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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2022 - 06:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/08/how-do-we-get-r id-of-the-fbi/
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 - 05:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/fla shback-the-1969-prophecy-of-the-corruption-of-affi rmative-action.php

Good intentions only pave one road.

Yale Law... Was a good school, long ago.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2022 - 09:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://babylonbee.com/news/saruman-breeds-army-of -87000-more-tax-collectors

Actually, I'd like to get a job with the new special enforcement branch of the IRS.

For one thing, they have over five million rounds of practice ammo! And I could never afford an Uzi otherwise.

Total immunity from prosecution if I don't twit the truth about the government. I don't twit, so that's easy.

Leaks! aka Moonlighting. I don't know what MSNBC pays for classified information on Republicans, but I'm pretty sure it would make up for the lack of payment from the Babylon Bee for true records of mega church audits. ( so they can pass a fact check on jokes! )

Union! The IRS has a great Union! Near zero chance of losing their jobs, as long as dues are automatically paid. And Federal Employee Unions have great health insurance. Exempt from Obamacare limits!

Service. I'd be proud to serve the American people. That the service includes access to Cigarette boats taken from drug smugglers is a real bonus. ( play Miami Vice credits video in head )

Of course, as a new guy, you don't get the prime jobs, and odds are I'd be sent to Montana or Idaho, somewhere far from big city restaurants and culture. Win. ( no Cigarette boats, though. But jeeps! )
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2022 - 01:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Near zero chance of losing their jobs,

Unless the (R)'s get back in power, and Schedule F the entire branch out of existence....

I've thought about applying, but I don't think I could sleep at night...
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2022 - 05:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

If you think of it as going undercover at a Mafia Palace, with the goal of feeding your family and keeping an eye out for evidence to fight crime, then it might be more palatable.

Or an infiltrator in the Enemy's camp. You would have a chance to save a few innocents while doing the actual job.

The world needs brave, cautious people willing to leak the bad stuff to stop the bad guys.

However, that rationalization is also used by bad guys. And some called bad, that might not be.

Benedict Arnold was a pretty good military leader, until... Assange, the CIA officer who leaked that Bush asked for a plan to to stop the Iranian Mullahs from supplying bombs, guns, and terrorists to murder our troops and Iraqi civilians, Snowden, Steele, etc. The line between hero and villain can be fuzzy, depending on your ideology.

Then there's the Hunter Bidens* and Eric Swalwells of the world, who deserve contempt and maybe a statue so the world won't forget evil exists.

And I'm biased. If you're obsessed with the Revolution to install authoritarian rule, I don't really care what your mental malfunction is.

Most murderous religion in history isn't hyperbole.
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2022 - 06:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

If you think of it as going undercover at a Mafia Palace, with the goal of feeding your family and keeping an eye out for evidence to fight crime, then it might be more palatable.

Shhh.....! Don't spoil it!

I'm already armed (legal carry permit), and I'm only about 90 min from DC.

And, I took lots of acting classes in HS and college, so "fitting in" would be....easy.

Dad was a CPA, so I "speak numbers".

I wonder what their educational requirements are?

I may apply for an interview, just out of....research. You know - asking for a friend, and all that Although, I AM a white, Christian, hetero male, so....
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2022 - 08:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://freebeacon.com/campus/american-bar-associa tion-scraps-controversial-diversity-proposal-after -blowback/

Just to be clear the American Bar Association wrote, but shelved, for now, a racist quota requirement for law schools to be accredited.

Segregation & racist quotas.

F%&$ them. We fought for years to end this crud. Another organization taken over by racist, authoritarian, pricks.

I'd sue, but I'd need to find a lawyer willing to go up against The lawyer Establishment. ( and I don't have cause beyond they offend me. Which might be enough in the twisted New Normal )
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 07:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08 /15/the_fbi_is_now_the_federal_bureau_of_intimidat ion_148044.html

There will be trials where the Defense Attorney will cross examine the FBI agent with a statement of known FBI lies, then ask the jury how they can trust a minion of a dishonest organization to be honest in This trial?

