The ramblings of a complete lunatic. You have no self-respect.

"taxing the rich to feed the cheap scates" is how serfs became citizens.
You're indoctrinated by the wealthy with deeply un-American ideas.
You probably have The Constitution printed on your boxers,
but you have no idea what these words mean.

The Declaration of Independence is pretty clear about it:
“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.—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

If you want to interpret it to fit your view, maybe you should read what the founding fathers intended with it.

James Madison (1751–1836) was one of the principal architects of the United States Constitution and later became the fourth President of the United States. In 1787–1788, while the American states were debating whether to adopt the new Constitution, Madison wrote a series of essays known as The Federalist Papers under the pseudonym “Publius.” In Federalist No. 51, published in 1788, he explained the principles he believed were necessary to preserve a free republic. The essay remains important because it describes a central vision of the American system: freedom requires that power must never become concentrated and unchecked.

Madison began from a realistic view of human nature. He argued that people who hold power will naturally have interests of their own, and therefore a free society cannot depend on the virtue of those in authority. His famous statement, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” expresses the idea that every form of power needs limits. The purpose of constitutional design was therefore not simply to create government, but to create a system in which power would restrain itself.

Madison also recognized that society would always contain different interests, groups, and classes of citizens. People would differ in wealth, beliefs, occupations, and goals, creating competing forces within society. He did not believe these differences could or should be eliminated. Instead, he argued that a healthy republic must prevent any one group from becoming powerful enough to dominate others. As he wrote, “It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.”

The broader principle behind Madison’s vision is that liberty is threatened whenever power becomes concentrated without effective checks. The founders were concerned not only with preventing government tyranny, but with ensuring that no faction, class, or institution could gain enough influence to override the rights and independence of ordinary citizens. This principle remains central to debates about how a republic should balance freedom, power, and the protection of its people.

Being an asshole to white people too, doesn't make a KKK member NOT racist.
Sometimes they do their job, most times they are being racist fucks.
Probably they are not even ALL racist fucks. It's a job that pays well,
so there are likely people doing it who are decent people.

A Canadian, who STILL wants to be in the US, and then attacks another girl for wearing a 'USA 250 anniversary' shirt? I don't buy that for a second.

What Trump did to your USA 250 anniversary is definitely not patriotic.
Here are some ways that made it a big DISGRACE:

1. A milestone that should have united Americans instead became another battlefield in the country’s political war, deepening division rather than celebrating a shared identity.
2. Trump used the anniversary as a platform to promote his own political identity, turning a national commemoration into an extension of his personal brand and presidency.
3. Trump’s anniversary operation redirected money, sponsorship opportunities, and access toward his allies and political network, turning a national celebration into a vehicle for political influence and personal benefit.
4. The celebration’s funding structure drew criticism over the use of public resources, private donations, and sponsorships, with concerns that a national commemoration was being used to benefit politically connected interests.
5. The Trump-backed “Freedom 250” effort displaced the bipartisan America250 process and transformed a national commemoration into a Trump-aligned political production.
6. By tying a national anniversary celebration so closely to his own political identity, Trump alienated artists and participants who did not want their work used to legitimize a partisan event.
7. A celebration intended to showcase American achievement was marred by rushed planning, organizational failures, and an execution that fell far below the standard expected for a 250th anniversary event.
8. Attendees faced basic comfort and planning failures, including inadequate shade, seating, food access, and protection from extreme heat.
9. Operational breakdowns — including technical failures, power problems, and food-storage issues — turned a major national event into a public embarrassment.
10. Extreme weather exposed inadequate safety planning, with failures in preparing for dangerous heat, shelter needs, and crowd management.
11. The anniversary’s imagery, projects, and presentation placed Trump’s persona and legacy at the center of a national commemoration, overshadowing the broader history and achievements of the United States.
12. Instead of leaving Americans with pride in a historic milestone, the celebration became associated by many with division, self-promotion, waste, chaos, and a missed opportunity for genuine national reflection.

As a Dutchman who believes deeply in democracy, impartial justice, and accountable government, this disgrace was a painful reminder that even an occasion of such historic importance was not spared from being turned into a vehicle for division and personal ambition. A 250th anniversary should have been a moment to reflect on the long struggle to build and preserve a democratic society: the belief that no person is above the law,
that justice should not depend on power or privilege, and that government must ultimately answer to its citizens. Seeing such a historic occasion become associated with division, personal glorification, and dysfunction was deeply painful.

Wow, Mark Cuban asked Grok! That settles it then.
Would be the first thing that Mamdani will fail on,
because he is checking off every single one of his promises.

He was completely open about everything, and now he is DOING IT ALL!
That's DEMOCRACY, so I see why you lot don't like it.

You don't know your own laws, dimwit.

Will you say the same about Kyle Rittenhouse? He was HOLDING his gun.

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects peaceful speech, assembly, and criticism of the government, including police and federal agents.

Alex Pretti was only talking to them. It was the ICE agents who turned violent.

• Being armed is not, by itself, grounds for being shot.
In many U.S. states, carrying a firearm is legal under state law (subject to restrictions). The use of deadly force by law enforcement is judged by whether the person posed an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm, not simply by whether they possessed a firearm.

• Obstructing law enforcement does not authorize summary execution.
Even if someone commits crimes such as trespassing, resisting, or obstructing officers, the legal remedy is arrest and prosecution. Deadly force is not a lawful punishment for those offenses.

• "Brandishing" has a specific legal meaning.
Simply having a firearm visible is different from threatening someone with it. Whether a person "brandished" a weapon is a factual question that depends on the evidence, including video, witness testimony, and forensic evidence.

• The governing legal standard is objective reasonableness.
Under the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Graham v. Connor, an officer's use of force is judged based on whether it was objectively reasonable under the circumstances, considering what the officer reasonably perceived at the time.

