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Libertarianism has a lot of followers that don't think it through very far. They talk big but a lot wouldn't lift a finger to help implement anything, which is why it has so far failed as a movement.
You can't have free trade between an economic system that pays $3 per day and one that pays $7 per hour. If you can't reason that through then your ideology is a sht ideology backed by stupidity. Everything in between those extremes of pay scale also nukes the libertarian platform.
Same goes for immigration. Open borders is stupidity. If you have open borders you have no borders. Are libertarians so stupid that they believe people are altruistic these days? Have they not seen any international news the last 30 years? OR is it that libertarians HAVE seen the news and know that human rights would be destroyed very quickly with open borders and they either don't care or want them destroyed?
Libertarians are generally speaking as clueless as liberals, because they choose their ideology based on what sounds cool or is most convenient, as if these choices weren't available to the founders of this country. All of these choices were rejected for good reason, and for that I'm thankful.
A constitutional republic, with limitations placed on the govt, immutable rights granted by God rather than men, and borders and citizens to be defended and protected, rather than exploited and sold like chattel, is STILL the best solution. And, as always, it is only one or two ignorant generations from being lost and must be actively supported and preserved.
Nah... I'm actually starting to laugh as all the funding to poor ass red states begins to dry up.
FAFO red state teat suckers.
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Map shows red states losing the most funding from NIH cuts
The NIH's new 15 percent limit on indirect funding could cost states billions of dollars in medical research funding.
www.newsweek.com
University of Kentucky expects to lose $40M in next year from Trump’s NIH cuts
University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said he expects the Trump administration policy will cut tens of millions of dollars annually from its National Institutes of Health funding for research.
www.lpm.org
Hundreds of Americans get surprise electric bill after Trump change
A grant received by residents in need of assistance with their heating bills was rescinded by a recent executive order.
www.newsweek.com
Updated: Georgia Risks Losing Billions in Federal Funds for Public Schools - Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
Without significant investment in the state’s public school system, the state of Georgia will violate a federal requirement for maintenance of equity in the American Rescue Plan and will risk losing billions in federal relief aid.
gbpi.org
Trump Executive Order Takes Back Funds to Help Low-Income Alabama Residents Pay Electric Bills - Inside Climate News
Many of the 2,000 Alabama households impacted had already seen the funds credited to their accounts and will have to pay the money back on their next bill.
insideclimatenews.org
Trump orders cut federal transportation funds in Tennessee - Nashville Banner
Trump's executive orders have raised concerns about federal funding for infrastructure and clean energy projects in Nashville and Tennessee.
nashvillebanner.com
‘Real damage’: SC groups worry over damage from threat of Trump’s funding freeze
Leaders of South Carolina non-profits and community outreach programs are breathing at least a temporary sigh of relief as they learned late Wednesday afternoon that President Trump rescinded the freeze on federal loans and grants.
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I have first hand experience with competing with China in manufacturing. Forty years ago, I worked thirty people in a low skill manufacturing job. I paid what I could afford to pay and offered health insurance and paid a portion of their premium. Pretty much slave labor Chinese products came in and dominated the market. It wasn't long before people like me were going out of business. The jobs and the health insurance were also gone.
As usual, the full context isn't given regarding what RFK said about Trump. The only part included in most transcripts and articles was the "white horse" comment, and everybody flew off in different directions of assumption of what was meant by it. They didn't include the rest of the context.
RFKj went further and said the following-
thenationalpulse.com
Also, white horse symbolism is not limited to the Bible. It's been used throughout history as a symbol of hope, not just purity. A "knight in shining armor," and "riding a white horse" are symbolic of rescue as well as hope on a grand scale as well as a small one. We need to stop letting other people frame how we see things and think for ourselves a little more.
There is no way RFK was placing Trump on a biblical or pagan, god or savior level in his comments. In fact, it was simply about God providing Trump as a vehicle for him to reform the health of this country. I hope RFK doesn't sell out or stop short.
RFKj went further and said the following-
'God Sent Me President Trump' — RFK Jr. Sworn In as HHS Secretary.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been officially sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in the Oval Office.
thenationalpulse.com
Also, white horse symbolism is not limited to the Bible. It's been used throughout history as a symbol of hope, not just purity. A "knight in shining armor," and "riding a white horse" are symbolic of rescue as well as hope on a grand scale as well as a small one. We need to stop letting other people frame how we see things and think for ourselves a little more.
