I’m 85 and my partner 91 and we’re going to our county courthouse to protest the Trump administration tomorrow. We drive around encouraging those on the sidewalk with our dogs barking their chorus. We no longer LABOR but support those that do. It was terrible news about the elimination of wind projects today.
God Bless you and your hubby. I’m 78 and I’ll be out on the streets tomorrow as well! Sitting in my home I don’t realize how many of my neighbors are of like mind. It reinforces my resolve to keep doing everything I can daily to stop the madness and save democracy! I tear up every time I’m out there protesting it makes me so proud and happy.
Also 78…79 in a month. Will be there with my husband as we’ve done for all protests this year. Great to see how many show up! Good for all of us who do…carry on!
I'm surprised you can even spell Putin. Yeah, that board of monkeys that you keep referring to have probably earned over $1 billion in their lifetime poor monkeys
Hey gary you sound a little frustrated. Geee I'm sorry.
Well, obviously, you haven't met guys like me. I don't even think you can imagine guys like me, but I'm there in your worst nightmare, running free in your brain while you are flotsom and Jetsom in mine.
By the way, you also probably should go out and get yourself some hearing aids or maybe cerebrectomy. Keyboards are for old farts like you I haven't had a keyboard in 20 years lololol.
You called that taunting? What a wimp. Oh by the way, I want a list of all your significant others, including the names and ages of your children. I still have to keep posting because you're not catching up. You're really slow.
You wrote “ Oh by the way, I want a list of all your significant others, including the names and ages of your children.”, which to me smacks of a thinly veiled threat.
Hey dummy, it’s not a veil threat. It’s an explanation and an analogy of what you want from me and what you won’t give me for the same reason that I don’t give you what you want. Try to catch up will you please
Every country is right and wrong only fools like you have to even think like you do poor negative soul. Did you get my message about Democrats versus Republicans? There's your answer pal. This country is so great even the haters refuse to leave. But I do hope Canada gets an influx of the ones that do they love, sucking off the government teat
I dare you to respond to the substance of the text below.
“The U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democratic Presidents
The U.S. economy has performed much better under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents in the modern era. In almost every measure of the U.S. economy including total job growth, unemployment, economic growth, manufacturing job growth, manufacturing investment, small business creation, and contribution to the national debt, economic performance is stronger under Democrats. While there are many factors contributing to these trends, the throughline is clear that Democratic administrations consistently help the U.S. economy perform better than Republican administrations.
Republicans have prioritized tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and that fail to boost economic growth or pay for themselves, while Democrats have prioritized investing in the middle class, supporting small businesses, and improving economic resilience after downturns. Of the 11 recessions in the modern era, 10 have begun under Republican presidents.”
I love you for your persistence. You're naïvete today is overwhelming, especially not even understanding American government NOR REALITY ITSELF and all you understand is theory and you never respond to questions. Like have you ever owned a business
Not sure where even to begin
Of all the things you have posted to me before that you dare me to respond to this is beyond belief, the most naïve, and actually blows my even comprehension to answer to you because it is so stupid and here is why just to begin with
Administrations do not live in a vacuum. one blends into the other and I would like you to try this on preciseLY since Covid happened Biden inherited Trump's Covid issue and it impacted tremendously into Biden's administration did it not ? It's unbelievable how somebody with any intelligence whatsoever would actually first of all believe that link and you idiots that live by links or some of the subhuman plants that live on this earth
With absolutely zero intelligence to even ask that question or make that statement or believe what it says here below biden's administration suffered because of Covid as Trump's Reagan's administration suffered because of Carter's Johnson's administration suffered because of Kennedy in terms of the war
No administrations policies live in a vacuum one blends into the other and blends into the other and blends into the other
For example, when Jimmy Carter's record high inflation of 10% or more or even higher when it came to mortgage rates happened do you think the subsequent president inherited that or just disappeared the day he took office? Excuse my friend, but what the fuck are you thinking? Honestly, that's the most ridiculous every time somebody says this to me I go what the fuck do these people think? Do they not live in the real world? And this is why I stop dealing with you in the 1st Pl., Ed. I thought you were a good theorist. You're obviously not even that to ask a question or to make a statement like that or to believe a link that suggest that. And if you look at the infrastructure of the JEC, you also see that their goals and their initiatives are of totally different textures and tones. They evaluate goals and objectives totally differently as well. And if you look at the results that you're showing here this particular post emphasizes the goals of the Democrat party. Job growth investment and strengthening in the middle class so they each have different objectives while the republican stress, pro growth, policies, lower taxes, less regulation and limited government.
The two sides look at things from a totally different perspective as well so this evaluation is going to bear that Brand. It doesn't evaluate freedom. It doesn't evaluate the freedom of choice
An amazingly enough, it doesn't even evaluate the sentiment of the public
But what is funny is and this is hysterical actually, it does involve itself in investment and manufacturing and job growth so it's pissed off that Trump is creating all these jobs by having manufacturing come back to the America, but they're blaming him for it
But the point still stands as I mentioned it's a question that comes from Mars and has no answer. Because as I said, they all are separated by nothing but a date. And either Support or detract from the previous administration, which then produces the goals that they see fit based on that
And if you read the results, the statement even says a report for the JEC Democrats released in October 2024 claimed let me say that again claimed and this is from the Democrats that the US economy performs better under Democratic administrations you didn't even fucking read it. You just sent it out because you saw a link that opinion came from Democrats by the way. So as I said, stop living on fucking links.
Administrations end up having wars administrations have crises, and they all blend together one after another without separation. So do yourself a favor.
You're obviously very compassionate about climate change so go fix it because that's as useful as you're ever gonna be here and guess what when that fails hopefully that won't collapse your entire life work but it'll be a futile battle that you can't control so you take care, friend
And please stop living on history and stop living on links. They happened yesterday. All that matters is today and tomorrow and tomorrow is promised to no one, especially the climate scientist.
Once again, I wasted my time giving you the benefit of the doubt take care of yourself
I am helping my 91-year-old mother move into memory care this week, and I say more power to you and your partner. Until she was 87 my mom was attending every rally, more recently pushing a walker. It helped to have a place to sit during long speeches too. I am also packing up my house and moving into a smaller place. So, that is two households I am downsizing at the same time. It feels like labor, but also memories and love.
I notice that the Rhode Island wind project is being built by a Danish company, with American workers. Collaboration. Trump ends it dishonoring our relationship with Denmark a country he is bullying. He has had spies going around in Greenland, Danish territory, and inciting them to start a coup against the government. In fact, the Danish Foreign Minister called the US ambassador to task, something they normally do with countries like Iran, Russia, and China. The US is now acting like a rogue state and doing illegal things around the world. The US has apparently also offered 500 million of our hard earned money as a "loan" to Alberta Canada for them to secede from Canada, an hypothetically join the US. A rogue nation we are under the Taxdodger Trump.
Well there was an effective legal response in Chcago, Illinois yesterday.
On Saturday, 8/31/25, in the middle of our Labor Day Weekend, Trump-Noem loaded Guatemalan Immigrant children on to a jet on the tarmac for immediate deportation.
HALTED & turned around by the swift legal action by the "Young Center for Immigrant Children Rights" in Chicago, Illinois.
The Trump-Kristi Noem attack was the first of a number of HSI-ICE actions over the next couple of days in the Windy City. This violation of children's due process was a big failure -- a flop.
The court case is Number: 1-25-cv-07942. The court had to spell it out to Trump-HSI, the "children plaintiffs are entitled to special due process" underscored when the Judge made a finding that "many fear return" & wish to "CONTINUE existing asylum claims".
Dear Judge, respectfully, please issue sanctions on the stark record created by the Children Plaintiffs.
Be Safe All
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Wow, some folks are doing some very good investigative reporting in Summer 2025.
The includes SoCal's tiny "OB Rag" --- that's the 'Ocean Beach Rag" "serving OB & San Diego CA Beaches".
Something's up on SoCal beaches beaches --- other than the Surf --- & that would be "Munger Games" or per the "OB Rag" headline: "Here's the Right Wing Extremist CHARLES T. MUNGER, Jr. Sending You Mailers to Block Redrawing California Districts" per the statewide Proposition 50 Vote on 11/4/25.
Using his stock holdings of Berkshire Hathaway, Munger has funded anti-full Women's reproductive health rights campaigns, anti-LGBTQ+ rights attacks & has moved over to supporting Texas' destruction of SW Texas congressional representation of voters & their serving Reps.
I will file a verified complaint with the California Attorney General, ROB BONTA today.
Yesterday, I referenced a story from the Canadian-US Border involving the US Border patrol arresting a Canadian woman and handcuffing her because she had too many clothes to be worn in a week. Also, her boyfriend had a 25 year old ceremonial drum he had made and had been using confiscated by these Fascist thugs.
I read the article and it is chilling. Mr Slagger said"This is not the country I grew up in. It reminds me of Nazi Germany." It becomes more so like Nazi Germany each day of this horrible Trump administration. We have got to take our country back and soon.
GJ, in my experience US customs between here and Canada were awful before the current regime. Now they are even worse. This story demonstrates how they are jackboots running amok. Too many clothes, give me a break and I am sure confiscating the drum was just to be even more cruel.
I've crossed the northern border about a couple dozen times from ME to NB and from ME to QC, MI to ON and ME to NS (ferry) both ways. I have NEVER had an issue with the US Border Patrol or the Canadian Border Patrol.
But I'm a white American male and I always have my passport in hand when I get to the booth.
I am on the west coast and nearly every time I have had some kind of nonsense going to Vancouver BC, older white female. No at that border, but once had one ask me when I presented my passport if that was me. I was tempted to give some smart ass answer, but decided it wasn't worth it.
We must never forget that this is the Puppy Shooter of a puppy who wouldn’t obey. So as we await her demotion and perhaps trial by jury, we must pay close attention to her sadism.
Agreed, Richard. And she would treat children the same way. Is anyone in Guatemala waiting for them? Will anyone here find out? We are finding that the Americans in command here now are just Nazis and Putinists. How will we ever become part of the civilized world again? Get ready to get to the polls and be sure the poll watchers of your neighborhood are in place with camera crews. In Chicago perhaps we will have police to protect us as we go to vote, that is if ICE hasn’t deported all of those who would protect US.
Did you squak this much when children came into this country and we hand delivered to houses with no known relatives along with 10-20 unrelated children. I doubt it.
In fact when films and podcasts were done on this very subject they were not given much box office access's though they still grossed millions more than the woke bs Hollyweird put out.
Clutch your pearls a little tighter Virginia, the US is the worlds number #1 purveyor of sex trafficking and porn of minors. With the Super Biwl being the biggest day of year. So I’m willing to bet those children have a better chance at life anywhere but here.
But perhaps you want them here for your own personal reasons?
Chicago has a demonstration today on Labor Day 9/1 scheduled weeks ago before Noem's morbid focus on non-criminal immigrants & U.S. & Illinois' citizens.
It's called "Workers Over Billionaires" which is gathering now.
Her evil cannot last for much longer. Either the few courts not in T's pocket will demand her resignation or arrest her for all the crimes she has helped commit. Oh, maybe have her bunk with that Daybell woman- you know, the one who helped kill her children.
Judge Breyer has now ruled that the administration's use of the California National Guard in LA was illegal under the Posse Comitatus law. The DOJ will appeal of course, since it's been weaponized into DJT's personal law firm and revenge agent. The Trumpists are bent on creating a national police force that answers only to them.
Interesting. I was in law school with Molly Munger, Charles Sr.'s daughter. She is a strong advocate for Liberal causes. It's a sad case to see Charles, Jr. use his wealth this way. The human brain is obviously very complex, as Carl Sagan noted: "The most complicated thing in the known universe."
When a country tries to get rid of children from another country, it really shows the lowest of lows in humanity. Thank God the flights were able to be stopped. Poor kids. Shame on Noem! She's sure good at ignoring laws & putting her spin on her actions. Rot in hell!
Vollidiot! Perhaps someone should kidnap you and send you to North Korea so you develop some understanding of the situation of being kidnapped and sent to a place where you are in danger.
Getting in touch with parents to find out if they will welcome their returning children would be the humane way to proceed or interview the children first to find out why they came. There may be a variety of responses from both sides. We were all children once. Try a little empathy.
Brian, you still haven’t learned yet after all the defeats that you ought to wait till the end and you crossed the finish line before you start boasting.
Unless you like to continually watch the outcomes like the one against Breyer
I salute you and your mom both for doing the most difficult job out there — helping a parent no longer able to cope, while tackling the clutter of your own life — all at the same time. It’s hard for me to imagine bravery and perseverance to beat that. So here’s to you — 🙌 and thanks for the details of the absurdity surrounding Greenland.
Working on it, Karen. Minimum of 10 postcards per day to VA, at the moment. Did 60 for mayor of Mobile, AL (rush timing) and am ready for NJ. Biggest problem, the cost of postcard stamps. About to run out of birthday present stamps from Indivisible friends.
I sent postcards for Mobile mayor, as well. And Iowa state senate, Georgia state senate, and PA Supreme Court justices. It’s so gratifying when these candidates win/do well. ❤️🤍💙
Because they are all dinosaurs. Most live in the Northeast and in their minds it’s still the Kennedy dynasty. They are completely clueless. Kennedy today would be considered far right. But they were raised democratic catholic and have zero ability to accept change. Ironic as they call themselves progressive, but are stuck in the mud old foggies. Look at the comment above yours the old bat is writing post cards with every last cent she has. Postcards, imagine that, snail mail still makes stamps for that. Postcards, like Virginia, had their hey day closer to 1900 than 2000. Send one yo me Virginia mailers work better than dust pans to get that last little bit off the floor. Meanwhile paid political activist Heather travels the world off all these lunatics last dime.
Additionally more and more data is coming out about the harm the Covid vaccines are doing. Especially to the brain, an area orevioudly ignored. The mRNA is first vaccine ever to cross blood brain barrier and new information has shown impulsiveness, rage, cognitive decline, facial paralysis, olfactory issues, and other frontal lobe abilities can be affected and likely worsened with each additional shot. Many of these elderly are on their tenth ten booster, still still taking more.. At some point the government may need to step in as cognitive function is so diminished in so many of these folks.
Let’s face it the left is out for blood at this point.
Good Lord, the chump nuts want to disrupt every other country as well. Bannon has been busy. They are evil personified. Where is Teddy to being these greedy bastards to a comeuppance. And it’s not just greed, the power plays have Vlad and P2025 rubber stamps all over.
The orange felon being elected to the presidency cheapens and degrades that office. The spineless Republicans are responsible for supporting his crime spree.
And the minute you mentioned the word, Orange you lose but don't worry they're coming out for a cure for TDS and they also have rehab facilities for TDS victims opening up now all over the country
Yes. Or feeding children, or stopping foreign spies from invading our intelligence community, or funding our schools, or providing health care for families, or or or...
Linda, death star and his minions are destruction on steroids. They destroy everything they touch and please tell me how any of this is helping the bulk of the population. It is also clear from R town halls (the few that they have had) that people are not happy. And in Iowa the D woman who won just this last week in a deep red district. All we have is threats and revenge.
Michele, I am glad that the Social Democrats are coming up with platforms that overwhelmingly appeal to people because they are the genuine version of what Trump was pretending to offer. It is beyond his ken to offer things that truly help people because he worships false philosophies. The Neo-liberal ideas are lies lies lies. The people are waking up. Including some who voted for Trump, and a lot who did not vote at all. Let us hope this is learning for them.
Linda Heide, thank you for that information about the spies. It’s likely another Putin suggestion to Trump. When will that relationship be monitored and fully exposed? Have we no honorable CIA left?
Linda W., make sure you take rest breaks, eat & drink. Big moves are hard on the body & heart. As a nurse, I saw so many families break up the family home & move a parent. So glad your Mom has given you a history to be proud of! So many countries are horrified @ what T is trying to do in the US. And others are laughing at his antisocial, demented antics. What will happen to the almost complete Rhode Island wind project? Leave it to rot? I just have to remind myself that T's new 'laws' are all under court review with lots of NO's. He keeps trying to end mail- in voting. Guess he doesn't remember the states he won by mail- in ballots. Again, he can't change voting. That is up to each state's decision.
Thanks Cindy. Great advice. I am faced with the idea that I will not be keeping many things from my mom, which I had been planning on doing all my life, because it just won't work. A memento or two will have to do. Such is life.
Linda, I think it’s wonderful that people have a focus and a goal. But at the end of the rainbow, they should have a realization of the reality of how effective what they’re doing, could possibly be ? I know it’s a great feeling to be out there and protest again what you see is injustice but the only reason it’s injustice is because you’re not in control. As I said many times here if Biden were stopping crime if Biden had closed the border if Biden was targeting no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security, which could only reach the middle and lower income folks you’d be carrying Joe Biden around on your shoulders And that’s the hypocrisy and double standard of the left
No, but I am bilingual, reading, writing and speaking. Any other meaningless questions ? The hate that lives. Here is absolutely disgusting. As I’ve said before, if Joe Biden were closing the border, if Joe Biden was arresting criminals that had criminal records that had killed the right people or were trafficking people right now you’d be putting Joe Biden on your shoulders. But as soon as the name, Trump comes up, doesn’t matter what he’s doing he could cure cancer and you’d probably ask him how come it took so long. He’s already caused five wars to stop and cease-fires have been recommended by three of the world leaders for the Nobel peace prize actually 4 leaders so I’m sorry the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, who had been warring for 27 years and Trump caused them to stop their war. 70,000 Buddhist monks of Cambodia got up in front of a TV screen the other day and thank Trump for stopping the war there and ann recommended Trump for a Nobel peace prize five wars that have been stopped and he’s working on the sixth instead of the moron who just left the White House who poured gasoline on the fire in Ukraine, which killed an additional 200,000 people instead of trying to stop it as well
Of course, Putin only invaded when Obama and Biden were in office
It’s not even Trump’s war it’s theirs and it’s not America’s war either and if not for Bill Clinton, we wouldn’t even be talking about this today. Let’s see how many of you historians have. Any idea what I’m talking about that’s gonna be a good test anyone gotta respond so that everybody gets educated
Rick, I wonder if you are actually reading Heather Cox Richardson’s wise historical words. It is because of being American (if you are) that you are able to write such hateful, silly things. You have the ranting quality of a troll, though. I worry about you. Do you really believe that Trump has “already stopped five wars” 🤪. Good luck with that. You need a reality infusion! How about actually reading HCR’s writings. Facts are stubborn things, as Adams said.
