jakee
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Tucker Carlson gets pushback over his favorite Nazi
jakee replied to billvon's topic in Speakers Corner
Makes you wonder what they think he's been saying up to now, doesn't it? The Daily Show and other liberal or balanced outlets have been pointing out Carlson's rank white supremacy for year after year after year, but these bastions of conservative thought remained oblivious. I wonder if they'll reconsider any other opinions they might have on the continuing presence and effects of racism throughout society today? -
Damn near everything you post has to do with race, and none of it good. For someone who clearly chooses their words carefully, kinda have to assume that means something.
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Because reasons.
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Ah good, I’m glad this exchange has helped you learn something since you very specifically claimed that it did. I don’t know. Is it unusual?
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That was the best thing about the Biden out / Harris in announcement. Republicans thought they'd got the golden ticket then it just got swamped by the new news.
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One day without an active storm doesn’t say anything about whether there’s an increase in hurricanes though, does it?
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So how does it falsify the theory that higher levels of CO2 would cause more hurricanes?
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Did they predict there would be no times without a storm?
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Why do you think that?
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So what? Do you think this means something?
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So what? Are you saying it because you think it means something, or is it just a mildly interesting fact?
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So what?
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By completely misunderstanding the reality of the situation and applying a nonsensical and ineffective solution. Killing an albatross won't really make your ship sink and voting Harris won't really bring on the end of the republic.
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That’s a good point. All that stuff Truman was saying about Trump in the last election was very hypocritical.
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Those are two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
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Says who? Brent just tried to justify this stance, but ended up laughing at the stupidity of his own source.
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The comment was about supporting candidates who hold those views. JD Vance holds that view and while Trump personally doesn’t give a shit, he’s also happy to kowtow to whatever the anti-abortion lobby wants because he thinks it’s a vote winner As to who supports that ticket - it’s you. Sure you do the whole ‘ I hate everyone’ schtick, but it’s obvious that it’ll be a cold day in hell before you vote Kamala (the whole black and a woman thing) while your criticism of Trump is often qualified by some comment about him being decent at the economy so what the hell. So in practice, despite the rest of what you say? You’re a Trump voter and we all know it.
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I tend not to take economic advice from parrots.
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Back on topic with this: the article you quoted claiming Biden is responsible for high core inflation says this "Core inflation is a common metric that excludes food and energy prices, which tend to be volatile," so no - according to your own sources you are explicitly not paying for any result of Democrat policies at the grocery store or gas pump. In fact, since overall US inflation has been lower than average, it stands to reason that US grocery and gas price inflation must have been much lower than the average of the rest of the world. Although as noted, you clearly don't believe a word your expert said since one of the eight countries he compared the US to was Canada, so I suppose even the fact that he said “the seeds for a high-inflation environment were already planted,” won;t mean anything to you.
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Then do it. There is not a single thing stopping the USA from spending another half trillion on infrastructure aside from political will. Biden's plan was to spend $2.3T on infrastructure, the Republicans savaged it down to (ironically) half a trillion. But you could have spent it. Whatever politicians decide to spend money on, they can. Bush found trillions to invade Iraq when he just wanted to. Obama found the money for the ACA. Trump found the money for fat cat tax breaks. Public spending is a matter of choice, not a matter of ability. The only reason you're not spending more on infrastructure right now is that Republicans chose not to. Oh, ok. So you... don't want to spend more money on the infrastructure problem?
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Says who? You quoted one guy who said it was inflationary because he apparently compared the US to ‘some other countries’ and then you immediately laughed at the idea that you could compare the US economy to other countries. So at the moment you’re just running on ‘because I said so’ and I would be surprised if that moves many needles.
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And you can. Trump spent an extra eight trillion. Biden spent an extra six trillion. You can spend an extra half a trillion on whatever you want, whenever you want. It’s not real money. But would you actually support spending half a trillion of government money on ‘things that do a lot of good’ or would you consider that to be unacceptable socialist government profligacy?
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I think anyone who talks like national debt is a real thing that has to be dealt with doesn’t understand how it works. So the problem is that Biden threw $1.9T in stimulus at the economy? Well, the US national debt is something like $35T, but you can still find a couple more trillion to spend whenever the heck you want. So who cares, really? It’s never going to be paid off, it’s not even real money in the sense that you and I can count the currency in our accounts. Might have been Warren Buffet who said something like ‘If you owe the bank $100 you’ve got a big problem, if you owe the bank $100M they’ve got a big problem.” You guys owe $35T? You’re golden.
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You mean trump’s money party? You know, the bigger one?
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California taxpayers spent $8.5 billion on solar subsidies
jakee replied to brenthutch's topic in Speakers Corner
Disagree. It may only cost the utility company 3.5c to generate the power, but they sell it at a profit. Why should the solar owners have to give it away at cost? By that logic every bit of profit the ultilty company makes from the rate payers is a subsidy. Your problem is that you're thinking of it as money being gifted by the utility companies, rather than as rate payers simply buying their electricity from solar owners instead. How much of it is actually a subsidy, and how much is competition?
