"National Guard were requested seven times, and the Pentagon refused seven times."

National Guard units report to state governors. The Washington D.C. national Guard reports to the president. Depending on whom in the Pentagon you are referring to, National Guard members would have to be on title 10 orders for the regular military to deploy them. And that's beside the Posse Comitatus concerns.

"This is not A Good Trend."

How so?

Reunification was never imagined to be collaborative; it was a plan that was developed when parity between NorK and SouK was closer, and the NorKs though they might be able to overrun and subjugate the south. This development shows to me that the NorKs realize they are overmatched, and the LoC's they are destroying represent more of a threat from the south than an opportunity for themselves.

#3

How many tankers do you think it took to make this happen?

"And that last line is ridiculous. I can barely think of anyone whose labor value is worth less than a living wage. Maybe special needs individuals?"

Well, you'd need to understand economics to figure this out. You might need to go to college, but I'll try to explain this in a way you can understand.

You have a lawn. You have a driveway. If you don't, you are likely close to someone who does. Lawns require mowing, weeding, landscaping, etc. In winter, driveways require snow removal. The person who owns the lawn and driveways is almost always 100% qualified to do landscaping and clear snow. Most would prefer to pay someone to do it. But if the cost of doing so is sufficiently high that the monetary cost is higher than the time cost, then the people who would have been employed to do these tasks are unemployable.

For $n, I'd pay someone to mow my lawn. If the government mandates that I pay someone >$n for that service, then I will do it myself. And the potential employee gets nothing.

Minimum wage is a two-way street. It tells employers that if they want to employ someone, they must pay $n. It also tells employees that, if their labor is not worth $n, they are not legally employable. Market-wise, your opinions on labor value are irrelevant.

"And how many people working there are 16? There are a TON of people working there who are adults and use it as their only source of income. We're talking 30, 40, 50 year olds."

OK. And the labor markets recognize age as being indicative of labor value? Walk me though that.

They totally can pay a living wage and not raise prices. Literally prices all over the country and in other countries prove it. See #4.

Hmm. How much time have you spent in Switzerland? I'm guessing none. Feel free to correct me.

"Is it that evil "inflation" or is it that the restaurants are finally paying their workers living wages?"

Companies can't (not won't) pay living wages if the customer is not willing to bear the cost.

And honestly, why does a 16-year-old high school kid need a living wage? Activists demanding that they do will ensure that high school kids are no longer able to get jobs.

To put it differently, mandating that employers pay a living wage ensures that those whose labor value is below that amount are no longer legally employable.

So...I'm still not totally clear on how this would generate higher revenues (outside of the increase in the tax rate) than it would be if the capital gains were taxes at the time of sale? In fact it seems like it might even be advantageous for the person who is paying the taxes if you could pay current-year taxes at future-year value.

I didn't see that part.

Would taxpayers get to deduct unrealized capital losses?

Cesspools of misery?

Of the 25 fastest growing cities in the US, none are in blue states.

The closest, maybe, are Denver Colorado and Tork, Pennsylvania.

It would seem to me that at least a handful of blue states (CA, anyone) are cesspools. If not, why are so many people leaving for red states?

"Keep cheering on this genocide."

Yeah. I'm guessing if the Palestinians came out on top, you'd have few issues with the actual genocide that would follow. The genocide they have codified as an official position.

"When will they publish the mountains of dead Palestinian babies due to the indiscriminate bombings occurring in Gaza?"

Indiscriminate?

You don't think they were targeting the bunkers that Hamas built under civilian building?

Not sure if you know it or not, but that it legal under the law odf armed conflict. The bunkers are valid military targets.

What is not legal under LOAC is setting up military facilities within protected entities. I'm guessing you're willing to overlook that transgression. Your handlers are counting on you maintaining your place as a useful idiot.

"Morons like Censored would have made excellent Nazis."

Like the great-grandparents of your heroes in Gaza?

Of note, the current crop of Gazans is dedicated to implementing the final solution to the Jewish Question in the Levant. Very much like their great grandparents?

Isn't Kamala Harris campaigning on cutting taxes?

"They've made record profits for years now and failed to reinvest in their own business, which isn't the fault of the union workers."

It sounds like to me like the unions want to prohibit reinvestment.

The union sounds like a bunch of Luddites.

"Israel needs to clean up it's act."

When you say "clean up it's act," what do you mean exactly?

Your words suggest that Israel should not exist.

"Maybe the Israeli's should have thought of that before they Usurped the lands of others."

Like Pakistani Muslims usurped land belonging to India?

"The Palestinians don't want peace. At least not one where Israel (Jews) continues to exist. They think that they're going to turn the entire world against Israel and then the Jews will magically disappear. Unfortunately for them, 7.2 million nuke-Jews aren't going to do that."

How is it that people like JPW don't understand this? There is a whole mythology that has been promulgated amongst that Palestinian population that their wealth and prosperity has been stolen from them and the whole region should be theirs.

I think the Israeli government is ------ to the Palestinians, but I see it as similar to the relationship between the Germans and the allies after WWII. Now we're all friends, but had Germans sought to use force to re-establish the Third Reich and attacked the allies for 80 strait years-and I am confident that the occupation would have never left had this been a thing-then the relationship between Germany and the allies, especially the civilian populations, would be very different.

I don't think people like JPW understand that, if Palestinians stop fighting, you get peace. If Israel stops fighting, they get exterminated. There is no scenario where Palestinians get exterminated. The only organization that may be seeking this is Hamas.

Is she really saying that the "From the River to the Sea" crowd wants Trump in charge?

#16

I want you to imagine a scenario where the Palestinians somehow gain the upper hand over Israel. What do you think happens to the citizens of Israel. Hint: Hamas has already told you.

Russia is a joke. I can't think of one positive thing that comes out of Russia. They have no cultural exports. Their industry is far, far below what it should be for a country with that kind of resources and opportunities.

Russia is just a really big North Korea.

"NATO Escalated a smaller War into a 600 mile Front with Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths."

NATO did that?

How?

Just by existing?

Why such a ------ for Russia? Nobody is forced to join NATO. The majority of the countries that did, did so because they know what it is like to have the Russian boot on your throat. Your comments seem to suggest that Russia has some sort of divine right to put boots on throats.

"They wanted to protect Russian speakers.from Ukrainian Bigotry and the loss of civil rights after the change of government in 2014. The Maidan Coup."

Yeah. Like they want to protect the "Russian Speakers" in Latvia, and Lithuania, and Estonia, and Alaska, and Moldova.

Do you think Pootin needs to protect Russian Speakers in the US? I speak Russian. I don't think I need Pootin to protect me.

"Israel is a Terrorist State."

Which countries have labelled Israel a terrorist organization?

"They kill Minorities because they aren't Jewish."

20% of the population of Israel isn't jewish. 42% of Israelis are secular.

That's a lot of people. They had better build some ovens.