I'm really not kidding. You are REALLY in for it now!
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2962139]Keep telling yourself that. The truth is Democrats were fucking with elections in Florida for decades. We saw what a farce Palm Beach and Broward County were in 2000, and they continued to be. In 2019, Desantis kicked out Susan Bucher and Brenda Snipers, and Florida elections have been smooth as silk since. And Florida has gone from being a tossup state to solidly red.
And we have just seen in Pennsylvania the continued counting of illegal votes.
And it was not just in Pennsylvania. Nevada and Arizona, just like Broward and Palm County used to, keep having issues counting votes. Gee, I wonder why. Wisconsin apparently had another late night dumping off a massive amount of mail in ballots.
As of now, Kamala is down about 8 million votes from Biden. So how many of these previous Biden voters voted for others? How many stayed home? And how many were fake? The answer to that last question is not zero even though you want it to be.
Just like in Florida, we Republicans have had enough of this shit. 80% of the country is in favor of voter ID, and Republicans have the votes to pass it now. So you can keep telling yourself Loony Tooms that changing the law on voter ID will not matter. All we know is getting rid of those witches in Florida turned Florida ruby red.[/QUOTE]MORE than 4 solid years of you whining and crying Sore Losers has without a doubt caused our resident "Wow. You lost! Get over it" contingency to build up a huge store of Whip Ass for you about it!
Which I am positive they will unleash on you any minute now after that post FOUR PLUS YEARS into it!
Wait for it!
It's coming!
I just know it's coming!
Really.
Swear to god!
For sure.
Probably the very next post.
Been composing it for more than 4 long years.
So it must be a real doozy.
You are really going to get it now.
Take cover.
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I'm ok with higher prices if it destroys Globalism
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2962098]Clearly, the majority of Americans and the majority of the American Electorate does NOT want this shit to happen.
But Repub Donald J. Trump made a campaign promise and has sworn to keep his campaign promises to the relative handful of self-loathing, America-hating Muslims spread across 3 states that "gave him the win".
So he damn well better do it On Day One, along with deporting millions and millions of nail and hair salon employees, farm workers, produce pickers, factory workers, construction workers, day laborers, maids, busboys, landscapers, maintenance and janitorial workers, etc, etc, etc and replace them with higher paid full American citizens as soon as millions and millions those American citizens show up to apply for those jobs.
And he better not even think about wasting so much as one hour golfing until he fulfills those promises and many, many more to satisfy that new critical America-hating Muslim Repub Electoral base demo no matter how few of them there are in those 3 important Electoral College states.
[B]Walmart may have to raise some prices if Trump tariffs take effect, CFO says.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/walmart-says-new-trump-tariffs-could-raise-prices.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
The immortal Trump / Repub classic:[/QUOTE]But Walmart has a better more Pro MAGA idea!!
Whew! I dodged another Trump bullet. So far.
More than a dozen years ago I took my Clinton and Obama stock market gains, my LBJ, Carter, Clinton jobs income savings, my California life, work and investment money, all of which had blessedly out-performed the losses most Americans suffered, me too, from the Reagan, Bush1, Bush2 years, then again in the Trump years but, blessedly regained and then some in the Biden years, to retire early, move and enjoy life work-free in Thailand surrounded by cute young Asian girls happy to blow me and get fucked by me for a small price but most importantly without the burdensome cost of emotional or long term commitment expected by many of the lovelies in the USA who provided those pleasures to me over the previous decades along with the great food, variety if entertainments, the ridiculously comfortable ease of life, fun and leisure here in Bangkok, Thailand.
But as I got older I knew I needed to consider health care issues. Luckily I have not needed to go to a hospital for anything other than a full routine medical check-up or to see a doctor for anything more than to get my eyes examined and teeth cleaned and checked to make sure all is well there. And all is well.
As I reached age 65, that fantastic Dem-proposed, fought for and passed miracle of modern American life, Medicare, was available to me. For free. Well, I had paid into it throughout my working years. So I signed up for it, of course. Even though I knew I could not take advantage of it while living in Thailand, it was great to know I could fly back to the USA to get whatever major surgery or hospitalization I might require some day.
Which brings us to that Trump bullet I just dodged. It turns out my observation and the testimonials I get from other expats that Thai surgical and hospitalization is Top Notch and low cost means I will probably never need to fly back to the USA for any particular Medicare-related surgery or hospitalization. Plus I have health insurance coverage here as is required to get my annual retirement visa.
