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For Trump to gets his way, he challenges the limits of executive power, then he calls us on to risk chaos by enforcing his limits. We must not be afraid to risk chaos in our society. Otherwise, we will never get any semblance of normality.
Well, my first roomie was a friend from my hometown, but he dropped out so then IU put me up with a numbskull who would do shit like get on my computer late at night because his was broke as shit. Never talked on the phone, was just thrown into it.
Remember, it is always darkest before the dawn, and this applies to both society and politics. I see this era ending up as the Govt taking back the land and putting more into designating those lands public, but this won't come easy and not before more heartache and destruction.
The thing for me is unless they are announcing his death by quartering I don't want to hear shit. Their propaganda machine is not about to enter my sphere of thought.
A bunch of you might whoop it up, but for this liberal, I will do nothing of the sort. At best, I will simply reflect on a period of immense trauma with almost no end in sight. This period is just a fucking battle I'd rather move past.
Christ, don't remind me of a time in my life I really don't look back on with much joy. Less about the experience with other people and just the fact that I was constantly afraid of the world. Not to mention as a person in college in the early 2000s finding a decent roomie was a nightmare.
As a person who has dealt with mental illness his entire life please don't compare Lunatic asylums to this planet. It does a disservice to asylums. At least they make some fucking sense.
If any of you want to learn actual history about politics instead of flying half blind, I would recommend a book that tells us why we are now way too dominated by corporate democrats. Nothing occurs in a vacuum nor overnight, kiddies. www.publishersweekly.com/9781455591381
Define "we" sir because I am certainly not listening to a person who sounds like he smoked 18 packs of cigarettes a day and talks with the mental capacity of a Llama. Shit, my bad, That is an insult to Llamas. More like the mental capacity of road kill. His dad is turning over in his fucking grave
As a rural person but also a person who is an Ancom, I would like to say that most people agree with that stuff in principle, but none of that can come without economic primacy. Without that, all else fails. We must know the obstacles in our way, not just where the north star is located.
Not a problem. Happy to spread the knowledge.
By mythologizing history, we distort what can actually work in society during the present, or we misconstrue why people are roused to stand up for certain things. One great example is democracy. Democracy does not rouse enough people until they are threatened directly with the loss of it.
This post reminded of this trailer for this doc I saw a while back. Orwell's words are more relevant now than ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YHZ...
Not just Maine but the nation. Our entrenched political system ensures that people like Collins can vote however the fuck the money wants as long as people keep voting her back in. Enough is enough with these empty suit money grubbing politicians who could give two fucks about our actual lives.
Well, let us hope so. But, like all political things, I will believe it when I see it. Especially when talking about a pol as well entrenched and connected to money as Collins is in that state. Maine needs to do better for itself and the nation. That is all I can say about that.
We can take ideas from the New Deal, but we cannot emulate it unless we are comfortable with forgetting civil rights and selling out to southern racists for a political majority. Most democrats I know today would not dig that, even if it did mean more economic programs.
Agreed, but comparisons with FDRs N.D era fail just due to the fact that he totally shat on civil rights for anyone other than white dudes. This is how they held together. Southern racist ass democrats were fine with his econ programs, but not civil rights, which was a thing for Eleanor.
These are all pipe dreams as long as two things continue to occur. 1. the endless culture wars and 2. Money in politics. Both of those require significant resets for us to move forward. We would do well to remember how divisive the 30s were and how many called FDR a communist. It won't be easy.
That won't happen until we remove the money from politics. As long as our body politic does not demand an end to this without ambiguity, we are doomed to continue discussing these issues. Either that, or the bottom has to fall out, as happened during the Great Depression.
The fact that he has to make a "proof of life" appearance is in itself problematic.
He is nothing without T.B. to back his ass up. Tell me what he has done without Brady of any note, and I will prove to you that the moon is made out of cheese. He is a loser who was shielded by winners. Even his S.B victories with the Giants saw him with better men in charge winning it.
I am a person who prefers to use whatever works in terms of society. That means I am not worried about peaceful protesting or not peaceful protesting. When it comes to stopping a literal wannabe dictator that is also a rapist, criminal con man and sociopath I'll get rid of that fuck however we can.
As a young kid in love with the American West he won me over with his role in Dances with Wolves. He was the moral heart of that story. Then his stint on Red Green made it so he would never leave the memories of my childhood. I hated when I saw his name posting because I had a bad feeling.
If only we could all start out selling coke in college. That must be the ticket to the White House and servicing a piece of shit con man with a personal viewpoint not remotely based in reality. Good times. The American dream: Be born rich. Sell Coke. Never work an honest day in your life. .
Not sure how she has stuck around for so long. This is a state that despite its good economic numbers is basically mired in low paying job hell. Most of its growth since 2010 has been in personal services, retail, and healthcare. Also known as the shit paying jobs in lay terms.
