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No, you are incorrect yet again. No, you do not see.
You keep claiming there is no waste, Fraud, abuse, meaning there are no Illegal Alien parasites consuming our resources.
I keep pointing out that Illegal Aliens fraudulently consume these resources, and for at least this portion of the Food Stamp program, this is waste, fraud, and abuse - diverting resources from legitimate needy Citizens.

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As a voting Democrat, I think Trump should get his $25 billion to build the Texas/Mexico wall. Trump will do much more than $25 billion in damage if he shuts down the government, as he promised for September, should Congress not pass funding for the wall.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/mexico-border-wall-donald-trump-planning-mu
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Trump has all the authority he needs to deport 12 million illegals. What is he waiting for? Why hasn't he done it already? Is it because Republicans don't want to work at the jobs the illegals do?
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/16/news/economy/immigrant-workers-jobs/in
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White Republicans are always whining about that wall and are howling mad about the 12 million illegal aliens doing the low pay jobs of America. Give the Whites the wall and hire all the unemployed White Republicans for those low pay jobs so that the whining and howling will stop. Maybe when 12 million Republicans are working in those low pay jobs left by the illegals, the Republicans will support the Democrats' goal for a higher minimum wage? Seems very fair to me.

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If you are ill today, I'm sorry to hear of it. Get well soon.

You have posted a set of comments which almost entirely make sense.
How many Illegal Aliens have been deported under Trump? Although MSM has been downplaying these successes, I still keep hearing about large scale raids all over the place. I thought there was mention of prioritizing the worst criminals and repeat deportees for targeting. It sounds like Sanctuary Cities are effectively corralling many of these, making it easier to round them up, so that's mostly where I hear the best raids occur. Once the worst offenders are processed, do you know of a central database listing the locations of all the remaining illegals? I am not familiar with the process, but once past the border area, are not some legal proceedings navigated before deportation? What is the maximum volume this system can handle? Is there a method of mass deportation which could bypass the process - I have not heard of that. At the maximum volume rate of processing, how long would it take to report 12 million?
I greatly sounds like steady progress is being made, and targeting the worst offenders seems reasonable.

The Law of Supply and Demand will likely take effect before a Minimum Wage Increase is needed, which would cause the Minimum Wage worker to make less, lose buying power.

Other than that, your points sound sensible - leading us to infer you are ill.

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If you are ill today, I'm sorry to hear of it. Get well soon.

You have posted a set of comments which almost entirely make sense.
How many Illegal Aliens have been deported under Trump? Although MSM has been downplaying these successes, I still keep hearing about large scale raids all over the place. I thought there was mention of prioritizing the worst criminals and repeat deportees for targeting. It sounds like Sanctuary Cities are effectively corralling many of these, making it easier to round them up, so that's mostly where I hear the best raids occur. Once the worst offenders are processed, do you know of a central database listing the locations of all the remaining illegals? I am not familiar with the process, but once past the border area, are not some legal proceedings navigated before deportation? What is the maximum volume this system can handle? Is there a method of mass deportation which could bypass the process - I have not heard of that. At the maximum volume rate of processing, how long would it take to report 12 million?
I greatly sounds like steady progress is being made, and targeting the worst offenders seems reasonable.

The Law of Supply and Demand will likely take effect before a Minimum Wage Increase is needed, which would cause the Minimum Wage worker to make less, lose buying power.

Other than that, your points sound sensible - leading us to infer you are ill.

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Is this you saying, for the first time, that there is waste, fraud, abuse in the Food Stamp program?

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ICE conducted 226,119 removals. If there are 12 million illegals divided by 226,119, it will take 53 years to remove most of the illegals. I would say Trump is not really trying very hard. I do not think he is serious. Except it is worse than 53 years to remove all the illegals because most of the 226,119 that get deported have only been in the US for a few months. Trump is not making much of a dent in the long-term illegals. It might take 100 years for Trump to deport 12 million illegals at the rate he is working. I think Trump is doing more bullshitting than deporting. The guy is Fake News.

