Comments by Puddy Tat (page 25)

"@PT I'm glad you think it's paradise here..... I'm gonna file that one away for future use lol ." @wld4tatas - it's all relative... "Many immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including those of European ancestry, display the flag of the country of their ancestors." Not sure how many do it as an open display of defiance against America, or using it to claim that immigration laws are racist, but I wouldn't want anyone like that no matter if they're from Sweden or Somalia. "Is Trump a traitor for investing so much money in Scotland, birth country of his mother" Not sure what investing has to do with anything. "Would the "American values" standard bar immigration by pimps, like Trump's father's father. who came to the US from Canada?" Did he acculturate or demand that his congressman advocate on the behalf of his birth country rather than America? "The immigrants who don't see the connection between US economic opportunities, and democracy and the rule of law, tended to be the ones who lived out their lives as permanent residents, and never vote." Or who commit crimes and should be sent out of here on the first flight. There is no inherent human right to live in America. "The kids of immigrants go to school here, and learn English well. And proper US civics, better than the Jan 6th rioters." I am one of those children of immigrants. My mother's family came here legally, learned English, worked hard, obeyed the law, didn't take a drop of welfare, and were eternally thankful for the opportunities America gave them. They didn't demand chain migration.

^ Bring your culture, but accept American values--respect our laws, equality before the law, our fundamental freedoms, the Constitution, learn the language. I don't get why immigrants would want to come here, then wave the flag of the land they fled.

If anyone thinks they're not getting sloppy seconds, they're nuttier than squirrel shits. I do to see who's available, and yes, how happy the guy looks.

I'm surprised. The places that I've been, I've left because they've been hijacked by the same 5 trolls who literally cut and paste the same stupid shit on every post, spout propaganda lines with less thought than anyone here, insult each other worse than Gammanu and 25, and are just generally little bitches. This place is paradise by comparison.

^ ^^ How did I know this would happen?

Not the hottest but I'd still smash.

^ Though that seems to generate enough fights over who is clubbing the "right way."

So far about what I expected, except for Skibum's homosexual pedophile comment. I'm not on Twitter but I imagine that's the worst. Equivalent would be if someone (and I'm not innocent here) cries to Founder to ban everyone who says something they don't like. Though some Leftbook/Rightbook places are pretty horrible too.

Part of it might be that we all share a common interest in strip clubs. Some of these other boards, even comment sections of well-respected newspapers on all sides, have grouchy of men and women that spend most of their days trolling these sites. I guess it's their social outlet rather than playing bridge in the common room at senior living.

^ Believe it or not I largely agree with you. But Harris' proposals are exactly the wrong way to do it. Extreme wealth is mobile. A mark-to-market tax will drive the rich--and the investment capital--out of the country so fast it'll blow your hair back. It'll also crash the stock market as Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates have to sell stocks just to pay the tax bill. Price controls create shortages, we've seen this in the 70s, in the USSR, in rent control. But I guess that's "equity" for you, everyone equally miserable. Income tax, there aren't enough rich out there. Any income tax would cut into the middle class. And saying you're only going to tax the top X% doesn't work, because those taxes (like the Alternative Minimum Tax) always creep down. What we need to do are take away the mechanisms the super rich use to hide their income. All the deductions. Big companies love complexity, because they have the resources needed to navigate it. Imagine if we could figure out Amazon's taxes on a 3x5 index card. There's no question how much they owe, and no loopholes to skate. And that also means reining in on government grants, which always seem to flow to the rich and well-connected, like we saw during COVID. Amazon and Wal-Mart flourished, mom-and-pop stores took it in the ass. This is a win win, except for all the accountants and lawyers and bureaucrats whose job it's always been to make it harder for Americans to do their jobs.

^ You're boring.

