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Representation without taxation is one of our biggest problems. People who pay no federal income taxes and very few other taxes get to vote on how to divvy up my earnings and to vote for politicians/policies leading to massive debt. How could that possibly go wrong?!?

Because it is not news. Mentally unstable people doing irrational and criminal things is normal for them. Dog bites man is not news. Crazy nut committing crime is not news.

Yet our test scores relative to the world continue to freefall.

Very interesting fusion of sexual abnormalcy controversies: gay men in positions of power sexually abusing children/adolescents and leftist sex/gender ideologues chemically and surgically altering children/adolescents with a mental disorder - gender dysphoria. Is TPT is excusing the second because of the improper reaction to the former?

Husker, you are right and wrong. Of course you are right that one doesn't have to be directly or personally affected to have a valid opinion and the moral authority to speak about something. I haven't been murdered yet but I am against it. I guess that makes me a bigoted murderphobe. You are wrong that you have not been directly affected by illegal aliens. Everyone is affected by illegal aliens being here when tax money is spent to accommodate them. Those are dollars our grandchildren will have to pay back with interest.

Don't forget to add the tinfoil head protection against space rays. No collection of worthlessness is complete without that. I think I brought up the mask issue in this thread. I mentioned that I sometimes doubt if we can answer "Yes" to the second question of the National Anthem. I used the example of the worse than worthless masking mandates lending doubt that we are still the home of the brave and land of the free. I am surprised that it went viral.

But wind is free!!! The electricity from the wind must be free also!!!! In fact, we will have so much free electricity that we can turn it into money (via made up things like carbon credits, natch) and give the electricity and the money away to illegal aliens and homeless people!!! Only right wing extremist climate science deniers can't understand this!!! If only they would agree with us then the free electricity and excess money will start flowing. Their denying it is what makes it not work yet.

If people who trans are more likely to die prematurely then it seems like not transing them is the most pro-life position.

Which "don't" are we discussing? Biden's "don't" to Iran telling them not to get involved nor to let their proxies get involved in Hamas/Israel kerfuffle? Iran ignored that within minutes. Biden's "don't" to Israel telling them not to retaliate against Iran's missile barrage? Or one of Obama's famous "don't" diplomacy declarations? I don't know which don't is the topic of the discussion.

Let's apply some Lobster Logic: Millions of people voluntarily build fences around their properties. Public servants in every jurisdiction wear gold stars proudly and conspicuously. Tattoos are displayed with joy by people. Free food, clothes, transportation, and health care are sought by people the world over. Therefore, if a government were to provide these things we all would be in a form of heaven. Anyone whining about having to wear a thin easy to attach gold star to help each other out needs a swift kick in the ass. Anyone whining about having to get a small easy tattoo to help each other out needs a swift kick in the ass. Anyone whining about having to live in a secure gated community with free food, clothing, health care, and all the exercise you want to help each other out needs a swift kick in the ass. There have been several such a benevolent governments that gave all these things to special people and also gave swift kicks in the ass to whiners with the temerity to complain. Lobster just loves those types of ass kicking governments and the type of people who implemented them.

Nope. Those masks were no more useful than tin foil hats helping out crazy people defend against space rays. Your point is refuted.

The US of A. The end of black enslavement in America. The removal of the wehrmacht from Western and Eastern Europe. I know those things are only about 250, 160, and 80 years old so it is kind of early to tell if they will last. But each was gotten when the good guys wielded not only the barrels of guns but also the high velocity projectiles emanating from the ends of those barrels. Asking the British parliament and monarchy, asking the slaveholders, and asking the wehrmacht to see the light was spectacularly unsuccessful. Maybe no one said the magic word. Please.

Here are the masks my colleagues and I wore every day. The last picture is the helmet my mask attached to and other gear I wore every day. I no longer have my mask from 35 years ago as I gave it to the aviator in picture 3 who is my son. Tough enough for you, RL?

O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, ⁠O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave? The question now has changed from the original. No longer is the fact of the waving in question as it was when Key wrote the lyrics. Whether we remain in the land of the free and the home of the brave is now the pertinent part of the question. I, personally, felt distinctly unfree and cowardly wearing that idiotic, inane, and ridiculous mask on flights in 2021 for just one example.