Not sure how she went this long tbh. Maine as a state has struggled economically for years. Very top heavy economy that despite good numbers since 2010 has mostly seen an economy concentrated in Personal services, healthcare, and retail. I.E all the shit paying jobs.
Oh brother. you are now entering wet dream territory. Careful, because frankly, that is all it will ever be as long as we do not hold our politicians to account, or we elect people who say dumb shit to get elected that panders to certain groups only to do dick about it once elected. Can't have that.
Nobody actually pays for anything. It is just funny money with numbers on a screen and that is even worse because it does not require them to rein in their resource base thus preventing more deaths. They can just "print" money as long a they have that ATM know as the U.S government.
Or to fund rich billionaires that don't need to hoard more of the nations wealth. Was reminded just today that if you're rich and have a jet you can get a 100 % depreciation tax just for buying a Jet, just a cool 35 mill. I am sure I can pull that out of my fucking couch cushion.
Always loved Graham. He won me over as a young kid watching Dances with Wolves but solidified himself even more for me from his stint on Red Green as Edgar Montrose. Such a legend. Will be sorely missed.
No, just rich white dudes because as a white dude that has been right many times no one listens to my goofy anonymous middle classish ass.
And once again you prove why you are my favorite deviant 🙃
Wtf would anyone needed a chipped vaccine for? We already have the chipped tracers in the things we hold in our pockets voluntarily glued to our faces. All your info, your location and all the other side info they need is right there. Gotta love that irony.
Nah, they mostly have a desire to splinter off and/or double down on the current ideological trends. So, please stop teasing with the thought of that. I really am not in the mood for a wet dream today.
Well, Labor day became a thing because people actually stood up for the rights of themselves and their fellow workers. Now that we do not do that look where we are at as Americans. Stuck in a societal-economic tailspin that works for almost no one but the ultra rich. Fun times.
England Proper holds some 53 percent of the entire UK population. His nationalist viewpoints trend with a demographic crisis that sees London hold 13% of the entire UK population. Gotta have an economy outside of London to get decent pols back. Otherwise, the catering continues.
I love how we have a holiday whose purpose is pretty much moribund at this point. Labor Day was created for workers to have a day off in this hellhole capitalist landscape. Yet. most workers nary get an hour off on Labor Day past their regular work schedule.
Fun fact about our economy for all the workers out there today: In the 1920s, the Top 1 percent owned 20 % of our wealth. In the 1950s, during the height of union membership, it went down to 12. Now that unions are dog shit again, it is back up to 23 %. Remember why we actually have Labor Day.
For people that approve of injuring 174 officers in a single day and causing the death of 3 others afterwards I would have no problem with that. They would rather honor traitors than to protect law abiding citizens.
Despite the moral lines we like to draw in the sand about that period, the economies were very much interconnected. Rhode Island mill owners relied on Cotton from South Carolina. Especially in those elite circles, which is why NYC was a hotbed of copperhead tendencies.
More like an El Salvador Hell hole, or even a good ole Mexican prison would suffice. They can sleep on a dirt floor and take showers that stink more than the dirt. See how their conservative rich dude crook asses like that.
The abolitionist movement in the 1850s was well established, but not the political force it would later become in the 60s. As far as how people would go, they would mostly not give a fuck, just like in the 1850s. In fact, most northerners were not fans of freeing POC for fear of losing jobs.
Funny how they talk about fraud and yet Trump pardons a piece of shit that defrauded Medicare of 1.3 billion dollars. These people are such rank hypocrites that if i had my way they would be the first against the wall. They are nothing more than Mafia Bosses.
Trump no longer has any truth-tellers to advise him. He has purged all of them. And a president who’s flying blind, without anyone around him to tell him he’s about to crash, will inevitably crash..
It should be noted that we have contained crime surges before. In 90 our murder rate was 8-10 per 100k. it is now about 5.76, but that decline was mostly seen during the 1990s.But, god forbid someone in this world tell him basic factual shit.
Trump and his lackeys want us to think that the game is over and they’ve won. But we can’t let them. The stakes are too high. Hopelessness is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Today's Democrats should note that if this were the New Deal era, the Democrats back then would have used everything from political chicanery, subterfuge, propaganda, and outright lies to hammer on Trump with every skeleton he had in his closet and every bullshit thing he said that made no sense.
And for argument's sake, let us pretend that Trump isn't in there. Are we still going to believe he had nothing to do with anything in regards to victimizing people? Hell, just ask E. Jean Carroll. There is no universe in which I wouldn't believe him to be a total creep. With or without Epstein.
Despite Trump living in the 1980s he seems to forget that back then we had to actually solve a real crime surge. From 1980 to 1991, the homicide rate fluctuated between 8 –10 per 100k, then went down to 5.5 100k by 2000. Now it is still 5.76 per 100k. So any B.S he puts forward is just a power grab.
