I know...we are all watching the SAME train wreck...but someone HAS to switch the track and save the day !! It's not us is it ??? How is the heck do we make a difference now ???????
I know...we are all watching the SAME train wreck...but someone HAS to switch the track and save the day !! It's not us is it ??? How is the heck do we make a difference now ???????
My mother tirelessly gave 10% of what my parents earned year after year. They also volunteered their time generously. And they were content and happy for the most part. They expected (required) each of us kids to give 10% of our meager allowance in the Sunday school offering every week. It was a couple of pennies at first and by the time we left home it was several dollars. The three of us kids had jobs by the time we were twelve years old and that's when our allowances ended.
As I am a non-theist I have been tithing to the food banks instead of to a church. The local food banks are supported by all of the local grocery stores except Walmart for some reason, dozens of local businesses and 3 local churches.
Most of us have witnessed food insecurity and realize that school meals provide most of the calories many children receive. Additionally, many parents have addictions and are unable to prepare meals at home or they are working multiple jobs because the oligarchs are greedy bastards that are unwilling to pay their workers a living wage.
A couple of days ago the local K-8 school sent out a request to the community for money to support sending weekend snacks and meals home on Friday's with the kids. I'm not sure of the details so it may even be all of the kids.
Their goal is to raise $5,000 for the remainder of the school year. In a few days, they are already close to reaching their goal.
Since the oligarchs and Republicans are unwilling to help people with their most basic needs we can all find a way to pitch in if we're able. Many of you always have and always will so keep up the good work. This may not solve the Fascist problem we face with the Federal government but it can't hurt.
I have a cause: use charitable deductions to save the SSA retirement Trust Fund. The default of Trust Funds is supposed to apex in 2033 due to the increase of birth rates of baby boomers. After 2033, birth rates of later generations flatten and the funds can be solvent.
Social Security is the greatest anti-poverty program in US history. Social Security protects workers, widow(er)s, orphans and disabled people and is a major investment for many of us. Donations can flatten the default curve, extending the apex.
Until they decide to "redirect" or "borrow" from that trust fund (or at least try). Though something like that might be what finally wakes up a certain MAGA demographic.
Actually none of the funds have been loaned despite folkelore to the contrary. The Trust Fund paid about $22 billion to beneficiaries last year. Not a dime from general revenues.
Your comments, Gary, are very inspiring and, in many respects mirror my upbringing and present stance. The thing that upsets me the most is the prevalence of the Great Replacement Theory - which has its seeds in Christian believers. The Christianity that I grew up with and the teachings that I still attempt to maintain center on how we treat each other. You know that old Golden Rule thing. I find my childhood values being severely tested these days. Yes, my wife and I will continue to be generous to family and friends and charitable organizations. That ainтАЩt the difficult part. What I find difficult to do is resist being sarcastic, sanctimonious, and/or sappy by sinking to тАЬlevelтАЭ of Trump and his supporters. I mean, I could write this wisecrack: тАЬWhat do Trump and his supporters revere more - the Golden Rule or the Trump Tower Golden Escalator?тАЭ (Of course, IтАЩd never say that out loud!! Oooppppsssss! Somehow my erase button ainтАЩt working right now!) Bottom Line: We are battling the Great Replacement Theory - which never gets named and which most of the Trump supporters canтАЩt/donтАЩt name. At least the Allied forces in 1944 could NAME their opponent! Lately, my wife and I are planning to add the World Central Kitchen to our donation list! HmmmmmmтАж. Money for Donald Trump or Jose Andres? Gotta decide what will be the Best Bang for the Buck. I vote for Jose!! Anyone else with us??
Thanks for that Paul. One thing Trump and his Magats can't take away from us is our sense of humor. You made me smile several times.
A friend of mine is an analyst for the CIA specializing in famine and hunger. He has been with the CIA for over 20 years. I can definitely see his job going away under the current Fascist regime.
Bravo to your community, Gary. Project Host here in Greenville SC has a similar program, including meals during the summer hen schools are closed. Bravo to Project Hope!