There is no way RFK was placing Trump on a biblical or pagan, god or savior level in his comments. In fact, it was simply about God providing Trump as a vehicle for him to reform the health of this country. I hope RFK doesn't sell out or stop short.
FAFO!!!!! Cut baby cut!!!!
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Report finds proposed changes to Medicaid funding would hit Kentucky, other rural states hard - NKyTribune
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Nearly one-third of Medicaid funding could be on the chopping block as lawmakers look for ways to reduce the national deficit. A new report found the proposed changes, totaling around $2.5 trillion, are more likely to harm rural communities and small towns...
nkytribune.com
Federal Funds Make Up Half of West Virginia's Budget; Cuts Would Shift Hundreds of Millions in Costs to State - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
Federal dollars support a wide array of public services and systems that touch the lives of all West Virginians — from health care and food assistance to child care and public schools. Under both the Trump Administration and Congress, many of these programs are being considered for deep cuts or...
wvpolicy.org
New Report Shows Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Fails to Help Middle Class - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
For Immediate Release Contact: Caitlin Cook, 304.720.8682 A new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reveals a federal tax reform plan based on President Trump’s April outline would fail to deliver on its promise of largely helping middle-class taxpayers, showering 61.4...
wvpolicy.org
Donald Trump’s push to freeze federal funds sparks confusion in Texas
Texas cities, counties, higher education institutions and nonprofits clambered Tuesday to gauge the potential fallout from the suspension, later blocked temporarily by a federal judge.
www.texastribune.org
Oklahoma lawmakers seemingly caught off guard by Trump's 'pause' on federal loans, grants
President Donald Trump on Tuesday, ordered a halt to all federal grants and loans starting today. The action could have a profound impact in Oklahoma.
How NIH funding cuts could impact Arkansas hospital organizations
Organizations across the country are figuring out next steps after the National Institutes of Health announced a plan to cut biomedical funding nationwide.
www.thv11.com
Heh, Matt's a local guy and tells it like it is.
Cut baby cut!!!!
And cut some more.
FAFO. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Quit sucking off the government teat red states!!!
States Most Dependent on the Federal Government - 2022 Edition - SmartAsset
To find out which states are most dependent on the federal government, SmartAsset analyzed and compared data for all 50 states across a series of metrics.
smartasset.com
If it takes retards on the left believing it hurts republicans if the federal government cuts spending for them to support it, I see no sense in arguing with them.
Cutting federal spending will hurt republicans the most. So obviously the left should support cutting as much as possible.
Cutting federal spending will hurt republicans the most. So obviously the left should support cutting as much as possible.
How much money does the View get from USAID?
Those women have no business in prominent positions. What if it was their child? Wow
ICE Apprehends Illegal Immigrant Accused of Child Rape After Sanctuary State Ignored Detainer.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained Jose Fernando-Perez, 49, in Framingham, Massachusetts, after local law enforcement did
Bleeding Heart Liberal Leslie Marshall from SoCal just on TV saying her daughter's friend's mother (of course she gave a vague example) was a Sunday school teacher that was just taken out of church last week and deported. She said she came here at 3 years of age and has never even had a traffic ticket. Her husband is in the US and was not targeted. I call complete and utter BS on this. They will stop at nothing to muddy the waters.
He was an idiot then and he's an idiot now.
All of the times President Trump said Covid-19 will disappear
Since February, the president has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to vanish or is currently vanishing.
edition.cnn.com
Looking at this again... This sentiment really pisses me the f off. Not at you personally, but to all the people in America who have been tricked into thinking this way. The purpose of a community - and in a broader sense a country - is that we should take care of each other and try to optimize our community / country to the benefit of all of us.
Your stance - and the stance of so many in this country is - "I want what's best for me right now and to hell with the rest of you". Of course that's up until the time you need help from society.
I took a graduate level constitutional law class in college because it allowed me to double-dip for some cross-disciplinary credits. Would have never been interested in it or researched it on my own, but man, you learned a lot about why and how some pretty significant federal laws were created. The most interesting ones had to do with water rights and "right to light" laws. Basically, the water rights laws centered around what you could do with a stream that went through your property and the light laws dictated what you could build next to a building that already existed as to not block out that building's sunlight as there was no electricity at the time. IIRC there were even different water laws for west of the Mississippi vs east of it as there was much more water to go around on the East side.
I bring this up because as you can surmise one person's complete freedom can totally eff up the economic value of another person's property, and therefore as a society we've decided to put some laws in place to benefit all parties.