The Persecuting Attorney will object, of course. Then it's up to the Judge, who in some cases will Instruct the Jury to ignore the facts that the witness works for a known group of dishonest cops.
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Akbuell
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 04:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Continuing a trend, the Minneapolis school board/system is preparing to enact a contract that allows white teachers, regardless of seniority, to be laid off before minority teachers, should the need arise.

At least the bar association has, for now, shelved their racist quota system.
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Whisperstealth
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 04:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Wouldn't that contract be voted on by the teachers? If so, if they stupidly agree to it, it's on them. Voting for ones own demise seems to he a trend as well.
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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2022 - 08:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Commenters on that have suggested the Liz Warren/Rachel Dolezal approach for evil White Devil teachers, just announce you are part black.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 - 06:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://reason.com/2022/08/15/something-upon-which -americans-can-agree-the-fbi-and-the-irs-suck/
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 - 06:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/14/why-merrick-gar land-is-losing-the-people/

Remember, "sources say" on the news means a cop is breaking the law to spread lies to change the result or perception of an alleged crime under "investigation".

A dirty lying cop who wants to punish & destroy his political enemies and the law, truth, & his oath mean nothing to him.

It's a tell.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2022 - 06:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.neoneocon.com/2018/07/31/lets-hope-thi s-isnt-our-surveillance-future/
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 07:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://babylonbee.com/news/conservative-excited-t o-see-whether-hell-get-raided-by-fbi-or-gunned-dow n-by-irs

The Insurrection Reduction Act, also known as "New green deal" Light, aka, Biden's* payback to the CCP, aka, American Stasi Expansion Act, aka, of course we lied so shut up, may not get the desired results.

Advertising a job for people who want to use deadly force and carry a machine gun makes perfect sense if you're Vladimir recruiting in prisons for cannon fodder in your war.

Recruiting people like that for the tax agency might not get the Ds the popularity they crave like adrenechrome. ( hyperbole, unfunny joke about horrific rumor about horrific people )


It's typical of the Left to spend 2 years accusing police of being murderous thugs, then advertising for exactly that to attack their Enemies.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2022 - 07:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/pom peos-modest-proposal.php

I'm openly biased against the murderous thug theocracy in Iran.

Often, using hindsight, people talk about stopping Hitler before the Nazis took power, or other alternative universe ideas.

We now know that taking out Stalin with a nuke on Moscow in 1945 would have saved well over a billion lives. ( The Soviet Army held most of Eurasia and a conventional war would have been devastating to both sides ) There was a window of opportunity to Fundamentally transform the world.

It's not too late to correct the egregious errors of the Carter administration that handed the Mullahs an oil rich and modernizing nation to rule, exploit, oppress, and fund their Jihad against EVERYONE not of their very specific cult.

It would have been easiest shortly after we freed Iraq. But a treasonous monster in the CIA decided he knew better than Bush the Younger, and violating his oath, leaked the request for solutions to the Iranian Mullahs sponsoring, supplying, and infiltrating terrorists into Iraq to murder alliance troops & Iraqi civilians.

Afaik, that traitor was never revealed. He deserves public execution by the most horrific means used by the Iranian Jihadis.

The window to stop the next World War is still open, to prevent nuclear death, burning cities, poisoned lands and seas, and millions dying slow, painful deaths from fallout. ( If the weather is "right" then India suffers the most casualties )

While the Mullahs are allied with Putin & Xi, the risk of replacing them is high. But the rewards are massive. Cutting off Iranian oil to China may collapse the Xi regime, or at least delay war in the Pacific and Eurasia for a generation.

Otoh, Xi might switch to invading Siberia for it's oil fields and mineral and agricultural riches.

So there's also a window to end the brutal CCP, if bold and intelligent action is taken...

