Cracks me up how much it is the progressives who now all about supporting wars of foreign nations.
What can we do but laugh.
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Cracks me up how much it is the progressives who now all about supporting wars of foreign nations.
It’s precisely what socialism is and one reason why socialism fails.Socialism is different than welfare statism that we have in the US (fused with some sector fascism (medical, banking)). Socialism is anti-progressive. It stagnates progress. This is one of the many cognitive dissonances of the left
Someday I hope people mature to the point that abortion is something to try to avoid, not something to celebrate and be proud of and fight for above all other causes of import.
To succeed in free market capitalist economy, you get up every morning and work your butt off to best serve the needs of other people (customers). To succeed in a socialist economy you get up in the morning and try to service the whims of your political superiors.
It is worth learning about the myriad of other ways besides health insurance. Or that at least put health insurance solely in the role of catastrophic financial protection (what insurance should do) as opposed to managing health. Obamacare mostly illegalizes catastrophic insurance.
Cool. It’s good to have a place to release some steam.
I used to pay 84 dollars a month for catastrophic insurance (high deductible). Family of four. I paid for everything until a max was reached. So I cared about the costs and shopped for best value (except in emergencies of course). That’s how costs get brought down. Obama made my plan illegal.
Health Insurance is not part of the cosmic firmament. It is a financial product, not a medical product. With very large side effects, the principal one being that third party payment of any kind creates moral hazard which increases prices and costs, fixed only by centralized control. Yuk.
Although you are ethically correct that if there is a line, anyone cutting it needs to get permission from all those behind, not just one person, I do wanna ask just how important it is to get on the plane sooner. Enough to call someone a bitch and provoke a fight?
Progressives gaslight. It’s what they do because their arguments and history are so poor. So they have to gaslight people into not thinking clearly. And by so doing they gaslight themselves. Which is what BlueSky is all about. A giant mutual gaslighting silo.
Where have I insulted or made baseless accusations? I don’t do those things. My “fringe” interpretation of the constitution is the original founders’ interpretations before the US went all fascist by ignoring the Constitution.
Bring a chicken. Bring money. Join a medical cost sharing community. Join a fraternal lodge. Join a Direct Primary Care practice. Join a church or commune that shares costs and helps its members. ALL of them make medical costs decrease. Insurance makes medical costs increase. Look up MORAL HAZARD
I’ll re-ask my question. Do you have any reason to know that the Biden administration did the work to accomplish the peace treaty between rawanda and DRC? I looked into it and Biden’s team failed. Trumps team used a different tactic and it worked. For now.
That’s an a-hole thing to say.
Health insurance is not health care. Health insurance is a financial product most of us are forced by Obamacare to buy from big corporations.
Stop with the presumptions and insults. Have a conversation. Skip the baseless accusations.
I can’t read it either.
Wow. The chasm between liberty and what you seem to want is perhaps insurmountable.
Obamacare forced everyone. If you didn’t buy insurance from some big corporation, you would have the fruits of your labor taken by the government. Thats coercion. Republicans removed the individual mandate penalty. Employers are still fined heavily for not buying it from big financial companies.
And yet i write books about morality and ethics.
It’s the democrats who forced medical insurance down everyone’s throats and went to great effort to conflate the terms “health care” with “health insurance” so that all democrats now think they are the same thing. Democrats need to introspect instead of hate.
The Current administration doesn’t tend to ban products.
Do you even know that the guy dressed up so funny in the picture did nothing at all violent? He walked slowly around the capitol (as is the right of all Americans) often accompanied by capitol police who opened doors for him, and prayed. That’s what he did. And they put him in prison.
Many pled guilty because they were threatened with massive ridiculously long sentences if they didn’t. And they knew they were going to be judged by democrats, and only democrats, who were brainwashed heavily by a gaslighting media.
You do like to make presumptions and then declare them loudly. I wonder that you haven’t yet learned that doing so makes you the fool, not the philosopher. PS—you might like living in Melbourne. Nice fascist/socialist command and control economy. Most aspects of life now determined by politicians.
Not my hero. I just don’t choose to hate him, nor do I base all my political decisions on exactly the opposite of what he does, because then I would be puppeted by him like so many on this site are.
And perhaps you can read some works by Thomas Jefferson, von Mises, Ron Paul, Friedrich Hayek. Thoreau, Emerson, Martin Luther King Jr, Richard Maybury Thomas Payne, Adam smith, and a thousand others who empower people with freedom instead of enslave them to politicians via childish dependency.
It’s intriguing how confident you are with your conclusions, and yet how wrong. I am neither a communist troll nor a 12 year old. One wonders in how many other ways you may be proven wrong while you you are cocky and confident that you are right .
Why part of what I said was not true?
America is different. We created government to secure out liberties. Not to take money from some to give to others.
That’s rude and untrue.
Most constitutional scholars in academia spend their days trying to think of ways to work around the constitutional limits on federal political Power
Government is not needed for this.
You need to read the constitution.
Or i do.
So do what you will. But don’t force others to pay for what you want.
And yet true
Or we can insist that we all abide by the constitution.
