US Elections (& Politics) :)

But is the bill good or bad?
They always package good and bad stuff together, brag about the good stuff, and hide the bad stuff. They will never let you have any good stuff unless you agree to accepting more bad stuff.

IMO bad... there's no way to overlook the deficit spending... unless you believe that the tax cuts will create that much growth... last time:

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The only overpopulation problem we have is an overpopulation of dumbarses such as the person who came up with this class assignment.
 
And. . . let's rollback some EPA regs while we are at iy

By SETH BORENSTEIN, M.K. WILDEMAN, MELINA WALLING, JOSHUA A. BICKEL and MATTHEW DALY
Updated 12:49 PM EDT, June 5, 2025

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and introduce a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human health.

The EPA-targeted rules could prevent an estimated 30,000 deaths and save $275 billion each year they are in effect, according to an Associated Press examination that included the agency’s own prior assessments as well as a wide range of other research.


It’s by no means guaranteed that the rules will be entirely eliminated; they can’t be changed without going through a federal rulemaking process that can take years and requires public comment and scientific justification.


But experts say the numbers are conservative and that even a partial dismantling of the rules would mean more pollutants such as smog, mercury and lead — and especially more tiny airborne particles that can lodge in lungs and cause health problems. It would also mean higher emissions of the greenhouse gases driving Earth’s warming to deadlier levels.

“More people will die,” said Cory Zigler, a professor of biostatistics at Brown University who has studied air pollution deaths from coal-fired power plants. “More of this type of pollution that we know kills people will be in the air.”
 
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Once a liar. . . . .

Trump repeats false claim that before his presidency no one wanted to join the military​

By MELISSA GOLDIN

Trump claimed that six months to a year ago, military recruitment numbers “were record low” and attributed a recent uptick to “spirit” and a renewed love for the U.S.

But recruitment numbers for all military branches have been on the rise for the last few years, according to Defense Department data.

Military enlistment was 12.5% higher in fiscal year 2024, which ran from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024, than in fiscal year 2023. There were 225,000 new recruits in the former and 200,000 in the latter, said Katie Helland, who oversees recruitment policies and programs as the Defense Department’s director of Military Accession Policy, at a media roundtable in October.
 
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The fight between Elon and Trump has gone Nuclear.

I'm talking off the charts knock down drag out.

Its ugly and just wow. Elon basically pushed thin skinned Trump too hard and the gloves are off. In public.
Trump is literally making shit up, Elon is calling him a liar, and who knows where it will go
 
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