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Spend it on illegal alien ER visits. Support Schumer and Jeffries.

Mexico has always had mass deportations. The only differences are they are now deporting them south rather than north and they are no longer deporting Mexicans to here.

He means mostly peacefully. No insurgency being addressed by these words. It is crazy conspiracy theory nuttery to think otherwise. 110%.

I found an article in The Lancet about a study supporting my assertion that hyphenated Americans live longer than their un-American genetic brethren. This is a jargony long article and divides Americans into 10 categories (3 Black, 3 White, 2 Latino, 1 Asian, and 1 Indians& Eskimos). If you look at our American Asians they live longer than the average of the Asian countries. Remember to add India and Pakistan and Vietnam, etc. for the world non-American average. No fair comparing our basket of pan-Asians only with the Japanese. If you look at our American Africans you see they live much longer than the average of African Africans. Surprisingly, our American Latinos outlive our American Europeans despite all of our racism and anti-brownness and rich jerks doing things like wanting to keep their own money and property. Our American Europeans are about the same as their European counterparts taking into account the Eastern Euros are shorter lived than the Scandanavian Euros and we have boatloads (Get it? See what I did there?) of slavics here. And, all this great American longevity comes despite us not having universal health cost sharing. Another interesting point. The longevity difference country by country showed about 30 year difference highest to lowest. Our 10 Americas have a difference of about 15 years mostly reflected in pulling the bottom up rather than pushing the top down. Once again, WooHoo, America! The article is long and horribly statistically jargony but the pretty graphs do a good job of making the points discernible. Conclusion: Non-Crap Country https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01495-8/fulltext Now, the little hidden horror in the original article: The toxic sexist Matriarchy is killing men off globally!!! Worldwide conspiracy. Right there in plane sight - all those little old ladies (black widows, actually) looking all frail and helpless!

About the original assertion of this thread - RV posits that America is a crap country because 45 other countries and city-states have a long life expectancy than we do. I countered with the opinion that geography and who pays when you get sniffles are less a determinant of longevity than your genes. I have not done the math on proving or disproving my hypothesis yet but did come across this interesting article from about 15 years ago. I hope my commenting brethren here find it interesting. Summary: America is not as bad at this healthcare gig as the Hate-America-Firsters think we are and we are the best at treating people diagnosed with cancer. If we could just stop hitting each other with cars and bullets then our longevity would jump up quite a bit. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2011/11/23/the-myth-of-americans-poor-life-expectancy/

This guy will certainly be surprised to learn he does not exist.

Rich people pay the most, by far during all of their working years. The medicare tax is not capped. Then they pay more in retirement due to the IRMAA brackets/surcharges. So the rich already pay much more for Medicare than everyone else. Cut benefits? Sounds like denying healthcare to people based on income. Sounds a violation of equal treatment under the law (14th Amendment) and Civil Rights Law if there is a disparate racial outcome. Furthermore, where does "rich" begin? If we just take all of the money and assets from billionaires and kill them (i.e. raise their taxes and cut their benefits to the maximum extent possible) it will not make more than a 90 day bump in the trajectory of all of our financial trends. So, then what? Keep redifining "rich" downward until it means "above average". Where is your endgame here? An unsustainable system remains unsustainable until the underlying structure and assumptions are recognized as such. Playing with percentages and brackets and winner/losers never has worked very long and never will.

Mamdani Faces Islamophobic Attacks After Comments About Hamas: https://nytimes.com/2025/10/16/nyr In a related story; Goebbles faces Germanophobic attacks after commenting that Adolf is very misunderstood. I think the attacks were more Hamasophobic in that people are very afraid Hamas will do what it always does - attack and kill. And Mamdani seemed unable to opine that is would be best if Hamas would just stop doing that. Allah and Islam have nothing to do with this fear. Indonesians also believe in Allah and Islam but no one is phobing over them at all. Just the Kill Kill Hate Hate Hamas Islams. So, No, NYT. No Islamophobia is going on here. How about trying to do some journalism for once? In iaonef;lakngd'ladsjkfd/zohran-mamdani-islamophobic-attacks-hamas-gaza.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.lJ3p.SegK6SIWh2ro&smid=url-share

When it no longer exists. Can't get what does not exist. Pensions are pay-as-you-go. They are not open ended unfunded "promises". All investments have disclaimers warning about loses. Even savings accounts have limits of insurance. Pensions are not unconditionally indemnified by the taxpayers. There is a Pension Guaranty entity which I know almost nothing about but seems to be an avenue of some recourse. Unions have influence (direct control, actually) on the management of their pensions. My grand children should not be liable via a higher percentage of their life's energy being paid for crimes, decisions, and mistakes made by crooks involved with another person's perceived "promise".

