but kudos for saying it's conserving traditional values as your argument. Though would you feel the same way about islamic treatment of women / lgbt?
the difference, kneeler, is that the US is supposed to hold individual freedom as a core eternal human right, and support that everywhere. Supporting Indian transgenders follows along that path, supporting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
On the other hand, traditional islamic treatment of women does NOT enhance our american view of personal freedom so we do not fund it.
Really, rube, this is not that hard.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I agree that individual freedom is core / key. But I don't think that individual freedom entails having your tax dollars used to fund cosmetic surgeries for one specific / mentally ill group without your consent.
And that is why I mentioned Islam and women. These signs were posted in a liberal suburb of Boston. Residents didn't like it but could never explain why - it's a no-win situation for them
but kudos for saying it's conserving traditional values as your argument. Though would you feel the same way about islamic treatment of women / lgbt?
the difference, kneeler, is that the US is supposed to hold individual freedom as a core eternal human right, and support that everywhere. Supporting Indian transgenders follows along that path, supporting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
On the other hand, traditional islamic treatment of women does NOT enhance our american view of personal freedom so we do not fund it.
Really, rube, this is not that hard.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
geez it's worse than I thought. You idiots are sentencing thousands of people to death by cancelling HIV treatment for them, and causing HIV to spread more quickly. No doubt to America.
You absolute moral vacuums are celebrating this? What is your damage? Did your parents teach you the golden rule?
We shouldn't subsidize healthcare for lifestyle diseases. Just as we shouldn't subsidize ozempic for obese people, we shouldn't subsidize aids or monkeypox treatment.
I didn't know JD Vance was transgender. Is that your point?
No. Not my direct point. I didn't make a direct point per se. It was more subtle innuendo. We have evidence that, at his wife's demand, Vance wore a flower dress to his own Hindu Nationalist wedding. So, one could speculate that perhaps a transgender clinic in India may have been invoked as a prerequisite after the aforementioned fact. That's all I was suggesting sub rosa, Percival. So quit trying to make a goddam federal case about it.
Haha. Ok, buddy. You're swimming in a sea of speculation. Your rhetorical aspersions are more imaginative than factual, offering little in the way of substantive critique.
I agree, America needs to get rid of a lot of bad people. Let's start with Soros, Pelosi, AOC, Schumer, Warren, Newsom, Cheney, Harris, Menendez, Adams, Thao, Lewis, Madigan, Markey, Wyden, Hoyer, Murray, Sherman.
Your fear mongering isn't very entertaining nor accurate. We've already made a lot of improvements. Or should I say, corrections from the previous group of goofballs.
Always get a kick out of the basement dweller self-own of, "You replied to your own post !!"
Always get a kick out of deflection and you wokesters ignoring the meat in the sandwich.
Trumpers melted straight the fuq down when Harris suggested a 2% tax increase on billionaires that never had any chance of passing the house. All accusing her of ushering in most vile form of communism this country would ever see if elected.
Yet 100 days into Trump 2.0, Trump has seized our economy and it is now held hostage to his whims and debunked financial theories from a century ago. He is using his Presidential power to pick winners and losers in education, business and even deciding which legal firms are permitted to remain. He has installed a co-president that will determine who gets government contracts even through he is the biggest recipient of federal dollars.
Yet Trump was needed to safeguard us from communism. Is that correct?
geez it's worse than I thought. You idiots are sentencing thousands of people to death by cancelling HIV treatment for them, and causing HIV to spread more quickly. No doubt to America.
You absolute moral vacuums are celebrating this? What is your damage? Did your parents teach you the golden rule?
We shouldn't subsidize healthcare for lifestyle diseases. Just as we shouldn't subsidize ozempic for obese people, we shouldn't subsidize aids or monkeypox treatment.
good lord man have you ever driven through a rural red county and taken a look at the 'lifestyle diseases' rampant there? You know the highest medicaid rates are in red states, right? You want to let them just die of the 'betes and fatness? Didn't you kill off enough of them during COVID? You want more to die?
ahem.
But anyway, stopping infectious diseases like monkey pox before they get to our shores helps america, defending individual liberty abroad helps america, saving lives in allied nations helps america, doing the right thing and helping others helps america...
you are a moral vacuum.
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Quick recap of the first 100 days. Stock market down 10%. Investors fleeing US Bonds. Dollar falling. Factories laying off workers, shutting down production. Tariffs increasing consumer prices. Port throughput down 40%. Soon to decimate transportation, shipping, longshoremen. Shortages coming soon to stores.
Wars not ended. US siding with Russia and Israeli genocide. Allies alienated. New middle east war started. Negotiating to get back Iran nuclear deal which Trump previously withdrew.
People arrested without stated crimes. Due process ignored. Court orders defied. Free speech under attack. Education under attack. Science under attack. US Humanitarian aid destroyed.
Facts.
Just bringing the conversation back to things that actually affect Americans daily lives and why Trump is an economic disaster.
