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So title 42 ended. Not going to lie I was expecting chaos. Homeland Secretary has said there has been a decline in apprehensions the first two days afterward. Seems to credit the requirement of being denied asylum in a country they passed through on the way to US.

This is good but we need to be prepared. The coyotes will quickly figure out how to provide forged asylum denials.

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[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1342053]So title 42 ended. Not going to lie I was expecting chaos. Homeland Secretary has said there has been a decline in apprehensions the first two days afterward. [B]Seems to credit the requirement of being denied asylum in a country they passed through on the way to US. [/B]

This is good but we need to be prepared. The coyotes will quickly figure out how to provide forged asylum denials.[/quote]

1st time hearing about this. I don't think those will be hard to get since all of the countries they're passing through would much rather have them go to the U.S (in addition to what you mentioned about the coyotes). But it's something.

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More “not in my backyard “ chants from liberals:

[url]https://twitter.com/GwynneFitz/status/1658443721535307778[/url]

Outside PS 17 in Williamsburg, kids chant, “we support asylum seekers but not on school grounds.”

Brooklyn ny…maga country. These trash liberal hypocrites

Biden has completely fuck the border up, allowing criminals, terrorists, drug mules with fentanyl, gang members,etc.

Costing us billions a year. Housing them in luxury hotels and apartments across the country.

Can’t wait for DeSantis or Trump to throw all them the fuck out. We have a process, follow it

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So this stuff with Rudy is surprising eh, yeah not at all surprising.

[URL="https://apnews.com/article/rudy-giuliani-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-d98244030366913706b4a3235cc1fe46"]Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages[/URL]

[URL="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/giuliani-accused-of-offering-to-sell-trump-pardons-for-2-million-each-in-new-lawsuit/4336624/"]Giuliani Accused of Offering to Sell Trump Pardons for $2 Million Each in New Lawsuit[/URL]

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[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwhnnAWaQAAg1NQ?format=jpg&name=large[/IMG]

Blood on Obama hands letting pieces of shit back on streets for zero reason.

Soft on crime never never works.

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I'd like to petition the following 3 sayings to be banned from U.S. lexicon:

1. Gaslighting
2. Wrong side of history
3. Blood on his/her/they/them/your hands

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1342154]I'd like to petition the following 3 sayings to be banned from U.S. lexicon:

1. Gaslighting
2. Wrong side of history
3. Blood on his/her/they/them/your hands[/quote]

Lol,,,yeah fair enough. First though:

1.nazi
2.fascist

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[quote=Chico23231;1342152]

Soft on crime never never works.[/quote]

[B]He Was Convicted in a Police Officer’s Murder. Trump Gave Him Clemency.
Jaime A. Davidson was in prison for nearly 30 years for one of upstate New York’s most notorious crimes. Political connections appear to have set him free.[/B]

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/nyregion/jaime-davidson-clemency-syracuse.html[/url]


By Troy Closson
Jan. 26, 2021
Among the dozens of pardons and commutations former President Donald J. Trump issued before leaving office, one name has left some law enforcement officials reeling: Jaime A. Davidson, notorious in upstate New York for planning a 1990 robbery that ended in the murder of a police officer.

The commutation bypassed the typical federal process for seeking clemency, and was championed by an advocate who was herself granted a pardon in 2018. Experts said Mr. Trump’s decision to cut Mr. Davidson’s life sentence short was evidence of the problems that arise when presidential allies exert strong influence.

And after a re-election campaign that emphasized law and order, with rallies that sometimes featured the pro-police Blue Lives Matter flag, Mr. Trump’s decision was a baffling anomaly that upstate politicians, prosecutors and police union officials received with dismay.

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[B]POLITICS
Shock And Dismay After Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians
December 23, 20205:44 PM ET
Laurel Wamsley at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2018. (photo by Allison Shelley)
Laurel Wamsley
[/B]

[url]https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/949679837/shock-and-dismay-after-trump-pardons-blackwater-guards-who-killed-14-iraqi-civil[/url]


Among the pardons made by President Trump this week, the pardon of four former guards for Blackwater has been regarded by some as particularly galling.

Trump Grants Slew Of Pardons, Including To George Papadopoulos And Duncan Hunter
POLITICS


Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted six years ago in the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 17 others. Witnesses described how the American men ambushed the civilians unprovoked, firing on Baghdad's Nisour Square with heavy gunfire and grenade launchers.

The massacre took place in 2007, when the four were working as guards for Blackwater, a private military contractor, on an assignment in Baghdad. They claimed they were fired on, but prosecutors said the Blackwater guards opened fire first. Slatten, whom prosecutors said started the shooting, was sentenced to life in prison.

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G1 uses [B]bold font[/B] like Elaine uses !!!.

Definitely an inordinate usage of bold font.

