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Should be a wild four years.

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I can confirm that foreign students basically prop up our entire University system. They pay the full sticker price, which is also why they also get the special privileges of not needing to attend class and learn things to graduate. Economically, Universities hate American students and only end up enrolling them because that's a requirement to get state research funds.
Trump sees this and thinks that stopping Universities from enrolling foreign students like the Chinese or Indians would make them all double their tuition, cut their staff, or cut enrollment to get into the black.
Maybe he also views it as a trade negotiation tool he hasn't leveraged yet? Or it was part of his deal with China that he'd keep them. There's also the likelihood that it's the single greatest recruitment center by the CIA for double agents, and it's just worth from a military standpoint so that we can maintain embedded assets in China.
 
Musings on the 50 year mortgage, 20 year car loan and the college thing, I think Trump is trying to keep things running and doesn't, or can't, see how rotten the whole thing is. And can't conceive or doesn't want to be the one to, needing to let things fail so a new, and hopefully better, system can be build from the ashes.
 
so the weed thing is still in?
ngl I think this could really have some knock-down effects (and not just "I have trouble getting weed" I can get medical easy enough)
these businesses aren't running on pixy dust and USAID money. They are making money from a lot of customers and they're hiring people and paying their business taxes with that money.
one of my main shops props up a carpentry place by leasing out part of the building, so when they go the carpenter's probably SOL too

it would be one thing if they pulled this as an actual bill, but shitting it in as a rider as the CLEAN SPENDING BILL on Veterans Day is some real bullshit when so much was made of "no changes, just extending"
NBC is already running with it being the Republicans fault the government is still shut down. Can't believe the GOP is such retards.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna243075
 
Musings on the 50 year mortgage, 20 year car loan and the college thing, I think Trump is trying to keep things running and doesn't, or can't, see how rotten the whole thing is. And can't conceive or doesn't want to be the one to, needing to let things fail so a new, and hopefully better, system can be build from the ashes.
Someone earlier nailed it when they said Trump thinks America is just one big business. I think that sums up the disconnect.
 
NBC is already running with it being the Republicans fault the government is still shut down. Can't believe the GOP is such retards.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna243075
I'll be fair, I really don't think "weed literally every fucking where" was the intention of the old farm bill and I am more than willing to accept it as a loophole to fix, but ffs don't jam it in
"oh btw injured veterans remember how you were able to skip the bullshit weed card fees? lolno happy veterans day" will bite the GOPin the ass as much as the thousands of small business owners, employees and customers getting a rug pull
especially when the the entire fucking argument was "debate changes later, clean bill now"
 
That's what makes me laugh about people saying that AOC could be ran as the next Democratic nominee for president in 2028. Even the DNC isn't that incompetent. Kamala went a shade too far to the left, and got the ass spanking of a lifetime by Trump. You put AOC in one presidential debate especially against JD Vance, and everyone in America who doesn't live in Chicago, New York, California and Massachusetts will say out loud "Oh my goodness, this bitch is a fucking retard" and Vance will sweep every swing state.

The candidate doesn't matter that much, and Kamala came closer than you gave her credit for. What matters is the current political temperature in the country and people's anxieties, how angry or excited they are. Kamala didn't make anyone excited to vote for her, but what really screwed her over was the Biden administration going hard-retard for four straight years. Mayorkas and Garland are probably more responsible than anyone for Kamala losing. Mayorkas went balls-to-the-wall for open borders, and Garland turned the DOJ into a partisan retribution operation. This made Republican voters furious and got them to turn out in large numbers for Trump. Oh, and the double-digit inflation driven by trillion-dollar deficits didn't help, either. If Biden's handlers had simply kept his administration low-key, we'd be looking at President Harris right now.
 
Republicans knew the only option would be to nuke the filibuster to get it done eventually, and by doing so exposing they hate the idea of compromise.
If that was 'the only option' then how did the Republicans successfully wait out the Democrats attempted expansion/extension of ACA and other benefits? The Republicans aren't unopen to compromise, they love losing with dignity. But when you have a budget of 3 trillion and your opponent asks for 1.75 trillion more what the hell kind of compromise are you asking for.