• Deadly force has additional constitutional limits.
In Tennessee v. Garner, the Supreme Court held that deadly force generally cannot be used against a fleeing suspect unless the officer has probable cause to believe the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury.

Better protect your rights, or the next one who gets shot by police is you.

They are not, they are criminals. Nuremberg trials for every single one of them.

You don't even know what these terms mean.
Hitler was a fascist, like Trump. Trump has actually cited "Mein Kampf".
And his biggest campaign funder was "Sieg heiling" on stage.

The regimes that called themselves 'communist' were nothing but.
They were authoritarian state-capitalist systems.

Your regime is starving people, and Mamdani is feeding the people.
No Americans would EVER vote for a socialist, if your side would ever do
ANYTHING good for them. You fucked up! That's why you're losing to socialists.

Do you even know that military personnel get to shop in government provided supermarkets? They get their food a lot cheaper.

They only require some $70 million in city funding for startup costs. Afterwards, the costs to the public will be much lower. The plan is not simply "sell groceries 30% cheaper and absorb the loss." The plan is to reduce operating costs in several ways so that the required subsidy is smaller than it otherwise would be. The methods include:
• No profit requirement. A city-owned store would not need to generate returns for private owners or shareholders.
• Reduced real estate costs. The city could use publicly owned buildings or subsidize rent, which is one of the largest expenses for grocery stores in New York.
• Bulk purchasing. Buying large quantities directly from suppliers could reduce wholesale costs, although the extent depends on the scale of the store network.
• Simpler operations. Focusing on staple foods and carrying fewer products can lower inventory, labor, and spoilage costs.
• Public financing. The city can borrow at relatively low interest rates for capital investments.

If that doesn't operate at cost, they will indeed get that money from the rich,
to feed the people who need it.

If you rob from the government, what do they do to you, thank you?
Only wealthy people like Trump and Elon are allowed to steal from the government.

Can you tell this story to the ICE officers who shot and killed Alex Pretti?

Funny! Meanwhile, it makes his 'ratings' go up.
People seam to like it when their need to eat doesn't enrich corporations.
But, maybe that's just what they they think in New York.
In a state like Texas, those crazy socialists don't stand a chance, right?

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Yet another one of those 'dangerous Muslims' running for office.
I'm surprised that I don't hear any fearmongering about him.

"You deserve to go to a good school, get healthcare, and a good job."
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Yep, a crazy radical, for saying what most Americans believe.

Or do you think that I should add some weasel words to make you support it:
"Everyone deserves the opportunity to go to a good school, access to healthcare,
and have the opportunity to get a good job." like all your fake ass bitch politicians do.
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Now he won the Michigan Democratic primary with 49% of the votes,
against Haley Stevens, who was pushed by more than $60 million in total outsider spending, like AIPAC, Super PACs and other big moneyed groups.

The 'targeted intervention' was already in place. Obama and the EU negotiated the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), which placed strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program and required extensive international inspections. The agreement reduced Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, limited enrichment levels and centrifuges, and gave the IAEA broad access to verify compliance. It was built on intelligence assessments that Iran had not made a decision to build a nuclear weapon, and it created a verification system to ensure its nuclear activities remained peaceful. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also issued a religious ruling stating that nuclear weapons were forbidden under Islam.

Of course Israel claimed the opposite, but that is an obvious lie, because
they claimed for DECADES that Iran was MONTHS from having a nuke.

Only AFTER the Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, Iran gradually breached the deal’s limits, increasing uranium enrichment and expanding its nuclear capabilities.

Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA undermined US credibility and made future diplomacy harder. After proving that a signed agreement could be reversed, the US lost leverage; what is being offered now is FAR WEAKER than the strict limits and inspections the original deal achieved.

How it would work, is to NOT elect an untrustworthy FUCK-UP for president.

And that same FUCK-UP is now seeking to help Saudi Arabia develop
a civilian nuclear program, including uranium enrichment on Saudi soil, without requiring anything close to the inspection and restriction regime
that Iran accepted under the JCPOA. Do you remember that 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals, and none were Iranians?

They process everything through very simple patterns:

Complex crisis → uncertainty and fear → simple explanation → identifiable enemy → simple solution

If you understand multiple interacting factors, you see:

Virus biology + human behavior + public health capacity + healthcare systems + communication + economics + political decisions + social trust → pandemic outcomes

I have yet to see anything that leads me to believe that Fauci was doing anything nefarious, other then trying to manage stupid people, by not being fully candid
about everything, all the time.

As a result, they accuse him of killing millions of people, while simultaneously
calling Covid "just a cold". However, the recent charades are just a distraction.
They scored very well with fearmongering, so this is their attempt to regain support.

You fail to understand the poverty in your own country and how big the risk of ending up poor, without any fault of your own. Millions of Americans live one missed paycheck, illness, or car repair away from losing their home. Others are already choosing between rent, medicine, and food. And many people end up there not because they were lazy or irresponsible, but because of things like medical problems, losing a job, disability, or simply being born into poverty.

People voted for Trump, because he promised change. He ended up changing a lot, but nothing in favor of their ability to get out of poverty. His cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and reduction of ACA subsidies. Most Americans cannot pay a $500 emergency expense. What do you think will happen to a family, if a kid needs an operation? A simple procedure costs thousands of dollars. My girlfriend gets treatment worth at least $1000/month now. This is paid by our health insurance, but in your country most people would be fucked. We make close to 3 times the median income, and we would struggle to pay for it.

Why evaluating teachers by test scores is unfair:
• Outside factors dominate: A student's home life, trauma, and parents' socioeconomic status impact scores way more than any teacher can.
• Unequal starting points: One teacher might get a class of advanced learners, while another gets students who are years behind.
• Teaching to the test: It forces teachers to drill exam questions instead of teaching critical thinking, creativity, or life skills.
• High margin of error: Statistically, class test scores fluctuate heavily year-over-year due to random factors, making them unreliable for hiring or firing.

