And by the way, foreign aid is how soft power is exercised. Like I said, if you don't like it, vote out your Congressman.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747327)

President doesn't get to decide that money set aside by Congress doesn't get to be spent. That's why all his actions are tied up in court right now.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747339)

lol if any of your dem policies demonstrate it

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747288)

Good fucking luck next cycle.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747293)

Do you know how unaffordable people's lives are? Regular working people making 50k? There are families with 4 kids and two working parents who can't afford to take a vacation, can't afford to own a home. They own nothing. You want to take more money from these people? Do you know how many millions of people don't have enough money to afford anything resembling a middle class life?

How much more should they fork over do you think? How much more should they have to pay for?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747315)

Because they're the only ones who can't avoid paying it! They always have to pay.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747337)

libs have shit for brains

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747364)

Fuck em, that's why they should pay more. The middle class should be paying fuck all until their standard of living - measured via a metric that specifically excludes the price of imported trinkets - exceeds that of their parents and grandparents. Until then, tax the faggots who've grown fat on globalization.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48748623)

just to make sure i understand your points:

is the top 1% who have supposedly reaped the gains of productivity, which i suspect is complete bullshit, the same top 1% who exists now (or their heirs)?

how are the 'gains in productivity' measured such that you can say they all went to the top 1%?

the reason this is certain to be bullshit is because these 'gains' can only go to three places (i think)-the workers, the owners, or the consumers

even if it all goes to the owners, which it doesn't, the owners of these companies are not top 1%. go look at your 401k and ira.

the standard of living for the middle class is way better today than it was in the past, btw. way better.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48748754)

Can this generation's median earner better afford to support a stay at home wife than their parents or grandparents?

Can this generation better afford to become sick, whether through cheaper insurance premiums, or cash payment of medical bills?

Can this generation better afford to retire than their parents or grandparents?

This generation can better afford to buy Happy Meals and cheap Chinese shit. In what other, meaningful ways has our standard of living improved?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750137)

your problem is not with the wealthy, but with the greed of the current generation then

your problem is not with the wealthy, but with the bullshit subsidized healthcare system then

your problem is not with the wealthy, but with the failure of the current generation to live within its means

how has our standard of living improved? better cars, better computers, better phones, better internet, better tvs, better entertainment options, better cancer treatments, etc etc etc

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750484)

And I guess you're right about standards of living, too. Homeownership and retirement are trivial compared to phone, internet, and computer.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750663)

there are historical references for home prices vs income, home rental vs income.

if you live in an area where your income is not sufficient to meet either historical norm, then you either have to bite the bullet and buy or rent anyway or move

it is very unlikely that the historical norms are not legitimate metrics.

when youngs cannot afford to buy houses, one can assume that the inability is caused by the young doing something different than the previous generations who could. perhaps that is taking on a higher debt load from college than the expected income can support. perhaps that is the result of the young having a sense of entitlement. or not.

the point is that blaming the rich is just being a bitch. the rich don't own multiple homes in any given area (except student housing areas, but those aren't homes for workers)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48751411)

You can't have a society where a small number of people own everything and most people own nothing. This is what Bannon calls techno-feudalism.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48749077)

what is "everything"

houses? no

cars? no

stocks? no

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750069)

us federal debt ratio to gdp

1960 53.13%

1980 34.53%

2000 58.76%

2025 122.49%

let us know when that ratio is too high

what is your personal debt to ratio? when would you consider your personal debt to annual income ratio to be pressing?

why such a difference?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747363)

i'll be looking for well-established examples, not startups, etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747710)

how leveraged do you think the average LBO is?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747770)

the details of doing a leveraged buyout have fuckall to do with what we are talking about. those are risky moves for capitalists who understand they may lose everthing, but the odds favor their move, faggot

and guess what, faggot, the people selling think the buyers are paying too much

so why don't you go back to answering my question and quit sucking cock?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48748810)

come on, faggeratttt, let's hear your fucktarded reasoning

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750068)

i've made you look foolish so many times and you are just too stupid to wait for me to do similarly. it results in you jumping to stupid fucking conclusions or misinterpreting my posts just to try to jump in like a little lap dog bitch.

how about you ask me if what you think i meant is what i meant before you jump in like an idiot?

if you'll notice, i was asking latham and he wisely backed out of this thread because he said something stupid

then in comes you two idiots

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750550)

so you think 2x leverage is appropriate for the us because some businesses are 2x leveraged? that is your position?

