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And I questioned the significance of a single poll. As would any person with even a minimal knowledge of statistics or a grain of common sense.

This guy isn't the brightest bulb. China is not dictating anything to Thailand. It is until the Thailand to do anything. China is simply discouragingits citizens from visiting places where gambling is allowed. It's probably not thrilled about it citizens getting into debt. And to top it off this crank goes off into a rant about. Chinese tourists that has exactly what to do with the topic?

If you have any familiarity would reasoning, you would know that evidence produced to prove a point is subject to examination. In this case, citing one poll result as serious evidence tells us a lot about how your mind works (or doesn't) but nothing much about CNN.

It's a good thing you didn't include "poll numbers" in the headline. Because if you had, that would make your comment ridiculous.

Next thing you know he'll be challenging people on the grounds that they're not America even though he has no proof of that More nothing.

In other words you've got nothing.

America hating exactly why? Does sharp criticism of Trump equal America hating? Has Trump replaced the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of America?

Do you imagine that you are the spokesperson America and that any comments of mind disputing your cherry picking are somehow anti-American You having no clue about the significance of trends the relative pain significance of single data points.

I think you're just jealous that Frank83628 likes me more than they like you.

Typical MAGA comment. When the numbers displease them, they are fake. When they like them, they're gospel. A rational person would ask what do the trends show.

I think I vaguely recall that. Anyway given that he has put me on ignore, and probably you, and come to think of it, most likely half of the people who post here, we won't be able to get him to confirm or deny.

Straw man much? Whether your claim is true or not, it's completely irrelevant to the fact that your DEI statement was bigoted given that the COBOLexperts we're working years before there was such a thing as DEI.

Canadian flight bookings to the U.S. this April through September are down by more than 70% year-over-year, according to new OAG data. The aviation analytics firm compared future bookings made in March 2024 with those recorded this month and found that they had plummeted, with a 71.4% drop in bookings for July representing the smallest decline. "This sharp drop suggests that travelers are holding off on making reservations, likely due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the broader trade dispute," OAG wrote. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/canadian-summer-flight-bookings-us-194743005.html

I suppose you believe it's significant that Trump is having investigated those people he perceives to be his enemies. How gullible can you be? Extremely, apparently. When Barr was Attorney General*. he appointed Durham to investigate claims about Justice Dept plotting against Trump., Both of them publicly rejected Inspector General Horowitz' claim that there was no plot by members of the Justice Dept to bring down Trump. Durham labored mightily for 4 years to come up with something. He met with Barr on weekends. They even traveled to Italy together to put pressure on Italian intelligence. Durham developed 2 cases on his own that had nothing to do with justice dept plots. He lost both those cases.

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How many dead folks? millions and millions like Trump claimed? "On Tuesday, Trump said at a press briefing in Florida: “We have millions and millions of people over 100 years old” receiving social security benefits. “They’re obviously fraudulent or incompetent,” Trump said. “If you take all of those millions of people off social security, all of a sudden we have a very powerful social security with people that are 80 and 70 and 90, but not 200 years old,” he said." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-social-security-payments-dead-people In 2023, 73,815 centenarians were Social Security beneficiaries https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2024/highlights.html#:~:text=The number of beneficiaries aged 85 or older increased by,centenarians were Social Security beneficiaries.

They clearly don't much matter to you. But reality has a way of catching up to big lies like Trump's about Social Security.

Social Security has consistently been starved of funds. So where was that money supposed to have come from? And claiming that it would be confounding for the crop of DEI hires...thanks for the reflexive bigotry. You got some figures on the actual composition of programmers. In fact, the problem isn't DEI hires. It's that the old guys who know COBOL are mostly retired. You think that just possibly they predate DEI. And Is there a cohort of young Indian programmers out there who know COBOL?

Improper descriptors? His figures are massively wrong. The workforce is ineffectual? You know this how? Because the same guy whose claims keep on getting exposed as fake --so frequently exposed that he now has stripped his claims of any codes that might allow observers to check the veracity of his claims.-- claims that these workers were incompetent? And I'll go with the programmer who says it isn't junk - in fact in some ways its pretty awesome. You would know this if you had read the very informative link offered by Hawaiian. And who claims SSA isn't catching fraud and keeping it low? Elon Musk?

A massive falsehood is political theater? Got some news for you. There will be a midterm election in 20 months. And even though Republicans apparently believe that Congress is a mere appendage to the Presidency, the Constitution definitely does not uphold that belief.

Deflecting as usual. That's because you've got nothing.

From the oblique way you are citing your past comments, they must be baseless or nuts or both. Of course, you could prove me wrong by actually citing them. Somehow, I don't think that's going to happen. You've got nothing.

Thank you, traveler from the future.

Both of you would do well to read the technical explanation about Cobal in the excellent article linked to by Hawaiian. https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-cobol-is-so-problematic-why-does-the-us-government-still-use-it/ Or you can remain willfully ignorant. Up to you.

You're right. He made no assertion. He simply cast huge shade on the figures because he either didn't understand them or was purposely misstating them. And of course, the Trumpists took that as a statement of fact. What's worse,, Donald Trump actually did make the assertion before Congress that there were millions of cases of fraud in Social Secuirty. Musk managed to get Trump to turn that slanted comment of Musk into a statement of fact. At least, Trump stated the falsehood as a fact.