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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SaidNoOneEver said:
I forgot where I read it but the final week of an average senior's life costs the taxpayer more than the total tax contribution that senior made during their entire life. That's just the final week of life and doesn't count all the SS/Medicare benefits that person collected in the years/decades after retiring, Think about what it costs to keep a dying person alive for a few more days in ICU and it's plausible (or at least too good of a stat to check).
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It was a canadian study, in relation to total cost of healthcare.

If the last year of life is 80%+ of the cost to the system in an individual life, then killing old people is an incredible cost saving trick. It's incredibly callous , but it would work.

I've also seen the inverse a lot (well known example being Jimmy Carter) where the family insist that everything must be tried even if it's completely hopeless and keep the person in painful agony for extra weeks or months rather than letting them go.
 
mlanguishi said:
I've seen this reaction a lot, to destroy the contractors doing it to 'their house' lol. I wish they'd lay in front of the bulldozers like Arthur Dent but they'd not stop for them.
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I'm always shocked at how many libtards believe The Government is somehow independent of the President. No, the President does not require a federal permit to renovate federal buildings, because the permitting agency answers to him.

Fishmalk Observer said:
If the last year of life is 80%+ of the cost to the system in an individual life, then killing old people is an incredible cost saving trick. It's incredibly callous , but it would work.
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We could just not have all these silly, comically expensive end-of-life treatments. No need to resort to euthanasia.
 
mlanguishi said:
Good ol' James Woods still going strong.
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I recommend John Carpenters Vampires if anyone's looking for a spooky movie for October, it has James Woods as the lead.
On the whole EBT thing I went to the Grocery store yesterday and saw the person in front of me get their SNAP denied, yes they were black and no I didnt get to see a chimp out. They did however pay in cash and their niglet they had was actually polite but point is I'm already starting to see EBT get denied this early. Stay safe out there
 
Blewberry Nausea said:
There’s confusion between SNAP and TANF. One is for food, the other is for essentials beyond food for families with children. You get more TANF aid if you have more kids.
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You get more food stamps too though. Every American welfare program is pretty much based on how many mouths you have to feed, which is fucking RETARDED.
The American government just decided to give poor people an ultimatum: keep breeding or get a job. There are so many niggers that have siblings that are less than a year apart, I've even seen some with siblings that are 20 years apart from them. I was talking to this halfy at the doctor's office the other day and her mom had her when she was 49.
They pump as many kids out as they can for benefits and then have more when they age out. If you time it right and have a couple before menopause you can literally grow up your entire life on welfare, do nothing but have kids and collect welfare, and then collect social security because you turned 65 before your last kid turned 18. An ENTIRE EXISTENCE without doing anything.
And let's be honest here it's not just niggers, but niggers are the most common and unapologetic offenders. They literally look at being a sponge from the day they're born till the day they die as some kind of win, of "getting back at the white man" or something.
And it's not like their kids grow up to be any better. A coon has 8 welfare babies, and realistically five of them will be welfare queens and have 8 welfare babies, and so on and so on.
If you're on welfare they should make you get your tubes tied after three kids, or they should just cap you at three kids. This perpetual welfare and incentivization of shitting out useless tar babies who will grow up to follow in your monkey paw is fucking ridiculous.
 
The Ugly One said:
We could just not have all these silly, comically expensive end-of-life treatments. No need to resort to euthanasia.
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Dying is really messy and painful. The reason this is so expensive is because it requires so many people in supportive care roles. If it was as simple as giving old people painkillers and waiting, it would be cheap.
 
Mister Fister said:
so how does starting TND fit in the plan?
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Death is death to those in charge.
The news will report how terrible it is, and how we should all be afraid and/or ashamed. Trump will be blamed for it all.

Roving gangs can burn things that TPTB want demolished at a fraction of the cost of a construction crew, and they might get lots of good video clips out of it for future propaganda.

Anyone being encouraged to protest/fight is being told out loud that they are disposable, but the trash won't see it that way.
Remember Antifa/BLM straight up asking for "black bodies" to show up? Not people. Bodies.

Even Jesus said the poor will be with you always. World leaders knew it already.
 
mandatorylurk said:
This is the democrats, they are going to let him die just before the midterms in order to get some retarded sympathy vote in a vain attempt to balance Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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No, they need to keep him alive for midterms, so they can show him casting his deathbed "blue no matter who" vote, like they did with Carter.