Yes. But if you have new money earmarked for pencils, that frees up old money that was previously used to pay for pencils that now can be reallocated for general funds.
Are you saying that what I said is not true? Was it not founded by Eugenics purveyors? Do they not abort black babies at a higher rate than white babies?
And that was what the constitution was supposed to allow for. Where people know that they can be taxed only for things that are specifically allowed for in the Constitution. But if government is allowed to change that contract unilaterally, that contract becomes void (invalid contract).
And yet this one specifically did come because of US action. If we can trust the media.
And that is how much of the things government shouldn’t be involved in should be funded. Voluntarily. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for things they consider immoral or unconstitutional.
That’s a potential third reason. A fourth reason is that Dems go to psychiatrists more commonly and get diagnosed (although that variable was addressed in the studies and found not to be a cause). It’s a little bit of everything perhaps. But the best explanation is the cognitive dissonance of Dems
But planned parenthood was founded by eugenicists and kills black babies at a far higher rate than white babies. You may not like that, but it’s true. And it should raise some questions in your mind.
Tax dollars fund planned parenthood. Planned parenthood promotes and performs abortions. I understand your point. There are no direct federal funds for elective abortions. And that may be as far as the republicans can go for now.
You are right in describing me. And I have good reason to realize that those agencies cause more problems than they solve: they empower large corporations, they restrict innovation, they waste huge amounts of taxpayer money, and they are tyrannical.
I just asked a question. Are you able to introspect and self-critique where warranted?
A small group of republicans have nurtured love of the Constitution. And it is those who have the best understanding of it. Not the newcomers who only care about the constitution because they can use it to carry out their incessant Trump hatred.
Progressives have hated the Constitution because of this. But that’s the document. Now progressives talk up the Constitution to use against Trump. Which is fine, as long as progressives know what they are talking about. But they are new to the Constitution and generally don’t know much.
Congress has discretion over the definition of general welfare, but it is abused. But once again, the Constitution does not give Congress authority to do anything it wants in the name of general welfare. Congress is still—ALSO— limited by the 18 clauses in article I and the bill of rights.
As to whether Iran moved their partially enriched uranium, I expect neither you or I have any idea. But if these bombs demolished their centrifuges, that is still an effect. We will rather learn the truth or we won’t. And we won’t be able to tell which. Because everybody lies and spreads lies.
I maybe wrongly assumed that when you said the current administration didn’t arrange this peace treaty but rather only provided a pen, that you meant Biden’s team had arranged it. Which is wrong. Trumps team did this entirely. My point is that trumps team provided more than just a pen.
Biden used bureaucracy to force his will on the People. Forced solar subsidies. Forced taxpayer payment of student loan forgiveness, forced restrictions on products we can buy and sell. That’s very different than Trump who demands the unelected bureaucracy abide by the authority of the president.
Yet the people never gave permission for the federal government to take on those tasks and tax people to do them. So you are supporting tyranny by allowing the Feds to do these things. You happen to like those components. But I don’t. And I don’t like the NSA and the CIA and Obamacare.
Not sensible. Lots of antifa folk look just like non-uniformed ICE agents. Lots of hoodies and Covid masks are worn by people who like to pretend to be hoodlums. ICE is not systematically threatening Americans although they will make mistakes and need to be held accountable for those rare mistakes.
The president has sole authority over the executive branch. He has no power over the people or the Congress or the judiciary. It is not tyranny for the president to exert his authority over the executive branch bureaucrats. But it is tyranny to use bureaucrats to exert authority over the people.
Not a response to my point. But also not accurate. It was law created by the left for the specific purpose of allowing the Carroll woman to sue Trump 30 years later. The felonies were ridiculous and only would have be tried in a democrat kangaroo court with a biased carefully selected judge.
Congress is not authorized to do ANYTHING it decides is in the general welfare. They are limited to doing only what is authorized within the 18 clauses of article I, AND what Congress does within this limited authority must be in the general welfare not for special interests. That’s the Constitution
The general welfare clause is a limitation on the power to tax, not an authorization of additional Congressional powers. Even if a bill is popular, if the constitution doesn’t authorize it, Congress can’t do it. Of course they do it anyway, illegally. Which is tyrannical.
I am not saying they are. I am saying that Congress is not authorized to do them. Congress is not authorized to do anything it wants for the general welfare. It is only authorized to do specified and limited things. But they are only allowed to raise taxes for the general welfare and defense.
You are seemingly very selective about the parts of the Constitution that you support. Do you support the 2nd 9th and 10th amendments? Do you support article I limitations on the power of Congress?
Anxiety and depression are 3-5 times more common in democrats than republicans. Why? Two possibilities arise: one is that democrats are more aware of how bad things are. The other is that democrats have more cognitive dissonance (internal contradictions) that cause psychological stress.
It’s abundantly clear to you. But are there other things that you think are abundantly clear that end up not being so?
Because all I see is Biden efforts last fall to buy peace with grant money from the US, that both countries walked away from. And then a total change in tactic by the Trump administration—focused on mineral deals (mutually beneficial transactions for all), that the countries agreed to.