The National Anthem is not about the military. I am very uncomfortable with the idea that the National Anthem is about them. By the way, I am retired military so maybe I should say us. The National Anthem is about the United States of America. Whenever I am announcing at an event and the script says anything like " . . . rise as we play . . . to honor those who fought and died . . . " I do not like it. Memorial Day is for that purpose. The National Anthem is a time for us to rise and to acknowledge and honor what brings us together. And, maybe to ponder whether the second question in the lyrics is still true. But it is NOT to honor the military. The military is here for and about the country. Not the other way around. IMHO

Rapinoe's gay? Did not know. Do not care. I do not care whose peepee she wants to play with. My beef with her is her. Not her lovers.

Another genius comments on the climate. Sunny Hostin from The View: HOSTIN: “. . . We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got an earthquake . . . Also, I learned that the cica-ah-das are coming. . . . All those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.” I really resent that someone like this gets to vote and thereby cancel the vote of people who really know things. SUVs and cow farts caused the eclipse. And it's racist. And her slave owning forefathers can attest to that.

Now scientists say wearing JEANS is bad for the environment: Nope. No hoax here. It's gotta be the science. Jeans cause earthquakes. And eclipses.

I used to think that until Rapinoe and the US women's soccer team totally trashed all good will that had been built up by their predecessors and betters over a couple decades. So, if a wrestler wearing our colors chooses an international stage to exercise first amendment rights (rather than expressing them by not competing for the USA) and freely expresses his/her disdain for me and this country then, like the women's soccer team, I have no time for them and will support whomever is playing/wrestling against them. Even Ruskies, Iranians, or defectors. Now, on to a less incendiary take on the point: I can root for one of the defectors as my back-up favorite until the point of a head to head matchup with the USA wrestler because I am sure that none of our wrestlers are idiot enough to stage such a protest at such a venue.

First we had earthquake cooling. Then earthquake warming. Then earthquake change and earthquake crises. We simply need a global day of transquake visibility and all will be OK. If Barney the T-Rex had not driven his Hemi-engined SUV and instead used windmills to power a Tesla then Yellowstone never would have quaked then volcanoed and the world would be a better place.

The cost of owning a medium valued house has doubled since 2021. Maybe this is another reason for no "atta boy" cheers. And also, maybe, why capital gains taxes have cratered. People are hoarding assets which represent real value and borrowing money which will surely be devalued soon thereby resulting in Biden's tax cut. The following article points out the consequences with respect to median housing costs vs median household income: ttps://jewishworldreview.com/0424/antoni040524.php The Fed has a target of 2% inflation. This is a core problem. 0% inflation should be the target. A unit of work today is worth the same for the rest of my life. If I spend 7 units of my work every day and save 1 unit of my work that saved work value (money) should have the same value when I want to spend it 50 years later. 2% inflation target results in my $1.00 saved at age 20 is worth $0.37 when I am 70 and need to use it. That is official government goal and policy. The actual numbers are far worse. $1.00 saved in 1974 is worth $0.16 today. We targeted 2% but achieved an average of 3.75%. How about targeting 0% and then if we miss the goal we average about 1.75%?

Warp Speed was a master stroke of manipulating Trump. Power mixed with ego which simultaneously lacks principles or wisdom results in the biggest manmade disaster (COVID response, lockdowns, school closures, medical experiments perpetrated on mankind, vexxination passports, etc.) ever outside of war.

Yet government got bigger, the value of our collective savings accounts decreased, we can't buy as much stuff, and our great grandchildren are burdened with the largest debt in the history of the world due to spending out of all proportion to any actual government function or valid authority to do. No "atta boy" for that. Redneck wingers, and even soccer moms, know economics better than Biden & the Swamp People and their carnival barkers shilling for them in the leftie (i.e. 90 % of all) media.

The physics claims are outright fraudulent also. On both ends of the hoax - that the earth is about to cease existing and that their "solutions" are the only salvation. Remember, they are lying only to the people who want to believe them. They know that people who are numerate, logical, and have a grasp of physics principles see through the fraud. However, the mix of do-gooderism (say-gooders), mob mentality, and social pressure, and governmental force can overcome facts . . . up to the point where reality slaps the idiots in the face.

Finding a vulnerable Indonesian trans sex worker just does not seem as edgy and "dirty" as it once did. I don't think global warming is the problem. I think it is more of a "ho hum, transes here, transes there, transes everywhere, so now who cares?" mentality.