[IMG]https://i.gifer.com/7Md4.gif[/IMG]

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1342161]G1 uses [B]bold font[/B] like Elaine uses !!!.
[/quote]




At this time of night when you're on bottle #2 you need help.

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[quote=Giantone;1342163]At this time of night when you're on bottle #2 you need help.[/quote]

You live in the same time zone as me lol. So we apparently both need help. Want to go together?

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1342164]You live in the same time zone as me lol. So we apparently both need help. Want to go together?[/quote]

[SIZE="5"][/SIZE]LOL, last episode of BB on tonight . Seriously you need to go to AA or something.






[B][B]
Good Morning![/B][/B]

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[quote=Giantone;1342165][SIZE="5"][/SIZE]LOL, last episode of BB on tonight . Seriously you need to go to AA or something.

[B][B]
Good Morning![/B][/B][/quote]

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[url]https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1658202608811798528?cxt=HHwWgMDT_Zafj4MuAAAA[/url]

Always the same people. The school to prison pipeline is a myth period, it all starts in the home they are raised in. Raised to act like a criminal

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Long but interesting article by Andrew Sullivan

[url]https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-queers-versus-the-homosexuals-cfd[/url]

".....But when you examine the other issues at stake — public schools teaching the concepts of queer and gender theory to kindergartners on up, sex changes for children before puberty, the housing of biological males with women in prisons and rape shelters, and biological males competing with women in sports — you realize we are far beyond what the gay rights movement once stood for. It’s these initiatives from the far left that are new; and the backlash is quite obviously a reaction to the capture of the gay rights movement by queer social justice activists.

These activists, marinated in critical gender and queer theory, have picked several unnecessary fights and, especially since the convulsions of 2020, have pushed and pushed a woke revolution until a dangerous backlash was inevitable......[B]Then the queers upped the ante and did something we gays never did: they targeted children.[/B] If they could get into kids’ minds, bodies and souls from the very beginning of their lives, they could abolish the sex binary from the ground up. And so they got a pliant, woke educational establishment to re-program children from the very start, telling toddlers that any single one of them could be living in the wrong body, before they could even spell.....

....Of course, since queers deny the natural basis of homosexuality, in their view, no real harm can come from transing gay children....."If a Christianist hospital was busy changing the sexes of overwhelmingly gay kids, so that they became straight, what do you think the gay rights establishment would say? But when a queer facility does exactly that, all the worriers are bigots......"

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[url]https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-anderson-republicans-america_n_5a58d5efe4b04df054f860a1[/url]

Old but good reading, not much has changed.

[B]Why Do Republicans Hate America?[/B]

Why do Republicans hate America? No, really. It’s not a rhetorical question. Since consolidating its power in January 2017, the GOP has systematically set out to dismantle the economic strength of this nation, coddle predators, shield traitors, attack those who are working, and strip protections from the most vulnerable. Are these the actions of a party that loves the nation it has sworn to serve?

Consider the GOP’s attempts over the last year to blow up the U.S. economy and make life harder for its constituents. The Republicans’ first try at demolishing the economy as if it were nothing but an old abandoned building was their reckless attempt to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which housed and protected millions of American citizens. The GOP’s congressional leaders held no hearings, refused to even listen to expert testimony and were utterly unconcerned about the impact that dismantling a key component of the nation’s health care system would have on one-sixth of the American economy.

When the button jammed on that detonator, Republicans tried another, more powerful type of explosive, and this one threatens to be much more successful. In December,[B] they passed a tax bill that adds an estimated $1.5 trillion to the deficit — with no significant investment in infrastructure, [/B]education or health care to show for it. And now, as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made clear, when the GOP-fueled deficit balloons, they’re coming after the retirement and medical social programs that he has demeaned and mislabeled as “entitlements.” Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, however, are hard-earned benefits funded, in large part, out of our paychecks. They provide much needed support to the elderly, the infirmed and those with disabilities.

For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.

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[quote=Giantone;1342192][url]https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-anderson-republicans-america_n_5a58d5efe4b04df054f860a1[/url]

.........

For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.[/quote]

And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.

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[quote=nonniey;1342193]And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.[/quote]

LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?

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[quote=Giantone;1342195]LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?[/quote]

Ryan wanted to raise the age of getting the max benefit from 67 to 70 for those under 30 at the time (2011). Wouldn't have effected anyone over 30 (in 2011), and the age for getting the minimum benefit would have still been 62. Not a cut at all for those getting or nearing Social Security and it would have preserved it for those that were younger. Is that the 50% you are talking about?

So in about 10 years we actually will get massive cuts for those already getting it and everyone else.

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[quote=Giantone;1342195]LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?[/quote]

Dems haven't even suggested one proposal that would fix SS long term. Not one (unless you consider 5 years long term). Their only suggestion/proposal is to eliminate the cap taken out for SS. And the CBC said that would have only have kept SS solvent for an additional 5 years. Those figures are 12 years old now, pretty sure because of those wasted years it is less than 5 years for the Dem plan by this point. The GOP would have to add 12 years to the grandfathered age which effects the planning of those effected and makes opposition greater.

