Are we talking about the same unions that stood next to Trump on the campaign trail?
Love kids, dogs, and data. I'm not crazy about MAGA or Apartheid. I'm not sure what I would do if my dog joined MAGA.
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Are we talking about the same unions that stood next to Trump on the campaign trail?
The vast, overwhelming impact of polio on children was not death, same for scarlett fever. Children lived with the impact and the life long disabilities.
Our politicians are always campaigning. Can they spend money on traveling, food, hotels, office space, phones, furniture, and child care if they can say they are actively campaigning... WHICH THEY ALWAYS ARE
The real core issue is what constitutes a campaign expense
Are you aware that candidates are able to take loans ahead of an election and only pay it back if they lose. They have millions in war chests to take when they leave office. They are able to get inside info and invest accordingly. You and I mean nothing.
The definition of "campaign expenses" is very broad.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your insights and time to explain this.
I'm sorry. Trans people are such a small minority that it is too easy to treat them horribly. It does show a deplorable lack of character.
Can someone please explain to me why the trans community is angry at Corbyn. I'm American and have a poor understanding of British politics.
You are correct, and yes, I have a BUT. The more significant problem is that our political representatives are permitted to take money from lobbyists. Their salaries should be quadrupled and no other money. No Pacs, speaking engagements, individual investments.
I only hope Abrego Garcia's family sues for malicious prosections.
Jeffries may not be THE problem, but he definitely is A problem. Both Schumer and Jeffries act like this is normal and everything will be fine if we just get along. It is absolutely disgusting
Medvedev should keep in mind that his supporters could care less if he had an orgy with 12 years olds where they shoot puppies during downtime.
I can't believe I forgot to say, I also have an extremely wussy cat in, who was raised, of course, by my bossy dog.
How long do you think it would take to find him his forever home. I can spoil him for a few weeks if it would help.
He is very very cute
I am going to try to explain this in a way that doesn't make my puppy sound like the spawn of Satan. She is 35 lb and fluffy. She is the most bossy dog I have ever had in my life. Not vicious, doesn't bite, but she is the boss.
How would Houdini be with a very bossy and motherly Mini Australian Shepherd?
The only policies MAGA is loyal to, are; 1. Men should be in charge of women, 2. Pedophilia is fine, and 3. It is really past time we bring back slavery.
I'm sorry if this sounds crazy.But I swear that most pedophiles are republican.
The answer is that all tariffs on imports are import taxes BUT NOT all import taxes are tariffs.
What I asked you is how they are different?
It's absolutely horrible. But it's also horrible that Israel is committing a genocide underwritten by the American people. You take almost a million dollars from AIPAC and voted to send $675 million in arms, in spite of the fact that only 9% of American Democrats support this.
How are tariffs different from an import tax?
Tariffs being a regressive talent is just an irrefurable fact. You have no reason to argue with me. Just wait for all the new factories, happy workers, and two chickens in every pot. Or you can just read a book about all the times the tariffs have dismally failed.
I'm starting to think that you are just the most boring possible troll on the planet.
A tariff is just a regressive tax, like a sales tax.
Tariffs are going to raise prices. Losing immigrants is going to raise prices. The working class are going to lose money to the big beautiful bill. I've never understood why anyone would vote for come comma so I leave that part up to you.
American definitely don't want factory jobs unless they can make $20 an hour. Americans definitely don't want to pay twice as much for a t-shirt. Americans want there to be lots of immigrants who are good with being abused and villified.
The thing to ALWAYS keep in mind is that they have NOT yet turned on their leader. Something has to happen directly to them, or it doesn't count.
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Perhaps we'll get lucky, and a hurricane comes and takes care of the problem for us.
I believe that accepting over $100,000 from AIPAC, and voting to send even more money to support a genocide, brings great shame on your constituents and on you. Doing so requires that you have lost whatever moral compass you ever had.
This is my question... According to Gallup only 8% of Democrats and 25% of Independents still support Israel. But Democratic leaders are still voting to send even moreso arm and support, so my question is why. The only answer I can think of is AIPAC.