faggeratttt, please show everyone how smart you are and defend this position.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48751428)

this branch is based on this post

"okay. at what point will debt become a pressing issue?

us federal debt ratio to gdp

1960 53.13%

1980 34.53%

2000 58.76%

2025 122.49%

let us know when that ratio is too high

what is your personal debt to ratio? when would you consider your personal debt to annual income ratio to be pressing?

why such a difference?"

durr durr durr quit lisping and answer the question

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48751451)

got it. you're butthurt and mad.

so if you disagree with me above then argue there dumbfuck.

in this branch you should be calling faggerratttt a dumbfuck.

xoxohth

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48751587)

LTM: "Lol good luck next cycle conturds, ur gonna need it... oh and BTW we need to start exploring tax increases ASAP!"

lmao

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750557)

i think trump's ineffectiveness in the first round is because he trusted the experts and the establishment too much. which i think just about anyone would do, after it was still a bunch of small government GOP establishment guys right haha? but everything just gets hamstrung with blue ribbon committees and nothing every happens.

also the biden administration was gracious enough to completely endorse insane woke nonsense so much that it tipped moderates into voting for trump. after all, they saw the world didn't end during his first term, so the "literally hitler" rhetoric fell flat, and the insane shit coming from the dems was far worse than what they know they'd get with trump.

and trump comes back with 2016 levels of energy but this time fully understanding that the *ONLY* way to get the job done is with a flamethrower and chainsaw. and ljl @ all the lib tears. if you faggots weren't focused on resisting half the country at every step of the way perhaps this could have been done in a way that resulted in less collateral damage. but you made it impossible. after decades of attempts it is now obvious that this was the only possible way to even somewhat reduce federal bloat.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747913)

so it was assumed accusations against trump might have some merit

there was so much

and it was basically all lies

then covid and it was all lies

then floyd riots

then biden hiding

then biden being elected and hiding

and doing such stupid ridiculous stuff

and still going after trump in ridiculous and transparently hostile ways

crying democracy every 30 seconds

then running kamala who received zero votes

and was a pathetic fucking dei joke

fuck libs

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48748561)

Bro, 90% of the government is DoD and Medicare. You’re not going to make a meaning cut to government without touching those. Firing a few park rangers and aid coordinators isn’t going to come close to balancing the budget. The best that can be said of DOGE is that the people being most hit are shitlibs looking for sinecures.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48747780)

Also there's the argument of building momentum. You cut the stuff that's easy to cut first. Then you get the stuff that's harder. You get a 5% reduction in military spending, you make a huge impact. These are all massive numbers. You pay down the deficit and all our tax money isn't going just to servicing the debt, you're in a completely different paradigm.

Trump is bailing out the Boomer generation by handing off to Millennials and Zoomers a country they might one day have the room to govern themselves.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48748000)

Faggot libs when it comes time to pressure you to 'recycle' and eat the bugs goy: "Sure, individually you might only constitute one tiny drop of pollution pouring into the ocean... but there are billions of people of earth and all of those drops add up!"

Same faggot libs re DOGE: "LOL who cares about all of these little stupid cuts, oh wow another $10 million here big whoop this is all meaningless you idiots!"

Libs we see all of this clearly now and ur all gonna die

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750569)

We’re heading towards this inevitable death spiral where interest for our debt becomes unserviceable (which will cause yields to spike and make the problem 10x worse) and for years there have been no adults in the room to even seriously consider the problem while we deficit spend at an unprecedented rate during peacetime. And now all Dems can do is talk about how mean it is to fire fed workers and how Elon has too much power or something.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750158)

And yeah Biden added trillions to the debt through the American Rescue plan, climate bs, student loan policies. The difference being austerity wasn’t part of the discussion.

Obviously it’s not even close to enough. So we should just do nothing I guess? The point is that it’s a miracle that anyone is doing anything. We’re prob still fucked.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750587)

none of you

and i mean absolutely zero of you

are for high or higher taxes to pay off the debt

you want higher taxes to pay for more stupid shit

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48751447)

(Genius who thinks Hawaii Judge = SCOTUS)

Gonna be a long four years for you brother. PS: The Wise Latina ain't looking so hot these days and we still have 3.8 more years left on Trump's clock... 7-2 could easily be on the table before this is all over...

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750574)

CR

And if we can't have both, at least getting one is better than getting neither.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5694107&forum_id=2#48750945)