Other issues: 1. secure the border, 2. Deport criminals illegals, 3. Ensure election integrity, 4. Extend tax cuts to promote growth so that everyone wins., 5. Clean up the three letter agencies, 6, bring on Elon to find $2 trillion in waste.
Dave, overshadowed in Biden's "garbage" speech, he said something like, "And Trump is talking about ending birthright citizenship. Who's even talked about that in the last hundred years?"
His ignorance stunned my (even now) since just about every other Western nation had talked about it and ended it.
With regard to nationality, Mexico's laws make sense. Two ways of acquiring nationality by blood or by land. By land, one parent must have a legal presence (permanent residency, or temporary residency, tourist/business visa doesn't count). By blood if one parent has nationality. Nationality and citizenship are two different concepts in Mexico. Citizenship in Mexico is acquired by a national that has acquired an elector identification so they can vote. Citizenship means participation in the electoral process.
I had a wonderful friend from high school. She was Mexican. I ran into her in a laundry mat years later after high school. She told me she was gay. I told her I didn't know and I did not care. She then proceeded to complain about people coming here illegally from Mexico. (I have no idea why she started talking about that to this day.)
Shw said her people hated those that came here illegally. They hated it and they had a nasty nickname for them. She told me and I was shocked.
I refuse to say what it was but she said they hated them and have no respect for them for not coming here legally. I was so surprised to learn of this.
She did point out she was surprised I would take to her and I reassured her of course I would! We always sat next to each other in homeroom due to our last names and we were in a group of very athletic & competitive people. We were called tomboys and in today's world, people would call us gay and teachers would tell us we should have gender changing surgery. Only two of us were known to be gay and no one cared. We just loved sports! Amazing how times have changed peoples' judgements.
Another priority, although no one else is talking about it, is thatTrump needs to end withholding taxes. It is revenue neutral since no rates are changed and he could do it via a “deferral” so that everyone would either pay on 4/15 or quarterly. This would expose the true size of the federal government because people would not have the concept of “after tax” pay but just “pay” and then they’d be outraged at the waste.
On this we agree. While I am not at all happy about Trump's big win, because of other issues where he and I are not at all aligned, I do sincerely hope he follows through on MAHA and Bobby "going wild" on Big Pharma. The reckoning is due.
On environment and energy issues she's far better; on civil discourse she's far better; on immigration she's far better (I am an open borders guy and think the hoopla over immigration and crime is massively over blown); on human rights issues issues and racial equity she's far better; and yes I did appreciate that she was female and a minority and would have applauded her win for all of these reasons -- but yes I agree she and the corporate Dems were horrible on: 1) foreign policy and war in many ways, particularly in recent years; 2) Big Pharma and scamdemic, and being so incredibly wrong on "the science" surrounding the pandemic; 3) suppression of free speech.
No kidding. Epic. It might be true Pharma advertising supports the whole corrupt mess. Think of all the advertising dollars spent supporting the nets. Without that, where would they be. Broke? 👏👏👏
"Otherwise Big Pharma will continue to try to stretch the definition of vaccines so that"
LOL... stretching the definition of "Vaccine" isn't solely the act of big pharma! The CDC went right along with it in August or Sept of 2021, as I learned from Alex. (They removed any reference to "immunity.")
The machine gun ban too... repeal that. Get rid of BATF except for excise tax collection and nothing more. They and the FBI have redundant capabilities.
Ban labeling people who have chronic pain conditions that regularly see drs and are on pain medications addicts. We are not! Stop penalizing those drs who are correctly doing their jobs and not abusing prescribing medications Stop making us suffer even more than we already are!
It looked good on paper, business wise. He likely was unaware of the long-term consequences. But the buck stops on his desk, and 1986, for me, really taints his legacy.
Alex is so correct about this. But I'd like to add another "freebie" that got through Congress that needs to be cancelled: the inability of student loans to be erased in a bankruptcy case. That enormous gift to banks spawned the profligate growth in college tuition costs. Banks, doing almost no underwriting, were happy to finance anything (basketweaving, gender studies, etc.) and the colleges were happy to have the students, even if their graduates would spend the rest of their lives in bondage to forever debts.
I think the "risk" should also be borne by the colleges and universities. If a student is incurring educational debt, then it should be incumbent upon the school to insure that the student graduates with a degree that will allow them to repay the debt. There are too many frivolous degrees out there!
Don’t know where the cut off should be, haven’t looked into it that deep; but, agreed, COMPLETE immunity is folly, at the same time NO immunity would be folly, too.
At the very least, something labeled experimental or not fully vetted should never be mandatory or any subset thereof.
