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Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,402 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Not the question I asked:
    If Trump instructs the senate to go on recess so he can push through his nominations would that be moving the needle in the direction of a dictator or a democracy?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭REDBULL68


    Obviously a test of who is loyal or not ,even Trump wouldn't employ these head bangers ,good strategy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,034 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    This is the guy who told everyone before his first Presidency that he was gonna hire the best people.

    Given the scale of the fallout from those hires, it's clear he was just flat out BS'ing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    Fluoride is in every toothpaste which guarantee more effective delivery. If you don't brush your teeth then decay is completely on you.

    One comment from US discussion about this issue…

    "Why apply fluoride to your teeth when you can apply it to literally you entire body and skeleton... every cubic centimeter of it by volume, and what 0.04% of it will end up in your teeth? Here is a challenge for fluoridated water fanclub: find out exact percentage of that water drink fluoride ends up in your teeth compared to the rest of your body…

    Imagine buying a skin care product that is a moisturizer but instead of applying it to your skin, you drink it then exclaim anyone who doesn't is crazy conspiracy theorist lol."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭Dr Robert


    Drinks bottled water if afraid of tap water.

    The right are turning into the left with their whining about everything



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭jackboy


    It's going to be incredibly difficult as successive governments for decades didn't give a toss and let things get worse and worse.

    Things are so bad that the US public will aggressively fight any measure that will reduce their poisoned food intake due to the highly addictive nature of it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,243 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Aren't you lucky you can afford toothpaste. The benefits of fluoridation have always been greater for those in deprived areas. Some nonsense analogy to skincare products doesn't change that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Trump isn’t a vindictive man…

    You’ve officially lost all of whatever remaining credibility you had.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,352 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    Man if rfk jr brings us food standards anywhere close to EU, it will be the most shocking impactful beneficial thing a republican government has done for Americans since I have been conscious.

    Would only be surpassed in terms of my hierarchy of policy by enacting massive legislation on nature preservation.

    IE it's definitely not **** happening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,489 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    I wonder will Jim Jordan get a role

    Read the other day in 16 years he never passed a piece of legislation.

    Even Bernie got one passed.

    He is beyond useless and nothing more than an empty grand standing mouth piece, So I imagine at some stage Trump will be tapping him for a position, maybe not with the current wave of nutters.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    The point being that the outcome of such policies, welcome though they are, are not being talked about.

    Nanny state. Telling parents what to feed their kids? Putting more regulation on farmers and food producers. And the increased costs that requires.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,352 ✭✭✭joseywhales


    Personally, I think it would be great, longer life, high quality of life, more productive population, reduced healthcare costs. Strategically a great idea. Prevention is better and cheaper than cure. Costs are an issue but I've always wondered how expensive it would be to provide people with a stew packed with veg and potatoes and bread for example and why it's more expensive than a big Mac meal, never made sense to me.

    For me the highly processed food is the new cigarettes, addictive and not healthy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    100% agree.

    But will the people in the US? Many don't believe in vaccines. Won't even dream of giving up guns despite the continued carnage.

    Trump supporters are, by and large, against government telling them what to do.

    And this requires massive investment in monitoring. Musk is on a mission to cut government spending not increase it, and the nanny state.

    I'm not arguing whether it should be done. It's that it flies in the face of everything Trump supporters want.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,644 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Excellent video by Bill Maher with some advice for the usual suspects on the far left.

    Maher dismantles the Democrats woke agenda,which prioritises gender politics and race baiting.

    The Democrats are aloof and arrogant. We are the smart people, no need to look into that.

    Still trying to view the election loss as a result of racism and sexism. If people weren’t so unenlightened the US may have elected a black president by now…

    Maher says liberals need to top screaming at people to get with the programme and instead make a programme worth getting with.

    He is right.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭amandstu


    Is bottled water not a rapist* lunacy?

    Not full of microplastics and over 2 euros a litre? And you have to return the bottle and hope the machine is working .

    Indeed is the recommendation to drink water like a fish lunacy as well?

    No scientific basis that I know of for the 8(?) glasses a day (unless you are running a marathon or similar)

    (I wonder if poor Dr Moseley ran out of liquids when he ran into the heatwave in Greece last summer )

    *that was weird.I just wrote "a lunacy" and the spelling autocomplete added "rapist". ie "a rapist lunacy" ,obviously nonsensical.

    Some kind of a sign of the times?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,945 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Folks who really think he can make any sort of impact to the American food or health standards, just do not understand how much each system is invested with corporate interests, and thus, corporate greed. And these guys line the pockets of senators and congressmen and women.

