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Well I'd add that some relation to truth or reality isn't incidental, but used as a cover to give the actual conspiracy part a veneer of legitimacy. It's used to hide behind when the actual bs gets called out.
I suggested reading Jake Tapper’s book. Go to a library and check it out if you don’t want to buy it.
Not going to be something to be found in a library over here. And since you seem to be knowledgeable about the topic so like asked previously... Examples?
These are opinions that do not reflect reality. In fact, 8 of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates are red states. If progressive policies caused poverty, we would expect most blue states to have higher poverty rates.
What I presented is facts. The color of the state doesn’t mean there is a difference in how the federal government’s restrictions impact the lives of those living in poverty from one state to another.These are opinions that do not reflect reality. In fact, 8 of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates are red states. If progressive policies caused poverty, we would expect most blue states to have higher poverty rates.
As of the most recent data from 2025, the top 10 U.S. states with the highest poverty rates are:
These rankings are based on the percentage of the population living below the poverty line, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The poverty threshold varies depending on household size and composition, but generally reflects the minimum income needed to meet basic living needs.
- Louisiana– 19.6%
- Mississippi– 19.4%
- New Mexico– 18.4%
- West Virginia– 16.8%
- Kentucky– 16.5%
- District of Columbia– 16.5%
- Arkansas– 16.3%
- Alabama– 16.1%
- Oklahoma– 15.6%
- South Carolina– 14.6%
Poverty Rate by State 2025
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The issue today is that we often create arguments just to blame the other side. I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat; I simply want an honest, fact-based discussion about our country and politics. You seem more interested in sharing opinions than in presenting facts.
I notice that your opinion seems to have shifted. In previous posts, you attributed crime and poverty to California's progressive policies. However, now that it has been pointed out that 8 out of 10 states with the highest poverty rates are red states, you are suggesting that federal government policy affects poverty across different states.
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I have already stated this several times, I was talking about the states response to increased crime. Not anything else. And the CAUSES of crime is a different discussion from the response to crime. Both should be addressed, but they are addressed in different ways.
And Trump reminded Musk that his job was to find the fraud, redundancies, etc. and pass that on to the dept. heads.I'm not aware of *any* decisions by department secretaries in the cabinent meetings. Most amount to secretaries praising Trump.
As for Musk, he had termination letters to deparment employees without the knowledge of the department's cabinent secretary.
Trump orders large federal layoffs; Musk to seek deeper spending cuts
Musk thinks he can cut $6.7 trillion budget by $1 trillion this year, a reduction that would likely entail significant disruption of government programs
We already had the Office of the Inspectors General that was purged, (probably so that Musk could ferret out which of the fired Inspectors General was working for the “deep state”), to do continuous investigations and audits to minimize waste, fraud and abuse.
Yeah, just like ”Trump is a threat to our democracy” was the weapon of mass destruction under Biden (literally, considering all the people who threatened to kill Trump (some almost did)), and we don’t even have a democracy. Meanwhile hiring 130,000 federal government workers to just add more wasteful expenditures to the list of stuff to have to get rid of. We have no need for the top-heavy, citizen-hating government that we have.
Well, looking from the outside, I would kinda agree with that. You guys are taking several small steps away from democratic norms and lawfulness and at an increasing pace and a decent portion of the US population is welcoming this. And yes, the US is a democracy.
No, the US is a Constitutional Republic. The founding fathers purposely made sure that we were NOT a democracy because democracies always end in totalitarianism or communism. Mob rule is the norm in a democracy, and we see how that was starting to happen under the left’s push for “democracy” over the Constitutionally guaranteed republic.
Come on, we vote for President. Do you even know the name of your "elector"? Is his name on the ballot you fill out?
And a Constitutional Republic is... Drum roll please... A form of democracy! I can't believe that this exact same thing needs to be told in two different threads.
And I hope I get the implication here correctly, because you certainly seem to imply it, but what is termed a "direct democracy" isn't the only form of democracy. In fact, there isn't a single country in the world that's a full blown direct democracy. They are essentially all forms of representative democracies. Which are still democracies.
Yet the Constitution sez the Congress hold the “power of the purse” and authorizes that august body to set tariffs (both of which the House has seemingly ceded to the incumbent President).
A democracy is majority rule, period. A republic utilizes elected representatives who govern according to an overarching body of laws . Because we are NOT a democracy we have the electoral college. IN a democracy whatever the majority wants, the majority gets. Because we have an overarching body of laws that determines how we are governed, instead of majority rule, we are not a democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic that uses the democratic process ONLY to elect our representatives except in the case of the president.
No it isn’t.
Unless a majority before them already put in protections for the minority that cannot be rescinded.
Every single country on earth has a constitution their legislators and leaders have to abide by. That isn’t the defining feature of a democracy. Even Saudi Arabia has a constitution that their monarch has to follow. The defining feature of any democracy is the power being vested in the people.
Those same representatives use a democratic process with simple majorities to pass legislation that affect the entire country. This is democracy in action.