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Is this you saying, for the first time, that there is waste, fraud, abuse in the Food Stamp program?

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I never said there wasn't waste and fraud. I simply said that the benefits of the program outweigh the cons, and the fact that there is a foodstamp program is one of the only things keeping you from getting burglarized or held up at knife or gunpoint for money for food.

I've said that to weed out people who shouldn't be on it would likely cost more taxpayer dollars to figure out than just paying people because at some point the cost of the additional oversight would be more than the benefits themselves.

I've also said four times now that I stand adamantly against illegal aliens and how they leach off the system. This however, is not a food stamp problem. It is a much larger problem that needs to be taken care of at the core. Cut the inflow of illegal alien leaches to the system by immediately making it impossible for them to get any free government programs, including foodstamps, education and helth care, and by enforcing tax laws we already have, making it impossible for them to actually make any money here to send home and they will go back to their country of their own volition, and no more will want to come here.

Then what seems to be your largest issue with the food stamp program becomes moot.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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ICE conducted 226,119 removals. If there are 12 million illegals divided by 226,119, it will take 53 years to remove most of the illegals. I would say Trump is not really trying very hard. I do not think he is serious. Except it is worse than 53 years to remove all the illegals because most of the 226,119 that get deported have only been in the US for a few months. Trump is not making much of a dent in the long-term illegals. It might take 100 years for Trump to deport 12 million illegals at the rate he is working. I think Trump is doing more bullshitting than deporting. The guy is Fake News.

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Deportation is just as stupid and a waste of money as building a wall is.

If somebody were serious about keeping illegals out they would make it impossible for them to make any money here and send it home through tax laws and absolutely destroying any companies found hiring them under the table.

Couple that with immediately cutting illegals, even those born here by illegal parents, from any government benefits and they will go back home on their own dime, with no cost to the American taxpayer.

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"If 1% are legitimately needy and over 14% are participating" cite?

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ICE conducted 226,119 removals. If there are 12 million illegals divided by 226,119, it will take 53 years to remove most of the illegals. I would say Trump is not really trying very hard. I do not think he is serious. Except it is worse than 53 years to remove all the illegals because most of the 226,119 that get deported have only been in the US for a few months. Trump is not making much of a dent in the long-term illegals. It might take 100 years for Trump to deport 12 million illegals at the rate he is working. I think Trump is doing more bullshitting than deporting. The guy is Fake News.

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Deportation is just as stupid and a waste of money as building a wall is.

If somebody were serious about keeping illegals out they would make it impossible for them to make any money here and send it home through tax laws and absolutely destroying any companies found hiring them under the table.

Couple that with immediately cutting illegals, even those born here by illegal parents, from any government benefits and they will go back home on their own dime, with no cost to the American taxpayer.

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Always worried about the cost and never worry about results. That will guarantee failure.

The cost of the Texas/Mexico wall is $25 billion. And that is not every year. It is one time cost.

The cost to remove 12 million illegal aliens at $2,000 each is $24 billion.

The total is $49 billion. That is a small price to get Republicans to finally shut up.

It is smaller than Trump’s increase in Pentagon spending by $74 billion to a new world record defense budget of $716 billion for fiscal 2019.

The $74 billion defense increase is EVERY STINKING YEAR while the $49 billion is one time only.

The $74 billion defense increase will not have anything you can point to and say “this is what my money bought” while the $49 billion will buy you a thousand mile long wall and 12 million new jobs for legal citizens and there will be 12 million empty apartments and houses where the illegals had once lived. There will be cheaper rent for everybody still living in the USA.

And don't forget all those new American jobs openings the illegals graciously left behind for people like 6ixStringJack.

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-defense-20180212-story.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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"If 1% are legitimately needy and over 14% are participating" cite?

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ICE conducted 226,119 removals. If there are 12 million illegals divided by 226,119, it will take 53 years to remove most of the illegals. I would say Trump is not really trying very hard. I do not think he is serious. Except it is worse than 53 years to remove all the illegals because most of the 226,119 that get deported have only been in the US for a few months. Trump is not making much of a dent in the long-term illegals. It might take 100 years for Trump to deport 12 million illegals at the rate he is working. I think Trump is doing more bullshitting than deporting. The guy is Fake News.

