I still like Ike.
I was a ham operator as a teen back in the days when Radio Moscow was blasting their vile propaganda right in the middle of the 40-meter amateur band. Learned to recognize propaganda when I hear it. Went on to serve Uncle Sam for 28 years. No DMs
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I still like Ike.
My professor in most of those courses had been the personnel director at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when it closed. He taught us things that employers wished we didn't know.
This Miller's band is still playing 80 years after his death and his original records are still selling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aME0...
Is that why he's so afraid of the rain?
Yep, it's a shame, but it matters more which party is in power than which person holds the office.
It might be quicker to list the ones that aren’t
Just for kicks, google "peabody mining accidents" without the quotes.
DeSantis will likely be the one who takes the fall for Alligator Auschwitz, and that will be good because it may rid us of him entirely.
I will gladly vote for him if he runs, but I fear that being Jewish will cost him a block of votes, though not as many as being female or Black. Dems need to face the facts about American voters' prejudices.
Where I went to Engineering school, we had only a smattering of Liberal Arts, but they got rid of the Industrial Relations Department, where we learned about labor law, labor history and related topics. Those turned out to be some of the most useful courses.
Here's what Lawrence O'Donnell had to say about him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gif...
It all began with the failure of the education system. Children who failed were promoted anyhow. Now those kids who didn't learn their lessons in school are all voting.
Last time he addressed the U.N. General Assembly he was laughed at. This time I expect he'll be booed.
This is exactly what the illegitimate Putin/Trump/GOP/Project 2025 Corporate Fascist lying pigs want in the USA - TOTAL CHAOS, injustice, fear, hate, xenophobia, division, ("Us V Them", whoever Trump says that is), Police brutality, abuse of Power, extrajudicial disappearances. IT'S ALL FASCISM 101.
My late Jewish friend would have called Vance "a nebbish."
"The senior leadership is gone." I wouldn't abandon all hope for the organization. For every one of those SES department heads there's at least one second-in-command who's better protected by civil service rules and also has many years' experience in the same field.
We also don't know what might have happened in her life between those times that may have changed her intentions. The most important factor in both of those transactions is that all the payments were made on time.
And they ignored the excellent briefing Joe gave about foreign affairs.
He's been brain-dead for at least a decade. He's the Dunning-Kruger President.
The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. trib.al/VnbR4iD
The Dunning-Kruger President.
TU. Been looking for that chart.
Another civil servant fired for doing his job, and all our SSNs compromised. CYA by putting a freeze on all your credit reports, three of them for each family member. Watch for a letter from Medicare notifying you that an online account has been opened in your name.
the midterms save us from this INSANITY! I note however, that I do not believe he is on his deathbed, no matter how much I wish it were so. I think he’s just lazy and old. But if he does kick the bucket, don’t bother trying to contain my glee. I will be partying for WEEKS!
We've been saying he's mentally ill for ten years, but have been forced to wait until he's so far gone that it's undeniable.
Even a near miss would have given him a nasty bruise from the shock wave, and his hearing would have taken quite a while to recover.
The very first thing Congress did in 2017 at Trump's request was to remove a constraint on mentally ill persons purchasing guns. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The only emergency is nuts loose in the White House.
Their presence is intimidating, even if they don't interact with civilians. At the polls it'll discourage people from voting.
Everyone, change your voter registration to Republican so they can't tell one from another at the polls. Vote in the GOP primaries for the candidate Trump does not endorse. Then vote Democratic in the general election. It's a formula for return to normalcy.
He's been convicted.
Someone's gonna have paintball fun with those banners.
Yet another Indian war. Last one was in 1923.
We don't know all the facts about Lisa Cook's home buying. Fraud hinges on what was in a person's mind at time the act happened. I once bought a house and then decided to accept a better job offer in another city that came along just a few months later. We do know about Trump's frauds.
Vance thinks that he is so smart, but his statement reveals his total ignorance about how monetary policy management works. America has been considered the world’s gold standard precisely because it has never allowed politicians to manipulate monetary policy to advance their political objectives.
He often makes me wonder what they're teaching kids at schools like Ohio State and Yale where he went to college. Could he be one of those who studies only for the exams and then promptly forgets everything he was supposed to have learned?
Elijah was murdered by police five years ago during Trump's first term. The arrest and disappearance of violinist John Shin brought it to mind. I think they target people who are well known because it has an emotional impact on so many of us. It's state-sponsered terrorism.
They looked at "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" and decided to dispense with a few of those things so their henchmen could accumulate even more loot.
His executive order did NOT establish a specific punishment for flag burning. 🤔 What about autographing an American flag? #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
It's what Hitler did in Germany. He also had the leader of his brownshirts killed.
For the time being they're humoring their gun-owner voters, but if they succeed in consolidating power, the guns will eventually be confiscated from most people.
That's the U.S. military spirit: If there's nothing else that needs to be done, just find a way to stay busy.
He'll say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear at the time. He, and lots of other politicians assume the American public cannot remember anything for more than a few weeks.
Most likely the military wanted him to do that. In wartime they need a source for spare parts located entirely in the CONUS. Right now they're dependent on parts made in East Asia.
Probably a little of both. Remember, he got $30 million Russian dollars in 2016 laundered via the NRA. He also hates Obama because Obama made jokes about him.
Correct!
Early in the first Trump Administration, Republicans actually removed a restriction on mentally ill persons obtaining firearms. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
No, they're just crooked.