Therefore, there will be no reason in the foreseeable future for me to deal with the expected horrific results of this:
[B]Trump names Dr. Mehmet Oz to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.[/B]
[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/mehmet-oz-trump-medicare-medicaid/index.html[/URL]
[B]
HomeMedia
Mehmet Oz unqualified to run Medicare and Medicaid.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cspinet.org/statement/mehmet-oz-unqualified-run-medicare-and-medicaid[/URL]
[QUOTE]Statement of CSPI President Dr. Peter G. Lurie
The nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would be a shocking nomination under normal circumstances. But in the context of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.s, nomination to lead HHS, the CMS parent agency, it makes perfect sense: Its as if Donald Trump is poised to turn over control of our vital health and and medical agencies to a clown car full of unqualified quacks.
Dr. Oz is famous for promoting medicines and supplements that do not do what Oz says they dothats the last person youd want overseeing the billions of dollars in medical care expenditures CMS approves each year. Like RFK, Jr., he touted the debunked hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19.
He has devoted a large portion of his career to promoting silly therapies involving herbs and extracts with no discernable health effects, various other purported weight-loss remedies, and has even promoted homeopathy, in which supposed therapies are diluted to the point that they are essentially absent from the product.
this rate, they should rename the department the Department of Hydroxychloroquine, Homeopathy, and Supplements.[/QUOTE]Whew!
HM, you seem so surprised.
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2961794]I'm not a fan of the Horseshoe club.
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory[/URL]
But I would assign ET Spidy and Tiny12 to that club.
I am not a Republican or a Democrat, I hate both parties.
But I don't think the far right hates the Jews, maybe they did 80 yrs ago.
Ie, I consider Mike Huckabee pretty far right and he's as Pro Israel / Jew as you will find (also Desantis, the National Review crowd et al).
Evangelicals love Israel and The Jews.[/QUOTE]Right!
[B]The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right[/B]
[URL]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/anti-semitism-american-right-wing/679992[/URL]
[B]Tucker Carlson and the danger of antisemitism[/B]
[URL]https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tucker-carlson-and-the-danger-of-antisemitism[/URL]
[B]Americas dark history of organized anti-Semitism re-emerges in todays far-right groups[/B]
[URL]https://theconversation.com/americas-dark-history-of-organized-anti-semitism-re-emerges-in-todays-far-right-groups-106292[/URL]
And there is at least one study that's also not in favor of the Horseshoe theory, but for entirely different reasons.
[B]The far left and far right are equally antisemitic? A new study suggests otherwise[/B]
[URL]https://forward.com/fast-forward/549006/jews-far-left-far-right-antisemitic-study[/URL]
[QUOTE]A new study is casting doubt on the idea, held by some but not most American Jews, that antisemitism is just as prevalent on the far left as it is on the far right. Though far more American Jews consider the far right as the greater antisemitic threat, some academics and Jewish leaders have embraced horseshoe theory the idea the opposite ends of an ideological spectrum are similar and applied it to antisemitism.
Though the Anti-Defamation League, for example, has identified the far right as far more threatening to American Jews, its leader, Jonathan Greenblatt, has compared far-left critics of Israel as the photo inverse of the extreme right.[/QUOTE]
More Bullshit Lies out of Bangkok Bob
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2962209]More than a dozen years ago I took my Clinton and Obama stock market gains, my LBJ, Carter, Clinton jobs income savings, my California life, work and investment money, all of which had blessedly out-performed the losses most Americans suffered, me too, from the Reagan, Bush1, Bush2 years, then again in the Trump years but, blessedly regained and then some in the Biden years, to retire early, move and enjoy life work-free in Thailand surrounded by cute young Asian girls happy to blow me and get fucked by me for a small price but most importantly without the burdensome cost of emotional or long term commitment expected by many of the lovelies in the USA who provided those pleasures to me over the previous decades along with the great food, variety if entertainments, the ridiculously comfortable ease of life, fun and leisure here in Bangkok, Thailand.
But as I got older I knew I needed to consider health care issues. Luckily I have not needed to go to a hospital for anything other than a full routine medical check-up or to see a doctor for anything more than to get my eyes examined and teeth cleaned and checked to make sure all is well there. And all is well.
