" Young aren't drinkin as much..."

DUIs have dropped in states with legalized recreational marijuana. Go figure.

" And you would have been wrong, just look at the graph in the article."

Nothing in the graph you posted disproves my claim.

Close

" I'd like to see a competent argument that shows this is not complete bull manure."

We're coming out of not one, but two historic events. First, opioids took out a lot of folks, at a relatively young age. That made the overall longevity averages drop. The next historical blip was Covid: older folks, in general, but many more, particularly those closer to passing anyway, due to age or poor health.

Take those folks out, and voila! All of a sudden, longevity predictions spike.

It's macro math, nothing more.

I predicted this in the middle of Covid, since we had just come off the opioid crisis, which killed fewer, but younger on average.

"Expect headlines touting surprising gains in longevity" was my prediction.

Straight from macro statistics class.

" Nor has any poor person done anything beneficial for society."

Except return over 100% to his local economy in additional economic activity.

Let me guess: you flunked Econ 101.

" All hell will probably break loose vetting and preventing illegal activity such as fraud."

Fraud you can never seem to find?!?

Do you realize the ROI on voter fraud is one of the worst on the planet?

$10,000 fine, and a year in jail, per (usually useless) vote?!? And a guarantee of deportation??? GTFOH.

No wonder it rarely happens.

"I know a man who blew his brains out because of crypto. "

I have to ask every one of my tax clients, every year, if they've bought or sold any electronic currency. There's no follow-up to that question on the tax form...but I always ask the same thing if someone says "yes":

Are you up or down?

To a person, EVERYONE has said down, with ONE exception, who quickly followed with..."But I got out a long time ago."

I've concluded e-currency is like playing poker online, with the other five "online" guys sitting in the same room showing their hands.

The Trump family made a billion while their investors lost a billion? Too bad there isn't a SEC with teeth. Or a Congress with a backbone.

"Trump Made $1B from Crypto"

And his investors lost $1B.

Gee, how does that figure?
~Republican Math-ematicians

Remember when Republicans were all up in arms when HRC made $100,000 on cattle futures? Or when they lost their schittttt thinking Hunter Biden might be monetizing his dad's political office???

Seems quaint nowadays, doesn't it?

I'm sure the folks who were screeching when there was a (D) after the name will come along any moment now condemning this, despite the fact an (R) is after the name.

Any day now ... .

Let's not lose sight of the fact these folks aren't upset because the bill is too crazy. They're upset it because it's NOT CRAZY ENOUGH.

They want to pass a bill to outlaw something they can't find, and have never claimed inside a courtroom ...

... because, of course, the latter (fraud) requires PROOF.

"Screw having laws"

That's what the current administration said when it deported them before due process.

"Pass the friggin bill already."

Explain something to me: why do the same lawyers who scream "FRAUD" from the podium NEVER use that word in court?

My theory is: Lying in public is legal, but using the word "fraud" inside a courtroom requires...what's that word? Oh, right...PROOF.

Claiming fraud without proof can get a lawyer censured, disbarred, and/or jailed, and they're afraid of the consequences of making a claim INSIDE a courtroom without proof.

What's YOUR theory?

"You guys, always inflating the victimhood. The real story."

Did you actually read "the real story"?!? It's horrifying. Pete (and his kids) were clearly victims, and it was no doubt baseless and politically motivated.

And you're minimizing it?!? JFC.

" It is the dems who designed and passed it and all the problem lay at their feet. "

Nonsense.

The Dems designed O'Care with a required mandate to purchase. The Republicans "design" chopped off the mandate, hence the return to spiking costs.

You can't claim the Democrats designed what currently exists, after Republicans changed the central tenant.

" Time to quit calling it Obamacare."

It ceased being Obamacare the minute the Republicans cut off the mandate leg.

It's been Trumpcare since that moment. And Trumpcare sucks.

" Less than 1% of US citizens live below the International Poverty Rate."

As Snoofy has repeatedly pointed out, that's a meaningless statistic, since poor Americans aren't charged internationally cheap prices when they buy.

In America, roughly 10-11% fall below the American poverty rate line.

" Those conversations won't be under oath, and participants won't be legally compelled to answer every question. ..."

Admit it's going to be a dog-and-pony show without using those specific words.

Anytime Congress allows folks who don't want to go under oath to testify without going under oath ...

... the fix is in.

" Federal data found that 41,476 individuals were disqualified from SNAP"

Out of five million.

Roughly eight-tenths of one percent.

So, over 99% accurate ... and idiots are complaining.

" I support the safety net. I support SNAP."

Where?!? It's certainly not inside a voting booth.

" Every dollar taxed is money taken out of the economy."

Only if you believe there's no such thing as the multiplier effect ... something you've admitted exists.

" Ostensibly, ALL monies spent in the economy have a multiplier effect."

Just different multipliers. A dollar of tax cuts to the top produces less than a dollar of economic activity. Meanwhile, a dollar to the folks at the bottom produces well over a dollar of economic activity.

You enable the lesser multiplier.

" The whole "multiplier effect" has been proven to be such BS."

When?

I've been studying economics for over 50 years. I've yet to see the multiplier effect disproven.

Please link to your research.

Or is this one of those times you're just using "hyperbole"?

" I've heard this somewhere before...."

Watch a high-speed backlit sneeze, both with and without an N-95 mask.

Then answer: do symptoms increase with viral load, or not?

You either pass the simple logic test, or fail miserably.

Recently, it was reported investors lost $2.3 billion in a crypto scam, while the Trump family made $2.3 billion on the same crypto scam.

From AI:
Crypto ventures linked to the Trump family generated at least $2.3 billion in profits while retail investors and shareholders suffered nearly identical losses amid collapsing token values.

Any questions???