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Deportation is just as stupid and a waste of money as building a wall is.

If somebody were serious about keeping illegals out they would make it impossible for them to make any money here and send it home through tax laws and absolutely destroying any companies found hiring them under the table.

Couple that with immediately cutting illegals, even those born here by illegal parents, from any government benefits and they will go back home on their own dime, with no cost to the American taxpayer.

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Always worried about the cost and never worry about results. That will guarantee failure.

The cost of the Texas/Mexico wall is $25 billion. And that is not every year. It is one time cost.

The cost to remove 12 million illegal aliens at $2,000 each is $24 billion.

The total is $49 billion. That is a small price to get Republicans to finally shut up.

It is smaller than Trump’s increase in Pentagon spending by $74 billion to a new world record defense budget of $716 billion for fiscal 2019.

The $74 billion defense increase is EVERY STINKING YEAR while the $49 billion is one time only.

The $74 billion defense increase will not have anything you can point to and say “this is what my money bought” while the $49 billion will buy you a thousand mile long wall and 12 million new jobs for legal citizens and there will be 12 million empty apartments and houses where the illegals had once lived. There will be cheaper rent for everybody still living in the USA.

And don't forget all those new American jobs openings the illegals graciously left behind for people like 6ixStringJack.

www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-defense-20180212-story.html

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That's a lot of waste of money on something that is just there for show, even if it is one time. It won't actually keep anybody out if there's no reason other than a stupid wall that is for show blocking them.

Take away any and all incentives for somebody to even want to be here illegally and they simply won't come, even if you had no wall and a 3,000 mile long red carpet rolled out along the border.

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The report from the Food Stamp program uses the figures 1% and 14.4%.
I am not aware of a better suited authority. Who might provide more accurate data?

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The report from the Food Stamp program uses the figures 1% and 14.4%.
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Do you have a link? I looked over a few pages for the word 'report' but didn't find anything.

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I just realized that some posters here were not born when that showy Berlin Wall existed. Just for show.

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Sadly, that's always been true of search engines. They tend to bubble up the most relevant answers of the moment. But when the moment passes, so too do the answers. Whether you find it or not, I do appreciate the look-see.

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I just realized that some posters here were not born when that showy Berlin Wall existed. Just for show.

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I'm assuming this was sarcasm.

I was in grade school when the Berlin Wall was torn down.

Big difference between the Berlin wall and some joke wall beteween us and Mexico there, friend.

We're not going to have a bunch of armed guards on either side shooting anybody trying to get across it. Maybe in your Conservitard wet dreams that would happen, but it NEVER would.


The wall would be strictly for show, and would be completely meaningless without mass deportations immediately following it, and hard core enforced laws making it impossible for anybody without a social security number to work or to get any benefits immediately afterward. Something else that is not going to happen.


The wall is a fucking joke.


I can only imagine somebody like drunk idiot me from 2016 thinking it was a good idea. I spent about 10 hours per week back then not drunk out of my skull or sleeping it off.

What's you're excuse now?

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I say that Trump should deport the illegals and build the wall. Then we would have tangible proof that it either does or does not make the USA better. It is the same kind of proof the USA got from building H-bombs. And at least we will be able to see the Texas/Mexico wall and see all the empty apartments where illegals had once lived and see what our $150 per citizen was spent upon.

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It is an experiment that is well worth running to prove a point. The USA has run similar expensive experiments in the past, spending trillions of dollars on H-bombs that cannot be used. That is trillions on wars that cannot be won, if you want to be technical.