What a fair evaluation method looks like instead:
• The Holistic (360-Degree) Approach: Combining multiple sources so no single bad day or difficult class ruins a teacher's career.
• Structured classroom observations: Principals or peers evaluating actual teaching skills, classroom management, and student engagement.
• Student feedback surveys: Anonymous questionnaires asking students if the teacher explains well, offers help, and creates a safe environment.
• Measuring growth, not just final scores: Looking at individual student progress from September to June, rather than just the final test grade.

Your whole thinking about education, as filling kids' heads with facts and teaching them basic math, writing, and physics is obsolete because AI has turned knowledge into a free, instant commodity. And then you want to focus
the evaluation of teachers on how much they succeed in teaching kids
the exact things that can be easily replaced by AI.

Why the old school curriculum is not future-proof:
• AI excels at memorization: The old curriculum focuses on memorizing facts and formulas, which is exactly what AI does instantly and perfectly.
• Automation of basic skills: Tasks like basic coding, standard essay writing, and routine calculations are already automated before these kids even graduate.
• The "Skill Gap" danger: Schools are training kids to become "second-rate robots" instead of first-rate humans, leaving them unprepared for an AI-driven economy.

What schools should teach instead to survive the AI era:
• The 4 Cs (Human Skills): Critical thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication skills AI cannot genuinely replicate.
• AI Literacy & Prompting: Teaching kids how to co-pilot with AI, verify its biases, and use it as a tool rather than a replacement for thinking.
• Metacognition (Learning to Learn): Because technology changes so fast, the most important skill is adaptability and knowing how to learn new things quickly.

That MAGA joke was not just a joke. MAGA teaches people to be lazy thinkers. You are all trained to think only concretely and suppress your ability to think abstractly. All your media is enforcing concrete, emotionally vivid, identity-based thinking, over complex, abstract analysis.
The development of thinking in children is one of the central topics in developmental psychology, and it does involve a gradual movement from concrete, experience-based thinking toward the ability to use abstract concepts, hypothetical reasoning, and complex analysis. However, it is not a simple switch: adults continue to use concrete thinking in many situations, and children can show surprisingly sophisticated reasoning when the context is familiar.
The problem with MAGA is that it suppresses ADULT thinking.

Your idea about teachers is an example of a simplifying causal model:
Students perform poorly → teachers are responsible →
punish teachers → performance improves

I can do the same for ALL of your ideas:
People not working → laziness → reduce benefits
Crime → criminals → harsher punishment
Economic problems → government interference → reduce government
Homelessness → personal failure → remove assistance
Drug addiction → bad choices → harsher penalties
Poverty → lack of effort → fewer social programs
Inflation → government spending → cut government spending
High housing costs → too many regulations → remove regulations
Illegal immigration → weak borders → build stronger borders
Cultural conflict → bad values → restore traditional values
Political disagreement → enemies within → defeat or silence opponents
Loss of manufacturing jobs → foreign competition → restrict trade
Economic inequality → individual choices → no need for structural solutions
Poor health outcomes → personal responsibility failures → reduce healthcare
School disagreements → ideological indoctrination → remove certain curricula
Climate problems → environmental regulations → eliminate regulations
Social change → decline of tradition → return to the past
Government failures → government itself → privatize services
Media disagreement → bias → distrust all mainstream sources
Public disorder → weak policing → increase police powers
International problems → weak leadership → stronger leaders
Political problems → corrupt elites → replace the establishment
Declining community ties → loss of morality → restore old social norms
Security fears → enemy threat → preemptive strike → war
Disagreement between countries → one side is evil → confrontation → war
Resource shortages → people taking what belongs to us → seize resources
Terrorist attack or provocation → collective blame → military retaliation

The pattern you are always following can be summarized as:
Visible problem → single human cause → punishment / simple or fake solution

And this is adult thinking:
Visible problem → multiple interacting causes → systemic analysis → targeted interventions

And it's impossible to get you there on ANY subject.
Not because you are unable to, but because you have been trained
24/7 for decades to reject it.

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Trump speaks exclusively in 'child mode'.

That's the Reform Party, which is the UK's Trumpian party.
By the way, the UK ain't Europe no more, remember?
The UK split, because they are very much like the US.
They preferred to split with the EU and increase cooperation with the US.
And now they are hurting from it, and not gaining much from relations with the US.

They did become more like the US though. Their depth and severity of poverty have drastically worsened. The UK is not yet as bad as the US, when it comes to overall poverty, but it is closer to the US than almost any other Western European country.

Immigration was one of the major issues in the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign.
The Reform Party, Nigal Farage, was one of the main instigators.

And when Brexit happened, that invalidated EU–UK Cooperation Agreements.
That indeed reduced EU immigration, but non-EU immigration increased significantly.
Net migration rose substantially after Brexit.

The UK and France going to war, would result in a perpetual stalemate.
Both countries are nuclear powers, by the way.

People don't make those choices based on global issues. If they need children to take care of them, when they are old, they will have several children. If they know that some of them might die, because of diseases and war, they will make even more children.
The best way to reduce birth rates is to provide vaccines, so people have more chance that their children survive. If they can have less mouths to feed, they will do it.

High child mortality → high birth rates
Child mortality falls → birth rates eventually fall

If you want women to pump out less babies, then you give them an alternative future, than just being a mother. Don't overdo it, by forcing all women to work, just to make a living, because then you are taking away the option of people to be parents, resulting
in population decline.

Many welfare recipients are children, elderly people, disabled people, or working adults with low incomes. Some benefits are temporary and some have work requirements. Fraud exists, but it is generally a small fraction of total spending.
The US's welfare system is actually limited compared with most European countries. Raising the minimum wage would make most poverty compensations unnecessary.

Your drugs problem is not a cause of your welfare system. Most European countries have more generous welfare systems than the US, but your drugs problem is worse than all of Europe's.