I am sure that Rick reads Heather's writing as I do daily. Her writings are negative to President Trump's accomplishments and she Never gives him Any credit. You say that she always uses references. The references are all from the Echo Chamber and politicized. I would not call her words wise. President Trump's policies are working. I have asked numerous times for Anyone in this Comment section to offer their Alternative Policies, but all get is name calling or censorship.
Rick, calm down. What in your mind is the purpose of government in the first place? It goes without saying that the greatest explosion of economic and intellectual growth occurred in the U.S. under the New Deal economy. It's basis? A recap of a little history:
Reagan launched the war on the Middle Class, i.e., against New Deal policies, in 1981. And in the past 45 years, the wealthy have stripped $40 trillion out of the economy and will continue to do that unless we stop them, and we can. How? The argument has long been that the wealthy are entitled to those billions of dollars because they're responsible for creating jobs and wealth, giving little or no credit to the people. In a word, that is BS. There are now 900,000 people in the U.S. with a net worth of $10 million or more and 902 billionaires. If the U.S. population were only 3.4 million people, there would be no billionaires. But, we are a nation of 340 million people and as a result we have one million very wealthy people, i.e., 0.24% of the population. So, why should 1/4 of 1% receive trillions in aid while 99.76% of the population are exploited? And but for the people, they would not, could not, have that much wealth.
So, what to do? What's fair? Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the person responsible for our having Social Security hit the nail on the head in terms of what government's purpose or function should be: "The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to facilitate the means by which all the people under its jurisdiction can access the best possible life." Sound familiar? It should. Excerpted from Matthew 25: 34-46: 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, , I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ So, what about our "Christian" Republican politicians who voted for Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that takes food, shelter, health care and more from "the least of these" and hands trillions of dollars to the ultra wealthy? Here it is: 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ 46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
And all that victim is nice in the theoretical world, but then reality strike strikes and beat the shit out of you. As I said before, and I’ll say it again with very few exceptions, especially in this country life is a do it to yourself proposition. Once you understand that and deal with that, you have a good chance of winning.
And here you go with history, you know most of history is written by those who decided how history really played out in their minds.
And unfortunately, the invention of Social Security got screwed up by the people in Congress that didn’t fix it soon enough. Hopefully you realize that at least 25 to 30 years ago Congress knew that Social Security was going to run out of money because it really is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. The definition of that is people who are paying into it now won’t ever get it unless the people their age will keep paying it by the time they get to our age we are living We are living off of someone else’s money not our own. Our money has been gone for a long time.
Do you know how that many people became wealthy? Do you know how many billionaires we have in this country? And do you know what they did to become billionaires why do you do such superficial investigation rather than finding out Duke cause because that’s what you people do you take a headline and bloated into whatever you want when you don’t even read the contents. Out of the 900 or so billionaires 10% of them inherited their money. Out of the remaining 90% 87% of those invented something started the company grew a company or did so by being self-employed. Only 3% of people did so by working for a living.
Thank God for the 90% you had every opportunity to do so if you so wanted, doesn’t mean you’re gonna be successful at it, but you could’ve tried if that’s what you wanted and obviously they did
If you want to make them out as bandits or bad guys, then you should leave this country immediately because that’s what this country is all about that’s why when Biden opened the borders to get illegals to vote
That’s why 15 million people storied from all over the world to come here because it’s opportunity you don’t want the opportunity go live in some socialist hell hole go live in Russia where are GDP is more than double bearers almost triple. There you can get all the socialism and communism that you want.
And if you want that, go move to New York and vote for the Antifada King, the guy that wants to steal private property and give them to the community. The only difference is rather than being Robin Hood. The people here actually earned the money they got. You are in the wrong country, my friend.
OK if you wanna start doting on history, go bark up a tree. We are in 2025 today and that’s all that matters. Nothing else matters except for today and tomorrow. All your history buffs can take your history and gently place it where the sun doesn’t shine. That’s how much good it does to talk about history today irrelevant because history continues to repeat itself and almost always in the wrong way.
OK, well let’s start out with some of the original government documents that said provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Remember that. ? I do. Fighting the death of youth, especially under privileged if I dare use that term, youth minority youth would be a great way to not only provide for the common defense, but promote the general welfare.
One idiot from Chicago the other day said I’m afraid to walk around with tanks coming through the streets. And the narrator said what do you have to be afraid of if you’re not illegal if you’re not a criminal what’s the problem? No answer.
And richard you’re delusional when you talk about the big beautiful Bill helping the wealthy as I’ve said 100 times here, but nobody seems to understand the only way to help those who don’t pay taxes are the ways that Donald Trump actually formulated and figure out how no tax on tips no tax on Social Security and no tax on overtime to the poorest Americans as I said, I doubt that Bill Gates or Warren Buffett are going to work those extra four hours to get the no tax on overtime deal holy shit why is that? I have to sit here and illustrate the obvious to you.
How do you help someone not paying any tax sending them a check?
So they can go out and spend it on worthless goods do you know that 25% of the dollars that go to snap? I spent on soft drinks candy and chips And I’ll get some more of the substance of your nonsense in a minute
I’m gonna read your post but first I’m going to ask you how the hell could you calm down when I’m reading a cesspool of hate or disillusion Trump the arrangement syndrome that’s infested their entire body here.
I am told that many of the people here are elderly and obviously have voted Democrat their entire life. That’s how close minded people are.
You vote for policies you vote for America you don’t vote for a party like lemmings. In fact, if John Fitzgerald Kennedy were alive today, he’d be a middle of the road republican compared to the status of the left wing today. Now I’ll go read and I’ll respond. And the good news for me is that the first few months I was here and just listened. I was struck by the ignorance. They hate the stupidity the hubris of the people posting here.
And when I first started posting 99.9% of the responses I got were negative and I understood why because they were opposing views
But they give you an example of the people here most of these people here used to be on X when you could listen and hear only the left wing ideals that Zuckerberg protected in Google and jack Dorsey..
Now I’ve got some 700 posts positive about the things I’ve said here because some people at least are waking up to reality I do realize it’s hard when you voted one way all your life to have an open mind but the minds here have been super glued shut and unfortunately, if they die in the next three years, they’re gonna go to their graves full of hate for no reason at all
I know that it might be a waste of time to replay but I have to say that if Biden was “fighting crime” by sending the National Guard to cities where Mayors and Governors had not requested it I would be out there protesting as would many Progressives not to mention the ACLU. And as the son of a waiter eliminating tax on tips strikes me as absurd. Tips are income just as are the wages of dishwashers and other restaurant employees who don’t get tips. I gave Trump credit for pushing for a COVID vaccine, but then many of his base supporters rejected it. If he had done what Biden did about infrastructure I would have given him credit. When Obama got Bin Laden, Republicans said it was no big deal. If Trump had done it he and his supporters would have called it the greatest triumph in History.
And Stanley, one more thing you’re obviously not aware of what goes on in a business specifically a restaurant where they most restaurants have what they call a tip sharing policy bus boys dishwashers many people in a restaurant share in the tips of the waiters. Number two and here’s the big question to you, ignorant people… how brilliant was Donald Trump in figuring out a way to give people a tax break when they don’t pay taxes in the first place. Let me explain since you don’t understand.
The bottom 50% of wage runners pay 3% of the total income tax
The only way to give people a tax break who don’t pay tax is by what Donald Trump figured out what to do and you still pissing on him for it even though it’s giving breaks to the people who mostly need it I’m sure that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg gonna work a little bit of overtime to collect that money you fools
Furthermore, I’m hoping that you are naïve enough to make sure that you get your 17th Covid vaccine for the 23rd wave of the of the second of the 77th variant of the Covid vaccine… and in many cases by the way, it’s a good thing. They rejected it because many people died because Fauci lied. Social distancing was a figment of his imagination. Why do you think Biden had to pardon him?
You guys keep touting this phantom infrastructure you think he accomplished he spent 8 billion to make electrical buses and he made one bus. He spent another 15 17 billion to create 1000 electrical charging stations around the country. How many do you see there that the government has created ? Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.
Nobody, I know of ever thought Obama getting Osama bin Laden was not one of the best things that happened to this country by Obama
Don’t give me your shit do you know how many people went to see the movie about the story itself? You go or you give Obama credit for that ?
Donald Trump did in one hour what Obama couldn’t accomplish in North Africa in nine months with Kadafi And what did Biden do about Afghanistan? Left $75 billion of the most modern military equipment we had and gave it to our enemies.
And the worst part of all of this Stanley is that we wouldn’t need to have ice we wouldn’t need to come to American cities to see Hispanics riding around the city tormenting people with Mexican flags, showing their pride in Mexico.
Let me give you an illustration you and 1000 other people here on this thread go down to Mexico City and go protest Mexico’s immigration laws and make sure you carry those American flags down there as well and see how well you’re welcomed fucking idiots here we have no scope and no comprehension of reality
So let's see if I can blame you for all the crime that happens because a city is short 800 police force or because the governor wants to fight against troops coming in in the meantime, six black youth, six black children die in the meantime by getting murdered in the street
I said it to somebody earlier if I had to fight crime, I wouldn't give a shit how the hell it was fought if it actually showed results I'd send in polar bears I sent in Howard if it stopped the crime and made the streets walkable again and peaceful
It's in defensible to defend what you're talking about
Theoretical law versus reality on the street let's see how you feel if your entire family was gone down or was carjacked by an illegal criminal and then how would you feel about fighting crime you ignorant theoretical fool
"No tax on tips, no tax on overtime . . ." etc. is nothing more than candy laced with LSD. "It's a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Trump doles out crumbs while the ultra wealthy whisk away the entire cake. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." G.W. Bush, White House Correspondents' Dinner, 3-31-2001. We call them MAGATs.
Yeah, well guess what MAGA S mean? IT MEANS MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT FUCKING STUPID YOU ARE
YOU TELL ME HOW BRILLIANT DONALD TRUMP IS TO FIND OUT AND FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GIVE PEOPLE A TAX BREAK WHEN THEY DON'T PAY TAXES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Go ahead I'm waiting
the bottom 50% of income earners
Pay 3% of the total income tax now you tell me how you get to target people who don't pay income tax and give them a tax break fucking stupid ignorant semi educated fools who know nothing but hate.
And the only people I can see that had an LSD trip or many of the elderly stuck in the mud liberals here
I'll wait for an answer, but one will never come ever
If you hate the economic system, they exist in America then get the fuck out of here go work, some socialist communist country, and then beg to come back
I follow Canadians Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev on their Substacks, so they have been discussing this during the Canadian elections. Less so now. More on the Carney administration, and what is going on in the US, or Ukraine and with Putin, and the EU. They spent a while on the Epstein Files as well.
Thanks for the link. This is where I first read it, and then looked it up. It is a rumor, but one that is claimed by Canadian separatists. Perhaps they are lying, or being lied to. Who knows. We do know that Trump's people are stirring the pot in Canada.
I stopped following Blundell because he often doesn’t give sources. The source I linked to looks sketchy, although I think Trump is quite capable of doing something like that.
Even when Trump offers anything to anybody, the amount Trump is offering which I don’t believe in the first place is going to be overshadowed by the tremendous amount dealt by George Soros topping anything Trump will donate by 100 times
This is what democracy looks like! We must keep protesting in the streets like you and your partner. My partner and I created a no kings anthem for us all to sing together as we fight fascism: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem
Actually democracy looks like exactly what’s happening today. The only difference is as they say they are public servant you’re not in control and that’s the only frustration. If Biden were doing what Trump was doing, he’d be a hero.
No bullshit you just can't take it though can you I'm not gonna name the board I think for myself and I'm not gonna expose any of the other members or affiliates because of what I think or say
You're just a loser in disbelief
The facts or facts. I'm just waiting to hear from any of you that had their nine-year-old grandaughter raped by a illegal criminal and actually physically saw the blood running down from their leg and then have the nerve to say there's no crime because the crime has gone down. Bunch of fucking idiots is what you are. Defending the indefensible.
And you people are so effing ignorant it has nothing to do with Donald J Trump whatsoever nothing the only thing that I care about that emanates for the White House or what comes out of their pen in the way of laws or policies nothing else matters not their name, not the color of their skin, not their past history nothing other than their policies matter. Donna, why don't you tell me why you think I'm disillusioned?
In a democratic society, a man was just elected president and although nothing has happened to you personally because of their policies, you're a mental wreck
The disease that here is worse than Covid could've ever been because it's mental. There's no cure except realization. And self analysis.
Donna, you know we call that in the real world we called that a non-response response. I asked the question for the statement, the blanket statement that you made, and you don’t have an answer and you know why you don’t have an answer because there is no answer to cover the false statement that you made.
I texted a little bit to you above, but I’m gonna go a little bit further if I can find a post again because you need a little bit more of a wake up call there Rachel
Why don’t you do this bro? Why don’t you look up the left versus right wing publications assessment and take a look at where politico lies. They are like Pravda in America so to speak.
He says he'll bring coal back but nobody wants it and house after house up here in the sticks is installing solar so no one is listening to him fortunately.
Montana, we are not out in the sticks, but we have had solar for some as does the R across the street. We now also have storage batteries(not Tesla) in the garage which will allow us to run 110 in the house during a power outage.
May God bless you two, Janet and her partner, for many more years together, alive and rooting for working people. They are the foundation of any community and the country. But to remain so, they need a sound safety net of the government that will not change every four years.
THANK YOU, Janet! It is so heartening that so many seniors are out on the street. My Mom and Dad would have been, too. Really, I'm in awe, and I fervently hope that younger generations are getting the message.
My husband and I will be out there too. I have a friend who is an artist and he made my sign in today’s theme. I grew up between Gary, IN and Chicago where everyone (and I do mean everyone) worked either in the steel mills or the oil refineries, or the businesses that supported them. I’m grateful for the life those industries provided to my blue-collar community.
MLMinET, I grew up in Elkhart, IN, and many times passed through Gary on our way to Chicago, including before the toll road. Your comment brings back memories of those trips.
I went to IU. As I approached Gary & the toll road from I-65, I’d complain about the pollution. My dad said that reflected jobs. I didn’t appreciate it as much then as I do now, especially as 47 is bringing back pollution and killing jobs.
ML, I do remember the smell around Gary which I think was the refineries. I remember sorta being fasciated by it. I was too little to understand about pollution.
Now Pritzker is bringing in big data. I do not think it properly reflects the Great Lakes Stewardship that he is supposed to have, but it does reflect jobs.
On a brighter note, this younger 'novice' in Maine is the kind of candidate the Democratic Party should be promoting. https://youtu.be/53bZ_95nDjk
Yes, my politics likely differ. But this man sounds honest with a politics grounded in a true patriotism -- one that gives a scheiße about everyday Americans.
You don't have to do or say anything, just show up. Your presence will inspire others and their presence will inspire you. Inspiration is essential. Your post inspires me. Keep the faith, baby!
I worked for DOL for about 20 years and every year, even after retirement was asked to celebrate the day by watching the parade from the roof of Main Labor.
Not this year.
This week we have another chance to ask some Congressional Republicans to stop this. Only need a few. Many Congressional Republicans privately admit Trump is crazy.
Some who comment here can’t seem to see that the MAGA and Trump admin are already using fascist tactics, and violence is being used to enforce their will. Chris Armitage does a good review of fascist take overs and how extremely difficult and often bloody they are to remove from power once they control everything. https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop?r=d5x43&utm_medium=ios
Protest, yes - but also call your Representatives. Health care may well be the prime vulnerability for the Republicans. "I do think it's going to be a health care election," says Brad Woodhouse, director of Protect Our Care. Many political observers agree. Call, and say anything about RFK, Jr or affordability. "Hello, my name is ____. I am a resident of ____ County. I think Kennedy as Health Secretary is dangerous for our country."
It doesn't matter what you say or how much. Short and sweet doesn't waste my time, but talking more lets me blow off some steam. Just be calm, or pretend to be calm.
Make one call or many. It doesn't matter. Support the D's, or make the R's nervous.
I'm convinced that the entire Trump mis-administration hates and/or doesn't trust people or anyone who earn much less income than they do. This disdain is evident in their behavior. I fear the oligarchy that has become the face of our Federal Government. My wife mentioned this morning that she'd noticed an item that an ICE agent inside an immigration court's hallway while arresting a man whose daughter tiny daughter was clinging to her fathers' shirt. He put the very small child on the floor and abruptly pushed her away with a sweep of his hand. There was no need for being cruel ! I interpret his reaction as applied hatred!
Well Ronald TDS is definitely set in, but there are facilities opening for rehab
Yeah, they’re distain for the safety of Americans like saving lives in Washington DC or soon to be saving lives in Chicago this weekend, although the mayor and governor state that the crime keeps going down and yet this weekend alone they had 54 shootings and eight murders. In one weekend.
By the way, do you know anything about the man with his tiny daughter? Do you know anything about him at all? Yeah that’s what I thought. You keep protecting the criminal. Good job. And you should probably eliminate and avoid the word oligarchy that’s according to the Democrat national committee themselves. Oooops
If you’re not illegal, and you’re not a criminal wake up, you have nothing to fear.
That’s called common sense and reality. You should try it.
On a cloudless blue afternoon in Lincoln, NE someone in the dining hall at lunch mentioned that Pete Seeger was playing on campus in a few minutes. A few of us rushed over to the steps of the museum to listen to his incredible music. There was around 40-60 students there and surprisingly no professors. Anyway, standing about 10 feet away from Pete, we enjoyed his marvelous music and stories for over an hour.
And another. Why we need unions and the de concentration of wealth. Listen to the “1913 Massacre” about the International Hall Disaster, a fire in Calumet Michigan at the copper miners’s Christmas ball. Written by Woody but this is Dylan’s rendition.
I think we are in this mess because many of us now protesting were just fine with a democratically elected senate that was just like the one Cleveland confronted: portly men with corporate interests behind them. We didn’t do enough to support Biden’s anti-trickle-down policies and to push a stronger agenda of reform in taxes and corporate protection, so when Kamala said “nothing she would change” from Biden’s policies, many people heard “nothing stopping the tech broliarchy or regulating lobbying” (aka buying Congress)”. We were less aware of how much invective was driving the right wing “news” machine and how much the NYT was still, as in Cleveland’s day, on the side of the exploiters of labor and thefts of profit and thus happy to play its own anti-Biden role and then carry on sane-washing T for voters.
Our high school sociology class attended the movie "Joe Hill" which was showing in theaters in 1971. Another Scandinavian trying to level the playing field.
