>How come today, the left is the party of war and the right the party of peace? >The left identifies with the Bushs and Cheneys while the right identifies with >the Kennedys.
>Oh cool, tell me which war is USA in right now? How many troops have we deployed to said place?
The left is very much anti-war, they've been echoing every single talking point your side has done, it's the centrists are the ones who have said they want to support Ukraine in it's defense of the invading Russia.
While under the Biden/Harris Administration, we are in:
1) The Ukraine and Russia war, 2) The China vs. Taiwan standoff in the South China Sea, 3) The Israel War vs Palestine, and 4) A proxy war against Iran over Israel. That’s 4 wars. If 4 wasn’t enough wars for you, South Korea against North Korea or Pakistan against India may have been soon to join.
Under the Trump Administration there was precisely 0 wars, 0 proxy wars, and even 0 terrorist attacks. More than half of these wars would never have started if he had been the commander and chief and you know it too. Peace through strength.
>Why didn’t we cut funding for further gain of function research after COVID-19 >after it escaped the formerly BSL2 lab at the wuhan institute of Virology?
We never funded said laboratory and the lab leak theory has still not been proven.
Now that years have passed and more analysis has been done, the lab leak theory has notably more evidence and support behind it than the Zoonotic (natural evolution) theory. Scientists put the odds at perhaps 1 in 1400 odds in favor of Zoonotic and 1399 in 1400 odds in favor of Lab Leak theory.
That is about as unbiased and neutral of a take as any but you already know you can type “origins of covid-19” into any search engine, podcast app or wherever you feel like doing any research nowadays. Heck, if you prefer, you can find a book on the topic but most evidence will lead to the same conclusion. Life is not a Disney movie or a fairy tale, but it can be if your only source of information is ABC and MSNBC.
>We never funded said laboratory.
Reuters: “US suspends federal funding to Wuhan lab over non-compliance”.
Reuters has a slight-left or center-left leaning bias so maybe you’ll trust them.
>What all was in The Twitter Files?
>Smoking weed and eating mcDonald's special: Nothingburger
“CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and authors Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the publication of the documents with Musk, releasing details of the files as a series of Twitter threads.” - Quoted from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Matt Taibbi’s reports on it sufficiently well in his Substack here: https://twitterfiles.substack.com
(Warning: Contains some NSFW and Not Safe for Children information).
>What is the Deep State and why do we still have one?
Government workers, so that our country can function.
I’m not an expert on the deep state though usually it refers to departments that can simply mark any grievances it makes as classified. Often it refers to one of the 17 branches of the intelligence community, but I don’t know. However I disagree with the premise that our country was functioning well or was headed in any great direction.
>Who was a threat to democracy? (in the Republic)? Do you remember >participating in any primary election?
Republicans storming Jan 6, 2020.
>No please refresh me, what were I doing during the primaries?
We don’t even know what land you’re in. I’m in the USA. In my country, the Democratic parties of most states chose not to hold a primary election.
Since when has any government in history been overthrown by unarmed people, but of course you were never privy to that detail because they didn’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good story or narrative. Over-politicized and naturally, embellished. Also, it was recently stormed again on October 16, 2024, this time by pro-Palestine supporters — but that doesn’t get as much attention because virtually none identify as Republican. Often Democrat, theocratic, or anarchist: https://voz.us/en/politics/231018/7642/pro-palestine-activis...
Either way, it’s political drama and not among the issues that matter the most.
>Should America continue having large amounts of illegal immigration or should there be more legal immigration? We all know how Miami and Texas voted.
>Well how sad then that Trump ordered the republicans to kill that bipartisan most extreme bill to date, that would have tried to be the beginning of the long array of fixes needed to secure the border.
Both sides were pointing their fingers at each other and it became hard to know which side is telling more of the truth. I tried to fact check this months ago by researching the bills and came up inconclusive.
All it takes are executive orders to close the border, or being willing to fire Mayorkis — and neither one requires congressional confirmation.
