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04-22-25 20:30 #17983
Posts: 5553How to balance the Federal Budget
Eliminate Corporate / Ag Welfare. Eliminate the pay as you go Social Security System and have it funded in the same way that pensions used to be funded. Cut Defense Spending. Pay down the debt. Make a balanced budget a requirement. Government Borrowing can be authorized only for spending on long term capital projects.
In Additional
Flat Across the board 100% Tariffs on all goods (no exceptions).
Fire the Fed Chairman.
Allow POTUS to be the Chairman of the Fed.
Lower Rates.
ROTFLMAO!
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04-22-25 17:43 #17982
Posts: 4205Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
Musk looked at the insane trade and budget deficits and he knows as I do that unless those are gotten under control, the USA is done. Sure, I would have preferred a gradual rollout versus the Trump shock and awe tariff campaign but the USA HAS been getting screwed on a lot.
It was funny when Zelensky mouthed off to Trump and Vance and then ran back to his European supporters. Europe had a meeting about what they were going to do. The European leaders declared they were not going to stand by and let Russia take over the continent and they were going to step up in the wake of the USA and its declining leadership. There were big words, and in the end, after declaring the Ukraine war was this major emergency, they gave Ukraine no money and all they agreed to do was meet again several months later.
Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
On that last point, Trump has hit a home run. Say what you will about DOGE and how it did not achieve the cost savings desired. The deep state is reeling and the the government reports on censorship and Covid have been what we all expected from this administration. As for Colombia University, it folded like a cheap suit, and Harvard is so damned stupid, they risk losing their tax exempt status, and Matt Taibbi did a piece on Harvard that was an amazing takedown. If you just read or listen to the lame stream media, you missed it.
And yes, why is Harvard, a place where people working for their hedge / endowment fund and are making millions, tax exempt Spidy? When you talk about the robber barons and evil venture capitalists, people working the Harvard hedge fund does not come to the top of your list, does it?
So your party is what you condemn, Spidy. You condemn Musk not when he is sucking off the government but when he goes Republican. You blast hedge fund and greedy capitalists but not YOUR greedy capitalists.
If the Democrats had a plan to do all that I said, I would consider jumping ship. The most laughable part is the Democratic party is so bought and paid for, they had to roll out Bernie Sanders as he was the one voice that was at all anti-establishment. Thing is it would be hard to underestimate what a complete ass Bernie made of himself during the RFK Jr. Senate hearings and his onesy comments. Again, you probably did not hear about it.
So yeah, I do wish Trump would tone it down a bit as opposed to his brash take no prisoners attitude, but he is who we have. Any other pol once he got where Trump is would have flipped. He would have played ball. He would have taken the money the lobbyists had given him and changed positions. Why the fuck did Bernie turn on RFK Jr? Why the fuck is Bernie caring about big pharma? It is comical, and Bernie is the best you all have.
You all keep going on about how great Dems are, but none of you have a plan to balance the budget or lower trade deficits. All you have is griping at Trump and demanding human trafficking illegals get due process. Unfucking real. THAT is the hill you all want to die on?
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04-22-25 15:02 #17981
Posts: 5553Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
It is the way of the Republican Racists!
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04-22-25 14:54 #17980
Posts: 5553Originally Posted by Nyezhov [View Original Post]
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04-22-25 12:49 #17979
Posts: 1500Fuhrer, President Musk and Repubs Gov't Assistance Hypocrisy...
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
Whether RIGHT or WRONG or whether they DID or DID NOT meet their targeted goals, it was still a tangible plan of action and a document for all to see, to hold gov't ACCOUNTABLE, to their own praise or bullshit, to what they said would work, actually worked, the way they said.
Today, it's just the American Fuhrer's Jedi Mind Trick, as he loves to say "Just TRUST ME!", and has all his sycophants parroting, "...just trust the president. Trust the process on tariffs..."
Yeah NO FACTS, do documentation and therefore NO ACCOUNTABILITY! Just a clown show on continual, rinse, recycle and repeat!
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
Yeah, the irony of what president Musk is doing with DOGE, lies in the fact that Musk, who has built his fortune largely through government aid, subsidies, and contracts, is now leading an aggressive campaign to slash federal spending and dismantle agencies, that helped fledgling individuals and organizations, like his own, back-in-the-day.
The contradiction and hypocrisy, underscores how Musk's rhetoric of "efficiency" clashes with his history of heavily subsidized and leveraged government assistance and resources, to build his empire, by the very system he now seeks to dismantle.
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04-22-25 07:31 #17978
Posts: 5553Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
I wrote this in the Thailand Lounge and Chat. Please note it is a quote that you can review in it's entirety word for word by hitting the view original post link.
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
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04-22-25 02:56 #17977
Posts: 6825Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]
The same as Buffett just did at the end of Biden's presidency.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/warr...ndroidappshare
Buffett is defying that downward trend with a cautious approach: The "Oracle of Omaha" compiled a record $334 billion in cash at the end of 2024, according to SEC filings.
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04-21-25 21:18 #17976
Posts: 5553The Supreme Court rule 7-2 in favor of due process and the rule of law!
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYu2eGq/
This is old news. The Professor does not know. Since he doesn't he better ask somebody. That somebody is me.
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
To all the chicken littles screaming democracy is ending that don't know how the constitution of the United States work: you don't know what you are talking about!
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04-21-25 21:14 #17975
Posts: 224Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
I fear you are being somewhat optimistic that you'd get this far, my dear Stephen, in an encounter with the cops. Please don't over estimate your likelihood of a positive encounter with American cops. We'd miss you.
