Politics

[sestoppelman]

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[Hunt anything]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1705406778903544076

My solution to “them” paying for the wall would be 10-20% sir charge on each money transfer from the US to Mexico. That would raise a significant chunk of change pretty damned fast!

 

[Hogpatrol]

Ouch

 

[Tanks]

I disagree- Biden is worse than worthless.
Worth less means he has zero worth.
Biden's worth is actually a large negative number. I'm not sure what word in the English language would be used to describe someone who would need a couple lifetimes of worth just to get to a net zero.

I think one has to be pragmatic and make the best of it. My company is involved in multiple seven figure public works projects due to onerous EPA regulations that were implemented.

Now, the oil and gas production side of our business is down, but emissions compliance side is making up for it in oil and gas industry.

 

[Graham Hunter]

I think one has to be pragmatic and make the best of it. My company is involved in multiple seven figure public works projects due to onerous EPA regulations that were implemented.

Now, the oil and gas production side of our business is down, but emissions compliance side is making up for it in oil and gas industry.

Lucky you! Doesn't help the rest of us much or the Country in General.

 

[Tanks]

Lucky you! Doesn't help the rest of us much or the Country in General.

My point is that there are opportunities out there regardless of who is in power. One just has to roll with the punches.

Look at this aid for Ukraine. Most of those billions we are allocating for them are in military aid. US companies are producing them and employing tens of thousands of people.

Can it be better? Sure, but no point in crying about it.

 

[fourfive8]

Like the dumber than dirt MSM saying, "Whoo hoo, look how good the economy is... the Dow is up 30%, unemployment is near all time lows in the 3s, Bidenomics is working, see, see!..... while everyone's retirement funds are down 30% in value and their savings and power of their money has suffered compounded double digit inflation over the past 2 1/2 years". Whoo hoo my ass! Oh, I know it's just a conspiracy theory of the right wing MAGA crowd. The problem is it is real! Most are staring straight at the hard numbers in their family's budget in disbelief because they've been told it isn't real.

 

[Doug3006]

It’s a losing gambit they’re running. You can’t fool people into believing this nonsense while they watch their disposable income evaporate. In previous election cycles, Biden would be toast. It may not be the case this time.

 

[Wathe208]

My point is that there are opportunities out there regardless of who is in power. One just has to roll with the punches.

Great opportunities on the backs of hard working taxpayers funding bullshit projects and programs with the choice of either pay taxes, lose your assets, or go to jail. Modern day slavery while some win the "lotto" with more printed bullshit greenbacks. All regardless, and dependant upon, who is in power. PPP, ERTC, CFAP, IRA.......and on and on and on......!

 

[Tanks]

I am not saying the economy is great. I paid $6.09 per gallon for gas this week and my light bill was over $500/month this summer.
However, people are not voting on the economy but personality politics.

If people still dislike Trump more than the economy, then Biden will win. Not to mention Biden is using the Federal purse strings to buy votes.

 

[Wathe208]

Gas, food, housing, interest....agreed, all ridiculously high, and continue to climb and are leading to stagnation, not an argument for a great economy. All small issues in the grand scheme. We're simply spending our posterities money for unforseen generations to come. Look at our national debt to GDP today compared to even 20 years ago. It's really no longer a matter of "if," but "when." I spoke with Representative Simpson last summer and asked him who he and Congress thinks will pay for all these trillion plus dollar packages? His honest response was they all know they're kicking the can, but none are willing to lose the votes, and eventually the house of cards will topple upon us. Pretty fricking cool, huh?

Apologies, but your comment about making the most of government regulations by having multi million dollar projects awarded to you from onerous EPA projects, left a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Not everyone was/is in that position, but they are and WILL pay for it. Our government is spending at such a wreckless pace, it's immoral and unethical. It's been hard these last few years, to watch so many companies turn a blind eye and and an outstretched hand. I saw hundreds of millions of PPP dollars flow to companies that quite literally, didn't need the money, and yet......

Also difficult to sit and hear these same business owners complain about unemployment benefits, Covid handouts, food stamps, etc., while filing for their ERTC refunds.

 

[PARA45]

How can this be possible. Ugh!!!

Troops plagued by filthy conditions, squatters in military barracks: report — Fox News

The Government Accountability Office released a new 118-page report detailing substandard living conditions faced by young troops living in barracks across the country.

apple.news

 

[John Wasmuth]

It’s nothing new, been that way for a long long time. Lack of funds, lack of accountability, heaven forbid that during an IG you actually voice concerns when asked…. Everything gets hidden so that during inspections everything looks A ok…. Truth is if the upper echelon doesn’t know, they can’t fix it.

 

[jpr9954]

I’m not insisting he wear a tie, just the suit.

 

[Tanks]

... I saw hundreds of millions of PPP dollars flow to companies that quite literally, didn't need the money, and yet......

Also difficult to sit and hear these same business owners complain about unemployment benefits, Covid handouts, food stamps, etc., while filing for their ERTC refunds.

My accountant was unhappy with me when I refused to file for PPP refunds. We could have qualified by sliding 4th quarter billings to the following year. I just couldn't justify it morally. Cost me several elephant hunts

 

[Jfet]

Interesting

 

[Red Leg]

Interesting

This guy's analysis of the technical aspects of the war in Ukraine has been spot on.

The people who embrace this sort of conspiracy craziness (pick the event - the moon landing, 911, Ukraine is bribing every member of Congress and the administration, etc ) are not merely oblivious of actual facts - indeed, facts typically make them angry. The reading of the comments section of Bannon's Rumble presentations is depressingly typical. https://rumble.com/v3k4qo4-bannon-r...icans-announcing-support-for-additional-.html

It is also humorous how often George Papadopoulos can be proven an idiot.

"Citizen Free Press" is a successor to Drudge. It uses lead-in headlines of its reprinted articles to shape the populist and isolationist narrative. This is a headline from today.

Army 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions deploying to Eastern Europe…

Should anyone who can actually read open the article and look at it, they would discover it is a planned troop rotation that in no way changes our current deployed force structure. Rather than two divisions deploying to Europe (roughly 30,000 troops), it is actually a brigade combat team from the 101st (3400 troops) and 200 personnel from the 82d. These units replace units rotating back to the States.

 

[Ray B]

Considering the Ukraine war it is frustrating to me that the Demonrats are willing to further the war's expenses in both money and lives but ignore the non-military means of shortening it. Russia's ability to fund the war would be severely curtailed had the Green new deal Demonrats not placed the myth of saving the planet above all other priorities.

 

[PARA45]

Bunch of hypocrites!!

 

[Wheels]

Hero farmers from Hoedspruit kills 4 CIT robbers and wounds 3 after police flee the scene.

https://x.com/willempet/status/1705247386996510883?s=20