Current events discussion

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

And the whole time they claim they are critical thinkers and unbiased...yet there's crickets when you ask them to name something about their team they don't agree with

Why would they disagree with their own team when Team Blue hasn't been wrong since LBJ????

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Markets are taking off today after Trump announced a 25% tariff on India. Yeah Trump? Yeah Tariffs?

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Why would they disagree with their own team when Team Blue hasn't been wrong since LBJ????

And they still live in the shadows of the god-king FDR

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Yeah Trump?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/economy/government-tariff-revenue

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

That makes no logical sense. Omicron helped end the pandemic rather prolong it. As a matter of fact, I'd say we could have stopped "countermeasures" once it became obvious that omicron was the dominant strain and immune to the vax.

It does you just are a medical parrot. I don't mean to offend but I've been around tons of medical people, people in the field and almost all of them are parrots of what they were repetitively taught and actually lack critical thinking skills, so they don't know what they're talking about most of the time, just parroting what they think is right because the industry taught them that way.

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

When in doubt roach out

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

No humans don't have the inate right to be free from slavery.

Holy shit. You can't POSSIBLY be for real at this point.

They have an inate desire to not be enslaved. In Colorado, a baby doesn't even have a right to life until it exits the womb because the gov't says as long it's in the womb. Or another way to look at it is, mothers (and doctors) have the right to deletus the ***** as long as it's in the womb. Yet, a random person doesn't have the right to assault a mother and end her pregnancy. And who is charge of all these decisions and enforcing them? Last I checked it was the gov't.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Yeah Trump?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/economy/government-tariff-revenue

A $30 Billion increase in taxes that US citizens pay?
WINNING!!!!

Can they send me a prepaid envelope, and I'll just mail them a bunch of my cashe, so it'll be even MORE winning?!!?!
Can they raise all of our tax rates to 40% or even 50%? The winning will be INSANE!

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

When in doubt roach out

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

If the Government didn't give us the rights, how can they punish us for exercising them?

Jimi is probably just playing contrarian to bust balls. but you really should go back to school and get an education.

How can one cause anyone to do anything with their speech. Speech is a formless entity. Air rushing over vocal cords to make sound. There is nothing physical about it that can force a person to do anything. What you are describing is placing blame on someone else for your own actions instead of accepting responsibility for your own actions.

Really? Tell that to Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, David Koresh, Jimmy Swaggart, Billy Graham, Joel Osteen, Ghengis Khan, Kim Jong Il.

See above.

See above.

Now you want to argue morality.

Oh? How does the innate right to be free tie into a morality argument?

People have free will. No words spoken by another can MAKE you do something. Everything done is a choice made by the individual doing it.

Hmmm, free will would be an innate right, then.
But Jimi said we have no innate rights, and you jumped on the bandwagon.

So which of your contradicting stances is it: We have innate rights, or we do not?
It can't be both.
Choose.

As far as laws and being punished for exercising your rights. What good are rights if laws are used to keep you from exercising them out of fear of punishment? It is a form of control by those who make laws. You are given the false belief that you have a choice, that you have rights... exercise the wrong one and BAM!!! You're screwed.

You have the right to free speech. You do not have a right to use that free speech to cause injury to others, in violation of THEIR rights.
So if we have no rights from birth, then there is no reason for the COTUS to protect rights, since we don't have any.

You just destroyed the entire right-wing argument for being able to bear arms.
Well done!

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

It does you just are a medical parrot. I don't mean to offend but I've been around tons of medical people, people in the field and almost all of them are parrots of what they were repetitively taught and actually lack critical thinking skills, so they don't know what they're talking about most of the time, just parroting what they think is right because the industry taught them that way

Medicine didn't get where it is on accident. RFK is blaming mRNA for a mutation without proof. Viruses tend to naturally mutate to less deadly variants, which is what happened. Additionally, if mRNA is responsible for the mutation to Omicron, how did that extend the pandemic? Once Omicron became the dominant variant, they could have called the pandemic over. If mRNA caused Omicron, then mRNA brought the pandemic to an end via unintended consequences. The logic doesn't logic.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Jimi is probably just playing contrarian to bust balls. but you really should go back to school and get an education.

I should... Elementary, Middle, High School and 4 years at a University. I should go back because I made a point YOU don't agree with or you don't comprehend.

Really? Tell that to Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, David Koresh, Jimmy Swaggart, Billy Graham, Joel Osteen, Ghengis Khan, Kim Jong Il.

Yes, REALLY!

Oh? How does the innate right to be free tie into a morality argument?

Why don't you tell us?

Hmmm, free will would be an innate right, then.

Free will is not a right that any person has. Do you know what a right is?

But Jimi said we have no innate rights, and you jumped on the bandwagon.

Yes because you are once again barking up trees thinking you know better than everyone.

So which of your contradicting stances is it: We have innate rights, or we do not?
It can't be both.
Choose.

It's like you really are against paying attention. We are talking about the Government giving and taking away rights as they see fit.

You have the right to free speech. You do not have a right to use that free speech to cause injury to others, in violation of THEIR rights.

How does my speech hurt someone? Prove that it hurts anything for me to say whatever words I please.

So if we have no rights from birth, then there is no reason for the COTUS to protect rights, since we don't have any.

Those documents were drafted for a society to be civil.

You just destroyed the entire right-wing argument for being able to bear arms.
Well done!

The Government is not in charge of who and what creates firearms. They regulate through laws. Arms does not strictly mean guns and rifles either oh educated one.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

A $30 Billion increase in taxes that US citizens pay?
WINNING!!!!

Can they send me a prepaid envelope, and I'll just mail them a bunch of my cashe, so it'll be even MORE winning?!!?!
Can they raise all of our tax rates to 40% or even 50%? The winning will be INSANE!

Unless manufacturers, importers, exporters, retailers, etc absorbed part or all of the tariffs. But since you're always right clearly all tariffs were passed directly to the consumers. In which case why is inflation at normal levels? Is TrumpCo somehow paying the tariffs before they hit the consumer?

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Unless manufacturers, importers, exporters, retailers, etc absorbed part or all of the tariffs. But since you're always right clearly all tariffs were passed directly to the consumers. In which case why is inflation at normal levels? Is TrumpCo somehow paying the tariffs before they hit the consumer?

You know he is going to say the levels are not normal.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

You know he is going to say the levels are not normal.

Possibly. Whatever the explanation, Trump Bad.