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Livelystone01:
The difference between the UK and the US is the fact that both sides are close to the centre than the extreme.

And what center is that?
The words center/left/extreme don't mean much unless they are in relation to something.
ex. US Republicans think Dems are extreme for wanting universal health care.

Both sides in the UK are closer to where US liberals are policy wise.

raumdeuter:
No one including me is immune to the media manipulations of CNN and others which is why I saw the light as soon as I got away from the lies of the media

Most of all the posts you have written this year in this thread have been factually inaccurate.
You are a ball of lies and propaganda.

You left CNN and seem to have become dumber and less capable of either discerning fact from fiction or more willing to lie about it.

Livelystone01:
Both sides...The right wing and left wing media are the same but from opposite ends.

The right has become far right while the left has gone far left.

Both sides have drowned the voices of the central to the extent that they are scared to speak out.

Except Europe is far more liberal than the US.
Explain to me how that fact fits with the point you are making,.

The difference between the UK and the US is the right wing echo chamber.

descarado:
I asked if you watch cnn cos I stopped watching it like more than 15 yrs ago. Has nothing to do with trump. Somebody said cnn naturally makes your BP rise. If you have hpb, your Dr will tell you to stop watching cnn and BBC. Don't know if that's true but I just stopped since then.

I get curious when people say they watch cnn. That's all.

Una wey dey America go dey alright when you guys decide to get your acts together, work together and foster love. The hatred is so deep and toxic. Both online and offline
Even yoruba and igbo hatred for naija no reach this level.

Every country has its challenge but America as it is is so toxic that I wonder where una get it wrong.
I do understand for a country without tradition and culture it will be chaotic but this. See as insults are flying up and down everyday.The competition is who will insult better. Look for loophole,rush to nairaland and the insult start. Make sure to flag your wings men.


Uk where I dey is having its deep problems but the UK thread is not as toxic as this place. I love american politics and want to contribute but the insults doesnt go well with me. So also majority that have left this place for very few. Loads of Americans in this forum but they dont even peep in here cos what happens here is adults throwing childish tantrums. They, like me want to come in here and have adult discussions even if we don't agree
Una well done. I can't deal.


Erm, please check that link I posted, is it true?

Part of the toxicity is the US Right wing Media. The UK doesn't have as extreme a problem because of the laws on the Media and even the libel laws there.

Here in the US, Right Wing Media is free to pump out whatever lies and propaganda they want to generate rage. And rage equals revenue. And that is where a lot of the conservatives get their info.
A lot of the stuff that is posted here isn't even things to debate. It's like debating whether the Earth is flat.

That may explain the difference in the two threads.

raumdeuter:
You don't want black people to support Trump
Yet you are complaining and whining about blacks not in his cabinet

Pick a struggle

You write shit that I assume only makes sense in your mind.
And I assume your mind broke sometime after you wrote this post below, because you haven't been making sense since.

raumdeuter:
Trump is not a Republican, he is a demagogue. Few years ago he was democrat. Most of his views are not even republican views. I even believed he was planted by the Clintons in the Republican party to scatter our party. He is a close friend of the Clintons, donated to Hillary and they attended his wedding.

He is simply a Trump candidate who represent himself and his fellow racists, Most of the white Blue collar democrats are now going to vote Trump. This shows he is not appealing to Republican but to those who want to take their country back

bemeruca:
Cry 😂 California will turn to desert if trump allows the idiots there

The way a MAGA's mind works.

If California was its own country it'd have the 5th biggest GPD in the world.
Yet the majority of the Republican states are bottom in most metrics including GDP in the US.
Yet, somehow MAGA who manage their states to be the bottom of the barrel would do a better job than those who have managed their states to the 5th largest GDP?

