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The pig is more useful.
Pevvania, The United States Of Patriots
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I am still ill and tried to watch Congress this morning but had to turn it off. Congress "investigating" what should be a simple case of felony malfeasance of intelligence, is instead a dog and pony show of obfuscation and misdirection. Who the hell do they think they are fooling? Liars lying to each other about lies lied about in exchange for even more lies. Disgusting.
Ryan cannot even get a bill out that actually repeals the ACA. I hope his constituents hold him accountable for being an accessory to fraud and vote him out in the next primary/caucus/whatever. I am urging both my Congressmen to oust him from leadership--Simpson is too far gone, and Labrador was threatened badly last time they tried a coup. I would urge all of you (who have GOP Congressmen) to demand Ryan be replaced by someone who is part of the Liberty and/or Freedom Caucus.
I lost the strength to even watch the SCOTUS nomination hearing.
Thank you all for your kind responses re: illness. :)
Rateria, Fairbankska
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Don Young, unfortunately, will never challenge Ryan. He has far too many corruption charges looming over his head, he has to play ball in order to even preserve his seat and no longer functions at getting anything done. Like Murkowski, the Democrat is often better than him in state races, because they tend to run as pseudo-libertarians capturing the "somewhat right-wing but against corruptocrats" vote.
I'm not really into fat cows, so I'll take the pig
Republic Of Minerva, The Ambassador To The Clfr, The United States Of Patriots
Pileus blog released some new information on where the libertarians were in the latest election. Ignoring DC, the top 3 libertarian states were Wyoming, Alaska, and New Hampshire, per contributions to both Rand Paul and Gary Johnson combined and averaged.
https://pileusblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/where-were-the-libertarians-in-2016/
Rateria, Condealism, Fairbankska
Interesting Hawaii was high up there despite being rated by CATO as one of the least libertarian states, this has much to do with the high number of Gary Johnson contributions from that state.
Fairbankska
The Facebook page Unbiased America explains why the lapsed insurance charge in the Trumpcare bill is not, repeat, is not akin to the individual mandate:
"Under the existing law passed by Democrats and President Obama (i.e. if Obamacare is NOT repealed), you, your spouse, and your dependents are charged a fee for each and every month of your life that you don't have insurance. The fee is either a percentage of your total household income, or a per person fee, whichever is higher. As of 2017, the fee is the higher of:
2.5% of total household income (up to the national average annual cost of a bronze plan, which was $2,699 last year and will likely be much higher this year); or
$695 per adult and $347.50 per child under 18, up to a maximum of $2,085, increasing every year by the rate of inflation.
THE NEW BILL: If the repeal/replace bill gets passed, the Obamacare individual mandate requiring you to pay a fee for every month you don't have insurance will go away. No more penalties for people who don't have insurance. However, for people who opt not to have insurance and then decide to buy insurance later (if they try to game the system by waiting until they become sick to get insurance, for example), insurance companies are allowed to charge a one-year, 30% premium on the cost of the insurance being purchased.
THE DIFFERENCE: The difference between the Obamacare individual mandate penalty and the replacement law is gigantic. Under Obamacare, a person who elects to stay uninsured for the 47 years between when they turn 18 and when they become eligible for Medicare would pay a total of $289,419 in individual mandate penalties (assuming the average inflation rate over the next 47 years equals the average inflation rate from the last 47 years). And that's just for one person. The maximum for a household with more than one person over that time would be $868,257.
Under the new bill, the same household would pay $0. And if they change their mind and decide to purchase insurance at some point, they'd only have to pay 30% higher on their premiums for one year. That's about $800 total.
$868,257 under Obamacare, vs $800 under the replacement bill."
Miencraft, Rateria
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They also often side with libertarians on land use, the federal government restricts them almost as much as it does my home state and we work together a lot on those issues. They're generally big on decentralization.
Otherwise, Hawaii is extremely left-wing, if independent it would look like some cross between Singapore (very multicultural, very dense, somewhat cartelized regional trade capital) and Sweden (vast welfare state). It also has the most clear-cut example of "reverse racism" in the country, in that white people are shunned as "haoles" and most businesses are instead run by Japanese/Native/White "hapas."