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I say that Trump should deport the illegals and build the wall. Then we would have tangible proof that it either does or does not make the USA better. It is the same kind of proof the USA got from building H-bombs. And at least we will be able to see the Texas/Mexico wall and see all the empty apartments where illegals had once lived and see what our $150 per citizen was spent upon. When did you last see proof that all the $trillions were spent "usefully" on H-bombs? It has been decades since the last mushroom cloud. For all we know, the actual mightiness of the USA's nuclear arsenal is smaller than that of France's arsenal, but the USA's cost is a thousand times larger. The USA's nuclear arsenal costs more every year than the one time cost for deporting all illegals plus the price for the Texas/Mexico wall.

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When "immigrants' rights" activists get all hysterical about the wall, saying that it "won't work" and will make absolutely "no difference" to illegal immigration, two questions immediately come to mind:

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2) If it "won't work", why get so upset about it in the first place? Why fight something so hard that's irrelevant in the first place? And if they're so patriotically concerned about "waste", why not focus on things that are a lot more wasteful, like the F-35 or our endless wars in the .... well, everywhere?
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My first problem with The Wall is the idea is Trump's.

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"If 1% are legitimately needy and over 14% are participating" cite?

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Here is a linky to the Food Stamp data, recipients and expenditures. Apparently Libtards have been feverishly denying any and all numbers in this report, since it reflects badly upon Obama.

https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary.pdf

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Obama got a late start in 2009, but kicked off 2017 with plenty of waste. From the years of Obamanomics 2009-2017, adding up all the participants comes to 391,601,000 participant-years. Accounting for 34% of the entire lifetime of the freeloading program.

The grand total of Food Stamp participants before Obama was only 749,396,000 from 1969-2008 (40 years).

The 16 years prior to Obamanomics (1993-2008) totalled 380,853,000.

The first 34 years of Food Stamps (1969-1992) summed to 368,543,000.

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It is an experiment that is well worth running to prove a point. The USA has run similar expensive experiments in the past, spending trillions of dollars on H-bombs that cannot be used. That is trillions on wars that cannot be won, if you want to be technical.

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Our nuclear arsenal needed to be created since Russia would be the only government with one at the time if we hadn't done it. I imagine the world would be a much different place in that alternate universe, and the globes there would be unrecognizable to us here.

There's a difference between passively and actively making use of something. To say that the money spent on the arsenal was a complete waste is overlooking the potential passive power those nukes represented. This wasn't money spent on wars that could be won. It was money spent in hopes of ensuring these wars never begin in the first place.

Granted, things get a little fuzzy when you throw brainwashed ideologues with no sense of self preservation into the mix.

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This is true, kind of. Having at least two super powers with these arsenals pretty much ensures that they won't ever actually be used for fear of mutually ensured destruction.

It stands to reason that there are going to be a lot of small countries and third world shitholes that benefit from this without having had to invest in the tech.

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I say that Trump should deport the illegals and build the wall. Then we would have tangible proof that it either does or does not make the USA better. It is the same kind of proof the USA got from building H-bombs. And at least we will be able to see the Texas/Mexico wall and see all the empty apartments where illegals had once lived and see what our $150 per citizen was spent upon. When did you last see proof that all the $trillions were spent "usefully" on H-bombs? It has been decades since the last mushroom cloud. For all we know, the actual mightiness of the USA's nuclear arsenal is smaller than that of France's arsenal, but the USA's cost is a thousand times larger. The USA's nuclear arsenal costs more every year than the one time cost for deporting all illegals plus the price for the Texas/Mexico wall.

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The fact that it has been decades since the last mushroom cloud, coupled with the fact that we're not all saying the Russian Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school is proof enough that the money was well spent.

What you're suggesting here is just throwing massive amounts of money away on something that won't work, and I suspect by your attitude about it that you believe it will fail as much as I do and you want a Republican President to be the one to waste all of that money that could be much better spent fixing our infrastructure or stimulating our economy in some other meaningful way.


Because of the tech available to us today, there is no reason for a physical barrier. Tweak a few existing laws and enforce the laws we already have today and the issue becomes moot.

This is strictly an ROI issue. Nobody is going to want to come here illegally if we don't give them any beneficial reasons to do so.

