Biden likewise found and rooted out fraud within USAid. Thatās standard procedure when giving out large sums to help the needy. You assume there will be a certain amount of fraud and mismanagement and root it out. But you donāt end the entire program and just let the children die.
Wish heād hired someone with at least some design sense.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his first trip to China in seven years to reset relations with Indiaās powerful neighbor while also seeking to strengthen ties with Russia as President Donald Trump ratchets up tensions with New Delhi
And yet still better than the authoritarian who wonāt even abide by those laws. Perhaps voters need to come up with an electable alternative. So far they havenāt.
One party still believes in following American law. If it didnāt then, yes, they would both be the same. If you want to blame someone blame the American voters, including the ones who sit home and refuse to vote at all.
As AI itself explains it: āUpon taking office in January 2025, President Donald Trump rescinded the AI guardrails established by the Biden administration.ā
They no doubt knew they would need to resign if they did the right thingāwho wants to face daily abuse from co-workersābut opted to tell the truth regardless. Nothing cowardly about that.
āTheyāre not appointing their best.ā Or maybe thatās as good as MAGA gets.
Maybe if Israel would stop killing all the journalists we could tell what is was going on.
You should note that the article is from October 21 2023. Two weeks after the horrific attack and hostage taking of Israelis citizens.
Not even close. There is no Project 2025 equivalent on the Democrat side. Nor do they admire authoritarian strongmen.
And Russia peacekeepers will likely be assigned to post-war Taiwan in a year or so?
And the Supreme Court will likely drag its heels taking the case. They are in Trumpās pocket.
All or nothing with you I guess. Dems made a whole lot more progress on healthcare, at least raised minimum wage for federal contractors. More protections for unions, supported teachers. And Gaza in worse shape under Trump with zero chance now of a 2-state solution that Dems backed.
Trumpās enterprises have gone bankrupt 6 times.
So I guess that would be the end of airplanes as well.
I would suggest Republicans are chimpanzees and Democrats are bonobos. humanjourney.us/ancestors/ou...
The Big Beautiful Bill is full of Project 2025 provisions. You know the plan Trump had to deny knowledge of in order to con voters unto voting for him because it was so unpopular.
Pay attention. Your familyās safety is on the line.
Sorry, cherry picking one outlier situation and ignoring the very clear explanations that make up the bulk of the article is not helping you prove your case. The article very clearly lays out that the vast majority of illegal immigrants cannot and are not collecting social security.
Yup. Recovered, under an initiative during Bidenās administration. āThe U.S. Department of the Treasury, in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA), recovered over $31 million in federal payments to deceased individuals during a five-month pilot program ending in December 2023.ā
Except we werenāt arguing over whether Elon said it but whether dead people are collecting social security.The articles I posted explain that it is not a significant problem and safeguards are in place that make it a very small concern. In other words it is not the huge issue MAGAs want it to be.
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finance.yahoo.com/news/no-150-...
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.....
I agree there is a problem with hurt egos and the expectation that we must always take revenge. But unless you are wealthy enough to hire a high end lawyer or run for President, the message is clear: express your rage through military-style, high capacity guns.
Bombs are already illegal. You basically just need strategically set up cement barriers to protect against cars being used for mass killing. Besides if cars were as effective weād be arming our soldiers with cars instead of guns. Military-style guns are the weapon of choice for mass killing
Just googled it and statistically about 98% of school shooters are cis males. 2% or less are trans. About 9 shooters since 1999 have been female. The numbers vary a small amount depending the source and how the shooting is defined. But by very little.
And we are a gun culture who seem to have been taught that the way you express unhappiness is by shooting people.
The wealthy ones do and are most likely fully vaccinated as are their children. According to his niece, who is a physician, RFK Jr. vaccinated his own children while hypocritically discouraging others from doing so.
Hell, we havenāt even had a left wing president. Dems have been moderates at best. Republican POTUSās as well as democrat ones have failed the homeless and supported USAID as the useful tool for gaining international influence it is. Your assertion about social security was been repeatedly debunked.
