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Should be a wild four years.

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Just legalize the edibles. I don't want that rank smell to be inescapable.
It's the only downside so far living in a legal state. The smell of skunk wafting over literally anything at any given time. Vapes generally don't smell much either. But your flower purists insist on letting everyone in a 40' radius around them know they're both carrying and burning at all times, it seems.
 
It's the only downside so far living in a legal state. The smell of skunk wafting over literally anything at any given time. Vapes generally don't smell much either. But your flower purists insist on letting everyone in a 40' radius around them they're both carrying and burning at all times, it seems.
my job is basically exactly downwind of one of the local Delta Z ## Turbo bootleg weed shops nearby so when they open up on nice days it's a massive blast of skunk
 
This isn’t good. While we don’t know exactly how many illegal aliens pay taxes for certain, the ones who were looking to legalize their status are motivated to obtain tax ID numbers and pay because the government considers evidence of tax filings when weighing their cases. This is not a rare situation; it is more or less expected of illegals who submit applications to resolve their status that they have a few years of tax returns. Going forward, illegal aliens will be disincentivized to file taxes. Depending how this information is used, it effectively punishes the illegal aliens who did the right thing and rewards those who didn’t.

This exchange of information alone will not motivate illegal aliens to leave, so people who would otherwise be paying taxes while using government services will continue to use them but will stop paying into them.
 
after reading all of the replies to my post it seems the general consensus is China should be economically destroyed, no matter what, and then we should reshore manufacturing back home, I generally agree about the second part, while I'm very iffy about the former

Here is the hard reality, the Chinese and American economies are tightly, economically linked to each other, we can all make a point about how this might not have been a good decision in the long term, the Chinese will be the ones hurt more by this, no doubt, but we can also discuss how we will not be spared from the fallout.

I don't think you people realize this, but most Americans aren't willing to hurt themselves to fuck with a foreign country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which might be shocking news, since many of you are so fanatic to Trump and his agenda to the point you are willing to sacrifice your finances for it.

If this gets really bad, don't be surprised we'll have a Democrat surge by midterms and the next presidential election.
 
Because

1: China is the most expansionist country on the earth, and constantly threaten everyone else in the Indo Pacific region, which involves a lot of alternative trading partners and US allies
The United States has approximately 800 military bases globally, infiltrated hundreds of sovereign elections and financed foreign death squads, and has used surveillance on allies and its own citizens.
 
This isn’t good. While we don’t know exactly how many illegal aliens pay taxes for certain, the ones who were looking to legalize their status are motivated to obtain tax ID numbers and pay because the government considers evidence of tax filings when weighing their cases. This is not a rare situation; it is more or less expected of illegals who submit applications to resolve their status that they have a few years of tax returns. Going forward, illegal aliens will be disincentivized to file taxes. Depending how this information is used, it effectively punishes the illegal aliens who did the right thing and rewards those who didn’t.

This exchange of information alone will not motivate illegal aliens to leave, so people who would otherwise be paying taxes while using government services will continue to use them but will stop paying into them.
They shouldn't be filing taxes because they don't belong in this country. To the extent that they have income it should be entirely seized. If a government agent accepts a tax filing from someone they somehow know is here illegally, that agent should be guilty of a felony quite frankly
 
The United States has approximately 800 military bases globally, infiltrated hundreds of sovereign elections and financed foreign death squads, and has used surveillance on allies and its own citizens.
Let's stop pretending the United States is the global hegemon because we are the "most moral", its because we benefit the most from this position and we stomp out any opposition not because "preserving democracy" or "upholding American values", it's usually because we want to stay as the top dog.
 
They should have let MacArthur go ham during the Korean war. They could have prevented all this.
Scumbag Racist Woodrow Wilson should’ve let the Doughboys finish the job in Siberia in 1919 then we wouldn’t have had the Soviets either.
Truman should’ve listened to Patton and Churchill’s plan to March right through Berlin and go straight to Moscow. He also should’ve planted an A bomb on Moscow in 1945.
 
Let's stop pretending the United States is the global hegemon because we are the "most moral", its because we benefit the most from this position and we stomp out any opposition not because "preserving democracy" or "upholding American values", it's usually because we want to stay as the top dog.
Of course. But claiming that another country other than the United States is the "most expansionist" is just dumb.

That guy just needs to call himself a neoconservative that loves war.

It's also funny he mentions how envious he is of China so instead of actually building something here, he wants to violently lash out at a country on the other side of the world.

Americans are so shortsighted they can't even see that their thinking got them into this mess. 20 years in Afghanistan and Trump is negotiating with the Taliban to reclaim a big US base there.
 
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