As I said in a thread the other day the policy is unfortunately a choice between the US starving itself of resources and energy while the world keeps moving, or we try our best to move forward with a different mindset. Pollution and deforestation is a bigger problem than CO2 emissions, yet the same groups wanting to take your cash for carbon put forth no projects or proposals to deal with those issues. They are more than happy to watch China build more and more polluting industry, and we even pay them to take all of our trash to dispose of as they see fit.
The power struggle is not simply a matter of fixing the West (US, UK, France) but a world wide issue. Are we demanding that the UAE stop destroying massive amounts of ocean with cool looking projects? Are we demanding that Saudi Arabia stop pumping oil? Why is it always one side being blamed by the people holding power? Then we get to hear all of he people claiming that the US needs to be punished, which if you wish to be an annex of China or Russia in the future is a good position to have.
Trump did tell people fair and square that he wanted deregulation to stimulate the wheezing and gasping US economy. That does not mean we stay that way forever, but in my opinion we could probably start with a clean slate given all of the cruft put into our regulations over the last 30 years.
Lets also not forget that a Free economy has a built in check and balance system. If you don't like pollution don't use products that pollute. People selling products will be forced to come up with better, cleaner solutions. Power plants product what people use, and very little more. Awareness and boycotts are very useful tools when used properly.
Wrong. Cherry picking your statement, you just said "I don't like government.". See how easy it is to make you look like an anarchist who dislikes the Government? This was being done regularly to one candidate with claims like "He told Russia to hack the US", and "He said he wants Hillary assassinated" by media, and is pure propaganda. That is not free speech, its slander and libel. Which "media" claims they should be immune from because they claim to have "fairness doctrine" and actually let a sentence fragment from a Republican be aired.
The media was caught not just creating and spreading propaganda, but colluding with the Democratic party to support their candidate. That is what we see in tyrannical governments and is most certainly not free speech.
he EC is not perfect, but it equalizes between large and small states. It works.
Exactly the point, thanks for the backing. Even with the EC a candidate can win by simply getting more votes in 9 States. Luckily enough States have different balances of interests.
How about the Clinton's go visit Haiti, one of their claims to charitable fame, without their body guards. I'm guessing they would be food for some type of critter in little time. Going to a biased source which makes extraordinary claims while denying facts right in the tax forms requires some form of mental retardation.
The 90% for payroll and benefits is directly from their tax forms. Going to magical money not in the ledgers as an attempt to claim altruism is simply sad. Comparing that to the Red Cross which spends about 50% on actual recipients is disturbing. I have no time for propagandists and/or trolls.
Ronald Reagan, political outsider treated with derision by MSM and Politicians. Nancy was not his first wife for pity sake, everyone claimed the world was going to end.
The difference is between what the "Foundation" collects versus what Bill directly banked. 6% of the Foundation funds goes to charitable works, 90% goes to paychecks and benefits. When a foreign government gives 30 million to the foundation ever member on payroll ends up splitting 27million dollars. This is not a complex shell company operation with many levels, this is a one stop shell. It is visible to anyone who wants to look.
The media needs to be demonopolized. It is my sincere hope that after 30 years of complaining about a corrupt media we finally have enough of a voice to get the DOJ to address this under the Sherman Act.
Free speech is fine, but propaganda is not the same thing. The MSM in the US has become an arm of the Democratic party and what we used to laugh at in the USSR's Pravda. Worse however, is that people in Russia at least knew beyond any doubt that their media was state run propaganda while many in the US actually believe the reality TV shows are real.
Instead of jumping to conspiracy, how about Russia reaching out to say that they were not involved in the hacks? Considering the amount of venom Hillary was sending to Russia, the threats of war by Joe Biden, indirect action by Clinton claiming she would establish no-fly zones over Syria, perhaps Russia was simply saying "Hey, we didn't do that and are keeping our distance."
There is certainly a different position to be had by a candidates spouse taking hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign interests, which Trump was accused of but Bill Clinton actually did.