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Trump had casually blabbed about intelligence from overseas allies on two occasions last year. The most important one was when he regaled the Russian ambassador about the intel that led to an alert concerning a potential laptop bomb being smuggled onto an airline. A reader writes to tell me that as bad as this episode was, it was actually far worse:

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/05/has-israel-stopped-sharing-inte
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The US obtained this intelligence from Israel. What is now known to the general public is that Israel had succeeded in placing a listening device in an ISIS safe house deep in Syria, at great risk, and was listening in on everything ISIS was planning from that location. Trump revealed this intelligence to Kislyak and Lavarov during that infamous Oval Office meeting in which he also bragged about firing James Comey the day before. His revelation essentially blew the intelligence operation; the listening device the Israelis had placed went dead shortly after.

A few weeks ago I heard Ronen Bergman speak to a group of about 50 people, mostly Israelis. He is Israel’s leading national security journalist, and recently published an incredible book called Rise and Kill First, a history of the Israeli security services. He wouldn’t get into details about what Trump told the Russians during that Oval Office meeting, but he said it was “much worse” than what is “publicly” known, and that Trump essentially revealed the “crown jewels” of Israeli intelligence operational methods in Syria. He said the Israeli intelligence community is absolutely livid; has come to the conclusion that the administration is “chaotic” and absolutely cannot be trusted with any sensitive information; and will not reveal to the Americans any information unless it doesn’t care whether such information is publicly known. He said this is an absolute sea change from all past administrations both Republican and Democratic. Before this, Israel has always shared without hesitation intelligence information with the US that it doesn’t share with any other country.

When my right-wing Republican Jewish Coalition friends tell me how great Trump is for Israel, it absolutely makes my blood boil, because it’s so demonstrably untrue.

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Are you still ill? Get well soon.
You posting facts and reason is a bit unsettling.

Of course it was widespread concern that Trump had no muzzle and no clue about National Security. But at least he didn't pull a Hilliary and commit Treason by revealing National Security Secrets on Prime Time nationwide broadcast TV during their Debate.
To be very clear, I am glad Israel is no longer sharing Intelligence with us, at least until we get a decent White House resident. I hope they get all they can from us on the fronts of political, economic, military, etc.

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It is an experiment that is well worth running to prove a point. The USA has run similar expensive experiments in the past, spending trillions of dollars on H-bombs that cannot be used. That is trillions on wars that cannot be won, if you want to be technical.

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Our nuclear arsenal needed to be created since Russia would be the only government with one at the time if we hadn't done it. I imagine the world would be a much different place in that alternate universe, and the globes there would be unrecognizable to us here.

There's a difference between passively and actively making use of something. To say that the money spent on the arsenal was a complete waste is overlooking the potential passive power those nukes represented. This wasn't money spent on wars that could be won. It was money spent in hopes of ensuring these wars never begin in the first place.

Granted, things get a little fuzzy when you throw brainwashed ideologues with no sense of self preservation into the mix.

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This is true, kind of. Having at least two super powers with these arsenals pretty much ensures that they won't ever actually be used for fear of mutually ensured destruction.

It stands to reason that there are going to be a lot of small countries and third world shitholes that benefit from this without having had to invest in the tech. . . .

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6ixStringJack, I am still waiting for you to acknowledge that the USA did not need to build 50,000 nukes costing $trillions (I am ignoring that the $trillions are in some wealthy person's portfolio; he doesn't see it as wasted). The USA could have stopped after building only hundreds.

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Sure. I'll acknowledge this. I've never been a warhawk, I don't trust our government at all, and I'm always bashing them for inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars. This fits all three.

That's not your original argument though. You're moving the goalposts again.

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Where the fuck did you get the idea you can believable claim to be no warhawk and still voted for Trump?

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Where the fuck did you get the idea you can believable claim to be no warhawk and still voted for Trump?

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LOL. Hillary was actively trying to ram her 16" black strap-on cock up Putin's ass on live TV.

I didn't have any problems with the Russians at that time, and I still don't.

Muslims, however, have been a problem and continue to be one.

