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Ridin' with Biden?
'There's going to be a real test for Joe Biden'
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/theres-going-to-be-a-real-test-f
or-joe-biden/video/555f9b7cf2476143cfae44fd13bd39e8
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14684453/candace-owens-slams-biden-over-
antifa/
Candace Owens slams Biden for downplaying ‘Antifa threat’ after protesters set Apple store ablaze during Portland chaos
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by another name is just paying tens of millions of Americans so little that they can't even pay for the basics so they live their adult lives with a destroyed credit score and have to take out predatory Padayesque loans out to survive paycheck to paycheck and live a life with no hope.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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If you look back in history, American democracy has been crazy before. In fact, in the years between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century, U.S. politics was far more unruly, violent and corrupt than it’s been before or since, for politicians and ordinary Americans alike.
The volume of politics in the late 1800s drowns out anything any living American has experienced. For one thing, that era saw the highest turnouts in U.S. history. Imagine if, instead of the impressive 66 percent of eligible voters who went to the polls last November, the 2020 election drew a turnout of 82 percent, as in 1876. Or if, instead of being decided by hundreds of thousands of votes in a half-dozen swing states, elections were won, as in 1884, by just 1,047 voters in one state. Or if, instead of lies about widespread fraud, tens of thousands of votes really were stolen at each election.
Or consider living in an age when, instead of individual incidents of political violence, the news contained so many outrages that the papers could barely list them all: Black voters murdered during Reconstruction, organized labor crushed with brute force, urban machines warring like gangs, regular “knockdowns” and “awlings” — when campaigners actually stabbed people with awls to keep them from voting for the opposition. Literally thousands of people died in political warfare. These were the years, after all, that saw three of the four presidential assassinations in American history.
In the late 1800s, one congressman was murdered every seven years, on average; in the 20th century, it was one every 25. How did 19th century politics get so broken?
More at www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/24/forgotten-precedent-unpreced
ented-politics-age-of-acrimony-484072
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:The Democrats tried to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour and the Trumptards have stood proudly against the change. 6ix, you have even complained against Biden raising by executive order the wages to $15 of employees working for government contractors.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by another name is just paying tens of millions of Americans so little that they can't even pay for the basics so they live their adult lives with a destroyed credit score and have to take out predatory Padayesque loans out to survive paycheck to paycheck and live a life with no hope.
As far as predatory loans, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created to stop that, but the Trumptards gutted it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau#His
tory
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Democrats tried to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour and the Trumptards have stood proudly against the change.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by another name is just paying tens of millions of Americans so little that they can't even pay for the basics so they live their adult lives with a destroyed credit score and have to take out predatory Padayesque loans out to survive paycheck to paycheck and live a life with no hope.
It needed to be tied to inflation like SS since the beginning so businesses could plan for the change. Raising the minimum wage by more than double isn't the way it should be done, especially not during a Democrat driven plandemic that already destroyed a record number of restaurants and small businesses who don't have fuck you money like Bezos.
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6ix, you have even complained against Biden raising by executive order the wages to $15 of employees working for government contractors.
Yes. I have. Coushiest jobs given to the people least qualified to fill quotas. They've already got the best health insurance money can buy, pensions funded by states that go into bankruptcy to fund them. Now they'll get $15 minimum wage while everybody else is working for $7.25 because they haven't raised the actual minimum wage a quarter since 2009.
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As far as predatory loans, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created to stop that, but the Trumptards gutted it.
Bullshit. Payday loans have been destroying lives LONG before Trump was in office.
And after the "free money" of the Bush Era stopped, most of my credit cards have a 11.99% to 24.99% rate even though my credit score is 820. Back in the early 2000's they averaged 7.99% to 9.99% with a score of 745. This is despite the fact that FED interest rates are near NIL.
It's never concerned me since I haven't paid a dime in interest since August of 2005, but regular credit cards are almost as bad as a Payday loan these days, and that started and increased during Obama's 8 years in office and never reversed course.
I've made over $2,000 tax free in the last 4 years with credit card sign up bonuses and maximizing cash back rewards by using the right card for the right expenditure. I currently get 5% off on gas, 5% on Amazon purchases, 4% at grocery stores and 3% on home improvement, and that's after the $150 to $300 they give me just for using the card on things I NEEDED to buy anyhow when I signed up for a new one.
