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Everything posted by Joe Ferguson forever
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This is a fallacious argument on many levels. Firstly, I don't use the tax code to justify windfall earnings. I follow the tax code. I have no windfall earnings. My pay and now portfolio were earned by hard work and good sense. Nothing more. trump has multiple documented instances of stealing from contractors and who knows who else. I never stole a penny from anyone. But while I'm as competitive a capitalist as trump, my morals and ethics are very different Lots of liberals like me are willing to more in taxes if it will help the economy. The big tax revenue pool is with the biggest earners. My 10k goes up exponentially when the 100k's or millions multiply from the .3%. otherwise, it does no good. you know your argument is intellectually dishonest here. but many of yours are. I am proud of you for keeping it under 200 words....
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bs. my paying 10k more without everyone else above me having their rates increased. would be spit in the ocean on the deficit. totally futile. waste of money. conversely, increasing the tax on everyone over $250 or $400 k would make a dent and is the answer along with cutting spending. Who doesn't like money? People that don't have it? I didn't steal anything unlike the president who you apologize for. bs. This was escalated and engineered by the trump admin. Plays perfectly into their hands and was recommended in project 2025 (use military against Americans). With widespread protests, their power grows and tactics rationalized. Admittedly, Mexican flags and violence are counterproductive and present very bad optics. Removing or jailing those involved in violence is clearly indicated
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I guess immunology and infectious disease got scant attention in your MSN program. No vaccines are 100% effective. polio and measles are close but JFK jr and his ilk are destroying the near global eradication of these through vaccines. Covid vaccine does help prevent the disease and greatly decreases the severity of it and chances of dying from it. From the CDC of the current anti vax admin: https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness.html It's the blueprint. trump just lied about it. I think even most MAGAs knew he was lying and still voted for him.
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So you're gonna b an NP? Lord, help us. I served in underserved communities for years, providing care where little was available. Some of the places qualify as undesirable especially in light of the rural drug crisis. Watching teens die on a vent in the ICU from OD's is pretty brutal. Helplessly watching stupid anti vaxers die from Covid in the same setting is as well. But everything you did through the barrel of a gun was much more important...We had a high ranking military guy talk to our civic club about the positive effects of rice bowl diplomacy. He said work from groups like ours and NGOs are overall more important than guns, bombs and bullets at maintaining peace and retaining/recruiting allies (not to mention, improving global health). He is no libtard. I believe he still teaches at West Point and has written several books in use there. We need both but force just isn't working well anymore ie Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc. And you support a president that decimates USAID and NGO's, lambasts and isolates our allies, has military parades ala Putin), threatens anyone protesting them, and makes war zones out of American cities. Bravo!
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Will anyone stand up to this attack on the constitution and the 1st amendment? https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5342291-trump-warns-protesters-military-parade/
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Is trump demented or lying thru his teeth again? https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/newsom-fears-trumps-mental-state-35371199 From US Army techniques publication cited above Continental United States Versus Outside the Continental United States 2-4. For the U.S. Army, conducting civil disturbance missions within the United States. will vary greatly when compared to conducting civil disturbance missions within a foreign country where the U.S. Army is conducting operations. Except as expressly authorized by the Constitution of the United States or by another act of Congress, the Posse Comitatus Act (18 USC 1385) prohibits the use of the Active Army as enforcement officials to execute state or federal law and perform direct law enforcement functions within CONUS.
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This isn't the world. It's domestic. The rules are different per my link above very conservative on use of force especially for nonviolent protesters. No. A 1 million dollar income threshold was proposed for higher taxes and rejected by the R's. I'll look it up but that income level must be the 2% and possibly the 1%. https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ How many people made $1,000,000 or more in 2024? Somewhere around 462,544 people made a seven figure income in 2024. That's less than .3% of the workforce. $430000 is the 99th percentile The proposal was actually only for those making 2.5 mil or more. And they still axed it. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-considers-tax-hike-americans-making-2-5-million-more-per-year
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never served. so what's the line where it's no longer support. shooting rubber bullets. shooting live ammo? Fergy played while we had season tix. he was no archie manning but he played for miserable teams too. Several years he was one of their best players. https://today.yougov.com/topics/travel/survey-results/daily/2025/06/10/50147/3 Do you approve or disapprove of deploying National Guard soldiers to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement? All adults Region Gender Politics Age Race Approve 38% Disapprove 45% Not sure 17%
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Around 6:30 p.m. The Los Angeles Police Department said it responded to a request for assistance from federal authorities at around 6:30 p.m. and arrived at the scene within 55 minutes. The department said its response time was impacted by "significant traffic congestion, the presence of demonstrators, and, notably, by the fact that federal agents had deployed irritants into the crowd prior to LAPD's arrival." Later, the Department of Homeland Security claimed the LAPD took two hours to respond. A federal law enforcement official told CBS News that ICE requested assistance from LAPD multiple times over the course of Friday night and that it took more than two hours to honor that request. However, a senior city official in L.A. disputed that timeline, telling CBS News that it took LAPD 55 minutes to respond, not two hours. The LAPD posted on X at 7 p.m. that it had declared an "unlawful assembly," ordering protesters to leave the area and giving them five minutes to comply. By 8 p.m., video shows LAPD officers had blocked the crowd's path to the detention center. Police said some protesters had thrown large pieces of concrete. CBS News Los Angeles reporters witnessed officers firing non-lethal foam projectiles and bean bag rounds in response.
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Beshear is correct. Many areas in his state have over 50% medicaid pts. That's the case in many counties not far from me. Hospitals WILL close and people will go without any care. And most of them voted for trump. "I love the uneducated". Most members of congress and senators from these states are MAGA. Once hospitals close and poor people end up going to an ER fifty miles away from their home for band aid care with no follow up,, that might change. But never underestimate stupidity.