To oppose Just Joe's owners.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2022 - 02:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/why-are-we-in-u kraine/

https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-ingrates-of-vie nna/

While shipping arms to Putin's Enemies and sanctions on Russia's economy, we depend on Russia to deal For Us, with the Mullahs Putin supports.

Just Joe* wants the cake and ice cream and is going to pay in other people's lives.

My Opinion, is we don't want or need a Deal with the Mullahs. There's no win there. Expect more assassinations here. Soon.
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 10:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/h ochuls_compelled_speech_bill_is_just_the_beginning .html

Our Replacement Governor signs unconstitutional bills, no surprises there. It remains to be seen if she's a temp or a permanent Emergency.

iirc NY is under multiple Emergency Decrees removing Constitutional restrictions on her Power. Covid, Donkeypox, Global Warming, and probably election questioning Emergency Power Grabs. Basically she rules as Queen in medieval style.

As to the subject of her Pronoun Mandate Law, I'm just going to ignore it by eliminating pronouns from my oral speech, unless I forget, which is highly likely. : )

It's unfortunate that so many people who were or are friends may be insulted by my rejection of Woke Speech.

I'm just not Woke. Worse, I'm Aware, and gradually getting More Aware of injustice and prejudice. It's an ongoing process, as growth should be. And obviously growing Awareness is not PC.

I'm still going to support your right to chose who you love and how you view yourself. I'm not going to support mandating speech or attitudes, period. F. That.

I see no difference between persecution of gays and lesbians by Iranian government thugs and persecution of straight parents by American government thugs in the Teacher's Union. And because the latter is closer to home, and obviously tied in with child rape grooming, I have utter and similar contempt for thugs. Period.

So if you get upset because I used the wrong pronoun to refer to you, I want to assure you it's because I'm not giving a damn. NOT because I'm a bully.

Unlike some adults who seem to have forgotten their past, I clearly remember being teased because my first name had male and female versions. I remember letting myself get angered by bullies in grade school. I grew up and learned that cruel children fed on reaction to their sadism. I would have spent less time in Principal's office being punished if I'd learned that earlier.

So to the Offended, I say, "Grow up."

And to the Bullies, like Replacement Governor Kathy, I say "Kiss my shiny metal ass."

Good luck with your own adaptation to the insanity.
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 10:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/i talian_beef_and_the_american_way.html

Well worth your time to read.
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Mnscrounger
Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 05:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Otoh, Xi might switch to invading Siberia for it's oil fields and mineral and agricultural riches."
I was thinking the same thing.
With the free world supporting Ukraine and taking a dim view of Russia, and Russia's forces depleted/distracted there, Xi could pretty much march his forces to the Arctic Ocean. We know that China's promises aren't worth the paper they're printed on. why would their pact with Russia be any different than the one with Taiwan. Unlike Taiwan, most of the world would see it as just desserts for Putin, and wouldn't risk blood or money to help him. They also are all too dependent on China for goods to challenge them, to some extent I would include the USA in that group too.
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Aesquire
Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 09:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/dow n-with-the-constitution.php

The Party hacks of Harvard & Yale want to throw out the limits on power to ensure the Left/commie thugs/rich elite Rule Forever.

By Any Means Necessary.

And in the most nakedly dishonest ways.

When you have to "love" the base assumption that the Subjects of Washington D.C. will Obey the Rich White Elite Ivy League Master Race, after generations of propaganda and deliberate ignorance schooling. The Certainty that their inferiors will be their servants and allow them to Rule.

Re: Xi conquering Russia in It's weakness...

Unfortunately I fear that's the Optimistic alternative to the Xi regime needing a War to silence any opposition. ( and optimistic from only the free world's view )

I point to the quotation by Vyacheslav von Plehve in reference to the Russo-Japanese War: "What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."

That war went badly for Russia. And the Revolution it failed to stop, murdered more Russians than the war by several orders of magnitude.

The God King Xi may find his upcoming war to not get him the results he wants either.

