All_Pro_Bills

Take your time machine back to the Trump administration and everybody in the media and the woke virtue signalers would be calling such statements from DHS racist. Can the irony and hypocrisy get any louder?

The part that generates conflict and hate between races through classifications like oppressor and oppressed. That kind of mindset sets the stage for revenge. That's the part.

Check out South Africa. Not a lot of media coverage. Because the optics are bad. Blacks looking to kill Whites and Asian Indians. CRT in action..

Without knowing everyone's specific situation that all seems hypothetical and subjective and would require an examination of the past on a case by case basis. And there we no social services or safety nets back then. Like what jobs couldn't blacks hold in the 1920's? Farmer, laborer, cook? My question for today is what jobs can't blacks hold today? What social services can't blacks access today? What loans can't blacks qualify for because of their skin color? What laws exist that legalize discrimination against blacks? What formal discriminatory practices are stopping anyone interested from pursuing opportunity today?

Privileges? There was no social service agency handing out free food, or housing, or medical care, or anything. You either worked, made a living for yourself, or you perished. If you want to call that privilege feel free.

The left will not welcome them because they tend to be more conservative than immigrants from Central America. And Cubans come here for freedom not for hand outs. And the left doesn't want them here because you can't condemn communism in Cuba while advocating it here. That's why all the woke social justice human rights advocates have gone underground and are maintaining radio silence on the subject. Its a contradiction they won't face. My idea, all the American socialists/communists wanting communism can swap places with a Cuban citizen wishing to live here. A win-win for everyone. I'm 100% positive there will be no takers for that offer.

My family did not. My paternal grandparents lost their farm during the depression and my maternal grand father worked hard and died in his 50's leaving his wife and 4 grown children. So I am completely free of any guilt or complicity in any oppression.

I think you're right here. But my ancestors didn't do anything to harm African-Americans. In fact my family being active in the labor and civil rights movements starting in the 1960's and into the late 20th century actually helped African-Americans and others secure rights and good paying jobs. My ancestors were Southern Europeans that immigrated to the US in the early 1900's, They were subject to persecution by the Ottoman's in their homeland. They came here and worked hard with one-set of grandparents owning a farm in Niagara county and then moving to California during the Great Depression. My other grandparents stayed in WNY and raised a family there. Family members fought during WW2. Others served and continue to serve. When I was young I was teased and taunted because I had a "funny" last name compared to the "Smith" and "Jones" white English names. While this lead to a lot of skirmishes some of which I won and most of which I lost it all taught me a valuable lesson to be tolerant of others. Something unknown to me for a long time was that my mother told my wife that growing up I was always the person sticking up for the kids that everyone else picked on. It is something I grew up not realizing. As an adult I've acquired friends and acquaintances that could fill out the spectrum of diversity. And treat them all as I wish people would have treated me growing up. My experiences and lessons molded the person I am and continue to be. But when somebody slots me into some collective group and tells me I'm a racist just because I share the skin color of that group I take exception. They can call it crap like "white rage" or anything thing they want. But it is crap. They know absolutely nothing about me or my experiences and they are simply out of line making accusations like that or telling me I'm some kind of oppressor. Who the hell are they to judge me? The only way to stop discriminating against people because of race is to stop thinking of and judging people in the context of race. They are individuals with unique qualities and unique experiences. Some good, some bad, but all unique to be judged and noted for their own qualities and behaviors.

What you believe won't matter when the crisis hits our country. And its likely to hit during the current administration's term which will put any forecast of "one party" rule in grave jeopardy. As the future unfolds with a lot of unpleasant consequences for past and current errors the ideology you cling to now will look foolish and everyone will wonder why we focused on such nonsense in the face of real problems.

That is unfortunate and lot of this resistance has been generated by a growing lack of trust and confidence in "experts". They change their story and the story is full of inconsistencies. The goal should be for everyone to have immunity not to have everyone vaccination as vaccination is one of the paths to create immunity. However that immunity is produced. You can be infected with COVID, recover, and generate natural immunity and have the same result as somebody that was vaccinated. Telling recovered COVID patients they must get vaccinated is in conflict with the concept of "medical necessity". For example, did you ever hear anyone suggest that people who were infected and recovered from the measles should get a measles vaccine after they recover? So why is COVID different? A virus is a virus. So more inconsistency from the experts. And the perception of a lot of people that their views are less about medicine and science and more about politics and ideology. My suspicion is officials are just lazy and it is easier to count and track vaccinated people than it is to track and count people that recovered and have antibodies and then add them into the vaccinated totals and counts to get a view of the population as a whole. As for children and COVID the "science" and data support the conclusion that children have almost zero risk of hospitalization or death or suffering a severe or critical case of COVID. Cases are mild to asymptomatic. So applying the concept of "medical necessity" weighing the risk of getting or not getting the vaccine (and potential short-term and unknown long-term side effects) seems like a logical conversation that should take place. A conversation between the parents and their physician, not the government. But you bring that up and you're told to just shut up and do what you're told to do. By people that many believe don't know what they are doing. This lack of confidence to me is just symptomatic and evidence of the breakdown in social orders and arrangements that I believe are the main theme to the crisis that awaits.

