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How will they rule ??!

  • YES - Qualified

    Votes: 41 82.0%
  • NO - Disqualified

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • Total voters
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Have you reached out for help yet?
That the first step, maybe those around you will give you a second chance once you get treatment.

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Ah, word salad. The interweb equivalent of nonsensical jabbering when trying to evade the truth.
 


It's wild how nationalism is cool when you oppose Trump but not to protect Canada from foreign invaders that actually hate them. Canada will destroy itself to stand up to Trump. LOL. It's nuts.

AND, China is doing EVERYTHING with U.S. dollars..... All seem to forget that if it were not for U.S. dollars China would be a third-world country. The United States has and STILL contributes BILLIONS annually to this communist farce of a self-supporting nation.
 
The top 1% owns 33% of the country's wealth. Top 10% owns like 70% of it. Not exactly healthy.
Most sociological studies agree that a huge disparity in wealth between members of a society is a bad thing that can lead to internal conflicts. That has played out in history more than once. It has worked here so far because we all have "stuff".

That said, taxing isn't the way to go because these people will simply move to New Zealand or wherever and continue on. Also, the common man will always shoulder the majority of the burden of paying the country's bills. There simply aren't enough billionaires to cover the costs.

The only way to really close the gap is to enforce anti monopoly laws and make companies compete. There will still be billionaires but it will be much harder to achieve and sustain because these people tie all their wealth to their multiple companies. Then you must get money out of politics so that those with the money can't do something like, I don't know, buy a presidency.
 
The top 1% owns 33% of the country's wealth. Top 10% owns like 70% of it. Not exactly healthy.
Some people choose to not have money but rather spend every last penny. How do you fix that stupidity, genius? You could give that 33% to the bottom 50% & within 10 years the top 1% would have it back. You really think that if you gave $100K or $500K to every adult on welfare that they'd have any of it in 3 years? Absurd thought. The only way to fix this is to assure everyone has nothing.
 
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"A rising tide lifts all boats," as a low tide sinks all boats.

Raise taxes on rents= rents increase
Rents increase= property values increase
Buyers aren't going to pay more for apartment buildings because rents are up due to more taxes because they are smart enough to know those taxes come out of their rent collections such that there is no added net value to them. I've been there. It ain't hard.
 
a luxury tax on houses over $1M and vehicles over $100K or what I think would be nice is tax on art... If Hunter wants to say his paintings are worth $250K a piece then pay taxes on it big boy. LOL.
Those are called property taxes or wealth taxes. Who is going to decide everything's value each year?
 
I have not had time to read about this. Is he trying to void those pardons and is that constitutional?

(I have no doubt they were fraudulent, like everything else about the democrats.)
Well the constitutionality of some of those pardons themselves should be in question. such as those pre-emptive pardons for crimes they have not been prosecuted for yet.
 
Some people choose to not have money but rather spend every last penny. How do you fix that stupidity, genius? You could give that 33% to the bottom 50% & within 10 years the top 1% would have it back. You really think that if you gave $100K or $500K to every adult on welfare that they'd have any of it in 3 years? Absurd thought. The only way to fix this is to assure everyone has nothing.

Besides the fact that the top 10% are the ones doing all the spending, this...

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Is there a limit where you'd say it's no longer good? Like let's say the top 1% controls 99% of the wealth. Would you say, "yep, free market!"?

That "wealth control" argument has been a staple for socialists and extreme radical leftists for many years when they have gripes against the current economic situation. When the economy is going well, you never hear about it, nor is it relevant to anything in the day to day activities of the business world.
 
Most sociological studies agree that a huge disparity in wealth between members of a society is a bad thing that can lead to internal conflicts. That has played out in history more than once. It has worked here so far because we all have "stuff".

That said, taxing isn't the way to go because these people will simply move to New Zealand or wherever and continue on. Also, the common man will always shoulder the majority of the burden of paying the country's bills. There simply aren't enough billionaires to cover the costs.

The only way to really close the gap is to enforce anti monopoly laws and make companies compete. There will still be billionaires but it will be much harder to achieve and sustain because these people tie all their wealth to their multiple companies. Then you must get money out of politics so that those with the money can't do something like, I don't know, buy a presidency.
Step 1 is making small steps in getting big money out of politics.
 
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That "wealth control" argument has been a staple for socialists and extreme radical leftists for many years when they have gripes against the current economic situation. When the economy is going well, you never hear about it, nor is it relevant to anything in the day to day activities of the business world.
We'll see it pop up more soon.

People already feel left behind with how expensive housing or education is.
AI is gonna eliminate some job functions completely.

Gonna have to figure out someway to rebuild the middle class, because currently it's been getting f'ed for a long time.
 
Lundergan’s Lexington based company, Emergency Disaster Services (EDS), got two no-bid contracts from King Andy during the Covid lockdowns.

Field hospital on UK’s campus = $7 million
Field Hospital in Louisville = $6 million
Total no-bid contracts awarded = $13 million

Total # of other companies allowed to bid = 0
Total # of patients seen = 0

Seems legit.
Yeah buddy.
Government has become a total slush fund con game.
I'm sure nothing came back around the horn to Andy the dandy.
 
That "wealth control" argument has been a staple for socialists and extreme radical leftists for many years when they have gripes against the current economic situation. When the economy is going well, you never hear about it, nor is it relevant to anything in the day to day activities of the business world.

You know damn well I'm not a socialist. I do think that looking at various ratios is important. I think monopolies are often dangerous. The fact you didn't answer my question is telling.
 

This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.

Like every other situation, until it happens to you and yours, it's just not possible for the cognitive dissonance to be broken. It's completely unassailable. I'm thankful to God that my cognitive dissonance was shattered very early in life and hasn't been rebuilt. I look at everything now at face value (objectively) rather than assuming or trusting ANYTHING based on any number of fallacies people might throw out there to try to convince me.
 
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To add to what I posted earlier about cognitive dissonance-

WAITING on information or going out and getting information, rather than jumping to a spoonfed conclusion without evidence or understanding is key, but there are some things that only God can reveal through His spirit to people with a heart after His. The things about which we as believers are given understanding is not because of our righteousness or wisdom, but because of His great mercy and faithfulness.

Most of what I know is because He has put me in a position to understand the deception beforehand, in the moment, or afterward. I just have to be patient and not lean on my own heart/understanding. He gives proofs of what He reveals.
 
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BS.
Dumbass far right loons cutting off cancer research because a black man and Asian woman are working in an office somewhere at John Hopkins.
Idiots
It's common knowledge that practically every university in the country went full "woke" and discriminated against whites and asians alike in favor of lesser qualified applicants.

We voted to end DEI, because at it's core it's nothing more than reverse discrimination. The applicant who has the most experience and knowledge should get the job, regardless of race, but DEI discriminates against whites and asians, even if they ARE the best candidate.

I seriously doubt the people doing actual research will be affected; they will find waste in other areas to cope with the loss of funding.
 
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