According to Pew Research: 1 in 3 Hispanic/Latino voters voted for Trump. 2 out of 5 women voted for Trump and Clinton got barely more than half. Asian Americans voted overwhelmingly for Trump. In fact in California only 3 out of 5 voted for Clinton overall, and considering the voter depression in the state it could be closer to half than we will ever know.
Your position is disenfranchising anyone who disagrees with you. So much for you being an intellectual who really cares about the minorities in the Country.
Paywalled, and written with an intentional bias. Considering we have the highest taxes in the US, a 51Billion dollar budget deficit, at least 400billion in unfunded liabilities, and a 400billion dollar debt, all of the various debt and liabilities from UC. Then you need to you take away the Federal tax funds to the various cities, education, military bases and ports, various science funding and NASA, etc... that Budget goes down by 1/3rd.
More simply put, tax dollars going to the Federal side from CA return to Government projects in CA. The article is only counting certain types of assistance spending on people.
You are not paying me to be an analyst so the numbers are rough, but certainly California has great financial issues.
Democracy is by DEFINITION mob rule! Which is why the US is a Democratic Republic, and not just a Republic (rule by law) and not just a Democracy (rule by mob). I used the operative term "Pure" because people like to claim the US is a Democracy because the word is in the type of Government we are.
The "Fraud" and "Rigged" system mentioned is many things, not just poll sampling.
1. Media turned Propaganda to benefit a single candidate. Spread false information and flat out lies to support the same.
2. Media reporting false poll data to suppress voters from going out.
3. Flat out voter fraud exposed by Wikileaks and Project Veritas.
4. Refusal of the DOJ to clean up voter roles over the last 8 years. This increases opportunity with 3.
5. Use of Celebrities to promote a single candidate just like the media did.
6. Poll sampling and reporting used to portray the results as "white" vote ignoring others. In reality, massive amounts of all minorities (very heavy Asian) including men and women voted for the President Elect.
The poll sampling you are mentioning is a factor, but not the only factor in the "fraud" and "rigged" system that Trump was discussing. Obviously the full answer does not fit into a tweet so the average American would not bother to read or understand the issues. ABC and CNN said "nuh uh", and that was enough to make someone a liar. "Liar" is now latched onto as fact, and the media won't come clean because it does not serve their interests.
Haha, you don't know me very well at all. I'm harder on the Conservatives than I am on "libtards" (using your term) because we are supposed to be the party that believes firmly in the Constitution. I voted Reagan and was critical of him, and I was harsh on both of the Bush Presidents (actually voted Perot in 92) and saw them as very weak Republicans. I'll be harsh on Trump, and the people I listen to in the Conservative movement will be also (Levin, Prager, Shapiro, etc..). There is no free pass because we are already near the end of the Constitutional line.
If they do secede they need to pay relocation fees for everyone who wants to leave. I demand relocation fees.
One more, one more thing.. CA makes a lot of money because it's a port state with refineries and military bases. All that stuff goes with caexit too, so the economy no longer looks so good.
Have you seen the California budget lately? No, CA does not give more than it receives. The state is in massive debt, has massive regulations, and businesses can't seem to leave the state fast enough. Just wait, massive approvals for hundreds of billions more in debt just got approved.
I thought quite a bit about this because I heard it this morning. Let CA secede, but they need to pay out all of the money they currently owe. They also need to come up with their own currency, infrastructure system and funding, and of course defense forces. Perhaps try to pay the rest of the US to do so for them, but good luck with that. A broke California with no defense will quickly become someone else' territory.
For the record, nearly 1/3rd of the state voted for Trump and Clinton only received 61% of the vote. I guess the rest of us have no worth or value to these same selfish idiots.
CA is suffering from the same poor loser syndrome as we have seen in other places. The answer is the same as we told them: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You raise valid points, but I don't think this was like brexit or a one off. This push to globalism by the elite and leaving everyone behind has caused a massive divide between them and the average person. Additionally, you have the propaganda outlets spreading hatred and lies. University Safe spaces and promotion of "everyone hate on the white people" has furthered the divide. Is it a one off? Depends on what the Trump administration can get done in 4 years.