Here is the link to Joan Baez's Joe Hill at Woodstock.
I pray that doesn't happen, but good point. People like Trump, Epstein and Maxwell are incredibly good at 1) convincing children to perform sexually deviant acts, and to 2) not tell ANYONE what happened to them.
The press conference tomorrow at 10:30 am with several of the Trump victims present will be very interesting. Watch how Fox, Newsmax, OAN and the other right wing pundits ignore it and instead focus on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
What made the greatest generation the greatest was not growing up during the Depression nor was it fighting victoriously against militarists and fascists. 🤝
What made that generation the greatest is what it did after the Second World War. In the brutal war of 1939-45, ivy leaguers were serving side-by-side with plumbers. ✌🏼
I believe that created an ethos of hnonouring labor and supporting the middle class. Of course, President F.D. Roosevelt and President Truman put the policy base in place.🗽
James Roosevelt, FDR’s oldest, served as a Marine and fought in the Battle of Okinawa, receiving the Silver Star, among other awards, for distinguished service. Every decision FDR made about the war was, I’m sure, filled with a profoundly personal awareness of the sacrifices others were making every day.
Ambassador Joseph Kennedy’s oldest son was killed in the Battle of Britain as we all remember, while his younger son, Jack, steered a PT boat in the South Pacific, barely surviving with his life.
Even more recently, Senator Joseph R. Biden’s oldest Beau, served with distinction in Iraq as an officer in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps, succumbing to brain cancer as a result of exposure to Saddam Hussein’s burn pits.
There was indeed a time when the sons of plutocrats risked everything to serve country, alongside their working class brothers. Can anybody today picture Uday and Qusay Trump serving anything but themselves, given Daddy’s legacy of calling those who serve their country suckers and losers?
Hello ICTT... Don't Forget Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., being the first American General to put his Boots On The Sand in Normandy... His Father, TR, Sr, set a Superb Example... Read up on the 'Rough Riders... TR, Jr, was sick, and lied about his Health... He would die a few Months later, having Lived A Life Well...
One of the best books I've ever read was about Teddy. "The River of Doubt" by Candice Millard.
I am have honestly given it to at least a dozen people, and every single one loved it. One person also went on to have our local library use it for their bookclub selection. Literally a page turner, you will not want to put it down.
Hello Miselle... Even though TR's history with the Indigenous was mixed, I do thoroughly Respect TR's accomplishments... For his Time, TR was Enlightened, and his Accomplishments were Tangible... Not Just Talk... TR Was A Real Hard-Man...
No. Instead they post pictures of themselves with trapped animals that they killed in a prison created just so rich people can do so to feel brave and macho. The apples did not fall far from that selfish cowardly tree.
As a legal representative of the Global Association of Horses! (GAH!), I hereby demand that you cease and desist from associating in any way, shape or form Donald J. Trump with the equine population of the world.
Horses are noble, beautiful, strong and intelligent. Donald J. Trump is none of those things.
Horses work hard to assist and serve in the furtherance of human endeavor. Donald J. Trump does none of that.
Therefore, you are compelled to stop comparing Donald J. Trump to the ass or any other body part of a horse.
Failure to comply with this demand will be met with the full measure of International Law. You have been warned.
Note: This demand does not preclude you from comparing Donald J. Trump with any part of a pig, or a pig in its entirety.
Honestly, I do not pay attention to them at all. I am forced to pay some attention to Trump because 77 million of my fellow Americans were stupid enough to vote for him to be president but I refuse to give any attention to his immoral untalented devil spawn!
“Can anybody today picture Uday and Qusay Trump serving anything but themselves, given Daddy’s legacy of calling those who serve their country suckers and losers?”
Yes, he was also Navy Cross recipient while on Makin Island. Republicans attacked FDR for not having their children in uniform. ER set them straight in an instant. In this current climate, service has a different meaning among those magas (Doug Collins et al) who could care less. Service is no longer noble I guess.
“Suckers and losers” has always just been dog whistle code speak for the “little people” whose lives don’t matter. The world’s titans are the supposed chess masters who move the pawns around in vainglorious military machinations, until they get taken off the board. To the dictator titan, this is the only fate the little people deserve. If they weren’t suckers and losers they’d working the chessboard. Instead they are just mudsills, just like the antebellum slaves were called.
YES, let us not forget the unmatched transformation of government made by FDR! Without him and his NewDeal, things would not have been anywhere near as successful as they were for working class Americans!
And kudos to Senator George Norris (NE-R) who was perhaps the last progressive Republican. He worked closely with the FDR administration to electrify rural America.
A dam named for him was the first in a series built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Norris, TN, to control flooding in the Valley and to generate electricity. That dam is about 15 miles north of me and has the prettiest lake for swimming and skiing.
And the new deal is what the republicans have wanted to abolish since then. Trump and his followers are doing their best to destroy a free and fair country. Keep resisting in all that you do!
And appointing Francis Perkins Secretary of Labor. She served the country and fought for child labor laws, social security, unemployment insurance and the 40 hour work week. She contributed more to our health and worker safety than any man has since then.
Today, my husband and I honored our fathers. Mine immigrated from Greece and my husband's was first generation Ukrainian. Both were uneducated yet produced highly educated children. Both worked hard as laborers and achieved the American Dream during those peak prosperous years in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, that concept seems to be dying....
It is very sad. Growing up as an R.C., I heard that the best Catholics were often the newest ones (i.e., converts). Likewise with our citizenry. I take heart in your honouring your parents and those of your better half, Sophia.
I am moody these days. Some days are fraught with despair and bereavement. Others days I have a stubborn hope that fine people *like you, *Cindy, and others will prevail.
EDIT P.S., forgot the most important part: thank you for *your gracious comment, Cindy.
Hey Ned! My mood swings with the daily news. I have to watch/ listen so I don't miss any crap that I can comment on. I am still amazed my TV doesn't have the remote stuck in the screen. You and other commenters help keep me sane. Have a great night!
It is has been said that history doesn’t repeat itself, which of course indicates that times, people and events change.
While history doesn’t repeat, similarities do exist.
Many in our nation obviously didn’t study history well enough to understand that great caution needs to be taken when the elite / wealthy stand behind a candidate who will protect his class over the needs of the masses. The Republican Party is still the party of wealth and greed today.
I always thought it was something of the reverse. History repeats itself with depressing regularity. And what doesn’t repeat still manages to do an awful lot of rhyming.
Ed, discussions here often remind me of famous quotations I would like to incorporate into my comments. But I'm all too aware that I or our culture often misremember or misattribute the aphorisms we think we know. For that reason, I've bookmarked Quote Investigator and always consult it first.
The ghost of Mark Twain must chuckle every time he's credited with another quip he neither wrote nor uttered.
In fact, Theodor Reik originated this phrase in 1965.
Thanks, but you appear to have taken my point more literally than I indended. I regularly label my intentionally snarky comments with a “/s”, but didn’t think this one quite rose to the level of full on snark.
You can think of it as a meta-comment of sorts. The underlying “joke”, if you want to think of it as such, is that “there is nothing new under the sun”.
That thought is itself a derivation of the Old Testament book of Eccleasties, “Ecclesiastes 1:9 which states: "That which has been is what will be, and that which has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun". That’s attributed to King Solomon, who observed that human life, when viewed apart from a divine perspective, often feels like a continuous, repeating cycle. Much of the Bible is presumably derived from even more ancient oral traditions. The situation is further obscured by having been filtered through a series of translations from one language to the next.
I was riffing on a similar comment I heard. I think “the other wag” to which I referred earlier is something I recall from the excellent podcast "Revolutions" by Mike Duncan.
Duncan caps a long series of podcasts focusing on particular historical revolutions beginning with the English Revolution of the mid 17th century, with his treatment of the fictional Martian Revolution of the 21st century. That podcast is and inciteful, interesting and entertaining attempt to encapsulate an array of larger commonalities he perceived in a diverse array of historical revolutions (e.g. French, Haitian, American, etc)
Like musical variations on a theme, I think deeper points can be encapsulated with references or allusions to short, pithy statements. I once had a college student whose professor evaluation of me was basically an unhinged tirade on my “misuse” or misstating of metaphors. Incensed, he went on about that it is a “can of worms”, not a “bag of worms”.
Perhaps my favorite mixed metaphor is “You can beat a dead horse, but you can’t make it drink.”
That last one applies well, I think, to Trump and his administration, the subject and object of much well deserved criticism in many and varied forms.
RFK Jr is a “sitting duck” for such commentary - the HHS Secretary, who is reported to have scooped up, taken (then presumably cooked) and eaten a roadkill bear. He is now supposedly preparing some sort of treatise on what constitutes a good diet. The screams irony.
Does any of that make any sense to you? If it helps, think of it as “gallows” humor.
Below is a clip from the Cohen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which alludes to an earlier unsuccessful hanging of the initial speaker.
Actually, history continues to repeat itself, but humanity never learns from it ever
There have been wars for 5000 years on this planet and everybody knows that’s not a good thing doesn’t matter to humanity. They’re still wars.
America under all presidents has learned more about the past and through the past and any other country, including today. And what we learned is, you don’t open your borders, especially when people like you have complained daily about vaccinations and yet people were let in without the slightest clue about their vaccination history you let people in without knowing a thing about their criminal record and then the worst part is then you try to get them to vote.
Do you think the police in Chicago should take the day off so five more could die and get murdered over the weekend when they keep claiming that the city is safe
Your description of that “Gilded” oppressive era in American history is so informative and well written. Yet, it’s like a nightmare that keeps repeating. How can we make it stop? How can we wake up to a better world?
Maybe if more voters actually bothered studying history instead of imagining Time itself began only about 2 years ago, they might connect some dots from our past?
Only something like 15% of the labor force (or something similar) is unionized today. The rest take for granted things working people won only by means of blood, sweat and tears. Or, for that matter, all the times others tried to take it away from them, once they had won it.
Actually less than 10% - just found a release from Bureau of Labor Statistics from January - before Trump made the collecting of statistics a capital offense.
And yet here in Virginia the MAGAts rail on about maintaining us as a Right to Work state, reaping the benefits Unions have achieved without contributing. Dumbasses.
Who are the best “influencers” of our young people today?
Maybe those of us here who are old enough to know, should use our remaining influence on the young people in our own lives more clearly. Even if we have to bribe them with $100 bills…in exchange for each book that we choose for them to read and answer three questions that we ask. Surely that bribe will stick with them long after we are history…HA!
I’m thinking about my two 11-year-old grandsons…do they even care enough?
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
I wrote my second scathing letter to Senator Bill Cassidy berating him for voting to approve RFK Jr. In both letters I reminded him that he is a god damn doctor & that his constituents are his patients & when they die because of the lunacy going on in our HSS they are going to remember how he voted because everyone will remind him!
Didn't he vote approve the entire incompetent Trump cablnet? I know Susan Collins voted for almost all of them and the ones she didn't she knew would get approved anyway. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
As HCR closed tonight…In Chicago the chair of the House Labor Committee, Lawrence McGann (D-IL), told the crowd gathered for the first official observance:
“Let us each Labor day, hold a congress and formulate propositions for the amelioration of the people. Send them to your Representatives with your earnest, intelligent indorsement [sic], and the laws will be changed.”
(hey mccann- can you use plain English?)
Define Amelioration: The act of making something unsatisfactory more tolerable; an improvement.
You mean like stopping crime? If Biden were stopping crime and stopping needless deaths by mostly black youth, you’d all be putting Biden on your shoulders. But as soon as the Orange tainted being, does it you guys act like you’ve never loved America
No one wants crime. To say Biden or anyone else CAUSED it is irresponsible. Having National Guard deployed to democratic run cities to intimidate people who live there bypassing the governors who run those states is what I take issue with. If he was truly tough on crime why release the Jan 6 offenders?? Why give Ghislaine Maxwell any respite? She was adjudicated and sentenced. He is cherry picking the places he wants to showcase his authoritarian plays all the while knowing his policies suck and trying to use all of it as a distraction to try and cheat the mid terms. This entire presidency and its administration is the laughing stock of the entire world
Yeah Rick make sure to stop the black youth crime. They are the ones to single out here…. Rascist maybe if we actually invested in people’s health education and well being we’d have more opportunities for people and less crime??
Rachel, you can deny all you want but it's the black youth gets killed by other black youth and every major city and that's what Donald Trump is trying to stop and he has been successful in Washington DC
The only people protesting in Washington DC are white liberals fucking idiots that could really give a shit about the Black people in this country
Rachel, the problem that you have like many people here with very few exceptions as a do it to yourself proposition
There is a story after a story about those who had a deprived or depraved childhood who decided to make it way for themselves and were successful, despite all their difficulties and trepidations of their youth
We can't educate people who don't want to get educated
And the more we start enabling these people the worse it gets instead of solving the problem you think Joe Biden help solve the problem. He pissed all over the country by letting in 11 to 15,000,000 illegals and you guys were so fucking worried about vaccinations not one was checked for a vaccinations and I haven't heard a peep out of you hypocrites
Yes, everyone who works deserves a wage, a LIVING WAGE, absolutely some will earn more than others depending on expertise, knowledge required & seniority. That does NOT mean that corporate officers should make 100s or 1,000s of times more than their employees. That their employees must work for poverty wages while the CEOs & the alphabet soup at the top of corporations should swim in an immaculate pool of money while their workers get sips of dirty water dripping from a rusty pipe!
~~~The only thing that I can say in any type of support of the original Gilded Age is that those corporations provided jobs. Dangerous working conditions, awful hours, 6 days a week, child labor for a mere pittance but those workers made "things", "products" that you can see & use. So many of the really wealthy, as in Hedge Fund managers create nothing but wealth for themselves by hedging or betting against something or someone. Yes, that's simplistic but it's simple words to explain the simple problem of greed! At the corporate level & at the political level. I dare say that those corporate kingpins could never do a days work that their employees complete. And if they did, they would automatically demand a huge bonus.
Time for workers, employees, labor to unite & beat back the greed & hate that is eating away at our government & country!
I can tell you as a hospice chaplain requiring a graduate degree and other credentials which take years to earn, the upper middle management do not deserve the grossly higher pay than myself or the clinical field staff actually providing patient care, yet they make a shit ton more
I've mentally toyed with the concept of "maximum wage" where a CEO could only earn X times per hour than their lowest paid worker. Not sure what X would be but certainly no more than 25-50. And also, outlaw the huge payoffs for CEOs when they are fired due to their incompetence.
I have to laugh hysterically at all you people who talk badly about America unbelievable really you should be done on your knees thanking God that you live here
If you had any brains at all, you would realize that if we opened our borders to anyone, we’d have a population the size of India. Biden opened the border and look what happened 11 to 15,000,000 came from all over the globe to get here now. Why would you think that is? Hmmmmmm. Be thankful for what you have where you are and thank God for America just the way it is or feel free to leave anytime you like.
GREAT Gaza plan: A Trumpian get-rich-quick scheme reliant on war crimes, AI and tourism.
While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to formally adopt the plan himself, the reported draft is a profoundly unserious effort with little grounding in reality. Rather, it only confirms suspicions that the U.S. administration is strictly focused on illusory economic initiatives that have little regard for Palestinians' well-being or facts on the ground, whether in Gaza, Israel, the West Bank or the wider Middle East.
Whatever the guise of financial incentives, from relocation packages to rent or food subsidies, such measures would still constitute violations of international law.
It is no surprise that individuals involved with this project were also involved in creating the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the controversial and highly scrutinized aid project funded by Trump's administration and coordinated with the Israeli government, despite continued skepticism from the vast majority of humanitarians.
Jared Kushner, who has been advising Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, is an expert in circumventing diplomatic norms and regional truths under the guise of "outside-the box-thinking," who frames economic deals defined by their transactionalism as creative ways to achieve peace.
Trump, by any definition, is rejecting demands from allies and stakeholders in favor of a get-rich-quick scheme dependent on war crimes, AI and tourism.
Israel, meanwhile, has clearly taken advantage of Trump's wandering attention and Witkoff's evolving responsibilities, not to mention the president's stated desire for Netanyahu to simply "get it [the war] over with."
This has created the ground for a plan as illegal and toxic as the GREAT Trust to be plausibly presented to Trump without being laughed out of the Oval Office.
From Haaretz, reporting on a Washington Post report:
GAZA: A 38-page Trump administration document outlining the post-war reconstruction of Gaza envisions the relocation of all Palestinians from the enclave and the establishment of a U.S. tech hub, the Washington Post reported. According to the exposé, the U.S. will retain full control over the Strip for at least a decade, slowly transferring enforcement duties to local police from what the document describes as "Western PMCs" – private military corporations.
Palestinians who own land in Gaza will be offered a digital token in exchange for development rights which can either be used to finance life outside of Gaza or to redeem an apartment in its new "AI-powered, smart cities," the report said. The proposed scheme would be run by the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust."
The GREAT* Trust
From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally
These articles from Ha'aretz seem to be spot on, and far more detailed than what I've seen casually in U.S. news. Of course they are right in the middle of this. But is the article cited from the Post really from a news article? Who put it out? It looks like the classic real estate brochure for some luxury development.
You can make up anything on a computer. Like any real estate con.
Only built on genocide.
During the first Trump administration, Jared Kushner expressed interest in removing Palestinians to camps in the desert, in order to develop Gaza waterfront property. He and Tony Blair are the primary developers of this plan.
"Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population - 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gaza's more than 2 million people"
Yes, I remember Kushner saying that. He has been quietly working on the outskirts which is dangerous. I still wholeheartedly believe he helped set Khashoggi up for the Prince to murder him. Just my thought…
Indeed. Jared is literally a chip off the old block; he just managed to stay out of prison. His father, Charles, did go to prison for a list of "white collar crimes." But he managed to buy a pardon from Donald during his first occupation of the White House.
Now, incredibly, Charles is the U.S. ambassador to France! The Trump crime syndicate reaches far and wide.
I didn't realize that Tony Blair had a hand in it. I have been very disappointed in Blair, who made a show of support when W. Bush wanted to invade Iraq and then lined up for Britains's share of the spoils. Not viable as a Labour leader at all; more like another Tory.
Do you idiots know how many times Israel has been attacked over the last 75 years for just being Israel. Would you guys like to see a list of all the inventions they have brought to the world?
Yeah, everybody knows that living in poverty, misery, hunger, and premature death is what every Palestinian wants rather than to live in a city that looks like that ?