"Look at the GOP platform. Look at Agenda 47, look at Project 2025," Trump has repeatedly disavowed Project 2025, that's a Democratic scare line. "The president himself would often demand to send troops to block the border, according to the former officials" If he demanded it and it didn't happen, so what? Presidents overstep bounds or try to all the time and get shot down by courts. But if you want to compare border policies that or even mass deportation (which isn't logistically possible and therefore irrelevant) I'll take Trump’s orderly border over importing 7 million voters to amnesty and make Democrats. We see across the country the strain on the community this is causing. "And you have to have some severe cognitive dissonance to look at these things and say "well, they're unrealistic, so they don't matter."" We DO have something to look at, it's called Trump's first time. "We know what it would look like: MASS DEPORTATIONS, TRADE WARS, and the subsequent massive inflation, reduction in GDP, loss of jobs, and the human rights catastrophe those things would entail." Massive inflation, you mean like WHAT THE BIDEN HARRIS ADMINISTRATION ACTUALLY GAVE US? You seem ignorant of stats the American people care about. It's wages and cost of living above all. Unemployment affects only the margins...I know libs like to tout it but if was mostly public sector or public sector adjacent jobs and these numbers are getting revised down a few months later anyways. As for a human rights catastrophe, there is no inherent right to live in America and become a citizen. Closing the border is safer for American citizens that are getting menaced by central and South American gangs, saving young families from the toll of human traffickers, and keeping out admitted terrorists. Of course Democrats DGAF because they're hoping to import their own electorate, but trust me, Ron, the rest of us REALLY don't want this collateral damage. Here's why I'm not scared of Trump’s proposals... because more than anything he said, we have four years of them. We had inflation free growth, peace and strength around the world, and a controlled border. Now we have none of these, and Harris trying to pick and choose what parts of the Biden record she embraces. Her words are what we actually have to do on, and her personnel choices and policy statements when she's NOT trying to win a general election are left of left. You think inflation is bad? Just imagine if her spending policies get passed. You think the border is a human rights catastrophe? Just wait until it's open season. You think a trip to the grocery store is traumatic? Just wait until price controls on a 1.5% margin business are enacted. You think GDP will drop? Just imagine the capital flight when she taxes unrealized capital gains. You think Trump is a "dictator"? Look at who is implementing large scale censorship and saying "free speech" is passe. You think race relations are bad? Just wait until Kamala implements her promised committee on race reparations. I'll admit I'm more anti Democrat than pro Republican. That's because I actually have an advanced business degree and have had my eyes open for the last 8 years. I'm donating to and voting for Trump because I love this country.

^ Reich hasn't been relevant since Y2K was a bigger threat than al-Qaeda

^ Iran hasn't responded because like all bullies, they can be cowed by strength (like Trump droning Soleimani) and are emboldened by weakness and Obama/Biden's dicksucking. Thanks to the latter, they are closer to a bomb than ever. We need another Stuxnet, or something more drastic, to keep a bomb out of the hands of the Shiite apocalyptic death cult.

^ Effective tax rates have been very flat over time. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/effective-income-tax-rates-have-fallen-top-one-percent-world-war-ii-0#:~:text=While%20average%20effective%20tax%20rates,for%20the%20top%201%20percent.

@RonJax - The TDS argument didn't fly when we've had 4 years of him. Trump used the threat of tariffs as a negotiating tactic but didn't implement them. And a mass deportation is only slightly more feasible than the left's of going door to door confiscating guns. Trump has enough money under any circumstances that he doesn't need a bribe operation like the Clinton Foundation or donations to the Biden Center at UPenn (or Hunter's artwork). His net worth actually decreased while in office. I think Trump wins but I still don't think the stock has any true value. Not sure when he'll incite a mob to overrun the capital when he told people to protest peacefully and patriotically. Whomever gets elected is unlikely to be able to do much. If the GOP takes the Senate they'll have the likes of Murkowski and Collins able to veto anything. My fear is that the Dems nuke the filibuster and we end up with the worst of the Harris liberal agenda and a packed Supreme Court, and everything will whipsaw the other direction and get nullified when Republicans take power. In their pursuit of short term interests, they will open the floodgates.

^ Nah you got hurt over Gammanu saying censoring free speech and imprisoning conservatives is not OK. You're the bigot, and worse.

I think it's fucking hot when a dancer runs her nails along my back.

Bigot (n.) - Someone winning an argument with a leftist.

^ In other words you think freedom of speech only applies to people who agree with you.

^ We can't afford Democrats' spending ambitions. There aren't enough rich to tax, probably not enough middle class either. Nor Republican tax cuts. We're paying for services already rendered. We're replacing low interest rate debt with high interest rate debt. This can't hold.

The Blue has been dead for some time. This is just signing the death certificate.

The ear? How short and skinny would your dick have to be to do that?

^ LOL the paper that explicitly disavows objectivity. If inflation were Bidenflation, did Russia commit a Bidenvasion? Ukraine is literally running out of soldiers. Unless we put American boots on the ground, we'd best negotiate while we can.

^ Russia Russia Russia. Yeah like Putin taking Crimea and parts of Georgia under Trump... oh wait, that was "reset" and "more latitude after the election" Obama. Or like Putin invading Ukraine under Trump... oh wait, that was "minor incursion" Biden. You really, really need a new conspiracy theory.