You make good points, but consider the vaccines that were available when the law was passed. Most vaccines included 1-3 injections of live, attenuated virus. And were intended to confer permanent (or nearly so) immunity to specific viruses. However, the low number of injections (1-3) meant that the pharmaceutical companies could only charge a few times, but people could potentially sue for a health malady 10, 15, or 30 years later. Thus, the rationale for the law makes sense in the context of the time it was written and the products that were available.
Now, however, we have many other products that are being advertised as "vaccines" (e.g. flu vaccine, COVID vaccine), which do not confer any immunity, and often only marginal benefit. These products are also administered on a regular schedule (once a year, once every 3 months). These appear to be more like traditional pharmaceutical therapies that require constant "dosing" for efficacy (I know, the data about efficacy of COVID and flu vaccines is not very good).
Perhaps what we should do is modify the law to cover only pharmaceutical products that are administered <5 times in a lifetime. Or perhaps <3 times before the age of 12. Or something else to confine this to those products that are truly vaccines that are intended to provide permanent immunity to a virus.
With RFK on board if ever there was a time in history to make SERIOUS changes across the board in Pharma, and the corrupt in bed agencies "we the people" FUND, it is this next administration. Just absolutely DONE with the coddled and low T approach in enforcing ACCOUNTABILITY in the swamp. Trump must introduce some serious tough love measures! It will piss off a lot of the WOKE and enabling sheep and sheep media, but it MUST be done.
Second is banning pharmaceutical advertising to consumers.
Absolutely right!! Around one half to two thirds the ads I see on TV are for drugs. Then there is the ridiculous caveat: “This drug may kill you.”
I'd put it as #1. It's used to control the messaging/content/bias.
The additional benefit of driving a stake into the heart of the elite/mainstream/corporate media.
Absolutely... AND #1 prosicute Fauci
And ending the Green Card vax mandate, one of the few remaining mandates.
I didn’t realize this. This is horrible!
Alex, you are correct about this too. The time has come to end the "experts can't be challenged" mindset. They should be challenged at every step.
Other issues: 1. secure the border, 2. Deport criminals illegals, 3. Ensure election integrity, 4. Extend tax cuts to promote growth so that everyone wins., 5. Clean up the three letter agencies, 6, bring on Elon to find $2 trillion in waste.
Drill baby drill too
8. End chain migration and anchor-baby citizenship.
9. End secrecy and "classifying" everything that is embarrassing to the regime.
Little chance of that.
End birthright citizenship unless the parent(s) have a legal presence (nationality, permanent residency, visa (not tourist) in the US.
Dave, overshadowed in Biden's "garbage" speech, he said something like, "And Trump is talking about ending birthright citizenship. Who's even talked about that in the last hundred years?"
His ignorance stunned my (even now) since just about every other Western nation had talked about it and ended it.
With regard to nationality, Mexico's laws make sense. Two ways of acquiring nationality by blood or by land. By land, one parent must have a legal presence (permanent residency, or temporary residency, tourist/business visa doesn't count). By blood if one parent has nationality. Nationality and citizenship are two different concepts in Mexico. Citizenship in Mexico is acquired by a national that has acquired an elector identification so they can vote. Citizenship means participation in the electoral process.
I had a wonderful friend from high school. She was Mexican. I ran into her in a laundry mat years later after high school. She told me she was gay. I told her I didn't know and I did not care. She then proceeded to complain about people coming here illegally from Mexico. (I have no idea why she started talking about that to this day.)
Shw said her people hated those that came here illegally. They hated it and they had a nasty nickname for them. She told me and I was shocked.
I refuse to say what it was but she said they hated them and have no respect for them for not coming here legally. I was so surprised to learn of this.
She did point out she was surprised I would take to her and I reassured her of course I would! We always sat next to each other in homeroom due to our last names and we were in a group of very athletic & competitive people. We were called tomboys and in today's world, people would call us gay and teachers would tell us we should have gender changing surgery. Only two of us were known to be gay and no one cared. We just loved sports! Amazing how times have changed peoples' judgements.
send Liz Cheney to the front lines with a rifle to valiantly fight for our Ukranian brothers and sisters!
No more voting 16 different ways! I did not know that was going on until this morning! That is insane! (No! I am not saying "bananas"!)
Another priority, although no one else is talking about it, is thatTrump needs to end withholding taxes. It is revenue neutral since no rates are changed and he could do it via a “deferral” so that everyone would either pay on 4/15 or quarterly. This would expose the true size of the federal government because people would not have the concept of “after tax” pay but just “pay” and then they’d be outraged at the waste.
I believe Elon Musk would be appointed to that position, excellent choice imho. Cheers all.
On this we agree. While I am not at all happy about Trump's big win, because of other issues where he and I are not at all aligned, I do sincerely hope he follows through on MAHA and Bobby "going wild" on Big Pharma. The reckoning is due.
It will be great! He is not perfect, but he is a reasonable guy. Every person that met him say he listen and then makes up is mind.