Watching the media today and seeing all of the alleged protesters I wonder if the media realizes they could make most people happy by simply admitting they lied to everyone about most of the election process and candidates. The media has helped to create a great monster, but at this point I don't think the globalists and oligarchs care. It will have to harm them financially, and they have pretty deep pockets.
California gave all 55 votes to Clinton while 31% of the population voted for Trump. I'd say the large states have far more effect on elections than say New Hampshire with 4 whole votes. CA also called it for Clinton before a single vote was counted. Does the EC only prove to be a problem when it's not to your advantage?
And while we are at it, there is a massive voter depression in CA because people see their votes do no good. If it was popular vote, CA could have added a few million more to Trump as easily as not.
Pure Democracy is rule by mob. The Republic was established with the Electoral College to exactly prevent mob rules. The founders knew damn well what Democracy was and saw how it failed in other countries who attempted to implement a pure democracy. They also knew what dictatorships, monarchies, oligarchies, timocracies, theocracies, matriarchies, patriarchies, and believe it or not.. they saw other failures at implementing republican forms of Government. Geesh, did you know that France had several very bloody revolutions before ours and tried several times to implement a "republic" of all things? Ben Franklin made quite a study of the failures in France. Try, just try to crack a history book now and then.
If popular vote was all that was needed, what candidate would ever visit Iowa, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Maine, Arizona, or the MAJORITY OF STATES! That's right, 9 states is all you need to "win" under those circumstances. Hawaii can F*&k right off because your candidate lost right?
As GP stated, it would be beneficial for more states to split their electoral votes. CA for example called all 55 for Clinton before a single vote was counted, yet Trump won just shy of a third of the votes. How fair is it that those people are not heard? That is the fault of the electoral college too, and I really don't hear you complaining about that.
Educate yourself, it's actually beneficial. Stop for a moment and consider that you may not be nearly as intelligent, which means you lack considerable wisdom as well.
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As I said in a thread the other day the policy is unfortunately a choice between the US starving itself of resources and energy while the world keeps moving, or we try our best to move forward with a different mindset. Pollution and deforestation is a bigger problem than CO2 emissions, yet the same groups wanting to take your cash for carbon put forth no projects or proposals to deal with those issues. They are more than happy to watch China build more and more polluting industry, and we even pay them to take all of our trash to dispose of as they see fit.
The power struggle is not simply a matter of fixing the West (US, UK, France) but a world wide issue. Are we demanding that the UAE stop destroying massive amounts of ocean with cool looking projects? Are we demanding that Saudi Arabia stop pumping oil? Why is it always one side being blamed by the people holding power? Then we get to hear all of he people claiming that the US needs to be punished, which if you wish to be an annex of China or Russia in the future is a good position to have.
Trump did tell people fair and square that he wanted deregulation to stimulate the wheezing and gasping US economy. That does not mean we stay that way forever, but in my opinion we could probably start with a clean slate given all of the cruft put into our regulations over the last 30 years.
Lets also not forget that a Free economy has a built in check and balance system. If you don't like pollution don't use products that pollute. People selling products will be forced to come up with better, cleaner solutions. Power plants product what people use, and very little more. Awareness and boycotts are very useful tools when used properly.
Wrong. Cherry picking your statement, you just said "I don't like government." . See how easy it is to make you look like an anarchist who dislikes the Government? This was being done regularly to one candidate with claims like "He told Russia to hack the US", and "He said he wants Hillary assassinated" by media, and is pure propaganda. That is not free speech, its slander and libel. Which "media" claims they should be immune from because they claim to have "fairness doctrine" and actually let a sentence fragment from a Republican be aired.
The media was caught not just creating and spreading propaganda, but colluding with the Democratic party to support their candidate. That is what we see in tyrannical governments and is most certainly not free speech.
The majority stat was given on the Radio (560AM/SF). They gave 90%, but I believe that was for CA and not a National number.
he EC is not perfect, but it equalizes between large and small states. It works.
Exactly the point, thanks for the backing. Even with the EC a candidate can win by simply getting more votes in 9 States. Luckily enough States have different balances of interests.
How about the Clinton's go visit Haiti, one of their claims to charitable fame, without their body guards. I'm guessing they would be food for some type of critter in little time. Going to a biased source which makes extraordinary claims while denying facts right in the tax forms requires some form of mental retardation.