His economy is wrecked. His mass lockdowns by region/town are productivity nightmares. ( The Zero Covid/Zero Tolerance policy )

At least ( read this in extreme sarcasm voice ) The Democratic Party Revolutionary lockdown policy was targeted to crush small businesses, a "class" who might oppose them and reward the richest Oligarchs who support them, like Amazon/Washington Times & Wal-Mart & the Omaha Oracle/Berkshire Hathaway...

I wouldn't interpret that as American Commies being smarter than Chinese Commies, though. As much as they think so.
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 - 06:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/21/the-worst-and-t he-stupidest/
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Aesquire
Posted on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 - 07:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://instapundit.com/538514/

Racist racial definitions are a centuries old tradition in the Klan Party and the British Slave Trade.

If you define The Other as "not human like us" you set up the structure of slavery.

Since at It's core, it's dishonesty to screw people, it's not surprising that race classification lies fail fact and logic checks.

It was in my lifetime that a man like Barack Obama was defined as Mullato, a Half Breed, and categorized as not worthy of rights by blood. Certainly a not really human thing like Barry Soetoro would never have been allowed to be a Congresscritter, or, Jefferson Davis Forbid! President!

There was the "one drop of blood" policy where the contamination of the breed by the slave races condemned people who's grandfather had been a free Negro in a different culture, ( like Canada, or Nebraska, or Siam ) to a life of servitude, then dependence, by the Ruling White Supremacist Party of the Klan.

Despite a serious effort to rewrite history on the subject of racist policies, quotas, slavery, denial of rights, going back literally centuries, there are a few of us old farts left who lived through the reality now denied.

"Rebranding" Jim Crow segregation as Critical Lie Theory doesn't change the Purpose. Create Hate between the Races, Define the Races to suit the Political agenda, gain power from hate & envy. Burning out the shops and homes of the uppity scum is SOP, no change there. The small business owners are a bad example for the servant class, of whatever label.

By their actions you will know them.

Do they support riots and hatred? Are they supporting riots in the cities far from their mansions and multiple seasonal homes on the beach and in the mountains?

And are they preaching hatred for Jews and making up names to define you? Like POC & Latinx?

Do they think YOU need reeducation?

And how obvious that reeducation won't mention their crimes.
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 - 09:15 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/08/24/salman-ru shdie-and-the-new-blasphemy-laws/
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Aesquire
Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 - 11:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2 022/08/23/biden-set-to-pull-the-trigger-on-forgivi ng-at-least-some-student-loan-debt-n1623375

I'm for a much more comprehensive government guaranteed loan forgiveness stunt.

Remember Obama Nationalized the Student Loan program.

So the banks that "invest in your future" could not lose money, the debts could not be gotten rid of by bankruptcy, and your taxes would be used for collecting the debt for the banks. Great deal for banks and colleges, but not so good for the students, or you.

So far, every promise, hype, and campaign propaganda about "forgiving" the Big Debt, has ignored that a lot of debt is owed by "rich" families, who could pay it they chose to, and a lot is owed by poor folk that couldn't pay it back since their income simply doesn't provide enough for rent, food, Obamacare, and paying back a loan the size of a mortgage with interest rates very similar to a Sears charge card. Where the minimum payment doesn't keep up with the profit/interest of the loan. Perpetual debt.

I might have missed the proposal to forgive debt based on income. That would make sense, though, so based on past performance of this regime, is unlikely.

And the best argument against Arbitrary Debt Forgiveness hasn't been the fact that it takes a Dictator acting above the law, it's that it's "unfair" to people who were responsible and payed their debt. And unfair to taxpayers who never signed up for the loans they are going to be forced to pay, at gunpoint, sent to prison, if they refuse.

So. There's one solution that ends the debate, the problem, and the moral dilemma.

End the program. Cancel the debt by dictatorial decree. Let the banks lose the future profits and if they can prove in court that the program hasn't been a profitable scam over the lifetime of the program, may request tax breaks over the next decade to compensate the share holders. With the caveats that it would require full transparency and accountability to satisfy the 87,000 IRS agents assigned to the case.