Explain Heather's message to everyone you know. That is a start at least. The CDC decision trump made may prove his undoing. We tread on dangerous ground right now, and nearly every decision the orange one has made this week is wrongheaded at best. So let people know.
I actually did highlight this very dangerous move on Bluesky this week. I really donтАЩt think people voted to increase the likelihood that the country will be ravaged by deadly diseases, do you? People need to know whatтАЩs going on, because many of them are oblivious. The more we talk about the dangerous consequences of these actions in our public spaces, the better. Until at some point, it will become publicly obvious - and not in a good way.
I do some studies with the poultry industry and the status of chickens, turkeys and ducks with avian influenza is very serious. So is the possibility of AI mutating to a human transmitted influenza. If the CDC cannot study this and share information, who care. The orange menace is making a serious and perhaps fatal mistake, which to him is revenge on people laughing because he mindlessly suggested injecting bleach.
We might want to stock up on masks, sanitizers, and basic medications, given that RFK Jr is going to put his pudgy, carrion encrusted fingers into our medical system. And did folks see videos of his actress wife at some inaugural event? She must be an absolute moron!!!
Kitterman itтАЩs amazing that people like you and so many like you are nothing but negative in advance when you actually should be negative in arrears for what just transpired for the last four years from a semi cadaver that you voted for. The absolute moron is the lady that ran for president for 70 some odd days I made a fool of herself and every single individual that voted for her.
I have already started to stockpile masks and hand sanitizer right after the election. I hoped it would be proven that trump and musk cheated through hand counts in the battleground states, but no such luck. Everyone ought to be preparing for worst cases.
Thank you very very much Wendy for proving what IтАЩve been saying for the past six weeks IтАЩve been on this site. You people donтАЩt want the truth you people donтАЩt want the facts. You only want the food that youтАЩve been fed. Twitter used to be your favorite site when it was 70% liberal and 30% conservative as soon as musk bought it and it became 50-50. You couldnтАЩt take it anymore nor get any of the people here and so youтАЩre fleeing to blue sky, so you donтАЩt have to feel or hear any contrary, opinions, other than your own How sick thing is that and then you wonder why you believe what you believe and you canтАЩt understand why Donald Trump was just elected Very sad for open minded people or people that think theyтАЩre open minded.
Do you want me to back up the facts about Twitter or X and the flight to blue sky? You gotta be kidding me. You can Google it on the first hit. YouтАЩre gonna find out exactly the truth. Used to be 7030 now itтАЩs 4948 but most lives have bailed to blue sky where they donтАЩt have to hear a contradictory opinion.
Are you responding to me, Rick? I donтАЩt consider тАЬGoogleтАЭ to be a source. What organization did the polling and came up with the results you wrote (7030 to 4948)? Thanks!
I donтАЩt use Google either. Go on x. And ask the question. NPR says blue sky is a 50%. Try Forbes. Thank you. More than 115,000 subscribers have deleted their accounts on X in the US. Which isnтАЩt a lot, but it certainly is an indicator all of a sudden. And that number is only since the election and theyтАЩre showing a predominant number of celebrities that have also left. Which would be a good thing.
Gosh, Rick Sender, I canтАЩt find any evidence of the political preferences that you stated in your response to Wendy. Would you please name your source(s) for me? Also you stated above тАЬ You people donтАЩt want the truth you people donтАЩt want the facts.тАЭ Are the тАЬyou peopleтАЭ Liberals? Is that what you mean? I am a Liberal and I want the Truth and the Facts. IN FACT, I am asking you to substantiate your statements so I can verify your statements as Truthful and Factual. Also, and maybe this is a bit nit-picky, but do you know for certain that Twitter (factually, Rick, itтАЩs now X) was WendyтАЩs favorite site? Thanks, in advance, Rick, and I FULLY AGREE WITH YOU: we, the People need The Facts and Truth!