You know it’s idiots like you that don’t know the details of what goes on in Palestine and Israel and Gaza. Israel has had more inventions that have impact of the world than 90% of the planet. In the meantime the Palestinians under Hamas rule haven’t even had the will to create its own utilities, deliver its own water and electricity because Hamas takes all the money donated to them and uses it for weapons
You get rid of her Hamas. At overtime, things will work itself out in Gaza will look like Dubai if it wanted to.
I have to actually work tomorrow so no protest for me. But did find a pin I am going to have on that says”democracy is saved by the small acts of a million people caring enough to take a position”
Yeah, they’re called Americans of every political party except the Democrats who don’t like it when they’re not in control Some more on above mentioned that the situation with the economics of wealth here in America are all the fault of Republicans.
That’s probably the most ignorant statement I’ve ever heard on this post this thread
It's not just the Republican party that is responsible for the huge income and wealth inequalities in the US. As the current year began and people returned to work, the top 100 CEOs in the US had within a few hours already earned more than the annual average wage and this has been going on for a long time.
You have to end the baleful influence of big money, and especially dark money, in your elections and you have to insist that you will only vote for candidates who will promise to work towards this end. If you continue to settle for less than this then it will continue unabated as it has for decades.
All official US dollars are spendable, but they are not all acquired the same way.
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits." -- Lincoln
Money is a form of power, and though corrupt, it has historically proved to interchange with political power pretty regularly. How many people can apply hundreds of millions of dollars to work their political will, and how many struggle just to pay the rent? ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/phoenix-heat-deaths ) Freedom is not a nation in which anything, even legal outcomes, can be purchased for a price. That's tyranny. That's corruption.
" I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." Eugene V. Debs
No doubt you've seen this article by Naomi Klein and Canadian activist, Astra Taylor about where all this inequality is leading the world, especially in the US.
Now you have Thiel acolyte, Jim O'Neill, as acting director of the CDC, advocating that the FDA should approve longevity drugs for those that can afford them before establishing their safety and efficacy. All for a few billionaires who want to live forever and escape the climate disaster that is coming.
Wow. I missed the Guardian article and I am a subscriber, also the one from AP.
"But there are emotional compensations on offer: you can cheer the end of affirmative action and DEI, glorify mass deportation, enjoy the denial of gender-affirming care to trans people, villainize educators and health workers who think they know better than you, and applaud the demise of economic and environmental regulations as a way to own the libs. End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy."
Dominance (of which the Declaration of Independence was a philosophical rejection) seems to be the "dark art" at the root of the "Dark Side of The Force" (the very thing that both those of literary fables caution against). Said Lincoln, "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." Lincoln too was human, but he articulated and acted on egalitarian principles that affected countless lives.
Arguably rank and pecking order served survival of the species when "instinct", the genetic "hardware" of species, primarily provided their behavioral adaptability, but gradually favored a secondary mode, present even in slime molds yet the most salient in Homo sapiens, is learning; the highly interactive behavioral trait humans seem to do best. Indeed while baby sea turtles are born with no parent anywhere in the vicinity, and a baby horse can walk on it's first day, we humans require a lengthy stretch of time in order to learn to do much of anything. Even nurse. And we are articulately self-aware. That has all kinds of implications, but suffice it to say that Hobbes' "State of Nature" sucks, and with hubris and our tech power, yet insufficient wisdom, we could well end our species forever. And that's not smart or in any sense moral.
I think that the general opinion (based on modern cultural anthropology) is that the first hunter-gatherer groups were more egalitarian because share-and-share-alike was an important survival strategy when groups were small and resources were scarce. There might indeed have been members of the group who were more skilled at finding new resources or at hunting but it seems that consensus-based decision-making and reinforcement of social norms were prioritised to maintain group cohesion. Some of these traits have stayed with us today. Psychologists find, for example, that in experimental games where people are given a choice between accepting a bonus or punishing a rule-breaker, they most often choose the latter - nobody likes a cheat. One might say that Donald Trump has found a way to overcome that instinct but he is definitely going against the grain. Democrats have spectacularly failed to land sufficient blows on him along the lines that he is basically a cheat and have instead allowed him to throw all the punches and turn the tables on them by claiming that it is he who has been cheated.
Scientists call the slowing down of development to aid learning 'neoteny'. Its most strongly evident in humans (and otherwise rare in the natural world) although it was first described in axolotls, and it also appears to be a product of domestication of formerly wild animals.
Ironically, white working class voters elected this catastrophe, voting for Trump by a 40-point majority. They’ve been voting R since Reagan, preferring union-busting racists to union supporters in government. If you had to name one thing most responsible for handing the government to the reprehensible Republicans now in charge, you’d have to choose the profound, endemic racism of the white working class.
Reading this, I had the feeling that to a certain extent what we are going through now is history repeating itself. The difference? A better educated populous demanding their rights and, I hope, knowing how to right this ship of state.
Otherwise? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Really, a better educated populous? I mean no disrespect, I promise, but if 40% of the population still supports trump I'd prefer to think it's because they are undereducated as opposed to educated & still supporting that conman, mob boss!
"A better educated populous demanding their rights and, I hope, knowing how to right this ship of state." They are better educated. At the time of the first Labor Day less than 10% of the population had a high school diploma. Want to contrast with today's numbers? No, MAGA is educated. Don't underestimate them. Education is this country to became less rigorous when the Koch family decided to interfere. They worked very hard to dumb down public schools - they packed school boards with those who would lead to the foundation of Project 2025. These people are educated, not well, but educated.
They have been educated to think reality TV is real, they have been indoctrinated by the Republicans and the extreme right. Yes, they've been educated. And if you are one 90 to 95% of the American population who doesn't vote in school board elections? How you define "educated" comes into question.
So really, the population is better educated, just not in the way that benefits the country. As for your figures of 40% of the population backing the adjudicated rapist? That's rich. No, 40% does not. But if that's what you believe, maybe you might want to consider what education is in this country. In fact, that would make it close on to "normal," wouldn't it?"
You nailed it with your indictment of 90% of us who do not engage in our local schools.
Especially when many of us on this platform have the time and lived-experience to know how important educating our children and grandchildren, and dare I say, great-grandchildren is; we must be engaged locally!
We should all make a Labor Day’s Resolution to attend the next local School Board Meeting of this 2025-2026 school calendar!
Carol-Ann, being a grammar nanny is a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. The word you meant to type is "populace," which is a noun referring to the people living in a particular country or area. ("Populous" is an adjective referring to the number of people living in a particular country or area.)
Having established that, I suggest that Americans are NOT better educated than their ancestors. A higher percentage of the U.S. population may have high school diplomas, but unfortunately, those diplomas merely signify that the graduates have completed a prescribed curriculum and passed the required tests that allowed them to receive those diplomas. They are in no way indicators that education has taken place.
The other activities you've described are not education. They are indoctrination or negligence.
Being involved in local school politics is important, but it won't solve the problem created on a higher level by politicians who insist that our schools should only emphasize technology and engineering. Even science and math have fallen from grace.
Even worse, state and federal legislators are handing taxpayer dollars to for-profit and parochial school operators in the form of vouchers and charters. Those schools are not accountable to public school boards. Educators in public schools can do only so much with the scant resources they are given.
Parents who patronize private schools claim they are seeking "quality education," but what they really seek is insulating their children from other races and religions.
Voting out Republican legislators should be the priority. Everything else follows.
If that seems to be the only take away from my response? We are in deeper trouble than I thought. Let's nit pick our way into the dictatorship shall we? How's you Latin?
No, it’s means “through my most grievous fault.” I could have rended my clothes, covered myself in sack cloth and ashes, but I felt that would have been a bit too dramatic. So I went with the words used pre-Vatican II when starting a really grave confession.
I have lived a life of happy labor. I moved to Alaska when I was 23 and found home. Initially, myself and two best friends, found our way to locally known Eldorado Creek (on the maps it is called Ukawatnee creek), 40 miles above the village of Ruby and 60 miles below the village of Tanana. We built a log cabin and spent the winter trapping. In the spring my friend Bob and I went out to find work in Nenana, landing jobs with Yutana Barge Lines, running freight and fuel out of Nenana on the Tanana River to destinations across Alaska up and down the Yukon River and it's tributaries, servicing the village communities. I worked for them 25 years, 20 years as a Captain on all of the 7 tugs they ran. In 1994 I purchased Dementieff Barge Service, a small native family run outfit. In 2016 I was bought by my friend, Matt Sweetsir, whom I had known since 1978 in Ruby. I had hired him out of High School to be a deckhand on the tug I was running that year. He had been working for Yutana Barge until they were bought by Crowley Maritime in 2004 or 2005. During that time he had worked he way up to CEO of Yutana Barge Lines. They were going to move him to Seattle as a Regional Director of their northern operation. He was a true Alaskan and didn't want to leave his home in Alaska. He subsequently built his own business, Ruby Marine, and bought me out in 2016. I worked for Ruby Marine for 5 years and retired, as per our agreement, in 2021. During my first year with Ruby Marine I was tasked with overseeing the build of his second tug, Tanana, (his first tug was named Yukon, built at Fred Walls ship yard in Oregon, both of which were names of vessels owned by the Alaska Railroad but leased to Yutana Barge lines) I had the pleasure of bringing that new tug back to Nenana and running it during it's first year of service in Alaska.
During my time in Alaska I have witnessed the most incredible displays of northern lights and nature of the far north.
I am a happy man. However we are faced with an administration that is obsessed with grievance. Trump will never be a happy man.
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead." (James Baldwin)
I agree with you that Trump is a profoundly unhappy man. He's clearly in an unhappy marriage. He seems to have little affection for his children and rarely a day goes by without him fulminating about one thing or another from things as silly as a corporate logos or some late night comedy show to vehement attacks on people who object to his policies. His repeated whining about his grievances, continual boasting about his accomplishments and current obsession with the Nobel Peace prize evince what seems to me a nagging disappointment and sense of resentment at his complete failure to achieve anything of note in his time in office.
For all his absurd projection of strength, he's acutely thin-skinned and alert to any form of criticism. He will doubtless know that many consider him to be the worst president in US history.
I’m 85 and my partner 91 and we’re going to our county courthouse to protest the Trump administration tomorrow. We drive around encouraging those on the sidewalk with our dogs barking their chorus. We no longer LABOR but support those that do. It was terrible news about the elimination of wind projects today.
God Bless you and your hubby. I’m 78 and I’ll be out on the streets tomorrow as well! Sitting in my home I don’t realize how many of my neighbors are of like mind. It reinforces my resolve to keep doing everything I can daily to stop the madness and save democracy! I tear up every time I’m out there protesting it makes me so proud and happy.
Also 78…79 in a month. Will be there with my husband as we’ve done for all protests this year. Great to see how many show up! Good for all of us who do…carry on!
Why not go out there and stand behind your country like more than 100, million Americans are doing today.
stand behind your country says the surrender monkey who wants to appease Putin.
Rick is only brave standing behind a keyboard.
I've dealt with guys like him my entire career, he'd piss his pants if he ever met one of us in person.
Chairman of the Board of monkeys.
Cmon, Gary, don't feed the troll. I know you know better but sometimes he's really obnoxious.
I know...it's just so easy.
Sorry.
I'll miss pulling his strings and watching him dance.
I'm surprised you can even spell Putin. Yeah, that board of monkeys that you keep referring to have probably earned over $1 billion in their lifetime poor monkeys
I'll miss pulling his strings and watching him dance.
Hey gary you sound a little frustrated. Geee I'm sorry.
Well, obviously, you haven't met guys like me. I don't even think you can imagine guys like me, but I'm there in your worst nightmare, running free in your brain while you are flotsom and Jetsom in mine.
Frustrated? Nope.
Wrong again.
I've dealt with liars and fools like you all my life.
Enough already.
I'll miss pulling his strings and watching him dance.
If I were you gary I would call your doctor and thank him. The medication is definitely working.
By the way, you also probably should go out and get yourself some hearing aids or maybe cerebrectomy. Keyboards are for old farts like you I haven't had a keyboard in 20 years lololol.
You are doubling down again, fueled by your arrogance and hubris, unemcumbered with actual facts.
Rick claims he was the chairman of the board of a large firm and that he personally created "5000 millionaires", among other things.
But when he was called on it he suddenly stepped in his own shit.
No such thing.
Gotta love taunting his lies.
You called that taunting? What a wimp. Oh by the way, I want a list of all your significant others, including the names and ages of your children. I still have to keep posting because you're not catching up. You're really slow.
Name the board Cowardly Monkey
slow but sure wins the race...I own you and caught you lying...again.
You wrote “ Oh by the way, I want a list of all your significant others, including the names and ages of your children.”, which to me smacks of a thinly veiled threat.
Rick the keyboard warrior
Hey dummy, it’s not a veil threat. It’s an explanation and an analogy of what you want from me and what you won’t give me for the same reason that I don’t give you what you want. Try to catch up will you please
Name that board.
What does it mean 'name that board'?
Rick claims he was the chairman of the board of a large firm and that he personally created "5000 millionaires", among other things.
But when he was called on it he suddenly stepped in his own shit.
No such thing.
Gotta love taunting his lies.
Don't be jealous.
The little shrinking Violet seems to be jealous
Bot? Or Troll?
Troll, bots are smarter
Are you advocating a “My country, right or wrong” position?
Every country is right and wrong only fools like you have to even think like you do poor negative soul. Did you get my message about Democrats versus Republicans? There's your answer pal. This country is so great even the haters refuse to leave. But I do hope Canada gets an influx of the ones that do they love, sucking off the government teat
I dare you to respond to the substance of the text below.
“The U.S. Economy Performs Better Under Democratic Presidents
The U.S. economy has performed much better under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents in the modern era. In almost every measure of the U.S. economy including total job growth, unemployment, economic growth, manufacturing job growth, manufacturing investment, small business creation, and contribution to the national debt, economic performance is stronger under Democrats. While there are many factors contributing to these trends, the throughline is clear that Democratic administrations consistently help the U.S. economy perform better than Republican administrations.
Republicans have prioritized tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and that fail to boost economic growth or pay for themselves, while Democrats have prioritized investing in the middle class, supporting small businesses, and improving economic resilience after downturns. Of the 11 recessions in the modern era, 10 have begun under Republican presidents.”
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2024/10/the-u-s-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidents
I love you for your persistence. You're naïvete today is overwhelming, especially not even understanding American government NOR REALITY ITSELF and all you understand is theory and you never respond to questions. Like have you ever owned a business
Not sure where even to begin
Of all the things you have posted to me before that you dare me to respond to this is beyond belief, the most naïve, and actually blows my even comprehension to answer to you because it is so stupid and here is why just to begin with
Administrations do not live in a vacuum. one blends into the other and I would like you to try this on preciseLY since Covid happened Biden inherited Trump's Covid issue and it impacted tremendously into Biden's administration did it not ? It's unbelievable how somebody with any intelligence whatsoever would actually first of all believe that link and you idiots that live by links or some of the subhuman plants that live on this earth
With absolutely zero intelligence to even ask that question or make that statement or believe what it says here below biden's administration suffered because of Covid as Trump's Reagan's administration suffered because of Carter's Johnson's administration suffered because of Kennedy in terms of the war
No administrations policies live in a vacuum one blends into the other and blends into the other and blends into the other
For example, when Jimmy Carter's record high inflation of 10% or more or even higher when it came to mortgage rates happened do you think the subsequent president inherited that or just disappeared the day he took office? Excuse my friend, but what the fuck are you thinking? Honestly, that's the most ridiculous every time somebody says this to me I go what the fuck do these people think? Do they not live in the real world? And this is why I stop dealing with you in the 1st Pl., Ed. I thought you were a good theorist. You're obviously not even that to ask a question or to make a statement like that or to believe a link that suggest that. And if you look at the infrastructure of the JEC, you also see that their goals and their initiatives are of totally different textures and tones. They evaluate goals and objectives totally differently as well. And if you look at the results that you're showing here this particular post emphasizes the goals of the Democrat party. Job growth investment and strengthening in the middle class so they each have different objectives while the republican stress, pro growth, policies, lower taxes, less regulation and limited government.
The two sides look at things from a totally different perspective as well so this evaluation is going to bear that Brand. It doesn't evaluate freedom. It doesn't evaluate the freedom of choice
An amazingly enough, it doesn't even evaluate the sentiment of the public
But what is funny is and this is hysterical actually, it does involve itself in investment and manufacturing and job growth so it's pissed off that Trump is creating all these jobs by having manufacturing come back to the America, but they're blaming him for it
But the point still stands as I mentioned it's a question that comes from Mars and has no answer. Because as I said, they all are separated by nothing but a date. And either Support or detract from the previous administration, which then produces the goals that they see fit based on that
And if you read the results, the statement even says a report for the JEC Democrats released in October 2024 claimed let me say that again claimed and this is from the Democrats that the US economy performs better under Democratic administrations you didn't even fucking read it. You just sent it out because you saw a link that opinion came from Democrats by the way. So as I said, stop living on fucking links.
Administrations end up having wars administrations have crises, and they all blend together one after another without separation. So do yourself a favor.
You're obviously very compassionate about climate change so go fix it because that's as useful as you're ever gonna be here and guess what when that fails hopefully that won't collapse your entire life work but it'll be a futile battle that you can't control so you take care, friend
And please stop living on history and stop living on links. They happened yesterday. All that matters is today and tomorrow and tomorrow is promised to no one, especially the climate scientist.
Once again, I wasted my time giving you the benefit of the doubt take care of yourself
No offense intended, but she said partner, not hubby. She could be in a same sex relationship.
As we see transgender presence actively being erased by this administration, I think it’s important to point this out. Easy oversight, though.
Case in point, see how careful I’m being in a forum that is public?
Addendum: the marginalized fight for their rights, but the majority grants them (or doesn’t.)
Same here, KZ!
I am helping my 91-year-old mother move into memory care this week, and I say more power to you and your partner. Until she was 87 my mom was attending every rally, more recently pushing a walker. It helped to have a place to sit during long speeches too. I am also packing up my house and moving into a smaller place. So, that is two households I am downsizing at the same time. It feels like labor, but also memories and love.
I notice that the Rhode Island wind project is being built by a Danish company, with American workers. Collaboration. Trump ends it dishonoring our relationship with Denmark a country he is bullying. He has had spies going around in Greenland, Danish territory, and inciting them to start a coup against the government. In fact, the Danish Foreign Minister called the US ambassador to task, something they normally do with countries like Iran, Russia, and China. The US is now acting like a rogue state and doing illegal things around the world. The US has apparently also offered 500 million of our hard earned money as a "loan" to Alberta Canada for them to secede from Canada, an hypothetically join the US. A rogue nation we are under the Taxdodger Trump.