I'm close to you on that. I think we're at a point in time where a lot of negative circumstances are converging. I've done a lot of reading and research on concepts like the cycles of history and the rise and fall of Empires. And make no mistake the US operates a world-wide Empire. But an Empire on the decline faced with a crisis cycle of social, economic, and political factors at a time when its primary source of energy is in on the back-end of the supply curve. There are three books that I think together describe the factors and the situations. Empire of Debt by Bonner & Wiggin The Fourth Turning by Strauss & Howe The Long Emergency by Kunstler My conclusion from all this research and observation of current events is that as a society we are doing exactly the wrong things at exactly the wrong time to address the critical problems we face and will face in the future. So expect things to get much worse in every way until the start to be better. Where it all ends up is a guess at this point.

Other stuff? Like nuclear weapons and some fighter jets? A few tanks? Even our senile and ancient President said you're not going to over throw the US government with just guns. Of course in that situation he was talking about plans to restrict 2nd amendment protections and not the 1/6 protest riots. But in a brief moment of clarity and honesty his point is well placed and correct. The insurrection narrative gets the amp'ed up threat to democracy version. So if they had all these weapons how did a bunch Capitol Police which are one step up from mall cops stop their plan? Why didn't the protesters shoot anybody? Why bring a bomb to a riot if your not going to set it off? Why didn't they track down and capture the Senators and Representatives that were the target of their anger and objective? Or do much worse to them? Why didn't they burn down the Capitol or something like that? That would have most certainly delayed the House certification of the election results. Why can't proponents of the insurrection hoax story that have no answer to this question admit it wasn't an insurrection? And that angle is just for scoring political points? I've asked this question about why they didn't carry out their plan given absolutely little to no resistance several times and have been left disappointed as no intelligent or logical explanation is posted. All I get is nonsense and deflection. And some tit-for-tat anti-Trump story line. Truth is there is no logical explanation because there was no planned insurrection. Truth is none of us that think the narrative is all BS think you believe it either. We think you are just unwilling to admit to the truth. And given my perception of your intelligence level I can't see how you could believe such a transparent lie.

I'm sure they'll find a way to "bend light" and justify both resisting the rule of the majority when they are in the minority and such actions support their positions and demanding obedience to the rule of the majority when they are in the majority and such actions don't support their positions. And its likely the irony of that inconsistency will be lost.

I really can't speak to that as I don't support legislation that will prohibit or inhibit citizens from fairly casting their ballots. Statements out of the governors office indicate they will be arrested when setting foot back in Texas. This might get interesting..

They should release all the e-mails and files into the public domain. But as the Biden's are protected by what I've labeled "political privilege" the disclosure of corruption and criminal activity will be punished but not the actual corrupt or criminal act. In this case taking bribes, kickbacks from foreign aid, and other shady play for pay business arrangements. How can any rational and thinking person be oblivious to all of this or worse ignore it or worse yet support the very people that partake in it? Yet they do. I can understand if you're getting a piece of the action, sure. But if you're just a rank-and-file ideologist you've got to see what a chump you are at some point here. Can it get more obvious?

Requiring voter identification through picture ID along with ensuring that a voter casts a ballot one time in the district where they reside is almost universally standard procedure in almost every democratic country. According to a Monmouth Poll, asking about photo ID requirements, 62% of Democrats, 87% of independents, and 91% of Republicans support the requirement. I'm having a hard time correlating the need to identify yourself with the concept of voter restriction or voter suppression.

The fun part is they're working very hard to keep the identities of the buyers secret. Big money for garbage "art". I wonder why? I suppose this is the Biden's version of the Clinton's pay off vehicle disguised as a charitable trust. I'm sure Jenny P. will render some good excuse at the WHPC. She's such a good liar its embarrassing. But her answer, no matter how preposterous will certainly go unquestioned by the obedient press corps. Which shows the only thing more despicable than the Biden administration is the corporate media. How enjoyable it will be to watch it all blow up in their faces before all is said and done. I know the counter-argument of my friends on the left. Trump did this, Trump did that. Maybe he did and maybe he didn't. Somehow that allegation is supposed to make all the corruption of our current President's family okay. But the difference is Biden and company are protected by the system of "political privilege". Trump is persecuted and judged by that very system all the time. You can post all the pictures and images you want and it won't alter that reality and it won't make the current administrations corrupt and unethical actions legitimate. That's how it is folks..

