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No they didn’t.

Personally I don’t feel the need to insult those who disagree with me on this issue. I would prefer to try and reason with them, and to appeal to the libertarianism that I find is present in most Americans: whatever you feel about this issue, shouldn’t it be left to families to decide with their doctors? Why should the government get involved? I will grant that perhaps children under the age of 18 shouldn’t get sex change operations. But beyond that restriction, why shouldn’t this be a privacy issue?

Nope. It’s a serious attempt to correct some misconceptions that were made in another thread that really wasn’t related to the issue at hand.

Do you have a link for that statistic?

I strongly disagree with you on this. I’m Jewish and I’ve been a proud Zionist my whole life. What you’re describing is an extremist viewpoint, held by the far right in Israel. Unfortunately they’re in power right now but the majority of Israeli Jews do not feel this way. I have no idea what any of this has to do with Trump’s felony convictions. @Hardcore troubadour was apparently out to derail this thread; to some extent he has succeeded.

This “corporate greed” stuff is nonsense. Corporations fix prices as high as they can go and still make a profit. Which they’re supposed to.

Do you know why you refer to it as MSM, “mainstream media”? Because it’s MAINSTREAM. Not left-leaning, not right-leaning, but mainstream.

So with all the good news lately for Biden, here is some bad news: Trump takes a slight lead in Pennsylvania, 47-45, per Marist: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-edge-over-biden-key-battleground-state-may-determine-2024-election-rematch.amp This goes against all of the current trend lines so hopefully it’s just an outlier.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/politics/hunter-biden-donald-trump-guilty-verdicts/index.html Like I wrote it does for most non-conservatives.

This theory will continue to be believed by conservatives and Maga supporters, but I think the Hunter Biden conviction yesterday pretty much destroyed it for anyone else foolish enough to give it any credence.

I may be proof that I understand the law a little better than you do.

If he is the principle of a company that has a liquor license then it may amount to the same thing.

Except there’s no “they”. This stuff is an automatic response when you’re convicted of a felony. Nobody is going around pushing for this.

Hey I heard there’s a YouTube somewhere that accuses Hunter’s dad of being a pedophile. Can you find it and post it for me?

I support government keeping out of medical decisions unless public health issues are involved.

Or maybe because the public is waking up to how terrible Trump is? And that his conviction, which was a just verdict and nothing to do with “lawfare” is playing a role in that? You really need to move away from that fantasy.

I didn’t say no plea bargain deals. But mandatory minimums prevent all too many of them.

It’s political because conservatives are obsessed with it.

Blame conservatives. I’m deadly serious. There are two main reasons for the long delays in our judicial system. The first is there are too many crimes out there. Liberals push for reform, and conservatives block them at every turn. Conservatives yell and scream about “Soros backed DAs who are soft on crime” and yet these are the people trying to reform the system. Conservatives prevent them from doing it. The second reason is mandatory minimum sentencing. This prevents plea bargain deals, which forces way too many court trials because defendants have nothing to lose. Liberals want to do away with this idiocy but once again conservatives block it every time. So if you don’t like the delays you know whom to blame.

First off I think you should differentiate between hormone treatments and surgery. Your use of the word “mutilation” pejorative at best, might theoretically apply to surgery but in no way applies to hormone treatment which is the vast majority of gender affirming treatment. Second, this is an issue that should be left up to these kids, their parents and doctors. Government should stay out of it.

Ohio now closer than it’s been in years: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ohio-poll-biden-2024-1911695 Trump will win Ohio but this is a terrible indication for him. If Ohio is close at all Biden will win Pensshlvania, Michigan and Wisconsin pretty easily. And that’s the ballgame.

Because it’s moronic and has never worked in the history of the planet? Because we benefit from free trade no matter what other nations do? Because you were wrong to start and now you’re moving the goalposts?

Then you’re blind. What can I say?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-24/supply-chain-latest-trump-proposes-universal-10-tariff Pay attention to the word “universal”. All countries.

Biden’s decision to maintain Trump’s tariffs (and in some cases even increase them) has been the worst aspect of his Presidency by far, and nothing else even comes close. However Trump’s new plans will be even worse. Inflation is not a tax. Taxes are deliberate.