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These folks have no idea the massive entitlement wave that will hit if/when AI hits critical mass. I would bet anyone on this board that even if we saw sustained 5% GDP growth that the debt to GDP ratio would outpace it.

Do we think Republicans will just completely drop the “get our fiscal house in order” schtick from future campaigns? I hope Elon follows through on his shame campaign

I don’t even think Vegas would accept your bet

100%

Deeply ashamed you weren’t here for the Thunder

Yes Just as the fact that we no longer send Japanese Americans to camps doesn’t mean it wasn’t an immoral act and a direct violation of the bill or rights for those we sent to camps.

Whose intuition? Based on that intuition, what are they allowed to do to protect their flock?

I take issue with the scope of emergency powers, not the definition of emergency.

I agree Covid was a public health emergency. Pearl Harbor was a national emergency. Now answer my last two questions (which is the entire crux of the debate)

When President Mamdani declares poverty a public emergency, can he use that to justify seizing the means of production?

So your guidelines for emergency is intuition? Whose intuition? Based on that intuition, what are they allowed to do to protect their flock?

Deflecting again Who gets to define what’s a “real” emergency vs a “fake” one? In a “real” emergency, are all of our liberties to be suspended at the discretion of a single person? I think we all can agree a hot war with an adversary that attacked our homeland is a “real emergency”. I don’t...

Covid killed an order of magnitude more Chinese than Americans. Xi’s response to a public health emergency was to weld people in their homes. If you can draw the line in the sand where tyranny starts and stops, more power to you. It’s always done in the name of emergency — notice how all of...

Japanese America s are no longer in internment camps either. It doesn’t mean their rights weren’t violated at the time for the “greater good” It’s a slippery slope our incompetent President is actively min maxing.

that’s fine. I too have strategically voted in the past. But it’s a deeply boring discussion

Guerrilla posting Pot shots and deflect

We could try having the philosophical discussions about the unchecked growth of the executive. It would actually serve as a solution for the problems the “no kings” protests rightly called out. Last time we tried that though it didn’t go very far. It was dismissed as a fake appeal to the...

No greater sin can be committed than calling balls and strikes from outside the party tents

And ignoring Supreme Court rulings Just the minor things

It is indeed a rather odd melt down