Well there was an effective legal response in Chcago, Illinois yesterday.
On Saturday, 8/31/25, in the middle of our Labor Day Weekend, Trump-Noem loaded Guatemalan Immigrant children on to a jet on the tarmac for immediate deportation.
HALTED & turned around by the swift legal action by the "Young Center for Immigrant Children Rights" in Chicago, Illinois.
The Trump-Kristi Noem attack was the first of a number of HSI-ICE actions over the next couple of days in the Windy City. This violation of children's due process was a big failure -- a flop.
The court case is Number: 1-25-cv-07942. The court had to spell it out to Trump-HSI, the "children plaintiffs are entitled to special due process" underscored when the Judge made a finding that "many fear return" & wish to "CONTINUE existing asylum claims".
Dear Judge, respectfully, please issue sanctions on the stark record created by the Children Plaintiffs.
Be Safe All
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Wow, some folks are doing some very good investigative reporting in Summer 2025.
The includes SoCal's tiny "OB Rag" --- that's the 'Ocean Beach Rag" "serving OB & San Diego CA Beaches".
Something's up on SoCal beaches beaches --- other than the Surf --- & that would be "Munger Games" or per the "OB Rag" headline: "Here's the Right Wing Extremist CHARLES T. MUNGER, Jr. Sending You Mailers to Block Redrawing California Districts" per the statewide Proposition 50 Vote on 11/4/25.
Using his stock holdings of Berkshire Hathaway, Munger has funded anti-full Women's reproductive health rights campaigns, anti-LGBTQ+ rights attacks & has moved over to supporting Texas' destruction of SW Texas congressional representation of voters & their serving Reps.
I will file a verified complaint with the California Attorney General, ROB BONTA today.
No Hunger nor Munger Games Full Stop
Yesterday, I referenced a story from the Canadian-US Border involving the US Border patrol arresting a Canadian woman and handcuffing her because she had too many clothes to be worn in a week. Also, her boyfriend had a 25 year old ceremonial drum he had made and had been using confiscated by these Fascist thugs.
I couldn't find the link but here it is now.
https://observer-me.com/2025/08/26/news/wabanaki-elder-and-fiancee-in-canada-allege-harassment-by-u-s-border-officials/#:~:text=David%20Slagger%2C%2063%2C%20a%20member,New%20Brunswick%20Premier%20Susan%20Holt
This story needs to go national and international.
I read the article and it is chilling. Mr Slagger said"This is not the country I grew up in. It reminds me of Nazi Germany." It becomes more so like Nazi Germany each day of this horrible Trump administration. We have got to take our country back and soon.
I guess if they’re denied mass numbers of deportees, they have to find SOMETHING to do. I am beyond disgusted.
GJ, in my experience US customs between here and Canada were awful before the current regime. Now they are even worse. This story demonstrates how they are jackboots running amok. Too many clothes, give me a break and I am sure confiscating the drum was just to be even more cruel.
I've crossed the northern border about a couple dozen times from ME to NB and from ME to QC, MI to ON and ME to NS (ferry) both ways. I have NEVER had an issue with the US Border Patrol or the Canadian Border Patrol.
But I'm a white American male and I always have my passport in hand when I get to the booth.
I am on the west coast and nearly every time I have had some kind of nonsense going to Vancouver BC, older white female. No at that border, but once had one ask me when I presented my passport if that was me. I was tempted to give some smart ass answer, but decided it wasn't worth it.
A truly horrible story. In northern Maine!
Despicable behavior!
We can all post and forward the link. Thank you.
This is very disheartening.
GJ, I have forwarded it many times. Horrible event. Pleas, if you hear any news about his drum & feathers, will you let us know?
So glad. I'm surprised that the two major dailies in ME were silent on this story. Thanks for making people aware.
We must never forget that this is the Puppy Shooter of a puppy who wouldn’t obey. So as we await her demotion and perhaps trial by jury, we must pay close attention to her sadism.
"Puppy Shooter?" I have an extremely strong attachment to dogs. I saw it as murder. Cold blooded murder.
Agreed, Richard. And she would treat children the same way. Is anyone in Guatemala waiting for them? Will anyone here find out? We are finding that the Americans in command here now are just Nazis and Putinists. How will we ever become part of the civilized world again? Get ready to get to the polls and be sure the poll watchers of your neighborhood are in place with camera crews. In Chicago perhaps we will have police to protect us as we go to vote, that is if ICE hasn’t deported all of those who would protect US.
Did you squak this much when children came into this country and we hand delivered to houses with no known relatives along with 10-20 unrelated children. I doubt it.
In fact when films and podcasts were done on this very subject they were not given much box office access's though they still grossed millions more than the woke bs Hollyweird put out.
Clutch your pearls a little tighter Virginia, the US is the worlds number #1 purveyor of sex trafficking and porn of minors. With the Super Biwl being the biggest day of year. So I’m willing to bet those children have a better chance at life anywhere but here.
But perhaps you want them here for your own personal reasons?
Indigestible.....
She actually said that she relishes watching ICE snatch people and throwing them into the vans....
Chicago has a demonstration today on Labor Day 9/1 scheduled weeks ago before Noem's morbid focus on non-criminal immigrants & U.S. & Illinois' citizens.
It's called "Workers Over Billionaires" which is gathering now.
Is anyone surprised that “she [Noem] relishes watching ICE snatch people and throwing them into vans…”? Think of the SECOT photo with the Rolex.
Her evil cannot last for much longer. Either the few courts not in T's pocket will demand her resignation or arrest her for all the crimes she has helped commit. Oh, maybe have her bunk with that Daybell woman- you know, the one who helped kill her children.
Does she have a whip & some chains for anyone who argues with her?
Thank you, Bryan! It is essential to hear about the "flops." And for us to keep up the pressure on our Representatives. Call today.
Roger that Anne B, more "flops" this week on top of Tariff TAXES are illegal, and deportation of child asylum seekers HALTED.
Now ... it is time hear the FINAL judgment after a Bench Trial from Judge Charles Breyer on the LA Occupation.
Judge Breyer has now ruled that the administration's use of the California National Guard in LA was illegal under the Posse Comitatus law. The DOJ will appeal of course, since it's been weaponized into DJT's personal law firm and revenge agent. The Trumpists are bent on creating a national police force that answers only to them.
Interesting. I was in law school with Molly Munger, Charles Sr.'s daughter. She is a strong advocate for Liberal causes. It's a sad case to see Charles, Jr. use his wealth this way. The human brain is obviously very complex, as Carl Sagan noted: "The most complicated thing in the known universe."
I wonder if Munger went redder during the last 40 years along with the Republican party — they’re nearly as red as Putin now.
When a country tries to get rid of children from another country, it really shows the lowest of lows in humanity. Thank God the flights were able to be stopped. Poor kids. Shame on Noem! She's sure good at ignoring laws & putting her spin on her actions. Rot in hell!
Hey Brian Chicago was so safe that they only had 54 shootings this weekend and seven murders in one weekend.
So the Court effectively has Kidnapped the children that were being sent back to their parents and homes. You praise this action?
Vollidiot! Perhaps someone should kidnap you and send you to North Korea so you develop some understanding of the situation of being kidnapped and sent to a place where you are in danger.
Hmmm
sent back to their parents and homes????
What pl;anet do you live on???
GO AWAY TROLL
Very adult of you calling me a Troll. Are you still in 3rd grade or are you capable of an adult confession?
Follow this thread for a minute by minute account of yesterday’s court hearing on this matter. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lxpjd42dg22m
Getting in touch with parents to find out if they will welcome their returning children would be the humane way to proceed or interview the children first to find out why they came. There may be a variety of responses from both sides. We were all children once. Try a little empathy.
Brilliant post. Thank you!
Brian, you still haven’t learned yet after all the defeats that you ought to wait till the end and you crossed the finish line before you start boasting.
Unless you like to continually watch the outcomes like the one against Breyer
That failed miserably
If Putin and Xi become best buddies, Putin won't need you anymore. I hope you have a backup plan.
NTB
I salute you and your mom both for doing the most difficult job out there — helping a parent no longer able to cope, while tackling the clutter of your own life — all at the same time. It’s hard for me to imagine bravery and perseverance to beat that. So here’s to you — 🙌 and thanks for the details of the absurdity surrounding Greenland.
We need to impeach them. First by getting more dens elected.
Working on it, Karen. Minimum of 10 postcards per day to VA, at the moment. Did 60 for mayor of Mobile, AL (rush timing) and am ready for NJ. Biggest problem, the cost of postcard stamps. About to run out of birthday present stamps from Indivisible friends.
I sent postcards for Mobile mayor, as well. And Iowa state senate, Georgia state senate, and PA Supreme Court justices. It’s so gratifying when these candidates win/do well. ❤️🤍💙
When was the last time you voted Republican? How is it that most of the people here? Vote by party rather than by policy it’s pretty incredible to me.
Last time I voted Republican was for Eisenhower. HCR’s “exposé” of the GOP this morning will explain why.
NTB
Because they are all dinosaurs. Most live in the Northeast and in their minds it’s still the Kennedy dynasty. They are completely clueless. Kennedy today would be considered far right. But they were raised democratic catholic and have zero ability to accept change. Ironic as they call themselves progressive, but are stuck in the mud old foggies. Look at the comment above yours the old bat is writing post cards with every last cent she has. Postcards, imagine that, snail mail still makes stamps for that. Postcards, like Virginia, had their hey day closer to 1900 than 2000. Send one yo me Virginia mailers work better than dust pans to get that last little bit off the floor. Meanwhile paid political activist Heather travels the world off all these lunatics last dime.
Additionally more and more data is coming out about the harm the Covid vaccines are doing. Especially to the brain, an area orevioudly ignored. The mRNA is first vaccine ever to cross blood brain barrier and new information has shown impulsiveness, rage, cognitive decline, facial paralysis, olfactory issues, and other frontal lobe abilities can be affected and likely worsened with each additional shot. Many of these elderly are on their tenth ten booster, still still taking more.. At some point the government may need to step in as cognitive function is so diminished in so many of these folks.
Let’s face it the left is out for blood at this point.
A very thorough and meaningful post there thank you
My comedic line is they're on their 11th vaccine of the 23rd wave of the 57th mutation of the virus and they're still walking around with masks
Yesterday I saw a woman riding her bicycle on the sidewalk on the beach, wearing a mask. These poor souls.
Good Lord, the chump nuts want to disrupt every other country as well. Bannon has been busy. They are evil personified. Where is Teddy to being these greedy bastards to a comeuppance. And it’s not just greed, the power plays have Vlad and P2025 rubber stamps all over.
Love it! "chump nuts"
The orange felon being elected to the presidency cheapens and degrades that office. The spineless Republicans are responsible for supporting his crime spree.
And the minute you mentioned the word, Orange you lose but don't worry they're coming out for a cure for TDS and they also have rehab facilities for TDS victims opening up now all over the country
Was that the 500 million he took from the CDC for research on mRNA vaccines?
Yes. Or feeding children, or stopping foreign spies from invading our intelligence community, or funding our schools, or providing health care for families, or or or...
Linda, death star and his minions are destruction on steroids. They destroy everything they touch and please tell me how any of this is helping the bulk of the population. It is also clear from R town halls (the few that they have had) that people are not happy. And in Iowa the D woman who won just this last week in a deep red district. All we have is threats and revenge.
Michele, I am glad that the Social Democrats are coming up with platforms that overwhelmingly appeal to people because they are the genuine version of what Trump was pretending to offer. It is beyond his ken to offer things that truly help people because he worships false philosophies. The Neo-liberal ideas are lies lies lies. The people are waking up. Including some who voted for Trump, and a lot who did not vote at all. Let us hope this is learning for them.
Linda, I have friends & family that had their minds changed by all this shit news from T & his minions.
They don't care if the people are happy, only that they obey.
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Linda, wishing you the best possible day, recognizing the personal with the national that you are experiencing. Bless you.
Virginia, Thank you! Happy Labor Day! May we and Ukraine find ourselves in a better place this time next year. ✌🏽
Linda Heide, thank you for that information about the spies. It’s likely another Putin suggestion to Trump. When will that relationship be monitored and fully exposed? Have we no honorable CIA left?
The ones who raise issues with this regime find themselves getting canned. The experts are slowly being removed. Now just the useful idiots are left.
Linda W., make sure you take rest breaks, eat & drink. Big moves are hard on the body & heart. As a nurse, I saw so many families break up the family home & move a parent. So glad your Mom has given you a history to be proud of! So many countries are horrified @ what T is trying to do in the US. And others are laughing at his antisocial, demented antics. What will happen to the almost complete Rhode Island wind project? Leave it to rot? I just have to remind myself that T's new 'laws' are all under court review with lots of NO's. He keeps trying to end mail- in voting. Guess he doesn't remember the states he won by mail- in ballots. Again, he can't change voting. That is up to each state's decision.
Thanks Cindy. Great advice. I am faced with the idea that I will not be keeping many things from my mom, which I had been planning on doing all my life, because it just won't work. A memento or two will have to do. Such is life.
Linda, I think it’s wonderful that people have a focus and a goal. But at the end of the rainbow, they should have a realization of the reality of how effective what they’re doing, could possibly be ? I know it’s a great feeling to be out there and protest again what you see is injustice but the only reason it’s injustice is because you’re not in control. As I said many times here if Biden were stopping crime if Biden had closed the border if Biden was targeting no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security, which could only reach the middle and lower income folks you’d be carrying Joe Biden around on your shoulders And that’s the hypocrisy and double standard of the left
Do you also speak in tongues?
He speaks in dumb, bullying bullshit not even worthy of a 6-year-old — and in 2 languages, no less.
He just lies, ask him to name the board he claims to have chairman of where he claims to have created 5000 millionaires.
No, but I am bilingual, reading, writing and speaking. Any other meaningless questions ? The hate that lives. Here is absolutely disgusting. As I’ve said before, if Joe Biden were closing the border, if Joe Biden was arresting criminals that had criminal records that had killed the right people or were trafficking people right now you’d be putting Joe Biden on your shoulders. But as soon as the name, Trump comes up, doesn’t matter what he’s doing he could cure cancer and you’d probably ask him how come it took so long. He’s already caused five wars to stop and cease-fires have been recommended by three of the world leaders for the Nobel peace prize actually 4 leaders so I’m sorry the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia, who had been warring for 27 years and Trump caused them to stop their war. 70,000 Buddhist monks of Cambodia got up in front of a TV screen the other day and thank Trump for stopping the war there and ann recommended Trump for a Nobel peace prize five wars that have been stopped and he’s working on the sixth instead of the moron who just left the White House who poured gasoline on the fire in Ukraine, which killed an additional 200,000 people instead of trying to stop it as well
Of course, Putin only invaded when Obama and Biden were in office
It’s not even Trump’s war it’s theirs and it’s not America’s war either and if not for Bill Clinton, we wouldn’t even be talking about this today. Let’s see how many of you historians have. Any idea what I’m talking about that’s gonna be a good test anyone gotta respond so that everybody gets educated
Rick, as an American, you have the right to eat sh*t and bark at the moon, which you seen to be pretty good!
Rick, I wonder if you are actually reading Heather Cox Richardson’s wise historical words. It is because of being American (if you are) that you are able to write such hateful, silly things. You have the ranting quality of a troll, though. I worry about you. Do you really believe that Trump has “already stopped five wars” 🤪. Good luck with that. You need a reality infusion! How about actually reading HCR’s writings. Facts are stubborn things, as Adams said.
I am sure that Rick reads Heather's writing as I do daily. Her writings are negative to President Trump's accomplishments and she Never gives him Any credit. You say that she always uses references. The references are all from the Echo Chamber and politicized. I would not call her words wise. President Trump's policies are working. I have asked numerous times for Anyone in this Comment section to offer their Alternative Policies, but all get is name calling or censorship.
Rick, calm down. What in your mind is the purpose of government in the first place? It goes without saying that the greatest explosion of economic and intellectual growth occurred in the U.S. under the New Deal economy. It's basis? A recap of a little history:
Reagan launched the war on the Middle Class, i.e., against New Deal policies, in 1981. And in the past 45 years, the wealthy have stripped $40 trillion out of the economy and will continue to do that unless we stop them, and we can. How? The argument has long been that the wealthy are entitled to those billions of dollars because they're responsible for creating jobs and wealth, giving little or no credit to the people. In a word, that is BS. There are now 900,000 people in the U.S. with a net worth of $10 million or more and 902 billionaires. If the U.S. population were only 3.4 million people, there would be no billionaires. But, we are a nation of 340 million people and as a result we have one million very wealthy people, i.e., 0.24% of the population. So, why should 1/4 of 1% receive trillions in aid while 99.76% of the population are exploited? And but for the people, they would not, could not, have that much wealth.
So, what to do? What's fair? Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and the person responsible for our having Social Security hit the nail on the head in terms of what government's purpose or function should be: "The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to facilitate the means by which all the people under its jurisdiction can access the best possible life." Sound familiar? It should. Excerpted from Matthew 25: 34-46: 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, , I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ So, what about our "Christian" Republican politicians who voted for Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that takes food, shelter, health care and more from "the least of these" and hands trillions of dollars to the ultra wealthy? Here it is: 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ 46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
And all that victim is nice in the theoretical world, but then reality strike strikes and beat the shit out of you. As I said before, and I’ll say it again with very few exceptions, especially in this country life is a do it to yourself proposition. Once you understand that and deal with that, you have a good chance of winning.
And here you go with history, you know most of history is written by those who decided how history really played out in their minds.
And unfortunately, the invention of Social Security got screwed up by the people in Congress that didn’t fix it soon enough. Hopefully you realize that at least 25 to 30 years ago Congress knew that Social Security was going to run out of money because it really is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. The definition of that is people who are paying into it now won’t ever get it unless the people their age will keep paying it by the time they get to our age we are living We are living off of someone else’s money not our own. Our money has been gone for a long time.
And Congress didn’t have the balls to fix it
Do you know how that many people became wealthy? Do you know how many billionaires we have in this country? And do you know what they did to become billionaires why do you do such superficial investigation rather than finding out Duke cause because that’s what you people do you take a headline and bloated into whatever you want when you don’t even read the contents. Out of the 900 or so billionaires 10% of them inherited their money. Out of the remaining 90% 87% of those invented something started the company grew a company or did so by being self-employed. Only 3% of people did so by working for a living.
