Matt4Liberty
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A good explanation, thank you. Interesting perspective both from Roy and Massie

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024108?Page=2 I would like clarification from Massie on why he voted yes for this. I get that he tried to stop it in committee, but still voted yes here. He was probably hoping to shut it down once it was up for an actual vote and this measure to put it up for a vote was combined with a bunch of other bills

I'm confused why Massie voted yes on this https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/house-conservatives-tank-fisa-bill-blow-speaker-johnson

There's definitely much truth to that, but there's also other reasons. Diet is a big one. Up vitamin D and take away seed oils and that will improve depression greatly as well.

I'd like to see this charlatan's assets and wealth. He's been spewing his gibberish while I'm sure his actual lifestyle is very different than what you would get in the typical commie block apartment waiting 15 years for the privilege to order a Trabant.

I didn't realize she married someone other than her brother

With those votes, how is his freedom score that high? Sounds close to zero to me.

Exactly. Some people are so naive these days.

It's why I think they're going to let Trump win. The war will be in full force by then and they need someone who people are going to be willing to fight for.

As I said in the other thread, this does nothing. The settlement resulted in the FDA admitting nothing, they will still claim they did everything right. They had to pull some web pages and social media posts that nobody is looking at currently. Some lawyers made some money, and nothing changed.

Sure, but they can't ban me when I already banned them. Some of these companies act like they're monopolies when in actuality they're small players

Anyone that still uses Airbnb is mentally deficient. The whole advantage at first was that you could get a nice vacation rental for less than the price of a hotel. Now it's usually 4-5 times the price, and have a chance that the owner stacks on crazy cleaning fees.

Where's Mexico getting their parts and materials. If you take anything and break it down enough, you end up with a bunch of Chinese materials and parts. The EU is laughable. About all they can produce is hot air from their politicians. Trying to build up domestic production is going to take many decades. (Not that I'm against trying)

The exporter can simply cut off exports, and the importer figuratively starves. In the case of China versus the US, it took many decades to build up China into the manufacturing superpower it is. It would take many decades to get it back. Even manufactured goods that are listed as "made in the US" are composed of mostly Chinese materials at some point. If China cut off exports, these supplies dry up overnight. I'm all for boosting my domestic production, but let's not live in a fantasy. As for switching to a new exporter, who are we going to buy from, the EU?

The legacy of Rick Snyder continues. I remember during his 2010 campaign, trying to convince Republicans that he's not some savior. His massive failures resulted in Whitmer and company getting into power. Once in, they quickly consolidated power. That was made even easier by the Republican legislature completely abdicating their responsibility of oversight. They're not giving up power now. Hell, Whitmer supposedly won in rural, traditional Republican counties this last election. I guess genocide is very popular there.

It has more to do with Republicans in those areas being more willing to let the swamp status quo continue on the primaries. Look at Wyoming. They finally got sick of Miss Piggy, and now they received a no vote.

Do you think that the county wouldn't agree to terminate the easement and receive the tax windfall that would be due to them in that situation?

How? What cards does the importer hold? The exporter controls the supply of goods. If you don't produce, you have nothing.

So the FDA knew they were going to lose, but the doctors' lawyers decided to give up? This is how the corruption continues.

It actually doesn't create any precedent. The FDA admitted to nothing and only agreed to pull some social media posts and webpages. I'm very disappointed this did not get adjudicated. A settlement here does nothing. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-settles-ivermectin-case-agrees-remove-controversial-stop-it-post Some lawyers made some money. They're going to keep spreading their tyranny.

The only thing I never understand about the free trade uber alles crowd is how you can support free trade with a nation that doesn't have free trade in return?

In Washington State, we used to complain that Inslee never had an original idea and just copies California. Now we yearn for the days where he just copied California. This state has become absolutely out of control.

I still think it's going to be Noem. Trump has to do something about his terrible covid record and try and do something to get women. I hate it because she's had some pretty terrible policies outside of her covid record.

To some extent yes, but not to the level today. Look at how many corporations have their headquarters in the DC metro today. It's astounding.

I don't understand how you could justify paying taxes in Oakland. There's literally zero services that are provided. I had a business relationship in Oakland until last August, and that business was absolutely terrorized. It wasn't far from the in-n-out and other businesses mentioned in this thread. It was the only place I would go, where we brought food back when going out for lunch instead of having a business lunch out.