Also, totally unsurprised to see us that high there. :P Most people I know supported Rand Paul, then reluctantly switched to Cruz. Admittedly, over half the people my age group voted Bernie, but a gigantic chunk (me included) voted Johnson.
Pevvania, Republic Of Minerva, Rateria
The vast majority of millennials are going to lean towards Bernie because, like all charlatans, Bernie gives simple solutions to complex problems. "Free college" for example is a promise that all millennials would love to be a reality, me included. But unlike other people I don't buy it for a second.
Pevvania, Rateria, Condealism, The United States Of Patriots, Fairbankska
I really think Republicans could make inroads with college kids on that question though. Adopting the Friedman plan for state schools, where you pledge a certain percentage of future income rather than a flat sum, would go a long way to solving the debt crisis.
Narland, Republic Of Minerva, Rateria, Condealism, The United States Of Patriots
I think it's terrible that Tomi Lahren has been suspended from The Blaze just because she said she's pro-choice. That's the type of PC groupthink BS we expect from the left. Sad!
Neil Gorsuch is a total rockstar. He's sailing through these confirmation hearings!
The Ambassador To The Clfr, Fairbankska
Bad luck [nation=short]Republic of Minerva[/nation], you're median in the region for 'most average'.
Republic Of Minerva, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Well I'm off to LA with my ballroom team to perform at Universal Studios, I'll be back on the 26th, See you all later!
Pevvania, Narland, Kumquat Cove, Rateria, Fairbankska
Yes he is. I love it.
Fun fact: if you look close enough at the bottle in my avatar, you'll see that it says "liberal tears." :p
Pevvania
Break a leg (if that is still said.)
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. -- Fred Astaire
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. -- Bob Hope
Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
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Good luck buddy! Break a leg!
The United States Of Patriots
Can somebody sue somebody else, tryin' to live it up as AG.
Rateria, Condealism
I wouldn't share that so loudly. Someone will complain your flag is "trolling." It happened to this guy: Capitalist_Producers He modified his flag accordingly.
I want to sue US Senator Diane Feinstein and Senator Chuck Schumer for continually trying to take away my rights. When can we get started?
I want to sure Hyderbourg for attempted abuse of power.
Rateria, Condealism
If that happens, then I rename it to "mod tears."
Rateria, Condealism
I want to sue you for misspelling "sue."
Miencraft, Rateria
Apparently Judge Andrew Napolitano (my favorite Libertarian and Constitutionalist talking head) got pulled from Fox News.
[url]http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/21/fox-news-pulls-judge-napolitano-after-claims-obama-used-british-spies-wiretap-trumps-phones/[/url]
The two people who were my main reasons for watching Fox are now gone (Stossel and Napolitano). :( My 9 1/2 biggest news sources are now totally on the web--Libertarian Republic, Reason, Cato, Breitbart, Federalist, Oathkeepers, Heavy, Free Republic and the Onion.
Republic Of Minerva
Woah woah woah - what happened to Stossel?
Screw Reason and the Onion. Reason is full of beta males and The Onion is full of annoyingly subversive Clintonian propaganda, with no alternate points of view.
...are you okay?
Rateria, Fairbankska
I will never be OK as long as the Federal Reserve debases the money supply
Republic Of Minerva, Fairbankska
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Stossel: no new shows--all reruns now.
[url]http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/stossel-goes-off-the-air-a-major-media-loss-36498/[/url]
I understand the beta-male response re: reason.org, but the first time I saw the Onion it was the Money-Hole:
[url]http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-should-the-government-stop-dumping-mon-14289[/url]
Every now and again they come out with a gem.
Pevvania
Lmao, "It's just like they say, you have to throw money in a hole and set in on fire, to make money."
Fairbankska
The Onion is usually pretty funny. Definitely left-leaning, but funny.
Reason are, uh, more left-wing than I'd like I guess and occasionally naive. I'm not sure what makes them "beta males" though, I've only seen that from weird Trump cult of personality types who seem to think any criticism of him is a sign of being a "beta cuck." Usually losers who are compensating for something. :P
Republic Of Minerva, Rateria
Keynesianism in a nutshell.
Miencraft, Pevvania, Narland, Rateria
Person: My house is on fire!