    He literally has no chance of making any real impact. None.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭patnor1011


    That is fairly stupid argument.

    Toothpaste cost 1 euro and last you about 2 weeks maybe even longer. If you cant afford that then tooth decay is on you and pretty much guaranteed no matter how much fluoride you will drink.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,052 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    109% correct.

    The Dems need to stop talking about fairness and equality and instead talk about fear and division.

    They need a leader who can commit fraud and continually threaten and abuse their opponents .

    That need to lie repeatedly and make promises based on concepts of a plan.

    Their is nothing wrong with the Dems message just that people didn't want reality they wanted entertainment and promises. Food and circus. It's the same repeated throughout history.

    Nobody on the right was calling for a radical overhaul after Trump lost in 2020. Instead they simply doubled down.

    Get a more charismatic leader in. Make sure its a man. Start the process today and spend the next four years in rallies and constant abuse of Trump and JD. Continually point out how little JD is doing and he is nothing but a lapdog to Trump.

    Dems only need to switch a few million voters. This is not an existential crisis.

    Its the GOP that are now facing an existential threat. Harris, who according to any Trump supporter is an wholly awful candidate and was only parachuted in in the last minute, still secured nearly 74m votes.

    Trump, who everyone acknowledges has die hard and immovable support got 77m.

    But he cannot run forever. And the GOP are going to struggle to recapture the zeitgeist that Trump undoubtedly has

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭drury..


    I can't wait for the circus to start 😁

    Trump can be a very funny guy too has to be said



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭randomuser02125


    Why not. With a cabinet full of sex offenders, they could do with Gym Jordan protecting them. It's probably the only thing he's done successfully.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,422 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Why are the benefits of fluoridation greater in deprived areas? Is your sole objection the cost of the process? (Very cheap vs. dental care).

    My bet is your real objection is some conspiracy talking point, prove me wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,124 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    All research points to a reduction in tooth decay with community deployment of fluoridation in the water supply. Why are you so opposed to it out of interest?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,520 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Very few countries put flouride in the drinking water. And research says there's no difference in tooth decay rates between countries that do and the ones that don't.

    https://fluoridealert.org/content/bfs-2012/



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Already came up in thread, some add other chemicals to achieve the same result. Secondly, the US doesn't have socialized healthcare so minimizing dental decay is a necessity. If we're to look at European countries, dental care for affordable prices is far more readily available.

    And I'm inclined to trust the CDC on effectiveness, (they cite their sources) over what appears to be a fluoride conspiracy theory site.

    https://www.cdc.gov/oral-health/data-research/facts-stats/fast-facts-community-water-fluoridation.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,422 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    The tooth decay link goes off to a loony rant on fluorosis.

    A lot of western countries fluoridate their salt.

    What is the science against fluoiridation, why do you think governments, like in Ireland, implement it at all? Is there some lucrative big fluoride contract somewhere?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    That site is wild, if you go to the homepage it's got so much in common with the vaccines cause autism sites...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,240 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    The Mainstream Media are very much on Trumps side and or owned by people who support Trump.

    And Trump has already said he will revoke the broadcast licenses for news media that oppose him

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/fcc-chair-slams-trumps-call-to-revoke-cbs-and-abc-broadcast-licenses/

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,034 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I'm sure you've seen this image from online in the last few days.

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    Now, we know you're a fan of the facts over feelings narrative, I mean it's a Ben Shapiro buzz phrase so given the performance of Massachusetts with respect to Education/Healthcare/Quality of Life (3 fairly important metrics I think you'd agree) what programmes do you think Blue State Massachusetts should adopt from Red State Oklahoma in order to best provide for it's residents.

    I'm interested in your opinion on this, not for you to wait for Bill Maher or Charlie Kirk or Ben himself to say something so you can post a video of them instead of expressing an opinion yourself.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,985 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Massachusetts has been the financial centre of New England for how many centuries?

    What would it take for it to not be one of the richest places in the world? It was a Calvinist money machine for a long time, now it's a politically-liberal money machine.

    For that matter, medieval Venice was a Catholic money machine. Lots of worldviews can be made congruent with material and financial success.

    People tire of cardboard demagoguery. In the end, non-stop accusations of racism-sexism-transphobia aren't thoughtful or evidence of sophistication even if the accusers have a good education. If even black and brown minorities don't buy the 'Republican=Nazi' narrative then it may be time to go back to the drawing board, no?



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