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  Make America Great Again

  by David.L.Henson in

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  When ever was America greater than today?

  When they were fighting in WWII and helping to keep the world free. When they were coming up with the ideals and principles that are "the shining city on the hill" even if they don't always live up to them.

  When they abolished slavery and granted freedoms - that had never happened in the history of the world up to that point.

  There are plenty of times the US has been great or done great things. If you only want to see the negatives and are willing to cherry pick from a minority of people from hundreds of years ago to paint everyone as bad then of course you won't see anything good. It just means you're a hateful bigot.
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  Who is the SEXIST MAN ALIVE in 2021?

  by pistolpete in

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  anthony fauci.

  https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/the-guardian-proclaims-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-man-alive/.

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  The left, declaring people on the left as the best people since ... well, forever.

  The guy should be in chains to face a court and an execution if guilty. He's one of the biggest mass murderers in history.
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  Make America Great Again

  by David.L.Henson in

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  I deleted your other BS propaganda posts DLH: there's a BIG difference between a conservative with a gun and some jihadist bitch from the death cult of islam - conservatives are law abiding and not murderous psychopaths that randomly kill people.

  Fuck you and your false equivalencies.
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  Make America Great Again

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  The US was in significantly better shape under Trump than it is now.

  For all the easily manipulated idiots - whatever happened to BLM? Did they all just vanish? Every 4 years they appear, right before an election, and then "poof", they are gone.

  Quite the magic trick.
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  How do JW feel about CBD?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i am not so sure if i am willing to discuss cbd with my jw aunt.

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  I've seen some people where it provides genuine medical benefits, and it is generally pretty safe especially compared to manufactured pharmaceuticals.

  I don't think anyone can have any real objection to it.
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  Congratulations, Emma Raducanu!

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  congratulations to ms raducanu, from orpington, kent (my hometown).. she has just won the us open on saturday.

  i don't have a tv license or a tv, but i did manage to see the final in my local pub.

  and the two finalists didn't disappoint - it was a cracking match with a high level of tennis.. and raducanu triumphed 6-4, 6-3. her achievement is pretty much unprecedented.

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  Isn't she the daughter of a wealthy banker?

  The "child of immigrants" narrative paints a different picture to what most imagine.

  Well done to her, but let's not have her as a reason to throw the doors open to illegal fighting age men arriving on the beaches.
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  Bank Bail-Out / Bail-In

  by Simon in

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  remember the last financial crisis, where there as a bail-out of the banks?.

  have you ever stopped to think what the "out" part of bail-out means?

  normally you think of bailing water out of a boat, or maybe jumping out of a plane, but in financial terms the "out" means "outside money".

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  Wait until they bring in full-on UBI - then you'll see the value of money really plummet.

  That will tip the current house of cards, propped up with rampant money printing, into a full-on crack-up boom.

  It sounds obvious, but if the government gives everyone $2000 a month, prices will immediately rise to factor it in and also because wages will also need to rise to account for it, which makes prices rise, which will lead to demands for higher rates of UBI ... next stop Venezuela.
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  Bank Bail-Out / Bail-In

  by Simon in

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  remember the last financial crisis, where there as a bail-out of the banks?.

  have you ever stopped to think what the "out" part of bail-out means?

  normally you think of bailing water out of a boat, or maybe jumping out of a plane, but in financial terms the "out" means "outside money".

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  And they'll wonder why people will turn to Crypto ...

  Distributed finance where you don't have to trust any central authority and you effectively become your own bank is an inevitability.

  It also destroys the political / banking cartels that keep some countries poor while enriching others.
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  Bank Bail-Out / Bail-In

  by Simon in

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  remember the last financial crisis, where there as a bail-out of the banks?.

  have you ever stopped to think what the "out" part of bail-out means?

  normally you think of bailing water out of a boat, or maybe jumping out of a plane, but in financial terms the "out" means "outside money".

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  Accumulating that much after doesn't involve being "smart", just being a boomer.

  However much it is, it isn't their money and is owned by someone else. This is fundamentally theft and people aren't recompensed by the banks for the risk they take having them manage their money. Interest rates for savers are already criminally low, at a time of sky-high inflation, so whether people realize it or not the power-that-be are already dipping their hand into their bank account.

  This just upgrades to them using a wheelbarrow so they can carry more at once.
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  Taxpayer Money Direct to Union Pockets

  by Simon in

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  the dems are not even trying to hide what they do anymore.. the latest is a direct payoff for political support by providing a $4500 subsidy on electric vehicles ... but only if they are made by union workers.. it's not the job of government to put their hand on the scale, especially not to benefit those who support them politically through campaign contributions.. corruption - it's what they do best.. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-union-bill-tax-incentive-unionized-ev-makers-2021-9.

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  The dems are not even trying to hide what they do anymore.

  The latest is a direct payoff for political support by providing a $4500 subsidy on Electric Vehicles ... but only if they are made by union workers.

  It's not the job of government to put their hand on the scale, especially not to benefit those who support them politically through campaign contributions.

  Corruption - it's what they do best.

  https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-union-bill-tax-incentive-unionized-ev-makers-2021-9