Politics Thread

Didn't know of a single kid who was alergic to any kind of food or nut while growing up. The wife and other I know work in the Public schools and have told me that the number of 'special kids' have been going up consistantly and have quadrupled since Covid. Also the amount of paperwork required for each kid is mind numbingly stupid which takes away from the amount of time you can spend with the kid.

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Originally Posted by Xville

I don’t know what’s caused autism, but I disagree with your gluten/lactose premise. Food has changed drastically in the last 20-30 years and even more so in the last ten. That has to have some kind of an effect on our bodies’ issues. Europe does not have these issues.

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I was just in Italy. Plenty of restaurants have GF options, the number reducing the farther you get from a city center. That said, deep in Tuscany there were still GF options to be found.

Now Germany, my old neighbors laughed at my wife a bit about it. GF and celiac just is not a thing.

We are in agreement our food supply needs to dramatically change. I sincerely hope RFK focuses on the amount of corn syrup in everything more than anything else, but that is problematic as we chose to subsidize corn. Germans, however, subsidize butter among other things. A giant bit of butter costs around 1.20 Euros in Bavaria.

Edit: my point was at least part of the increase in autism is attributed to a better understanding on how to identify it. What was once labeled social awkwardness could be level 1 autism. I am very familiar with what encompasses level 1/2/3 autism.

Bernie Sanders announces he's going to work with Trump to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. A really terrible idea, which shouldn't be a surprise given that Bernie Sanders is involved.

You pack your family and friends on a 767 and the announcement comes "your pilot today will be RFK,Jr. Lol

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Originally Posted by paulxu

There was so much voter fraud that Fox paid Dominion $787 million.

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This proves nothing re: voter fraud, but thanks for the parroted talking point.

Paul do you agree that verifying the integrity of elections and imposing the harshest penalty of the law against offenders is critical to preserve democracy?

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Originally Posted by Xville

Yeah those aren't going to be the final numbers.. Kamala is probably going to end up around 74 million and Trump 77-78. I'll let you figure out that again you know very little about anything.

It's not hard to figure out...Moderates went to Trump this time as the lesser of two evils, just like they went to Biden in 2020. It's not rocket science.

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Florida counted 11 million ballots and all but stray absentee by 11:00 election night. Most other states were done by late night. Hell, back in the ‘80s with paper ballots they were done that same night.

If they’re still counting, they’re cheating.

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Originally Posted by Xuperman

I think Trump just put the names of his closest allies in a hat....then proceeded to fill his cabinet. Plenty of exceptional people, but his choice of positions are way out of whack. Several of the appointees have very little EXPERIENCE related to their position.

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For comparison, Biden appointed Mayor Pete as Transportation Secretary because he likes to pull the train.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

Bernie Sanders announces he's going to work with Trump to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. A really terrible idea, which shouldn't be a surprise given that Bernie Sanders is involved.

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Agree 100%. This is almost as bad as Kamala’s capital gains tax proposal. Government needs to get the fuck out of… well… almost everything.

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Originally Posted by Muskie in dayton

Florida counted 11 million ballots and all but stray absentee by 11:00 election night. Most other states were done by late night. Hell, back in the ‘80s with paper ballots they were done that same night.

If they’re still counting, they’re cheating.

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Did it ever occur to you that states which take a long time counting, are prevented from processing and counting mail-in ballots until election day?
That a state like Pennsylvania where this is the law, tried to catch up to other states who start with them earlier, but the Republicans blocked the effort?

Probably not.

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Did it ever occur to you that states which take a long time counting, are prevented from processing and counting mail-in ballots until election day?
That a state like Pennsylvania where this is the law, tried to catch up to other states who start with them earlier, but the Republicans blocked the effort?

Probably not.

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Did it ever occur to you that taking weeks to count a fraction of the ballots is bullshit? Definitely not.

I’ll mark you down as supporting election fraud.