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But if you examine each of those, you can see that he has little interest them. The only time he seemed to actually show interest in the opposite sex was with the archeologist Vash on Riza. However, I would argue that the writers were intentionally depicting his interest as intellectually...

I'm pretty sure Jean Luc Picard was supposed to be gay. Riker and Warf (Son of Mogh) were the ones pulling chicks. La Forge was straight, just had no game.

And why?

See thread title.

It's even worse than that. He made it pretty much impossible for international cooperation to take place with regard to vaccine production and distribution. He started by trying to force Germany to produce a hundred million doses for the US before anyone else and then scaring Modi away from...

The annual deficit is around 1.4T right now. It was over 2T when the current admin was sworn in. Also, the debt is irrelevant.

The debt is irrelevant. The deficit is not. The deficit is coming down but not as quickly as desired because of some emergency stim packages that kept the economy from being dead. Also, the debt is irrelevant.

I admit it. As much as I have criticized him and especially with regard to the handling of the pandemic, of which I still hold firm, I admit it would be so much worse with the GOP at the helm.

Trump left us in a position where we could not manage an emergency. An emergency indeed came to pass. We somehow still have an economy.

The only thing useful about the debt as a measurement is that it is plain for all to see. It is exactly like that mound of discarded clam shells. Another example here as to why the debt can be a terrible measurement of fiscal and budget policy. If the deficit that Obama inherited, which was...

The pain that is inflicted is intangible and society-wide. It's stress and anxiety. I bet if a study were done, they could correlate this anxiety with mass shootings and road-rage and all sorts of other dangers.

Biden spends money we don't have, but it is the GOP who don't want us to have it. Now, I will make one small concession here. Ostensibly, the GOP is holding the country hostage in order to reduce spending. In practice however, they never do. They just cut revenue and continue spending.

National debt is essentially irrelevant. I say essentially because it is only relevant as a political tool and dogwhistle. The government can continue to "borrow" indefinitely. The question is how much the government can "borrow" at a time that will affect the economy in complex ways. So the...

Keep trying buddy, I'm sure you'll get it sooner or later. maybe not though.

I'm no supporter of Biden but this doesn't ring completely true. The deficit has been reduced under the current admin. Obama also inherited a terrible economy and reduced the deficit. Trump bumped the debt by nearly 8 trillion in a single term. Even if Biden were to preside over such an increase...

That 7.8 trillion trump-bump in the national debt though. I don't remember that red house-majority threatening to shut the gov't down then. Did they just not care about funding the gov't when they were cutting tax on the uber-rich? Why are they threatening to stop funding stuff like Veteran's...

Still no proof.

It seems every few years this subject is trendy. Is it just me or does it only seem to haunt us when there is a blue admin and a red house-majority? Am I wrong? Is the federal gov't being held hostage again by this shit? Are we facing a shut down in June as a threat or not? What does this have...

I would be willing to bet Ivermectin saved more lives than lockdowns did, whether we're looking at all-cause mortality or not. Not that I'm pushing Ivermectin, but it's just stupid to be so gung ho about lockdown militancy with no proof while ridiculing people who use veterinary medicine.

And by extension, anyone who preferred Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton is now not only every other sort of deplorable, clearly anti-vax, uneducated, and racist... They're injecting horse-paste into their veins too. Well no, he didn't say exactly that, and I am by no means a trump supporter...