Trump lives in history but doesn't seem to remember any of it. His lame excuses about crime and using troops go right in the face of us actually solving crime surges that came out of the 1980s, you know, the decade Trump perpetually lives in. Murder and V/C were much higher in 1990.
Nope. No thanks. Until that piece of shit is 6 ft under, I don't want to hear anything about his health. 10 years with this dude in my life, and each time I thought he was done for some reason, his ass comes back from the dead. Stop getting my hopes up. It's cruel.
Because they are retrograde racists and traitors. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The more they show off their lack of humanity the more they will make society sympathize with these people. The same thing happened during his first term. Guess he just took his mistakes and doubled down. But, I still blame those who voted for him more. Esp any p.o.c. Wtf were they thinking?
Glad he is talking about this, but going forward, we need to point out all the economic failures. The cuts to medicaid/snap. The gutting of life saving vaccine programs, the inflation skyrocketing to levels not seen since 80 in terms of speed. Americans vote by what is in their pockets.
Let us, for argument's sake, say he isn't in those files, or at the very least, not implicated in the way we expect. You still wouldn't have to convince me he is a pedo. His actions beyond that, from his grab 'em by the P shit to the Miss Universe grossness to the comments on his own daughter.
It is getting to the point where I blame the voter more for putting Trump in office than Trump for pulling any of his dumbass shit. On what planet did any normal, sane-thinking human think Trump was a net benefit? Fucking MORONS. Now we get to shovel shit for however many years because of them.
American companies announced 744k job cuts in the last six months. The most job cuts since the COVID pandemic. Making America Great one layoff at a time.
Yeah, because it isn't actually about the kids. it is about controlling women and ensuring that they have no recourse but to rely on the males in their lives. Not sure how they think doing that will accomplish this, but as a rural person, I have lived among enough of them to know their mindset.
And brother don't get me started on corporate manipulation of both our economy and society, especially not along the lines of talking about neoliberalism. I would make a thread 35 messages long 🙃
Being born in 1892 would have been the worst in terms of disease. You live during a time where people are full well and aware of germs, but can do little about it except be really clean. That is what killed beards. Fear that it spread TB. Your Pap came up during that whole anti-beard Tb campaign.
You would think none of us have ever learned a lesson from history. I am surprised at the way our society is so dumbfounded by division and strife when our history is literally 90 percent of that.
The fact that the RW blowhard carnival barkers are coming out to attack democrats for saying this almost makes me think there is some real truth to this.
Sometimes you don't know what you've lost till its gone. Maybe this is what we need. An environment of kids dying of whooping cough and TB. measles, the lot. As a person who has studied death certificates from the 30s I can say it was a nightmare for kids, anything pre vaccine was.
Interesting comparison because one I don't find great, but the other I would pay a ticket to see.
Honestly, I might believe that if I knew that Trump didn't love himself so much. This is a guy who not only thinks he is invincible, but there is no equal or duplicate of something so obviously great. This is in his mind obviously. To me he is just a turd of an old man.
Please stop getting my hopes up. Sincerely, Person annoyed with Trump walking and talking, and breathing.
If you ask me the 24-7/365 media landscape has created an environment where they talk about things too much because they don't have enough to talk about. The ratchet effect then becomes the obsession with a kid barely making his debut and hammering on it a million times, and he is just one example.
It should be noted that fed spending from 50s-70s was on average 18 % GDP. Yet, our fed deficit stayed at less than 1 percent of GDP. Now we are at about 23 percent of GDP in terms of fed spending. yet, we are 110 % of GDP owed to debt. This is an upside-down way to approach an economy.
I haven't been a fan of China, I think ever, they always find a reason to rub my ass the wrong way with their stupid ass policies. This is not to mention so many of the things about their social contract that go unsaid, from healthcare as bad as in the U.S to pollution that would make us gag.
Furthermore, in times of economic instability civil rights are almost always the first to go out the window or be on the chopping block. It is a ratchet effect that does not take prisoners. The last 40 yrs has been unstable and civil rights have gone down the shitter. No coincidence.
Statistics bear this out. When UE and Economic growth hit certain levels then usually you lose. GOP lost in 76 after Nixon/Recession 75. Bush 1 91/recession. Bush 2 08/recession. Biden 24/inflationary pressures eating up too much of peoples wages. 2016 was a result of 14-15 and global econ slowdown.
You aren't wrong about what you say, but as I have stated previous, I think we underestimate the golden rule of American politics: People vote by what is in their pockets. Growth albeit brisk was still eating up regular folks wages with affordability issues.
And here I thought you were just a normal person navigating through life instead of a deviant. Hey, my kind of person. haha
Funny Video, and was reminded from the video that too many people use a cell phone as an umbilical cord. I haven't had a cell phone in two years, and my life is way better off for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkY...
