As someone who has a hesitant libertarian bent, I don't understand the new breed of right-wingers. They claim to be small-government conservatives yet clamor for government interference in a woman's fundamental choice about whether to allow a separate organism to grow inside her body. They love self-defense, reacting with joy when someone kills a burglar who is looking to steal some stuff to fund their opiate habit, but they don't recognize a woman's right to bodily integrity. Even if she gets pregnant intentionally, choosing later to terminate the pregnancy, isn't that akin to inviting your brother to stay with you and then evicting him in the winter, condemning him to homelessness and possibly death? Let's just assume for the sake of argument that the choice to evict your brother is immoral. Fine. Believe what you want about morality, but how can a right-winger justify laws restricting a person's right to bodily integrity? If you're truly a small-government conservative or libertarian, why do you think the law should enforce morality on citizens? What if, 100 years down the road, the US is a majority Muslim country? Do you support the government making and enforcing laws requiring "moral" behavior in the eyes of the Muslim majority? (Keep in mind that only a minority of US citizens believe abortion should be illegal.)

Although not relevant to this particular topic, I have another bone to pick with Trump-cons. Why do so many of you fly a blue line flag AND NOT an American flag? You're flying a flag celebrating government! Or did you fail to realize that police are government? Not only are they government, but they're the form of government with the most power to interfere in our lives. They can steal your property, kill you, and make your life a living hell without consequences. How dumb can a group of people be?

I'm seeing a lot of alarming headlines and commentary about Omicron, but not a single article has mentioned anything about it that's actually concerning. If anything, it sounds like Omicron may spread faster but has less severe symptoms. Every article says something like, "Omicron has 30 mutations," but doesn't say why that's a problem. For context, I am not an anti-masker and am fully-vaccinated plus a booster. But why all the alarm? Have I missed something? I've said from the beginning that I hope covid-19 evolves to be less deadly. After all, the virus may spread faster and further if it isn't doing anything more concerning than the common cold.

I'm not an economist, so this is just an uninformed, anecdotal observation. I've been looking at rentals for a few months due to uncertainty about my partner, and things have changed. At the beginning, everything was running about 40% higher than it had in 2018-2019, and there seemed to be a shortage of rentals as well. Every time I called about a rental, it was gone before I had a chance to view it. Then, maybe a month ago, I started seeing a ton of rentals go up, and the prices seem to have dropped a bit. It could be that I'm not seeing apples-to-apples rentals, but I don't know. Fortunately for me, a friend had a rental open up, and I'll be spending almost exactly what I have been living with my partner. It turns out that living without another adult in the house is best for me. I hate navigating another adult's expectations.

It's amazing how big of a deal this is for so much of the world and how little it means to me. I dropped Facebook and all other social media during the election, and I haven't missed it once. My life is far better, and I haven't lost touch with anyone that matters. It has limited my contact with toxic people. That's probably why I started posting comments here. Everyone needs a little drama, but on Drudge, it's not personal.

Deadbeats receiving federal/state unemployment monies and not using it to pay their rent need to be evicted. The money was given to them so that they could survive after they lost their jobs. The ones who didn't pay rent are probably the same ones who saved the money and now don't want to return to work because "the pay isn't high enough"
When these morons run out of free money, it will be an employers market and the small businesses will be out of the game. Good luck with that.

#3 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2021-09-29 01:16 PM | REPLY

Serious question. What makes them morons? Like big corporations, politicians, and the wealthy, the took advantage of the law. Do you call corporations "morons" when they pay no US tax? Do you call the wealthy "morons" when their effective tax rate is half that of the working poor? Why is it that taking advantage of the law and operating within the rules is commendable for some and immoral for others? Are you one of those people who thinks the poor are deadbeats when they file for bankruptcy and say "they're just taking advantage of the law to restructure" when corporations file for bankruptcy protection?

They've managed to pick someone who makes Trump look sane. This is exactly what they did when they chose Trump, who made W look reasonable. In ten years we'll look back fondly on the Trump era. God help us.