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Jingthing

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  1. The trouble with that is that those taxes help fund the program. Speaking of unfair things. Minority groups die younger so disproportionately never live to claim a penny after paying in for decades.
  2. As many know, one of Trump's very loud campaign promises was to end federal tax on social security benefits. This was a stupid and damaging promise for a number of reasons -- Most social security recipients don't make enough total income to owe tax on it already! So cutting taxation out for all would help ONLY higher income people and do absolutely nothing for the majority lower income people. These taxes are put into the FUNDING for social security benefits so cutting all taxes for all accelerates the time when the entire program will need to make a major cut to benefits for all. Currently estimated at about ten years from now unless there is a reform bill passed. Instead of the broken promise the big bill proposes to increase the standard deduction for elderly people. This is MUCH BETTER because it helps more lower income people stay in the no SS tax bracket and does not cut out the vital funding source entirely. Higher income people will still owe SS tax even with the higher standard deduction. Of course the congressional bill with this new provision needs to pass first. However, it seems clear to me that the total elimination of federal taxes on SS will not happen. A broken promise that is GOOD NEWS.
  3. All decent Americans would prefer a random Uber driver over Trump.
  4. Kremlin narrative 100 percent.
  5. You're projecting. I would have been thrilled to see her as president rather than the Trump disaster.
  6. I like THC as well for obvious reasons, but I recently bought a few bottles of CBD oil to help with sleep and it seems to help. So I want to make it myself if possible.
  7. Good question. Probably the main influences. Following his philosophy which was Enjoy Each Miserable Day (during working life). Retire from work as soon as humanly possible. Of course it's different if you love your work and/or your work brings satisfaction by doing great things to help people. But most people's work is drudgery. Additionally some maybe questionable life lessons: Don't be a patsy. (Downside of that is being too slow to trust people.) Over compensate later in life for earlier deprivations. (Downside obvious.) Odd thing: My Dad who was extremely mechanically gifted discouraged me from following that (didn't even want me to watch him when he fixed cars, etc.), so I didn't. But maybe he knew best -- on testing the only area I test poorly on is mechanical aptitude. By observation to do the opposite: He had big issues with debt. Debt is slavery. Other than a mortgage one time which ended up making me a fortune on resale and an idiotic car lease deal the biggest financial mistake in my life, I've never been in debt and always pay off my credit cards in full. Buy used cars for cash!
  8. Waking up this topic. I'm looking for a source of organic CBD hemp flower to make my own cannabis oil myself. Basically to save money on buying commercial bottles of the stuff. Preferably in the Pattaya area but by shipment is fine too.
  9. Poodle Trump sucking up to his hero Putin yet again. Zelinskyy still has no choice but to humor the American moron as long as there is any hope of not being totally cut off from U.S. intelligence and arms support. As said before, even toddlers well understand that Putin does not want either a cease fire or peace. His demands remain maximalist. Total surrender. A Ukraine completely controlled by Russia and no that doesn't need to include literal occupation of the entire country.
  10. I don't either love or hate Harris but I think California probably deserves better than her because let's face it, she did lose and it's a consolation prize. It's too important for California for it to be like that. I don't know the other candidates but she had one necessary coronation for the democratic nomination and I think one coronation per political career is more than enough. The flip side is if she becomes governor she won't run for president in 28, and she definitely shouldn't do that again regardless.
  11. You have a very shallow very flawed understanding of Romanian society.
  12. Trump to Putin. Lamb to the slaughter. Trump has no idea what he's doing on this issue except for his perverted compulsion to not ever offend Putin too much. He is so dense about this. An average toddler these days knows that Putin neither wants a cease fire or peace. He wants total surrender of Ukraine. Can Trump really be that slow or is he play acting that he's incapable of learning the truth? Not sure it matters.
  13. Fantastic! It's really weird and incredibly dangerous that the international parties openly and aggressively supported by the American maga fascists, Elon Musk, etc. are the ones allied with should be enemy Putin and also neo-Nazi types.
  14. Vladimir Vladimirovich thanks you for your service. Again, the Russians deliberately target Ukrainian civilians. They also rape them and steal and brainwash children. Terrorists and war criminals. Attacks on civilians i n the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia
  15. If you were Russian, would you believe Kremlin owned state tv? Trump's press secretary even puts North Korean "press" announcers to shame. It's weird that any person with any common sense doesn't get this.
  16. Garbage PROPAGANDA source. Whitehouse.gov - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check www.mediabiasfactcheck.com/whitehouse-gov/
  17. That's of course for an in person application. Renewal by mail requires online payment.
  18. When did you stop beating your wife?
  19. The original black culture definition of woke was an admirable thing. The maga fascists perverted its meaning to be an insult slur about anything they don't like
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