Thank God for the 90% you had every opportunity to do so if you so wanted, doesn’t mean you’re gonna be successful at it, but you could’ve tried if that’s what you wanted and obviously they did
If you want to make them out as bandits or bad guys, then you should leave this country immediately because that’s what this country is all about that’s why when Biden opened the borders to get illegals to vote
That’s why 15 million people storied from all over the world to come here because it’s opportunity you don’t want the opportunity go live in some socialist hell hole go live in Russia where are GDP is more than double bearers almost triple. There you can get all the socialism and communism that you want.
And if you want that, go move to New York and vote for the Antifada King, the guy that wants to steal private property and give them to the community. The only difference is rather than being Robin Hood. The people here actually earned the money they got. You are in the wrong country, my friend.
OK if you wanna start doting on history, go bark up a tree. We are in 2025 today and that’s all that matters. Nothing else matters except for today and tomorrow. All your history buffs can take your history and gently place it where the sun doesn’t shine. That’s how much good it does to talk about history today irrelevant because history continues to repeat itself and almost always in the wrong way.
OK, well let’s start out with some of the original government documents that said provide for the common defense promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Remember that. ? I do. Fighting the death of youth, especially under privileged if I dare use that term, youth minority youth would be a great way to not only provide for the common defense, but promote the general welfare.
One idiot from Chicago the other day said I’m afraid to walk around with tanks coming through the streets. And the narrator said what do you have to be afraid of if you’re not illegal if you’re not a criminal what’s the problem? No answer.
And richard you’re delusional when you talk about the big beautiful Bill helping the wealthy as I’ve said 100 times here, but nobody seems to understand the only way to help those who don’t pay taxes are the ways that Donald Trump actually formulated and figure out how no tax on tips no tax on Social Security and no tax on overtime to the poorest Americans as I said, I doubt that Bill Gates or Warren Buffett are going to work those extra four hours to get the no tax on overtime deal holy shit why is that? I have to sit here and illustrate the obvious to you.
How do you help someone not paying any tax sending them a check?
So they can go out and spend it on worthless goods do you know that 25% of the dollars that go to snap? I spent on soft drinks candy and chips And I’ll get some more of the substance of your nonsense in a minute
I’m gonna read your post but first I’m going to ask you how the hell could you calm down when I’m reading a cesspool of hate or disillusion Trump the arrangement syndrome that’s infested their entire body here.
I am told that many of the people here are elderly and obviously have voted Democrat their entire life. That’s how close minded people are.
You vote for policies you vote for America you don’t vote for a party like lemmings. In fact, if John Fitzgerald Kennedy were alive today, he’d be a middle of the road republican compared to the status of the left wing today. Now I’ll go read and I’ll respond. And the good news for me is that the first few months I was here and just listened. I was struck by the ignorance. They hate the stupidity the hubris of the people posting here.
And when I first started posting 99.9% of the responses I got were negative and I understood why because they were opposing views
But they give you an example of the people here most of these people here used to be on X when you could listen and hear only the left wing ideals that Zuckerberg protected in Google and jack Dorsey..
Now I’ve got some 700 posts positive about the things I’ve said here because some people at least are waking up to reality I do realize it’s hard when you voted one way all your life to have an open mind but the minds here have been super glued shut and unfortunately, if they die in the next three years, they’re gonna go to their graves full of hate for no reason at all
name the board liar
I know that it might be a waste of time to replay but I have to say that if Biden was “fighting crime” by sending the National Guard to cities where Mayors and Governors had not requested it I would be out there protesting as would many Progressives not to mention the ACLU. And as the son of a waiter eliminating tax on tips strikes me as absurd. Tips are income just as are the wages of dishwashers and other restaurant employees who don’t get tips. I gave Trump credit for pushing for a COVID vaccine, but then many of his base supporters rejected it. If he had done what Biden did about infrastructure I would have given him credit. When Obama got Bin Laden, Republicans said it was no big deal. If Trump had done it he and his supporters would have called it the greatest triumph in History.
And Stanley, one more thing you’re obviously not aware of what goes on in a business specifically a restaurant where they most restaurants have what they call a tip sharing policy bus boys dishwashers many people in a restaurant share in the tips of the waiters. Number two and here’s the big question to you, ignorant people… how brilliant was Donald Trump in figuring out a way to give people a tax break when they don’t pay taxes in the first place. Let me explain since you don’t understand.
The bottom 50% of wage runners pay 3% of the total income tax
The only way to give people a tax break who don’t pay tax is by what Donald Trump figured out what to do and you still pissing on him for it even though it’s giving breaks to the people who mostly need it I’m sure that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg gonna work a little bit of overtime to collect that money you fools
Furthermore, I’m hoping that you are naïve enough to make sure that you get your 17th Covid vaccine for the 23rd wave of the of the second of the 77th variant of the Covid vaccine… and in many cases by the way, it’s a good thing. They rejected it because many people died because Fauci lied. Social distancing was a figment of his imagination. Why do you think Biden had to pardon him?
You guys keep touting this phantom infrastructure you think he accomplished he spent 8 billion to make electrical buses and he made one bus. He spent another 15 17 billion to create 1000 electrical charging stations around the country. How many do you see there that the government has created ? Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.
Nobody, I know of ever thought Obama getting Osama bin Laden was not one of the best things that happened to this country by Obama
Don’t give me your shit do you know how many people went to see the movie about the story itself? You go or you give Obama credit for that ?
Donald Trump did in one hour what Obama couldn’t accomplish in North Africa in nine months with Kadafi And what did Biden do about Afghanistan? Left $75 billion of the most modern military equipment we had and gave it to our enemies.
And the worst part of all of this Stanley is that we wouldn’t need to have ice we wouldn’t need to come to American cities to see Hispanics riding around the city tormenting people with Mexican flags, showing their pride in Mexico.
Let me give you an illustration you and 1000 other people here on this thread go down to Mexico City and go protest Mexico’s immigration laws and make sure you carry those American flags down there as well and see how well you’re welcomed fucking idiots here we have no scope and no comprehension of reality
So let's see if I can blame you for all the crime that happens because a city is short 800 police force or because the governor wants to fight against troops coming in in the meantime, six black youth, six black children die in the meantime by getting murdered in the street
I said it to somebody earlier if I had to fight crime, I wouldn't give a shit how the hell it was fought if it actually showed results I'd send in polar bears I sent in Howard if it stopped the crime and made the streets walkable again and peaceful
It's in defensible to defend what you're talking about
Theoretical law versus reality on the street let's see how you feel if your entire family was gone down or was carjacked by an illegal criminal and then how would you feel about fighting crime you ignorant theoretical fool
PS the ACLU has become a non-entity in this country all they do is protect the criminals
"No tax on tips, no tax on overtime . . ." etc. is nothing more than candy laced with LSD. "It's a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Trump doles out crumbs while the ultra wealthy whisk away the entire cake. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." G.W. Bush, White House Correspondents' Dinner, 3-31-2001. We call them MAGATs.
Yeah, well guess what MAGA S mean? IT MEANS MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT FUCKING STUPID YOU ARE
YOU TELL ME HOW BRILLIANT DONALD TRUMP IS TO FIND OUT AND FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GIVE PEOPLE A TAX BREAK WHEN THEY DON'T PAY TAXES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Go ahead I'm waiting
the bottom 50% of income earners
Pay 3% of the total income tax now you tell me how you get to target people who don't pay income tax and give them a tax break fucking stupid ignorant semi educated fools who know nothing but hate.
And the only people I can see that had an LSD trip or many of the elderly stuck in the mud liberals here
I'll wait for an answer, but one will never come ever
If you hate the economic system, they exist in America then get the fuck out of here go work, some socialist communist country, and then beg to come back
NTB
Also found this: “How Trump has turbocharged a Canadian province’s quest for independence”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/donald-trump-canada-alberta-province-independence
I follow Canadians Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev on their Substacks, so they have been discussing this during the Canadian elections. Less so now. More on the Carney administration, and what is going on in the US, or Ukraine and with Putin, and the EU. They spent a while on the Epstein Files as well.
I found this, more a rumour than confirmed fact, about Trump offering money to Alberta (premier is Trumpian):
https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/22/trump-officials-discussed-500m-alberta-independence-loan-separatist-claims/
Thanks for the link. This is where I first read it, and then looked it up. It is a rumor, but one that is claimed by Canadian separatists. Perhaps they are lying, or being lied to. Who knows. We do know that Trump's people are stirring the pot in Canada.
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/this-is-not-grassroots-the-same-us?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
I stopped following Blundell because he often doesn’t give sources. The source I linked to looks sketchy, although I think Trump is quite capable of doing something like that.
Blundell does not give sources so some things I look it up myself.
Even when Trump offers anything to anybody, the amount Trump is offering which I don’t believe in the first place is going to be overshadowed by the tremendous amount dealt by George Soros topping anything Trump will donate by 100 times
🇺🇦 Rick, does Putin pay you in Rubbles or candy?
This is what democracy looks like! We must keep protesting in the streets like you and your partner. My partner and I created a no kings anthem for us all to sing together as we fight fascism: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-kings-anthem
Now that's a labor of love!
Actually democracy looks like exactly what’s happening today. The only difference is as they say they are public servant you’re not in control and that’s the only frustration. If Biden were doing what Trump was doing, he’d be a hero.
name the board bullshitter
No bullshit you just can't take it though can you I'm not gonna name the board I think for myself and I'm not gonna expose any of the other members or affiliates because of what I think or say
You're just a loser in disbelief
The facts or facts. I'm just waiting to hear from any of you that had their nine-year-old grandaughter raped by a illegal criminal and actually physically saw the blood running down from their leg and then have the nerve to say there's no crime because the crime has gone down. Bunch of fucking idiots is what you are. Defending the indefensible.
Caught Rick lying. He is a lying fool.
Dreams again, huh or maybe Nightmare?
that's serious Sender.
It would be on a police report if it happened.
Where and when? What police agency?
That's a public record.
Let's have some facts. Or are you lying...again.
So you made this up?
Or did FOX News make it up?
Here's a similar story, a 15-year-old boy trying to stop his mother from being raped by an illegal immigrant
https://cbs4local.com/news/nation-world/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-killing-15-year-old-boy-attempting-to-rape-teens-mother-cold-blooded-killer-homeland-security-ice-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-president-donald-trump-joe-biden-open-border-policies-violent-crimes-mexico
You are disillusioned
And you people are so effing ignorant it has nothing to do with Donald J Trump whatsoever nothing the only thing that I care about that emanates for the White House or what comes out of their pen in the way of laws or policies nothing else matters not their name, not the color of their skin, not their past history nothing other than their policies matter. Donna, why don't you tell me why you think I'm disillusioned?
In a democratic society, a man was just elected president and although nothing has happened to you personally because of their policies, you're a mental wreck
The disease that here is worse than Covid could've ever been because it's mental. There's no cure except realization. And self analysis.
Be that as it may Rick
Rick got caught lying on this thread, no need to believe him.
Donna, you know we call that in the real world we called that a non-response response. I asked the question for the statement, the blanket statement that you made, and you don’t have an answer and you know why you don’t have an answer because there is no answer to cover the false statement that you made.
Painting everything gold?
Rick mocks poor people, women, people of color, anyone not like him…an imbecile following a moron.
I texted a little bit to you above, but I’m gonna go a little bit further if I can find a post again because you need a little bit more of a wake up call there Rachel
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-autocrats-design-214877
Why don’t you do this bro? Why don’t you look up the left versus right wing publications assessment and take a look at where politico lies. They are like Pravda in America so to speak.
Thank you for your encouragement, and dogs always raise spirits!
If only more people listened to the dogs and emulated them.
If only.
Maybe emulated in some ways and overlooked in others 😄
True that. ;)
He says he'll bring coal back but nobody wants it and house after house up here in the sticks is installing solar so no one is listening to him fortunately.
Montana, we are not out in the sticks, but we have had solar for some as does the R across the street. We now also have storage batteries(not Tesla) in the garage which will allow us to run 110 in the house during a power outage.
Unfortunately, our house is not a good candidate for solar.
May God bless you two, Janet and her partner, for many more years together, alive and rooting for working people. They are the foundation of any community and the country. But to remain so, they need a sound safety net of the government that will not change every four years.
THANK YOU, Janet! It is so heartening that so many seniors are out on the street. My Mom and Dad would have been, too. Really, I'm in awe, and I fervently hope that younger generations are getting the message.
💙
My husband and I will be out there too. I have a friend who is an artist and he made my sign in today’s theme. I grew up between Gary, IN and Chicago where everyone (and I do mean everyone) worked either in the steel mills or the oil refineries, or the businesses that supported them. I’m grateful for the life those industries provided to my blue-collar community.
MLMinET, I grew up in Elkhart, IN, and many times passed through Gary on our way to Chicago, including before the toll road. Your comment brings back memories of those trips.
I went to IU. As I approached Gary & the toll road from I-65, I’d complain about the pollution. My dad said that reflected jobs. I didn’t appreciate it as much then as I do now, especially as 47 is bringing back pollution and killing jobs.
ML, I do remember the smell around Gary which I think was the refineries. I remember sorta being fasciated by it. I was too little to understand about pollution.
Now Pritzker is bringing in big data. I do not think it properly reflects the Great Lakes Stewardship that he is supposed to have, but it does reflect jobs.
A lot of my colleagues live in Indiana and work at my former school in Chicago.
I look forward to reading Heather’s letters, but just as much to reading the inspiring and educational comments!
I'm 82 and want to do more .... I still work, but tell me, once at the county courthouse, what do you do or say?
My lame-brainstorming here:
‘Why is Mr. Trump losing so many court cases?’
— Not all the Judges can be wrong!
‘Why are we treating our allies like enemies & our enemies like allies?’
‘No Kings! America got rid of one king — it can get rid of another!’
Below commenter shared this call-email-write source - which you might adapt?
— selecting a few clicks within gives 56 issues/causes to focus on … good luck!
“Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations.”
One word answers your questions: treason.
On a brighter note, this younger 'novice' in Maine is the kind of candidate the Democratic Party should be promoting. https://youtu.be/53bZ_95nDjk
Yes, my politics likely differ. But this man sounds honest with a politics grounded in a true patriotism -- one that gives a scheiße about everyday Americans.
This is our meeting place for peaceful protests. There are many folks with signs and we yell encouragement out our car windows.
You don't have to do or say anything, just show up. Your presence will inspire others and their presence will inspire you. Inspiration is essential. Your post inspires me. Keep the faith, baby!
I worked for DOL for about 20 years and every year, even after retirement was asked to celebrate the day by watching the parade from the roof of Main Labor.
Not this year.
This week we have another chance to ask some Congressional Republicans to stop this. Only need a few. Many Congressional Republicans privately admit Trump is crazy.
Brian Fitzpatrick is the prototype. https://problemsolverscaucus.house.gov/
Daniel, I have long thought if enough of them stood up, they could ignore the threats.
We need to offer secondary reinforcement.
Some of them rationally fear for their lives....
OH, I agree, but with enough of them....And I agree about secondary reinforcement as well.
You’re right Donald Trump is crazy….. for the survival of America
Vance is worse because he is not crazy.
G-D bless you and your better half, Ma'am. 🙏🏾
I salute you every bit as much as you humble me. 🤝
Thank you for the inspiration. ✌🏼
Some who comment here can’t seem to see that the MAGA and Trump admin are already using fascist tactics, and violence is being used to enforce their will. Chris Armitage does a good review of fascist take overs and how extremely difficult and often bloody they are to remove from power once they control everything. https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/i-researched-every-attempt-to-stop?r=d5x43&utm_medium=ios
Protest, yes - but also call your Representatives. Health care may well be the prime vulnerability for the Republicans. "I do think it's going to be a health care election," says Brad Woodhouse, director of Protect Our Care. Many political observers agree. Call, and say anything about RFK, Jr or affordability. "Hello, my name is ____. I am a resident of ____ County. I think Kennedy as Health Secretary is dangerous for our country."
It doesn't matter what you say or how much. Short and sweet doesn't waste my time, but talking more lets me blow off some steam. Just be calm, or pretend to be calm.
Make one call or many. It doesn't matter. Support the D's, or make the R's nervous.
I'm convinced that the entire Trump mis-administration hates and/or doesn't trust people or anyone who earn much less income than they do. This disdain is evident in their behavior. I fear the oligarchy that has become the face of our Federal Government. My wife mentioned this morning that she'd noticed an item that an ICE agent inside an immigration court's hallway while arresting a man whose daughter tiny daughter was clinging to her fathers' shirt. He put the very small child on the floor and abruptly pushed her away with a sweep of his hand. There was no need for being cruel ! I interpret his reaction as applied hatred!
Well Ronald TDS is definitely set in, but there are facilities opening for rehab
Yeah, they’re distain for the safety of Americans like saving lives in Washington DC or soon to be saving lives in Chicago this weekend, although the mayor and governor state that the crime keeps going down and yet this weekend alone they had 54 shootings and eight murders. In one weekend.
By the way, do you know anything about the man with his tiny daughter? Do you know anything about him at all? Yeah that’s what I thought. You keep protecting the criminal. Good job. And you should probably eliminate and avoid the word oligarchy that’s according to the Democrat national committee themselves. Oooops
If you’re not illegal, and you’re not a criminal wake up, you have nothing to fear.
That’s called common sense and reality. You should try it.
How sad!
Solidarity everyone on this Labor Day~
Solidarity Forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eK9ZXf-Ow.
Sing it loud and strong with Pete Seeger!
On a cloudless blue afternoon in Lincoln, NE someone in the dining hall at lunch mentioned that Pete Seeger was playing on campus in a few minutes. A few of us rushed over to the steps of the museum to listen to his incredible music. There was around 40-60 students there and surprisingly no professors. Anyway, standing about 10 feet away from Pete, we enjoyed his marvelous music and stories for over an hour.
A beautiful moment of serendipity.
I love that, “a beautiful moment of serendipity “!