I was being a little kind to you but I'll tell you I was vicariously embarrassed for you by you appealing to this mongering board on whether you're a second class citizen. Note that no one responded. I also note that you didn't address your little cap in hand "aww shucks master" appeal to whatshisname, Nyzhenov? You know the chap who referred to you as "the colored boy" or "darkie"? That's the thing with racism, Stephen: it may be a minority who are racist to you, but you are nonetheless a second class citizen. But you keep telling yourself you're not, attaboy. After all, you need something to anchor your own cognitive dissonance on, don't you?
Let me refresh your memory on this topic: you claimed that the "rule of law" was what distinguished American (mis) treatment of the likes of the El Salvadorian and Mahmud Khalil from how Russia behaves. I've literally given you evidence of how a) the Executive continues to defies the judiciary and b) how your laws are made up as you go along with regards to Mahmud Khalil, in defiance of your supposed constitution, everything America claims to stand for, and natural justice, based on contrivance and downright lies by the Executive. I also note how you've characteristically disingenuously transitioned your rebuttal from "rule of law" to "due process" which are not synonymous. If it is due process, then going back to my original point, Russia and other tyrannies also have "due process". There are courts and trials. These are due process, but it does not amount to justice.
Finally no matter how many times you repeat your canard it does not make it true. Mahmud Khalil was not a guest, he was a permanent resident. It would not have mattered regardless but your lies in endeavouring to gloss over his treatment in the "land of the free unless you criticise Israel for genocide, home of the brave" cannot be permitted to go unchallenged.
Now do try and not take your questionably sized dick out and shake it about in front of us all whilst yelling "How do you like me now". It really is why you sound like an imbecile.
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04-21-25 21:07 #17974
Posts: 5553Not going to let a International Carpet Bagger define me
Or tell me about my country!
Originally Posted by HotDog666 [View Original Post]
They remain silent because they are able to do so because of the 5th Amendment. They remain silent because inside they are joyful at seeing how effective they have been at spreading hate internationally that even individuals like HotDog666 who are not CITIZENS of the Dis-United States of America have picked up and internalized it.
The Republican Racists must feel quite giddy that a International Carpet Bagger will further their racist ideas. That same individual needs to remember that the Dis-United States of America actually elected someone he considers to be a second class citizen to the Presidency of the United States of America. But this individual is so stupid, has swallowed the rhetoric of hate and gotten hooked on it that he does not realize that just because he has brown skin it does not stop him from wearing the same white hoodie the Republican Racists wear up in dis *.
The International Carpet Bagger wants to point out that I am considered to be a lessor in the eyes of some of my fellow Americans. But the International Carpet Bagger does not understand THAT is the history of my people from the very first war on US Soil. My people have answered the call to fight on behalf of the Dis-United States of America throughout its history. Regardless of individuals like the Republican Racists who would choose to erase our contributions to this great nation in a manner that is undeniable.
Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]
On August 28, 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Democratic United States senator from South Carolina, began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibusteran extended speech designed to stall legislationbegan at 8:54*p.m and lasted until 9:12*p.m. the following day, a duration of 24 hours and 18 minutes. This makes the filibuster the longest single-person filibuster in United States Senate history as of 2025. It was also the longest single-person Senate speech until 2025, when the record was broken by Cory Booker of New Jersey, with Booker speaking for twenty-five hours and four minutes.
He does not understand this precisely because of who he is a: International Carpet Bagger. He thinks Permanent Residence is the same as being a US Citizen. It is not and I have pointed this out more than once to him yet he wishes to ignore this fact. Because he disagrees with the process and result of DUE PROCESS UNDER THE RULE OF LAW he says the Dis-United States of America is no different than China or Russia. He is / was just a visitor like his homeboy that got sideways of the law. Better recognize. But he cannot because he is nothing more than a: International Carpet Bagger talking his pure unadulterated male bovine excrement that he spreads like he puts on Hot Dog Relish.
The International Carpet Bagger is a *****. He has never stood for anything in his own country like I have in mine. If I invited him to meet me and suggested that we play a round a golf, he would not show up. Why? Because his type run like a bitches. They are keyboard warriors. Knowing what is going to happen to him if I showed him my golf swing, he has water dripping from his knees and loses his shit. My handicap is low. I am very good ball striker.
So I look forward to the next post from our International Carpet Bagger that will be full of ad hominem attacks because he like the Republican Racists that he emulates he has lost the intellectual argument and his type, like the Republican Racists, he looks up to do not accept defeat gracefully.
Anyone who want to see what White Americans will do to each other only need to study the US Civil War. Do not get it twisted. That war was not fought for the second class citizens as defined by our International Carpet Bagger no the war was fought to preserve the Union and over economics.
Battle of Shilo, 25,000 dead, wounded or missing!
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04-21-25 18:28 #17973
Posts: 224Watch it while you can, Americans
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdYu2eGq/
For who knows how long Tik Tok or dissent of Trump will be tolerated.
It sounds outlandish, but I feel it's a highly plausible scenario in which violence or political repression comes next. Interested in hearing counter arguments.
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04-21-25 12:22 #17972
Posts: 24433Originally Posted by EnterTheV [View Original Post]
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04-20-25 23:51 #17971
Posts: 5553The Republican Racists strike again!
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]
The Republican Racists taking a beating when it comes to the RULE of LAW!
US Supreme Court orders temporary halt to deportations under antique law
Block on removal of migrants without due process sets up the possibility of another challenge by the Trump administration to the power of the courts.
The Government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court, the justices wrote in an unsigned order.
Two of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented from the decision.
Oh, that was nasty!
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04-20-25 16:25 #17970
Posts: 4205Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]
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04-20-25 13:51 #17969
Posts: 299Maga
Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]