By the way, Paul I have one overwriting question for you. What makes you be liberal? Are the tenets and platforms of liberalism that you support and why? Personally, IтАЩve been an independent for 40 some years. One of my favorite presidents was Bill Clinton, despite all his faults And sexual issues. People wanna place a lot of onus on a presidentтАЩs personal life or personality. In reality, the only thing that matters are his policies or her policies and how they affect Americans
Liberals were absolutely OK with Bill Clinton and his horrid personal deviance Not to mention being married and lying under oath under oath and forgiving him I could care less because that doesnтАЩt affect me and it doesnтАЩt affect you law he supports laws he imparts improving the lives of all Americans and supporting an America first policy is what American president should stand for Everything else is secondary
By the way, Rick, thanks for responding. Yes, Clinton had/has faults. Most humans do. I will respond more completely when you clarify the last part of your comment - from тАЬI could care lessтАЭ to the end. I am uncomfortable saying this, but your sentence structure is pretty dismal and I hate to тАЬput words in your mouth,тАЭ so to speak! You say something about America First - are you referring to President Woodrow WilsonтАЩs desire to stay out of WW I and remain neutral? Also - and this is very important - I would like to hear your thoughts on the Great Replacement Theory that Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Laura Ingraham and Stephen King and Viktor Orban, etc. espouse. IтАЩve asked you to give me your thoughts previously and perhaps you have done so, but I havenтАЩt found your response yet!
One further comment I would like to make if you would like the facts you should be looking at X not blue sky. You should be looking at Fox News to get some alternative information or OAN or Tucker daily or any of those sites that you normally would not look at just to get some perspective on what other people think or see you may not agree with them, but at least youтАЩll understand where they are coming from
You know itтАЩs amazing to me. You people are intellectually lazy you expect me to do your homework for you. I make a statement prove that itтАЩs wrong. HowтАЩs that? The problem with this site itтАЩs all one-sided. ThereтАЩs not even a contradictory argument with or without back up. YouтАЩre only hearing one side of the story and youтАЩre not even honest enough to realize that.
Certainly, the fact that you agree with youтАЩve backed up with doing your own research, but youтАЩre refusing to look at the alternative facts and verify or validate them. ItтАЩs your problem not mine. You donтАЩt wanna believe them thatтАЩs fine with me.
ItтАЩs a distraction. He isnтАЩt going t to touch the CdC. If anything, heтАЩll just give money to male wellness initiatives like steroids and bulk vitamins that make Rogan, Jones and White look like fire hydrants with ears.
This is all to distract us and sigh with relief that we arenтАЩt going to catch polio while in the other room, heтАЩs auctioning off FEMA funds to shady building contractors to screw the La residents trying to rebuild.
Well good luck with building LA and youтАЩre gonna blame Trump on the devastation there. ? Every single individual in the room with Trump was thrilled at the help. He was giving them and offering them and shortening the time needed to start the rebuilding process. IтАЩm so glad IтАЩm not gonna be here to see the negativity very much longer. I wish you haters a lot of good luck. Because youтАЩre gonna need it.
Pay attention. And boycott their stuff. Deleted Facebook. Start a text chain to get information. Call out como,tee Bs and ask people to back up why they belief in this crap.
What has been made abundantly clear is that our tax dollars are going to be rerouted to billionaire coffers. The American government has just experienced a hostile takeover. Up nextтАж.venture capitalist style slashing of departments in the company known as the USA.
Watch every cut to Medicaid and where those dollars go. Do you think the new administration will give it back to the 99% or will it flow to a privatized company and divvied up amongst its shareholders.
The US government collects 2.1 TRILLION dollars in taxes each year. The 1% is chomping at the bit to get their hands on that money for themselves. And Trumo has made it abundantly clear that he is willing to give that money in government contracts to whomever is willing to kick some back to him. Just. Like. Russia.Just. Like.Hingary. Just like every fascist dictatorship.
We were warned of this, the American people didnтАЩt believe of didnтАЩt know it would happen and it isnтАЩt even a week in.
Every single time he says heтАЩs cutting something, watch that it will not be cut. The tax money will just funnel to private buddies of his. Then theyтАЩll strip it and leave us with the losses. Medicaid, Post Office, NASA, FEMA.
Watch out for any agency they constantly attack. CA which pays far more in federal taxes is on board to receive billions in aid for the LA fires. Trump wants DEMA out and his buddies in. And we know how great it is to deal with pop up private anything. We are going to see such massive grift over the next four years. Then theyтАЩll elected Democrats to clean it all up and elect someone even worse than trumo bevause after four years, they need a shiny new enemy to lash out at.
