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Mar 28, 2024 20:30:18   #
bylm1-Bernie wrote:
I subscribe to the Milton Friedman belief (and many other economists) that Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other form of government. Speaking of ignoring history, you may want to recall the early part of the 20th century and how the average family lived in the U.S. I am older than you by several years and I can recall how many families lived and the standard of living they had even in the forties and it isn't comparable to what is enjoyed today by virtually every family who stays together and exerts even a moderate amount of effort. This business of capitalism leading to c*******m is nothing more than the fantasy of a liberal. In capitalism, let's face it, there are going to be some people who get rich. But there are going to be many more who rise in income and wealth due to what has been built largely by entrepreneurship and ingenuity of those who have believed in hard work and have taken risks to build a system of government that is the envy of the world. Why do you think that millions from all over the world are streaming to this Country and making extreme efforts to get in.
I subscribe to the Milton Friedman belief (and man... (show quote)


Yes, The Austrian school. Ludwig von Mises.

Entrepreneurship and ingenuity are why the U.S. still leads the world; not China, not Europe, not Japan, etc. But that can quickly change if we left demagogues such as Biden continue to have their way.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:26:57   #
WEBCO wrote:
Socialism is a ponzi scheme that destroys individuals initiative. It has never been able to sustain itself. We can have another revolution and rid ourselves of the rot in our government. A return to small government, large individual freedoms. European countries are being strangled by their entitlement states, especially with mass, unchecked "immigration". Sounds familiar 🤔


Social Security is also a Ponzi scheme. Hence, the Social in the name.
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Mar 28, 2024 00:29:51   #
Nick Nicholson wrote:
Ignore history at your own peril. Every case of a country becoming c*******t in the last 100 years, based on everything I have found in history books and on line records, shows clearly that uncontrolled capitalism was the direct cause of a revolution of the working class which k**led off the wealthy, followed by establishment of a c*******t government. Cause? The rich capitalists kept taking more and more of the available wealth in the nation, causing a long term decrease in their standard of living of the working class until a leader said enough, time to revolt. And that is the result of uncontrolled capitalism with insufficient safeguards for the working class. And this is exactly what has been happening in America over the last 55 years, ×/-. Since I am 79 years old, I will not live to see it. But if it continues indefinitely, without sufficient social programs, a revolution is quite likely. And I really do not want that to happen to my country. But those persons saying socialism is c*******m are fools adding their voice to driving America toward c*******m. History says that is the cause.
Ignore history at your own peril. Every case of a ... (show quote)


Uncontrolled Capitalism is not true Capitalism. It is crony capitalism, monopolistic capitalism, regulatory capitalism, administrative capitalism. We do not have capitalism in this country. True Capitalism means freedom to enter markets without artificial barriers. We don't have that. We have over-regulation and bureaucratic administrative state socialism. Yes, I fear for the next generations. This year may be the year that either saves the republic or destroys the American experiment in self-government. Choose wisely.

The simple solution is to v**e all Marxist, socialist, c*******t, progressive, g*******t, elitist, l*****t, and f*****t Democrats out of office. Repugnicans may not be the solution to all our problems, but Democraps are the cause of our problems. They first create a problem, escalate to crisis proportions, and then promise that they can provide the solution through the administrative state which leads to bigger government.

The hard solution is to start teaching school-age children the miracle of the American experiment and eliminate the wokism in our education. Bring back patriotism and p***e in our country instead of the constant bashing of it. It won't be easy. People who want to v**e more benefits for themselves at the expense of our country's financial security, and Politicians who are always willing to oblige the v**ers with more benefits only kick the can down the road making a day of reconning all the tougher for future generations to deal with. This is why true democracy doesn't work. It is why we have a Republic. Even socialist and c*******t regimes call themselves democratic.
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Mar 27, 2024 17:53:39   #
Nick Nicholson wrote:
Absolute historical fact. Not a theory. Only a fool closes his mind to history.


Be careful when arguing with a fool. People may not be able to tell you apart.
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Mar 27, 2024 17:26:39   #
CPUC SHOULD NOT BECOME YET ANOTHER TAX AGENCY

By Mike Gatto





“Up and down the state, Californians have lingering concerns about the California Public Utilities Commission. In recent memory, catastrophic wildfires caused in part by California Public Utilities Commission inspection failures, a utility bankruptcy and rolling blackouts have added to our long-term memories about a deadly gas explosion, a gas-well failure that rendered thousands homeless, and the potentially corrupt relationships between senior California Public Utilities Commission officials and the industries they are supposed to regulate. Indeed, it was not long ago that dozens of lawmakers wanted to disband the agency entirely.

Now — unless reversed by the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom — a far-reaching law sneaked into a budget trailer bill in 2022 could give the California Public Utilities Commission access to the personal income data of tens of millions of Californians. This raises serious privacy and security concerns, and could turn the California Public Utilities Commission into a de facto second taxing agency. What could possibly go wrong?

