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Well there ya go! Hope your rear end is ok

Yeah, it isn’t like we just had a 4 yr process for each of them to see how it went and compare!! But bootlickers or something or other vs an actual Ukraine invasion I guess.

The post I replied to just insinuated that the WH occupant was going to make it “extremely difficult to foresee any stability” around the world. Insinuating it’s the cause of the person occupying the WH next 🤷‍♂️ Well….it didn’t so there’s that

https://www.thefp.com/p/when-mike-johnson-knew-joe-biden-not-in-charge

Yeah 2017-2020 was just rife with wars all around the world

I don't know if it's possible, honestly. There are simply to many old people and not enough young people. The demographics just don't work. Instead of a balanced budget, the goal should be a deficit that grows slower than GDP. With a combination of tax increases and spending cuts, we might find a way to get the deficit down to ~$1T a year for a short period. But even then, no political party would survive in that environment Medicare outflows can be cut through a variety of means to account for a richer growing population. The current deductible is $257 a year. There is certainly a case to made that $500 a year deductible is perfectly acceptable considering everything Medicare covers. Or means testing the deductibles is plausible. If we decided that (just for round numbers, obviously stair stepping would be needed) retirees with a $2 million net worth got only half the normal SS yearly amount, roughly $1.9 trillion would be saved over $10 years by reducing benefits to those that, yes paid into the system, and no don’t really need the full amount as a safety net if that’s what we REALLY want SS to be. These are hard difficult choices and it sucks that since 2000 our politicians have absolutely positively sucked our tits dry and created a fiscal nightmare. So maybe now it’s time for the citizens to feel some pain for the fiscal greater good on two conditions. The dips#!ts that caused this mess have to now abide by Federal Term limits and the retirement slush fund for federal politicians gets cut also.

Actually we don’t really know that. Everyone always assumes you can’t cut discretionary spending programs like CMS, social security. That’s false as we always hear of fraud waste and abuse which wouldn’t affect a single approved beneficiary. Same in non discretionary spending like the DOD budget which hasn’t passed an audit in years. Anyone believe there isn’t a 5% reduction in DOD spending that is fraud waste abuse???? On a $6trillion budget, uncovering 5% which is wasted abused or fraudulent saves $3 trillion over 10 years. Add in some select tax increases/means testing/cutting non-needed programs/cutting non needed subsidies and we could to $4.5-5 trillion in savings over the next decade. Mostly without harming programs that get to the people who need them or paid into them. Don’t be fooled, Just cause it’s a discretionary spending program doesn’t mean all that funding in the program is legit or non-wasted.

Texas related…..

This was too funny not to share.

Ha no kidding.

Trump giving Putin CIA asset names was such a big scandal and reported extensively at the time so much so that you choose not to include a single source to back it up? I’m thinking you don’t actually know what X is. I’m hoping you realize reports link to their stories on X ALL the time. Reporters associated with all backgrounds. Along with pundits who comment on those articles, and even that lovely MeidasTouch news organization you love. Unless of course you now think MeidasTouch is disinformation because of course it is on X. 🫣

Ehhhhh….im not sure if you are allowed to wear my Reebok pumps. I typically keep those to myself. I’ll let you have my Hermes though. I’m looking for something different anyways.

LOL. MeidasTouch is the exact opposite of Independent media and many many many times does not tell the truth. I’m sure even the Liberals among us would agree. Look no further than Ron Filidorkski’s X account. He is on tape saying he will do “whatever he has to” to get Democrats elected. The same Ron who is editor in chief of MeidasTouch I follow most major news print companies on X, Mediaite, realclearpolitics, see what’s trending on X and Fox4 (local tv channel). I don’t watch any FoxNews national, MSNBC, nor CNN during the day nor once home from work. I do listen to CNN on Sirius if I want to hear what’s going on during the day. But its usually sports talk during the day in the car. Hope that helps. Please define the next couple of months so I know when to reach back out to you and see if WWIII has started yet. How exactly do we know Trump literally gave Putin CIA asset names? I and the rest of the world must have missed that one. Ummmm zero.

Yep.

Watching him is like watching the far right version of Joy Reid or Rachel Maddows programs. Best to avoid them all as you are correct. They are despicable.