"You have those just laying around?
#102 | POSTED BY ZED "

Keeps the derelicts off my porch.

"But there's a dying, destitute man on your doorstep. What do you do?
#97 | POSTED BY DANFORTH "

Is he a drug addict with life long bad life choices? If he is, I give him a spear and loin cloth and tell him to go off to the woods and fend for himself.

"SS is an equilibrium equation."

Yeah - all ponzi schemes are during the 'early investor' stage. It never should have been started in the first place. Don't even get me started on SSDI

"Medicare has been based on premiums paid all one's working life, for a reduced premium in retirement."

Yep - never should have started in the first place. As for your premiums, bad bet suckers. It is going bankrupt in less than 10 years regardless so just end it now.

"Medicaid is caring for the destitute, rather than leaving them in a field to die."

I fully understand. Which is why it is subsidizing poor life choices. If you are poor because of your drug use, I don't want to pay for your medical care just like you don't want to pay for the medical care of the unvaccinated even though they have insurance they paid for to provide the benefits.

"Please explain why we should get rid of each.
#90 | POSTED BY DANFORTH"

None of these programs are authorized under the US constitution. Income taxes should be eliminated at the same time. We need to massively shrink the size of the Federal government back to its authorized purposes. We are going bankrupt as a nation - so, we can start to deleverage now or be forced to do it in a way that will guarantee war and mass destruction.

"Do you mean eliminate the Earned Income Tax Credit?
#87 | POSTED BY DANFORTH"

Federal taxes can pay for the military, post office, management of federal lands, interstate highway system, food safety, and should cover very little else. SS, Medicare, Medicaid, any transfer program should be eliminated.

"All drugs should be decrminialized."

Except ivermectin of course.

"Millions of people are on heroin, it's one of the few drugs you can do and live a normal life.
#83 | POSTED BY SNOOFY "

Very sad commentary on how you view the world Snoofy. I suspect drug use has led you to where you are now in life as well. Even you had potential at one point - why you want to normalize this type of failed life if anyone's guess. But, as I stated above, get rid of the welfare state and I am perfectly fine with you destroying your life/body.

"#81 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

First I would like an answer to my question above - why is it that every one of your Dem leaders live as far away from the filth their policies result in as possible? Did Obama move back to the Chicago South Side? Did he send his kids to public school? Just curious as your leaders run to the whitest, richest places they can find - both to live and to send their kids for education yet demonize those same institutions. Why is that?

As to your weed question, prohibition is preferable in a system with a welfare state. If there was not taxation supporting people's poor lifestyle choices, then ingest whatever you want. Weed destroys people's potential - period. I would apply the same to alcohol and drugs - take as many as you want, but they don't come looking for government handouts.

So, given your pro-weed position, does this extend to heroin as well?

"You celebrate murder: "What happened in 2020/2021 is the activation of the Democrat base which includes the violent criminal class."
#76 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

I don't celebrate it - it is what it is. This is the logical extension of your liberal policies as much as open air shooting galleries and defecation. Just like tent cities that follow every liberal city...well, except in the neighborhoods of the Democrat elite. Take a dump in front of a storehouse on Fremont street and you are 'just being San Francisco' but take a dump in front of Nancy Pelosi's compound and you will be charged with a crime. Did you ever stop and wonder why the Democrat elites that vote for this nonsense then hide in gated communities with private security that stops them from having to live around the filth their policies create?

Look at Maxine Watters - represent a poor, black community but lives in one of the richest and whitest. Joe Biden thinks 'you ain't black' if you don't vote for him - yet, he lives in his gated compound where the closest thing to a black person is the white lawyer his crackhead kid likes to call the n-word. These are the people you look up to and take your marching orders from - why? You claim that you are the party that values education and 'trust the science' and then elect inexperienced bartenders and political activists like Pressely and Corey Bush. There still is a youtube video up of one of your members worried about the island of Guam capsizing if we sent more troops there....

Yet, you line up behind them like the unthinking morons that you are and blame the GOP as your neighborhoods become more and more unlivable despite 100% Democrat control....until you finally given in and move to a red state, then start mindlessly voting for the same failed policies.

I will end with this - if you think legalizing weed is a good thing that won't have negative societal implications, you are naive beyond words.

"The piss-chugging------------ capped his disastrous presidency by inciting an insurrection that led to the deaths of 5 cops. Congrats MAGA filth.
"#72 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT"

I think we need to a "Go Fund Me" for you to buy that new iPhone with mental illness detection. Set it up and I will gladly donate. Seriously dude, a huge % of liberals and ultra-left sufferer from mental illness as diagnosed by mental health professionals - about 50% of the young ultra-liberals. Your friend group may seem normal to you because they are also suffering. But, to the normal people of the world, you sound scary deranged. I am all for gun rights - but I would try to stop you from getting one.

