6ixStringJack:  You and your revisionist history are so full of shit. Everybody hates you. |
| second: In his first term, Trump boasted that once his economic agenda was in place, “we’ll start paying off that debt like water.” But in office, deficits exploded as a direct result of his policies. By the end of his first term, Trump had added nearly $7.8 trillion to the national debt, and most of that total was racked up before the Covid crisis. In his second term, Trump felt comfortable pulling the same trick twice, telling voters, “We’re going to pay off … the $35 trillion in debt. We’re going to pay it off. We’re going to get it done fast, too.” But he added an additional $1.8 trillion to the debt during the first year of his second term. The U.S. national debt officially surpassed $39 trillion on March 17, 2026, only five months after the debt hit $38 trillion, and will reach $40 trillion before the fall elections in 2026. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Boy... Would I love to be a fly on the wall in your mother's basement and see all the terrible, terrible shit you do to yourself and your family when you think nobody is looking. |
| second: Brenda asked: "Are you a smoker Second?" No. My father and grandfather died from smoking. My other grandfather vanished - nobody knows to where, but he was also a smoker. I don't have to get the same lesson more than once to learn what to avoid, but that is not true for many people I am surrounded by in Texas who can't learn from other's misfortune. Funny how so many of them also voted for Trump three times. Could there be a connection? |
| 6ixStringJack: Here's a video about FUM and why nobody should buy it. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah... and it's not just vaping either. I don't know how often you watch youtube, but have you seen any sponsorships for a product called "FUM"? It's an outrageously expensive piece of metal and wood (around $80 for the cheap one and well over $100 for the expensive one), and you sign up for a monthly subscription for "flavor packs". They market it as a "safe" alternative to smoking and vaping and a means to quit either one, but they have a super expensive monthly subscription for what is essentially flavored essential oils that you're inhaling along with that "flavor". It wouldn't surprise me if that ends up being even worse than vaping and it ends up destroying a lot of YouTube channels that were making money shilling it as a "healthy" product. |
| Brenda: Well, speaking as a none smoker. I've seen people die because they smoked. My dad for one. A brother of his had throat cancer. I have a friend who had open heart surgery and a stroke because of her smoking. I just hope that she has stopped but I'm not fool enough to think that she has. Her breathing is to short when she is walking...so. |
| Brenda: I know SIX. People are looking at ways to stop or get a handle on the kids and ADULTS vaping up here. And of course there is the usual alcohol and drugs. There is some really toxic stuff being cut with tranquilizers. |
| 6ixStringJack: The problem is that kids are doing even worse things than cigarettes now. They're vaping oil into their lungs, and we really have no idea what the price of that is going to be for another decade or two. At the end of the day, the Government doesn't want us smokers to quit. They want us to die young. Almost everybody who dies from a non-accident is going to rack up plenty of medical bills before they go, no matter how old they are and how healthy a life they lived. If somebody like me dies before Social Security and Medicare kicks in, that saves the US taxpayers 30 or so years of making montly SSI payments to me, as well as 30 years of paying for the bulk of my medical care in retirement. They don't want me to quit. They'll be happy when I die early. |
| Brenda: And those higher prices may even stop people from even starting. That is a good thing. Are you a smoker Second? |
| Brenda: Second, some people who maybe just picked up the habit will quit. Which in turn will save your health care system and ours in Canada millions of dollars. |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut up, faggot. Get a hobby. |
| second: The Pentagon is lying about the cost of the war | May 1, 2026
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN on Thursday that he heard estimates that the cost to the U.S. is around $50 billion. He said the higher estimate would be based on the “billion dollars a day” spent for more than 60 days since Feb. 28.
“I’m going to try to make some inquiry into what they based their estimate on, because $25 billion is considerably below all the other estimates I’ve been seeing for the past two months,” King told the outlet.
On Thursday, CNN reported that the Pentagon’s estimate failed to account for repairs to damaged U.S. military bases in the Middle East, with sources telling the outlet that those repairs could raise the cost by between $15 billion and $25 billion.
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| 6ixStringJack: Get off it, retard. You couldn't spell emphysema without google. |
| second: Brenda: Similar law suits in the US were settled for $246 billion—of which $206 billion came in one large settlement by 46 states—which will be paid by smokers through higher prices. [Repeat: paid by smokers through higher prices] The settlement came after the collapse of an effort to write federal legislation [Repeat: collapse of an effort to write federal legislation] that would have substantially increased the cost of cigarettes through taxes and would have restricted the marketing of tobacco. [go to link] Despite all those law suits, tobacco is still a very profitable business that kills millions of the dumbest people, the ones who can't spell "emphysema" so they changed the name to COPD, which is real easy to spell: [go to link] |
| Brenda: Second, Canada has successfully sued tobacco companies because they lied about the health risks of smoking. |
| 6ixStringJack: Really? Nobody cares. |
| THG: Trump family crypto project quietly sold as holders got stuck |
| second: On April 14, 1994, CEOs from seven major U.S. tobacco companies testified under oath before a House Subcommittee that they did not believe nicotine was addictive. This landmark, televised hearing featured executives denying the link between smoking and health issues, contradicting internal industry documents. [go to link] |
| second: Trump’s supporters have constructed an elaborate double standard to ignore his fire hose of lies and incendiary rhetoric, which they dismiss as “mean tweets” or otherwise inconsequential. They have justified doing so in large part by turning Obama into a chimerical monster who supposedly launched the racial war that Trump must now win.
Yet the strongest evidence they can marshal for Obama’s alleged provocation is rhetoric that is more thoughtful, dignified, and presidential than anything Trump has said in his entire time in the White House. [go to link] |