Government: *shows up with hose and starts spraying money on the burning house*
Narland, Fairbankska
Lol. It's one of those terms I started using ironically and now it's become a part of my vocabulary. My definition of beta male/cuck is somebody who betrays libertarian or conservative principles, those who cannot stand their ground, or male 3rd wave feminists/SJWs. Rick Perry, Jeb Bush and Justin Trudeau would all fall under the 'cuck' label.
Narland, Fairbankska
And to think that ideology influenced half a century of economic policy making. Terrible!
Fairbankska
The way you're speaking is starting to sound more like Trump. How do you pronounce "China"?
Pevvania, Fairbankska
Like this, probably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaOeM-fwByo
Pevvania, Rateria
Lemme tell you, I can do THE BEST Trump impression in real life, the best. I'm great at impressions.
Rateria
Oddly enough, I can too. Looks like we have something in common.
Pevvania
My Hillary Clinton is, according to most of my friends, scary good.
My Sarah Palin could use some work though. Note to Lower 48ers: none of us sound like her. Really, we don't. The only people who talk like that are older folks from the Mat-Su Valley (i.e. people like her), which received a lot of Minnesotan migration. Otherwise, a Seattlite or even a Californian is a lot closer to us dialect-wise.
Rateria
Except it looks incredibly immature. Adopting alt-right terminology is a surefire way to make the libertarian movement irrelevant.
Narland, Rateria, Condealism
Miencraft
American Healthcare Act didn't have the votes. Good. I liked the bill, personally, but I suppose it's better to get it right the first time, especially with some more free market measures thrown in there. And once we've got healthcare out of the way, we can finally reform the tax code, which is long overdue.
Yeah very funny. But unironic use of these terms is still painful, for want of a better word.
Rateria, Condealism
Clearly, you need better friends.
Fairbankska
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Few things in life are sadder than watching educated people like the GOP leadership in Congress acting so ignorantly, willfully so it would seem regarding such a simple mandate from the voters who elected Trump for such a simple task--REPEAL the ACA. The faster DC gets out of the way of the People and starts enforcing against fraud and coercion instead of perpetuating some aspect of it, the better off the American people will be. The AHCA is a different bill for a different time. Now is the time to repeal.
I was going to post, "Ceterum autem censeo Ryanem esse reponitur." after each sentence like Cato did regarding Carthage--<<Furthermore (in my esteem) Ryan must be replaced>>, but instead like a Rolaids©®tm commercial will ask how to spell relief? R-E-P-E-A-L-S
The Ambassador To The Clfr, Condealism, Fairbankska
Unrelated random stuff: here's a thing where you can upload a file and it'll simulate it being a flag waving around on a pole.
Related stuff: Why the hell can we not just repeal ACA and call it a day? Why is everyone pretending they campaigned on "repeal and replace" when everyone's promise for the past seven years has been "repeal", full stop?
Narland, The Ambassador To The Clfr
Because the insurance companies will never allow it. The government has decided that enriching their cronies is better than meaningful reform.
Narland, Rateria, Condealism, Fairbankska
Better question:
Why the hell do we continue to allow these same idiots to get elected over and over again when they fail, over and over again, to do what they're put there to do?
Narland, The Ambassador To The Clfr, Rateria, Condealism, Fairbankska
The peops are waking up--slowly but surely. Trump's election shows that nearly half of Americans are starting to look around at what is at stake. Education, affiliation, and camaraderie through networking, joining groups like Campaign for Liberty, running for office (everyone should at least once in their life), joining the local party in power and showing up to the meetings to get your ideas across, staying a member (when one can afford it) of the Libertarian Party (I belong to 2 parties willingly--Libertarian and Constitution, and the third vis coactus--Republican.
At the local and state level it has taken us nearly 15 years to slowly whittle away at the moderately progressive corporatist Good ol' Boy network by replacing through attrition with liberty and constitutionally minded individuals. Another 15 years, here and we will be able to devolve the accrued centralized powers back to the Counties and Localities--easier since we are a one party Republican State. It should not be that difficult to attain devolution--very hard in effort but not difficult to execute. There is no inherent struggle within the party against returning to federalism from the progressivist centralization of the last 75 years at our state party level except from LDS.