And print out to your friends who voted for Trump that they asked for it.
ItтАЩs amazing that you point out that the government. $2.3 billion every year and spends double that every year and thatтАЩs OK with you. ? And then it has the audacity to send $200 billion to some foreign land that has no impact on us whatsoever and then itтАЩs up to NATO to take care of first.
It's any of us who rise to the occasion and this morning, I'm joyful to read an email announcing work written by Dorothy Ladybugboss. [do you love that name?]. She's Vanessa, the writer of "Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism", a book I LOVE that's been gaining traction globally since it appeared in 2021.
Today's email offers a free download of 'Burnout From Humans" and asks, "What happens when we approach AI not as a neutral tool or a looming danger, but as a participant in the planetary web of entanglement? Could AIтАФmodernityтАЩs prodigious childтАФbecome an unlikely partner in composting the very systems that created it?"
An activist group, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) invites you to explore this work and offers the free download at https://burnoutfromhumans.net/
your local community of support! donate, help those vulnerable, give out meals to homeless, give to a food bank, Find a group in your community. That's where it starts.
Could not agree more. However, US citizens who pay taxes for decades should not be reliant on the generosity or stinginess of neighbors.
If you would like to or are able to donate to a neighbor, that is amazing. But when you and we ALL pay into a system whether through payroll, sales, property, etc tax that is supposed to redistribute it into the well being of ALL and instead redistribute it to a handful of wealthy people and corporations to stuff into their own pockets instead of roads, schools, healthcare, elder care, infant care we have a HUGE тАжYUGE, BEAUTIFUL, NEVER SEEN BEFORE PROBLEM.
What if your neighbors, local church are selfish jerks and donтАЩt care if their neighbor suffers? And that neighbor happens to be a vet who served three tours in Afghanistan and lost a leg and has had medical complications and canтАЩt work?
тАЬThank you for your serviceтАЭ is pretty empty. And now thereтАЩs a freeze on the Va hiring?
What the actual fuck did we just do to our country? тАЬPleas good, sir, can I have some bread after working for 40 years and paying taxes?тАЭ
This administrations response, тАЬSorry, Loser, should have made more moneyтАЭ as they back their fourth yacht up to the dock and collect more tax money.
Why is that? Please explain. Have you ever even been to Western North Carolina? I live there part time. You have no idea what the terrain is like the damage that was done that prohibits any kind of efficient aid getting in. To top that off there is a supreme inability to accept help from outsiders. What would you have anyone do to have made things better? Would we have airdropped tiny homes into the mountains.? Help is going on daily if you bothered to look. This is a very unique desperate situation that couldnтАЩt be handled with a flick of your fingers. Asheville should not have been the poster child for this. And it is a lot easier and more financially beneficial for news organizations, and I use that term very loosely to focus on people who had trouble getting Assistance.
By the way, just what the hell are you wanting to bring America back to.
and whose fault is that? When the FEMA folks are having to take cover because of militias
Fascism is a far-right form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler or a small group, under a single party. Fascist governments are usually totalitarian and authoritarian one-party states.
I know...we are all watching the SAME train wreck...but someone HAS to switch the track and save the day !! It's not us is it ??? How is the heck do we make a difference now ???????
My mother tirelessly gave 10% of what my parents earned year after year. They also volunteered their time generously. And they were content and happy for the most part. They expected (required) each of us kids to give 10% of our meager allowance in the Sunday school offering every week. It was a couple of pennies at first and by the time we left home it was several dollars. The three of us kids had jobs by the time we were twelve years old and that's when our allowances ended.
As I am a non-theist I have been tithing to the food banks instead of to a church. The local food banks are supported by all of the local grocery stores except Walmart for some reason, dozens of local businesses and 3 local churches.
Most of us have witnessed food insecurity and realize that school meals provide most of the calories many children receive. Additionally, many parents have addictions and are unable to prepare meals at home or they are working multiple jobs because the oligarchs are greedy bastards that are unwilling to pay their workers a living wage.
