Is it just me or do FIFA fans seem alot like MAGAs? Willing to believe any lie and pay any amount to prop up their corrupt cult?

Melania was right, she wasn’t an Epstein victim. She was fully in on it ready to sell her body to the highest bidder in order to stay in the US and bring her parents to the country. Epstein enabled that for her whether she performed for him and his buddies as well, who knows. If she wasn’t coerced, who cares. Or maybe she was but still felt the payoff was worth the price. She has a prenup and seems not to have slept with Trump since getting pregnant with Barron so maybe it was all worth it for her. I am assuming she was of age when she got to the US. If she was under 18, she is a victim, although maybe a willing one? Women do things that knowingly make them a victim if they cannot find any other way to achieve what they want. Doesn’t make it right, but I can understand why some would do it.

Trump and many others break the current laws with impunity. Which shows all we need to do, and what will be expected, is to pay off the surveilance. Tech Bros are the new mafia.

That same ‘west’ that would be blamed if they bowed to cultural conventions and allowed the release of the body and all those young men also died of ebola and spread it to other family members.

And don’t drive any vehicle made in the US in the last 15years?

Sounds like the marketing department for energy drinks is your real problem, not the govt.

If you really think your life should be over, try to do something valuable first. I just read a good long description of anarchy on another post. Could be a good place to start.

Well, he could be right. Not something people who believe in religion want to hear however religion’s purpose is to control the masses and Trump and his ilk are all about controlling the masses. God is just the manipulating tool.

I used to feel this was a tragedy. Now I feel that those parents aren’t intelligent enough to have children. They deserve what they got. The child died but it was probably going to of something else stupid at some point anyway. A century ago, before we had all the modern medical procedures, a large percentage of children didn’t make it to adulthood. That is going to be the new norm for the parents who know better than “the elites”.

When I read studies like this, I wonder what variables they aren’t including. What else causes impaired blood flow in the brain? Anything? If anything else does, it is affected by consuming alcohol? Does alcohol impare flow more or less than the other thing(s)? For example if extreme stress impared blood flow but alcohol decreased the stress and then impared blood flow but impared it less than the stress did, alcohol would be a positive, but if it aded to the impairment, it would be a negative. Ancedotally I know plenty of people, now in their late 80s and 90s who have drank moderately and it doesn’t seem to have caused them any significant issues. I also know teatotallers that haven’t made it to age 65 without the beginning of dementia type deficits.

Unfortunately it seems that 8 in 10 Americans also think the Democrats are “just as bad”.

Canadian. I have a chronic issue that I wait long times to see a specialist. Mainly because after seeing them for a few visits to update treatment, I don’t see them for a couple years but can’t immediately go back because I need to be re-referred which can take awhile due to waitlists. But I can see my GP (in person or phone call) very quickly if needed and all free. I had a serious issue not long ago and got seen in Urgent Care in a couple hours (avoided ER), sent to specialist next day, and got all the testing done quite quickly and then treated - less than a week. No cost. Might have been a bit quicker in a pay system but my life wasn’t threatened and I didn’t have to worry about whether or not it would be covered by my insurance or what the copay would be. I know people who complain about the slowness of non life threating issues but they always have the option of paying for care - they just need to leave Canada, and some do. I have a relative who was ticked that the surgeon he saw wouldn’t recommend an operation so he went to the US and paid to have it done only to find that it didn’t really solve his problem (just like his ‘idiot’ Canadian doc had said) and he was now out a load of money and still had a chronic issue. For life threatening issues, all my family and friends have had timely & free service. An aunt went into ER 2 weeks ago for severe stomach pain. Got a CT and was into surgery a day later. Five days in hosptial and she’s now recovering at home with occassional health nurse visits. No charge. Didn’t even have to pay for most of her medication costs because they were mostly covered under Pharmacare.

If there is any rationale other than the “we are the USA, we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, for no reason at all”, I would be surprised.

I don’t think that will work. The comparison has been made but doesn’t seem to phase people. I think IED might be only the solution, since the people who drive these don’t seem to care in the least that they are a lethal danger to everyone in a smaller vehicle/on a bike/pedestrian.

Yeah where I grew up if a kid did that, they’d be kicked out. If old enough to have a car, old enough to live on their own.

The bosses are much more likely to shorten the work week while shortening pay even more and then using the “not full time” to reduce any benefits. Be wary.

Most of the past history of raising minimum wage/payroll taxes/employee benefits has been immediate outcry by business groups over how all business is going to go bankrupt/the sky is falling followed by change that a year later has business chugging along mostly the same as it was prior to their catastrophizing. It’s not really surprising that employees who are able to spend more, spend more.

That’s where the cap needs to be. There will always be someone capable and willing to take the job without the enormous pay packet. Executive pay is the biggest scam ever created.

Yet another reason not to go to the USA.

Because it is so convenient. He’s way down in the polls with no chance of recovery. He needs an excuse for martial law to keep the elections from happening. He is so unfit to speak and be seen publicly that they need an excuse why he can’t be out in public. And, it worked last time to get him elected. Although this time I don’t think they killed an spectator.