes these floods to be so devastating or buy land on which to build permanent housing. The epa would not budge so there had to be a large land purchase. Only one such swath of vacant land exists and its owned by a holding/investment company, who wants an astronomical amount because they know it's desperately needed.

I'm not personally much on eminent domain but in a case like this I think it's justified.

To your other question - yes this will absolutely lock even more into generational welfare. The government caused the problem decades ago by stopping dredging. Then they refused to make it right via fema. So now this will be the only option for many families who once owned their home/land.

This reminds me of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. Welfare recipients, a whole community, were living below sea level next to a levee that was keeping Lake Ponchartrain from engulfing them. Katrina caused the levee to fail, thousands of people’s homes were destroyed and 1100 people drowned across the New Orleans area.

I volunteered to help and was shocked to learn that the people living in that community were at least 3 generations (the most I observed) deep in welfare. How did I know that? I asked them. They were completely up front with it. It was just ordinary to them.

Most of those people wound up in FEMA trailers while their community was being rebuilt, unbelievebly in the same spot, next to the rebuilt levee. Some whose residences couldn’t be rebuilt still live in those trailers, 18 years later.

Now I see something similar happening in Kentucky, although to a very different group of people. It’s not surprising that FEMA refused to help.

Before the schism in American politics, I don’t remember government getting involved like this. There were agencies such as the Red Cross that helped but no government acted as a flood or catastrophe insurer for Americans.

This makes me think that government welfare is a tool of both political parties and that welfare in this country has become extreme.

 

[Dionysus444]

And, this redundant post requires the easy explanation as to the court’s ridiculous intentional error. Phillips makes cakes for the Alphabet Community. So, identity as a LGBT individual WAS NOT the reason for his refusal. Dion refuses to acknowledge this fact, because it destroys his blue cake/pink cake sue cake/stink cake narrative. The reason for the refusal was because the baker was told the purpose of the cake was so the patron could celebrate his/her/their denial of their God given sex, an affront to the baker’s religious conviction. In short, the court created a false conclusion that fringe liberals will buy, but is not consistent with what Phillips himself has said. When a court makes such conclusions, you should be wary of judicial activism.

SUPPLEMENTAL: let me add that if a heterosexual identifying patron informed the baker that he wanted a cake to celebrate something that was against the baker’s religion, that patron would likewise be rebuffed. So, this is not about identity, but about religion and speech.

Disclaimer: I’ve made two posts signaling my willingness to end the topic to respect the wishes of the thread. And they keep being responded to by others, so obviously more people than just myself are interested in the topic. Refer all future complaints about cake posts to @Caveman Catfan for continuing this.


He’s denying service of a pink cake with blue frosting to someone that he himself states he would sell to someone else. It doesn’t matter that he sells some cakes to trans people. They’re the same as anyone else and have the right to the same cake as anyone else. He isn’t allowed to sell a pink cake with blue frosting to a cishet man, but refuse to sell that same pink cake with blue frosting to a trans person, regardless of what he thinks the cake’s for. That is the heart of the issue.

He’s allowed to refuse service for any reason that isn’t a protected class. But Colorado has more protections under CADA than federally. For instance marital status is also protected. So if a cishet man wants a black cake with white frosting for his divorce Phillips still has to bake that reasonable, inherently inexpressive cake even if divorce was against his religion. Or obviously he’s free to not and close his doors.

You’ve accused me of dodging issues but I’ve addressed every one you can put forth. To the exasperation of the thread even.

 

[Dionysus444]

I’m positive that @Dionysus444 and @Platinumdrgn and the rest of the lib lot already knew about this but kept it secret because of fear that global warming would have on them

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I have no idea what you mean about climate change but those pictures are from years ago. The Amazon has been having massive illegal logging issues for years, exacerbated by Bolsonaro’s policies and support. Uncontacted tribes like the Yanomami shown here are at serious risk. Y’all’s rightwing BS is literally killing them.

A Christian missionary bribed his way onto North Sentinel Island several years ago too to spread y’all’s crap. Luckily they pumped him full of arrows.