When you have the highest incarceration percentage in the world, a murder rate that is higher than much poorer countries and the highest rate of overdose deaths in the world, you should understand that it is not police and prisons that make you safe.

At least the DSA is willing to TRY something different than repression. Maybe they won't succeed in making prisons obsolete, but they might be able to lower the need to the average of European countries. Do you have any idea of the cost savings and benefits, if young people are working good jobs, instead of wasting their lives in prisons?

'They' don't SEND people to the US. People LEAVE their countries, looking for something better. This is the ranking of nationalities that were coming to the US in 2024:
1. Mexico (proximity, Economics)
2. Venezuela (Economic collapse)
3. Guatemala (Poverty, violence)
4. Honduras (Poverty, violence)
5. El Salvador (Economics)
6. Colombia (Economics)
7. Ecuador (Economic insecurity)
8. Cuba (Political repression)
9. Nicaragua (Authoritarian rule)
10. China (Economics, repression)

Yes, China entered your top 10, because of Covid and Trump's trade war. China pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, by making lots of cheap products for the West. Then they started making better and better stuff, and created competition for the West. That's a threat to our way of life, so we started to push back. Is that fair? That depends on your principles. If you believe in unregulated free trade capitalism, thinking that's the best system, you shouldn't feel threatened by competition from an authoritarian state-capitalist country.

We have a similar immigration problem in Europe, with some different countries:
1. Syria (Civil war)
2. Afghanistan (Conflict, Taliban)
3. Ukraine (Russian invasion)
4. Venezuela (Economic collapse)
5. Türkiye (Politics, economy)
6. Colombia (Economics)
7. Morocco (Economics)
8. Bangladesh (Economics)
9. Pakistan (Economics)
10. Mali (Conflict, poverty)

Some people DO try to send their women and children to safety. They are denied
at your borders just the same. To get to Europe, many of them need a boat. Thousands of them drown. There are maritime patrols to try to save them before that happens.
However, there was just an invasion of Moroccans in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave bordering Morocco directly. All those people were saying that there are no jobs in Morocco that they can live on. There is no evidence that the Moroccan government organized or sent these migrants. It can be traced back to a social media mobilization.

"fight for their own countries to be safe and prosperous"? Tell me what that looks like. Literal fighting? Should they pick up guns and fight their government? That's called
"Civil war". It has worked sometimes. In the short term, in Syria, it created only more devastation and the resulting immigrant wave. I hope they succeed in creating something better than they had.

In the current global market, countries cannot win on capitalism. They will only get exploited by the West. China made incredible gains with STATE controlled capitalism.
The result is huge mega factories, in which the lights can be turned off, because robots do all the work. It generated income for the state, resulting in other more welfare and investments that do help people, which is beating your crony capitalism, but it doesn't make people free and independent. It's still centralized power and centralized wealth. For all people to do well, that requires (more) equality in both power and wealth.
And if the wealthy and powerful people don't share, people will need to keep fleeing
from horrible places, looking for a better future.

You never fail to amaze me with your bad plans. Kids in poor areas are already scoring lower, because they are missing lots of resources that kids of rich parents can provide. Poor kids suffer fatigue, stress and often hunger.

It requires the best teachers, with the highest motivation, to make something
of them. Those schools are already underfunded, because of your dumb system of funding. Many teachers are buying supplies from their own money.
And now you want to punish them for the kids they are getting.

You won't get the billionaires, politicians, and war mongers with a virus.
They are always the first ones to get the vaccines.
And then they tell the stupid people to fear them.

Actually, I need to stop fighting their fear of vaccines.
A killer virus might be the only hope for humanity.
China really fucked up with their pansy virus.
And with RFK Jr. at the helm, now is the perfect time.
Благодаря товарищу Трампу мы их достаточно подготовили.

Vaccines are an evil plot from the Illuminati y'all!

Sure, if they score liberal, pay them double, if they score MAGA, pay them half.

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No dumbass, they don't mean abolish all prisons in current society, they intend to improve society so much that prisons as we know then will no longer be necessary. Like Norway, they propose some kind of rehab clinics for criminal behavior.

Yes, they intend to abolish ICE immediately, because it is literally the "jackbooted thugs" force that your side warned about for decades. That doesn't mean that illegal aliens will roam the streets, because they will all get to document for LEGAL stay, a green card or apply for citizenship.

They believe many of the forces driving migration are caused or worsened by global economic inequality, climate change, and U.S. foreign policy. They advocate policies they believe would reduce the need for people to migrate, such as reducing military intervention abroad, supporting workers' rights internationally, and addressing climate change.
If you stop fucking up other countries, people will want to stay there.
Like how I don't want to come to the US, because I'm happy and doing well in my country.

How about a vision of actually improving life for everyone?
What is your idea? Making the US suck so much that no one wants to be there?
It's working! Soon you will need that border wall to keep people IN!

"What the fuck would be left?" You have just described your country as private debt, mortgages, healthcare costs, prisons, the military and ICE. When that is taken away,
nothing would be left. Think about that. Are those the things that define America?

You don't have a welfare state, except for the wealthy.
Billions of your tax-dollars go to Elon Musk, to play with rockets.

What you are doing is CREATING lives of dependency.
When all the jobs are replaced by robots, who buys the products?
If no one is making an income, then they cannot buy anything.
Without people buying anything, the robots are useless.
That will require a Universal Basic Income, to save the economy.
It will mean that EVERYONE will live a life of dependency.

No, it's nothing but bigotry. The frog in boiling water metaphor isn't applicable, because there is no heating of the water going on. Mamdani is giving all the frogs back their pond, while your regimes is turning the pond into a desert.

Immigrants are human lives too. If they are fleeing war or a regime that has turned criminal, then giving them asylum is SAVING lives. That's not accepting the deaths of anyone else, because as I have already showed you, those people are less of a risk to commit violent crimes, than native-born Americans.

