State of the country

[bpj]

10 minutes of Democrats talking about elections being rigged.

But, nah, now it's another conspiracy theory...

https://www.crankers.com/media/videos/6 ... democrats/

[Mel Bradford]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/de ... 99fd43aaee


Fake President rattling his rubber saber last spring:
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-biden-dec ... a-61267291

My, how weak can we get ?

[Mel Bradford]

https://www.crankers.com/media/videos/6 ... democrats/

[seattlefan-daBronx]

Up a fucking creak without a paddle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwH_TtJZWvI

[Mel Bradford]

Wow, no kidding. Nearly a 25% increase in Fed Budget. "Spending us to death"

[douche]

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."

Her father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!"

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the conservative side of the fence."
If you ever wondered what side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him..
If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative reads this, he'll post it. A liberal will delete it because he's "offended."

[seattlefan-daBronx]

How far does the rabbit hole go?

The Virginia Thomas (wife of Supreme court Justice Thomas) has texted conversations with Mark Meadows over several weeks.
They were released out of this January 6th "unselect committee" to present "conspiracy theories" and to present an "attempt to stop the election of Joe Biden". How ironic. The very definition of hypocracy.

Just common sense. Doesn't seem like the wife of a conservative Justice of the highest court would just spew this stuff out of her butt.
Here is the video that has been "lost" / "removed" from social media. Investigate and verify. Shit imho has already happened. We just don't know it yet.

https://youtube.com/shorts/N561d4HgcWE?feature=share

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/25/ ... k-meadows/

[D-train]

This Seattle times journalist takes the time to write an entire piece on migration and population changes by state. Speculates that it is mostly the "Sun Belt" states that have gained insinuating that it is weather driven.

Zero mention that ALL of the top gainers are Red States and ALL of the literal Losers are Blues states despite the OBVIOUS trend. Yeah unbiased reporting. Right. If it was the opposite it would have been in the headline and the key point of the entire piece. Something about women moving here for "Reproductive Freedom"

By Gene Balk / FYI Guy
Seattle Times columnist
Through much of the 2010s, Washington was among the top states for drawing newcomers from other parts of the nation. Those days seem to be over.

Data released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau shows Washington now has more people leaving than moving here. From July 1, 2021 to July 1, 2022, Washington had a net loss of about 3,600 people to other states.

The decline in Washington’s domestic migration this year is not exactly unprecedented. Technically, the state also lost population to other parts of the U.S. last year, but the estimated net loss of 29 people from 2020 to 2021 was negligible. And that was also during the height of the pandemic, and I had wondered if the numbers would bounce back in 2022.

They didn’t. They dropped even more, representing a significant demographic shift from the 2010s.

In the years before the pandemic, Washington was growing primarily from domestic migration. From 2015 to 2019, we had annual net gains of more than 35,000 people. In 2016, the peak year, about 68,000 more people moved into Washington than moved away.

The sunbelt remains a magnet for domestic movers. Florida had the largest increase from people moving within the U.S., with a net gain of nearly 319,000. Texas was a distant No. 2 at 231,000, and North Carolina came in third with about 100,000. Idaho was the sole outside-the-sunbelt state in the top 10 for domestic migration, gaining 28,600 people in 2022.

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Unfortunately, the Census Bureau only provides figures for the net change from domestic migration — we can’t tell from Washington’s loss of 3,600 if that represents an increase in people leaving Washington or a decline in the number moving in. Perhaps it’s a combination of both.

The data also doesn’t indicate where people go when they leave Washington, nor where they come from when they move here.

Although Washington lost people through domestic migration, the state still gained population from the two other components of population change: Natural growth and international migration.

Natural growth is the number of births minus the number of deaths. Washington had roughly 84,300 births and 70,800 deaths, for a net increase of about 13,500 residents. Many parts of the U.S. have an aging population, and there were 24 states that had more deaths than births. Florida, a popular retirement destination and among the states with the highest median age, had the largest natural decline: 40,200 more deaths than births.

Washington also gained population through international migration, which more than just bounced back after a sharp drop due to the pandemic. The state grew by 37,500 from international migration this year, exceeding the previous high of 33,100 in 2015. International migration fell to just 9,200 in 2021.



The three components of population change combine for a net increase of about 45,000 Washington residents, or 0.6% growth for the year. Washington’s population is now 7,705,000, and it remains the 13th most populous state. While Washington is no longer among the 10 fastest-growing states in the U.S., ranking 16th this year, we easily beat the U.S. average growth rate of 0.4%.

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But Washington remains well below the growth rates we saw in the previous decade, during which there were several years when the state grew by more than 100,000 people.

The fastest-growing state, for the first time since 1957, was Florida. Its population increased by 1.9% from 2021 to 2022. Idaho was second, at 1.8%, followed by South Carolina at 1.7%.

Numerically, Texas had the largest population growth at 471,000, beating out No. 2 Florida, which grew by 417,000. North Carolina was a distant third at 133,000.

There were 18 states that lost population. New York had the greatest decline, at 0.9%, followed by Illinois and Louisiana, both at 0.8%. New York also had the largest numeric decline at 180,000, followed by California (114,000) and Illinois (104,000).

[seattlefan-daBronx]

Yeah NYC is paradoxical....
Everyone leaves the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and heads straight for NYC looking for work.
Then people realize it's a total shit show and proceed to migrate south....NC, PA, FL...Hell! there is a huge influx of carribean people migrating now to Oklafuckinhoma!

Texas is crazy though....besides everyone pouring in from the southern border...1000/people per day move into Texas.
That's amazing. I think for the first time in many many years folks are now moving to places where there is not only work but importantly ideals and quite frankly politics that match their lifestyle and beliefs.

[seattlefan-daBronx]

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