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Democrat party and what it stands for... The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 7/9/22 by WALTER784; 77079 views.
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From: WALTER784
2/27/23
Only their approved teachers and their approved agenda.
It sounds like we need a national teacher's test on the basics of "History", "Math", "Science", "English" and our "US Constitution"!
Teachers who cannot pass it must be removed... tenure be damned!!!
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From: WALTER784
2/28/23
Some Basic Questions Democrats Can’t (Or Won’t) Answer
Derek Hunter
Feb 26, 2023
Remember science? Not the way it is now with the absolute obedience to progressive politics over evidence and common sense, but the way it was back when you were a kid and science was the embraced questioning of everything; remember that? Questioning is no longer allowed, unless it’s of your sexuality after being inundated with left-wing propaganda about how being gender non-binary is not only somehow enlightened, but a real thing. It is not. Most, in fact, of what Democrats inflict on the world are not real things, and even though questioning is no longer acceptable, I have some questions I’m going to ask anyway.
On “climate change” I have to ask how it is we’re supposed to take you seriously when nothing you’ve predicted has come to pass? We’re well past 30 years of 10-year predictions of coastal flooding, yet Florida still exists. In fact, all the 10-year predictions of doom and gloom haven’t happened.
If you were the leader of a cult who told their followers the world would come to an end on Sunday, come Monday morning you’re going to have some serious explaining to do. With the climate change cult there is no similar question, all they’ve done is stop making 10-year predictions and now make 100-year predictions. This isn’t because the data they have is somehow more accurate the further away from its collection you go, it’s because everyone who heard the prediction will be dead when it doesn’t happen.
A 10-year prediction isn’t provable, but it will come to pass in most people’s life. A 100-year prediction isn’t provable, but it’s also not disprovable since it will be long forgotten by the time it doesn’t come to pass. It’s brilliant, actually, if your desire is to simply scare the hell out of people to force them to act. If you’re at all interested in the truth…less so.
So, if we haven’t acted on climate change and the “polluting” countries are still pumping out CO2 like it’s a sport, why haven’t your predictions come true? Why didn’t you try to save Barack Obama millions when he bought his mega-estate on Martha’s Vineyard?
On the trans issue, how did all of you lose every bit of life experience and knowledge you’d accumulated over your lifetime inside of about 15 minutes? You don’t really believe the person next to you at a urinal is a woman simply because they peek-a-boo their privates behind thigh fat, do you?
If trans women are every bit as much women and real women, why do they need the prefix “trans”? If trans women are real women why is it that zero straight elected Democrats have ever dated one? Wouldn’t Bill Clinton have gotten what he got from Monica from one by now? Wouldn’t Hunter Biden, who filmed himself having sex with what sure came off as human trafficked, forced prostitutes have filmed himself having sex with a tucked partner, if only by accident? When the chips are down it sure seems like Democrats do, in fact, know what a woman is. Why is that?
I know you think the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ “community” are “marginalized” and, therefore, are in desperate need of coddling (bit of a white savior complex you have going), but the definition of the word “marginalized” is “placed in a position of little or no importance, influence, or power,” according to dictionary.com (at least until some leftist realizes that’s the definition and they order it changed). Why are the people who have all the protections of cancel culture, who are seemingly every third character on television, tenured academia, and a fascistic political party constantly policing speech on their side “marginalized”? Aren’t we normal people, the ones marginalized by being forced to deny reality?
On the border, I’ll make this quick: Why do you call illegal aliens “migrants”? “Migrants” migrate, it’s right there in their name. The millions of people flooding across the southern border at your invitation and urging aren’t planning on going anywhere; if they aren’t deported, they’ll never leave. They, therefore, are illegal aliens.
Words matter, or so you people who call everyone a bigot who refers to a guy in a dress as “he,” so why don’t they matter at the border? Migrants enter the country for specific work, generally the harvesting of crops, then go home after completion with their pay. Illegal aliens stay, avail themselves of our social safety net – clog emergency rooms, slow down the education process of American kids while costing the system an untold fortune, receive welfare benefits, etc. – and will never, short of a mega lottery win, be a net benefit to society, even if they were made legal.
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From: WALTER784
3/2/23
Are California Democrats in a pickle now?