Reasoning like MAGA requires you to first repeatedly slam your head against a wall.

raumdeuter:
So you are celebrating what you think was a black guy failure just to confirm your bias

You now see how fake news start and spread. Some people would have heard from you or read your post and run with it that Trump axed a black man named Scott

It's the same pattern, manufacture fake news then become angry and point to is as evidence

I think a picture is more powerful than words.
This is Trump's Cabinet(1st term) vs. Biden's Cabinet
I guess we understand what Trump thinks a Black job is not.

It seems not everyone is as happy as Raumdeuter
#factsoverfiction

Confidence among U.S. consumers weakened for a second-straight month, reflecting retreating optimism of both current and future conditions at the start of President Trump’s second term and expectations that inflation will rise again.

The index of consumer sentiment published by the Conference Board, a research group, fell 5.4 points to 104.1, it said Tuesday, worse than the 106.0 expected by economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-consumers-lose-confidence-at-start-of-trump-second-term-0e48375b

As the effects of these policies take effect, I expect it'll even go lower.

Trump starts second term with near-record-low net approval
Newly elected presidents' job approval and disapproval ratings at the start of their term, based on 538's current presidential-approval polling average methodology, since World War II

How is this real?
Unfortunately for the US, most MAGA are uneducated about most things.

BadNews:
Why Removing Side Mirror 😞 Na Hardship?

Cheaper than buying it. No?
People would do that with rental cars - swap and steal parts.

Was made to pay for a spare tire that was missing in one that I rented.
Now I do a video walkaround any car I rent and also check the boot and the spare.

This should be the headline everywhere.

I have to admit, even I wasn't prepared for how lawless this administration would be and the potential devastation his actions could have.
I also assumed Democrats would have prepared how they would push back.
Trump pausing all aid and loans is going to directly affect A ton of Trump supporters as their states derive a lot of their budget from Federal Assistance
Even I'm shocked at the casual disregard for the level of Chaos that will ensue.


Can Trump Cancel Government Funds Through Impoundment? What To Know As He Pauses All Federal Assistance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/01/28/can-trump-cancel-government-funds-through-impoundment-what-to-know-as-he-pauses-all-federal-assistance/

How Could The Supreme Court Rule On Impoundment?
The dispute over the Impoundment Control Act and whether Trump can take action against congressionally approved funds could be ultimately decided by the Supreme Court—potentially within weeks, if legal action is taken over Monday’s memo. The Supreme Court previously ruled against Nixon’s use of impoundment in the 1975 case Train v. City of New York, a dispute over Nixon withholding funding toward water treatment, though the court noted in its ruling that the Impoundment Control Act was passed while the case was pending and the court’s ruling didn’t impact it and wasn’t affected by it. In an opinion years later in the case Clinton v. City of New York, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “President Nixon, the Mahatma Gandhi of all impounders, asserted at a press conference in 1973 that his ‘constitutional right’ to impound appropriated funds was ‘absolutely clear.’ … Our decision two years later in Train v. City of New York proved him wrong.” (He noted Congress can authorize the president to cancel funds, as the Impoundment Control Act allows.) It remains to be seen how the current 6-3 conservative court could come down on the issue, however, though Vladeck wrote he’s skeptical even the current court—which includes three Trump appointees and has been deferential to the president in the past—would be willing to uphold Trump’s broad spending cuts. “It’s one thing to believe that the President must have unitary control of the executive branch,” Vladeck wrote, pointing to the court’s ruling giving Trump some legal immunity, but “it’s quite another to believe that such control extends to the right to refuse to spend any and all money Congress appropriates.”

Simply Incredible Executive Order

Trump is seeing how big of a dictator he can be.
He's scuttling the Constitution and the defined roles of the Executive and Congress.
Unfortunately, this Congress doesn't seem interested in stopping him.

White House pauses federal grants and loans
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77rdy6gzy5o

Look at these mealy mouth statements from the Democrats.
Trump won because though Democrats had the factual and legal ground on most issues they treated it like an Oxford Debate.
They need to get it together and soon.

"The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country," the congresswomen wrote. "We write today to urge you in the strongest possible terms to uphold the law and the Constitution and ensure all federal resources are delivered in accordance with the law."