Let’s start with the obvious. Forcing Californians to share their financial and earnings data with an agency whose main duties are utility rate-making and safety regulation is a square peg in a round hole. Even California agencies that are regularly entrusted with sensitive data do not have a great history with safeguarding it. A pattern of serious data breaches make Californians rightly hesitant to entrust a scandal-plagued utility agency with our most precious personal data. Moreover, given the lack of love Californians have towards the Internal Revenue Service and its California equivalent, the Franchise Tax Board, it is no wonder that many loathe the idea of empowering another state agency to impose fees for electricity use based on income, and presumably to penalize Californians in case of a reporting error.

The privacy concerns don’t stop with data breaches, though. The California Public Utilities Commission is a public agency, and the records of who is paying what will be public records too, subject to prying eyes. It is also unclear whether the major utilities will be able to access their customer’s income data. Want even more sales calls to install improvements at your home? Just imagine what mischief marketers would make if they had access to government-vetted income data, tied to your utility bill.

And crucially, Californians are regularly asked to use utility bills for everything from proving our residence to opening a bank account to registering for school. Imagine the privacy violation when a nosy bureaucrat at another government agency examines your bill, and based on the surcharge you paid, obtains a pretty accurate range of what you made last year. This could cause major jealousy, or major humiliation. This proposal also expands the size of government in a way that makes even mainstream Democrats squirm. It just feels wrong to turn a utility regulator into for all intents and purposes another tax agency with access to income and financial data. It’s also hard to fathom how this proposal doesn’t morph into additional taxes and fees down the line, as such expansions of governmental power and taxation authority always seem to do.

These privacy, security and big government/big data concerns should be added to the long list of existing energy-related issues with the proposal. Chief among them is the totally valid concern that these charges will disincentivize conservation. If middle-class Californians get charged an unavoidable added monthly flat fee to their utility bills, it makes our power usage almost moot.

Low-income Californians can already easily apply for utility-rate discounts, obtaining everything from $20 monthly gas bills to free cellphones and usage. So these rate increases and tax increases are simply not necessary. And giving the California Public Utilities Commission access to our sensitive personal data should be a nonstarter.

It’s not too late to stop this overreaching proposal. Post about it on social media; complain to your state representative; but by all means, don’t stop watching our government, lest ill-conceived proposals like this continue to mar governance in the Golden State.

Gatto, a Democrat, represented Burbank, Glendale and Los Angeles for seven years in the state Legislature, where he chaired the Utilities and Commerce, Privacy and Consumer Protection, and Appropriations Committees. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Mar 27, 2024 17:22:53   #
Kennedy for President: 2028 ?
The next e******n cycle looms large.
ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
MAR 27


So Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has made his VP pick. A pick that has left many of us shaking our heads in disbelief. Cries of anguish on social media basically come down to “We thought he was on our side!”

So, why did he pick Nicole Shanahan? What would she bring to the role of Vice-president of the United States? Is this person qualified to be our President if the need arose? The answer is no. Although well educated in patent law, Nicole Shanahan has never held elected office, and has never governed.

Her recent personal life is fraught with drama. After meeting Google co-founder Sergey Brin at a yoga festival, they married in 2018 and have a daughter - also born in that same year. This couple divorced in 2022, and Ms. Shanahan has now has entered a “commitment” ceremony with a bit-coin tech entrepreneur named Jacob Strumwasser. Her hobbies include attending the Burning Man festival, yoga, surfing, paddle boarding, snowboarding, swimming, running, meditation and kite boarding.

Shanahan is a Stanford and WTO trained patent attorney, who had a successful business that was sold in 2020.

Shanahan is now the president of Bia-Echo, a private foundation that funds programs related to women's “reproductive longevity, criminal justice reform, and the environment”. Bia-Echo’s home page includes the following passage:

“Rising temperatures around the globe have created an urgent threat to life on earth, from e*****e w*****r to endangered coastal communities. The impending environmental crisis requires inventive solutions to preserve the livability of the planet for the future.”

Until fairly recently - she described herself as a 100% progressive, and the positions taken by her foundation Bia-Echo reflect a progressive viewpoint.

But turning back to Kennedy, let’s remember that as recently as last summer he was running as a “Kennedy Democrat”. He chose Dennis Kucinich as his campaign manager and loudly proclaimed wanting to return to the Democrat party of his father and uncle. For many of us that was a “red f**g” moment in time. It was as if RFKjr was unaware of all the progress made in rejecting “nanny state” logic under President Ronald Reagan, and all of the problems and lessons learned which the nation has been through under the Carter and Clinton/Obama/Biden catastrophes never happened.

