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Mediocre but Interesting to See Early 1970’s Culture
Not Enough Interesting Twists
Lively & Well Written but Really Pushing the Progressive Narrative
1980 Reunion Interviews
Glider scene
Really Interesting Documentary that Adds Background to the Hollywood Movie
Any Leftist Media Outlets Correcting Post-Hurricane Articles Like This?
About that Iowa Poll Showing Harris Leading by 3.4%
Disappointing (semi spoilers)
Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO and male partner arrested in twisted scheme to sexually exploit male models
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You are the Evel Kneival of conclusion jumping in this post.
I admire your restraint.
I have mixed reactions. On one side, I give a lot of deference for people to have the right to control their own healthcare decisions (especially as relates to this vaccine that turned out to have ambiguous benefits compared to what President Biden touted).
On the other hand, I feel that these service members were given a lawful order to get vaccinated and violating direct orders is absolutely unacceptable behavior in a professional military.
In the end, I accept the President’s authority as commander in chief to issue pardons like this. It reminds me a lot of the 1977 precedent by President Carter in pardoning the 50,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft and fled to Canada.
Great contributions to keeping this place lively and relevant sslssg!
So You Want Proof of Government Fraud? Read this distressing piece by the Wall Street Journal with all the proof you can bear to put your eyes on. Google these verified and validated examples and you’ll quickly find yourself mired in a Vietnam of even more corroborated cases that will make you reluctant to ever honestly pay income tax again.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/elon-musk-doge-government-fraud-improper-payments-gao-5af937ac
It’s a clever, well written show and Amer is clearly capable of carrying it. Some of the stories took some wildly contrived turns and there’s a lot of gratuitous and shallow caricatures of white people and excessive doses of Islamic religiosity. Just when I think the show has gone too far in those directions, it again turns self-deprecating and funny or pulls the viewer back with one of the intriguing interpersonal relationships. I think your description from two years ago is very accurate. I watched all of season 1 and found it overall entertaining. Amer’s character reminds me a lot of the popular Kevin James King of Queens sitcom character. I saw the show got a second season but I’m on the fence about investing more time.
The irony is that every time we try to name anything in this country to honor American Indians, people like Behar go ballistic and label it racist or cultural appropriation.
What else are we to do? We’re being abused by China that over-manufactures vastly more than their own economy could ever need so that they can keep their own underpaid citizens employed and in line. The goods are then dumped in American markets at fire sale prices that destroy all U.S. competition (which is forced to charge higher prices due to our litigious products liability exposure tort system, consumer protection regulation, and employment benefits for workers).
Europe offshores their defense to the American taxpayer which allows them the cash to subsidize their own industry. The U.S. Navy is almost solely responsible for policing global supply lines and shipping lanes so that international manufacturers and food producers aren’t overwhelmed by insurance costs passed on to consumers. No country reimburses the U.S. for this. Canada instead manipulates their currency to make American goods more expensive. Other countries like India incessantly tariff American goods. We have trade deficits with nearly every other country on the globe. That can’t be statistically possible in a fair system. Apparently, we’re just supposed to take it?
In the name of “free trade” for everyone else, we have exported our best manufacturing jobs overseas so that we’re mainly producing jobs in the U.S. for waiters and nurses.
For the time being, we have the largest economy in the world. Although prices will rise with tariffs, it will motivate American ingenuity and create a work around industry and employment that will offset modestly higher prices.
I don’t know what else we’re supposed to do.
It does sound frustrating.
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