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[quote=nonniey;1342204]Dems haven't even suggested one proposal that would fix SS long term. Not one (unless you consider 5 years long term). Their only suggestion/proposal is to eliminate the cap taken out for SS. And the CBC said that would have only have kept SS solvent for an additional 5 years. Those figures are 12 years old now, pretty sure because of those wasted years it is less than 5 years for the Dem plan by this point. The GOP would have to add 12 years to the grandfathered age which effects the planning of those effected and makes opposition greater.[/quote]

[URL="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-security-bill-could-seniors-145812838.html"]Social Security: Proposal for $2,400 Extra in Checks Expanded and Reintroduced in Congress[/URL]

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[quote=nonniey;1342204]Dems haven't even suggested one proposal that would fix SS long term. Not one (unless you consider 5 years long term). Their only suggestion/proposal is to eliminate the cap taken out for SS. And the CBC said that would have only have kept SS solvent for an additional 5 years. Those figures are 12 years old now, pretty sure because of those wasted years it is less than 5 years for the Dem plan by this point. The GOP would have to add 12 years to the grandfathered age which effects the planning of those effected and makes opposition greater.[/quote]

Good read here , shows you how each party feels about the fixes suggested for SS. Seems the voters have no problem ,it's the politicians that are using it like a football.


[url]https://publicconsultation.org/social-security/large-majorities-of-republicans-and-democrats-agree-on-steps-to-drastically-reduce-social-security-shortfall/[/url]

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70% and 71%. After both proven 100% absolutely false….def not a cult.

This is why the media is the enemy of the people, they pushed these lies without verifying a single fact and willfully ignored evidence simply because of the dislike for the President.

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[quote=Chico23231;1342217][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwqU4uKWYAQLo9S?format=jpg&name=4096x4096[/IMG]

70% and 71%. After both proven 100% absolutely false….def not a cult.

This is why the media is the enemy of the people, they pushed these lies without verifying a single fact and willfully ignored evidence simply because of the dislike for the President.[/quote]

Collusion yes, Russian interference no it was proven.

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[quote=MTK;1342208][URL="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-security-bill-could-seniors-145812838.html"]Social Security: Proposal for $2,400 Extra in Checks Expanded and Reintroduced in Congress[/URL][/quote]

We were talking about extending the solvency not shortening it. The CBO already scored (in 2011) what eliminating the 160K cap would provide and they stated it would extend SS solvency by as little as 5 years and at most 10 years meaning SS would be insolvent between 2041 and 2046 (Since then projections accelerated the time period for insolvency from 2036 to 2033). Sanders was basically lying through his ass (He was aware of the CBO score made 12 years ago) when he made this claim, of course he will probably be dead by the time it does actually go insolvent in 10-12 years. Heck his proposal would have taken the additional funds needed to extend solvency 5 years for an immediate increase in payments now to recipients. A friggen awful proposal that would have made things worse.

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[B]Rep. Lauren Boebert says she decided it was 'cheaper to have a kid' after seeing the price of one month of birth control: 'Now I have my third son'
[/B]


Some of the Brightest Republican minds!


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/rep-lauren-boebert-says-she-182640302.html[/url]

The Colorado GOP congresswoman had her first child when she was in high school.

She said it "turned out to be a really great thing," noting that she's since had three children.

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado made an eyebrow-raising comment on Wednesday: that she first began having children after balking at the price of birth control at a local pharmacy.

"My staff is probably gonna talk to me about this later," Boebert quipped as she began recounting the "fun little story" during a House Oversight Committee hearing on prescription drugs on Wednesday.

Boebert asked witness Kevin Duane, the owner of a pharmacy in Jacksonville, Florida, if he'd seen patients leave their prescribed medicines at his pharmacy due to being unable to pay — before saying that she had done just that.

"I left a prescription at a pharmacy once — I went to get birth control," said Boebert. "I was there at the counter, and went to pay for it, and the price was very, very high."

Boebert said she initially thought the cost may have been for a three to six-month prescription, but was informed that it was just for one month.

"And I said, 'it's cheaper to have a kid,'" Boebert recalled. "And I left it there, and now I have my third son, Kaydon Boebert."


[B]Condoms were under $5 back then[/B].

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Biden hasn’t done a fucking thing. Fuck up border, fentanyl pouring border causing overdoses,record inflation, record high food prices, war in Europe, high energy prices. Lied about election laws, endorsing sex changes for minors, traded the most wanted arms dealer for a dumbass basketball player, stokes false racial narratives.

