Hardkill

I understand what you guys are saying, but then how does one explain what happens to those whose businesses went belly-up or lost it to a big corporation and then end up having their whole lives being completely devastated to the point of either having to go back to being a wage slave for a very low paying salary or end up committing suicide?

Why no?

Considering the fact that every politician working in Washington (except for all of the progressives) has in essence bee controlled by all kinds corporate lobbyists including the military-industry complex, what is stopping corporations such such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and other defense contracting companies from being to convince Biden to deploy our US troops back to Afghanistan?

This is really tragic. My heart goes out to all of them.

I really want to understand how corporate lobbying works and what are the possible limitations of it, but I haven't been able to find any good sources to elaborate on this.

I saw the movie a few days ago. It was not bad at all. I hope that it actually helps to make more people listen to the scientists about the climate situation we have.

Sadly, I've been seeing a number of dating coaches and PUAs on Tim Pool's channel. It kinda worries me.

Great news! The Covid pill created by Pfizer, called Paxlovid, which is an antiviral pill that you can take home and reduces the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% for high risk patients who have been infected by COVID-19 finally got approved by the U.S. FDA today! I am not sure if we have to wait for the CDC to give the final sign off for it before it can be used by anyone in the US who has at high risk of having a severe level of COVID after being infected by the disease. However, according to sources such as NPR "The federal government has a contract with Pfizer to buy 10 million courses of the treatment for $5.3 billion. But initial supplies of Paxlovid will be limited. The company says it will have 180,000 course of treatment ready by the end of the year." As for whether or not this pill will work against the Omicron variant, NPR says that "Although it's not certain, Paxlovid's efficacy is unlikely to be reduced in treating people infected with the omicron variant of the coronavirus virus. The drug, which belongs to a family called protease inhibitors, doesn't target the virus's spike protein, as the vaccines do." https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/22/1066761436/fda-authorizes-1st-antiviral-pill-for-covid One important caveat to taking this antiviral pill, is that it is not to be taken as a substitute at all for any of the current vaccines that protect you from this deadly virus. In order to have the very best chance of surviving COVID you still absolutely need to be fully vaccinated, boosted, wear a hospital mask indoors (ideally an N95 or higher version), and take Paxlovid (if you got infected by any COVID variant). https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-19-pills-are-coming-no-substitute-vaccines-disease-experts-say-2021-11-08/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq0g4XyKehw What is happening to GOP is getting crazy now! I hope that he truly is losing his power over the GOP and if it really is, then I hope that this turns out to be a good thing for the country,

All of the remaining unvaccinated Americans throughout the entire country still won't take any vaccines despite the current gravity of situation with Omicron. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/25/us/omicron-unvaccinated.html At least a majority of them say that they won't even take the new antiviral pill, Paxlovid, no matter how sick they got from the disease. https://www.newsweek.com/majority-americans-would-take-covid-pill-if-they-got-sick-except-unvaccinated-poll-1654126 This is unbelievably frustrating and very worrisome, guys. Now, I am not feeling optimistic about COVID ever ending.

Because debating about it doesn’t seem to work so well for convincing either side because of how defensive each person is going to be with their arguments.

You couldn’t even spell totalitarianism right. Lol Besides, I honestly still think that totalitarianism is a great thing for any society that is in any kind of emergency or dire situation.

I see.....well, I like how China literally forces everyone in their country to take the vaccine.

Then, will things never get back to normal? Should we also assume that there are going to be more lockdowns in the US in the future? Will hospitals around the world forever be overwhelmed by the amount of COVID patients they have? How many more people in this world are going to die from this virus?

I haven't seen snow in almost 20 years ever since I moved from Illinois to Southern California. I actually miss it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkbaH0n6RnQ I see his point.

Yeah, but you said that voters don’t vote logically on policies regardless of what the polls say about how popular certain ones are. They vote base on how electable something or someone is based on how emotionally compelled they are about a certain politician or a certain policy. So, is it possible that while the West Virginian voters who voted for Manchin may have liked all of the provisions within the Build Back Better bill from a logical standpoint, they were more afraid of the bill granting more government takeover of some kind if it had passed through both Congress and Biden?

Yeah, that's what I was kinda thinking. I hope that's true. Yeah, I was thinking that too.

