You did it again! You just invented something in your own brain! You're arguing against yourself - and losing.

Do you realize that you are having an argument with intrusive voices in your own brain? Or not?

I notice this all the time with TDS sufferers: they invent something and rage against it.

Epstein ran a child rape ring against Americans for Israel. If the truth ewere known, the existence of Isreal would be threatened. Isreal requires an external sponsor to exist. That sponsor is the USA, and if it weren't us, it would be Russia.

Israel has a right to exist!

Don't drive them into the hands of Putin, antisemite.

Besides according to the Left, MAPs are just a sexual orientation like gay. Oppressing them is fascism.

So your ethics are to just let a country be a victim and let those aligned with Nazis to take over the world? You lack ethics and spine.

"13. Global thermonuclear war."

Would you like to play a nice game of Chess?

" exactly like the people voted for!"

The people didn't vote FOR anything, IMO. Way too many voted against something.

People didn't like Biden *OR* Harris. They held their nose and voted AGAINST Trump. Unsuccessfully

Many Trump voters likewise didn't like Trump, but voted AGAINST Harris.

Both parties are providing crap candidates.

we still get paper junk mail where I live.

Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.

Hopefully they won't be Evil.

Huh? read my post that started this thread and get back to me.

The topic is SPACEX setting the low bar.

That PR spew trying to calm the public was smokescreen or made without research. Wasps go kilometers when leaving a nest to make another, and lone queens can go tens of kilometers. And those were empty nests so...

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.

Which then makes it a "Third Party Record" and can therefore be accessed by government using the same process as cell phone Geo Fence Warrants; frequently en mass; frequently with the thinnest of probable cause. Like many ideas, the pure and stated objective is a worthy one, one that "we all agree" is for the good. Too frequently, others see that effort as an avenue to accomplish their objectives as well, that are not in line with the original objective. "Mission Creep" is as real in law as anywhere else.

There "should be" three places where you do not have to concern yourself with incrimination. Your spouse, your religious counselor if any, and your doctor. Unfortunately, we see law enforcement turning spouses against each other (Tell he what they did or we'll take your kids!), Your priest (Tell us their confession or we'll charge you as an accomplice!), and now your doctor (Tell us what they told you or lose your license and go to jail!). With the "Big Hammer" of law, LEO will always have avenues to extort others against you.

Trump took the EU to the woodshed. They had to drop all of their protectionist tariffs they have against AmeriKKKan goods(I thought protectionism was ad?) and in return America puts a 15% tariff on all of theirs. Moreover they had to write a check to us for hundreds of billions. The tariffs will bring in a shit-ton of money. We can use this to replace the income tax and repeal it entirely.

The usual TDS sufferers are screaming it's a tax on AmeriKKKans but it's not. When's the last time an American bought anything made in Europe? I mean one of us, not the CA/NY American passport holders who write the media articles describing what happened.

Hey, I've got an idea - make things in America and there are no tariffs. It's weird but worth a shot, it could work.

Obama did propose this. The reason it didn't happen? It was felt it concentrated too much information in places that could not or would not be effectively controlled, and thus would be abused. Recall please, NO WHERE in US history has law enforcement or information sharing not been abused. You should be able to recall what happened when DOGE did a data suck on Social Security records without understanding the unstructured use of metadata in the record itself (using an impossible birth date to signify they did not actually have a birth date.) You'd realize this yourself if you'd simply recall what the right wing reaction was to a national ID card or requiring a national firearm registry.

As to it being "Opt in" - it will be opt in like credit cards. Sure, you can do without it, but you will not be participating in society without it as others do.
I was able to go eight months without need to use a credit card in 1980. In 2020, I couldn't make it a whole day without someone requiring a credit card for something.

Seems ICE is fully complying with COVID mask mandates now. A little late, and "They're more like "guidelines" than actual rules!" (PotC) Never saw a group of supposedly grown men more afraid of a bit of cloth, nor so persistently confuse the utility of their use.

Now, did you know ICE is a socialist service? It's a government function, preforming a task for people, using money captured by the Government's authority to levy a tax. Same process provides highways, air ports, drug inspections, food safety, 911 emergency services, title recording of property, and sea ports, and in civilized countries, health care.

I'm happy you put that noun in quotes. It shows you're aware you are using the incorrect part of speech. Perhaps the three decades of pointing this out is finally making progress.

In closing, please contemplate my sig below, written by William Pitt. For extra credit, privately contemplate, compare and contrast what happened with Bob Menendez vs. George Santos or Senator Rick Scott.

Yes, it's quite rare that a Congressman's constituents are his voters.

Maybe a dozen, max.

Yet incumbents win reelection 92 % of the time.

We also have the government we deserve.