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Can anyone explain the logic behind this other than to trying to make taking out loans appear attractive to a growing number of people that can't afford to do so?
Another step in easing the American public into never owning anything and being nothing more than a consistent, stable, quantifiable source of revenue for the bug eyes who own everything.

You won't ever "own" a car or a house, and it can be taken away from you legally whenever they want. The math is fucking crazy. You're basically "renting with some equity, but you have fix everything". I doubt you come out ahead, unless our market dynamics change dramatically.
 
Meanwhile, at the Supreme Court, the government has dutifully submitted a fresh brief to keep fighting the good SNAP fight -- against Rhode Island and the 1st Circuit trying to take those child nutrition funds, primarily. Do these freaks seriously not realize how shitty those optics are for them?
They don’t care because the press is reporting this as “Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him cut SNAP” and not “Democrats demand child nutrition programs be cut to fund adults”.
 
I was curious since this is one of the only right wing places I have an account on, and I skimmed a few post that seem glad the shutdown is nearing an end: why? The ACA is going to be absolutely gutted (if not now, then by Reps in December) and regardless of where you stand here Dems were right for sticking it out. Schumer and moderates (like Fetteryahu) should be ashamed and culled from the DNC for throwing the lead they had.
 
1) There's been a shit-ton of inflation, so people can't afford things any more
2) If we allow prices to fall, the economy will shit its pants
3) solution: allow inter-generational or possibly even inter-geological-epoch debt to get payments slightly lower so people can pretend to afford things by renting them but pretending to own them
1) controlled deflation through indirect credit crunching and down sizing the executive, legislative and juridical bloat on state and federal level would already help a lot. Also keeping interests elevated a good bit over monetary inflation p.a would make US treasuries worth more than gold and everybody worldwide would line up to outbit themselves and accept reduced yields during auctions and buy them on the secondary market.
2) Not the economy per se, but banks, mutual funds, "asset managers", "venture crapitalists", hedge funds and other overleveraged communists pretending to be "capitalists" that are overleveraged and rehypotecized to their eyeballs and bet on the US dollar going Turkish Lyra would go bankrupt - not the worst outcome
3) The banksters communists wet dream, IF they manage to keep a monopoly on FIAT creation, if it gets deregulated at the same time, see 2)

Also the entire narrative is a demrat false flagger narrative, that comes from a bait tweet from Pulte
 
I was curious since this is one of the only right wing places I have an account on, and I skimmed a few post that seem glad the shutdown is nearing an end: why? The ACA is going to be absolutely gutted (if not now, then by Reps in December) and regardless of where you stand here Dems were right for sticking it out. Schumer and moderates (like Fetteryahu) should be ashamed and culled from the DNC for throwing the lead they had.
You seem genuine enough, so I don't want to just shit on you for disagreeing. A lot of this just seems to assume people have the same goals as you. Some people do want the ACA gutted or subsidies completely removed. Others think we should go back to subsidy levels that were done pre-covid and not the ones introduced as part of a response to a once in a 100 year pandemic.

If you disagree with the Democrats on most issues, you are going to be happy when they lose. I don't even disagree with you that they potentially should have kept holding out from a Democrat strategy perspective. I was surprised they broke and agreed to end the shutdown.
 
I think adding the weed thing to the CR was a mistake. Regardless of how you feel about the drug it is a change the Republicans made that has a chance to backfire. Now the bill has to go back through the house. Also that change is now linked to the government shutdown going forward and any issues it has will be linked to Republicans and the shutdown. All it take is for some black dude to get killed while they are busting a newly illegal head shop and he could become George Floyd 2.0.
 
Forget their policies for a second. Jay Jones got elected AG. Their "protests" look like freak shows most of the time. They throw piss and shit around like chimps. And within a hair's breadth:
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>these people deserve the worst possible outcome
>reps' constituents are crazy
>dems tend to some docile sheep


I've been seeing this blindness so much that I need to ask: what plane of reality do these people live in? Because it sure ain't this one.
 
You seem genuine enough, so I don't want to just shit on you for disagreeing. A lot of this just seems to assume people have the same goals as you. Some people do want the ACA gutted or subsidies completely removed. Others think we should go back to subsidy levels that were done pre-covid and not the ones introduced as part of a response to a once in a 100 year pandemic.

If you disagree with the Democrats on most issues, you are going to be happy when they lose. I don't even disagree with you that they potentially should have kept holding out from a Democrat strategy perspective. I was surprised they broke and agreed to end the shutdown.
The ACA is a terrible system. Buying healthcare sucks with the subsides ON, because if you're in the position of needing them, chances are you already can't afford it with your McJob. It's shit already.
 