The 90% for payroll and benefits is directly from their tax forms. Going to magical money not in the ledgers as an attempt to claim altruism is simply sad. Comparing that to the Red Cross which spends about 50% on actual recipients is disturbing. I have no time for propagandists and/or trolls.
Ronald Reagan, political outsider treated with derision by MSM and Politicians. Nancy was not his first wife for pity sake, everyone claimed the world was going to end.
The difference is between what the "Foundation" collects versus what Bill directly banked. 6% of the Foundation funds goes to charitable works, 90% goes to paychecks and benefits. When a foreign government gives 30 million to the foundation ever member on payroll ends up splitting 27million dollars. This is not a complex shell company operation with many levels, this is a one stop shell. It is visible to anyone who wants to look.
The media needs to be demonopolized. It is my sincere hope that after 30 years of complaining about a corrupt media we finally have enough of a voice to get the DOJ to address this under the Sherman Act.
Free speech is fine, but propaganda is not the same thing. The MSM in the US has become an arm of the Democratic party and what we used to laugh at in the USSR's Pravda. Worse however, is that people in Russia at least knew beyond any doubt that their media was state run propaganda while many in the US actually believe the reality TV shows are real.
Instead of jumping to conspiracy, how about Russia reaching out to say that they were not involved in the hacks? Considering the amount of venom Hillary was sending to Russia, the threats of war by Joe Biden, indirect action by Clinton claiming she would establish no-fly zones over Syria, perhaps Russia was simply saying "Hey, we didn't do that and are keeping our distance."
There is certainly a different position to be had by a candidates spouse taking hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign interests, which Trump was accused of but Bill Clinton actually did.
So when you lose the argument you resort to ad hominem and fabrication. Thanks for displaying your lack of intellect _and_ character.
According to Pew Research: 1 in 3 Hispanic/Latino voters voted for Trump. 2 out of 5 women voted for Trump and Clinton got barely more than half. Asian Americans voted overwhelmingly for Trump. In fact in California only 3 out of 5 voted for Clinton overall, and considering the voter depression in the state it could be closer to half than we will ever know.
Your position is disenfranchising anyone who disagrees with you. So much for you being an intellectual who really cares about the minorities in the Country.
Nearly ONE IN THREE CALIFORNIANS VOTED TRUMP! Who is enslaving whom exactly you insensitive clod?
Paywalled, and written with an intentional bias. Considering we have the highest taxes in the US, a 51Billion dollar budget deficit, at least 400billion in unfunded liabilities, and a 400billion dollar debt, all of the various debt and liabilities from UC. Then you need to you take away the Federal tax funds to the various cities, education, military bases and ports, various science funding and NASA, etc... that Budget goes down by 1/3rd.
More simply put, tax dollars going to the Federal side from CA return to Government projects in CA. The article is only counting certain types of assistance spending on people.
You are not paying me to be an analyst so the numbers are rough, but certainly California has great financial issues.
Democracy is by DEFINITION mob rule! Which is why the US is a Democratic Republic, and not just a Republic (rule by law) and not just a Democracy (rule by mob). I used the operative term "Pure" because people like to claim the US is a Democracy because the word is in the type of Government we are.
The "Fraud" and "Rigged" system mentioned is many things, not just poll sampling.
1. Media turned Propaganda to benefit a single candidate. Spread false information and flat out lies to support the same.
2. Media reporting false poll data to suppress voters from going out.
3. Flat out voter fraud exposed by Wikileaks and Project Veritas.
4. Refusal of the DOJ to clean up voter roles over the last 8 years. This increases opportunity with 3.
5. Use of Celebrities to promote a single candidate just like the media did.
6. Poll sampling and reporting used to portray the results as "white" vote ignoring others. In reality, massive amounts of all minorities (very heavy Asian) including men and women voted for the President Elect.
The poll sampling you are mentioning is a factor, but not the only factor in the "fraud" and "rigged" system that Trump was discussing. Obviously the full answer does not fit into a tweet so the average American would not bother to read or understand the issues. ABC and CNN said "nuh uh", and that was enough to make someone a liar. "Liar" is now latched onto as fact, and the media won't come clean because it does not serve their interests.
