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Democrat party and what it stands for...   The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You

Started 7/9/22 by WALTER784; 195573 views.
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Apr-22

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Making them more unsafe.

Yep... Democrats are for the destruction of our way of life.

They want more crime, more illegals, continued inflation, worsening debt and all the while they're defunding the police and turning our education system into a socialistic indoctrination center. 

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Apr-23

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Democrats are for the destruction of our way of life.

And this proves it...

Democrats JUST did the UNTHINKABLE! Former Democrat Exposes Party’s EVIL Plans!

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Apr-23

They show over and over again they don’t care about the people or about the black population.

 
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Apr-23

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They show over and over again they don’t care about the people or about the black population.

Democrats don't care about we the people (all colors), they don't care about the crime rate, they don't care about the illegal immigration, they don't care about anything but spending money and wielding their power!

Remember that going into the 2024 elections. 

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The voters need to be more aware.

 
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Apr-24

It looks like Democrats are not only a problem in the US, but in Australia and other countries as well. Elon Musk should be jailed for allowing free speech on X??? It's 21 minutes but quite an interesting watch about Australia and the US!

Lefties losing it: NYC mayor Eric Adams harassed by 'enraged' pro-Palestine supporter

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Duh.... who would have thunk otherwise? And this same thing has been warned since the mid 1970's... 

California Fast Food Prices Skyrocket Following Imposition of $20 Minimum Wage

By Ben Kew
Apr. 22, 2024 7:15 am

The price of fast food restaurants in California has surged after the state imposed a $20 minimum wage law.
 
According to an analysis from Kalinowski Equity Research, fast-food restaurants across the Golden State have hiked prices by around eight percent since the law went into effect at the beginning of this month.
 
The New York Post reports:
 
Wendy’s raised its menu prices by around 8% while Chipotle Mexican Grill hiked its prices by approximately 7.5%. Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee chain, raised the prices of its menu items at its California locations by around 7%, while Taco Bell hiked its prices 3%, the report found.
 
It found that Burger King instituted an average price increase of 1.4% for its Whopper Meal and 2.1% for its BK Royal Crispy Chicken Meal at the 25 locations. The report’s authors did the same for Chipotle, which was found to have boosted the price of its Chicken Burrito by 8.3% and its Steak Burrito by 7% at 25 locations in California between Feb. 7 and April 2.
 
Wendy’s also instituted substantial price hikes on staple menu items such as Dave’s Combo and the Classic Chicken Sandwich Combo. In a comparison of prices from Feb. 12 and April 2 at 25 Wendy’s stores in California, the company raised the price of both items by an average of 8%. McDonald’s appears to be the only fast food chain that has largely held off on raising its menu item prices, according to the report.
 
As previously reported by The Gateway Pundit, many restaurants have also been forced to lay off thousands of workers as the cost of hiring them became unaffordable. Among these are Pizza Hut and Round Table Pizza, both of whom have confirmed they will be laying off 1,280 delivery drivers over the course of this year.
 
As Gold Prices Hit Record Highs, One 12-Page Pamphlet Tells the Story of God, Gold and Glory
 
Meanwhile, some restuarants are using the wage hike as an opportunity to accelerate their transition to automated service, which will lead to even more job losses over the coming months and years.

California Fast Food Prices Skyrocket Following Imposition of $20 Minimum Wage | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew

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Leftists Who Insisted Covid Health Care Was ‘Racist’ Test Positive For Confirmation Bias

BY: DENNIS KNEALE
APRIL 15, 2024

The view that systemic racism contributed to Covid-19 misery continues to hold sway in medical articles today — but it’s false.
 
In mid-March, House Resolution 1062 — “Declar[ing] racism a public health crisis” — was filed by two congressmen from Connecticut. “This resolution aims to highlight the detrimental effects communities of color face when seeking treatment,” they said in a press release.
 