Pevvania, The Ambassador To The Clfr
Huzzah! Two have committed to meeting weekly at a coffee shop to go through Economics in One Lesson--a college student and an elementary school music teacher. The book is very self-explanatory, so even if my brain is off-line it should go well. Two more people who may wake up.
Pevvania, Rateria, Fairbankska
Perhaps that isn't as within our power as we may assume.
More pessimistically, it could just mean that the powers that be can get anyone elected, up to and including someone who flagrantly resembles them and represents their interests to a great degree, as evidenced by said election.
Rateria
That's the big one. But also, Trump did in fact campaign on "repeal and replace." He laid out a plan for the replacement, most of which was included in the recent bill and which was criticized by both libertarians and conservatives at the time for being Obamacare-lite. This really wasn't unexpected, it was exactly what was on the table.
The discomfort most on the right had with it is less a betrayal by Trump, and more a sign that they put personality ahead of principle in picking him over Paul or Cruz.
Narland
Also I just realized I said 'here's a thing' then gave no thing.
Whooooooooooooops.
https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/
Rateria
Look man, this is just another necessary step in Vermin Supreme's plot for world domination.
Rateria
I'm planning on doing a Dungeons and Dragons game with some of my friends. I chose to play as a Bard. I named my character Murray Roth.
I'm proud of myself...
Narland, Republic Of Minerva, Muh Roads, Condealism, Fairbankska
So Rachel Dolezal says that doing childhood chores made her empathise with black slaves, and that the reason her African-American husband divorced her is because she was "a little too black" for him.
This is not an issue of identity. This is an issue of mental wellbeing. Her children are in danger every minute they're being cared for by this person, and she needs to be committed to an institution.
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I'm not sure she's a legitimate danger to her children, I'm definitely not the one to make that judgment since I don't know her family personally.
She could easily be something less dangerous to her kids, but much worse on a personal level: a conscious liar. The impression I got from the news stories on her when she was exposed is that she was a pretty lonely kid. That's the type of person who's generally attracted to political activism, as any look at a leftist, libertarian, or alt-right gathering would show. It's also the type of person who would look to add oppression points, for the similar reason of giving themselves a semblance of importance. What adds a bigger victim status than being black in nearly all-white Spokane, Washington?
Rateria
Who cares? She is an attention seeker and this matter isn't worthy of attention.
Rateria, Condealism
Hello
Kumquat Cove, Rateria, Fairbankska
Greetings Charlynia. Welcome to Libertatem. Please feel free to look around, click some of the links and post messages.
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Interestingly, she is safer in Spokane as a "Black" Woman than she would be in Detroit regardless of race or mental state. I have a friend who is overly fascinated with Japanese culture (not the Otaku, but the Shinto/Buddhist Japanese mindset as a whole) and resigned himself to the realization that he would never be fully accepted as Japanese. He is seeking employment there anyway. I promised to take care of his bonsai but he doesn't trust me with it. :/
Pevvania, Rateria, Fairbankska
I am going to apply for a government job. I will self identify a black lesbian transexual with a spanish surname and a reading disability.
I should be able to get any federal job I want.
Pevvania, Rateria, Fairbankska
WEABOO ALERT
That's unfortunate. Japan's isolation period has had a huge impact on it's culture to the point where it's probably one of the most discriminatory and inward-looking developed countries in the world. Central planning and autarky worked for a while, but it didn't work when their economy tanked and nobody would but their goods, or when their population started declining and needed more immigrants.
I think our boy DT will learn fast that restrictionism is a bad idea.
Miencraft, Rateria, Fairbankska
Speaking of the Donald, credit where it's due and criticism where it's due: so far, his foreign policy hasn't changed very much. More drone bombings and an escalation of our role in the Yemeni Civil War. Not good! He rejected neo-conservatism in his inauguration speech. He needs to put his words into practice. Aside from fighting ISIS and curtailing North Korea's nuclear ambitions, we need to take a big step back from world affairs.
Miencraft, Narland, Republic Of Minerva, Rateria, Condealism
I told ya so I told ya so
Pevvania, Rateria, Condealism
My opinion hasn't changed, I still think he's our best friend in the White House in 30 years and I'm still a fan, but we must remain logically consistent if we want to seem credible. His Presidency so far is a B+ in my opinion.