The Medicare system is government sponsored. But the mechanism for delivering care is not socialist. Its not government run. I explained its a single payer system where the government isthe payer. Socialism would be where the medicare infrastructure, the doctors, the hospitals, pharmacies, all were under direct government control. They are not. By your definition of socialism every government program would be socialism since its funded by the government so the only way to have no socialism would be to have no government.

As everything I said was true it would appear there's enough "pissing on the Constitution" to go around. The issue is Trump seems like the only guy being held to account. Why is that?

A good summation but what's missing is context. And I'll keep my comments to setting that context. And that context is these protesters have experienced the opposition lying, cheating, and stealing for 4 1/2 years. Breaking all kinds of laws like falsifying warrants, falsifying intelligence, leaking sensitive national security information, planting false stories in the press, letting sympathetic protest groups get away with murder, and so much more. And yet not a single person has been charged, tried, or convicting of anything. Like "made men" in the mob these wrongdoers are protected by the system. While they are not. They've watched the corporate media lie about everything, ignore other things, and dismiss anything that didn't fit their narratives. They've witnessed big tech weaponizing social media against them, suppressing and censoring all opposition ideas. And in a lot of cases these platforms have spread lies and misinformation themselves. All without consequences. They've sat through two impeachment hearings authorized on the flimsiest of charges all for political show. They've heard officials like Maxine Waters telling her supporters to "get in people's faces" and to get "confrontational" and see her get away unquestioned by the media. The same media that descended on Trump when he spoke in similar fashion charging he was inciting violence. They've watched BLM and Antifa groups burn, loot, destroy, steal, beat and kill people and get away with all of it by friendly state and local governments knowing damn well if they participated in that behavior they'd see the full weight of the law come down on them. Basically, they've watched the administration they supported get screwed up and down by the embedded powers inside and outside the government during the entire 4 year term. And then defeated in an election almost half the country believes was fixed. That's the context. And given all that telling them here to play nice and follow all the rules.

Going bankrupt? Technically the Federal government can not go bankrupt. Unsustainable? Probably. But they can just keep creating more money and devalue the dollar to death along with all our living standards. And they've been doing that for decades. The Federal government is in about a $28T ditch and counting. With annual budget deficits over $1T sure to be more this fiscal year and next. Currently taxes account for around 20% of the budget and the 80% is borrowed. That's why its so hilarious when they talk about raising taxes to fund programs. Making the rich pay their "fair share". It all sounds so good. If taxes funded everything we'd need to cut Federal spending by 3/4's. What Senator or Congress person is going to support that from either party? Add in a dozen or so States with unfunded pension funds to the tune of $100's of billions and the whole thing is a house of cards. The thing keeping the game going is the special status of the US dollar in the global financial system. When that shoe drops the shows over.

This is a common misconception. Medicare is not socialist. Its is a one payer system for people over the age of 65. Part A, B, C, and D. Under a socialist system providers would work for the government. They do not work for the government in the US healthcare system model. Unlike national health care models in other countries. They are private practices or groups that service patients from other payers, commercial, Medicaid, private payer as well as accepting Medicare patients. Government Medicare generally covers 80% of charges and some people over 65 choose to pay for Medicare Advantage coverage out-of-pocket to cover their 20% patient responsibility amount. Some income qualifications may allow people over 65 to be covered by various State sponsored supplemental insurance. By definition if it was socialist it would be "free".

How many communist/socialist hating Cubans do you think the Biden administration will be prepared to accept through their "open border" policy?

Our friend fails to inform us that ultimately even "elected" socialist systems degenerate into the dictatorship model. The reality that the most productive members of society will choose to exit such a situation must be dealt with by forcing them to stay. And as democratic societies work they generally do not share this characteristic. So government force and coercion becomes a necessity. But the fatal flaw of socialism and communism is they ultimately descend into the equal distribution of nothing. Poverty for everyone but the political elite. If you want a firsthand assessment find somebody like my acquaintances that grew up under the Soviet system and watched it fall prior to emigrating the US. They think the lefties here are at best naive idiots and at worst a danger to freedom and democracy to desire such a system.

What's I find laughable is the huge contradiction of reality the media, movies, and TV shows create about the FBI as some highly competent and just organization vs. the true nature of the agency as a corrupt political tool that has no legitimacy to call itself "law enforcement". I sympathize with what I expect are a large number of good and honest rank-and-file agents that need to hold their noses to avoid the stench of corruption emanating from their bosses at the top as they report to work each day.