All this said, choosing Nicole Shanahan just alienated a large cohort of the people supporting him. However, it is not clear that he will gain many “progressive” or Democrat v**es in the bargain struck with this VP choice. In a week of two, I believe that his polling numbers will drop a bit, not rise. So why do it?

Many are writing that Kennedy chose Nicole Shanahan because of her “open pocketbook”. That the campaign needs cash and this was basically a case of “gold-digging”. But that kind of logic does not do justice to the RFKjr I know and respect. I speculate that the reason he choose Shanahan is much more strategic, and may have nothing to do with the 2024 e******n cycle. I personally believe that he knows he can’t win in 2024. He does know that his remaining in the race helps Trump secure the p**********l e******n, and may (if moderately successful) allow his candidacy to stop either Biden or Trump from securing the 270 e*******l v**es needed to avoid a runoff in the House of Representatives- which scenario would probably trigger a Constitutional crisis. In the end, his remaining in the race only helps his longterm favorability ratings. By swinging to the left now, he is setting himself up for a run as a Democrat in 2028. If nothing else, it may give him a voice and role in rebuilding the Democrat party after a failed Biden presidency.

In the 1976 p**********l e******n, Ronald Reagan chose to run against an incumbent of his own party, Gerald Ford. In that e******n, Reagan did win a few state primaries, but eventually lost to president Gerald Ford. For a Republican to run against the incumbent Republican president was akin to treason against the Republican party, and most political pundits of the time considered it to be political career ending move by Reagan. But as we now know, the opposite was true. That e******n gave Governor Reagan increased name recognition on the national stage. Four years later, he came back with a roar to win the 1980 e******n cycle. The rest is history.

Trump can not run again in 2028. That means his vice-p**********l pick most likely will run. Therefore, regarding candidates for 2028, everything depends on the state of the nation leading up to that e******n.

So, what does the United States look like leading up to that e******n? One key upside of a Trump presidency will be that the border crisis will have ended or certainly subsided, and the race towards globalism and ceding national sovereignty may have abated. However, the USA has so much debt and inflation now, it is unclear how President Trump will have a significant impact on the current trajectory of the financial, market, and federal fiscal situation in the USA. If he can get schedule “F” passed, maybe he could cut the Federal workforce, but Congress will likely fight him tooth and nail to stop that agenda. Furthermore, to date President Trump is not campaigning on that issue.

What does seem predictable is that Trump will encounter four more years of incredibly aggressive Democrat party obstructionism. Therefore, there will be will be four more years of social turmoil and culture wars - further augmented by progressives, Trump h**ers caught up in propaganda, fabricated crises and various psychologic derangement syndromes. Which of course will play right into the agenda of major geopolitical adversaries of the USA and NATO.

If the 2016 and 2020 e******ns are any indicator, after four more years of grossly dysfunctional federal governance, the public may be ready for a big change. This leaves the 2028 e******n cycle wide open.

Kennedy is no fool. He will is currently 70 years old and would be 75 if elected president in 2028. He is absurdly healthy, and is both physically and mentally fit.

The older cohort of the baby boomers are aging out fast. After Biden’s loss, the Democrat party is going to run away from Biden’s presidency, his “crime syndicate” family and cohort of cronies which extend back through Obama and Clinton functionaries like rats leaving a sinking ship. This will result in a huge power vacuum in the Democrat party. They desperately need new leadership. There are no clear cut candidates with real legitimacy who can win over the “persuadable middle” waiting in the wings. Bernie will be way, way past his sell date. There will be a power vacuum after Biden’s defeat in 2024 that is just waiting to be filled.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. could be the “perfect” solution for a Democrat party confronting an existential crisis, and his message of rebuilding a Democrat party grounded in the values of his father and uncle might be able to gain more traction than it did during this e******n cycle.

He knows that he has significant favorability ratings with the American people. He is smart, charismatic and pedigreed. Big pharma will only continue to soil themselves, and that will help with his rehabilitation.

Nicole Shanahan is going to be a huge asset for an effort to rebuild his reputation within the Democrat party. Her connections are big tech and big money. She is smart, well-spoken and passionate. Her speech on accepting the candidacy focussed on how far the Democrat party has fallen. I strongly suspect that this VP se******n was not about this present e******n, but rather is really about 2028.

Today, Kennedy is running as an independent - ah, but tomorrow, he may very well be running on a Democrat party platform focused on reform. Stay tuned for the 2028 p**********l e******n cycle; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may still get his turn.
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Mar 27, 2024 12:25:52   #
Marty 2020 wrote:
Should’ve given them more ammunition!


