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candide

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  1. Of course, you are able to show where anti-white racism is taught in this program? ????
  2. It would be an interesting suggestion if it didn't already exist. Latin America history has been taught for years. Including Florida https://www.cpalms.org/PreviewCourse/Preview/594
  3. Actually, the source you used (The Balance), calculates the debt increase per president differently. They use the federal fiscal year, as each president is starting with a budget which has been voted under the previous president. Quote: "For example, President Donald Trump took office in January 2017. He submitted his first budget in May. It covered the 2018 fiscal year, which didn't begin until October 1, 2017. Trump operated the first part of his term under President Barack Obama's budget for fiscal year 2017, which ended on Sept. 30, 2017." Using fiscal years ( what has been voted under each president) shows a different picture: Obama's last mandate: FY 2017: $671 billion FY 2016: $1.42 trillion FY 2015: $326 billion FY 2014: $1.09 trillion Trump mandate: FY 2021: $1.5 trillion FY 2020: $4.2 trillion FY 2019: $1.2 trillion FY 2018: $1.3 trillion So for Obama's last mandate, the average debt increase per year is 876 billion, and for Trump's first two FY, the average is 1250 billion. That's 42% higher than Obama's last mandate. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296
  4. And the MAGA fans will complain about it, after loudly calling for the DOJ to open an investigation into Biden. They already started to complain about the nomination of s special counsel on this forum.
  5. Nice to see that the DOJ and the FBI are doing their job. No double standards!
  6. It's been discussed several times already in this forum. 20 documents may get unnoticed, not tens of thousands documents. Only during the "raid", the FBI seized 11,000 documents. About Obama, there's no evidence he took documents. Only Trump is claiming that. (BTW, who can reasonably trust what Trump says without checking it) No double standards at all!
  7. There was never such a narrative. I maintain that crisis years cannot be compared with "normal" years (even Nauseus who likes your post used it as an argument in favour of Trump). 2021 is an atypical year. If you look at 2022 (in the graph you posted), it starts going back to a more reasonable level.
  8. Ok, but did Baldwin get the same training as you did?
  9. Stop putting words in my mouth. You perfectly understand what I meant. I think It's fair to compare Obama's last mandate with Trump's pre-Covid years, as economic conditions were similar. Obama's first years and Trump's Covid years should be excluded for exactly the same reason.
  10. A dishonest comparison. You select the years you like for Trump and use the average for Obama.
  11. Exactly. Manchin and Sinema would have voted against repealing tax cuts anyway.
  12. It's not what the Statista chart is showing (in the post I replied to). I am not talking about the average rate over the whole mandate. I am talking about the different patterns in relation to the impact of crises. Fact is that the deficit grew during Trump's mandate under a good economic context (no impact of crisis), in 2017, 2018 and 2019 (pre-Covid) compared to the end of Obama's mandate under similar conditions. https://www.statista.com/statistics/222196/receipts-and-outlays-of-the-us-government-since-fiscal-year-2000/#:~:text=In 2021%2C the total receipts,to 5.7 trillion U.S. dollars.
  13. You fail to notice the impact of crises (or the absence of crisis). - There was a good reason for the budget deficit to increase at the beginning of Obama's presidency, as it was necessary to mitigate the effect of the crisis. - then the deficit increased at the beginning of Trumps mandate. There was no excuse for it, as the country had enjoyed a regular growth during years and the international economic environment was good. It was just to provide tax cuts to the "swamp"(????), and artificially stimulate the stock market. - then there was the Covid crisis, and again, it was necessary to increase the deficit to mitigate its impact (2020 and 2021) - after that, it starts to come back to more reasonable levels (2022). https://www.statista.com/statistics/222196/receipts-and-outlays-of-the-us-government-since-fiscal-year-2000/#:~:text=In 2021%2C the total receipts,to 5.7 trillion U.S. dollars.
  14. Different religions have different taboos and prohibitions, or are more sensitive to some issues than others. I am a confirmed secularist and opposed to the influence of religion outside the private sphere, whatever the religion involved. And I think this influence is too significant in the U.S., including elected politicians swearing on the bible or the Quran. This Muslim who complained was dumb, but many American Christians are just as dumb (and It's not restricted to Christians, of course), That's my point.
  15. Christian Americans have an extensive record of trying to impose (and actually imposing) their religious beliefs to the education system. For example, Christian Americans have been pushing for years (and still are) to impose the teaching of creationism and to hinder the teaching of evolutionism. It's a much larger phenomenon, and It's not the only one.
  16. It's not an ideology, It's an attitude and awareness. Can it lead to intolerance at some occasions? Maybe. However, it is basically about critical thinking, I.e. having a critical view of institutions, laws, infrastructures, etc...
  17. By definition, woke is a form of critical thinking. Of course, the right-wing propaganda is presenting only a caricature of it, for political reasons.
  18. A big difference is that Trump lied and goes on lying about it, because that's what liars do.... On top of it, these claims are quite ridiculous: - The FBI might be wrongly describing empty folders as actual documents - Trump was simply following the Presidential Records Act - and again, the lame claim that the feds might have planted evidence ???? Fact check: Trump’s latest baseless claims about the documents investigation https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/fact-check-trump-2023-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago/index.html
  19. When universities, which are supposed to be institutions promoting free speech and critical mind, are subject to religious censorship, whatever the religion concerned, something is going wrong.
  20. Maybe because they don't feel the need to define their masculinity through Pit Bull ownership....
  21. That's the fatal blow. If a dog is involved, the general public will not forgive him! ????
  22. Fine! These countries should not be spared.
  23. Not the same. Trump was "caught" lying and obstructing, not Biden
  24. Written sources can be quickly read and easily quoted
  25. A quote may be ambiguous without knowing the perspective and context. So what was your point exactly? What did he mean according to you?
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