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How widespread is this promiscuous devotion to the untrue? How many Americans now inhabit alternate realities? Any given survey of beliefs is only a sketch of what people in general really think. But reams of survey research from the past 20 years reveal a rough, useful census of American credulity and delusion. By my reckoning, the solidly reality-based are a minority, maybe a third of us but almost certainly fewer than half. Only a third of us, for instance, don’t believe that the tale of creation in Genesis is the word of God. Only a third strongly disbelieve in telepathy and ghosts. Two-thirds of Americans believe that “angels and demons are active in the world.” More than half say they’re absolutely certain heaven exists, and just as many are sure of the existence of a personal God—not a vague force or universal spirit or higher power, but some guy. A third of us believe not only that global warming is no big deal but that it’s a hoax perpetrated by scientists, the government, and journalists. A third believe that our earliest ancestors were humans just like us; that the government has, in league with the pharmaceutical industry, hidden evidence of natural cancer cures; that extraterrestrials have visited or are visiting Earth. Almost a quarter believe that vaccines cause autism, and that Donald Trump won the popular vote in 2016. A quarter believe that our previous president maybe or definitely was (or is?) the anti-Christ. According to a survey by Public Policy Polling, 15 percent believe that the “media or the government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals,” and another 15 percent think that’s possible. A quarter of Americans believe in witches. Remarkably, the same fraction, or maybe less, believes that the Bible consists mainly of legends and fables—the same proportion that believes U.S. officials were complicit in the 9/11 attacks.

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LOL. Hillary was actively trying to ram her 16" black strap-on cock up Putin's ass on live TV.

I didn't have any problems with the Russians at that time, and I still don't.

Muslims, however, have been a problem and continue to be one.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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There are many Americans, like 6ix, who express themselves in the same way about Hillary and Muslims. Trump is one. Trump is hopeless, but it has never been worth my effort to convince Trump voters, and 6ix was one, that they live in an alternate reality. In my opinion anybody is nuts who believed Trump. That holds true even if they eventually turn against him because he beat the truth about himself into their head with too many repetitions of "No Collusion" and "Believe Me". There is a nice little article about the deranged everyday-in-every-way thinking of the majority: How America Lost Its Mind.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind
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How widespread is this promiscuous devotion to the untrue? How many Americans now inhabit alternate realities? Any given survey of beliefs is only a sketch of what people in general really think. But reams of survey research from the past 20 years reveal a rough, useful census of American credulity and delusion. By my reckoning, the solidly reality-based are a minority, maybe a third of us but almost certainly fewer than half. Only a third of us, for instance, don’t believe that the tale of creation in Genesis is the word of God. Only a third strongly disbelieve in telepathy and ghosts. Two-thirds of Americans believe that “angels and demons are active in the world.” More than half say they’re absolutely certain heaven exists, and just as many are sure of the existence of a personal God—not a vague force or universal spirit or higher power, but some guy. A third of us believe not only that global warming is no big deal but that it’s a hoax perpetrated by scientists, the government, and journalists. A third believe that our earliest ancestors were humans just like us; that the government has, in league with the pharmaceutical industry, hidden evidence of natural cancer cures; that extraterrestrials have visited or are visiting Earth. Almost a quarter believe that vaccines cause autism, and that Donald Trump won the popular vote in 2016. A quarter believe that our previous president maybe or definitely was (or is?) the anti-Christ. According to a survey by Public Policy Polling, 15 percent believe that the “media or the government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals,” and another 15 percent think that’s possible. A quarter of Americans believe in witches. Remarkably, the same fraction, or maybe less, believes that the Bible consists mainly of legends and fables—the same proportion that believes U.S. officials were complicit in the 9/11 attacks.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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There are many Americans, like 6ix, who express themselves in the same way about Hillary and Muslims. Trump is one. Trump is hopeless, but it has never been worth my effort to convince Trump voters, and 6ix was one, that they live in an alternate reality. In my opinion anybody is nuts who believed Trump. That holds true even if they eventually turn against him because he beat the truth about himself into their head with too many repetitions of "No Collusion" and "Believe Me". There is a nice little article about the deranged everyday-in-every-way thinking of the majority: How America Lost Its Mind.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind
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How widespread is this promiscuous devotion to the untrue? How many Americans now inhabit alternate realities? Any given survey of beliefs is only a sketch of what people in general really think. But reams of survey research from the past 20 years reveal a rough, useful census of American credulity and delusion. By my reckoning, the solidly reality-based are a minority, maybe a third of us but almost certainly fewer than half. Only a third of us, for instance, don’t believe that the tale of creation in Genesis is the word of God. Only a third strongly disbelieve in telepathy and ghosts. Two-thirds of Americans believe that “angels and demons are active in the world.” More than half say they’re absolutely certain heaven exists, and just as many are sure of the existence of a personal God—not a vague force or universal spirit or higher power, but some guy. A third of us believe not only that global warming is no big deal but that it’s a hoax perpetrated by scientists, the government, and journalists. A third believe that our earliest ancestors were humans just like us; that the government has, in league with the pharmaceutical industry, hidden evidence of natural cancer cures; that extraterrestrials have visited or are visiting Earth. Almost a quarter believe that vaccines cause autism, and that Donald Trump won the popular vote in 2016. A quarter believe that our previous president maybe or definitely was (or is?) the anti-Christ. According to a survey by Public Policy Polling, 15 percent believe that the “media or the government adds secret mind-controlling technology to television broadcast signals,” and another 15 percent think that’s possible. A quarter of Americans believe in witches. Remarkably, the same fraction, or maybe less, believes that the Bible consists mainly of legends and fables—the same proportion that believes U.S. officials were complicit in the 9/11 attacks.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Are you still ill? Get well soon.
You posting facts and reason is a bit unsettling.