Our homicide/manslaughter death rate is 0.68 per 100,000. By YOUR logic,
we should ban those violent Americans from coming to our country. Fortunately,
we understand that they are freedom and science refugees, who are fleeing
a fascist regime, that they don't agree with. Still, we should vet them carefully, because it appears that lust for murder and violence is IN YOUR GENES.

Can you point to a speech, interview, or quote where Kamala Harris actually said that black people should live among themselves?
Maybe that's what YOU want, but Kamala Harris supports that black people have
equal opportunity and freedom of choice in where they live, NOT racial separation.
She has the opportunity to buy a mansion, so she did. And it's a fact of the continuing systemic racism in the US, that there aren’t many majority-black neighborhoods made up of large luxury estates.

She never was some idol of the left. She's just a centrist neoliberal. I told you that.
She would just have been 100x better than Trump. She would have done none of the stupid things Trump is doing, she wouldn't be destroying democracy, she would arrest criminal immigrants in an orderly fashion and not overflow cities with a masked invasion force murdering American citizen. She would have restored Obama's Iran deal, and she would NOT steal from the poor to give to the wealthy. She would invest in renewable energy and electric cars, so you don't lose to China. She would have made your life
a bit better every single day, and you would have hated her for it.

There would have been many better candidates than Harris, but Biden didn't keep his promise to be a one term president, which resulted in Harris as the candidate. Still, if I was able to vote in the US, I would have voted for her in a heartbeat, but as I also explained,
I would vote for a potted plant over Trump. The potted plant would be useless, but that's better than someone who combines more vices in one single personality than anyone
I've ever seen.

How many, how shortly. I think you're suffering from massive confirmation bias.

There can be something wrong with any product that you put in your body. A single can of beans can kill you with botulism, meat can contain deadly parasites, there is an outbreak of Cyclospora parasites right now. 423 people have been hospitalized. And vaccines can indeed contain a contamination or some unlucky bastard can have an allergic reaction. Still, overall vaccines have massively reduced the deaths of infectious diseases. You only still see polio in the bible belt or old people who had it as a child. Many diseases were practically wiped out, but some are now coming back because of vaccine fears.

That fear is not all caused by the government. The media was spreading doubt 24/7, by "just asking questions". Sorry to tell you, but those questions were fucking ignorant or blatant misinformation, for political reasons.

If you haven't stopped taking all pharmaceutical products, you are accepting the same risk of death every day, that you would have had once by getting vaccinated. Most pharmaceuticals have been tested less extensively than the vaccines. Some pharmaceuticals have so many side effects that it is debatable whether their benefits outweigh their risks. All the focus is on vaccines, while they have been proven to be very safe and effective, because the only thing they do is train the immune system. That's much less impact than lowering blood pressure, suppressing inflammation,
or killing bacteria.
You were accepting a much higher risk from the virus itself, because you are not a young, healthy guy. The morgue was full of guys like you, who were afraid of the 'jab'. There were enough guys of my age and weight dying too, so that's why I was careful to not get it. After I was fully vaccinated, I was feeling relieved. Not because I trusted the vaccines from the start, but because many old people got it before me and lived.

Is it the problem that they make regulations that a robot vacuum clearer shouldn't be
a spy device or the fact that most of them apparently failed those regulations?
They won't be banned, because there is no ban against putting WiFi security cameras
in every room of your house either, they just want similar network security precautions
on the robots. It sounds like common sense to me.

Possibly, you can trace this kind of regulation to a single politician, who owns such a thing, and doesn't want it to be used to uncover his dirty secrets.

Nothing related to the Covid pandemic and vaccines is top secret.
Everything is already in public records or can be requested trough FOIA.

You are actually accusing Trump of hiding some conspiracy too now.
Remember that it was him who started Operation Warp Speed.
He was quite proud of that, until you all turned mental.

What are you expecting to learn, if there were those records?
If there were records that would condemn Fauci, would Trump hide it for him?

You don't have questions, you just have a chaotic feeling of distrust.
You think that I trust the government because I don't have the same questions.
It was your MAGA president and my VVD (corporate right-wing) prime minister
handling the Covid pandemic. You think that a socialist is trusting that side more than you? I was annoyed on a daily basis with how they handled it. There were fuck-ups regularly. But if there was some global conspiracy going on, we first need to establish
A GOAL!!! I have heard multiple ridiculous goals from your side, that ALL do not make sense with what happened. You have no idea about a goal either, you just want to believe that something extremely evil was going on. Well, if there was, they were fortunately incredibly incompetent, because the world is basically back to how it was.

The only evil that was achieved is a fucking huge transfer of wealth from the taxpayers
to the wealthy, who got massive bailouts from our right-wing governments.
But they don't need a pandemic for that and you like that, so why are you complaining?

"those deadly shots" I took 3, and I'm still alive.
You're self-programming your brain with nonsense.
That is why leo says that it's pointless to try to argue rationally with you.

Even if your worst assumptions are true, they are still not "deadly shots".
That would mean that we would have lost 5.6 billion people worldwide,
myself and everyone I know (except my brother in law) included.

No one told me something like: "Do you know who died directly after getting the shot? The father of Mark from IT.". Why not? Because, besides my brother in law, I'm hanging around with people who can rationally assess these claims. Even my brother in law didn't know anyone personally who died. He told me about dozens
of unsubstantiated claims from his friend's friends; which are useless rumors.
That's what ALL OF YOU have; nothing but useless rumors.

Your side controls all the institutions now, and you STILL got nothing.
Sure, they make theater investigating Fauci, but that's it.
So, you either have to admit that you're wrong or that your side is the most
useless bunch ever. Democrats would have had piles of evidence by now.

There are now multiple Watergates per week
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He is not participating in this childish perjury trap.