Haha, you don't know me very well at all. I'm harder on the Conservatives than I am on "libtards" (using your term) because we are supposed to be the party that believes firmly in the Constitution. I voted Reagan and was critical of him, and I was harsh on both of the Bush Presidents (actually voted Perot in 92) and saw them as very weak Republicans. I'll be harsh on Trump, and the people I listen to in the Conservative movement will be also (Levin, Prager, Shapiro, etc..). There is no free pass because we are already near the end of the Constitutional line.
Self promotion, but I published this a bit ago.
If they do secede they need to pay relocation fees for everyone who wants to leave. I demand relocation fees.
One more, one more thing.. CA makes a lot of money because it's a port state with refineries and military bases. All that stuff goes with caexit too, so the economy no longer looks so good.
Have you seen the California budget lately? No, CA does not give more than it receives. The state is in massive debt, has massive regulations, and businesses can't seem to leave the state fast enough. Just wait, massive approvals for hundreds of billions more in debt just got approved.
I thought quite a bit about this because I heard it this morning. Let CA secede, but they need to pay out all of the money they currently owe. They also need to come up with their own currency, infrastructure system and funding, and of course defense forces. Perhaps try to pay the rest of the US to do so for them, but good luck with that. A broke California with no defense will quickly become someone else' territory.
For the record, nearly 1/3rd of the state voted for Trump and Clinton only received 61% of the vote. I guess the rest of us have no worth or value to these same selfish idiots.
CA is suffering from the same poor loser syndrome as we have seen in other places. The answer is the same as we told them: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You raise valid points, but I don't think this was like brexit or a one off. This push to globalism by the elite and leaving everyone behind has caused a massive divide between them and the average person. Additionally, you have the propaganda outlets spreading hatred and lies. University Safe spaces and promotion of "everyone hate on the white people" has furthered the divide. Is it a one off? Depends on what the Trump administration can get done in 4 years.
Watching the media today and seeing all of the alleged protesters I wonder if the media realizes they could make most people happy by simply admitting they lied to everyone about most of the election process and candidates. The media has helped to create a great monster, but at this point I don't think the globalists and oligarchs care. It will have to harm them financially, and they have pretty deep pockets.
gerrymandering. Politicians have figured out how to solve voter distribution problems long ago.
Pardon the vitriol as well, not directed at you but the overall boisterous mobs who cry foul before learning the rules.
California gave all 55 votes to Clinton while 31% of the population voted for Trump. I'd say the large states have far more effect on elections than say New Hampshire with 4 whole votes. CA also called it for Clinton before a single vote was counted. Does the EC only prove to be a problem when it's not to your advantage?
And while we are at it, there is a massive voter depression in CA because people see their votes do no good. If it was popular vote, CA could have added a few million more to Trump as easily as not.
Pure Democracy is rule by mob. The Republic was established with the Electoral College to exactly prevent mob rules. The founders knew damn well what Democracy was and saw how it failed in other countries who attempted to implement a pure democracy. They also knew what dictatorships, monarchies, oligarchies, timocracies, theocracies, matriarchies, patriarchies, and believe it or not.. they saw other failures at implementing republican forms of Government. Geesh, did you know that France had several very bloody revolutions before ours and tried several times to implement a "republic" of all things? Ben Franklin made quite a study of the failures in France. Try, just try to crack a history book now and then.
If popular vote was all that was needed, what candidate would ever visit Iowa, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Maine, Arizona, or the MAJORITY OF STATES! That's right, 9 states is all you need to "win" under those circumstances. Hawaii can F*&k right off because your candidate lost right?
As GP stated, it would be beneficial for more states to split their electoral votes. CA for example called all 55 for Clinton before a single vote was counted, yet Trump won just shy of a third of the votes. How fair is it that those people are not heard? That is the fault of the electoral college too, and I really don't hear you complaining about that.
Educate yourself, it's actually beneficial. Stop for a moment and consider that you may not be nearly as intelligent, which means you lack considerable wisdom as well.