And another. Why we need unions and the de concentration of wealth. Listen to the “1913 Massacre” about the International Hall Disaster, a fire in Calumet Michigan at the copper miners’s Christmas ball. Written by Woody but this is Dylan’s rendition.
https://youtu.be/Uh_SnnqdD2M?si=OpbnlHMgjAFM0dGX
and of course: Woody
https://youtube.com/shorts/HldVI4InSr4?si=rFSWw5OnYkFn8Fdl
Just have to add a few more:
And of course, the great Joan Baez
https://youtu.be/l-JW4DKxwQM?si=daO40mmxTqmFxoU3
And even the Highwaymen singing another of Woody’s songs:
https://youtu.be/AY1NYJQryo8?si=A5s_xSD2JpVnPp4R
The great folk singers saved the country in my generation.
I think we are in this mess because many of us now protesting were just fine with a democratically elected senate that was just like the one Cleveland confronted: portly men with corporate interests behind them. We didn’t do enough to support Biden’s anti-trickle-down policies and to push a stronger agenda of reform in taxes and corporate protection, so when Kamala said “nothing she would change” from Biden’s policies, many people heard “nothing stopping the tech broliarchy or regulating lobbying” (aka buying Congress)”. We were less aware of how much invective was driving the right wing “news” machine and how much the NYT was still, as in Cleveland’s day, on the side of the exploiters of labor and thefts of profit and thus happy to play its own anti-Biden role and then carry on sane-washing T for voters.
More of this please…
Our high school sociology class attended the movie "Joe Hill" which was showing in theaters in 1971. Another Scandinavian trying to level the playing field.
Here is the link to Joan Baez's Joe Hill at Woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joan+baez+joe+hill+remastered
It’s 2025.
Well, we do have Taylor and Bruce. Joan, Bob, and Willie still doing good.
You noticed !!!!
name the board.
You have no credibilty
Good ole Pete.
Miss him! Right up until his death, he was standing in his small hometown holding up signs of protest. Solidarity Forever indeed!
I’m sorry I didn’t drive the 100 plus miles to his home and ask to play at his feet.
Perfect song choice for today and every day!
And please remind everyone that Trump is a pedophile and a sex trafficker. And the white Christian nationalists accept this as normal.
I am unable to attend this event, but my sign reminds people that Trump is a pedophile and a sex trafficker.
GJ, what will one of them do when someone messes with their young daughter? Hmm?
I pray that doesn't happen, but good point. People like Trump, Epstein and Maxwell are incredibly good at 1) convincing children to perform sexually deviant acts, and to 2) not tell ANYONE what happened to them.
The press conference tomorrow at 10:30 am with several of the Trump victims present will be very interesting. Watch how Fox, Newsmax, OAN and the other right wing pundits ignore it and instead focus on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
How about standing behind America about that? Try that
Trump is attempting to. destroy America. He could move to Russia if he thinks he would do better.
how about telling the truth...name the board Mr. Chairman.
What made the greatest generation the greatest was not growing up during the Depression nor was it fighting victoriously against militarists and fascists. 🤝
What made that generation the greatest is what it did after the Second World War. In the brutal war of 1939-45, ivy leaguers were serving side-by-side with plumbers. ✌🏼
I believe that created an ethos of hnonouring labor and supporting the middle class. Of course, President F.D. Roosevelt and President Truman put the policy base in place.🗽
James Roosevelt, FDR’s oldest, served as a Marine and fought in the Battle of Okinawa, receiving the Silver Star, among other awards, for distinguished service. Every decision FDR made about the war was, I’m sure, filled with a profoundly personal awareness of the sacrifices others were making every day.
Ambassador Joseph Kennedy’s oldest son was killed in the Battle of Britain as we all remember, while his younger son, Jack, steered a PT boat in the South Pacific, barely surviving with his life.
Even more recently, Senator Joseph R. Biden’s oldest Beau, served with distinction in Iraq as an officer in the Judge Advocate Generals Corps, succumbing to brain cancer as a result of exposure to Saddam Hussein’s burn pits.
There was indeed a time when the sons of plutocrats risked everything to serve country, alongside their working class brothers. Can anybody today picture Uday and Qusay Trump serving anything but themselves, given Daddy’s legacy of calling those who serve their country suckers and losers?
Hello ICTT... Don't Forget Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., being the first American General to put his Boots On The Sand in Normandy... His Father, TR, Sr, set a Superb Example... Read up on the 'Rough Riders... TR, Jr, was sick, and lied about his Health... He would die a few Months later, having Lived A Life Well...
Had not known that history, thanks for mentioning it here.
One of the best books I've ever read was about Teddy. "The River of Doubt" by Candice Millard.
I am have honestly given it to at least a dozen people, and every single one loved it. One person also went on to have our local library use it for their bookclub selection. Literally a page turner, you will not want to put it down.
Hello Miselle... Even though TR's history with the Indigenous was mixed, I do thoroughly Respect TR's accomplishments... For his Time, TR was Enlightened, and his Accomplishments were Tangible... Not Just Talk... TR Was A Real Hard-Man...
No. Instead they post pictures of themselves with trapped animals that they killed in a prison created just so rich people can do so to feel brave and macho. The apples did not fall far from that selfish cowardly tree.
The road apples from the horse’s ass, indeed. Which one makes your skin crawl the most?
As a legal representative of the Global Association of Horses! (GAH!), I hereby demand that you cease and desist from associating in any way, shape or form Donald J. Trump with the equine population of the world.
Horses are noble, beautiful, strong and intelligent. Donald J. Trump is none of those things.
Horses work hard to assist and serve in the furtherance of human endeavor. Donald J. Trump does none of that.
Therefore, you are compelled to stop comparing Donald J. Trump to the ass or any other body part of a horse.
Failure to comply with this demand will be met with the full measure of International Law. You have been warned.
Note: This demand does not preclude you from comparing Donald J. Trump with any part of a pig, or a pig in its entirety.
Honestly, I do not pay attention to them at all. I am forced to pay some attention to Trump because 77 million of my fellow Americans were stupid enough to vote for him to be president but I refuse to give any attention to his immoral untalented devil spawn!
“Can anybody today picture Uday and Qusay Trump serving anything but themselves, given Daddy’s legacy of calling those who serve their country suckers and losers?”
Well put.
One things for sure -- they got their brains from their dad. /S
Hahahahaha-hiccup. Good one, G. J.! You may have seen this vid., already. Younger men and women are what the Democratic Party need on the ballot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53bZ_95nDjk&authuser=0
Thanks for this reminder, GHW Bush too, although W missed the boat and was a disgrace in more ways than one can count. Mission Accomplished, my arse.
Yes, he was also Navy Cross recipient while on Makin Island. Republicans attacked FDR for not having their children in uniform. ER set them straight in an instant. In this current climate, service has a different meaning among those magas (Doug Collins et al) who could care less. Service is no longer noble I guess.
US Marine Corps, RVN
“Suckers and losers” has always just been dog whistle code speak for the “little people” whose lives don’t matter. The world’s titans are the supposed chess masters who move the pawns around in vainglorious military machinations, until they get taken off the board. To the dictator titan, this is the only fate the little people deserve. If they weren’t suckers and losers they’d working the chessboard. Instead they are just mudsills, just like the antebellum slaves were called.
Oh, ICTT, that last paragraph sure draws an accurate picture of what ails us now.
YES, let us not forget the unmatched transformation of government made by FDR! Without him and his NewDeal, things would not have been anywhere near as successful as they were for working class Americans!
I'd say, rather, Kathryn, "Without him, Frances Perkins, and their New Deal."
Or, I'd add in "Without him, Frances Perkins, and Roy Stryker and his photographers at the Farm Security Administration, and their New Deal."
Appreciate the shout out for Frances Perkins.
And kudos to Senator George Norris (NE-R) who was perhaps the last progressive Republican. He worked closely with the FDR administration to electrify rural America.
A dam named for him was the first in a series built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Norris, TN, to control flooding in the Valley and to generate electricity. That dam is about 15 miles north of me and has the prettiest lake for swimming and skiing.
And the new deal is what the republicans have wanted to abolish since then. Trump and his followers are doing their best to destroy a free and fair country. Keep resisting in all that you do!
That’s 100% right. They have been bashing FDR since I was a pup.
And appointing Francis Perkins Secretary of Labor. She served the country and fought for child labor laws, social security, unemployment insurance and the 40 hour work week. She contributed more to our health and worker safety than any man has since then.
Today, my husband and I honored our fathers. Mine immigrated from Greece and my husband's was first generation Ukrainian. Both were uneducated yet produced highly educated children. Both worked hard as laborers and achieved the American Dream during those peak prosperous years in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, that concept seems to be dying....
It is very sad. Growing up as an R.C., I heard that the best Catholics were often the newest ones (i.e., converts). Likewise with our citizenry. I take heart in your honouring your parents and those of your better half, Sophia.
Thank you Ned for your great comment. Yes, the Greatest Generation. Only hope 'we' will do the same again! United we win.
I am moody these days. Some days are fraught with despair and bereavement. Others days I have a stubborn hope that fine people *like you, *Cindy, and others will prevail.
EDIT P.S., forgot the most important part: thank you for *your gracious comment, Cindy.
Hey Ned! My mood swings with the daily news. I have to watch/ listen so I don't miss any crap that I can comment on. I am still amazed my TV doesn't have the remote stuck in the screen. You and other commenters help keep me sane. Have a great night!
And blessèd sleep with serene dreams for you.
It is has been said that history doesn’t repeat itself, which of course indicates that times, people and events change.
While history doesn’t repeat, similarities do exist.
Many in our nation obviously didn’t study history well enough to understand that great caution needs to be taken when the elite / wealthy stand behind a candidate who will protect his class over the needs of the masses. The Republican Party is still the party of wealth and greed today.
I always thought it was something of the reverse. History repeats itself with depressing regularity. And what doesn’t repeat still manages to do an awful lot of rhyming.
Some wag observed “History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme.”
Hello Ed.... Mark Twain I believe...
Thanks.
That sounds right. Another wag observed old pithy quotes can be ascribed metaphorically to Mark Twain or Ben Franklin, whose to say your wrong.
Ed, discussions here often remind me of famous quotations I would like to incorporate into my comments. But I'm all too aware that I or our culture often misremember or misattribute the aphorisms we think we know. For that reason, I've bookmarked Quote Investigator and always consult it first.
The ghost of Mark Twain must chuckle every time he's credited with another quip he neither wrote nor uttered.
In fact, Theodor Reik originated this phrase in 1965.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
Thanks, but you appear to have taken my point more literally than I indended. I regularly label my intentionally snarky comments with a “/s”, but didn’t think this one quite rose to the level of full on snark.
You can think of it as a meta-comment of sorts. The underlying “joke”, if you want to think of it as such, is that “there is nothing new under the sun”.
That thought is itself a derivation of the Old Testament book of Eccleasties, “Ecclesiastes 1:9 which states: "That which has been is what will be, and that which has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun". That’s attributed to King Solomon, who observed that human life, when viewed apart from a divine perspective, often feels like a continuous, repeating cycle. Much of the Bible is presumably derived from even more ancient oral traditions. The situation is further obscured by having been filtered through a series of translations from one language to the next.
I was riffing on a similar comment I heard. I think “the other wag” to which I referred earlier is something I recall from the excellent podcast "Revolutions" by Mike Duncan.
Duncan caps a long series of podcasts focusing on particular historical revolutions beginning with the English Revolution of the mid 17th century, with his treatment of the fictional Martian Revolution of the 21st century. That podcast is and inciteful, interesting and entertaining attempt to encapsulate an array of larger commonalities he perceived in a diverse array of historical revolutions (e.g. French, Haitian, American, etc)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772?i=1000673780901
Like musical variations on a theme, I think deeper points can be encapsulated with references or allusions to short, pithy statements. I once had a college student whose professor evaluation of me was basically an unhinged tirade on my “misuse” or misstating of metaphors. Incensed, he went on about that it is a “can of worms”, not a “bag of worms”.
Perhaps my favorite mixed metaphor is “You can beat a dead horse, but you can’t make it drink.”
That last one applies well, I think, to Trump and his administration, the subject and object of much well deserved criticism in many and varied forms.
RFK Jr is a “sitting duck” for such commentary - the HHS Secretary, who is reported to have scooped up, taken (then presumably cooked) and eaten a roadkill bear. He is now supposedly preparing some sort of treatise on what constitutes a good diet. The screams irony.
Does any of that make any sense to you? If it helps, think of it as “gallows” humor.
Below is a clip from the Cohen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which alludes to an earlier unsuccessful hanging of the initial speaker.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbEbD1Z_tNQ&pp=ygUmQmFsbGFkIG9mIGJ1c3RlciBzY3J1Z2dzIGhhbmdpbmcgc2NlbmXSBwkJsgkBhyohjO8%3D
Hoo boy! To paraphrase King Ferdinand in Stan Freberg's The United States of America, "I contribute a simple fact and I get a pageant."
https://youtu.be/o3hzDJiVfJo?feature=shared
I wasn't taking any points ... literally or figuratively.
The conversation attributed your quote to Mark Twain and I corrected the mistake. Nothing more and nothing less.
THat's exactly what I was thinking ICTT! "A whole lotta rhyming going on . . ."
And proudly so as they suck up resources and blather platitudes that should incite lightening strikes.
Actually, history continues to repeat itself, but humanity never learns from it ever
There have been wars for 5000 years on this planet and everybody knows that’s not a good thing doesn’t matter to humanity. They’re still wars.
America under all presidents has learned more about the past and through the past and any other country, including today. And what we learned is, you don’t open your borders, especially when people like you have complained daily about vaccinations and yet people were let in without the slightest clue about their vaccination history you let people in without knowing a thing about their criminal record and then the worst part is then you try to get them to vote.
your bullshit also repeats itself...name the board
I don’t know if Rick is a bot or just a troll. He shows up once in awhile spouting BS.
Let's not talk smack about bots. Bots are far smarter than Rick.
Bots are more spam and advertising.
He’s real and shows up almost every day. Sometimes there’s another guy too. I mostly ignore him. Discussion is futile.
Good one, Gary
You too Heather should take the day off. Costco is.
Do you think the police in Chicago should take the day off so five more could die and get murdered over the weekend when they keep claiming that the city is safe
you should take the day off, in fact why not take the week off and get your lies straight.
NTB
Nope. Unfortunately this day is not in place for many. Hope you get the day off also rick.
Oddly enough, it’s also a holiday in Canada, too.
Worked with RF sw and hw engineers in ottawa over the years. Good people. Hope 13 states can form a new region and be friends again with Canada.
Yep!
"They could, however, support Labor Day and its indication of workers’ political power."
Even that seems to have become a bridge too far.
Thank you for the recap, though, Prof. Richardson.
Your description of that “Gilded” oppressive era in American history is so informative and well written. Yet, it’s like a nightmare that keeps repeating. How can we make it stop? How can we wake up to a better world?
Maybe if more voters actually bothered studying history instead of imagining Time itself began only about 2 years ago, they might connect some dots from our past?
Only something like 15% of the labor force (or something similar) is unionized today. The rest take for granted things working people won only by means of blood, sweat and tears. Or, for that matter, all the times others tried to take it away from them, once they had won it.
15%? That's horrifying.
Actually less than 10% - just found a release from Bureau of Labor Statistics from January - before Trump made the collecting of statistics a capital offense.
Oh my god.
And yet here in Virginia the MAGAts rail on about maintaining us as a Right to Work state, reaping the benefits Unions have achieved without contributing. Dumbasses.
"Right to Work" for less.
Groundhogs Day, Republican style
Who are the best “influencers” of our young people today?
Maybe those of us here who are old enough to know, should use our remaining influence on the young people in our own lives more clearly. Even if we have to bribe them with $100 bills…in exchange for each book that we choose for them to read and answer three questions that we ask. Surely that bribe will stick with them long after we are history…HA!
I’m thinking about my two 11-year-old grandsons…do they even care enough?
Fool's Gold.
Use/share this spreadsheet (bit.ly/Goodtrouble) as a resource to call/email/write members of Congress, the Cabinet and news organizations. Reach out to those in your own state, and those in a committee that fits your topic. Call. Write. Email. Protest. Unrelentingly. We deserve better ❤️🩹🤍💙
I wrote my second scathing letter to Senator Bill Cassidy berating him for voting to approve RFK Jr. In both letters I reminded him that he is a god damn doctor & that his constituents are his patients & when they die because of the lunacy going on in our HSS they are going to remember how he voted because everyone will remind him!
Didn't he vote approve the entire incompetent Trump cablnet? I know Susan Collins voted for almost all of them and the ones she didn't she knew would get approved anyway. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
Great job return to normalcy! LOVE your style!
You are living in normalcy it’s just not your normalcy because the Democrats are out of control and out of control
in the little monkey's world it's normal to lie.
NTB
return, I hope your letters to Dr. Cassidy pricked his conscience!
As HCR closed tonight…In Chicago the chair of the House Labor Committee, Lawrence McGann (D-IL), told the crowd gathered for the first official observance:
“Let us each Labor day, hold a congress and formulate propositions for the amelioration of the people. Send them to your Representatives with your earnest, intelligent indorsement [sic], and the laws will be changed.”
(hey mccann- can you use plain English?)
Define Amelioration: The act of making something unsatisfactory more tolerable; an improvement.
You mean like stopping crime? If Biden were stopping crime and stopping needless deaths by mostly black youth, you’d all be putting Biden on your shoulders. But as soon as the Orange tainted being, does it you guys act like you’ve never loved America
the crime we should stop is Rick's lying ways.
No one wants crime. To say Biden or anyone else CAUSED it is irresponsible. Having National Guard deployed to democratic run cities to intimidate people who live there bypassing the governors who run those states is what I take issue with. If he was truly tough on crime why release the Jan 6 offenders?? Why give Ghislaine Maxwell any respite? She was adjudicated and sentenced. He is cherry picking the places he wants to showcase his authoritarian plays all the while knowing his policies suck and trying to use all of it as a distraction to try and cheat the mid terms. This entire presidency and its administration is the laughing stock of the entire world
Yeah Rick make sure to stop the black youth crime. They are the ones to single out here…. Rascist maybe if we actually invested in people’s health education and well being we’d have more opportunities for people and less crime??
But here I'm giving you the opportunity to fall flat on your face by telling me how we're preventing people from being successful in this country
Rachel, you can deny all you want but it's the black youth gets killed by other black youth and every major city and that's what Donald Trump is trying to stop and he has been successful in Washington DC
The only people protesting in Washington DC are white liberals fucking idiots that could really give a shit about the Black people in this country
Rachel, the problem that you have like many people here with very few exceptions as a do it to yourself proposition
There is a story after a story about those who had a deprived or depraved childhood who decided to make it way for themselves and were successful, despite all their difficulties and trepidations of their youth
We can't educate people who don't want to get educated
And the more we start enabling these people the worse it gets instead of solving the problem you think Joe Biden help solve the problem. He pissed all over the country by letting in 11 to 15,000,000 illegals and you guys were so fucking worried about vaccinations not one was checked for a vaccinations and I haven't heard a peep out of you hypocrites
The National Guard in DC are picking up trash and working on “beautifying” projects. They’re doing ZERO about crime.