As I reached age 65, that fantastic Dem-proposed, fought for and passed miracle of modern American life, Medicare, was available to me. For free. Well, I had paid into it throughout my working years. So I signed up for it, of course. Even though I knew I could not take advantage of it while living in Thailand, it was great to know I could fly back to the USA to get whatever major surgery or hospitalization I might require some day.
Which brings us to that Trump bullet I just dodged. It turns out my observation and the testimonials I get from other expats that Thai surgical and hospitalization is Top Notch and low cost means I will probably never need to fly back to the USA for any particular Medicare-related surgery or hospitalization. Plus I have health insurance coverage here as is required to get my annual retirement visa.
Therefore, there will be no reason in the foreseeable future for me to deal with the expected horrific results of this:
[B]Trump names Dr. Mehmet Oz to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.[/B]
[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/mehmet-oz-trump-medicare-medicaid/index.html[/URL]
[B]
HomeMedia
Mehmet Oz unqualified to run Medicare and Medicaid.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cspinet.org/statement/mehmet-oz-unqualified-run-medicare-and-medicaid[/URL]
Whew![/QUOTE]If you received Medicare I'm pretty sure you would know its not free.
Trump's Treasury Secretary Nominee loves him some Bidenomics!
The Titans of American Industry and Business, including Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, LOVE them some Bidenomics Recovery and Economic Expansion for the remarkably PRO BUSINESS and PRO GROWTH effect it has had in teeing up the kind of historically positive opportunity that only a complete King of Business Failures and Bancruptcy could possibly fuck up going forward.
As usual, the Dems shouldered ALL of the heavy lifting and assumed ALL of the political risk-taking to apply their inarguably far superior pro business, pro America, America First policies and stewardship while America-hating, Know Nothing, Do Nothing Repubs to sat on their butt demonizing the herculean effort and lying about it in their benefactor Mainstream Media and timing it just so to swoop in and take control of it thanks to a handful of blitheringly ill informed voters in 2-3 swing states.
Whereupon the lying Repubs usually shit all over the opportunity, go fishing, ride ponies or play golf, play golf and play more golf until the chance to Crash the economy they inherited, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs and, thereby, rise to the status of Lord and Savior in the Repub Party comes along or has to be generated by them to leap upon, embrace and exacerbate.
The same pattern that has been repeating itself for at least 100 years.
Oh well.
[B]USA 'industrial renaissance' is driving a rebound in fundraising.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/20/us-industrial-renaissance-is-driving-a-rebound-in-fundraising.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Demand for capital in the U.S. is surging amid massive government spending and an industrial renaissance, Apollo Globals Marc Rowan said.
Other panelists said normalization of economic conditions and growth in the data center and energy sectors were also leading to a rebound in fundraising activity.
...........
An industrial renaissance in the U.S. is fueling demand for capital, Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management said at the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit in Hong Kong.
There is so much demand for capital, including through debt and equity ... Whats going on is nothing short of extraordinary, Rowan said on Tuesday during a panel discussion.
This demand has been supported by massive government spending, particularly on infrastructure, the semiconductor industry and projects [b]under the Inflation Reduction Act[/b], said the asset manager, who is reportedly in the[b] running for Treasury Secretary position under President-elect Donald Trump.[/b]
What were watching is this incredible demand for capital happening against a backdrop of a U.S. government that is running significant deficits. And so the capital raising business, I think thats going to be a good business, he said.
Industrial policies, including[b] the CHIPS and Science Act[/b] and the [b]2021 infrastructure legislation[/b], warrant billions in spending.
Rowan added that the U.S. has been the largest recipient of foreign direct investment over the past three years and is expected to stay at the top spot this year as well.
Rowan and other panelists also identified energy and data centers needed for artificial intelligence and digitization as growth sectors requiring more capital.
............
"This environment has been one where, if you are in the business of allocating capital, its been great, he said, adding that the group was now gearing up to get into raising capital mode.
[B]That is the hallmark of a growing and thriving economy,[/b] which is where the classic underwriting and mergers and acquisitions businesses take hold, he said.
Solomon predicted that these trends would see more robust capital raising and M&A activity in 2025.[/QUOTE]I'm sure Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury is too much of an unappreciative coward to say it as is Larry Summers. But I will say it:
Thanks, Joe, Kamala and the Dems.