 

[Freetaxreturn]

This reminds me of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. Welfare recipients, a whole community, were living below sea level next to a levee that was keeping Lake Ponchartrain from engulfing them. Katrina caused the levee to fail, thousands of people’s homes were destroyed and 1100 people drowned across the New Orleans area.

I volunteered to help and was shocked to learn that the people living in that community were at least 3 generations (the most I observed) deep in welfare. How did I know that? I asked them. They were completely up front with it. It was just ordinary to them.

Most of those people wound up in FEMA trailers while their community was being rebuilt, unbelievebly in the same spot, next to the rebuilt levee. Some whose residences couldn’t be rebuilt still live in those trailers, 18 years later.

Now I see something similar happening in Kentucky, although to a very different group of people. It’s not surprising that FEMA refused to help.

Before the schism in American politics, I don’t remember government getting involved like this. There were agencies such as the Red Cross that helped but no government acted as a flood or catastrophe insurer for Americans.

This makes me think that government welfare is a tool of both political parties and that welfare in this country has become extreme.

New Olens to us is like Louisville to you guys 🍺

 

[Freetaxreturn]

Why would China send a spy balloon when the current administration basically gave them the keys to the WhiteHouse ,a corvette garage, not to mention Swallwells spy.

 

[BlueRunner11]

 

[55wildcat]

Mush head lets them look into every window of “our house” before eliminating the threat. I feel super safe from our threats, don’t you? Our country is ran by Barnum and Bailey.

 

[BlueRunner11]

What's illegal about it flying over Pacific?

When it crossed into our airspace in the pacific

 

[BlueRunner11]

Mush head lets them look into every window of “our house” before eliminating the threat. I feel super safe from our threats, don’t you? Our country is ran by Barnum and Bailey.

Yeah we came across timid and indecisive imo. Typical Biden response. If you’re China, why not just send 50 of them over at once with some bs stuffed in them next time.

 

[55wildcat]

How many sniffings do you think the Chinese picked up with their balloon?

 

[Freetaxreturn]

The official story will be , we defended our airspace but unfortunately the strike on the weather ballon probably damaged any and all hard drives on the balloon and it sank to depths unreachable 🍺

 

[TheFrontRunner]

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Wonder why Joe...

 

[55wildcat]

Over/ under on finding more classified documents on the Biden buddy balloon

 

[AustinTXCat]

I love how the maga morons are having a meltdown over a balloon. ITs the end times! The Dems should hire a clown like Trump to do some balloon art.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

From my Everest. Come on man I’m no scientist I just know it’s doable. Follow the prevailing wind patterns and add some type of propolsion device as it seems with the balloons sent over cr and USA. Launching a weather balloon is simple

So you don't know much about Mt Everest or the Nepalese government. Launching it from Everest is unlikely for many reasons. The main one is the Nepalese government who general has good relationships with China. It is also huge. Messing with that at high altitude would be more than a challenge. Yes, launching one is simple. Getting it to go where you want is not. Even though the pentagon claims it has maneuverability, no one seems to know what that could be other than up and down.

Why even bother. Our satellites can tell you what Xi is eating in a courtyard. It's a bit hard to understand the purpose of the balloon unless their satellites just aren't nearly as good.

 

[Dionysus444]

Republicans: mad about not shooting a balloon, now mad about shooting a balloon. Stay mad y'all.

 

[jameslee32]

🤣

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

Culture wars. Being anti-LGBTQ is more important to them than their own self-interest. LBJ's quote about rednecks and minorities is as true today as it's ever been: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

You are usually better than that lazy, unintelligent post.

 

[jameslee32]

Republicans: mad about not shooting a balloon, now mad about shooting a balloon. Stay mad y'all.

🤣

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

The official story will be , we defended our airspace but unfortunately the strike on the weather ballon probably damaged any and all hard drives on the balloon and it sank to depths unreachable 🍺

If they don't understand that the balloon was almost certainly uploading data live, we are in even deeper trouble than I thought. Hard drives, on the balloon, are not required or likely.

 

[BigBlueFanGA]

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Good, it's down. But letting it cross the country first is troubling. You don't understand that or are you back to being so partisan that you refuse to see the obvious.