A Bill Comes Due: Will California Pony Up For Reparations?
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, FEB 14, 2023 - 09:15 AM
Below is my column in The Hill on the recommendations for reparations by two appointed bodies in California. After years of declaring this a moral imperative, the bill has come due for leaders like Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The collective demand is for trillions in California alone with additional trillions demanded from Congress in a national reparations program. California Democrats will now have to render a decision on committing real money on reparations to show that this was not mere virtue signaling. That decision could be coming soon.
Here is the column:
A long-awaited meeting of San Francisco’s board of supervisors was set this week to discuss the recommendation of its African American Reparations Advisory Committee to give $5 million to each eligible Black resident as reparations. The meeting was postponed, but the city and the state soon must make a decision on a bill that has come due for Democratic politicians.
The city council voted unanimously to create the reparations committee in 2020. Even though California was a free state without slavery before the Civil War, the committee’s “particular focus has been the era of urban renewal, perhaps the most significant example of how the City and County of San Francisco as an institution played a role in undermining Black wealth and actively displacing the city’s Black population.” That could be viewed as only a partial payment for race-related injuries.
In the meantime, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) created his own Reparations Task Force, which just reached its own recommendations for $223,000 per person. Others have insisted the figure should be $350,000 for individuals and another $250,000 for Black-owned businesses. One California politician insisted the figure needs to be $800,000 per person, reflecting the average cost of a home in the state.
As these numbers rise, so do the calls for payments in both politics and the media. Even Disney has gotten into the act with a controversial children’s episode in which cartoon children demand reparations.
Notably, California’s law expressly states that this money should not be treated as compensation for federal reparations. That raises the question of whether a resident could receive $5 million from San Francisco, $223,000 from the state, and additional payments from the federal government.
Some congressional Democrats have pushed for similar federal reparations and passed a bill out of the House Judiciary Committee in 2021 that failed to receive a floor vote.
BET founder Robert Johnson has called for $14 trillion in federal reparations.
These reparations measures have a remarkable range of focus, from slavery to housing discrimination to wealth inequities. In California, there was a sharp disagreement on the purpose, with many advocates arguing that it was wrong to limit the money to descendants of slaves. Task force member Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D–Los Angeles) insisted that, “at the end of the day, people who are prejudiced against us are prejudiced against all of us.”
Ultimately, advocates like Jones-Sawyer lost a close vote on extending state reparations to all Black Americans. The state task force voted to limit it to descendants of slaves; there are almost 3 million potentially eligible Californians.
The two reparation bodies were tasked with calculating reparation awards — and both the city and the state will now be pressed to make good on their commitments.
The costs of such policies — condemned by critics as virtue-signaling — are being faced by some other jurisdictions as well.
For example, New York and numerous other cities have declared themselves to be “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants yet, in recent months, have protested increasing transfers of such immigrants to their jurisdiction.
The cost of California’s statewide reparations is estimated to be $569 billion. The state’s annual budget is roughly half that amount, at $268 billion.
Making things even more difficult, the state faces a $22.5 billion deficit and is seeking spending cuts to cover the shortfall.
This may not be a bill that can be politically postponed, given past statements by the governor and other Democratic politicians.
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From: Showtalk
3/2/23
Two years ago California had an enormous surplus. In two years they managed to almost bankrupt the state. Again. It was early bankrupt before but they kept raising taxes. They don’t have money for reparations.
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From: WALTER784
3/2/23
Well, their hands are being held to the fire now... either they cough up the monies for reparations or they don't pass the bill.
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From: Showtalk
3/2/23
It started because one city stole beach land from a black family years ago. The city paid the descendants. Suddenly someone decided everyone needed free money. I understand wanting to make up for slavery but California was not a black slave state. However they mistreated thousands of native Americans.
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
Showtalk said...
It started because one city stole beach land from a black family years ago. The city paid the descendants.
They paid the descendants, so it should be over. How long ago was this?
Showtalk said...
I understand wanting to make up for slavery but California was not a black slave state. However they mistreated thousands of native Americans.
Therefore, no Blacks, but only native Americans should be reimbursed!!! It's not about slavery and thus the problem should be resolved only with the native Amercans.