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Mar 27, 2024 12:25:00   #
Milosia2 wrote:
Denigrate me all you can.
It does not change your own wrongheadedfullness !
Try to remember , you don’t know me.
And wh**ever you think or feel about me , is
Truly None of my business.
Talk to the hand.
Keep the rest in church .
You don’t get to condemn anyone to your environment of Hell.
You bought , you live with it.
You simply ,
Don’t have the power.
Nor , will you ever.
It’s become your new comfort zone .
Anti American , anti establishment .
Anti government,
Anti Biden ,
anti democrat ,
Anti Public school ,
Anti Constitution ,
Anti democracy ,
Anti Social Security
Anti Medicare
Anti Ukraine ,
Anti everything except trump .
Trump trump trump !
24/7 all trump in his exalted great and wonderfulness.
Get out there snd buy your new maga Bible !
Complete with constitution , bill of rights ,
Lyrics for America the beautiful ! And the star spangled banner !!!
The maga Bible.
This is directly from Hitlers plan to release of a new
Rewritten Bible.
The Hitler Bible !!
Too funny !!!!
How did that go. ?
Denigrate me all you can. br It does not change yo... (show quote)



You are a sniveling lunatic.
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Mar 26, 2024 23:24:54   #
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IleN1NpiQLo

If you find someone squatting in your house, it turns out that there’s often very little you can do to get them out.

That’s why Flash Shelton started SquatterH****rs.com, to help homeowners remove unwanted intruders.

Flash Shelton couldn’t believe it when he found there was a stranger living in his mother’s old house.

He called the police, but they wouldn’t help him.

Turns out, laws meant to protect tenants, also protect squatters.

Shelton took matters into his own hands.

Here’s how he out-squatted the squatter:
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Mar 26, 2024 22:59:54   #
BIRDMAN wrote:
👍👍👍👍



I don't know and can't understand what many are now speaking.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:22:00   #
Milosia2 wrote:
I don’t see anybody in that mirror buying any Bibles from trump. !!!
Can it be another failed business for trump ,
The Bible Salesman. ????
Selling Bibles ?????
You gotta be kidding me.
The richest , smartest man in the world ,
Reduced to hawking Bibles !!!
Oh for Crissakes !!!!!
When does it end ??????

I am not desperate . And I do have friends .
And some are OG Republicans .
We get along fine. They were smarter from back in that era.


Nope, you and your friends (if you have any. Me thinks the lady doth protesteth too much.), especially establishment RINOs, are useful i***ts. You are an atheist and I sincerely doubt you have ever owned, let alone run a business. If you never take a chance, you will never fail (except for everything you do; including your posts on OPP). Entrepreneurs succeed in some ventures and fail in others. But you wouldn't know that because you are a money-grubbing l*****t, envious of anyone having success. As an atheist, you have no reason to improve yourself because, for you and your life, this is it. You are born, you live, you die. Nothing else. No higher power except the all-encompassing bureaucracy of big government to satisfy your needs from cradle to grave.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:11:29   #
This social experiment Biden has undertaken has already been tried. And it doesn't work.

https://www.prageru.com/video/the-suicide-of-europe

Douglas Murray
5-Minute Videos
May 13, 2018

Europe is committing suicide. How did this happen? In this video, Douglas Murray, author of The Strange Death of Europe, explains the two major causes of Europe’s impending downfall.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:01:33   #
tomhoff24 wrote:
Inflating the values of your properties to get lower rates is fraud. As well as undervaluing them to get tax breaks is fraud. The government did not put values on Trump’s properties,independent evaluators did.

Hey Tomhoff, can I call you Jack? (as in Jackhoff?)
"Independent evaluators did." You keep arguing the same point over and over. That what tax audits are for. No crime was committed, no fraud was committed, and no one was an injured or aggrieved party. No one has ever before been charged in this manner. It's a socialist, banana republic, Soviet tactic by the Marxist Democraps who want to destroy this country. The more you complain, the more people see what a sham this is, resulting in continuing increases in Americans support for Trump.

Tell me you've never sold anything, such as a used car, that wasn't over-valued. Everyone wants to get as much for their money as possible by overvaluing what they sell and undervaluing what they buy. Do you have fire insurance on you home? If you do, you over-valued your property for a replacement cost. If you don't, you are an i***t.
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Mar 26, 2024 14:30:28   #
Milosia2 wrote:
Maybe ,
Just maybe ,
He simply couldn’t take it anymore !
He couldn’t be a member of a party that has only one goal , Trump !
He didn’t take an Oath to protect trump at any costs , Foreign or domestic ,
Trump , good bad or ugly ,
24/7 !
Nothing else will be as important as Trump !
A sick and desperate man , a billionaire , so called , with No friends , other than pirates and thieves and dictators !!!!!
Only trump !
trump trump trump !


You are such a midget brain compared to Trump. The more you and your ilk attack him the more popular he becomes. It's nice to have dumb useful i***t l*****t lunatics as enemies. The one who is desperate, with no friends, is you!




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Mar 26, 2024 08:18:41   #
billy a wrote:
They've removed the video, but I can picture it...
Gosh, can you imagine what history is going to say about that person ?


It's still there.
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