What do you think, that he would just tell you, if there was some massive conspiracy
going on, that your whole administration failed to uncover? Silly goose!

What was Trump hiding, when he pleaded the 5th over 440 times?

One thing that the House Republicans have been trying to do, is to abuse the broad definition of gain-of-function (GoF) research, give him no time to explain what part of that definition was applicable to the international infectious disease research collaborations and which part was not, and then try to point to some made up inconsistency and call it a lie, for which they will try to put him in jail for 5 years. Does that answer your question?

At least one or two were intended to make fun of you. I hope you caught that.

Trump administration demands hospitals share personal emergency room records.
This will require participating hospitals to provide personally identifiable patient information, including names, addresses, diagnoses, and other medical details, to the CPSC's contractor.

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manure, manipulation, menace, maleficent

Trump lost another fan.

Alan Ritchson goes NUCLEAR on Donald Trump
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Sean Lock and Jon Richardson's legendary carrot in a box showdown
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Everything is melting
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Crops are dying or burning on the fields.
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Grapes in Italy are harvested 10 days earlier than last year. They do this early in the morning, before temperatures hit 40°C (104°F). In localized regions, it genuinely is the earliest on record. For instance, in the major sparkling-wine hub of Oltrepò Pavese (Lombardy), the cutting of Chardonnay grapes on July 27–28 was officially declared an absolute historical record early start, as operations there have NEVER previously shifted into late July.

In July 2026, Europe is experiencing an unprecedented, record-breaking wildfire season, with the absolute worst-hit areas concentrated in southwestern France and central Spain. Fuelled by historic droughts and intense heatwaves, these massive "mega-fires" have forced over 300,000 people to evacuate and have burned an area larger than Luxembourg across the European Union.

As of late July 2026, the United States is battling an intensely severe wildfire season, with federal fire managers elevating the national wildfire alert to its highest possible level. Driven by a hot, dry winter and punishing summer heatwaves, over 4.5 million acres have already burned nationwide across 42,651 individual fires.

In late July 2026, Canada is battling one of its most intense wildfire seasons on record. Prime Minister Mark Carney has mobilized cabinet-level emergency response committees to manage nearly 900 active fires burning simultaneously across the country.Over 3.7 million hectares have already been scorched nationwide, sharply outpacing the historical 10-year national average.

In late July 2026, the Middle East and neighboring Eastern Mediterranean are grappling with a dual crisis of unprecedented heatwaves and localized wildfire emergencies.
Further east in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, the climate story is focused on absolute survivability rather than forest fires. A historic mid-to-late July heatwave has pushed temperatures flirting with 50°C (122°F) across southern and central Iraq and Kuwait, straining local power grids to their breaking points.

In July 2026, Africa is experiencing some of the most severe consequences of a human-driven climate crisis. Because the continent is warming significantly faster than the global average, extreme heatwaves and multi-year droughts are triggering widespread devastation.
The extreme Saharan heatwaves have pushed temperatures frequently past 45°C to 50°C, causing an unprecedented ecological crisis. As reported by atmospheric and veterinary scientists on the BBC, even hyper-resilient animals like camels are now dying from extreme heat stress. The lack of clean water combined with high temperatures has created a breeding ground for vector-borne diseases and public health emergencies. Vulnerable populations are experiencing spikes in heat exhaustion, heat strokes, and cardiovascular distress. Furthermore, earlier floods in central Africa have left stagnant water that, when superheated by the current drought, accelerates cholera risks. As dry grass and parched forestry create literal tinderboxes, countries like Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa, as well as the savannas of South Africa, are seeing uncontrollable bushfires consume thousands of hectares of protected nature reserves and commercial grazing land.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
There is no reason to suspect that there is anything wrong with the product,
but I prefer that products that I consume are inspected, to be sure.
So, it's not clear who fucked up in the first place, but the final call is sensible.
It's still a waste that in all likelihood perfectly fine products are getting discarded,
but for food my standards are higher than "in all likelihood".

They could have solved this by some on the spot inspections and prevent the destruction of this product, but I suspect that they are being overzealous, to recover some trust from the public at large, because of the recent fuck-ups that were causing your Clostridium outbreak.

When the FDA initially identified Taylor Farms' lettuce as the source of a massive Cyclospora parasite outbreak, which has sickened thousands across multiple states, some Taylor Farms executives bypassed standard regulatory channels, with an urgent plea to delay announcing a public product recall, demanding more proof and time.

The FDA initially announced that a sample of Taylor Farms' lettuce tested positive for Cyclospora. However, shortly after the White House meeting, the FDA deleted that finding from its public website, claiming a re-review showed the result was actually a "false positive". The "false positive" claim is considered "highly questionable" and has sparked intense skepticism from public health experts, lawmakers, and the public. Despite walking back the specific lab test, the FDA maintained that the broader voluntary recall was still necessary based on "overwhelming epidemiological data" pointing to Taylor Farms.
More than 1,600 lab-confirmed cases (and over 7,400 suspected cases) have been reported across multiple states. 90% of interviewed patients reported eating shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell right before getting sick.

The most critical scientific fact in this outbreak is that the Cyclospora cayetanensis parasite can ONLY survive and multiply in human feces. The contamination most likely occurred because human sewage leaked onto the fields in Central Mexico and contaminated the crops. This could have happened via:
• Contaminated irrigation water (rivers or canals connected to open sewers).
• Flooding after heavy rainfall, which caused human wastewater to overflow onto the fields.
The outbreak has occurred in waves. When an outbreak continues to repeat over a longer period, it usually points to a "persistent contamination of the irrigation water or the process water." If the water used in the fields or the factory remains continuously contaminated with the parasite, every new batch of lettuce that comes into contact with it becomes contaminated as well.
Microbiologists emphasize that Cyclospora eggs (oocysts) have an extremely hard, sticky protective shell. Once contaminated water is sprayed over the lettuce, the eggs cling tightly to the microscopic folds of the leaves. Standard washing with chlorine or water is often not effective enough to remove them.