Quick recap of the first 100 days. Stock market down 10%. Investors fleeing US Bonds. Dollar falling. Factories laying off workers, shutting down production. Tariffs increasing consumer prices. Port throughput down 40%. Soon to decimate transportation, shipping, longshoremen. Shortages coming soon to stores.
Wars not ended. US siding with Russia and Israeli genocide. Allies alienated. New middle east war started. Negotiating to get back Iran nuclear deal which Trump previously withdrew.
People arrested without stated crimes. Due process ignored. Court orders defied. Free speech under attack. Education under attack. Science under attack. US Humanitarian aid destroyed.
Facts.
Just bringing the conversation back to things that actually affect Americans daily lives and why Trump is an economic disaster.
Tesla went up 2.15% today. Nasdaq, Dow, S&P up between 0.55 and 0.75% today.
Businesses, joined by Gov. Moore, push back against idea for business services tax that Democratic leaders argue would help close a widening budget deficit.
We shouldn't subsidize healthcare for lifestyle diseases. Just as we shouldn't subsidize ozempic for obese people, we shouldn't subsidize aids or monkeypox treatment.
good lord man have you ever driven through a rural red county and taken a look at the 'lifestyle diseases' rampant there? You know the highest medicaid rates are in red states, right? You want to let them just die of the 'betes and fatness? Didn't you kill off enough of them during COVID? You want more to die?
ahem.
But anyway, stopping infectious diseases like monkey pox before they get to our shores helps america, defending individual liberty abroad helps america, saving lives in allied nations helps america, doing the right thing and helping others helps america...
you are a moral vacuum.
I am fine with reducing Medicaid. Medicaid, as a whole, is for people too lazy to work.
Trumpers melted straight the fuq down when Harris suggested a 2% tax increase on billionaires that never had any chance of passing the house. All accusing her of ushering in most vile form of communism this country would ever see if elected.
Yet 100 days into Trump 2.0, Trump has seized our economy and it is now held hostage to his whims and debunked financial theories from a century ago. He is using his Presidential power to pick winners and losers in education, business and even deciding which legal firms are permitted to remain. He has installed a co-president that will determine who gets government contracts even through he is the biggest recipient of federal dollars.
Yet Trump was needed to safeguard us from communism. Is that correct?
Red staters cannot conceive of the wealth, might and power of New York City.
Except Texans. Maybe some Texans do realize how rich blue cities are. They like big things.
NYT
Deloitte will move its North American headquarters to Hudson Yards, occupying some 800,000 square feet of the 1.1 million-square-foot tower.
The tower, known as 70 Hudson Yards, is the largest ground-up U.S. office development since the pandemic.
Office demand in New York is back at pre-pandemic levels, with 7.9 million square feet of office space in Manhattan leased in Q1.
As of 2024, Texas holds the position of the second-largest economy among U.S. states, with a nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of approximately $2.7 trillion. This accounts for about 9% of the total U.S. GDP. If Texas were an independent nation, its economy would rank eighth globally, surpassing countries like Russia, Canada, and Italy.
good lord man have you ever driven through a rural red county and taken a look at the 'lifestyle diseases' rampant there? You know the highest medicaid rates are in red states, right? You want to let them just die of the 'betes and fatness? Didn't you kill off enough of them during COVID? You want more to die?
ahem.
But anyway, stopping infectious diseases like monkey pox before they get to our shores helps america, defending individual liberty abroad helps america, saving lives in allied nations helps america, doing the right thing and helping others helps america...
you are a moral vacuum.
I am fine with reducing Medicaid. Medicaid, as a whole, is for people too lazy to work.
Medicaid covers at least 20% of the country. You're fine with ripping away healthcare from 20% of Americans?
Quick recap of the first 100 days. Stock market down 10%. Investors fleeing US Bonds. Dollar falling. Factories laying off workers, shutting down production. Tariffs increasing consumer prices. Port throughput down 40%. Soon to decimate transportation, shipping, longshoremen. Shortages coming soon to stores.
Wars not ended. US siding with Russia and Israeli genocide. Allies alienated. New middle east war started. Negotiating to get back Iran nuclear deal which Trump previously withdrew.
People arrested without stated crimes. Due process ignored. Court orders defied. Free speech under attack. Education under attack. Science under attack. US Humanitarian aid destroyed.
Facts.
Just bringing the conversation back to things that actually affect Americans daily lives and why Trump is an economic disaster.
Well Chief, you are just gonna need to suck it up, cause big dog gonna be in office for quite some time. Maybe get a second job?
I am fine with reducing Medicaid. Medicaid, as a whole, is for people too lazy to work.
Medicaid covers at least 20% of the country. You're fine with ripping away healthcare from 20% of Americans?
You're fine with Universities denying natural born citizens' financial aid and instead giving it to Chinese students on visas who will return to China after graduation, contributing 0% to the U.S. economy?