Miencraft, The Ambassador To The Clfr
Ever since the death of Martin Luther King (and perhaps even a bit before that when he was advocating higher welfare spending), the black community has been systematically let down and betrayed by it's leaders. The black mayors, the black congressmen, and the Al Sharptons, and yes the black president have done nothing but preach the same redistributive, self-victimising culture and values that has done nothing to advance the community, ever. They say they'll fight for change, then get rich at the expense of poor black folks and leave them in the gutter. Hell, you know they've got it bad when Shaun King continues to deny that he's actually white!
The Republicans need to do a better job at outreach, and more blacks need to be educated about free markets and the historical significance of classical liberalism in the civil rights movement.
Miencraft, Narland, Rateria, Condealism, Fairbankska
Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Samuel Fuller were the best leaders the black community has ever had.
Miencraft, Pevvania, Narland, Condealism
You read my mind. Three brilliant thinkers that did a lot to build the community from the bottom up.
Narland, Condealism, Fairbankska
To be fair, practically anyone but Hillary or Bernie would have been
Miencraft, The Ambassador To The Clfr
Would that be because of a general lack of Libertarianism in the United States government?
Republic Of Minerva, Condealism
Sucky week in Canada
Trudeau has a new budget, main things:
1.Higher federal tax on alcohol
2.No more tax benefits for using public transport (sucks for students like me)
3.This "budget" will only end up in greater debt
Good for Conservative Party though, Maxime Bernier is a part of the 3 front runners for the CPC leadership along with Kellie Leitch and Kevin O'Leary. I will be definitely be voting for him.
Republic Of Minerva, Rateria
I used to joke that the Republicans should have put up a rock as their nominee, because it'd still be a better president than either of them.
Pevvania, Rateria, Condealism, Fairbankska
For this time only, I want to formally offer a membership to the NSRight Pact of Concordance. To accept, or if you have any questions regarding the pact or NSRight itself, please telegram my main nation [nation=short]Ndaku[/nation]!
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/spongebobgalaxy/images/b/b5/055a_-_The_Great_Snail_Race_642.jpg
Miencraft, Rateria
Man, I miss Spongebob.
Condealism
Government screwed up the ghettos by handing out free food and money. And it started long before MLK died, culminating with President Johnson's Great Society. The Democrats spent millions bribing the minorities with taxpayer money, while trapping them in a system that is rigged to keep them on it.
The poor don't want what the Republicans are selling. They've had a couple generations to get used to not having responsibility for their own survival.
Miencraft, Pevvania, Narland, Rateria, Condealism, Fairbankska
There is a good chance Libertarian Mark Wicks may get some high numbers in the Montana congressional race this May.
Narland, Kumquat Cove, Rateria, Fairbankska
https://wicksforfreedom.com/
Narland, Kumquat Cove, Rateria, Fairbankska
[spoiler=I like writing song parodies that make little sense]"Bite me, you commies. #MAGA" is the thing to say
On a dreary American Tax Day
That's the ugly greeting to the IRS
From where evangelicals pray
Here they know the government can do no good
Unless they're barring Muslims from their neighborhood
"Bite me, you commies. #MAGA" is the alt-right's way
To say "back to Mexico with you."[/spoiler]
Tyranny Alert:
S.J.Res. 34: A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services will allow ISPs to sell your web surfing history to other companies. If your Senator voted for it (party line vote -- R yes/D no) call and reprimand them for their carelessness. Call your Congressman and ask them to vote NO. Remind them that not everything passed under Obama was ebul just the stuff that violated the rights, privileges and immunities of the Citizens. Things that help people be secure in their persons might just be the Constitutional thing.
Miencraft, Pevvania, Rateria, The United States Of Patriots
Socialism has never been tried
The Soviet Union, North Korea and Venezuela stopped being real socialism as soon as they started to fail
(Sent on my iPhone 5.)
Rateria, Condealism, The United States Of Patriots, Shirayuki Mizore, Fairbankska
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The bill can be tracked here:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres34
Ars Technica Article
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/how-isps-can-sell-your-web-history-and-how-to-stop-them/
I too like to watch h3h3 productions
Yay! We're all going to be annihilated by nuclear hellfire!
*sets up beach chair and waits for he destruction of mankind*
https://www.nationstates.net/page=news
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