Solidarity, everyone, on this Labor Day~
Yes, everyone who works deserves a wage, a LIVING WAGE, absolutely some will earn more than others depending on expertise, knowledge required & seniority. That does NOT mean that corporate officers should make 100s or 1,000s of times more than their employees. That their employees must work for poverty wages while the CEOs & the alphabet soup at the top of corporations should swim in an immaculate pool of money while their workers get sips of dirty water dripping from a rusty pipe!
~~~The only thing that I can say in any type of support of the original Gilded Age is that those corporations provided jobs. Dangerous working conditions, awful hours, 6 days a week, child labor for a mere pittance but those workers made "things", "products" that you can see & use. So many of the really wealthy, as in Hedge Fund managers create nothing but wealth for themselves by hedging or betting against something or someone. Yes, that's simplistic but it's simple words to explain the simple problem of greed! At the corporate level & at the political level. I dare say that those corporate kingpins could never do a days work that their employees complete. And if they did, they would automatically demand a huge bonus.
Time for workers, employees, labor to unite & beat back the greed & hate that is eating away at our government & country!
I can tell you as a hospice chaplain requiring a graduate degree and other credentials which take years to earn, the upper middle management do not deserve the grossly higher pay than myself or the clinical field staff actually providing patient care, yet they make a shit ton more
I bet they do!
Thank you for the work you do. Bloated management is gawdawful.
You’re doing important work. 💕
I've mentally toyed with the concept of "maximum wage" where a CEO could only earn X times per hour than their lowest paid worker. Not sure what X would be but certainly no more than 25-50. And also, outlaw the huge payoffs for CEOs when they are fired due to their incompetence.
VALUE to the common good is so screwed in our world!
Teachers, medical workers, and producers of needed goods and services are the GIVERS of VALUE to the common good.
The TAKERS who largely dwell within the corporate realm must be transformed from within.
I have to laugh hysterically at all you people who talk badly about America unbelievable really you should be done on your knees thanking God that you live here
If you had any brains at all, you would realize that if we opened our borders to anyone, we’d have a population the size of India. Biden opened the border and look what happened 11 to 15,000,000 came from all over the globe to get here now. Why would you think that is? Hmmmmmm. Be thankful for what you have where you are and thank God for America just the way it is or feel free to leave anytime you like.
Said by a person who is never own a business
Do you never proofread your posts or are you just semi-literate?
From the Israeli newspaper Haaretz :
GREAT Gaza plan: A Trumpian get-rich-quick scheme reliant on war crimes, AI and tourism.
While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to formally adopt the plan himself, the reported draft is a profoundly unserious effort with little grounding in reality. Rather, it only confirms suspicions that the U.S. administration is strictly focused on illusory economic initiatives that have little regard for Palestinians' well-being or facts on the ground, whether in Gaza, Israel, the West Bank or the wider Middle East.
Whatever the guise of financial incentives, from relocation packages to rent or food subsidies, such measures would still constitute violations of international law.
It is no surprise that individuals involved with this project were also involved in creating the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the controversial and highly scrutinized aid project funded by Trump's administration and coordinated with the Israeli government, despite continued skepticism from the vast majority of humanitarians.
Jared Kushner, who has been advising Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, is an expert in circumventing diplomatic norms and regional truths under the guise of "outside-the box-thinking," who frames economic deals defined by their transactionalism as creative ways to achieve peace.
Trump, by any definition, is rejecting demands from allies and stakeholders in favor of a get-rich-quick scheme dependent on war crimes, AI and tourism.
Israel, meanwhile, has clearly taken advantage of Trump's wandering attention and Witkoff's evolving responsibilities, not to mention the president's stated desire for Netanyahu to simply "get it [the war] over with."
This has created the ground for a plan as illegal and toxic as the GREAT Trust to be plausibly presented to Trump without being laughed out of the Oval Office.
From Haaretz, reporting on a Washington Post report:
GAZA: A 38-page Trump administration document outlining the post-war reconstruction of Gaza envisions the relocation of all Palestinians from the enclave and the establishment of a U.S. tech hub, the Washington Post reported. According to the exposé, the U.S. will retain full control over the Strip for at least a decade, slowly transferring enforcement duties to local police from what the document describes as "Western PMCs" – private military corporations.
Palestinians who own land in Gaza will be offered a digital token in exchange for development rights which can either be used to finance life outside of Gaza or to redeem an apartment in its new "AI-powered, smart cities," the report said. The proposed scheme would be run by the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust."
The GREAT* Trust
From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally
* Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration Transformation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f86dd56a-de7f-4943-af4a-84819111b727.pdf
These articles from Ha'aretz seem to be spot on, and far more detailed than what I've seen casually in U.S. news. Of course they are right in the middle of this. But is the article cited from the Post really from a news article? Who put it out? It looks like the classic real estate brochure for some luxury development.
You can make up anything on a computer. Like any real estate con.
Only built on genocide.
During the first Trump administration, Jared Kushner expressed interest in removing Palestinians to camps in the desert, in order to develop Gaza waterfront property. He and Tony Blair are the primary developers of this plan.
"Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population - 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gaza's more than 2 million people"
The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/
Yes, I remember Kushner saying that. He has been quietly working on the outskirts which is dangerous. I still wholeheartedly believe he helped set Khashoggi up for the Prince to murder him. Just my thought…
Good Lord, didn’t remember that. Kushner has always been a greedy bastard, in his genes I think
Indeed. Jared is literally a chip off the old block; he just managed to stay out of prison. His father, Charles, did go to prison for a list of "white collar crimes." But he managed to buy a pardon from Donald during his first occupation of the White House.
Now, incredibly, Charles is the U.S. ambassador to France! The Trump crime syndicate reaches far and wide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kushner
In his dna, this time he’s staying under the radar, but still “criming”
I didn't realize that Tony Blair had a hand in it. I have been very disappointed in Blair, who made a show of support when W. Bush wanted to invade Iraq and then lined up for Britains's share of the spoils. Not viable as a Labour leader at all; more like another Tory.
Do you idiots know how many times Israel has been attacked over the last 75 years for just being Israel. Would you guys like to see a list of all the inventions they have brought to the world?
Unreal
Here it is:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/
Yeah, everybody knows that living in poverty, misery, hunger, and premature death is what every Palestinian wants rather than to live in a city that looks like that ?
Thanks, •lin
Important information. "AI powered smart cities" does not sound like anyplace I'd want to live.
Contrarian had a column from a member of Jstreet that said Gaza relocation idea originates with Israeli government. Trump is just the parrot.
You know it’s idiots like you that don’t know the details of what goes on in Palestine and Israel and Gaza. Israel has had more inventions that have impact of the world than 90% of the planet. In the meantime the Palestinians under Hamas rule haven’t even had the will to create its own utilities, deliver its own water and electricity because Hamas takes all the money donated to them and uses it for weapons
You get rid of her Hamas. At overtime, things will work itself out in Gaza will look like Dubai if it wanted to.
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He's an ignorant roll.
Ask him what board he was chair of where he claims to have created 5000 millionaires.
He's just one of Trump's dancing monkeys
Link to the WaPo article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/
I have to actually work tomorrow so no protest for me. But did find a pin I am going to have on that says”democracy is saved by the small acts of a million people caring enough to take a position”
That’s one terrific pin.
Yeah, they’re called Americans of every political party except the Democrats who don’t like it when they’re not in control Some more on above mentioned that the situation with the economics of wealth here in America are all the fault of Republicans.
That’s probably the most ignorant statement I’ve ever heard on this post this thread
It's not just the Republican party that is responsible for the huge income and wealth inequalities in the US. As the current year began and people returned to work, the top 100 CEOs in the US had within a few hours already earned more than the annual average wage and this has been going on for a long time.
You have to end the baleful influence of big money, and especially dark money, in your elections and you have to insist that you will only vote for candidates who will promise to work towards this end. If you continue to settle for less than this then it will continue unabated as it has for decades.
All official US dollars are spendable, but they are not all acquired the same way.
"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits." -- Lincoln
Money is a form of power, and though corrupt, it has historically proved to interchange with political power pretty regularly. How many people can apply hundreds of millions of dollars to work their political will, and how many struggle just to pay the rent? ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/phoenix-heat-deaths ) Freedom is not a nation in which anything, even legal outcomes, can be purchased for a price. That's tyranny. That's corruption.
" I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." Eugene V. Debs
No doubt you've seen this article by Naomi Klein and Canadian activist, Astra Taylor about where all this inequality is leading the world, especially in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk
Now you have Thiel acolyte, Jim O'Neill, as acting director of the CDC, advocating that the FDA should approve longevity drugs for those that can afford them before establishing their safety and efficacy. All for a few billionaires who want to live forever and escape the climate disaster that is coming.
https://apnews.com/article/jim-oneill-cdc-kennedy-trump-vaccines-58fd24f678bf46ea6ec96a2b09f85ff4
Wow. I missed the Guardian article and I am a subscriber, also the one from AP.
"But there are emotional compensations on offer: you can cheer the end of affirmative action and DEI, glorify mass deportation, enjoy the denial of gender-affirming care to trans people, villainize educators and health workers who think they know better than you, and applaud the demise of economic and environmental regulations as a way to own the libs. End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy."
Dominance (of which the Declaration of Independence was a philosophical rejection) seems to be the "dark art" at the root of the "Dark Side of The Force" (the very thing that both those of literary fables caution against). Said Lincoln, "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." Lincoln too was human, but he articulated and acted on egalitarian principles that affected countless lives.
Arguably rank and pecking order served survival of the species when "instinct", the genetic "hardware" of species, primarily provided their behavioral adaptability, but gradually favored a secondary mode, present even in slime molds yet the most salient in Homo sapiens, is learning; the highly interactive behavioral trait humans seem to do best. Indeed while baby sea turtles are born with no parent anywhere in the vicinity, and a baby horse can walk on it's first day, we humans require a lengthy stretch of time in order to learn to do much of anything. Even nurse. And we are articulately self-aware. That has all kinds of implications, but suffice it to say that Hobbes' "State of Nature" sucks, and with hubris and our tech power, yet insufficient wisdom, we could well end our species forever. And that's not smart or in any sense moral.
I think that the general opinion (based on modern cultural anthropology) is that the first hunter-gatherer groups were more egalitarian because share-and-share-alike was an important survival strategy when groups were small and resources were scarce. There might indeed have been members of the group who were more skilled at finding new resources or at hunting but it seems that consensus-based decision-making and reinforcement of social norms were prioritised to maintain group cohesion. Some of these traits have stayed with us today. Psychologists find, for example, that in experimental games where people are given a choice between accepting a bonus or punishing a rule-breaker, they most often choose the latter - nobody likes a cheat. One might say that Donald Trump has found a way to overcome that instinct but he is definitely going against the grain. Democrats have spectacularly failed to land sufficient blows on him along the lines that he is basically a cheat and have instead allowed him to throw all the punches and turn the tables on them by claiming that it is he who has been cheated.
Scientists call the slowing down of development to aid learning 'neoteny'. Its most strongly evident in humans (and otherwise rare in the natural world) although it was first described in axolotls, and it also appears to be a product of domestication of formerly wild animals.
Nicely put J L.
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Ironically, white working class voters elected this catastrophe, voting for Trump by a 40-point majority. They’ve been voting R since Reagan, preferring union-busting racists to union supporters in government. If you had to name one thing most responsible for handing the government to the reprehensible Republicans now in charge, you’d have to choose the profound, endemic racism of the white working class.
Democracy is only as good as the education that surrounds it.
--Socrates
Yes, and way before Reagan. This is the whole history of the US.
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No lies detected.
You're not wrong.
True. I have watched racism develop in someone I know well as he was shut out of jobs.
What chains. are those Jeffrey? The only chains are delusion in your mind
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Oh Rick likes to demean workers.
He insults fast food workers and others as dummies. He's Trump's #1 monkey
Reading this, I had the feeling that to a certain extent what we are going through now is history repeating itself. The difference? A better educated populous demanding their rights and, I hope, knowing how to right this ship of state.
Otherwise? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Really, a better educated populous? I mean no disrespect, I promise, but if 40% of the population still supports trump I'd prefer to think it's because they are undereducated as opposed to educated & still supporting that conman, mob boss!
"A better educated populous demanding their rights and, I hope, knowing how to right this ship of state." They are better educated. At the time of the first Labor Day less than 10% of the population had a high school diploma. Want to contrast with today's numbers? No, MAGA is educated. Don't underestimate them. Education is this country to became less rigorous when the Koch family decided to interfere. They worked very hard to dumb down public schools - they packed school boards with those who would lead to the foundation of Project 2025. These people are educated, not well, but educated.
They have been educated to think reality TV is real, they have been indoctrinated by the Republicans and the extreme right. Yes, they've been educated. And if you are one 90 to 95% of the American population who doesn't vote in school board elections? How you define "educated" comes into question.
So really, the population is better educated, just not in the way that benefits the country. As for your figures of 40% of the population backing the adjudicated rapist? That's rich. No, 40% does not. But if that's what you believe, maybe you might want to consider what education is in this country. In fact, that would make it close on to "normal," wouldn't it?"
Carol Ann, OOUCH!!
You nailed it with your indictment of 90% of us who do not engage in our local schools.
Especially when many of us on this platform have the time and lived-experience to know how important educating our children and grandchildren, and dare I say, great-grandchildren is; we must be engaged locally!
We should all make a Labor Day’s Resolution to attend the next local School Board Meeting of this 2025-2026 school calendar!
Carol-Ann, being a grammar nanny is a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. The word you meant to type is "populace," which is a noun referring to the people living in a particular country or area. ("Populous" is an adjective referring to the number of people living in a particular country or area.)
Having established that, I suggest that Americans are NOT better educated than their ancestors. A higher percentage of the U.S. population may have high school diplomas, but unfortunately, those diplomas merely signify that the graduates have completed a prescribed curriculum and passed the required tests that allowed them to receive those diplomas. They are in no way indicators that education has taken place.
The other activities you've described are not education. They are indoctrination or negligence.
Being involved in local school politics is important, but it won't solve the problem created on a higher level by politicians who insist that our schools should only emphasize technology and engineering. Even science and math have fallen from grace.
Even worse, state and federal legislators are handing taxpayer dollars to for-profit and parochial school operators in the form of vouchers and charters. Those schools are not accountable to public school boards. Educators in public schools can do only so much with the scant resources they are given.
Parents who patronize private schools claim they are seeking "quality education," but what they really seek is insulating their children from other races and religions.
Voting out Republican legislators should be the priority. Everything else follows.
Oh, please.
I’ve concluded that the hard-core nucleus of greedy bastards in this country stands at 32%. Not 31. Not 33. 32.
Good for you!
Current poll ratings (scroll to near the bottom):
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
I had the same response as you upon reading Carol-Ann's comment, but then I thought I was thinking about the uniformed voters who voted for Trump.
Regardless, the population today is better educated than that of the 1870s.
Hello RTN… 40% of the Populace?…. That is over 100-Million Evil Forest Gumps!!!….
It’s populace!
If that seems to be the only take away from my response? We are in deeper trouble than I thought. Let's nit pick our way into the dictatorship shall we? How's you Latin?
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Hello Carol... Is that 'My Guilt, My Guilt, My Great Guilt' ?... ;-)
No, it’s means “through my most grievous fault.” I could have rended my clothes, covered myself in sack cloth and ashes, but I felt that would have been a bit too dramatic. So I went with the words used pre-Vatican II when starting a really grave confession.
I have lived a life of happy labor. I moved to Alaska when I was 23 and found home. Initially, myself and two best friends, found our way to locally known Eldorado Creek (on the maps it is called Ukawatnee creek), 40 miles above the village of Ruby and 60 miles below the village of Tanana. We built a log cabin and spent the winter trapping. In the spring my friend Bob and I went out to find work in Nenana, landing jobs with Yutana Barge Lines, running freight and fuel out of Nenana on the Tanana River to destinations across Alaska up and down the Yukon River and it's tributaries, servicing the village communities. I worked for them 25 years, 20 years as a Captain on all of the 7 tugs they ran. In 1994 I purchased Dementieff Barge Service, a small native family run outfit. In 2016 I was bought by my friend, Matt Sweetsir, whom I had known since 1978 in Ruby. I had hired him out of High School to be a deckhand on the tug I was running that year. He had been working for Yutana Barge until they were bought by Crowley Maritime in 2004 or 2005. During that time he had worked he way up to CEO of Yutana Barge Lines. They were going to move him to Seattle as a Regional Director of their northern operation. He was a true Alaskan and didn't want to leave his home in Alaska. He subsequently built his own business, Ruby Marine, and bought me out in 2016. I worked for Ruby Marine for 5 years and retired, as per our agreement, in 2021. During my first year with Ruby Marine I was tasked with overseeing the build of his second tug, Tanana, (his first tug was named Yukon, built at Fred Walls ship yard in Oregon, both of which were names of vessels owned by the Alaska Railroad but leased to Yutana Barge lines) I had the pleasure of bringing that new tug back to Nenana and running it during it's first year of service in Alaska.
During my time in Alaska I have witnessed the most incredible displays of northern lights and nature of the far north.
I am a happy man. However we are faced with an administration that is obsessed with grievance. Trump will never be a happy man.
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead." (James Baldwin)
I agree with you that Trump is a profoundly unhappy man. He's clearly in an unhappy marriage. He seems to have little affection for his children and rarely a day goes by without him fulminating about one thing or another from things as silly as a corporate logos or some late night comedy show to vehement attacks on people who object to his policies. His repeated whining about his grievances, continual boasting about his accomplishments and current obsession with the Nobel Peace prize evince what seems to me a nagging disappointment and sense of resentment at his complete failure to achieve anything of note in his time in office.
For all his absurd projection of strength, he's acutely thin-skinned and alert to any form of criticism. He will doubtless know that many consider him to be the worst president in US history.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-worst-president-presidential-greatness-survey-presidents-day-obama-george-washington-a8218721.html
He won’t even be a man. Just a phony in every way and by every measure.