Of course it was widespread concern that Trump had no muzzle and no clue about National Security. But at least he didn't pull a Hilliary and commit Treason by revealing National Security Secrets on Prime Time nationwide broadcast TV during their Debate.
To be very clear, I am glad Israel is no longer sharing Intelligence with us, at least until we get a decent White House resident. I hope they get all they can from us on the fronts of political, economic, military, etc.

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JewelStaiteFan, since when did you decide Trump is indecent?

What did Trump do to change your mind?

I can't find any Texas Republican voters that share your low opinion of Trump.

JewelStaiteFan, could you expand upon your comment "Hilliary commits Treason by revealing National Security Secrets on Prime Time nationwide broadcast TV during their Debate"? Because all I can find is that is false. It is an untruth. A fake report: www.snopes.com/fact-check/homeland-security-indicts-hillary/

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This puts me solidly in the category of the reality-based.

And yet, I voted against Hillary.

And watching the Deep State go to work against the result of the democratic vote, I was right. Anyone who is with them, as Hilliary was, is not for us.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

And you live in the alternate reality where you can immediately judge whether a person is Good or Evil simply by if they are Democrat or Republican.

Simple lives for simple minds.

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I'm an anti-democracy Deep State troll.

Plus I live in a fantasy-world where my side is always good, and everyone who disagrees with me must be a foreign agent. And aside from that, I have OCD. Let's not forget the OCD.

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Nancy Pelosi says threatens she will run for speaker if Democrats win the House

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

And you live in the alternate reality where you can immediately judge whether a person is Good or Evil simply by if they are Democrat or Republican.

Simple lives for simple minds.

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I have to admit that not all Republicans are prima facie crazy. The rich Republicans certainly know what they are doing. The poor who voted for Trump? Not so much.

But what is going on with you? Does the delicate little snowflake 6ixStringJack melt when his core beliefs are rejected with contempt? Too bad for the unworkable delusions haunting your brain. Here is another delusion being backed by Republicans:

The rationale behind super-majority laws
https://qz.com/1245033

Supermajority bills were heralded as ways to ultimately improve economic growth, and force lawmakers to spend money more wisely. The idea is often buttressed by some variation of the “trickle down” theory of economics—cutting taxes encourages businesses to invest and hire more, and people with disposable income to spend more.