"AR15s wouldn't be much good against fighter jets the ebi'l gub'mint has... although I would love to watch if it happens.
#68 | POSTED BY CORKY"

Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia would all beg to differ.

"Thanks to progressives who hijacked it and trashed it.
#66 | POSTED BY JAKESTER"

Classical liberals - person freedom and equal opportunity types - are no longer associated with Democrat party. So in that sense, you are correct. In modern language, the word liberal = progressive (aka people too dumb to understand the history of communism). People that believe in equal opportunity, person freedom, and are against censorship have nothing to do with the Democrat party.

"---- your liberal utopian Second Amendment experiment going?
"Murder Rose by Almost 30% in 2020"
"77% from guns - the highest share ever"
#64 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

Democrats draining their own gene pool. Seems like a success. Most of these were gang related. Pretty easy to avoid being a homicide victim in places like Chicago. Don't buy or do drugs. Don't join a gang. If you do - play stupid games, win stupid prizes. There is no out of control murder problems in rural areas.

"Not every shooting death is a murder, dummy.
Most are suicides.
#61 | POSTED BY SNOOFY "

No ----. The ones in CHAZ - which were are talking about - were not suicides unless you think the teenager had a 'Kevorkian pact' where he wanted the whacked-out CHAZ nutjob to fill his car full of holes using his AR15.

"As I'm sure you're aware, Seattle PD had the most officers of any department at the Jan 6
#59 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

Well, they are surrounded by human garbage every day and didn't want the country to go the way of their city. I can understand their motivations. Seattle is another great example of a liberal utopia gone wrong. Massive wealth inequality, billionaires refusing to 'pay their fair share' and the population bending over and accepting it, tent cities, open air shooting galleries and defecation, and out of control crimes like rape and murder. This city was once beautiful - like San Francisco. Liberal policies ruined it.

""I think it was at least 2 deaths"
We're talking about murders.
#58 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

Yeah - that is what I am talking about too. 2 deaths from shootings and at least 6+ others injured. All in a span of days in an area just a few city blocks - and nothing to do with cops or the war on drugs. Your liberal utopian experiment failed miserably.

"I believe there was one homicide there?
If one homicide is the full display, that's not much of a display.
#54 | POSTED BY SNOOFY "

I think it was at least 2 deaths and 6+ shootings in the matter of weeks in a small geographic area...and all done without cops. Just Democrats living out their Utopian visions of outdoor defecation, drug use, and rape with a couple of murders tossed in.

That was Nixon's fault? I think you need to fast forward half a century and get with reality.

"You got a better explanation?
#46 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

Yes. Mainly gun violence committed by guys 18-25 shooting mainly for drugs, gangs, or racial hatred fueled by BLM and Dems firing up their base for the 2020 election. This was enabled by the MSM making violent criminals into heroes and demonizing police which, along defunding and generally them fearing legals actions, led to less community policing. This was on full display with CHAZ in Seattle - losers shooting and killing their own.

"#43 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY"

Trying to assign a rationale to an entire administration by using a 'quote' from a disgruntled former member after he was not pardoned and did 1.5 years in prison is pretty weak sauce. Especially when this 'quote' was used many years after his death and is disputed by his own family. Maybe the author has audio he can share, but it looks like the entire argument you are making is based on a fabricated quote.

That said, that you don't provide a link to the % felons with solely weed possessions proves my point. The Dem felon base is made up of people unjustly imprisoned for weed. It is violent criminals, drug dealers, rapists, murderers, domestic abusers - basically, your George Floyd types, who is a proud symbol of the Democrat party.

"So they could lock up a liberal for weed and then never allow them to vote again.
#41 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY"

How many felons have weed possession as their sole criminal offense?

"'m guessing the murders have more to do with the concurrent uptick in domestic violence among gun owners.
Gun-loving couples shooting one another, just as Gawd planned it.
#39 | POSTED BY RIGHTISTRITE"

So you think the big increase in murders is due to men shooting their female wives/girlfriends?

You people really do live in an alternative universe.

Well, looks like we have the clearest evidence yet that murders have nothing to do with poverty levels as poverty rates were brought way down and yet murders skyrocketed in 2020/2021. So, no more handouts on that justification.

What happened in 2020/2021 is the activation of the Democrat base which includes the violent criminal class. That is why they are constantly arguing that their voting rights need to be restore - it is not so they can then go vote GOP. If you are a Super Predator not voting for Joe Biden, then you ain't black.