Same when passing nice people

The headlines keep pouring in. From the sunniest continent on earth - Australia: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/chris-bowens-flagship-solar-panel-scheme-spectacularly-flops-as-vast-majority-of-500-million-grant-budget-remains-unused/news-story/48c39aebf4e5f0ca67277e8452c218b6

And your climate is more stable than everyone else's. See. It worked. That data is right there in the state archives somewhere. But without standing as a climate user you will never be able to access that data. Can we find anyone who uses the climate who can get the data?

How much more will assaults go down if we pay criminals to ride and not just give them free rides? Hmm? Ever think of that? Talk about public safety breakthrough. Let's pay criminals to get on buses and ride around all day then they won't be criminalling. Problem solved. Next issue.

Do something like what? Win at poker? NOT A SIN. Giving the money to charity? The charity will probably use it better than the government. NOT A SIN. Isn't it dogma on the conservative side that charities do better than government at helping people anyway? Pritzker has enough flaws to attack that no one should self-buffoonerate by focusing on this.

Alderperps. FIFY.

There seems to be a genetic component to longevity. It might be a more powerful correlation to longevity than geography and, perhaps, even causal. Crazy idea, I know. If we take the percentage of American genes and then look at the world's populations with all the same percentages does that basket of genes come out above or below 46? Is our decline recently due to the change in the genetic mix? Another way to ask this is Do Japanese Americans die faster than Japanese? Do African Americans die faster than Africans? Do TransAmericans die faster than TransEuropeans? If we are going to get all science-y and start throwing around statements like "crap country" let's do the math and figure out if we are, in fact, just a reflection of a bunch of crap genes. Do we have anyone good at math and spreadsheets and statistics who can help us here? I would do it but I have been accused of applying garbage math by some of our more worthy brethren.

I am calling BS on this. No one should begrudge Pritzker his winnings. IF he does not pay the 50% or so combined federal and state taxes he owes on the win then we can throw around terms like hypocrite. But winning is no sin.

I think I am listening to the break between 157 and 165 on a Hawkeye Wrestling Radio broadcast. I might as well be listening to the Canadian French radio broadcast that comes through from time to time on the AM dial as well as I understand all the jargon!

Great. I infer from this that you are a big fan that we shut down USAID which gave money to anyone but Americans. And stopping funding for Haitian homosexual and transitionersexual dance instruction. See, there is agreement on many issues. Oh, and nothing for illegal aliens. They aren't Americans. Another thing we can all agree on. This is getting easier and easier.

Stupid is as stupid does: "In 2021, General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced the auto giant would phase out all gas-burning vehicles by 2035." "Ford announced it was shifting focus from electrics to hybrids. The automaker had separated its production lines into traditional and electric divisions just two years earlier, and since then, "Ford's electric vehicle division has lost $12 billion, including $2.2 billion in the first half of this year," https://reason.com/2025/10/15/g-m-takes-1-6-billion-loss-after-electric-vehicle-subsidy-goes-away/ Tens of BILLIONS of dollars destroyed. Value flushed. The nincompoops are un-EVing factories so they can make cars people want again. How do Barra and Farley and all the other hoaxamanaic climateer glue sniffers keep their jobs? Those shareholders are the most forgiving putzes in the world.

Word.

First they came for Meta and Twitter . . .

With all of his contacts on the Street couldn't the Sec Treas have sweet talked a private firm to do it without taxpayer $$ involved? While the goal of stability for an emerging ally is laudable I don't think the federal government should be swapping anything for anything. Swapping is not in the constitution from where I read it. Edit: I should have read all the posts before posting. WKN notes 3rd parties are being approached. My point stands that I object to the US Gov speculating in currencies on principle.

Illegal aliens.

Anyone not 110% RV.