Indeed, his octogenarian ass is an empty suit as far as I am concerned. I am just monumentally frustrated with a system that lets 80-90 yr olds who have no connection to our reality run our lives.
Only New York state can do that. Politicians like him have a national stage, but a regional electorate. Which is why they do not have to be as involved or present. That is why we got people like MCconnell as well. A single person elected by Kentucky wielding endless national power.
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Accumulating too much wealth is considered sinful not in itself, but when the love of money becomes an overriding desire that overshadows God and neighbor. This "sin of greed" or "avarice" is a capital sin in the Christian tradition because it leads to other sins.
Accumulation of vast wealth is a gross ass sin and has poisoned our entire society to its core. So your history lesson is moot and teaches me nothing but that you have too much time on your hands and that you think ostentatious wealth is just fine.
Well, this is just the start, eventually it will look so real they can deepfake whole events for the public. That is the danger going forward. would bury A.I if I could. Nothing good has come from it so far. Big Surprise.
The other stuff played a part in it, don't misunderstand me, but you have not had a landslide by either party since 1984. That should tell you something about the state of American politics in general.
When it comes to the whims of the American voter I go back to the Nixon maxim: People vote by what is in their pockets. He may have been a fascist/racist, but he understood that is what decides elections, and on cue that is what happened. We had broad growth but inflation eating up wages.
Doesn't matter. Keep hammering on shit like they do and eventually it starts to eat away at their narrative, especially as we start to feel it in our pockets and every day life. you don't win the propaganda battle by saying shit once or twice. You hammer that shit into peoples heads.
It should be noted that stuttering comes more from a few things like trauma or just people not learning to talk as fast as their thoughts come. I didn't have that problem with speech, but my writing was sloppy looking because my hands couldn't keep up. So I do know the feeling just not the exp.
I think we forget that American society was founded on stupidity. It is only recently in the last century or so, that we really laid into the idea of pragmatic science. Before that, we had a President who died of infection despite disinfectant being around. This is just one example.
It seems it is always the unheard and vulnerable that are the first victims of any physical manifestations by bad actors, whether it is economic, physical, sexual, mental, or a slew of other things I don't have enough space to name here.
Hats off to these two. Especially Ashley Parker. She is legit one of the best reporting/writers out there today. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
This is certainly what I would do, but just like the NAZIS consider this our late 30's era. This will not come for some time and not until the fighting and divisions get more serious, and our society even more damaged by it.
Yell at your enemy and call them what you actually are. Let me just say, however, that pedophilia is a serious issue that doesn't read along political lines. Both liberal and conservatives have been found to do this, but the GOP made a big issue of it as if they were untouched by it.
Modern American Christianity lost its way a long time ago. Our country was founded by Puritans who hated the idea of money and showing off wealth as well. Not saying we should take after them, but modern Christians seemed to have forgotten that very early lesson of our "founding." Gotta love it.
I'll be honest and say I really don't want this. I want this fool to manage the economy just the way he wants. This is so I never have to hear the phrase GOP and 'Good on the economy' for the rest of my fucking life. In a way this is a victory for Trump. It protects him from his own worst impulses.
That is great an all, but the media should stop calling it "tariffs." No one understands wtf a tariff even means for their lives half the time, but they do know the word tax and that is what it actually is. Not a tariff, but rather, an indirect tax opposed on the American people.
If Jesus were alive today, his ass would be rounded up along with the rest of anyone not lucky enough to be white and a native citizen. It is literally in the Bible how he opposed the "moneyed men" in the event known as "Cleansing of the Temple." Modern Christians should take note of that shit.
Our govt framework is wrong headed and misinterpreted by the majority of the population. Our country was specifically created in the mold of Anti-Majoritarianism. As soon as we were founded most people couldn't vote. Not direct voting for Pres. until 1824, and senate 1913.
Not sure people got the memo, but unlike Russia, Or NAZI Germany we have democratic norms that go back centuries. We also have institutional strength that both of those societies lacked. That along with China, or Chile, or any of those countries. No democratic history beyond a few decades.
I'd say less new and more add to it for once in the last 50 yrs. The last hurrah was the ERA and it just sputtered. Our real problem is ambiguity and loopholes in our constitution. Along with not having actual individual rights outlined in a direct manner that leaves no room for interpretation.
It sure as shit isn't because we aren't aware of its existence, or couldn't do it. They just don't want poor ass people voting them out of office. That is how it is historically in this country. Increased voting rights and mobility equals bad shit for rich whites/elites in general.
Since the height of the Civil Rights era in the 1960s P.O.C have lost more and more of their voting rights through disenfranchisement and gerrymandering. We let the problem go, because for white America it was fine until it wasn't. Now we wonder why a lot of them gave up or even went GOP. I don't.