US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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mlanguishi said:
This ticks me off, one of the few things that US science does well probably going to go and it's still only a blip in the budget. Musk better come out saying he'll make up for this somehow.
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NASA shouldn't have overcharged the taxpayer for their previous space telescope and spent tons of research money on climate conspiracy theories and DEI if they wanted to keep their budget.

That agency needs a massive purge before it can become a useful scientific research department again.
 
Look--an Alien! said:
Farmers, ranchers, agrarian people generally like daylight savings time. I am one of them, and I hate it. Nothing stupider than getting up to feed animals at 6, just to have total darkness because of a government time stamp.

Just my view on it, anyway.
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Animals don't care what the clock says, they just know they get fed at a certain time. Then they get grumpy if you feed them "an hour later" because the clock changed again. I hate the clock changing.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
We all skipped over this but this really fucks us over if the Fed doesn't drop the rates. A major part of the plan is to refinance the Biden loans that are coming due this year so the interest doesn't kill our economy, if these assholes don't drop the rates we can't do that.
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I am increasingly suspecting that if the bankers and financiers that were profiting from the hollowing out of the US can't have their slow, managed decline, they will deliberately take measures to crash the economy with no survivors to punish the plebs for getting uppity.
 
Fuck Bankers said:
If we had real growth that would not be true. However, all 'our' growth happened in China. That's why trade imbalances aren't good.
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And that didn't happen overnight. The spiral has been ongoing for like 30 years. Why are people still under the illusion that there's a magical painless fix for this? There's no unicorn with a magic wand coming to save us. Any real fix is going to suck, bad, probably for years. It must be done though.
 
CEO of Gay said:
I am increasingly suspecting that if the bankers and financiers that were profiting from the hollowing out of the US can't have their slow, managed decline, they will deliberately take measures to crash the economy with no survivors to punish the plebs for getting uppity.
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They’ll try to. Luckily that would offend the administration at this time
 
Leavitt seems a little jumpy today, very clearly and obviously reading off a script. Wonder what's up.
Amelia Troonheart said:
There are connections between statins and cognitive decline and I've personally known two different people who had symptoms of cognitive decline who, after stopping their statins, saw a complete reversal in the symptoms.
They'll say that it's only water soluble statins that can get past the brain barrier into the brain but a variety of factors can cause impaired brain barrier function and may result in other ones getting past too. They see impaired barriers in shit like alzheimers and MS for example.
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glowdoc had that happen to his dad
 
GamerGateSurvivor said:
Why the fuck do we even keep these time shifts anyway? Everyone who has to get up in the morning hates them.
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there's two reasons

1) most states include in their laws on the subject that eliminating time change can only happen in coordination with other states in the same time zone and they're too retarded to coordinate this. this is why even when a state votes to get rid of it you are still doing it

2) people are fighting over which way, keep real time all year or keep fake and gay time all year
 
“This is an extinction-level event for NASA science,” said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy for the Planetary Society, a space advocacy group. “It needlessly terminates functional, productive science missions and cancels new missions currently being built, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars in the process. This is neither efficient nor smart budgeting.”
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"I can't do any science at all with a mere $3.9 billion" is why people hate these pencil-necked fucks.
 
Fuck Bankers said:
Historically this isn't true. Americans didn't start thinking about extreme individualism (not believing they belong to a group at all) until after WWII. In the countryside, most people were still mostly anglos until fairly recently. Their identities were focused on protestant Christianity. Episcopal vs Lutheran vs Baptist vs Methodist vs Evangelical all vs Catholics. If you were from the South you had your racial identity vs Blacks as well. For most of American history most of America thought of themselves as "Americans" meaning White Protestant.
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bullshit

this is the worst kind of revisionism and you have no relationships with the older members of your family and never read any books if you believe this

all of those identities were happily discarded for chasing the almighty dollar. people swapped churches to make money. they passed for white to make money. they left their marriages and went west to make money.

that's who we are as a people and it's why our leader anointed by God is Donald Trump
 
mold said:
bullshit

this is the worst kind of revisionism and you have no relationships with the older members of your family and never read any books if you believe this

all of those identities were happily discarded for chasing the almighty dollar. people swapped churches to make money. they passed for white to make money. they left their marriages and went west to make money.

that's who we are as a people and it's why our leader anointed by God is Donald Trump
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Read this post. Just because our coastal elite suck doesn't mean everyone agrees with them.
 
Amelia Troonheart said:
They're the most profitable drug in history and they keep lowering the threshold to prescribe them, that should be your first red flag.

The guidelines have gone from under 300 total cholesterol to under 200 to pushing even lower including pushing for under 70 ldl being ideal. they have no idea what they're doing except looking to the dollar signs.
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I was prescribed statins when I was about 28. I'm not overweight and my diet isn't liquid cholesterol, but the doctor told me that about 75% of all cholesterol production is unrelated to dietary cholesterol. AKA some people just have naturally higher cholesterol and changing their diet will not affect it much unless they are borderline.

Interesting, especially when you see deathfats with high cholesterol from terrible dietary choices. Naturally high cholesterol is probably no worse for you than naturally high white blood cell count, until it starts compounding with other things like high blood pressure, lack of exercise, poor diet, and smoking.

I've also seen side effects of rhabdomyolysis with high statin doses, which could easily make deep muscle pain that requires painkillers to treat. It's all a racket, and I am no longer on statins.
 
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