Nice Stick said:
Old people should look into getting a No Extraordinary Measures or Do Not Resuscitate order. This prevents health care ghouls from torturing you before you die for extra profit.
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I used to know a woman in her seventies who had DNR stickers ALL! OVER! her house AND her vehicle (and of course on her person). All over the front door where EMTs might have to enter, all over her kitchen where she might drop dead, all over her bedroom, both bumpers, windows, she REALLY Did Not want to be Resuscitated.
 
invisibult plus+ said:
>you pay for the Capitol
>can’t walk through the Capitol without it being an insurreKKKtion
>Trump pays for his own renovations
>that’s wrong because it’s “our” house
It really wrinkles my sprinkles. Almost like they think they’re the only ones who should have anything to do with “sacred” institutions or something.
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Everything they do is correct everything we do is wrong. It really is that simple.

I've been wondering lately if this kind of constant mental contorting is what causes the sky high mental disorder rates on the left. Or maybe it's the other way around? Probably a bit of a chicken/egg situation.
 
invisibult plus+ said:
>you pay for the Capitol
>can’t walk through the Capitol without it being an insurreKKKtion
>Trump pays for his own renovations
>that’s wrong because it’s “our” house
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“An SDS radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” In other words the cause - whether inner city blacks or women - is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.”

-- David Horowitz, Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model
 
Netizennameless said:
L7 is not mid-level.
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Didn't say it was. That's a principal. The mid-level (L5 & L6) SDEII & SDEIII make $300K-$400K/yr.

Netizennameless said:
The vast majority of "compensation" is RSUs that take 4 years to vest.
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No, the majority is still cash, probably around 1/3 in stock. And since it's AMZN stock and not fake startup equity, you can actually sell it for money.

Besides, the bubble salaries have just moved to AI, where they are often even more insane.
 
Lmfaoooo
President Trump to Senator Lindsey Graham: "This is supposed to be sort of a private event. But there is no such thing in politics as a private event. Lindsey, you learned that a long time ago, right?"
 
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
I once tried to get SNAP when I didn't have a job and they denied me. That's how I know I'm white.
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Conan himself has all but confirmed you a spot in the council of racist whites. The signs were always there, Johnny!

Speaking of racism!

Mister Fister said:
so how does starting TND fit in the plan?
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I like to think I have a good grasp on pattern recognition, and probable signs point to TND being an unprompted and unplanned consequence of their natural behaviors. Aaron McGruder had his finger on the pulse of the problem two decades ago, when he called that the slow, waning sympathy for the melanin blessed would lead to complete apathy and fatigue.

When you take into account factors like repeat violent offenders being allowed to walk free because of an unfair justice system, the repeat victims of this violence not getting actual justice, the violence being showcased on a wider scale (some of this ironically because of measures put into place to expose police as violent murderers,) and a pendulum swinging back in favor of a reactionary return to focus on the wellbeing of the citizens of America, you get a picture that does not look pretty.

If that one 4chan post about what happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is anything to go by, assuming it was real, it's not only possible, but has already happened already in some places.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
Dying is really messy and painful. The reason this is so expensive is because it requires so many people in supportive care roles. If it was as simple as giving old people painkillers and waiting, it would be cheap.
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I mean with inoperable cancer, I have had family members as well as friends do the "painkillers/fuck it" route. I mean they have to be hospitalized and put into a coma until they die at the very end, which is what they do anyway after you've gone through the expensive radiation chemotherapy route to squeeze out a couple of extra horrible months of pain. Pain which is mainly caused from the chemotherapy and radiation, even though your cancer is terminal.
My Grandma had terminal cancer, and I remember she just came and stayed with us. She didn't even quit smoking, she just did the painkillers and waited to die. She heard that the median survival time with treatment for stage 4 small cell lung cancer is a year to a year and a half. Without treatment it's 6 months. I looked that up to check my work and yeah it's about a 1-1.5 years with treatment vs 6-12 months without.
But you have to look at the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation and weigh whether or not you want to cling to an extra few months or a year or two. I know that sounds easy but you also have to take into account the QUALITY of that life. I'd rather count down the clock living like a normal person popping morphine like they're tic tacs and crossing things off my bucket list then laying in a hospital bed looking like a hairless mummy who is in constant agony from vomiting and the chemo shits.
We weren't made to desperately claw for any little scrap of life we can. When it's our time to go sometimes we just have to go with dignity. It's less of a burden on yourself and it's less of a burden on the healthcare system.
 
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