re: Morning Consult released 33 minutes ago. Trump leads 70% on issues

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I've stated that SS needs to end.

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So You want to frick all of those that came before you so you get/keep yours. Hypocrite much?

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Bravo Sierra. You were blaming Trump for how things ended. Plain and simple. When the truth is that without Covid at the end of 2020 things would have been as good or BETTER than they were at the end of 2019.

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Why wouldn't I blame Trump for how things ended?

This is the soft part of your "conservatism" - you don't hold Trump accountable for taking the knee on Covid when the Left told him to.

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I'd argue that there is precisely ZERO percent chance of that.

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You can never know from posts on a message board, so there's that. But you clearly post from a place further left than I post.

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and spend that SS money your going to be FORCED to pay in. Enjoy, I will.

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I'm older than you, dumbass.

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after you die because you won't have enough to pay the estate taxes on i

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Why would I have to pay estate taxes on something AFTER I die? I'll be friggin' DEAD. And you pretend to be smart??? If you think solar is going to do ANYTHING other than make democrats who sell the panels rich, you are a buffoon. Bet you probably drive an electric (aka coal powered) car.

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Really? Just because I'm not a desanctimonious soy boi doesn't mean I'm left of you.

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I didn't say anything about DeSantis.

You're to the left of me based on your position on entitlement programs. Also, your apparent allegiance to Trump. He's not the most conservative dog in the hunt, and he's also a practiced establishment POTUS.

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Look at it this way. Let's say you are building a house and work on it for a period of time. And you do a great job. Then one day a storm comes thru and by no fault of your own does great damage to your house. After the storm it looks like a dung heap. Is it your fault that the home looks that way or the storms? Does how the home looks after the storm lessen the great work you did?

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Let's modify your hypothetical so it's more consistent with what happened in 2020.

If I was fooled into thinking this massive storm was coming when it really wasn't, and rather than accept the damage I was promised it would cause, I simply torched my own work/my own making - then yes, it's on me.

Somebody got triggered.

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Holy shite

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Holy shite is right. You said that I wouldn't have enough to pay the estate taxes on my property AFTER I die, right? My heirs might have to pay it, but I won't. See how that works. How much do you think 109 acres and a 2000sq ft brick ranch with a 2 car garage is worth? This is pasture/woodlands. Around here, it goes for about 8K an acre and the cost to build a house is roughly $175 a square foot. That comes to 872K for the land an 350K for the house or $1.22 Million. Now I have roughly 250K in tractors and equipment. All totaled that is $1.5 million. According to the "great google", "In 2023, the federal estate tax ranges from rates of 18% to 40% and generally only applies to assets over $12.92 million." Considerably more than what my farm is worth. Something tells me we'll be good. Aren't you supposed to be smart? Cant you multiply or google? Geez.

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Let's compare ASVAB scores.

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Ok. 1984 was a long time ago. Best I recall, they were all in the 90+ percent. Anyway they were good enough to get me a commications/navigations technician position (328X1) in the USAF working "non-integrated" aircraft. Before you call me a racist, "non-integrated" doesn't mean we didn't let black people in. It means that the aircraft did not have a central computer to "integrate" all of the systems together. I worked TACAN, UHF and VHF radios, IFF systems, Mode IV, Instrument landing systems, etc on A-10, C-130 and T-38. Tech school was 9 months at Keesler AFB MS.
After separating I was a few classes from a Bachelors in Applied Mathematics. Finished that degree and still had 20K or so in the GI bill. Used the remaining amount to get an informations technology degree right before the 10 years after separation was up. Then my company paid for a Masters in Network Security.

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My truck nuts are bigger than yours.

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Only nuts you could beat me in would be nuts on the chin. Imagine you have had many of those, while I have had none.

I never mentioned Texas as where I live, because I don't live there. I do have relatives (step daughter) that lives in Lubbock and my wife grew up there. Like most Texas women, she's absolutely gorgeous. I wasn't throwing a tantrum, I was arguing with you and you didn't like it. Then you had to throw a tantrum with the post I'm replying to.

The last part of your post was just OOZING with jealousy and envy. While I could probably get disability, I do not. While in the AF I had torn cartilage in my knee scoped, ruptured an appendix and had a section of my small intestine removed because of recurring "Small Bowel Obstruction". The knee wasn't injured in the military, it was injured in high school football and I lied when joining. The AF was not responsible for the appendix, more likely it was all the bar fines and short times in the Philippines. If you don't know what they are, look it up. The small bowel obstruction was caused by the scar tissue due to the burst appendix, again not caused by the AF. I did not apply for these benefits because I do not feel that I "paid in" to receive them. I don't mean pay in dollars. I mean pay in limbs, eyes, hearing, skin from burns, etc. That is what I feel disability is for and I have none of them. The money they would give me is better served going to someone who actually "paid" the price that I did not. We do agree on one thing, there are too many people who don't deserve disability taking advantage of the VA system. I have been VERY blessed in my life.

Something tells me you are mid-management type that can't afford to pay attention. You wife (if still married) looks at you with disgust. Then after you leave for work, she goes to a real man to get the satisfaction you cannot provide.

In the end, you will keep paying SS and I will be collecting it in a few years. Enjoy paying me, cause I'll enjoy spending your money.

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I'll cash the checks knowing that I got screwed over a 40 year period

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Welcome to the club.

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arguing against conservative economic policies and for liberal policies

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Not at all. I'm fine with cutting, just cut the freeloaders and illegal criminal invaders BEFORE cutting the working man/woman.

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calling anyone who disagrees with him a libtard

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No. I was calling the pompous, pretentious, condescending little arseholes libtards, because that is what they act like.

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Then you deny being a desanctimonious soy boi?

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You are retarded.

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Except that's not what happened. In beginning Trump said that we need to protect the old/vulnerable and let everyone else get it and get over it for herd immunity. And history has shown that he was right about that.

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I've argued this before - Trump had the right intuition about what was happening, but ended up being too weak to stick with what his gut was telling him. Yes, he said the right things in the very beginning, but ended up going full retard.

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Using your "modified hypothetical" who would you listen to about the storm the "experts" (aka weather folks). Would you heed those experts warnings or ignore them?

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Well, if these "weather folks" had just got done impeaching me twice for ridiculous reasons, lied for years about me not denouncing white supremacy, were in the throes of investigating me on about 5 fronts for inane/made up reasons, etc., etc., etc. - there could be a funnel cloud hovering above my house and I would have independently verified what the "weather folks" were suggesting before giving a single shite about it.

Seriously, every conservative with an IQ above room temp should have known in real time to be skeptical AF about everything being hyped about Covid.

Lol