"If you want a picture of the future of US Politics, imagine this white liberal woman cackling at you--forever. "
Having known liberal white women (don't ask,) something about them, they're uptight. Their virtue of social justice feels like a rite of passage for self-serving purposes. I cannot describe it. They appear to be nice, yet typically have no self-control in their mannerisms. Cussing, drinking, being spiteful and arrogant. Condescending, that's it. Not ALL of them, just what I observed. Probably doesn't even have to do with politics, that may just be incidental from female behavior.
 
I think adding the weed thing to the CR was a mistake. Regardless of how you feel about the drug it is a change the Republicans made that has a chance to backfire. Now the bill has to go back through the house. Also that change is now linked to the government shutdown going forward and any issues it has will be linked to Republicans and the shutdown. All it take is for some black dude to get killed while they are busting a newly illegal head shop and he could become George Floyd 2.0.
I'm curious how this plays out relative to Florida
gas station weed has been a football for desantis vs trulieve

and I like it a shitload more than oxys for the big chunks of metal in my arm and my leg
 
I was curious since this is one of the only right wing places I have an account on, and I skimmed a few post that seem glad the shutdown is nearing an end: why? The ACA is going to be absolutely gutted (if not now, then by Reps in December) and regardless of where you stand here Dems were right for sticking it out. Schumer and moderates (like Fetteryahu) should be ashamed and culled from the DNC for throwing the lead they had.
Why should they have stuck it out? Are people not starving? Are starving people being used as leverage here?

On the other hand, the ACA is fucking terrible because it incentivizes insurance companies to keep prices sky-high.I do agree that there needs to be a debate/session to somewhat reinstate the subsidies(in lieu of a better health care system).
 
You seem genuine enough, so I don't want to just shit on you for disagreeing. A lot of this just seems to assume people have the same goals as you. Some people do want the ACA gutted or subsidies completely removed. Others think we should go back to subsidy levels that were done pre-covid and not the ones introduced as part of a response to a once in a 100 year pandemic.

If you disagree with the Democrats on most issues, you are going to be happy when they lose. I don't even disagree with you that they potentially should have kept holding out from a Democrat strategy perspective. I was surprised they broke and agreed to end the shutdown.
The Dems lack any identity or focus right now. They're even worse off than the GOP was in 2012 after Romney lost. They need to evolve like the GOP did with a populist or authoritarian figurehead that ditches the political norms of the previous century. If you thought you hated the Dems before...
 
The ACA is a terrible system. Buying healthcare sucks with the subsides ON, because if you're in the position of needing them, chances are you already can't afford it with your McJob. It's shit already.
I do think having some middle ground between Medicaid and the current private insurance system can be useful. But I'm pretty open to what form it should take.

People already have to pay for others using the emergency room then paying nothing or a pittance for it compared to the actual costs. And most people prefer to not have someone bleed out in the hospital lobby because they don't have insurance. So the costs of people who can't or won't pay are going to get passed on to others one way or another.

My personal first step would be citizenship checks for everyone using a hospital if that hospital wants Medicaid or Medicare funds, mandatory detention of anyone found to be in the country illegally, and their home country getting the bill.
 
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I think adding the weed thing to the CR was a mistake. Regardless of how you feel about the drug it is a change the Republicans made that has a chance to backfire. Now the bill has to go back through the house. Also that change is now linked to the government shutdown going forward and any issues it has will be linked to Republicans and the shutdown. All it take is for some black dude to get killed while they are busting a newly illegal head shop and he could become George Floyd 2.0.
Delta 8 and “altnoid” carts have mentally raped my generation to a huge extent. Please shut the fuck up

Edit: I think a fair amount of you have this misguided notion that marijuana is low-THC hippie stuff. Nothing could be further from the truth. The average zoomer is blinking a Chinese distillate vape full of God knows what, and permanently frying his brain because of it. Even flower is either 90% THC or regular hemp with K2 sprinkled on top.
 
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I do think having some middle ground between Medicaid and the current private insurance system can be useful. But I'm pretty open to what form it should take.

People already have to pay for others using the emergency room then paying nothing or a pretence for it compared to the actual costs. And most people prefer to not have someone bleed out in the hospital lobby because they don't have insurance. So the costs of people who can't or won't pay are going to get passed on to others one way or another.

My personal first step would be citizenship checks for everyone using a hospital if that hospital wants Medicaid or Medicare funds, mandatory detention of anyone found to be in the country illegally, and their home country getting the bill.
Strictly on insurance, making the prices transparent would help a lot. Nobody actually knows what insurance fucking costs or what its worth because it goes through your job most of the time. The ACA doesn't fucking help- it sets the rate. Something may be worth 50 bucks, say a check up, but the out of pocket bill is ridiculous because they fucking can. Get these niggers to compete like any other buisness.
 
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