The Democratic minority leader of the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, was also critical of the pause: "Congress approved these investments and they are not optional; they are the law."

raumdeuter:
You are the one always grumpy, miserable and depressed. Looking to pick a fight with everyone who disagrees with you because you have the mind of a toddler

I came here to learn, get varied perspectives to challenge my perspective.
And if that sometimes means people get upset when I challenge their perspective. So be it.
Everyone's an adult, I hope.
If I meet cool people along the way.. even better.

You've spent the last month here lying and gaslighting. Most of everything you post is some form of lie or propaganda.
If you have to rely on lies and gaslighting to win an argument, why waste your time typing your post?
Is it to assuage your fragile ego?
If you could defend your position without lies, wouldn't you?
Sounds almost like something someone with the mind of a toddler would do.

raumdeuter:
Shouldnt you be worried about yourself more given the realities of your life vs mine

I am happy, you are depressed and lonely

Real talk, if you were happy in life, you wouldn't spend countless hours lying on an online forum about all manner of things.
You woke up on Sunday to start lying about the prices of Real Estate in Boston that you can easily check by googling.
Kind of insane.

It sounds like you are trying as hard as possible to reinvent reality.
One who is happy, wouldn't be doing that.

nateevs:
I can't tell these guys apart. It's this the one that lives in the US or the one in Nigeria?

The one that pretends to live in the US.

raumdeuter:
Who told you Latinos didnt think he would do what he said? They actually wanted him to do it. Put the election today Trump will win Latinos by a wider margin. Do you think the Latinos were not affected by the economy and policies under Biden

3rd world countries are governed by leaders who say different things during campaigns and do different in governance

All those scare tactics of racism is old, Racism cries are coming from race hustlers to scare people into voting them while they do nothing for their voters. I have lived for many years in the US as a black man I have never experienced any form of racism, my children will even have more benefits than me

The only thing coming to a bus stop near me is more prosperity

Another post untethered from reality.
All jokes aside, if anyone knows Dayo in real life you might want to check on him.

budaatum:
I must wonder. And Boston is unfortunately not on my list so I can't really tell.

Chatgpwatsitcalled says New York City is on the route between Boston and Oakland, so would have to do.

Wolf does not pay me. I pay Wolf.

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/01/19/the-big-cities-with-the-biggest-price-declines-of-single-family-houses-or-condos-from-their-peaks-from-9-to-21/

The Boston Housing Market is outrageous now, was somewhat outrageous then, but not 650k outrageous.
The numbers are easily googleable.

raumdeuter:
People who have access and have been in such circles regularly don't climb on table to tapk about it

Some people here have been going to gatherings of governors for over 20yrs and don't need to post about it to internet folks it's never do wells like you who gatecrashed into stratosphere they don't belong that climb tables to take pictures

I never told you that I went to Harvard
I never told you I bought a car

Your severe inferiority complex is why you have been grunting like pig

What are great achievements to you is what many on this thread do and don't need to make noise about.

Reek once again you are poor, and a failure in life

I was there, were you?
That was rhetorical, we know you weren't.
When you get access, then maybe your opinion may matter.

Until then, carry on with the lying and gaslighting.

Dr. Raum aka Captain Intellectual Dishonesty, PHD Bulllshit, Harvard Extension School

LordAdam16:
Slap fines or not, farmers, factories (like meatpacking plants), restaurants still need cheap labor.
H2-A visas were introduced to address farmers' needs.
Between the onerous rules and fees, whatever labor a farmer would get via the program ain't gon be cheap.
The labor sure as hell ain't convenient to acquire. What, with the filings and sh*t.
The porous border and remote nature of farms make illegals a no-brainer.
Keep that up over decades and it becomes "how things work". That's how you get to the point where taking out illegals from the equation f*cks up the financials of the entire operation. Inertia!