He didn’t share the plan to bomb Iran, although he did make strong nebulous hints. But do you have any other reason to consider the Biden administration responsible for this treaty? Beyond your reflexive detestation of Trump, that is?
The general welfare clause is a limitation on the power to tax. All taxes must be to pay the initial debt, for defense, and for the GENERAL welfare. General welfare is the opposite of special interest. Taxation must be spent for the benefit of everyone. It can’t be given to any special interest
Medical care became expensive because a third party is paying for decisions made by the first party (patient) and second party (medical provider). The first party doesn’t care about the price because insurance is paying. The second party wants high prices. So the prices rise.
The constitution does not authorize the Congress to make any laws about these things. The Constitution only grants Congress limited and specified powers. These aren’t among those powers. Anything Congress does that they don’t have constitutional authority to do is illegal and should be voided.
Are you going to die because you don’t have health insurance? Are you possibly confusing health insurance with medical care? Because we had medical care for a long long time before insurance came along to make it expensive.
Give specifics.
Time to double down on Democrat-induced night.
Stop telling them that. Let them sink on their own.
Great ticket. I hope they do that ticket. How amusing and edifying would it be to have an overwhelming Democrat socialist loss.
Do you know this to be the case? Or are you simply assuming something that is consistent with your bias?
Enuf of that.
Or not bull
It’s presidential power that the SCOTUS is addressing. Not Trump power. And also addressing the power of small unelected judges to exert excessive power over elected officials.
Government is mostly incompetent. Relying on government to take care of people most in need is a mean and nasty and selfish thing.
Steps— all efforts progressives make to expand government power that are blocked by constitutional limits. Bills to create Wealth transfers, UBI, gun bans, universal “health care” etc.
And then of course the Cinstitution has somewhat gotten in their way of laws they want that would allow only politicians—not the people—to have control of firearms. And the Constitution in the end reversed Roe v Wade. That bothered progressives.
Dept of education. Dept of energy. Dept of labor. Department of health and human services. FDA. EPA. CDC,student loans. Corporate bailouts. Covid lockdowns, Housing loans. The Federal Reserve. Shall I go on? These are all not authorized powers of Congress. If they are good, an amendment is needed
Perhaps, but dependence on taxpayer handouts results in a need to abide by the whims of the powerful politicians. Harvard losing funding if they don’t do what they are told is an example. Imagine if we all had to wear MAGA hats to get our UBI. The politicians you want may not be the ones in charge
I describe unconstitutional taxation as robbery. If the constitution does not authorize Congress to make laws about something, and it does so anyway and then taxes us to pay for it, the law is illegal and the taxation is robbery (theft with threat of violence).
Guaranteed income if supplied by taxpayers is coercive theft (robbery) of the taxpayers’ money. Sure, the robber gets power and can imagine a future and build it. But the victim loses the fruits of his labor. The horror is when robbery becomes legal, and not paying the robber becomes the crime.
Me thinks you are being a bit ridiculous.
The right-left paradigm is the lie by which they manipulate you. The smarter paradigm is statist-individualist. Where the statists prefer socialism and fascism because both give power to the chosen elite. Individualists want small government and don’t accept elites ruling over them.
Hogwash. The right to pursue happiness is limited by the intrusion into other people’s liberties, but doesn’t require forcing others to pay for your pursuits. The right to liberty requires no funds. The right to defend yourself doesn’t mean you get to force others to give you a gun.
Yeah. I figured. Progressives won’t accept education on the Constitution because such education would teach them that most of what they want the federal government to do is unconstitutional. But they will pick out a few points in the document that they find useful and educate others about those.
If the weed business is profitable and they use the weed business to subsidize the money-losing coke business, then it is. Especially if the coke business is what they are most proud of and considered their mission, despite being a money-loser.
It has blocked their efforts to expand government power.
Money is fungible. If taxpayer money is going to an abortion clinic for other services, then taxpayer money is funding abortion.
I’m thrilled that progressives are finally recognizing that the constitution exists. They are way behind in understanding it. I used to hand out copies. The progressives would commonly just throw it in the next trash can and make sure I saw them doing it. They hated the constitution.
Btw. I have worked with USAID and found them to be incompetent at what we Americans were told they were supposed to be doing. But they may have been very competent at funding warlords and serving as a money laundering platform for CIA ops in little shithole countries with tin pot dictators.
Obama didn’t pay them. Where did the money come from? Was it from the US taxpayer? Or was it from money owed back to Iran?
Do you actually want to poke a nuclear hornets nest?
It is highly unlikely that the free market will do things less efficiently and more expensively than government. Government makes it harder for small businesses and small farmers, not easier. Think.
But importantly, my question was how does defunding planned parenthood take away a right?
I oppose getting involved in the conflicts of other nations and in the wars created to distract from political or central bank created disasters, yes. Wars are caused by governments. I despise government. And I despise killing. Including killing of innocent babies.
I didn’t see this sort of judicial warfare from the republicans when Biden was issuing outrageously unconstitutional executive orders. The dems do these judicial attacks when the executive orders are constitutional but they don’t like them. Executive orders should only apply to the executive branch