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In NYC, off-duty and retired cops have an effective monopoly on the bodyguard business.

This is why they are so adamantly opposed to mere civilians getting CCW. It’s a lucrative business which they do NOT want to give up.

It’s getting to be summer in the southern hemisphere, and sunlight kills virus quickly. There is NO reason not to let people be outside.

“....the U.S. has lacked a robust right-wing party. It could be argued that the Republican Party is the right, but their position on the right is simply relative to that of the Democrats. Across the political spectrum, Republicans are center-left at best. They could neither recognize nor roll back the socialist transformation in American society. If they were genuinely right, we would not be fighting socialism in the early 21st century.”

If we manage to get a second Trump term, one of the first things he should do, is move to consolidate the 79 federal "means tested" programs under one agency (laying off the resulting redundant bureaucrats). This would then make very visible how much "aid" the average welfare recipient is actually getting.

Then work on putting a ceiling on total aid, so that it is less than what working a minimum wage job would do, in order to provide an incentive to get a job.

I am currently talking about “means tested programs” for low-income people or certain “protected classes”. Period. We can get into “corporate welfare” as a separate issue.

As of 2011, the amount spent on means-tested (”poverty”) programs, spread out among 79 agencies (the better to hide the total amount), was only moderately smaller than the amount spent on Social Security and Medicare.

https://www.heritage.org/testimony/examining-the-means-tested-welfare-state-79-programs-and-927-billion-annual-spending

“The means-tested welfare system consists of 79 federal programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care, social services, training, and targeted education aid to poor and low-income Americans. Means-tested welfare programs differ from general government programs in two ways. First, they provide aid exclusively to persons (or communities) with low incomes; second, individuals do not need to earn eligibility for benefits through prior fiscal contributions. Means-tested welfare therefore does not include Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, or worker’s compensation.

Although the public is aware that Social Security and Medicare are large, expensive programs, few are aware that for every $1.00 spent on these two program government spends 76 cents on assistance to the poor or means-tested welfare.”

You will never find that politician, and if you do they will never be elected. Congress RUNS on welfare. It is its stock in trade.

Democrats run on welfare. Republicans run on Social Security. If it comes to having to make a choice, a politician will sacrifice the constituency which doesn't habitually vote for him.

We are all Socialists now. As Socialists we dont care where it comes from as long as it comes to us and nobody else gets more than we get.

OK. But as a non-pathologically altruistic socialist, I will vote AGAINST any spending that I do not see a benefit to.

That means I will vote FOR any politician who promises (and DELIVERS) the abolition of welfare, or at least some measurable cut in the welfare state.

I would guess that Trump has been self-funding his campaign and voting count defense personally, for the most part.

It is a very common pathology for every socialist to demand that Social Security be chopped, with welfare unaffected.

Meanwhile, I gave some money to the Trump defense fund

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

If you appreciate him, you can too.

Muslim politician Abraham Aiyash (Michigan House of Representatives District 4) doxxed and threatened the children of, one of the holdouts to certifying Wayne County’s results. She folded soon after.

https://twitter.com/correctthemedia/status/1328969920357535744

Ask a freeper about social security benefits and if they should be reduced or eliminated.

I would be willing to see Social Security benefits reduced or eliminated, even though I'm going to retire soon.

Provided that

ALL means-tested government programs are eliminated FIRST. That means all of welfare, all of Medicaid, all of "Food stamps"/SNAP/whatever-the-hell-they-call-it-today, Section 8 housing, etc, etc. ALL OF IT, FIRST. And fire the government employees administering it, sell off the buildings, and a Constitutional amendment that the federal government will not be involved, directly or indirectly, in any future program of charity to the poor.

THEN, I would go for SS being eliminated.

Deal?

His voters don’t live in Midtown. So he doesn’t care.

He will start caring when the “work from home” professional people get re-assigned to officially be working from Texas, and change their tax residence to Florida.

Why did young people WANT to live in NYC? Partially, it was for the night life, Broadway, great restaurants — which DeBlasio closed. Why stay home in a tiny NYC apartment?

Yesterday Trump held an emergency meeting of all the lawyers working on the voter fraud. I know that everyone wants to see the perp walks, but even Sidney Powell said that the info they are having to deal with "is like a firehose."

There will be no perp walks. Conviction in a court would mean being found guilty by a DC jury, which is not going to happen.

The Dems focused any vote fraud in the big Democrat cities where they could get away with it (Detroit, Philadelphia, etc). But the congressional districts associated with those cities are not going to go Republican anyway.

We made gains in suburban and rural districts.

It was body-cam video of a conversation he was having with another officer while at a gas station.

https://youtu.be/xsstCwJ6mjM

Do Japanese-American students qualify as “Pacific Islanders”? Japan is an Island in the Pacific.

The next frontier for AI: realistic sex robots

https://www.rt.com/news/506949-sexbots-elderly-disabled-ethicist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

They’ll never have a headache.

The threat to the “established order” would be for information to be able to go viral on parler, and then have a few thousand people spread it from there to Twitter and Facebook.