A family income of $200k is not VERY RICH in NYC. A nurse married to a police officer pretty much does it. But I guess New York has decided that they only want mayors from poverty...like Cuomo
I'm sorry, are DeSantis and Abbott actually two different people? Have we ever seen them together in the same room at the same time?
Let's be clear. The anti-semitism is because Israel, a country which claims to represent the Jewish people, is evil. I'm Jewish, and every Jewish person should, by this point, agree with me. The fact that they don't speaks volumes about a lost moral compass.
Israel has brought great shame to the Jewish people. I am horrified at the years I spent advocating for a genuinely repulsive country.
I'm sure you and their pediatrician were and are correct. I still made him give them separate vaccines.
I wish New Jersey could borrow him after our next gubernatorial election. I hate both candidates.
I predict Pritzker is going to be the Democratic candidate for President. Personally makes me very happy.
Wild!
My stupidity is showing because I don't even understand how that's possible.
It's like the people of America have never read the story about the camel and the tent. They just keep giving in and in and in until they're gone.
One would think that releasing these people into Florida would be cruel enough.
I wouldn't care less if it just kept him out of DC... Anything to keep all of them out of DC.
I want to add that I am not against vaccines., but when my kids were little I gave then individual vaccines as opposed to the MMP. True that they got stuck a lot more often but I didn't like that there were no interaction studies. This seems like the ultimate interaction study.
I'm very unclear. Is it a universal influenza vaccine or a vaccine that covers things like mumps and measles and chickenpox?
Who are you speaking for... The 18 people who find this stupid advertisement to be the biggest issue of the week?
Until we have an issue that directly impacts the majority of Americans we will accomplish nothing. The only other option is direct or indirect violence but I don't see that happening either. Please stop following me, I don't do hate follows.
What do you do? What do any of us do?
What? When were the prior deportations without due process?
That ship has sailed. Either all the bad things have already happened or they didn't matter in the first place. The US is currently involved with kidnapping people on American soil and denying them due process.
You're calling out American Eagle because they made a genes/jeans joke. It's like you're focusing all your energy on a Jewish joke in Germany in 1940. You can say that a Jewish joke is the same as the holocaust but it's just not true.
So is that the important part? Or is the important part a stupid ad that came out after the deportations were happening.
I understand that it is a stupid joke made by American Eagle and has been blown up into being a bigger political issue than illegal deportations. There is something very off about your priorities.
What ground do you think that you are ever going to get with this? Conservatives do not care about your fucking high ground.
Plenty of people object to literally everything. However, the vast majority of Americans thought eugenics was just fine before it was used by the Nazis.
A great many people championed eugenics in the United States prior to the rise of Hitler. Actually a great many people still do. Unless of course you are using a No True Scotsman argument, you are quite mistaken.
Protests without a unifying message and at least the chance of violence fail. I can't actually think of a single case where I'm wrong.
True, but it does have to be a problem to be a problem. If everything is a problem then nothing is a problem.
Everyone thought that eugenics was just fine and dandy before the Nazis. But thanks for the completely pointless history lesson.
On a broad topic probably civil rights / Vietnam.
So then why aren't you shutting the fuck up?
My door is open to any democratic Congress person who needs a place to stay. I'm in New Jersey and suspect that Abbott isn't going to try anything here.
However, liberals are going to be swept up in the pain as well. I know people here have a tremendous problem with that. I find it sad but I think it's something that has to happen. If the voters in Kentucky get Medicaid and pretend they are against government handouts, it doesn't work.
Hard question. No I don't which is why I don't think it makes sense to spend terribly much time on transient issues like American Eagle. I also don't think that at this point there is terribly much to do. Until Republicans at the individual level feel pain and turn on Trump, we have lost
How do you divide your focus? Do you spend an hour on what American Eagle says and an hour on our failing democracy?
Right now our ship is sinking. That is where we need to focus. A retrospective analysis can be written by the historians.