The farmer still has payments to make on their million dollar John Deere equipment and loans. They've got produce contracts to honor.
The government allowed the issue to metastasize.
So before punishing farmers, the feds have to reform the system.
That reform will ultimately lead to the current reality except today's illegal alien farm workers will be tomorrow's legal nonimmigrant farm workers.

Netherlands, Germany, Israel all deal with the same issue.
Israel flies in farmhands from Africa and Asia.
The US has all the labor it needs at its doorstep. They only need to revamp the immigration system.

The US needs holistic immigration reform. But we're still in the "don't care about the deets, just get most of them out" stage.

-Lord

Holistic like the
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 that Republicans killed
or the
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 which Republicans again killed
or the
recent smaller bipartisan bill that Republicans again killed in 2024?

No, you and the Republicans you champion everyday are in the "don't care about the deets" phase and partially because illegal immigration actually helps business interests which vote Republican (like farmers).

raumdeuter:
A 650k house in Boston as at 2015 is below average neighborhood FACT

You seem to have woken up this Sunday to seed more lies.

Below is a chart with the median prices for Boston area homes in 2015. (Do I need to explain what Median is?).
The Median price was 405,000.
So no, your statement is not a FACT, it is actually a LIE.

But isn't that your problem?
You're too stupid and too emotional to do actual research so you Lie, Bullshit and Gaslight in every post you write here because the FACTS never align with whatever nonsense your emotional childlike, maybe demented mind wants to believe.

That's why one day you can think Trump is a racist with racist supporters and the next day he can be your hero.
Or one day you're pretending you went to Harvard by taking Harvard Extension School classes while the next trashing Harvard grads.

Go rest.
It's not by force you have to spend 4 hours daily writing lies.

The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2015
The Housing Cost Conundrum
https://www.tbf.org/tbf/51/~/media/ACFE028AAA5647188A3B23184C21DAFB.pdf

raumdeuter:
Have you seen anyone else on here post stuffs about where they've been or posting pictures about who they've met? No

So in your simple mind you think because they don't talk about it means they've never done it? That's why you are a morron

It's people who gate crashed that will be climbing kn chairs to take pictures at events

If everyone else on this thread was as childish to be posting pictures of who and where they have been in life, you will deactivate in shame

But you have no self reflection, you can't think. That's why are over 50yrs you are guddy like an 10yr old who just discovered tiktok

It was a simple yes, or no question.

So, that's a no. You have never entered.
Gotcha.
A lot of excuses there when you could have simply said No.

Begone Bum.

Go back to pretending you went to Harvard
Or that you have a 160k car.
Or whatever lie you woke up on a Sunday to peddle.

Trump calls to "clean out" Gaza and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

He is so much better than Harris on Palestine. <sarcasm>
I can't.

raumdeuter:
No one who enters those type of environment will be jumping on chairs and excited to take pictures of wizkid. It's only impoverished people like you Reek that sees that as some form of achievement in life

You are too poor to have an opinion

Have you entered?
When you can enter, maybe then you can have an opinion.
Until then stfu.
And try to up your money and access.

raumdeuter:
A $650k house in Boston? That is a very poor neighborhood. You are just confirming everything I've said about you. You are dirt poor. Little wonder you have to be paying $50 in cell phone charges and paying $4k in rent

I see your home insurance and car insurance and know for certain the type of assets insured for those amount and they are not top of the pile rather bottom feeder ones

Lies, Lies and More Lies.
It's like you replaced lying with intellect.
Is it easier to live in a world that you make up in your head?

I don't think you understand how poverty works, how property inflation works or how housing valuations work.
Might want to google how much is a house that was purchased for 650k 10 years ago worth today.

You also don't seem to understand interest rates.
Clearly don't understand money or investments.
And as you've demonstrated in the past don't seem to understand Economics either.

That seems to be par for the course for a Harvard Extension School graduate.. lol.
You might want to go back to having Chat GPT write your posts for you.
Will surely sound smarter than any of the emotional nonsense you've been writing.