Taylor Farms immediately posted on social media that the FDA had "apologized" to them for the error, a claim that the FDA subsequently denied ever making.

Public Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings revealed that in 2025, Taylor Farms contributed $1 million to President Trump's super PAC (MAGA Inc.) and over $1 million to other Republican political action committees. Congressman Garcia is demanding all communications between Taylor Farms, the White House, the FDA, and the CDC, questioning if these millions in political donations were leveraged to interfere with a public health crisis.

Independent food safety experts noted that public health communication has been severely weakened because many of the dedicated communications staff at the FDA and CDC were recently terminated due to deep federal budget cuts.

On July 27, 2026, the US Congress (the House Oversight Committee) launched an official investigation into Taylor Farms. In this probe, lawmakers demand that the company hand over all internal documents regarding their food safety procedures and water quality testing at their Mexican facilities. A definitive conclusion about the exact condition of the water used by Taylor Farms will only be reached once these documents and independent inspections are made public. The Trump administration does not have the legal authority to shut down a congressional inquiry, but they have forcefully dismissed the probe's allegations as entirely false.

I think this article about the Canadian bacon recall is made public as a distraction.

The product wasn't actually suspected of any contamination risk. It was recalled because
it bypassed a legally required US import re-inspection, meaning its safety could not be verified.

Based on the information released so far, there is no indication of intentional wrongdoing or contamination by Maple Leaf Foods. The reported issue is that the bacon bypassed the required US import re-inspection process, and it has not been publicly explained whether that happened because of an error by the importer, a customs/logistics issue, or another administrative failure. The recall notice does not explain the mechanism by which the shipment bypassed the required inspection or assign fault to any particular party.

The situation in the central registration center for asylum seekers is absolutely awful.
Don't expect me to defend that. The immigrants aren't welcomed with open arms
by the people who live there either. That's the people who vote for Geert Wilders.

However, what I don't get is why a software engineer from the US has to go through
Ter Apel. We have the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (DAFT).
All an American has to do to get in is:
1. You must be a U.S. citizen.
A U.S. passport is required. Having only a U.S. green card is not enough.
2. You must start or operate your own business in the Netherlands.
This can be a sole proprietorship, a private limited company (BV), or another legitimate business structure. The business must be genuine and actively operated.
3. You must invest at least €4,500 in your business.
This money is your own business capital, it is not a fee paid to the Dutch government. The funds must remain available to the business.
4. You must register your business with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK).
The business must be officially registered.
5. You must apply for a Dutch residence permit under DAFT.
The Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) processes the application.
6. Your business must remain active.
When you renew your residence permit, the IND will check that your business is a real, ongoing enterprise. There is no fixed minimum income requirement, but the business cannot exist only on paper.

That's why so many Americans start a YouTube channel. The money is exactly what you need for a good camera and microphone set and an editing PC with enough storage.
Then they make videos about how they love their life here.

A transgender from the US has a very slim chance to be accepted as a refugee,
because the US is considered to be a safe country.

So your story doesn't make sense. Or he is a very dumb American who didn't know that.

"Have tariffs worked?"
That depends on the goal. If his goal is to tax the lower and middle class more, to compensate for the billionaire tax-cuts, then it is the easiest thing that he could do.
If the goal is to cause chaos on the stock-market, that your family and friends can use to enrich themselves, than it is a devious plan. I'm sure that he didn't think of it himself, because he's not smart enough for that.

Trump doesn't give a fuck about anything being 'illegal'. He has been getting away with crimes all of his life. At worst he had to pay some fines. If you own the DOJ,
the FBI and the supreme court, and all your senators and governors are partisan loyalists, then nothing is 'illegal' anymore.

Do you want your political side to be cruel to a woman who has abnormal hair growth
or baldness or a low voice or a masculine facial bone structure, and call them "SIR"?
I expect that you wouldn't. So what is it that you cannot accept that some people
have a development abnormality with their sexual attraction or sexual identity?

"pure luck and chance they are still alive" because obviously cops should just
kill people who shout at them! FUCKING FASCIST!!!

This is why you are showing that you are NOT AN AMERICAN:

1. First Amendment – Freedom of Speech
o The First Amendment protects the right to criticize the government and its officials, including police officers.
o Simply shouting, insulting, or verbally criticizing an officer is generally protected speech, unless it crosses into categories like a "true threat" or incitement.

2. Fourth Amendment – Protection Against Unreasonable Seizures
o A police shooting is considered a "seizure" of a person.
o Under Supreme Court precedent, officers may use deadly force only when it is objectively reasonable under the circumstances.
o Someone merely yelling at an officer, without posing an imminent threat of serious harm, would not justify deadly force.

3. Fifth Amendment (federal government) and Fourteenth Amendment (states)
o Both contain Due Process Clauses, which protect against deprivation of life without due process of law.
o Since most policing is done by state and local officers, the Fourteenth Amendment is especially important because it applies constitutional protections against state governments.

Key Supreme Court cases
• Tennessee v. Garner
o The Court held that police generally may not use deadly force against a fleeing suspect unless the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury.

• Graham v. Connor
o The Court established that police use of force must be judged under the Fourth Amendment's "objective reasonableness" standard.

• City of Houston v. Hill
o The Court struck down a law that broadly criminalized interrupting police officers, emphasizing that the First Amendment protects a significant amount of verbal criticism and challenge directed at police.

OMG, undue expectations? They just want to be accepted for who they are.

These people have development abnormalities, just like people who have other non-lethal abnormalities in their bodies. I never heard you say that someone with Autism, Cerebral palsy or Epilepsy should just ACT NORMAL, but because of some weird obsession with sex and 'sex' identity, you lot are denying THIS.

What happened in Germany is that religious and culturally inspired ignorance and hate, resulted in some fuckwit starting to kill people who are celebrating FREEDOM!!!