You arenāt getting it: the reason homeless arenāt receiving help is not because illegal immigrants are: itās because the money is going to things the government deems more important: such as subsidies for big business and, apparently now, beautification projects in DC.
When will he be making it illegal for big business to offshore American jobs to other countries?
Ah. Then youāll be happy to learn that we do not give away all our resources to illegal immigrants. Many of them work and pay taxes, which could be used to help the homeless if they werenāt being used to subsidize big business interests.
So they are doing the same work prison inmates do in many states. They must be so proud.
True, but Iām thinking you donāt have to go through the expense of military training to do it.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnāt write it
AI grading is getting better and better. Students may end up being required to work the old fashioned way, but not the professors.
Especially since they can still have AI scan and grade the bluebooks rather than have to do it themselves.
The point is that it isnāt because he was an illegal immigrant that he ignored the u-turn sign any more than it was because the cop was an American citizen that he ignored the stop sign.
If they are willing to let Americans in. Serve us all right if all our allies closed their borders to us.
He must have paid someone else to take his American Civics class in high school
I argue your focus on undocumented immigrants as if American citizens donāt also break laws or disregard traffic signs. I see no reason for harsher treatment for the immigrant than for a citizen. I have 2 nieceās who were killed by an off-duty American cop who ran a traffic sign.
So one assumes if an American citizen were to break the law, were paroled and later murdered someone, you would then eliminate the possibility of parole for all Americans convicted of a crime from then on.
Trump said he grabbed them. And a lot of women confirmed and continue to confirm that he indeed did. In 2023 Tara ReadeāBidenās 2020 accuserādefected to Russia.
Well before he ran for office Trump was a known philanderer and publicly discussed very young womenās sexual attractiveness. 14-yr-old Miss Teen America contestants said heād walk into their dressing rooms while they were partially disrobed. Biden didnāt gave that reputation. Odd are against Trump.
Iād seen the clips of Biden reported on MSM and on ex-Twitter at the time. Just as I did Trumpās Access Hollywood and Howard Stein tapes. Again, hair blowing without permission: creepy but legal. Kissing and grabbing private parts without permission: creepy and illegal.
? There are plenty of parody videos and songs about Trump just as there are Biden. I do know that sniffing someoneās head is not generally illegal. But sexually assaulting someone in a store dressing room sure is. Youāre kind of grasping at straws with this attempt.
He is also racist. Most old white men are. But as you now, Biden has tried to correct his past prejudices. Trump, not so much.
Homelessness isnāt violent crime. Itās a human condition. Few choose to be homeless (although Christ this.)
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
The outrage isnāt that Ghislaine Maxwell lied ā thatās who sheās always been. The outrage is that the U.S. Department of Justice rewarded those lies with real benefits ā and more are still coming. This isnāt justice. Itās a state-sponsored cover-up ā and they think we wonāt notice.
This has an ungodly number of shares for something that apparently to be entirely made up. The police report has been covered and doesn't say anything like this. www.wired.com/story/edward...
NEW ā A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)
ICYMI: Trump says his administration won't approve any wind or solar power projects. Reminder that Big Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. It's a huge payoff for his corporate donors at the expense of a livable planet.
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Hmmm: I thought Germany, the aggressor, was made to unconditionally surrender to the Allied Powers.
People in New York City have long knownāwell before 2015āthat Trump is sketchy at best.
You have to go with past history and reputation as well. And what the twoāBiden and Trumpāhave themselves admitted on video they have done. Those things are real. Not opinion.
I think he did not sexually assault anyone, but had personal space issues which he apologized for & corrected. Heād never had a known history of sexually assaulting anyone or of even being a womanizer. If he did I would be more inclined to condemn him along with Trump. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You have to add to it the 28 or so women (and at least on 13 yr old child) who said he assaulted them (many of whom he paid off so they wouldnāt have him arrested.) He got away with fraud, assault, and more by quietly settling and bribing until he was too much in the public eye to get away with it.