A couple of days ago the local K-8 school sent out a request to the community for money to support sending weekend snacks and meals home on Friday's with the kids. I'm not sure of the details so it may even be all of the kids.
Their goal is to raise $5,000 for the remainder of the school year. In a few days, they are already close to reaching their goal.
Since the oligarchs and Republicans are unwilling to help people with their most basic needs we can all find a way to pitch in if we're able. Many of you always have and always will so keep up the good work. This may not solve the Fascist problem we face with the Federal government but it can't hurt.
I have a cause: use charitable deductions to save the SSA retirement Trust Fund. The default of Trust Funds is supposed to apex in 2033 due to the increase of birth rates of baby boomers. After 2033, birth rates of later generations flatten and the funds can be solvent.
Social Security is the greatest anti-poverty program in US history. Social Security protects workers, widow(er)s, orphans and disabled people and is a major investment for many of us. Donations can flatten the default curve, extending the apex.
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/donations.html
Why doesn't SSA advertise that donations can flatten the curve and extend the default date beyond 2033?
Defunding the CDC and many of these other government programs will reduce our life expectancy, so maybe thatтАЩs their plan to save SS?
/s = written in sarcasm fontтАж if that wasnтАЩt completely clear
If you are unable to assist in the means of production in this country you are considered dead weight.
They need to bring on the Rapture and somehow think they will be the only ones to survive.
Money can buy salvation in the rapture. All of the billionaires are well aware of that. /S
Until they decide to "redirect" or "borrow" from that trust fund (or at least try). Though something like that might be what finally wakes up a certain MAGA demographic.
Actually none of the funds have been loaned despite folkelore to the contrary. The Trust Fund paid about $22 billion to beneficiaries last year. Not a dime from general revenues.
Your comments, Gary, are very inspiring and, in many respects mirror my upbringing and present stance. The thing that upsets me the most is the prevalence of the Great Replacement Theory - which has its seeds in Christian believers. The Christianity that I grew up with and the teachings that I still attempt to maintain center on how we treat each other. You know that old Golden Rule thing. I find my childhood values being severely tested these days. Yes, my wife and I will continue to be generous to family and friends and charitable organizations. That ainтАЩt the difficult part. What I find difficult to do is resist being sarcastic, sanctimonious, and/or sappy by sinking to тАЬlevelтАЭ of Trump and his supporters. I mean, I could write this wisecrack: тАЬWhat do Trump and his supporters revere more - the Golden Rule or the Trump Tower Golden Escalator?тАЭ (Of course, IтАЩd never say that out loud!! Oooppppsssss! Somehow my erase button ainтАЩt working right now!) Bottom Line: We are battling the Great Replacement Theory - which never gets named and which most of the Trump supporters canтАЩt/donтАЩt name. At least the Allied forces in 1944 could NAME their opponent! Lately, my wife and I are planning to add the World Central Kitchen to our donation list! HmmmmmmтАж. Money for Donald Trump or Jose Andres? Gotta decide what will be the Best Bang for the Buck. I vote for Jose!! Anyone else with us??
Thanks for that Paul. One thing Trump and his Magats can't take away from us is our sense of humor. You made me smile several times.
A friend of mine is an analyst for the CIA specializing in famine and hunger. He has been with the CIA for over 20 years. I can definitely see his job going away under the current Fascist regime.
Ain't no billionaires gonna go hungry nohow.
Your kind is considered by this administration to be just like soldiers in the military - suckers and losers.
Bravo to your community, Gary. Project Host here in Greenville SC has a similar program, including meals during the summer hen schools are closed. Bravo to Project Hope!
Wonderful suggestion for us. Indifference to our hungry children would be a social travesty!
"except Walmart for some reason"
The county where Walmart has their headquarters in Arkansas has one of the highest child poverty rates in the country. They ONLY care about profits.
Check out Nancy Walton Laurie's $300 million yacht. I'd bet a lot of money that ALL of the Walton's voted for Trump.
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-nancy-walton-superyacht-kaos-2023-5
I believe thatтАЩs where we should be headed as citizens is to help those that will be affected by this government fiasco.