The economic reality

Making it harder to raise taxes hasn’t necessarily resulted in the economic growth or wiser spending that it was supposed to, however. While states that passed supermajority tax laws spent about 2% less on general state funding, that was offset by local spending (ie. from villages, cities, and counties), an Urban Institute report found (pdf, pg. 64).

There’s a broader lesson about “trickle down” economics that the US seems to be learning again and again, since the phrase was first coined to mock president Herbert Hoover’s depression-era tax plan. “We’ve got a good base of evidence from tax cutting in the states that shows tax cuts are not a recipe for economic growth,” said Johnson. “They just lead to reductions in services that people need.”

The Result:

On May 3, teachers in Arizona ended a six-day walkout after the state government agreed to a 20% salary raise over the next three years. While it sounds like a lot, it’s much less than what teachers were originally asking: Overall, Arizona’s school funding is still below the levels of the 2008 recession, later raises are not guaranteed, and they’re being financed by cash set aside to clean up pollution.

Striking teachers believe they may be the forefront of a new grassroots movement in the US, one that makes voters reconsider taxing companies and the wealthy.

Some teachers who were on strike have adopted a new chant as they come off: “Vote them out.” They intend to go to the polls in huge numbers in the mid-term election, and vote against candidate running on platforms of tax cuts and caps.

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God Bless America Lyrics

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And you live in the alternate reality where you can immediately judge whether a person is Good or Evil simply by if they are Democrat or Republican.

Simple lives for simple minds.

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I have to admit that not all Republicans are prima facie crazy. The rich Republicans certainly know what they are doing. The poor who voted for Trump? Not so much.

But what is going on with you? Does the delicate little snowflake 6ixStringJack melt when his core beliefs are rejected with contempt? Too bad for the unworkable delusions haunting your brain. Here is another delusion being backed by Republicans:

The rationale behind super-majority laws
https://qz.com/1245033

Supermajority bills were heralded as ways to ultimately improve economic growth, and force lawmakers to spend money more wisely. The idea is often buttressed by some variation of the “trickle down” theory of economics—cutting taxes encourages businesses to invest and hire more, and people with disposable income to spend more.

The economic reality

Making it harder to raise taxes hasn’t necessarily resulted in the economic growth or wiser spending that it was supposed to, however. While states that passed supermajority tax laws spent about 2% less on general state funding, that was offset by local spending (ie. from villages, cities, and counties), an Urban Institute report found (pdf, pg. 64).

There’s a broader lesson about “trickle down” economics that the US seems to be learning again and again, since the phrase was first coined to mock president Herbert Hoover’s depression-era tax plan. “We’ve got a good base of evidence from tax cutting in the states that shows tax cuts are not a recipe for economic growth,” said Johnson. “They just lead to reductions in services that people need.”

The Result:

On May 3, teachers in Arizona ended a six-day walkout after the state government agreed to a 20% salary raise over the next three years. While it sounds like a lot, it’s much less than what teachers were originally asking: Overall, Arizona’s school funding is still below the levels of the 2008 recession, later raises are not guaranteed, and they’re being financed by cash set aside to clean up pollution.

Striking teachers believe they may be the forefront of a new grassroots movement in the US, one that makes voters reconsider taxing companies and the wealthy.

Some teachers who were on strike have adopted a new chant as they come off: “Vote them out.” They intend to go to the polls in huge numbers in the mid-term election, and vote against candidate running on platforms of tax cuts and caps.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Democracy seems better than autocracy (i.e., kings and dictators), but it still has problems. There are today vast differences in wealth among nations, and we can not attribute most of these differences to either natural resources or human abilities. Instead, much of the difference seems to be that the poor nations (many of which are democracies) are those that more often adopted dumb policies, policies which hurt most everyone in the nation. And even rich nations frequently adopt such policies.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Hey Sigs....

This is getting too funny.

I've been mislabled as a snowflake by the right and left fringes now, twice in one week.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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