However, when I talk to libertarians, they say shit like, "if I own a portion of a stream that flows through my property I should be able to do what I want with it". My libertarian uncle even said he should be able to dump pollutants into the stream if he wanted cause it's his. This line of thinking is so perverse I can't come to grips with it.
And companies like Wal-Mart did the same thing to mom and pop businesses all across the country using those cheap goods from China. Double whammy.
Free trade is fine so long as it is fair. What we have had in this country for the last three or four decades is far from either.
Exactly. The whole idea is survival of the fittest and wealthiest, and fk the guy trying to make it without infringing on the rights of others. The libertarians of the 1700s would have been split down the middle as to which side to promote during the revolution.
George Soros himself is basically libertarian. That is the entire premise of his open society foundation. Money for the sake of money. It's great for those who have it, because the gap between rich and poor grows exponentially as the poor and middle class merge at the bottom of the wage scale. It's what has been happening to this country for over 30 years.
I believe in what David Ricardo and others said about free trade where you look at comparative advantages and traded accordingly. For example, Canada has a lot of maple syrup. We grow a lot of corn. Let's trade.
The angle on China can be defined in those terms as well. They have a lot of low-wage people. We grow a lot of corn. Let's trade our corn for their manufactured products. In theory, that's great. The problem is, you're not factoring in all the externalities (e.g., impact on communities, building up of our military rival) of that choice into the benefits of the cheaper products. When you factor those costs in, it more than makes up for the difference of what a US-made (or even Mexican made) product is.
He was an idiot then and he's an idiot now.
All of the times President Trump said Covid-19 will disappear
Since February, the president has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to vanish or is currently vanishing.
The only idiots are the people salivating at all his court cases only to see him now stand over all of them, looking down.
LOL @ Democrats. Complete buffoon's living in denial. LMAO!
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If I were the PM of England, when Soros made his first $B sinking the bank of England I would have sent MI6 to snipe his ass. TS.
Owning a small business takes guts. Probably will take a few years off the owner’s life due to stress incurred and loss of sleep.
^ I see the useful idiot boy wonder has received his new DNCcp talking points and on another spam tirade.FAFO!!!!! Cut baby cut!!!!
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Report finds proposed changes to Medicaid funding would hit Kentucky, other rural states hard - NKyTribune
By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Nearly one-third of Medicaid funding could be on the chopping block as lawmakers look for ways to reduce the national deficit. A new report found the proposed changes, totaling around $2.5 trillion, are more likely to harm rural communities and small towns...
Federal Funds Make Up Half of West Virginia's Budget; Cuts Would Shift Hundreds of Millions in Costs to State - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
Federal dollars support a wide array of public services and systems that touch the lives of all West Virginians — from health care and food assistance to child care and public schools. Under both the Trump Administration and Congress, many of these programs are being considered for deep cuts or...
New Report Shows Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Fails to Help Middle Class - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
For Immediate Release Contact: Caitlin Cook, 304.720.8682 A new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy reveals a federal tax reform plan based on President Trump’s April outline would fail to deliver on its promise of largely helping middle-class taxpayers, showering 61.4...
Donald Trump’s push to freeze federal funds sparks confusion in Texas
Texas cities, counties, higher education institutions and nonprofits clambered Tuesday to gauge the potential fallout from the suspension, later blocked temporarily by a federal judge.
Oklahoma lawmakers seemingly caught off guard by Trump's 'pause' on federal loans, grants
President Donald Trump on Tuesday, ordered a halt to all federal grants and loans starting today. The action could have a profound impact in Oklahoma.www.yahoo.com
How NIH funding cuts could impact Arkansas hospital organizations
Organizations across the country are figuring out next steps after the National Institutes of Health announced a plan to cut biomedical funding nationwide.
A number of years ago, a company was trying to take advantage of the Wal-Mart "made in America" thing they were pushing. This company had me make a trial order for WalMart. Wal-Mart sent an inspector to my site to investigate and watch us manufacture for a day. All the company wanted was to get their foot in the door with Wal-Mart and become a qualified supplier. They started importing my products and several other items instead of having them made in the USA. I don't know if Wal-Mart realized they had done the old switcheroo or not, but they were selling made in the USA products that were imports. For several years, Wal-Mart sent me emails inviting me to offer them proposals for my product, but I never made an offer.
Looking at em, I'm fairly certain they get money from FarmAid.