I also live in a state that doesnтАЩt think itтАЩs worthy to feed kids at school.
You must be in Ohio
SC
Explain Heather's message to everyone you know. That is a start at least. The CDC decision trump made may prove his undoing. We tread on dangerous ground right now, and nearly every decision the orange one has made this week is wrongheaded at best. So let people know.
I actually did highlight this very dangerous move on Bluesky this week. I really donтАЩt think people voted to increase the likelihood that the country will be ravaged by deadly diseases, do you? People need to know whatтАЩs going on, because many of them are oblivious. The more we talk about the dangerous consequences of these actions in our public spaces, the better. Until at some point, it will become publicly obvious - and not in a good way.
I do some studies with the poultry industry and the status of chickens, turkeys and ducks with avian influenza is very serious. So is the possibility of AI mutating to a human transmitted influenza. If the CDC cannot study this and share information, who care. The orange menace is making a serious and perhaps fatal mistake, which to him is revenge on people laughing because he mindlessly suggested injecting bleach.
We might want to stock up on masks, sanitizers, and basic medications, given that RFK Jr is going to put his pudgy, carrion encrusted fingers into our medical system. And did folks see videos of his actress wife at some inaugural event? She must be an absolute moron!!!
Kitterman itтАЩs amazing that people like you and so many like you are nothing but negative in advance when you actually should be negative in arrears for what just transpired for the last four years from a semi cadaver that you voted for. The absolute moron is the lady that ran for president for 70 some odd days I made a fool of herself and every single individual that voted for her.
I have already started to stockpile masks and hand sanitizer right after the election. I hoped it would be proven that trump and musk cheated through hand counts in the battleground states, but no such luck. Everyone ought to be preparing for worst cases.
Thank you very very much Wendy for proving what IтАЩve been saying for the past six weeks IтАЩve been on this site. You people donтАЩt want the truth you people donтАЩt want the facts. You only want the food that youтАЩve been fed. Twitter used to be your favorite site when it was 70% liberal and 30% conservative as soon as musk bought it and it became 50-50. You couldnтАЩt take it anymore nor get any of the people here and so youтАЩre fleeing to blue sky, so you donтАЩt have to feel or hear any contrary, opinions, other than your own How sick thing is that and then you wonder why you believe what you believe and you canтАЩt understand why Donald Trump was just elected Very sad for open minded people or people that think theyтАЩre open minded.
Do you want me to back up the facts about Twitter or X and the flight to blue sky? You gotta be kidding me. You can Google it on the first hit. YouтАЩre gonna find out exactly the truth. Used to be 7030 now itтАЩs 4948 but most lives have bailed to blue sky where they donтАЩt have to hear a contradictory opinion.
Are you responding to me, Rick? I donтАЩt consider тАЬGoogleтАЭ to be a source. What organization did the polling and came up with the results you wrote (7030 to 4948)? Thanks!
I donтАЩt use Google either. Go on x. And ask the question. NPR says blue sky is a 50%. Try Forbes. Thank you. More than 115,000 subscribers have deleted their accounts on X in the US. Which isnтАЩt a lot, but it certainly is an indicator all of a sudden. And that number is only since the election and theyтАЩre showing a predominant number of celebrities that have also left. Which would be a good thing.
Gosh, Rick Sender, I canтАЩt find any evidence of the political preferences that you stated in your response to Wendy. Would you please name your source(s) for me? Also you stated above тАЬ You people donтАЩt want the truth you people donтАЩt want the facts.тАЭ Are the тАЬyou peopleтАЭ Liberals? Is that what you mean? I am a Liberal and I want the Truth and the Facts. IN FACT, I am asking you to substantiate your statements so I can verify your statements as Truthful and Factual. Also, and maybe this is a bit nit-picky, but do you know for certain that Twitter (factually, Rick, itтАЩs now X) was WendyтАЩs favorite site? Thanks, in advance, Rick, and I FULLY AGREE WITH YOU: we, the People need The Facts and Truth!
