nyonnnnn.bsky.social
autistic enlightened libertarian populist schizophrenic
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Trump literally campaigned on the promise Musk would run a Department of Government Efficiency. This is what people voted for.
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He got addicted to heroin at age 15 because his uncle and his father were both murdered. His statement that heroin helped his ADHD is a retrospective analysis at worst. He still claims that his arrest for heroin possession that led to him quitting is the best thing that ever happened to him.
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Alright, first of all, assault weapons and assault rifles are two entirely different things, and assault rifles have been illegal since 1986. If you don't even know what you're trying to ban how is anyone supposed to take you seriously?
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skeet skeet
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Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are going to be particularly keen on this idea. Being the only party on their respective sides of the aisle is great for the both of them strategically, but no so great for Americans.
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If you want that to happen you better hope Trump does a bad job.
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If we have a shortage of housing supply and demand increases as a result of mass illegal immigration that will absolutely raise people's rent. You know that though, you just don't want to say it.
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Refer to the 2024 presidential election, the 2016 presidential election, and especially the 2000 presidential election.
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He took it to feed to his ravens.
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I think he probably took the couch out to dinner first.
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Stop trying to play armchair psychologist with me Scott.
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I'm doubtful RFK Jr is going to ban any vaccinations, we'll have to wait and see how he is in action though. It's hard to say what any of these politicians will do with a position until they are actually in it. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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If JD Vance fucked a couch I respect him more for it. He is a based couch fucker.
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Every November for the next four years there are going to be elections and you are still going to get to vote for whoever you want. There isn't going to be an authoritarian takeover of the government. Please refer to the chart.
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He made RFK Jr's involvement in health a major part of his platform. To not put RFK Jr in charge of health would've been to go against the platform people voted for. Ben Carson would've been a good option though. I do wonder whether Ben Carson will find his way into Trump's cabinet.
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RFK Jr. does not eat roadkill, he did however collect roadkill meat which he kept to feed to his ravens. There is no evidence his second wife killed herself because he cheated on her, let alone because of him. RFK Jr. became addicted to heroin at age 15 to cope with his father's assassination.
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I'm not going to argue over the entirety of the Republican's platform and what effect it has on workers. I'd be here all night. All I'm saying is that having an oversaturated job market is generally bad for workers, and that preventing the job market from being oversaturated is a good idea.
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As of now we are importing from countries with far more lax environmental standards than ours, and we often have to transport what we import very long distances. All of that uses up energy and is ultimately worse for the environment.
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Temporarily, yes. But in the long term they will incentivize entrepreneurs to start refineries that can refine the light sweet crude oil we pump here since they'd be able to undercut the tariffed oil from overseas. As a bonus, it's better for the environment if we do it that way.
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Bosses are only able to do that because they have an over supply of workers willing to work for that price. The labor market follows the same rules of supply and demand every other market does. If there is a reduction in supply and demand stays high bosses will have to offer more.
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They survived. Profits weren't as high for the owners, but they still managed to operate and provide people with eggs. It's an open secret that with the profit most of these companies make they could easily pay their workers far higher wages.
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People said that the same thing would happen if McDonald's had to pay workers $15 an hour. To the extent that it did happen the difference was negligible. Before the flood gates of illegal immigration opened these agricultural companies had to operate in a market similar to the one I'm proposing.
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We are talking about the difference between some partisan chatter and a full blown media driven shitstorm. There were a handful of articles opposing Becerra and very little chatter on social media. There are already hundreds of articles opposed RFK Jr. and it isn't even December yet.
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... willing to work for next to nothing handed to them on a silver platter. This is the kind of governance Republicans support. They do not, however, support forcing a wage increase via legislation, correct.
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Raising the minimum wage is not the only way in which wages can be increased. If you balance the supply of workers with the demand for workers you can create a situation in which companies have to compete for workers instead of simply having millions of them...
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Companies absolutely do have to pay their workers competitive wages when the pool of labor isn't oversaturated. Supply and demand economics apply to the labor market as well. Further, yes, production of food and housing do involve a lot of unskilled labor. That is not in dispute.
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Strange, I didn't hear very many people complaining when he was appointed.
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Oh, oh! I know! You're going to say that we have to allow people to come here illegally and oversaturate the low skilled labor market because otherwise companies would have to pay their workers competitive wages!
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You realize the current HHS secretary doesn't have a medical background either, right?
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Most of the eggs and gas we use are produced domestically.
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Trump probably is going to pardon Hunter Biden, so yeah I suppose it is.
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... pay off your kids student loans, would be a major loss for your family.
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Even if you don't have a mortgage, why would you want to continue paying property taxes and the cost of maintaining such a big property? You'd probably want to move into a smaller home, and losing out on a significant chunk of the money you paid for that house that you could've spent to, say...
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Most people are ultimately going to sell houses throughout their life. Imagine you have three kids and buy a 3000 sq ft house. Your three kids go to college and get their own houses.
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Housing prices need to go down because they've outpaced wages significantly due to a lack of supply and new buyers are unable to buy into the market. However, housing prices crashing in a normal economic environment is terrible for residents of the area without exception.
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If you pay $500k for a house and can only sell it for $300k how is that not a bad thing? Further, if you pay $500k for a house in 1993, which should be worth $1M in today's money adjusted for inflation, how is that not economically damaging?
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I've whipped up a graph using a financial analysis tool called FRED to give you a peek into the issue here. It compares the growth in disposable income and housing prices, indexed to the end of the 2007 financial crisis. Tell me with a straight face that this ISN'T a problem. I dare you.
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Under normal circumstances we probably would've seen a gradual decrease in supply, and the market would've responded by building more houses. Unfortunately, the current administration has allowed millions of people to enter the country illegally in the span of 4 years.
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This was fine for a number of years since in 2007 we had an excess of supply, and the housing market was able to work with the excess houses that were built and the new constructions that were made up until now. That isn't true anymore. We are millions of houses short.
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Wow! The ignorance here is astounding. People don't want houses to be 100k! The problem is that there is such a huge shortage of homes that prices are rising extremely quickly. After 2007 huge numbers of housing developers went out of business, and housing production never recovered.
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If the Democrats are going to win the midterms, they need to reinvent their platform and separate themselves from the Biden administration, and they need to do it now.
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You guys can argue about the size of Trump's mandate and what parts of his platform actually appealed to Americans, but the fact of the matter is that if Trump succeeds after years of fairly unpopular and arguably unsuccessful policy making from the Democrats, he is going to sweep in the midterms.
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America is a country that is far more liberal than it is conservative. It arguably always has been. People wanted to like Harris, polling data shows this. The Democrats have such an unpalatable platform at the moment that they aren't able to take advantage of that inherent advantage.
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4. Democrats have an observable benefit against Trump in terms of voter optimism. For both Biden and Harris, polling numbers were initially significantly higher when they first hit the scene. When it actually came time for them to express their platforms, however, voters were turned off.
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Here are the facts:
1. This is the first popular vote the Republicans have won since 2004.
2. As of today, Harris got 8M fewer votes than Biden, whereas Trump got 2M more than he did in 2020.
3. Trump got more of the Latino vote than any Republican presidential candidate ever has.
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It is very telling how quickly the narrative shifted from shock to damage control. This election represents a massive shift away from the Democrats, and no amount of damage control is going to change that.
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People voted for Trump because they feel that the government does too many things, and that they do most of them poorly. Dismantling many of these agencies is the will of the American people.