I f'ing love the articles that say, "so and so USAID program that gives red state dickhead university $15M to study obscure bullshit on chopping block; confuses employees" as if that crap was doing society some great favor.
Steve Bannon is pushing reparations from the Waltons and I am ALL FOR IT.
DEI at it's best.....
www.thegatewaypundit.com
Female Secret Service Agent Trainee Shoots Herself and is Airlifted to Hospital Emergency Room | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger
A disturbing training accident involving a female Secret Service agent trainee raises critical questions about safety protocols and oversight within elite security agencies. Insights from Real Clear Politics shed light on this alarming event.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
Familiar with the Longaberger Basket story in Ohio? Huge basket making business. Had several large factories close to the 'Amish Country' of east central Ohio. Chinese import baskets started coming in and the business is now gone.
This was their home office......
Women have no business in fields like this.DEI at it's best.....
Female Secret Service Agent Trainee Shoots Herself and is Airlifted to Hospital Emergency Room | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger
A disturbing training accident involving a female Secret Service agent trainee raises critical questions about safety protocols and oversight within elite security agencies. Insights from Real Clear Politics shed light on this alarming event.
Posting a CNN link to anything COVID related has to be satire, right? This will be a waste of time and energy, but this is going to get good with you trying to defend Biden/left's stance and actions on COVID.He was an idiot then and he's an idiot now.
All of the times President Trump said Covid-19 will disappear
Since February, the president has declared at least 38 times that Covid-19 is either going to vanish or is currently vanishing.
When I lived in Atlanta I did a lot of traveling all over the South. In the 70s/early 80s a lot of bypasses were built around small towns to alleviate traffic going thru the towns. Most if not all these towns had thriving downtowns with many small, local businesses. A year or two after the bypasses were built, or sooner, WalMart and McDonalds built on the bypass....which led to more regional/national companies coming in and building as well. Within years the town(s) were dead with boarded up stores.
Well, to her credit, she wasn't wrong, It is two letters.
Dude, stop it. Obama merely thinks about banging dudes every day. He doesn't actually do it.
Name 1 thing I posted that is untrue. Red states are way more dependent on federal government dollars than blue states as a percentage of their state expenditures.
DOGE is gonna kick y'all's red asses. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Top 12 biggest teat suckers in US are red states.
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More DOGE I say!! Get off the big blue tax teat bitc***.
Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025
Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025
Well done by Vance here
www.foxnews.com
Vance eviscerates 'Soviet'-style European censorship in address to Munich Security Conference
In a speech to European leaders, Vice President JD Vance said the continent's recent record of censorship was a bigger threat to its existence than Russian meddling.
Name 1 thing I posted that is untrue. Red states are way more dependent on federal government dollars than blue states as a percentage of their state expenditures.
DOGE is gonna kick y'all's red asses. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Top 12 biggest teat suckers in US are red states.
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More DOGE I say!! Get off the big blue tax teat bitc***.
Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025
Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025wallethub.com
I'm reminded of a poem:
At first they came for Sambowieshin, and all of the Cat's Pause cheered cause F him.
Reality getting ready to hit the poor ass red states that have been sponging off of blue states for years. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Minnesota, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois and Florida are least dependent on the federal government. These states all contribute multiples more to the federal government than they receive, with residents paying at least $5 in taxes for every $1 in direct support received from the federal government."
Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025
Most & Least Federally Dependent States in 2025
Tell that to the women and children bombed and blown to pieces in Ukraine.Well done by Vance here
Vance eviscerates 'Soviet'-style European censorship in address to Munich Security Conference
In a speech to European leaders, Vice President JD Vance said the continent's recent record of censorship was a bigger threat to its existence than Russian meddling.
Trump and Vance are F'ing idiots if they truly believe that.
Ukraine war: Three dead as maternity hospital hit by Russian air strike
Three people including a child were killed in the attack on the city of Mariupol, officials say.
www.bbc.com
Russian attack kills at least 3 in Kyiv as Ukrainian drone strikes set Russian fuel stores alight
Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles, leaving at least four people dead, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.
apnews.com
Russia’s July 8 Attack on a Children’s Hospital in Ukraine
Russian forces’ strikes on multiple cities in Ukraine on July 8, 2024, killed at least 42 civilians, including five children, and injured at least 190, according to Ukrainian authorities. The attacks also caused significant damage to vital infrastructure, including the Okhmatdyt children’s...
A drone pierced the outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant. Radiation levels are normal
A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike punched a hole in the shell and briefly started a fire.
apnews.com
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