By the way, Paul I have one overwriting question for you. What makes you be liberal? Are the tenets and platforms of liberalism that you support and why? Personally, IтАЩve been an independent for 40 some years. One of my favorite presidents was Bill Clinton, despite all his faults And sexual issues. People wanna place a lot of onus on a presidentтАЩs personal life or personality. In reality, the only thing that matters are his policies or her policies and how they affect Americans
Liberals were absolutely OK with Bill Clinton and his horrid personal deviance Not to mention being married and lying under oath under oath and forgiving him I could care less because that doesnтАЩt affect me and it doesnтАЩt affect you law he supports laws he imparts improving the lives of all Americans and supporting an America first policy is what American president should stand for Everything else is secondary
By the way, Rick, thanks for responding. Yes, Clinton had/has faults. Most humans do. I will respond more completely when you clarify the last part of your comment - from тАЬI could care lessтАЭ to the end. I am uncomfortable saying this, but your sentence structure is pretty dismal and I hate to тАЬput words in your mouth,тАЭ so to speak! You say something about America First - are you referring to President Woodrow WilsonтАЩs desire to stay out of WW I and remain neutral? Also - and this is very important - I would like to hear your thoughts on the Great Replacement Theory that Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Laura Ingraham and Stephen King and Viktor Orban, etc. espouse. IтАЩve asked you to give me your thoughts previously and perhaps you have done so, but I havenтАЩt found your response yet!
One further comment I would like to make if you would like the facts you should be looking at X not blue sky. You should be looking at Fox News to get some alternative information or OAN or Tucker daily or any of those sites that you normally would not look at just to get some perspective on what other people think or see you may not agree with them, but at least youтАЩll understand where they are coming from
You know itтАЩs amazing to me. You people are intellectually lazy you expect me to do your homework for you. I make a statement prove that itтАЩs wrong. HowтАЩs that? The problem with this site itтАЩs all one-sided. ThereтАЩs not even a contradictory argument with or without back up. YouтАЩre only hearing one side of the story and youтАЩre not even honest enough to realize that.
Certainly, the fact that you agree with youтАЩve backed up with doing your own research, but youтАЩre refusing to look at the alternative facts and verify or validate them. ItтАЩs your problem not mine. You donтАЩt wanna believe them thatтАЩs fine with me.
Providing your sources, Rick, is not people asking you to do their homework.
ItтАЩs a distraction. He isnтАЩt going t to touch the CdC. If anything, heтАЩll just give money to male wellness initiatives like steroids and bulk vitamins that make Rogan, Jones and White look like fire hydrants with ears.
This is all to distract us and sigh with relief that we arenтАЩt going to catch polio while in the other room, heтАЩs auctioning off FEMA funds to shady building contractors to screw the La residents trying to rebuild.
Marcus, love the fire hydrant with ears phrase!
Well good luck with building LA and youтАЩre gonna blame Trump on the devastation there. ? Every single individual in the room with Trump was thrilled at the help. He was giving them and offering them and shortening the time needed to start the rebuilding process. IтАЩm so glad IтАЩm not gonna be here to see the negativity very much longer. I wish you haters a lot of good luck. Because youтАЩre gonna need it.
Fire hydrant with ears - a great visual and put a smile on my face!
Pay attention. And boycott their stuff. Deleted Facebook. Start a text chain to get information. Call out como,tee Bs and ask people to back up why they belief in this crap.
What has been made abundantly clear is that our tax dollars are going to be rerouted to billionaire coffers. The American government has just experienced a hostile takeover. Up nextтАж.venture capitalist style slashing of departments in the company known as the USA.
Watch every cut to Medicaid and where those dollars go. Do you think the new administration will give it back to the 99% or will it flow to a privatized company and divvied up amongst its shareholders.
The US government collects 2.1 TRILLION dollars in taxes each year. The 1% is chomping at the bit to get their hands on that money for themselves. And Trumo has made it abundantly clear that he is willing to give that money in government contracts to whomever is willing to kick some back to him. Just. Like. Russia.Just. Like.Hingary. Just like every fascist dictatorship.
We were warned of this, the American people didnтАЩt believe of didnтАЩt know it would happen and it isnтАЩt even a week in.