He had his Roy Cohn and various āFixersā to buy his accusers off. Not uncommon for wealthy, shady businessmen. But much harder to do once the spotlight is on them. He himself bragged about grabbing women by their privates and getting away with it in the past. Last I checked thatās illegal.
Based on how many of your posts market the book you are trying to pump up business for, I think you just said this to provoke people on Bluesky to pay you more attention.
Or Trumpās longtime friendship with Maxwell. Iād be very surprised if self-proclaimed ladies man Trump hadnāt slept with her back in the day.
His wife and children are American citizens. Thought MAGA wanted families to stay together. Instead they are ripping them apart.
MAGA Christian values.
NEW: The government has offered Mr. Abrego deportation to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty, and threatened deportation Uganda if he does not. According to his lawyers in a new filing, that violates his 5th Amendment due process rights. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-govern...
Trump settled his cases or paid people off before 2015, starting with his settlement in 1975 for violations of the Fair Housing Act. His former wife altered her rape allegation in exchange for a hefty divorce settlement. In 1988 he paid $750,000 to settle the civil penalties of a antitrust lawsuit.
Main requirement: āwilling replace allegiance to American laws to allegiance to Trumpā
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
āWhen they punch us, we punch back harderā but more legally.
And the Christian Right is increasingly saying that empathy is overrated. religionnews.com/2025/03/06/e...
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
If Vanceās grandmother hadnāt been able to take him in when his mother was unable to, Vance likely would have been homeless and crazy himself. Instead of just crazy.
āJust say no.ā
Itās a mistake to ignore the existence of Independents. Most are neither MAGA or Mamdani. And while they canāt vote in some stateās Primaries and therefore canāt always have a say in who is running, they can swing an election.
And jealous of handsome, successful, vocal, smart ex-Black Presidents.
Well Bondi said sheās going after Boston and threatening to take away federal funding (even though Massachusetts already sends more money to the federal government than it receives) so another Revolution is likely inevitable.
You could see this coming a mile away. 100 miles away.
Co-ed college dorms have been around since at least the 1970s and it rarely gets mentioned.
Brits doing what the Brits do best.
Iām waiting for all the major news media running opinion pieces by pundits and armchair psychiatrists talking authoritatively about Trumpās obvious dementia and calling for him to resign. Maybe throw in a few quotes from George Clooney being butt hurt because Trump momentarily forgot his name.
āMany people are sayingā¦ā
You are in denial if you donāt think Trump committed sufficient āskate over the edgeā actions that an investigation was not warranted. And Trump himself used the word āretributionā and is going after virtually everyone: including for grievances that have already been fully investigated & dismissed.
Both are. But considering Trump threatened (and is carrying out) āretributionā on virtually every court, government entity, politician and family member who, even peripherally, were involved in investigating his actions that at the very least skated the edges of criminality, Biden had little choice
No. Thatās done in family graves on private golf courses.
Using our tax dollars for show.
Also MAGA with guns will be patrolling the voting booths.
Health food stores often present themselves as health food experts. Itās an image they make money off of. If her assertion is correct: that she was verbally misled by being told the labeling was merely āa technical requirement,ā (implying it was really ok for humans) then it should go to trial.
Evangelical Christian MAGAs voted for this.
Yes, but nearly 1600 pardons, virtually across the board, for an attack like Jan 6? Never seen anything that comes close to as political as that. Trump called them āhostagesā and āpatriotsāāincluding those who assaulted police officers. Crazy and shameful.
It was fully investigatedāincluding by Republican election officials and Republican-appointed judges. Any small amounts of fraud found were found equally from both parties and nowhere near would have changed the outcome. Trump has never been popular beyond his MAGA base and Covid made him less so.
They werenāt chanting āWhereās Donaldā and attempting to dethrone him. However, like Jan 6, those caught on video (hard to prosecute without that evidence) were arrested and convicted (and like Jan 6, those arrests were not always immediate). But unlike Jan 6, they were not pardoned.
