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SGman's avatar

Typo: Lone wolves

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Steve Berman's avatar

There’s always a typo. Thanks.

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Lizzie's avatar

Including Trump in your list is a wild exaggeration, useful only to attract liberal readers to your comment. Trump ,so far, has not gone as far as Lincoln or Roosevelt in pushing the limits of executive power, and does have some excuse in terms of national security as well as public security. The courts will work things out eventually, even if it takes a generation. In the mean time, the issue of survival as a world power is in play, due to debt and concerted foreign attention to what is called psyops. To prefer someone who goes a little too far in one popular direction to crazies who deny basic biological facts and who don't fear debt as a path to bankruptcy, is not evil incarnate. It is practical. And unless the Democrats can frame a practical set of policies that are more even-tempered, MAGA will continue stronger than you would like.

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SGman's avatar

Oh, do you want to get into talking about debt? 'cause the GOP bill is a debt bomb.

Regarding transgender people: the State of Utah commissioned a study on treatment for trans youth that found positive outcomes for providing treatment - https://www.advocate.com/news/utah-gop-ignore-transgender-report.

The full report is available at https://le.utah.gov/AgencyRP/reportingDetail.jsp?rid=636, if you prefer to read through all 1000+ pages.

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Lizzie's avatar

Compared to Biden, Trump is a Piker, when it comes to spending. He does believe his program will grow the economy relative to debt and the evidence from his first Administration supports this belief.

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SGman's avatar

Sorry, what? Trump's spending is higher than Biden's, and we're getting less out of it.

It has never been the case that cutting taxes leads to enough growth to outweigh the increase in debt. The evidence does not support your/the GOP's/Trump's assertion.

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SGman's avatar

One other development out of China that is important: sodium-ion batteries. They're not quite as energy dense as lithium-ion, but they cost a fraction of the price and involve little/no rare metals - making them very much useful for home/grid energy storage.

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