One can do so, but that is not what's going on here. I'm not saying that you're wrong to be angry. I'm saying that we need to stop arguing about the placement of chairs on the Titanic while this country steadily moves towards being a failed democracy.
The country is already fascist to a very uncomfortable extent. Whatever you're doing now is long after that particular cookie has crumbled. Look around. Fascism has been normalized and you're going on about some advertisement... Which by the way is exactly what American Eagle wants you to do
There is need to fuss about language. Our government has zipped right past that into kidnapping brown people on the street. This country is so far beyond the point where this language thing matters.
This is a company trying to stir up a lot of controversy, much like the "nothing comes between me and my Calvins" ad with Brooke Shields. They are using the word genes because they are trying very hard to be clever, and failing.
If my boyfriend were racist, would that be worthy of national condemnation. Should we march in the streets. Just break up with him and let it go.
Bamboozled? Until 2010 I was a Republican. Trust me when I tell you that the Republicans are way better in politics than we are. The only problem they have is that they are evil. And I'm not attacking leftists, I'm attacking the way leftists handle campaigns.
When you scream just as loudly about a silly act as you do about kidnappings you just sound ridiculous. It is not the same thing. There is no slippery slope. Honestly, it just looks like anger looking for a place to land.
No limbering up necessary. The American government is kidnapping people and sending them into foreign work accounts without due process...RIGHT NOW!
You didn't say it but you act it. You show equivalence of anger about the destruction of a democracy and a stupid stupid ad for some crappy jeans company. Not blaming you at all but this is also the reason why all of our protests fail, no matter how many people show up
Fighting about everything is the same as fighting about nothing. The Republicans will make little things into big things but they do it forever. Democrats just thrive on this outrage of the day and it's destroying us.
When you equivalize Hitler with a blonde girl wearing jeans, you lose the ability to have impact. People are being kidnapped and sent to foreign work camps. Is that the same in your mind as an American Eagle ad?
It seems more likely that American Eagle was doing an homage to the old Calvin Klein ad with Brooke Shields. Sometimes a joke is just a joke.
I usually do but this time I thought it was so obvious and was embarrassed
You don't get it. Children have a God given right to have sex with whomever they want. After all, how old was Eve when Adam got interested... barely out of diapers
Are you assuming that conservatives are opposed to empty vindictive threats?
I'm pretty sure everyone on this site knows Jack Smith has done nothing wrong, even a lost conservative who wanders in. It doesn't matter. The overarching philosophy is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. As long as Trump hates POC and queers he can do anything he wants.
I think that most Americans see the level of corruption. The thing is that conservative are fine with it as long as the corruption drops in their favor.
Is there someone thinks it is other than a bribe.
It would be nice if someone with something to lose spoke out.
That's what I'm hoping, and honestly I don't watch Colbert.
After the deal is final will they re-hire Colbert?
It makes me wonder if German Jews would have been totally cool with Hitler, if he had just picked a different group to genocide.
Macron, doing God's work
Women are hated too...can I get in on that?
This cannot be said often enough. Republicans ONLY care about fetuses. Actual children are of no interest whatsoever.
I think that you are forgetting how much they really embrace pedophilia. I have lost count of the number of Republicans who have resigned or been disgraced by their interludes with 14 year olds.
But we do know some truths. Trump raped children AND It's not that difficult to shut down Congress.
Nothing will make MAGA people stop supporting Trump. Not rape, pedophilia, stealing from the American people, dismantling our Constitution, or kidnapping people off the street. We need to stop using that as a metric for success.
The only reason that immigration causes pressure on wages is because the vast majority of it is illegal. If we just allowed people to come over here and work, salaries wouldn't be impacted.
At the turn of the last century immigrants came to the US if they wanted to live here. We managed to get by somehow. Why all the drama?
I pay a fortune in taxes and for that I am entitled to live in a country where children are educated, the sick have health care, the elderly have support, and people do not go to bed hungry. If our federal government does not want to provide that then I should not have to pay them the taxes.