Rasmussen!
Weāre already forcing foreign students to go back home after they get their degrees. And the university system is about to collapse. The offshoring of the leading tech companies will take a little longer, but how hard will it be for Tencent to poach Googleās engineers once America loses its political freedom? At least their dictatorship has neat subways!
US military power is in steep decline, and diplomatic leadership/soft power is gone. Weāre left with a ton of money, but money isnāt power in a geopolitical sense.
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Narrator: They all voted for Trump anyway.
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Honestly a lot of the blame should be on the dems. If Pelosi, AOC, Schumer, Bernie etc all came out immediately and said āmasks are not needed, everything should be open hurr durrā weād be way better off. Democrats would know they were wrong and would take proper precautions. All the MAGA chuds would wear masks and stay home just to go against the libtards. Weāve got to do some level 2 thinking to help save the idiots from their own idiocy.
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This often gets lost in talk of the US military. Yes it is by far the most expensive, has the most hardware, has worldwide bases from which to operate. No other country could put so much force so easily in so many places. And so on and so on.
However thereās the equally simple and unanswerable rebuttal. Post 9//11 military engagements have been terrible at creating or maintaining US friendly regimesāwhat the military is traditionally actually for. It would seem the US just doesnāt know how to use its military to benefit the country any more. Thereās also no indication anyone involved realises this or has a plan to change things. The military seems mostly concerned with staying and doing the same thing in places where it has failed repeatedly for decades.
I would guess the reason is that the US military is doing what those in charge wantāit is funneling a massive % of the government budget into the pockets of private companies. Companies who employ politicians and current and ex-military personnel.
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No doubt. Same way that weād prefer to vote for Sanders but we know that Biden is better than any Republican. So we hold our nose and do it.
Obamagate is basically the whole Obama spied on Trump thing all over again, right? Now, itās under a different name.
And the doctor giving the injection, he said āSir, youāve been a big brave boy, would you like a lollipop?ā and I told him no, he was brave and should keep the lollipop. Tears streamed down his faceā¦
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I want to see the 302!
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Weāre basically where the Soviet Union was. On the exterior we still have a lot of military hardware, but on the inside, weāre crumbling. Weāll be an economic superpower for a while longer, but this definitely feels like the beginning of the end. Whether we end with a whimper or a bang is up in the air.
Our federal government will continue to get more and more dysfunctional, that much is clear. My guess is some of the bigger states like NY and California will try to institute some more autonomy and rebuke the fed. Local governments exerting control will become the norm. It will work in some cases, but without the stability, innovation will falter and companies start to jump ship.
Itās sort of depressing. You want to think that things are constantly moving forward, but we know thatās not true. I was born in 83, and am probably one of the youngest people who will have it better than their parents. The younger generations are going to grow up in a country with much fewer opportunities. My kids will definitely have it tougher than me, and that really bums me out. Iām doing what I can, but I canāt look them in the eye and say that Iām leaving a better world for them. History is full of two steps forward one step back progress, but it really sucks when your generation gets stuck in a step back.
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Could the Governor have vetoād it and didnāt?
As we close in on 10K posts in this thread once again, I for one will miss the title.
Probably my best work done on this forum, had no idea how accurate it would end up being at the time
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This really highlights how cut off the rightwing media bubble is from the rest of the world. You have to be very deep into the lore of the Sean Hannity Extended Universe to have any clue what OBAMAGATE actually is or what this 302 is. It reminds me of when the incelbros were fuming about GamerGate and no one outside their bubble had a clue WTF they were talking about.
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