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Should be a wild four years.

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Clapped, gave them the power, AND called for lynching anyone who dared question it as "anti-American".

... and now we have Shanequa, the 300lb fat ass nigger, smacking her lips and telling us to stand still while she looks at us through our clothes.
Next time I fly I'm taking all my clothes off so they can see I have nothing to hide. If it doesn't bother me, why should it bother them?
 
My prediction is that when the feds drop the vid of Epstein killing himself it's going to be the most comically obvious AI ever but big tech asslickers will censor anyone pointing out that it's AI.

The only places you'll be able to make fun of how fake it is will be here and maybe like Democratic Underground or something
 
I was wondering how this could possibly happen, and I recently ran across a plausible explanation.

For all their vaunted controls, CCP only has a few points of official contact with citizens before they enter the workforce and start paying taxes. It’s first vaccination for babies, and then entering primary school.

The subnational governments (provinces?) rely on subsidies from the national government for funding, and they get paid for vaccinations and primary school enrolments.

So in the 90s and 2000s, local officials and doctors were padding their budgets by claiming vaccinations and schoolchildren who didn’t exist. And the national government actually wasn’t aware of the scale of the fraud until these nonexistent children “grew up” and were expected to join the workforce starting in the early 2020s- and they just weren’t there. And it turned out to be a LOT of Chinese babies who never existed.

The CCP just stopped publishing a whole bunch of economic numbers over the last few years. You know it’s a sign of a super good economy when you can’t even make up commie lies anymore.
Could I pray that this is also true about india? I'd love it if half their shitskin population was just rather large piles of shit on the street that didn't get cleaned up.
 
Democrat activist Olivia Julianna is now advising Democrats how to win over young men— says Conservative men are pro-choice, pro gay marriage, and pro BLM.

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Pro choice? maybe like, frat guys not trying to have kids? otherwise I think most men are pro life, (Keep it in your pants people)
Pro Gay Marriage? (not talking trannies), I think we all agree it's settled law, most people don't care as long as you don't start smooching in front of other people.
Pro BLM? Come on now.
 
The idea of trying to build a solar-based power grid while transitioning to electric cars, which would need to charge at night for the the most part, is just so retarded it leaves me stunned. It's like this passes through people's ears and out their mouths without ever being processed by their brains.
climate doomer death cultists are like children picking out their favorite legos from different sets who then get very upset when those pieces don't form a coherent building or vehicle. they have no understanding of the amount of planning and work that went into making things function the way that they do now
 
We have a term for this. It's called a coup. It's what you see when a civil war starts. A cold civil war, mind you -- no guns, yet, but wait until it warms up and Antifa decides to try and pipe bomb their way into the Marxist Utopia their Gender Studies professors promised them like they did last time -- but a civil war nonetheless.
Arguably, the US has been in a cold civil war since Trump's first term, since that was when the disaffected electorate broke from the Uniparty's plan.
 
Nah if Iranians wanted to be free from the clerics they wouldn't have them in power.
it's not that easy
with modern technology, state governments can keep themselves in power even if they are extremely unpopular

Retard take, there are massive strikes right now in Iran to protest against the government
it's not that easy either, even large strike action is often not representative of the whole population (huge urban/rural divide for example)
 
idk how you can even call it 'separation of powers' if the judicial branch can interfere with the other branches willy nilly?
like, i have the impression that it's supposed to be "politicians keep their hands out of court business, and courts keep their hands out of politics" but that's not how it's playing out at all.
I quite obvious that the modern 3 way split of governmental powers doesn't work and hasn't worked for a century now. The Judicial has more power than the Executive or Legislative and it's more secure in it's hold of that power.
 
If separation of powers brought our country to the brink, what was the value of it? Nobody as well-off as a judge really understands how willing the common man is to see them destroyed.
There was a value when every single branch of the government was manned by Anglo Saxon Europeans with shared common heritage, interest and faith. Now, everyone doesn't give af.
 
For all their vaunted controls, CCP only has a few points of official contact with citizens before they enter the workforce and start paying taxes. It’s first vaccination for babies, and then entering primary school.
This is simply not so. The Chinese government has extraordinary contacts with citizens. Censuses are conducted every decade. Every compound has a party cell, every subdistrict in a city has a party, every district, every municipality, all the way up to the top in an unbroken chain of command. This is just the org chart of course, not some all knowing panopticon pyramid thing, but there are many points of official contact. Household registration books (Hukou) are quite serious and being on a hukou determines a lot about your life. There are middle school and high school examinations. There is public transit use and interprovincial transit. The government has extraordinary surveillance all around, owns like half of the country's GDP, and endless amounts of data coming in. It is not a low tech or low effort dictatorship.