Foxy News and X, the perfect platforms to spread MAGA Lies...
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2961245]Why jack with X? You have to sign up for an account, login, do a search to find something that gets your juices flowing, and so on. Instead you could just flop down in an easy chair, turn on your TV, and watch MSNBC! You'll find lots of lies, slander, anti-crap and mis / disinformation! And Rachel, Lawrence, Joy and Chris will do a much better job of spewing, parroting, eating up and promoting than any two bit amateurs on X!.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, cause it's so much better being lied to, over and over and over again, taking it up the wazoo, by Russia's most useful on air personalities, over at FOXY Muse [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
What, you mean the gullible and amiable pundits, Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Brent Biaer and others, who love to spew and parrot Russian tales of laptop dick pics, bad purple dinosaurs and Jewish space lasers and wouldn't dream of turning down a conspiracy, even if it was said to have came from Mother Goose.
I have no doubt you, Repubs, love being lied to on the regular, by a "news" corporation, that's paid $787 Million in law suit fines for doing what they, notoriously do best...LIE!
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2961245]And yes dear Spidy, X is much more consistent with American principles of free speech than other platforms like Facebook! It doesn't censor as much since Musk took over.[/QUOTE] That's a joke, right! Free speech on X, is that what Elon promised you! [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
Meantime, naturally MAGA Nation, will continue to believe anything being pushed through that grotesque pipeline sludge of mis/disinformation that is X, and call it factual and accurate "news".
Well Tiny 12, one thing is for sure, X, will continue to be [i][b]a great way to hype deportation immigration numbers [/b] (just like Repubs hyped the initial fake illegal immigration numbers)[/i], through social media to get your gullible MAGA base, all fired up to make it look like, "tens of millions" are being deporting, without having to actually find, come up with and actually deport, all those "tens of millions" of so called illegals. IT A PRETTY NEAT TRICK!
So just like your MAGA Nation was bamboozled into thinking there were 20, 30, 40+ million of illegals, told to you, since [i][b]"it was written on X",[/b][/i] with the stroke of a keyboard, those very same illegals [u]can easily just as well, disappear with the stroke of a keyboard[/u] and a few well placed online influences and disinformation peddlers, thereby bringing the gullible MAGA masses into line and believing, said deportation lies. Et Voilą! Deportation of millions solved!
[u]Tens of Millions Flee X for Blue Sky:[/u]
But there's hope for those leaving X, by the millions and marching over to Blue Sky and others, as a bright and better alternative, to a hate spewing, anti-free speech, Nazi-sympathizer/loving, misogynistic and bigoted platform, such as X.
No no no. This can't be true.
Trump and his Repub MAGAs have assured us the Biden Economy is NOT "resilient". It is "the worst economy ever" and must be "turned around" on Day One!
[B]Delta forecasts more sales growth in 2025 thanks to high-end demand, 'resilient economy'.[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/20/delta-air-lines-investor-day.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Delta Air Lines forecast revenue growth in the mid-single digit percentage points next year, in line with analysts estimates.
The carrier expects to expand capacity by no more than 4% year-over-year in 2025.
The airline is the most profitable, but faces competition from United Airlines, whose shares have more than doubled this year.[/QUOTE]Surely, the only reason Delta is feeling good about the economy is because they have been designated the airline of choice to deport the millions upon millions of low cost nail and hair salon workers, farm workers, produce pickers, construction workers, landscapers, factory workers, maids, maintenance and janitorial workers, child care providers, etc, etc on January 20 to be replaced by much higher paid American citizens who show up for their jobs on January 22.
And maybe to fly the latter across the country to their new job sites too.
Otherwise, doesn't anybody at Delta know nobody in America has been able to afford an egg since January 21, 2021?
Since when is Medicare Part [B]A[/B] not free?
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2962261]If you received Medicare I'm pretty sure you would know its not free.[/QUOTE]I have qualified for, gotten my card for and had Medicare Part [B]A[/B] for the past 6 years with no bill or request for payment required of me. If there is some charge for certain procedures I have not had any reason to find out about it.
I assure you MY Medicare membership is 100% free.
You are probably thinking of Medicare Part [B]B[/B].
Which is something different and even less applicable to my living in Thailand than Medicare Part [B]A[/B].
If you are thinking of anything at all, that is.