Persisting in the claim that it isn't real is just ignorance. To make you a bit more aware, I put below the process, as far as science has unraveled it today, of just the development of a fertilized egg into a girl/women, with all the primary and secondary sex characteristics, fertility, sexual identity and heterosexual attraction. When everything goes correctly, we get a straight cis-female/woman.

If I added the information for a boy/man, my comment would span several pages. Male development has one particularly vulnerable feature: it depends on the successful activation of the SRY → SOX9 pathway and the production and action of testicular hormones during a relatively narrow developmental window. Many chromosomal abnormalities lead to miscarriage before birth, so the patterns seen in live births don't necessarily reflect how often they occur initially. That leaves all the men with non-lethal variations in their sex/gender/sexual attraction development.

Development into a girl/woman
1. Chromosomes
Usually:
• 46 chromosomes
• XX sex chromosomes
However, simply having XX is not sufficient by itself. The genes on those chromosomes—and on the other 44 chromosomes (autosomes)—must also function normally.
There are exceptions:
• Turner syndrome (45,X)
• Mosaic XX/XO
• XX individuals with differences of sex development
• Rare XX males due to translocation of the SRY gene
So chromosomes are the starting blueprint, not the whole story.
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2. Genes
Scientists estimate that well over 1,000 genes contribute in some way to sex differentiation, fertility, brain development, and puberty.
Only about 50–100 genes are considered major regulators of sex development.
Some of the best known include:
Ovarian development
• WNT4
• RSPO1
• FOXL2
• DAX1 (NR0B1)
These actively promote ovarian development.
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Suppression of testis development
Female development is not simply "default."
Genes actively suppress the male pathway.
Examples:
• WNT4
• RSPO1
• FOXL2
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Hormone production
Genes involved include:
• CYP19A1 (aromatase)
• CYP17A1
• STAR
• HSD17B enzymes
• CYP11A1
These produce estrogen and progesterone.
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Hormone receptors
Examples:
• ESR1 (estrogen receptor alpha)
• ESR2
• PGR (progesterone receptor)
Without functioning receptors, hormones cannot work properly.
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Fertility
Many additional genes are required.
Examples:
• FSHR
• LHCGR
• BMP15
• GDF9
• NOBOX
Hundreds more participate in ovarian function.
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Brain development
Many genes that influence:
• hypothalamus
• limbic system
• pituitary regulation
• social behavior
also contribute indirectly.
Scientists estimate hundreds of genes are involved.
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3. Hormones before birth (mother's womb)
Female fetal development requires relatively low androgen exposure compared with male development, but it is still hormonally regulated.
Important hormones include:
• maternal estrogens
• placental estrogens
• progesterone
• human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
• fetal adrenal steroids
• insulin-like growth factors
• thyroid hormones
• anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is generally absent at male-typical levels
Interestingly,
female internal reproductive organs develop primarily because they are not exposed to high levels of AMH and testosterone during critical developmental windows.
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4. Hormones after birth
During childhood and especially puberty:
• estrogen
• progesterone
• FSH
• LH
• GnRH
• growth hormone
• IGF-1
• prolactin
• thyroid hormones
• adrenal hormones
work together.
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5. Development of primary sex characteristics
Requires coordinated development of:
• ovaries
• uterus
• cervix
• vagina
• fallopian tubes
This involves:
• genes
• hormone signaling
• receptors
• embryonic tissue interactions
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6. Secondary sex characteristics
At puberty:
• breast development
• wider pelvis
• fat distribution
• reduced muscle mass
• menstrual cycles
• body hair pattern
• voice characteristics
depend largely on estrogen and progesterone.
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7. Fertility
Requires successful development of:
• ovaries
• follicles
• ovulation
• uterus
• endocrine cycles
• cervix
• hypothalamus
• pituitary
Hundreds of genes contribute.
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8. Gender identity
Current evidence suggests gender identity arises from a combination of:
• genetics
• prenatal hormone exposure
• brain development
• later life experiences
Twin studies indicate a genetic contribution, but no single "gender identity gene" has been identified. Many genes likely each contribute a small effect, interacting with developmental processes.
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9. Sexual orientation
Similarly, research suggests sexual orientation reflects:
• many genetic influences
• prenatal hormonal environment
• early brain development
• other biological factors that remain incompletely understood
Large genetic studies indicate there is no single "heterosexual gene" or "homosexual gene." Instead, many genetic variants each contribute a very small amount, alongside non-genetic developmental influences.

No, you cannot chose to be gay if you're not or chose not be gay if you are.
You are what you are. You can chose to deny it, of course.
But why should they do that? Just because of you?

It's as much a choice as for you to turn gay.
Or do you think that being gay is a choice too?

Teachers salaries in the US have not even kept up with inflation in the last 30 years. They lost ground significantly, especially relative to other professionals.

Your whole country is politicized and biased. It's only logical that teachers are included in that trend. It has been going on in relation to religion for a long time. We have Christian teachers too, but they have never outright refused to teach evolution.
About 28% consistently taught evolution as the scientific consensus.
About 13% explicitly advocated creationism or intelligent design.
About 60% took an "avoidance" approach, teaching evolution incompletely or presenting it as controversial, rather than as the foundation of modern biology.
That means that 72% are not doing their job as they should.

Kids are getting dumber, because your whole society is worshiping stupidity. That's because of your side turning away from facts, critical thinking and science. Your politicians were literally banning schoolbooks, because it mentioned or explained critical thinking. There is a brain drain ongoing in your country, because educated people are leaving. A 2025 Nature poll of more than 1,600 U.S.-based researchers found that about 75% of respondents said they were considering leaving the U.S. Many mentioned Europe and Canada as possible destinations. Other countries are trying to recruit them. Universities and research organizations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere have been positioning themselves to attract researchers
who are frustrated with US conditions.