China’s fertility rate fell below 2.1 all the way back in 1991, and they want the world to believe they continuously grew for the past 34 years.

In the 2000 and 2010 censuses, both times it was initially reported as 1.1 and revised upward to 1.8/1.9.

Since their “one child policy” is widely fucking known, any number over 1.0 is blatantly illegal in this time frame, lol
There are lots of Chinese children who are not on hukous and struggle with something akin to statelessness. Many families had more than one child, though it was not particularly common. Fines were also imposed if you register your second and third kid, but they amount to taxes. Also, some ethnic minorities were generally exempted from the 1 child policy. The One Child policy was enforced unevenly and in strange ways and adhered to unevenly. It was only with the passing of generations that it became expected to have one kid.
 
I quite obvious that the modern 3 way split of governmental powers doesn't work and hasn't worked for a century now. The Judicial has more power than the Executive or Legislative and it's more secure in it's hold of that power.
I think it might look like that, but I think that Roberts was the one who carefully maintained that 'power'. People say that he's spineless and doesn't have any legal philosophy, but I think that Roberts is a realist. His decisions are entirely political and theatrical, meant to position the court as these detached, fair arbiters in the public eye while refusing to touch issues that would bring any real federal power to bear on the court under the fear that it would crack. Both Scalia and Ginsburg were furious about several refusals to grant certiorari to cases dealing with fundamental due process rights, and would probably have also both been furious about the way the court refused to back up other rights like speech during Covid. I think a lot of his jurisprudence is based on the assessment that the power of the court is a fragile illusion that could be shattered by both a very driven federal power structure simply ignoring a decision and a public who supports them in doing so. I think that if you had a more brazen court you would have seen it crushed by the 'iron triangle' long ago - it survives because Roberts is a shrinking violet.
 
How do you think stuff like that passes? It sounds good if you don't do any research at all and the brief dopamine hit is all they need in the end.
It is easy. Electric car = good, solar power = good. So

naturally good + good = double good.

They don't really give much thought about the logistics of how they impact each other.
There was a value when every single branch of the government was manned by Anglo Saxon Europeans with shared common heritage, interest and faith. Now, everyone doesn't give af.
No, the balance of the judicial branch has aways been kinda wonky because their role in goverment was poorly defined in the constitution and their ability to interpret the laws meant could interpret them to give themselves more power.
 
There are lots of Chinese children who are not on hukous and struggle with something akin to statelessness. Many families had more than one child, though it was not particularly common. Fines were also imposed if you register your second and third kid, but they amount to taxes. Also, some ethnic minorities were generally exempted from the 1 child policy. The One Child policy was enforced unevenly and in strange ways and adhered to unevenly. It was only with the passing of generations that it became expected to have one kid.
Is this some chink “dreamers awaken” thing? Is your surname Dagoth, by any chance?

The Hukous, which might I say are far more gay than haikus, have a financial incentive to generate fake registrations
 
RFK Jr. Slams Medical Journals, Floats In-House Publishing Plan
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Jason Gale
29 May 2025 01:49:18 UTC
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he may bar government scientists from publishing in top medical journals, accusing publications like The New England Journal of Medicine of being “corrupt” and beholden to pharmaceutical companies.

“We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they’re all corrupt,” Kennedy said on “The Ultimate Human” podcast with wellness influencer and biohacker Gary Brecka.

Scientists from the National Institutes of Health will be blocked from reporting their research in certain publications “unless these journals change dramatically,” Kennedy said, adding that his department would instead create its own journals for each of its institutes that could “become the preeminent journals.”

Kennedy has already directed restrictions on researchers’ use of terms related to diversity, equity and inclusion. HHS has an in-house journal, Public Health Reports, that’s been published continuously since 1878 and is the official journal of the US Surgeon General and Public Health Service. Other agency publications include the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Emerging Infectious Diseases.

He has in recent days drawn criticism from the medical community over other claims, including his assertion that Covid vaccines have been removed from the US list of recommended immunizations for healthy children and pregnant women.
 
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