That bill in question might’ve been stuffed with pork barrel legislation and poison pills from both sides before it made it to the senate. Of the states that have the most first hand experience with illegal immigrants, all of California, Texas, and Florida voted Nay on it. Only New Mexico voted Yea and AZ was divided with the independent voting nay. There didn’t need to be a bill passed to close the border though.
>How come Detroit Michigan still has lead in their water and there are superfund sites all over America still? The only environmental policy the left today embraced is global warming.
>Because it's still reeling from the rust belt collapse? There's tons of conservationist and environmental policy but maybe my man/woman, maybe just maybeit's because global warming is an existential threat to us all.
Democrats have had 12 out of the last 16 years to clean up the lead from flint Michigan. Nothing happened. It’s no surprise all 7 purple swing states turned red this year, even Michigan! The people want change.
Global warming is a long and extensive topic worthy of it’s own thread but as quick bullet points:
-Some of the warming can be explained by the sun expanding as it ages, with solar flares being physically closer to the earth.
-If global warming was the real concern, private jets would’ve been banned yesterday.
-Find one or more famous statue or landmark in the USA that was above water many decades ago, and is now below water due to sea levels rising. The “inconvenient truth” by Al gore turned out to be embellishments for the sake of advancing a political cause that never came into fruition.
-The real concern they have is not having a one world government that controls all other governments. That’s the globalist end-game: a totalitarian government that no-one elected.
-Republicans are not against clean energy options or electric cars such as Tesla, or Ford Lightnings. Look at all of the solar and wind power stations there are in Texas. Elon Musk did more to stop global warming than any other man on earth. The rest mostly just virtue signal while driving their gas powered their Subarus, flying their private jets, and advocating for more gas powered armoured vehicles to drive all over Ukraine and all of these other war zones. Imagine the carbon footprint of war.
-To care extensively about globalist topics over all national environmental priorities is a sign of a party that has become captured, infiltrated, and controlled by foreign powers (such as the WEF) for the sake of gathering more power. This is merely a notice for some suspicion and skepticism.
>How come today, the left is the party of war and the right the party of peace? >The left identifies with the Bushs and Cheneys while the right identifies with >the Kennedys. >Oh cool, tell me which war is USA in right now? How many troops have we deployed to said place? The left is very much anti-war, they've been echoing every single talking point your side has done, it's the centrists are the ones who have said they want to support Ukraine in it's defense of the invading Russia.
While under the Biden/Harris Administration, we are in: 1) The Ukraine and Russia war, 2) The China vs. Taiwan standoff in the South China Sea, 3) The Israel War vs Palestine, and 4) A proxy war against Iran over Israel. That’s 4 wars. If 4 wasn’t enough wars for you, South Korea against North Korea or Pakistan against India may have been soon to join.
Under the Trump Administration there was precisely 0 wars, 0 proxy wars, and even 0 terrorist attacks. More than half of these wars would never have started if he had been the commander and chief and you know it too. Peace through strength.
>Why didn’t we cut funding for further gain of function research after COVID-19 >after it escaped the formerly BSL2 lab at the wuhan institute of Virology? We never funded said laboratory and the lab leak theory has still not been proven.
Now that years have passed and more analysis has been done, the lab leak theory has notably more evidence and support behind it than the Zoonotic (natural evolution) theory. Scientists put the odds at perhaps 1 in 1400 odds in favor of Zoonotic and 1399 in 1400 odds in favor of Lab Leak theory.
Citation: “Do New Documents Prove a COVID Lab Leak?” -Just Asking Questions https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-asking-questions/...
That is about as unbiased and neutral of a take as any but you already know you can type “origins of covid-19” into any search engine, podcast app or wherever you feel like doing any research nowadays. Heck, if you prefer, you can find a book on the topic but most evidence will lead to the same conclusion. Life is not a Disney movie or a fairy tale, but it can be if your only source of information is ABC and MSNBC.
>We never funded said laboratory.
Reuters: “US suspends federal funding to Wuhan lab over non-compliance”.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Reuters has a slight-left or center-left leaning bias so maybe you’ll trust them.