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- Edited March 3, 2023 1:02 am by WALTER784
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
Report: Experimental ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Program Turned Into a Left-Wing Nut When Asked to Act as a Member of Congress
BY RUSTY WEISS
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 AT 1:32PM
ChatGPT, an AI program capable of responding to queries in great detail, has captured the interest of the world. But when asked to serve in a congressional capacity, the program essentially turned into an incompetent far-left Squad member.
Last month, reports surfaced indicating the chatbot tool had passed law school exams at the University of Minnesota Law School. That same month, the program generated a speech delivered by Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) on the floor of the House.
The Washington Times, however, assigned ChatGPT with tasks expected of a lawmaker and in a roundabout way delivered exactly what you would expect … from a Democrat lawmaker.
“Its comprehension of government was stunted,” the Times wrote, a commentary you could easily assign to somebody with the last name of say, Ocasio-Cortez, or Pressley.
“It boiled complex issues down to book report analysis,” they continued. “It also showed bias: ChatGPT tilted far to the left and at times seemed unable to comprehend conservative points of view.”
It’s basically Hakeem Jeffries, just slightly more charming.
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ChatGPT is Fundamentally a Left-Wing Democrat
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The Washington Times experiment further noted that ChatGPT refused to write a bill funding construction of the border wall, with the AI describing it as a “controversial topic.”
When asked to draw up legislation that bans abortion in all circumstances except for when the life of the mother is at risk, it also balked.
However, when the outlet requested a bill banning assault weapons, ChatGPT “delivered.”
“Legislation to defund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement? No problem,” they added.
Elon Musk – ‘Concerning’
The Washington Times revealed that when a machine learning expert put ChatGPT through some tests, he discovered it was clearly a left-wing AI program.
That expert “ran 15 tests of political orientation on ChatGPT, and 14 of them diagnosed its answers as leftward political preferences.”
The latest experiment with the program comes as reports indicated the program was so woke that it would allow nuclear annihilation before ever uttering a racial slur.
That is, in a word, terrifying.
Other reports of a less serious nature show that ChatGPT refused to write a poem – a task that is popular for users to request – for Donald Trump but was all too anxious to pen one for President Biden.
“A leader with a heart of gold; Joe Biden, a name to hold; With empathy and grace he leads; Inspiring all with noble deeds,” the program wrote.
The ChatGPT responses were described by Tesla CEO Elon Musk as “extremely concerning.”
Which is putting it rather mildly consider the real-world implications.
The program is being touted as a means to improve office tasks and performance.
The New York Times ran an op-ed recently calling on schools to utilize ChatGPT in the classroom.
“Schools should thoughtfully embrace ChatGPT as a teaching aid — one that could unlock student creativity, offer personalized tutoring, and better prepare students to work alongside A.I. systems as adults,” they wrote.
Not only do they want left-wing indoct
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From: WALTER784
3/3/23
Bigger Government
March 1, 2023
Kerby Anderson
The current debate about the federal budget centers on whether the government is too big and too inefficient. Most Republicans argue that the federal government is too big. Many Democrats ask: “Where is your evidence that government has grown too big?”
John DiIulio is a co-author of a significant book about American government. He explains that government grows larger by using three types of what can be called “administrative proxies.”
The first are state and local governments. The EPA, for example, has fewer than 20,000 employees. But 90 percent of EPA programs are completely administered by thousands of state government employees, largely funded by Washington.
Second, there are for-profit businesses and contractors that also mask the large size of the government. In the Defense Department, for example, the hundreds of thousands of civilian workers have been supplemented by hundreds of thousands of for-profit contract employees. Today, the government spends more on defense contracts than it does on all official federal bureaucrats.
Third, there are the various tax-exempt or independent sectors, which have more than doubled in the last thirty years. Many of them owe their jobs to federal or intergovernmental grants, contracts, or fee funding.
These facts will be important to remember when Congress and the public debate the federal budget. Although the number of federal employees looks about the same as in previous decades, the federal budget is more than four times larger. The federal workload has been dispersed and makes the government look much smaller than it really is.
We do have a big government and should not fall for this federal shell game that tries to hide from taxpayers the real size and scope of government.
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