In particular, H. RES. 1062 suggests that “during the COVID–19 pandemic, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Native American communities experienced disproportionately high rates of COVID–19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality compared to the White population of the United States.”
 
This popular assumption overtook the medical establishment and the media soon after Covid-19 descended on America early in the election year of 2020. Early in the pandemic, blacks and Hispanics were dying at higher rates than whites, and this was viewed as irrefutable evidence of systemic racism in health care.
 
The media went all-in on this. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times ran stories on it in April 2020, as did NPR in September 2020 and The Washington Post in November 2020.
 
But the data shows, four years later, that this assumption was a rush to judgment — nonwhite people actually died in numbers that were comparable to their portion of the population. CDC data for 1,175,876 Covid deaths from January 2020 through February 2024 show that blacks comprised 13.6 percent of all Covid deaths, in line with their 13.6 percent of the population; Hispanics were almost 15 percent of mortalities, less than their 19.1 percent of the population; Asians accounted for 3.14 percent of all Covid casualties, half their 6 percent portion of the nation; and Non-Hispanic whites made up 67 percent of all Covid deaths — even more than their 58.9 percent share of the population.
 
Whites skew older than blacks and Hispanics, and this is why whites made up two-thirds of Covid deaths. People over age 50 comprised more than 93.5 percent of Covid mortalities, and those over 65 posed 76 percent of deaths, CDC data shows. 
 
Even when the death stats are adjusted for age, the disproportionate impact is less than feared: Blacks made up 21.5 percent of age-adjusted deaths versus 12.8 percent of the age-adjusted population; Hispanics made up 27 percent of deaths and 19.6 percent of the population. 
 
Thus, in the Covid crisis, any disparities among racial groups owe more to different rates of pre-existing medical conditions, “essential” employment in the lockdown, and neighborhood density than to systemic racism in treatment.
 
Yet the damning view that systemic racism contributed to Covid-19 misery continues to hold sway in medical articles from the beginning of the pandemic to today. As recent as February 2024, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an article by researchers at Duke University claiming the pandemic was “providing a more accurate understanding that was unsurprising to anyone who has examined health equity: covid-19 is a preventable disease that disproportionately affects racial minorities. … [T]he effects … were magnified most powerfully for black, Latino, and indigenous people in the US.”
 
Back in April 2020, one early medical article was published on the Journal of the American Medical Association website by Dr. Clyde W. Yancy — the vice dean of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University and a cardiologist for 42 years. “The pattern is irrefutable: underrepresented minorities are developing COVID-19 infection more frequently and dying disproportionately,” Yancy wrote. “Why is this uniquely important to me? I am an academic cardiologist; I study health care disparities; and I am a black man.” 
 
He noted that a survey of 131 black-majority counties found an infection rate more than three-fold higher than in white counties — and a death rate more than six-fold higher. “A 6-fold increase in the rate of death for African Americans due to a now ubiquitous virus should be deemed unconscionable. This is a moment of ethical reckoning.”
 
His column has been cited 1,330 times by other medical articles. 
 
The CDC reports, “For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate,” meaning it’s likely preexisting conditions played a role in up to
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A Hamburger Happy Meal at McDonald’s is around $8 in major California city cities and $5 in poorer cities.  That is a huge increase for what is basically a very small sized meal.

A McDonald’s nugget meal for 4 is $25.  That contains nuggets, fries and nothing more.  In contrast for about $10 or less, one can buy a large bag of frozen nuggets and a large bag for fries that feeds around 6-7 people and cook them in an air fryer.  That tastes about the same.

 
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A Hamburger Happy Meal at McDonald’s is around $8 in major California city cities and $5 in poorer cities.

A hamburger happy meal set with S fries and S drink... Japanese Yen 400... at 155 yen per dollar, that works out to $2.58!!! In other words, a hamburger happy meal set at the restaurant near my home... and mind you... it's not a poor city or anything is about half that of a poorest city in California???

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