That's not a compromise, that's telling your opponent to roll over and die. The proposals made by the Democrats we're not some middle ground. These were blatantly unreasonable demands that they knew would force a shutdown. Tell me in your opinion, not based on other's, how is it reasonable to backtrack on an agreed upon budget 10 months later and ask for almost a 60% increase.
I'm basing this off what people say as a result of the Midterms where Dems swept over this shutdown.
So you're basing your opinion on what others are telling you and not on your own opinions, got it. Also what midterms? These are off year elections, in Democrat strongholds for local office. The Democrats were retarded in thinking this would help them 'win' in these cases. Some of the elections didn't even have Republican candidates so it was D vs. D or D vs. independent. They maybe secured better margins but it was always going to be 60/40 in their favor. Holding the national voting base hostage to win small local elections was a terrible decision that backfired on them. They won elections they were already almost guaranteed to win but lost all of their negotiating terms while, on camera, stating that they viewed SNAP as nothing but leverage.

Come on, tell me what you really think about all this. What's your investment in maintaining the ACA subsidies and expanding them? What do you think the Republicans should have caved too and what would have been a reasonable compromise? And don't quote others or cite anything. I'm only interested in what your best solution is.
 
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You gotta admit he does have a point.

I don't agree with the Syria sperging. Like it or not, unsavory people hold the Middle East together. Democracy just doesn't work well for the region unless you have someone with an iron fist, even though you may not like the fist. You can't topple a nation and expect a 'good' person to fill it unless you are doing it yourself. The Arab Spring was a clusterfuck and to this day Libya is still dealing with violent infighting for control.

You either deal with someone strong to hold it all together or go full imperialist and put Syria under US control; something no one will put up with.

That being said, he could do with less love bombing on Truth social about him.
I remember when Assad was the Bad Guy™️ and those against him were the Good Guys™️.

That didn't last long.
 
The thing I dont understand though is that there is absolutely zero reason for private insurance to not jack prices/premiums and even copays up.
The reason is that someone will undercut you. Without regulations requiring millions of dollars in certification and capital it would be trivially easy to set up an insurance company and because everyone would need insurance the amount of money to be made would be immense unless a pandemic erupts seconds later. On paper a new insurance company needs zero dollars of initial funding but the government requires millions even if you only want to cover a single small town. You also need a certification given out by an NGO that's run by your soon to be competition.

The american healthcare system has been set up by (((vested interests))) in such a way that no competition could ever enter the market. They also eroded alternatives like mutual help societies.
 
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The candidate doesn't matter that much, and Kamala came closer than you gave her credit for. What matters is the current political temperature in the country and people's anxieties, how angry or excited they are. Kamala didn't make anyone excited to vote for her, but what really screwed her over was the Biden administration going hard-retard for four straight years. Mayorkas and Garland are probably more responsible than anyone for Kamala losing. Mayorkas went balls-to-the-wall for open borders, and Garland turned the DOJ into a partisan retribution operation. This made Republican voters furious and got them to turn out in large numbers for Trump. Oh, and the double-digit inflation driven by trillion-dollar deficits didn't help, either. If Biden's handlers had simply kept his administration low-key, we'd be looking at President Harris right now.
Harris was terrible and would be worse as President, but I think I'm over any "at least we don't have her" sentiment. Trump is a lame duck, nobody is twisting his arm to force 50 year mortgages, open the H1B floodgates, bring in 600,000 Chinese students per year. He's simply choosing to do these things, and they're wrong and they're bad for America.
 
You actually expect Commiefornia Berkeley police to do something against Anti-Fa? Come on, they're safer there then in their own non-existence homes.

That's why the fags are attacking there, anywhere they would be in actual trouble but in Comiefornia? Hell no, they're a arm of the DNC in CA.
I expect Trump to give a shit about charlie Kirk's people, if he lets these faggot antifa losers beat and abuse his people and does nothing about it, well i might start posting like fatpacks. That 2016/2017 shit was supposed to be over, young folks shouldn't be pushed around and abused over fucking opinions.
 
I expect Trump to give a shit about charlie Kirk's people, if he lets these faggot antifa losers beat and abuse his people and does nothing about it, well i might start posting like fatpacks. That 2016/2017 shit was supposed to be over, young folks shouldn't be pushed around and abused over fucking opinions.
I've always had a gut feeling that Marco Rubio interrupting the Antifa roundtable with muh Gaza was intentional to distract Trump from domestic issues.
Pam Bondi and the jeet suck. They require constant hounding to do anything and Kash is probably waiting to do one big bust to make headlines instead of just picking these niggers off the street one by one.
 
Being real about al sharaa, the US supporting him is realpolitik. You can talk all you want about him being al qaeda etc but at the moment he is aligned with US interests and that's all that matters.

This isn't even the worst case of a Western country working with a former terrorist imo
 
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