The sad thing is, the credit card companies aren't paying for those bonuses. The people who bought a bunch of shit they don't need and turned themselves into wage slaves did.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Quote:"A penny saved is a penny earned." Ben Franklin told Americans how to avoid becoming somebody's slave, but they quickly read and even quicker forgot what they were told.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The sad thing is, the credit card companies aren't paying for those bonuses. The people who bought a bunch of shit they don't need and turned themselves into wage slaves did.
www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/famous-quotes
www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top-10-benjamin-franklin-quotes
The same forgetfulness continues today. Bezos told Americans how they could become as rich as Bezos, but they quickly forgot. Instead, they predictively did the exact opposite of what he told them to do -- they "bought a bunch of shit" from Amazon rather than buy Amazon stock. Bezos, same as Franklin, had long figured out Americans' addicted behavior and their mental weaknesses around money. From 1997 to 2021, Bezos told Americans every year what he would do to them if they didn't pay attention to what he was doing: "We will continue to focus relentlessly on our customers" and take all their money because Americans are unfocused, directionless and live without real purpose, trying to find personal meaning in consumer products, pretty real estate, entertainment for the masses, and political contests in which they are only bystanders.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SpgDsIpC_cAS0O4cBz4Sb_GJcEIBhUtA/view
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to reverse former President Donald Trump’s move to weaken Obama-era regulations designed to reduce climate-changing methane emissions from oil and gas fields.
The 52-42 vote sets up the first official reinstatement of one of more than 100 climate regulations dismantled by the Trump administration.
Regulating methane gas is critical for advancing President Joe Biden’s goal to slash U.S. emissions in half by 2030 and achieve a net-zero economy by 2050.
Three Republican senators voted for the bill: Susan Collins of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rob Portman of Ohio.
www.cnbc.com/2021/04/28/senate-restores-obama-era-regulation-of-methan
e-emissions.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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And 4 years from now it will be reversed again.
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:"A penny saved is a penny earned." Ben Franklin told Americans how to avoid becoming somebody's slave, but they quickly read and even quicker forgot what they were told.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The sad thing is, the credit card companies aren't paying for those bonuses. The people who bought a bunch of shit they don't need and turned themselves into wage slaves did.
www.fi.edu/benjamin-franklin/famous-quotes
www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top-10-benjamin-franklin-quotes
The same forgetfulness continues today. Bezos told Americans how they could become as rich as Bezos, but they quickly forgot. Instead, they predictively did the exact opposite of what he told them to do -- they "bought a bunch of shit" from Amazon rather than buy Amazon stock. Bezos, same as Franklin, had long figured out Americans' addicted behavior and their mental weaknesses around money. From 1997 to 2021, Bezos told Americans every year what he would do to them if they didn't pay attention to what he was doing: "We will continue to focus relentlessly on our customers" and take all their money because Americans are unfocused, directionless and live without real purpose, trying to find personal meaning in consumer products, pretty real estate, entertainment for the masses, and political contests in which they are only bystanders.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SpgDsIpC_cAS0O4cBz4Sb_GJcEIBhUtA/view
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Yeah... well I'm ideologically opposed to the DOW and how all of that works. I made my money there before these oppositions, but I recognize it was an extreme amount of luck on my part, specifically with the timing both in and out. If you're making money in the stock market, you're doing it off the backs of people who work for a living.
I didn't read Bozo's book. But I'll never forget an old Disney cartoon I still can't find online where Uncle Donald was teaching Heuy, Dewey and Louie to save their money. I believe he had some sort of bank he gave them that would sing when they put a coin in it. I can't remember that part exactly, but I'll always remember the words "Take my advice. Do as I say. Save a little money for a rainy day".
Disney actually taught some good lessons back in the day.
I couldn't tell you how much interest I paid on any cars before 2001 when I paid off the rest of that car in full with two giant overtime checks I'd gotten, but since then I've never had a car payment and obviously never had a mortgage or college debt or some $100k wedding to pay for. When I celebrated my debt independence day in August of 2005, I had paid a total of less than $125 in credit card interest in my life. I had been bouncing my balance from card to card for a few years but then they stopped that free balance transfer, and whatever card I was stuck with at the end before I could pay it off was the winner.
I still haven't bought a flat screen TV in my life, but I own two of them in perfect working order. Hand me downs from family who replaced their 27" and 42" TVs with 70" TVs.
I've been spending far more recently than usual, but it's all going to tools I'll have for the rest of my life and improving my house. Well... except for that massive cost to take down the trees, but there was no way around that one and I made my peace with it before I called for an appointment.
I'll get all that on the back end plus some as long as the housing market doesn't bust again before I'm ready. If it does, oh well... I've still got the place and I can ride it out. And man is it going to be a lot nicer than it used to be... Why not enjoy it for a while?
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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will
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