>What all was in The Twitter Files? >Smoking weed and eating mcDonald's special: Nothingburger
“CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and authors Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the publication of the documents with Musk, releasing details of the files as a series of Twitter threads.” - Quoted from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Matt Taibbi’s reports on it sufficiently well in his Substack here: https://twitterfiles.substack.com (Warning: Contains some NSFW and Not Safe for Children information).
>What is the Deep State and why do we still have one? Government workers, so that our country can function.
I’m not an expert on the deep state though usually it refers to departments that can simply mark any grievances it makes as classified. Often it refers to one of the 17 branches of the intelligence community, but I don’t know. However I disagree with the premise that our country was functioning well or was headed in any great direction.
>Who was a threat to democracy? (in the Republic)? Do you remember >participating in any primary election? Republicans storming Jan 6, 2020. >No please refresh me, what were I doing during the primaries?
We don’t even know what land you’re in. I’m in the USA. In my country, the Democratic parties of most states chose not to hold a primary election.
Since when has any government in history been overthrown by unarmed people, but of course you were never privy to that detail because they didn’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good story or narrative. Over-politicized and naturally, embellished. Also, it was recently stormed again on October 16, 2024, this time by pro-Palestine supporters — but that doesn’t get as much attention because virtually none identify as Republican. Often Democrat, theocratic, or anarchist: https://voz.us/en/politics/231018/7642/pro-palestine-activis...
Either way, it’s political drama and not among the issues that matter the most.
>Should America continue having large amounts of illegal immigration or should there be more legal immigration? We all know how Miami and Texas voted. >Well how sad then that Trump ordered the republicans to kill that bipartisan most extreme bill to date, that would have tried to be the beginning of the long array of fixes needed to secure the border.
Both sides were pointing their fingers at each other and it became hard to know which side is telling more of the truth. I tried to fact check this months ago by researching the bills and came up inconclusive.
All it takes are executive orders to close the border, or being willing to fire Mayorkis — and neither one requires congressional confirmation.
That bill in question might’ve been stuffed with pork barrel legislation and poison pills from both sides before it made it to the senate. Of the states that have the most first hand experience with illegal immigrants, all of California, Texas, and Florida voted Nay on it. Only New Mexico voted Yea and AZ was divided with the independent voting nay. There didn’t need to be a bill passed to close the border though.
>How come Detroit Michigan still has lead in their water and there are superfund sites all over America still? The only environmental policy the left today embraced is global warming.
>Because it's still reeling from the rust belt collapse? There's tons of conservationist and environmental policy but maybe my man/woman, maybe just maybeit's because global warming is an existential threat to us all.
Democrats have had 12 out of the last 16 years to clean up the lead from flint Michigan. Nothing happened. It’s no surprise all 7 purple swing states turned red this year, even Michigan! The people want change.
Global warming is a long and extensive topic worthy of it’s own thread but as quick bullet points:
-Some of the warming can be explained by the sun expanding as it ages, with solar flares being physically closer to the earth.
-If global warming was the real concern, private jets would’ve been banned yesterday.
-Find one or more famous statue or landmark in the USA that was above water many decades ago, and is now below water due to sea levels rising. The “inconvenient truth” by Al gore turned out to be embellishments for the sake of advancing a political cause that never came into fruition.
-The real concern they have is not having a one world government that controls all other governments. That’s the globalist end-game: a totalitarian government that no-one elected.
-Republicans are not against clean energy options or electric cars such as Tesla, or Ford Lightnings. Look at all of the solar and wind power stations there are in Texas. Elon Musk did more to stop global warming than any other man on earth. The rest mostly just virtue signal while driving their gas powered their Subarus, flying their private jets, and advocating for more gas powered armoured vehicles to drive all over Ukraine and all of these other war zones. Imagine the carbon footprint of war.
-To care extensively about globalist topics over all national environmental priorities is a sign of a party that has become captured, infiltrated, and controlled by foreign powers (such as the WEF) for the sake of gathering more power. This is merely a notice for some suspicion and skepticism.