More along the lines well before they know what transgender actually means, they've been told it's a great thing. So adolescents that should be left as adolescents are suddenly talking about gender well before puberty and even longer before they have the maturity to understand such things. All kids go through periods of doubt and questioning who they are. Fantasizing about being someone or something different. It's normal. What isn't normal is adults jumping on that questioning and deciding a kid figuring out who they are should now be something they're not for the rest of their lives. If a kid spends a week pretending to be a dog, should we start treating them like one?

We need to just go back to letting kids be kids, growing and learning, and stop pushing the current political trends on them. They'll have plenty of time when they're adults to make their own choices when they have more maturity and are far less impressionable.

In other words, money is confiscated from industry that actually does things people need and is then given to the well connected green groups that peddle 'solutions' that don't really do anything. Cap and trade is a farce. No different than many of the carbon offset programs. Most environmental legislation is a racket that deeply funds leftist politicians in return for feeding more tax money in to their pockets.

Yes, there are some legitimate and useful environmental things that get done. But the vast majority are just enriching a small group of people that in turn make large donations to politicians that then pass through legislation written by those people to mandate more money flows to them. The green economy is just a cesspool of graft and corruption.

And just eight years prior, the Obama campaign was being praised for how innovative they were for doing the exact same thing. Then, because a conservative won an election utilizing the techniques that were prior greatly celebrated by liberals, it was suddenly a bad thing.

Having your credit card linked to be paid in full from your checking account is stupid. If you have a fraudulent charge, your bank account could be drained before you have a chance to dispute it and get it removed. The best use case for using a credit card is fraud protection so that your liquid funds are isolated and protected. It's one thing if my credit card gets temporarily maxed out from fraud. It's another if my checking account is temporally empty due to fraud.

Don't forget the government's capability in the student loan mess. When they federalized student loans and made it easy for everyone to get loans, colleges figured out that the government was creating a surplus of money to be spent and tuition rates skyrocketed. Most of that additional tuition going to a growing bureaucracy in colleges, not to improved education. So the government made money easy to get, leading to higher tuition costs, leading to young adults having more debt. Many of those loans used to finance degrees that don't have the earning potential to pay them off comfortably. Good intentions led to dour consequences.

This is useless propaganda/back patting. First, the vast majority are level 2 chargers. They're not equivalent to gas pumps. Although they do help reduce the need for gas pump replacements as local travel can be recharged over night if the chargers counted are residential. Secondly, a one to one replacement of gas pumps with level 3 chargers is not sufficient. You need to account for volume in the replacement count. If a level 3 charger takes 5 times longer to recharge a car than a gas pump does to refill a car, then you really need a 5 to 1 replacement rate along highway corridors.

Because the political winds have changed and people are starting to feel like they can speak up without fear or censorship and professional reprisal? There was a very concerted effort in both the US and Europe to label anything not adhering to the official state narrative as 'misinformation' and consequences for those that dared express opposing views.

Because scientists are not people that inherently have biases? If you follow your bias in research, you can usually find something to back up your hypothesis while ignoring the several things that do not. Meanwhile, the spy agencies were listening to and watching the Chinese government. Rather than guessing and looking for evidence to support a pre-ordained political viewpoint, the spies were looking at first hand responses at the epicenter of the outbreak.

Claiming it was likely a lab leak was never a conspiracy. What was a conspiracy was trying to claim it did not, that the 'science' disproved a lab leak, and silencing anyone that believed it did leak. It would also have been a conspiracy theory trying to say it was intentionally leaked.

The only reason why the lab leak theory was so hated was because Trump came out and said that was the likely source (based on actual intelligence reports). Then all the anti-Trump people did what they always do - attack anything Trump says regardless of facts. It was completely irrational.

Trump has already stated that government reductions will be done both by EO (where the power lies in the executive) and as submitted requests to Congress where changes to laws are required. The first step is identifying waste. The second is finding the right place to Constitutionally make that change.

There is a lot of precedent for the President not spending allocated funds from Congress. Spending money not allocated is the real issue.

If you want to look at an actual case of the President acting like an emperor, look at Biden's student loan forgiveness. Struck down multiple times by courts. Stated by multiple leaders of Congress (politicians like Pelosi that said it was illegal suddenly became silent once the order was given) as not legal. Yet, Biden kept issuing proclamations and his Administration was looking for every way to ensure that they could avoid issues of legal standing to stop them. They knew they couldn't do it, but so long as they could dismiss any court case based on legal standing, not merit, then they could continue abusing the law.

The government runs a large deficit. It should not be flipped to being spent elsewhere. It should be taken as a reduction of deficit spending.

And it's not just the cost to produce. It's also the cost of transporting them, counting them, storing them, etc. There's nothing practical nor efficient with the penny.

It's not sane. It's a way for those countries' politicians to hide how much tax you're paying in the price. If the tax is not visible, consumers are more likely to blame big corporations than they are the politicians.

It's not at all deceptive. That's the price. Pay electronically, that's what you'll pay. Buy several items with cash, and it could come out to a round number as they're all added up.

If pennies are removed from circulation, all that's needed is consistent rounding rules. There's nothing deceptive nor nefarious. No one's had a hard time with gas prices ending with 9/10s of a cent per gallon. It gets rounded and works out.

It's best that people know the actual sales tax rather than it being included in the price. That way when voters are asked about increases to the sales tax, they actually know the impact. Hiding it in the price is a way for politicians to mask the true impact and continue raising it. Beware of governments trying to remove visibility of its actions.

What vending machines accept pennies other than things like gumballs that simply use a mechanical spinner based on size?