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Since we're all making predictions... I'll predict that I'll make an argument and you'll get big mad and tell me to go fuck myself in frustration at your inability to offer a coherent counter of your own.

I love the new standard we’ve established for involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

The dishonest ones, like thethe, get their marching orders and flip on a dime, backfilling logic on the fly, scolding everyone else in the process. “Oh I guess you just want [insert bullshit].” It’s really unbecoming.

You should try it sometime!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/21/trump-hegseth-budget-military/ Trump administration officials have struggled to figure out how to increase U.S. military spending by a whopping $500 billion in their forthcoming budget, slowing the overall White House spending plan, four people...

I guess not?

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You seem to think I’m arguing against the merits of a gas tax to deal with externalities, but I’m not. What I’m saying is if this is a good policy, maybe the politicians enacting it should own those higher prices and make their case to voters. Instead, they pretend their policy choices aren’t...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-04/california-to-consider-profit-penalties-for-oil-companies SACRAMENTO — A new class of state lawmakers will be sworn in Monday and thrust into the middle of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political fight with oil companies, testing the clout of an...

A policy so good that they’ll never own it, choosing instead to blame high prices on anyone but themselves

No worries …they weren’t meant to be an inquisition … that was literally just me working through the idea in real time

We have data on the people already here. We can’t compare those who came here from country “x” legally vs illegally and draw any conclusions?

The point is Somalis on welfare isn’t an indictment on a merit based system more so than policy failure where people are responding to a poorly designed incentive.

How many of those “robbing us blind” went through any sort of formal review process versus coming here illegally? Biden choosing not to enforce the border isn’t an indictment on a merit based system, so wouldn’t you want to make the distinction?

End welfare eligibility for immigrants?

Is a black Hungarian considered a Hungarian or something else?

Let me remind you that 2021 thethe thought this was possible. It’s more difficult, but not insurmountable

Ok then that sounds a hell of a lot like we’re vetting people based on their individual merits