How does it feel to be the one of the dumbest people in this thread day in and day out.
That's why most people who used to respect you, wonder if you fell down some stairs onto your head.

Check out 2015 (a decade ago).
https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/average-monthly-mortgage-payment/#home-prices

raumdeuter:
You are staying in low income neighborhood, using homeless people phone plans. I have seen your monthly budget, you are struggling class especially in a city like Boston. You will do well to sit any conversation about money out

Are you ok?
You wake up and start lying, gaslighting and peddling BS information all in quest to assuage your jealous ego.

Being conservative, a 4k mortgage with about a 10% down payment at about a 4.5% interest rate is around a $650,000 house.
I purchased my house more than a decade ago. The house has almost doubled now.
Is your house even worth that price now? It's not.
Stop spreading bullshit on this site to people who don't know better because you are jealous.
Be better.

raumdeuter:
You have the poverty mentality on lock. Which makes you take pictures at regular events that regular succesful people do in their lives daily

That's why you were climbing tables to take a picture of wizkid to show random internet people
You pauper

Your jealousy makes you sound deranged.

It was a regular New Years Eve event where you can only enter if you are invited by a member, who buys a table and the members are probably the 1% of Nigeria.
How many regular people in Lagos were there?
Go rest with this nonsense.

You literally let your emotions control your brain so that nonsense comes out your mouth.

bemeruca:
Imagine Elon Musk scavenging for points
Raumdeuter is not poor, he does not want o follow this model

God. You should learn to not speak when you have 0 idea what you are talking about esp. when you're trying to pretend you live in the US.
Google the Amex Black Card, how to get it, who has it and its benefit structure.
You are so uninformed it's embarrassing.

Of course you have to be Raumdeuter's padi.
You'll both be telling each other you're going the right way while driving off a cliff.

cococandy:
You’re right about this. Excellent point .
I just booked a Mallorca resort vacation for summer. Worth over $5,000 & paid $0.00 because of points.

Still have hundreds of thousands of points (about 350k) left over in my Hilton account for future trips. And I alternate the same way with my Marriot and Hyatt accounts. What sense does it make pay that $5k for a resort stay when I can get it for 0.00 as long as I’m using my outstanding credit?

The credit system is there to serve the customer. It’s one of the benefits of living in advanced society. No need to pay cash and not get benefits for my cash. I understand that people get excited and overspend more than they earn and get into trouble so that’s why some people avoid credit.

1) Live within your income means
2) Earn cash, Pay with credit and pay off the credit before it’s due.
3)Never accumulate debt.
4)Accumulate and save up your points for future rewards, upgrades, free hotel stays, access to luxury lounges on your trips etc. Rinse and repeat.

I believe the gentleman you’re arguing with knows this too. He’s been in America too long to not know. Hopefully the ones who don’t know can’t get a tip or two. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Trip sounds dope.
Was it a foodie resort?
Interesting in how you find it.

I learned about points when I was 27 and wish I had known earlier. It's was a big life/money hack.
Flights were one of the biggest hacks. I have enough rewards/points spread out over various airlines that I can book flights early, whenever I get invited to an event. I can then make up my mind and cancel even the day of the flight without a penalty.

If you can follow the rules you posted, it's worth more than worth it.

raumdeuter:
Reek how does poverty feel. How does it feel to be the dumbest person on here and the poorest too

Good question.
Sort of like this...

Any more questions?

raumdeuter:
Its poverty, the extreme type. That is why no one wants to breed with him. Imagine MetroPcs $50 plan you probably will have network issue calling someone sitting next to you

Do you still go to church? You should.
I don't think I've seen someone lie purposefully and repeatedly like you do here.
It's odd, esp. given you are in your 50's.
You seem to have lost all sense of values.
What broke you that turned you into this internet troll?
It sounds like some people here used to speak respectfully of you in the past.
Now you're a self hating, racist apologist Trumper.

I'm sure this will break you even more.
Not only do I pay ~$50 monthly for my plan. That payment includes 2 phone lines and an internet line.