Gotta find something for the New IRS to do that doesn't involve screwing us.
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 09:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://jewishworldreview.com/0822/hanson082522.ph p

"Will the Republicans really win back the Congress?"
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Aesquire
Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 03:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/24/canada-is-e uthanizing-its-sick-and-poor-welcome-to-world-of-g overnment-health-care/

Holland has new suicide booths. I prefer the Futurama version.

This isn't just predictable, it's in the public writings of the father of Obamacare, the brother of former White House chief of staff & Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Ezekiel. When people get old, their cost to society to keep alive goes up. Duh. So let them die. That's a hard hearted practical approach to Socialized medicine, and many other aspects of life.

Like that or not probably depends on your belief system. If you think we are all individuals with rights and responsibilities, maybe created in the image of a diety, you might be repulsed by such thinking. If you believe in a Holy State and we are just cogs in a great machine to serve the collective, you might be thrilled.

I'll just point out the followers of the latter belief system have murdered more people than Cancer in the last hundred years, and wonder how long euthanasia will remain voluntary in Canada.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2022 - 06:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://reason.com/2022/08/24/biden-student-loan-d ebt-forgiveness-cancel/?utm_medium=email

According to Biden, forcing all Americans to help pay the debts of college borrowers is an unfortunate necessity; people who borrowed from the government to go to school are just that badly off. They are ruined, they are desperate, and they need generous U.S. taxpayers to bail them out.

"An entire generation is now saddled with unsustainable debt in exchange for an attempt, at least, at a college degree," said Biden. "The burden is so heavy that even if you graduate, you may not have access to the middle-class life that the college degree once provided."

This is quite an indictment of the federal student loan program, so one might have expected that Biden's generous debt forgiveness plan would be accompanied by serious reforms to the underlying system that produced such inequities. After all, the government is conceding that its loan program has scammed millions of desperate people. Their situation is so dire, their prospects of repayment so dim, that Biden is requiring everyone else to pitch in and help them.

But no, Biden's debt forgiveness plan will do nothing—absolutely nothing—to fundamentally change the incentive system that created the doom spiral in the first place. Degree-seekers will continue to borrow large amounts of money to buy useless educations; indeed, they might feel even more encouraged to do so now that this precedent has been set.


"a very conservative estimate of the cost per taxpayer is $2,100."

This is a crappy analogy, but basically Joe* wants to give $10,000 to all the Slaves in the South, $20,000 to Slaves who were on Dutch Slave ships, but he's not ending slavery and any Civil War that happens later absolutely won't be his or Obama's fault. Nope, not one bit.

And not incidentally, the banks that bribed Obama to Socialize/nationalize the Student Loan Program so they won't risk losing a penny, won't be out one penny. Bribing Barry was the best investment for 6 years of his reign. ( not so much the last 2, when he was busy laundering illegal bribes into offshore bank accounts )

It remains to be seen if Bribing Joe* works out for anyone except the Oligarchs and Dictators in China, Ukraine, Russia, etc. They got their claws in first. Blackmail International.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2022 - 06:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-great-unwok ening/

A bit long, but well written.
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Aesquire
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2022 - 07:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/23/pence-is-all-wr ong-about-the-fbi/

After 4 years as Veep, all I know about Pence is he was determined not to allow any possibility of a fake #metoo sexual harassment scandal, and he was willing to run with Trump, who is the most hated man by the Republican Establishment. ( far more than Stalin, Obama, or Hitler )

Did Pence ever urge his supposed boss to reform the Agency? It was pretty clear to a lot of people, Before the Hillary Russian Deflection Hoax, that the FBI had multiple people who lied under oath and suppressed evidence that the people they persecuted were innocent. And that the FBI leaders "leaked" to the press to screw who they wanted, even though it was a felony and sometimes actually Treason.

So, maybe I'm ignorant and it's unfair to consider Pence part of the problem. It would not surprise me that I'm ignorant of his attitude.
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