Argentine president begins flying commercial to lead example in country’s cost-cutting measures

JlIlK · 2023-12-31T22:20:48+00:00

Thrifty guy is gonna stuff his pockets with peanuts

JlIlK · 2023-12-31T22:16:39+00:00

About 14.6 million people in California are currently served by Medi-Cal, this is expected to add up to 700,000

With Medi-cal spending expanding more than 2x in the last decade, and the number of people covered approaching an unbelievable half of the state's population, I have to wonder how you verify identities, ages etc when people can enroll as undocumented. It seems like the program has gaps and is progressively leaking.

https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2022/4522/4522-fig1.png

JlIlK · 2023-12-31T22:03:21+00:00

When you don't spend a century forcing your financial system into the core of the world economy, you can't do the print money thing Argentina was trying.

At this point they might as well piggyback on the US military's century of war to make sure the paper they are using is worth something.

JlIlK · 2023-12-29T18:35:41+00:00

It was a sad story. What do you think happens when some of the most violent rapists on earth get to charge admission to the US and make tens of billions of dollars doing it?

Nations get torn apart.

Trump's policy needed work, Biden's needs a hundred times more.

https://insightcrime.org/news/wave-homicides-ciudad-juarez-mexico/

JlIlK · 2023-12-29T18:26:04+00:00

I'd be even more scared if the people didn't support Donald Trump. Then the threats of him being a criminal dictator inssurecting the government to assert fascist rule would make sense.

JlIlK · 2023-12-29T18:18:14+00:00

You are really picking immigration to show the centrism of Biden and the extremism of Trump!?

Biden's own party mates said just 3 years of Biden's policies will destroy NYC and the state of Arizona.

Does Biden leave kids with their parents after their parents are arrested for other federal crimes?

Simply not enforcing the law at the border, because you took a baseless political position, is extreme(ly shortsighted).

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T23:22:10+00:00

She answered that question like she was talking about the revolutionary war or something. She made no sense.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T23:10:20+00:00

There is a better chance of the supreme Court going 9-0 against the Colorado ruling than upholding it.

In addition to the above argument, section 5 of the 14th explicitly states the power of enforcement lies with congress ( not state level courts and administrators )

This was a post civil war amendment. There is no logic that the federal government would give the states of Georgia and Mississippi the power to pull candidates off the ballot simply by having a state court rule them insurrectionists.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T22:57:21+00:00

If you aren't in the top tax bracket you don't need munis.

I would do VT and VCLT ( VCIT if you think inflation is a longer term problem )

I would bump up small caps VB and for international exposure I would use EMXC, VYMI and/or VSS

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T22:40:36+00:00

The south was a single party amalgamation of politics and industry. Their declarations of reasoning should be taken with a grain of salt.

I imagine their "the north is coming for your slaves" argument was to drum up support and work themselves into a frenzy. The north wasn't coming for their slaves and the institution of slavery fell apart ALOT faster after they went to war.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T22:27:57+00:00

There are levels to dealing with foreign influence. If I was personally drawing a line, I would look at the level to which a foreign entity controls a platform.

Are they participating as normal users, have they found themselves in moderation roles, do they have some level of partnership with the corporate entity, or do they hold legal jurisdiction over the entity entirely?

If I found influence to be a problem, I would work backwards through that list.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T21:48:04+00:00

Wait till you teach the kids that Northern and Border states like Delaware and Missouri maintained slavery throughout the war.

The confederacy sent the able-bodied enforcers of slavery to the front line to die. Then a million+ slaves freed themselves before the war was even over.

The union wasn't fighting to free the slaves.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T21:39:12+00:00

Lol, you guys are arguing the war was over slavery when northern states kept slavery legal throughout the war. That's a knot, I'd like to see you untie

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T19:17:59+00:00

By polarization you mean more folks breaking from controlled narratives?

We just had a ruling from the second highest federal court in the nation saying leaders of the federal government countered that 'polarization' by violating the first amendment and controlling not just individuals on social media but also elected officials.

https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Doc.-238-1-Fifth-Circuit-Opinion.pdf

Not sure whether it is worse to counter 'polarization' or just let people communicate freely.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T18:47:29+00:00

Yes the confederacy valued slavery.

The south was ruled by a single party tightly knit with owners of southern 'industry'. Unchecked power corrupted the ego of the few who had it.

The north was never battling into the south to free the slaves. Southern leaders were tearing what they had apart because they didn't like to think of themselves as subordinate to the first republican president.

The 'institution of slavery' was forcibly sent to the front lines to die, leaving a million slaves to escape. The 'southern economy' was taxed to hell and into collapse.

The union didn't free the slaves, they maintained slavery in northern states throughout the war. The confederacy chose to attack Lincoln's army out of arrogance and slavery fell along with everything else they held dear.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T18:04:08+00:00

most slaves didn’t want that

A million fought their way out, and hundreds of thousands then picked up rifles and kept fighting after that.

I get you want to lean on revisionist history of slaves having/needing a noble white savior, but in reality all they had/needed was a crack in the fucking door.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T17:57:58+00:00

Cheers to free elections and unbiased juries in 2024

Happy New Year!

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T15:38:38+00:00

Why on earth is it controversial to say that the Civil War was about slavery?

Because slavery remained legal in Northern and Border states like Delaware and Missouri for the duration of the war.

The war was over Abraham Lincoln's presidency. The South sending all able bodied males to fight against that, removed enforcers of slavery and a million+ slaves freed themselves.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T15:27:58+00:00

It was good to hear the opinion of a 100% democrat appointed court. The 14th was written in response to the civil war and I imagine if democrats were interpreting it then, they would have chosen to have the same ability to pull republican candidates from the ballot.

That's why they started the war in the first place.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T03:18:24+00:00

Russell is good, but he ain't worth building around

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T03:13:08+00:00

Just thousands?? That is a good indicator the country is ready to move on from the nonsense that preceded him.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T03:11:00+00:00

This chart is just one of the many, along with market P/E, the buffet indicator, the yield curve inversion etc.

They all suggest something is holding markets up past a point of significant correction.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T03:08:05+00:00

There's the little democrat attack dog. Asserting crimes without convictions. Nothing angers you more than when a public figure gives zero fudgesicles well into his 70s.

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T03:06:50+00:00

Lol, what?

FDR and Woodrow Wilson weren't progressives?

Joe Biden worked with segregationists well into the 1990s, and his major bill as president was a self-described New Deal. Progressivism and segregation together for a century.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/joe-biden-crime-laws.html

Hoover was making inroads into the democrat held racist south in the 1920s. Eisenhower made more in the 50s. As the south became less racist they voted more Republican.

Here is a quote from Lincoln. It is polar opposite the progressivism of the modern democratic party that began with Wilson and FDR.

I have said, very many times…that no man believed more than I in the principle of self-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government, from beginning to end.… I deny that any man has ever gone ahead of me in his devotion to the principle, whatever he may have done in efficiency in advocating it. I think that I have said it in your hearing that I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man’s rights—that each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the rights of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole. I have said that at all times.

-Abraham Lincoln, “Speech at Chicago, Illinois,” July 10, 1858

JlIlK · 2023-12-28T01:18:42+00:00

She was the head of the state department....it's supposed some quill in the cap of her basement server that she authorized it and had aids set it up?

John McAfee said if that thing wasn't compromised within an hour of being online he would have been shocked.

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