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Let me guess. Earthquakes are racist?
I called my sister in Queens.
No answer!
How do I know if she survived the Killer NYC Quake of ’24 ?
Please pray for her!
not too far off, you have some of the left blaming the earthquakes on climate change.
SCIENCE! NBC Affiliate’s Attempt to Link NY-Area Earthquake to Climate Change Is Beyond Parody – Twitchy
How can you have “freedom” if 60% of the populace is living paycheck to paycheck?
I blame the Fed. They don’t even come close to measuring inflation right. Supposedly even the payroll data is bad. They central plan with this garbage information.
We don’t need anything from the government except –actual– public goods.
Listen to what they are saying. Why should anybody trust public health anymore?
Although Peter was surprised, I think Rob has mentioned where he lives before. His story brings to mind a joke Rush used to tell. What do Obama and Osama have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.
It’s a stain on the country that he became President and he’s finishing the fundamental transformation of the country.
Since when did freedom come to mean that someone owes you a comfortable living?
This is one of the dumber things to come out of the new right / far left lately. That somehow having to attend you your own basic needs to survive is some kind of enslavement or servitude.
Inflation isn’t in the populace’s control. It isn’t even close to being measured right. The current 3% is 9%. The only people that benefit are government workers and the upper 10% or possibly the upper 4%.
I am on the warpath about people being ignorant about the supposed utility of inflation and central planning with colored pieces of paper. It also makes people vote Democrat so they can steal something back from the government. Housing has gotten at least 80% less affordable since Biden got into office. Obamacare basically screwed everybody that doesn’t work at a giant corporation. Etc. Etc.
So I’d say you are ignorant.
Also, what do they do with the Social Security and Medicare payments that they take from you at gunpoint? They steal them from you. Then everything collapses because they ran it wrong. Death panels are going to be the least of our problems.
I hope this gets to Rob for the COVID documentary that they discussed:
Sweden did a lot of what Dr. Bhattacharya and the Great Barrington Declaration proposed. Not that long ago, they did a study of what they did right and what they did wrong. From what I can tell it was pretty frank and was for guidance and not to cast blame. I think this could be the subject of an episode.
While this may all be true, none of it has anything to do with freedom. You havent’ addressed my comment at all.
You can say whatever you like about me. You haven’t shown it at all, though.
What are you talking about? If you can’t get ahead to that degree, you aren’t increasing your freedom at all.
Inflation is theft. The inflation rate should be zero. if you are forced to use dollars, which we are, you are ignorant about this.