It will be great!
I'm not sure reason is Trump's strong suit. Just saying
All due respect, please tell me you would have preferred the other budala candidate, Harris?
On environment and energy issues she's far better; on civil discourse she's far better; on immigration she's far better (I am an open borders guy and think the hoopla over immigration and crime is massively over blown); on human rights issues issues and racial equity she's far better; and yes I did appreciate that she was female and a minority and would have applauded her win for all of these reasons -- but yes I agree she and the corporate Dems were horrible on: 1) foreign policy and war in many ways, particularly in recent years; 2) Big Pharma and scamdemic, and being so incredibly wrong on "the science" surrounding the pandemic; 3) suppression of free speech.
The Covid jabs have proved how utterly corrupt and dangerous the FDA is!
Pharma advertising might be the key to collapsing the whole thing. Do it.
Think what ending pharma advertising would do to the "main-stream" media!
No kidding. Epic. It might be true Pharma advertising supports the whole corrupt mess. Think of all the advertising dollars spent supporting the nets. Without that, where would they be. Broke? 👏👏👏
"Otherwise Big Pharma will continue to try to stretch the definition of vaccines so that"
LOL... stretching the definition of "Vaccine" isn't solely the act of big pharma! The CDC went right along with it in August or Sept of 2021, as I learned from Alex. (They removed any reference to "immunity.")
100% agree.
1986 was a dark year, legislatively. It also created the loopholes to exploit our immigration system.
The machine gun ban too... repeal that. Get rid of BATF except for excise tax collection and nothing more. They and the FBI have redundant capabilities.
Ban labeling people who have chronic pain conditions that regularly see drs and are on pain medications addicts. We are not! Stop penalizing those drs who are correctly doing their jobs and not abusing prescribing medications Stop making us suffer even more than we already are!
why didn't Reagan veto all of that? was he senile by then? did they have the votes to override him??
It looked good on paper, business wise. He likely was unaware of the long-term consequences. But the buck stops on his desk, and 1986, for me, really taints his legacy.
Alex is so correct about this. But I'd like to add another "freebie" that got through Congress that needs to be cancelled: the inability of student loans to be erased in a bankruptcy case. That enormous gift to banks spawned the profligate growth in college tuition costs. Banks, doing almost no underwriting, were happy to finance anything (basketweaving, gender studies, etc.) and the colleges were happy to have the students, even if their graduates would spend the rest of their lives in bondage to forever debts.
And every kid declares bankruptcy on graduation. Too easy. Hold the schools responsible if kids don't pay.
Student loans cannot be forgiven in bankruptcy.
Trump has said the colleges should pay.
He can stop federal funds from going to colleges and pay off loans.
I think the "risk" should also be borne by the colleges and universities. If a student is incurring educational debt, then it should be incumbent upon the school to insure that the student graduates with a degree that will allow them to repay the debt. There are too many frivolous degrees out there!
Trumps your guy.
“Should produce immunity not receive it.” Freaking brilliant!
Don’t know where the cut off should be, haven’t looked into it that deep; but, agreed, COMPLETE immunity is folly, at the same time NO immunity would be folly, too.
At the very least, something labeled experimental or not fully vetted should never be mandatory or any subset thereof.
You make good points, but consider the vaccines that were available when the law was passed. Most vaccines included 1-3 injections of live, attenuated virus. And were intended to confer permanent (or nearly so) immunity to specific viruses. However, the low number of injections (1-3) meant that the pharmaceutical companies could only charge a few times, but people could potentially sue for a health malady 10, 15, or 30 years later. Thus, the rationale for the law makes sense in the context of the time it was written and the products that were available.
Now, however, we have many other products that are being advertised as "vaccines" (e.g. flu vaccine, COVID vaccine), which do not confer any immunity, and often only marginal benefit. These products are also administered on a regular schedule (once a year, once every 3 months). These appear to be more like traditional pharmaceutical therapies that require constant "dosing" for efficacy (I know, the data about efficacy of COVID and flu vaccines is not very good).
Perhaps what we should do is modify the law to cover only pharmaceutical products that are administered <5 times in a lifetime. Or perhaps <3 times before the age of 12. Or something else to confine this to those products that are truly vaccines that are intended to provide permanent immunity to a virus.
How bout we make CDC go back to the definition of Vaccine they used before Covid-19
With RFK on board if ever there was a time in history to make SERIOUS changes across the board in Pharma, and the corrupt in bed agencies "we the people" FUND, it is this next administration. Just absolutely DONE with the coddled and low T approach in enforcing ACCOUNTABILITY in the swamp. Trump must introduce some serious tough love measures! It will piss off a lot of the WOKE and enabling sheep and sheep media, but it MUST be done.
I agree with Alex Berenson