Fuck Biden. Trump was a much better President, the country was in a much better place

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[quote=Chico23231;1342271][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw2QbjQXsAIekxT?format=jpg&name=small[/IMG]

Biden hasn’t done a fucking thing. Fuck up border, fentanyl pouring border causing overdoses,record inflation, record high food prices, war in Europe, high energy prices. Lied about election laws, endorsing sex changes for minors, traded the most wanted arms dealer for a dumbass basketball player, stokes false racial narratives.

Fuck Biden. Trump was a much better President, the country was in a much better place[/quote]

Until he wasn't. The one thing Trump did that trumps (irony not intended) all that shit Biden has done (and I agree he did/ is doing that) is try to overthrow the Republic. So if you support the Constitution and the choice is Trump or Biden you better vote for the adle brained incompetent currently in power.

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Joy Behar, a white (evil) woman, explaining that Tim Scott (and Clarence Thomas) just don't understand the struggles of black americans.

[url]https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-joy-behar-compares-tim-scott-clarence-thomas/[/url]

“He’s one of these guys who, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas,” Behar said. “Black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country, and other minorities. He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans.”

Yet another white person telling black people that don't do as they're told by the democratic party, they just don't understand what being black is.

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Everything is better and trump is going to jail.


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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1342278]Joy Behar, a white (evil) woman, explaining that Tim Scott (and Clarence Thomas) just don't understand the struggles of black americans.

[url]https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-joy-behar-compares-tim-scott-clarence-thomas/[/url]

“He’s one of these guys who, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas,” Behar said. “Black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country, and other minorities. He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans.”

Yet another white person telling black people that don't do as they're told by the democratic party, they just don't understand what being black is.[/quote]


................she is right.

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1342278]Joy Behar, a white (evil) woman, explaining that Tim Scott (and Clarence Thomas) just don't understand the struggles of black americans.

[url]https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-joy-behar-compares-tim-scott-clarence-thomas/[/url]

“He’s one of these guys who, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas,” Behar said. “Black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country, and other minorities. He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans.”

Yet another white person telling black people that don't do as they're told by the democratic party, they just don't understand what being black is.[/quote]

Democrats who passed and enforced Jim Crow laws still telling minorities how to act and think. Pathetic

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[quote=Chico23231;1342282]Republicans who passed and enforced Jim Crow laws still telling minorities how to act and think. Pathetic[/quote]

[B]Fixed for honesty.[/B]

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[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1342278]Joy Behar, a white (evil) woman, explaining that Tim Scott (and Clarence Thomas) just don't understand the struggles of black americans.

[url]https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-joy-behar-compares-tim-scott-clarence-thomas/[/url]

“He’s one of these guys who, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas,” Behar said. “Black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country, and other minorities. He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans.”

Yet another white person telling black people that don't do as they're told by the democratic party, they just don't understand what being black is.[/quote]

If there is someone that understands systemic racism I can assure you it is Tim Scott. Why is the mindset of pulling yourself up by your boot straps viewed as negative?

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[quote=nonniey;1342274]Until he wasn't. The one thing Trump did that trumps (irony not intended) all that shit Biden has done (and I agree he did/ is doing that) is try to overthrow the Republic. [B]So if you support the Constitution and the choice is Trump or Biden you better vote for the adle brained incompetent currently in power.[/B][/quote]

Patently and utterly false. Vote for Biden if you support the constitution, LOL. Biden hates the constitution. He would rip it up and pretend like it didn't exist in a heartbeat if he could. So would 99% of elected democrats and un-elected bureaucrats. A vote for Biden is a vote against America.

As a site/community, we should all vote for someone besides Trump or Biden. This whole accepting there are only 2 choices forever, has led us to exactly where we are today. A once great country fading to shit.

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[quote=nonniey;1342224]We were talking about extending the solvency not shortening it. The CBO already scored (in 2011) what eliminating the 160K cap would provide and they stated it would extend SS solvency by as little as 5 years and at most 10 years meaning SS would be insolvent between 2041 and 2046 (Since then projections accelerated the time period for insolvency from 2036 to 2033). Sanders was basically lying through his ass (He was aware of the CBO score made 12 years ago) when he made this claim, of course he will probably be dead by the time it does actually go insolvent in 10-12 years. Heck his proposal would have taken the additional funds needed to extend solvency 5 years for an immediate increase in payments now to recipients. A friggen awful proposal that would have made things worse.[/quote]

You either raise the cap or you increase payroll taxes. The solutions aren't that hard to see.

Either way nothing is going to happen until it has to. Deadlines spur action. And both sides love to use SS as a political carrot.

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[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1342291]If there is someone that understands systemic racism I can assure you it is Tim Scott. Why is the mindset of pulling yourself up by your boot straps viewed as negative?[/quote]

People like Behar simply don't want minorities to be successful imo. And especially don't want them to be successful and conservative. Doesn't help them make money or keep power.