Yeah, from what I understand, Dem became neoliberal and weaker when the New Democrats (Clintonian Democrats) first emerged during the late 1980s in order to effectively counter Reaganism. Though wasn't Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s pretty weak? Also, I still don't get why corporate lobbyists weren't able to stop liberal legislation that did create more progress for our society such as the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the 1993 Clinton tax increase, Dodd-Frank Act which passed in 2010, or the ACA which also passed in 2010?

Hmm, I see. So, if corporate lobbying contributes to getting in the way of all progress, then how were Democrats ever able to pass any liberal legislation such as raising the taxes on the wealthy and other laws that would benefit the middle class during Clinton's first presidential term in the 90s or pass both the ACA and Dodd Frank act during Obama's first term?

Sadly, the reconciliation bill will no longer have the following provisions: Free community college Medical leave Paid family leave Medicare Expansion Clean Electricity The reasons these provisions will no longer be in the bill is because of the corrupt asshole, Manchin. He said that the clean ectricity provision will ruin the coal industry in West Virginia, including his precious coal company. Regarding both the paid leave and medical leave provisions as well as the Medicare Expansion, he says that we can't afford to pay for those things because our Medicare system "needs to be stabilized first," our country has too great of a national debt, and they may risk worsening the current inflation problem going on in our country. As for why he's not for free community college, he says that " free tuition for the first two years might not help students get through college and instead suggested making student loans for that period forgivable." 'Let them earn it. Don't give it on the front end. Let them earn it on the back end,' Manchin said." Furthermore, because of the corporate donor whore, Sinema doesn't want corporate tax hikes, there will be no corporate tax hikes at all. Only a corporate minimum tax rate 15%. Btw, the bipartisan infrastructure bill which the Senate already approved of through a bipartisan 69-to-30 vote, now needs to pass the House of Representatives chamber. Progressives have been saying for months that if that bill gets passed by the House, then Pelosi sends that bill to Biden’s desk, and he signs it into law, then it will allow the development of hard physical infrastructure throughout the whole country to be privatized, which would be terrible for the middle and lower class people of America. Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer have already been accused by progressives as being too weak given how much they constantly concede to all of the corporate Dems in Congress. This reconciliation bill was the one and only chance Biden and the Democrats had to get any truly transformative legislation passed through Congress and it was very likely the one and only chance Biden will ever have for his entire presidency to get any progressive legislation passed! Now, it looks Biden may not ever get any meaningful change made for this country. What would the heroic legendary presidents of modern US History FDR and LBJ would do to make this right?

So, then why not skip Blue unless you're in the military, the police, some kind of religious organization, or in a 2nd or 3rd world country? Why does Leo say that you can't forgo the stage Red or stage Blue work values? Why not just skip to the stage Orange work values?

I know that stage Red, stage Blue, and Stage Orange each involve the idea of having a strong work ethic. Stage Red has the values of action, hard work, willpower, ambition, pragmatism, and taking initiative & ownership. Stage Blue has the values of hard work, discipline, duty, structure, rules, and order. Stage Orange seems to have all of the values of both Red and Blue including action, hard work, discipline, duty, obsessive desire for achievement and success, determination, pragmatism, and independence & sovereignty, structure, rules, and order. Is this correct?

So are you saying that without lobbying then the Democratic and liberal independents would be able to easily get enough Republicans in the country to to vote for passing something like a constitutional amendment that would abolish the electoral college or a law that would allow reform or expansion of the Supreme Court?

But I thought that it was mostly the conservatives and Republicans throughout the entire country who are getting in the way of eliminating the electoral college, gerrymandering, and voter suppression even if they weren’t lobbied by any corporations. Don’t we definitely need at least half of all Republicans in the entire country to agree with every Democrat and left leaning Independent throughout the whole country to pass a major constitutional amendment that would permanently abolish the electoral college? I kinda wish Biden and every single Democrat in the Senate all decided to vote for eliminating the filibuster in order to get voting rights passed, Supreme Court reform, and much much more. However if they eliminate the filibuster completely then wouldn’t that put the entire country at great risk of going through radical reversals of major legislation? Mitch McConnell has already warned Democrats that if they do it then one day when the Republicans regain control of the whole government trifecta again then they will repeal all kinds of liberal legislation that had been passed throughout all of US history including all civil and voting rights acts, all of the federal abortion rights acts, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, etc. What do you think about that? Yeah...I am so depressed that Manchin ruined the whole Build Back Better bill. If Biden doesn’t get any more passed then couldn’t the Democrats end up in great jeopardy?