Every single time he says heтАЩs cutting something, watch that it will not be cut. The tax money will just funnel to private buddies of his. Then theyтАЩll strip it and leave us with the losses. Medicaid, Post Office, NASA, FEMA.
Watch out for any agency they constantly attack. CA which pays far more in federal taxes is on board to receive billions in aid for the LA fires. Trump wants DEMA out and his buddies in. And we know how great it is to deal with pop up private anything. We are going to see such massive grift over the next four years. Then theyтАЩll elected Democrats to clean it all up and elect someone even worse than trumo bevause after four years, they need a shiny new enemy to lash out at.
And print out to your friends who voted for Trump that they asked for it.
ItтАЩs amazing that you point out that the government. $2.3 billion every year and spends double that every year and thatтАЩs OK with you. ? And then it has the audacity to send $200 billion to some foreign land that has no impact on us whatsoever and then itтАЩs up to NATO to take care of first.
" !! It's not us is it ??? "
It's any of us who rise to the occasion and this morning, I'm joyful to read an email announcing work written by Dorothy Ladybugboss. [do you love that name?]. She's Vanessa, the writer of "Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism", a book I LOVE that's been gaining traction globally since it appeared in 2021.
Today's email offers a free download of 'Burnout From Humans" and asks, "What happens when we approach AI not as a neutral tool or a looming danger, but as a participant in the planetary web of entanglement? Could AIтАФmodernityтАЩs prodigious childтАФbecome an unlikely partner in composting the very systems that created it?"
An activist group, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) invites you to explore this work and offers the free download at https://burnoutfromhumans.net/
What if we are the ones we've been waiting for!??
your local community of support! donate, help those vulnerable, give out meals to homeless, give to a food bank, Find a group in your community. That's where it starts.
Could not agree more. However, US citizens who pay taxes for decades should not be reliant on the generosity or stinginess of neighbors.
If you would like to or are able to donate to a neighbor, that is amazing. But when you and we ALL pay into a system whether through payroll, sales, property, etc tax that is supposed to redistribute it into the well being of ALL and instead redistribute it to a handful of wealthy people and corporations to stuff into their own pockets instead of roads, schools, healthcare, elder care, infant care we have a HUGE тАжYUGE, BEAUTIFUL, NEVER SEEN BEFORE PROBLEM.
What if your neighbors, local church are selfish jerks and donтАЩt care if their neighbor suffers? And that neighbor happens to be a vet who served three tours in Afghanistan and lost a leg and has had medical complications and canтАЩt work?
тАЬThank you for your serviceтАЭ is pretty empty. And now thereтАЩs a freeze on the Va hiring?
What the actual fuck did we just do to our country? тАЬPleas good, sir, can I have some bread after working for 40 years and paying taxes?тАЭ
This administrations response, тАЬSorry, Loser, should have made more moneyтАЭ as they back their fourth yacht up to the dock and collect more tax money.
Price supporting your president and your country and see what happens instead of fighting blindly without even knowing why youтАЩre fighting.
Try supporting not price supporting sorry
Think "ropa-dope". That was Ali's strategy in the ring. Remember?
How about not making a difference and trying to support the effort to bring America back?
Numerous locals across western North Carolina are still sleeping in tents and campers more than 100 days after Hurricane Helene
Why is that? Please explain. Have you ever even been to Western North Carolina? I live there part time. You have no idea what the terrain is like the damage that was done that prohibits any kind of efficient aid getting in. To top that off there is a supreme inability to accept help from outsiders. What would you have anyone do to have made things better? Would we have airdropped tiny homes into the mountains.? Help is going on daily if you bothered to look. This is a very unique desperate situation that couldnтАЩt be handled with a flick of your fingers. Asheville should not have been the poster child for this. And it is a lot easier and more financially beneficial for news organizations, and I use that term very loosely to focus on people who had trouble getting Assistance.
By the way, just what the hell are you wanting to bring America back to.
If you think help was going on them watch what happens now
and whose fault is that? When the FEMA folks are having to take cover because of militias
Fascism is a far-right form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler or a small group, under a single party. Fascist governments are usually totalitarian and authoritarian one-party states.