I voted for Kamala, but expected she'd lose merely because she was both female and Black. In dumb ol' America, each petty bias chips off a block of votes. Hoping next time the Dems will choose a candidate who's not doubly burdened.
Over fees? How about all the damned lies they tell to millions of unsuspecting people? The Communications Act of 1934 made it illegal to use communication technology for false and deceptive purposes, yet nothing has been done about that very practice affecting millions of Americans.
Let me get this right.. you can’t burn a flag or you’ll go to prison and have to serve your time but if you storm the Capitol and beat cops with the flag you get a pardon and a job😡 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BXGV66/
Could very well be!
Cops seem to have thing about violinists, don't they?
Numerous states have laws prohibiting the wearing of masks in public to conceal identity, including Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, and Virginia. These laws generally have exceptions for religious or health purposes, holiday costumes, or occupational safet
We need all DAs to get on board with this. The only way to stop these criminals is to prosecute them #USDemocracy
Now do Trump with a banana (republic) cream pie.
We can't pay him back with the same because his reputation is already in the sewer.
'Tides are turning': Dem’s double-digit victory in Trump district generates shockwaves
DNC should be doing oppo research right now on GOP Congresscritters in districts that are likely to go Blue. They might strike enough paydirt to force some resignations.
In truth, he has no guiding principles whatsoever. He just does in each situation whatever he thinks will benefit himself the most.
That's why I posted it, so more people would know.
Lisa Cook has not been judged guilty of fraud by a court of law; Donald Trump has been, and he's allowed to hold the office of President.
When Aurora cops murdered Elijah McClain, his fellow violinists held a violin vigil for him in a local park. So the cops stormed the vigil in riot gear to break it up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4VR...
Shades of Elijah McClain. America is not safe for violinists.
That's none of his damned business!
New York State did that very research and got a judgment against him for $450 million. The state Supreme Court just tossed out the fine.
Quite likely it was illegal for him to have accessed those files.
Unfortunately it's not possiblefor ordinary people to boycott his business.
Google and read the complaints about Pulte Homes.
Desecrating the American flag will not be tolerated...Thank you for your attention to this matter! #flag
Is that any worse flag etiquette than making thousands of American flags with partisan images or slogans over-printed on them?
Changing attitudes is sometimes very hard. The Irish are still fighting the Battle of the Boyne and Canadians are still fighting the French and Indian War.
The high point of the '36 Olympics was when Jesse Owens made fools of those fascist swine.
The free world needs to boycott the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, just as they should have boycotted the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
Many of them still hold that malicious view, even among the younger generations, and for now they're the ruling faction. It could last a long time.
Both of them should have been executed for treason because they waged war against the United States. So should the entire Confederate officer corps.
And got away with it! Time to show these azz holes a thing or two.
They held Jeff Davis for two years but let him have the run of an Army base while the lawyers argued about what they should do with him. Then they set him free with no charges. He died of old age.
Anyone wondering about the allegations against Ms. Cook should google her accuser's, Mr. Pulte's, company about the complaints and lawsuits people have against them over the quality of homes they're stuck with. Decide then about which one is really the crook.
Remember your oath to the Constitution.
That's a damned lie! I recall the Dems fighting to keep Trump from excluding non-citizens from the census count.
News stories say inmates at that prison are free to leave the grounds during the day to attend classes or work at a job. I suspect they've set her up to be killed by vigilantes when she takes advantage of her newfound freedom. She's like Ivana; she knows too much.
I know it's not easy, but the Republican Party needs to get that moron educated about how costly it is to cancel projects that are already being built.
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I'm not so sure the words "bona fide" apply to anything fascists might do.
He should remain registered as a Republican and vote against Trump/Abbot endorsees in the primaries, then vote Democratic in the general election. If we can get enough to vote that way we'll be rid of the extremists who've ruined the party in just a few cycles.
There's no clue as to what state you're in. I presume the state of confusion.
Those who have the wherewithal should be digging dirt like crazy on GOP Reps who won their seats by only a small margin, hoping to find something that could force them to resign post-haste. The guy in my own district beats up his girlfriends and doesn't pay his rent, but he won by a huge margin.
I'd read about personalty traits correlating with pedophilic disorder, but until I saw that South Park clip the other day it never occurred to me that a major contributing factor in a male offender might simply be that he has unusually small genital organs.
I remember a case long ago in Titusville where police had broken down the door of a man's house and he killed one of them. Turned out they'd raided the wrong house. The homeowner went free.
Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?
Divide and conquer!
I went to an IEEE conference once that was touted to be in SLC, but found myself stranded at a pricey ski resort in the hills nearby. Limited by the gov't per-diem allowance, I had to pocket bagels at the "free" breakfasts to eat later in the day. Went home hungry and never did get to see SLC.
I saw a movie about the Magdalene Laundries. I'm almost as Irish as Paddy's pig, but Orange, not Green. Three of my ancestors emigrated in the late 19th Century. They came over as servants for rich families. To my knowledge we never had any instability in my family in America.
Ivana's nondisclosure agreement was about to expire when she was killed. Chances she fell are remote because she was an athlete, a downhill skiier. News reports said her body had been cremated. No telling what weighed so much in the casket.
I've heard your story many times before from other Appalachians. Family instability has become a nationwide social ill at all income levels and religious taboos are not the solution. Good educations for young women are a better one.
I initially wrote "Appalachia," but changed it because I've known families with the same problem in other areas of the South. In truth, family instability is a nationwide problem, even among Catholics, who are notoriously intolerant of modern America's serial monogamy norm.
Cyndi 
