Putin runs a fascist kleptocracy pretending to be a republic. The former Soviet Union ran a kleptocracy masquerading as a socialist republic. Neither of these benefit ordinary citizens. The US runs a capitalist oligarchy imitation democratic republic which provides no benefit to ordinary people.
Not so much a straight face as an adjusted one.
There’s a fat chance of slim pickings and a slim chance of a fat lot of good it’ll do you.
You got me. I thought, “of course Texas did,” but then saw it was The Onion. Still…Texas….
His “don’t trust experts” shtik is pretty lame. Bet he doesn’t ask one of the passengers to fly a plane he is on. Pretty sure his limo driver has a license and experience, his housekeepers, his gardeners, all experts I’m betting.
I also find the number of my friends declines in direct proportion to the number of cookies I have which could be shared if I had more friends.
To illustrate all technological inventions are not necessarily good. We are at a place where we need to reduce energy use but have embraced two which use massive amounts of energy and water. Of course those who profit will sell us water in bottles made of oil.
A huge bunch of spoiled rotten “adult” men prefer an unlimited number of children die rather take a chance on losing a single one of their toys.
Recent studies estimate transgender adults at .8% and teens at 3.3%, about in line with the percentage of mass murderers. Women, at more than 50% of the population are the non participants in this parade of horror.
So all inventions improve our lives? Nuclear weapons? Bombers? Rapid fire weaponry? Addictive drugs? Unregulated PACs? Yet another version of Windows?
Preparing for the new economy in which praise of “Dear Leader” is the only legal tender.
This is a multi-purpose gesture. It serves to reinforce cult loyalty, denigrate actual military sacrifice, and emphasize the movement’s core racism.
On the benefit issue, I see there are already reductions in employment in the tech sector because of AI. The pimping of AI brags of take over of white collar work, displacement of artists and writers. Server farms also use massive amounts of electricity and water denying these to neighbors.
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Well, in fairness, when the Bible was written there were no firearms. Kind of unreasonable to expect the biblical deity to know what to do about them.
Or you could ask actual scientists what causes crime and address the problem directly. Silly me. This is not about crime. This is about getting troops into cities where there might be trouble when Republicans steal the midterm elections.
A movement obsessed with “manliness” whose members act like simpering little toadies. Every one of these sniveling cabinet officers should be sentenced to wear knee pads outside their clothes where they can be seen by every honest American for the rest of their lives.
Those who ordered or participated in illegal acts should be prosecuted.
Cracker Barrels are not “unique.” They are a corporate parody of local country restaurants. Corporate America specializes in plastic imitations of real life experiences. Next time leave the interstate long enough to drive into town. Find a restaurant with work trucks around it. Eat there.
The wonderfulness of white people must not be diminished in any way. Sure white people kept slaves, only happy slaves of course, but there was hope white people would free the slaves and just keep tormenting them after they were free. Which they did. So, MAGA!
Moving people out of their homes to make room for AI and bitcoin server farms is strong evidence these technologies are intended to benefit only the elite few.
Grandpa told me about them Hippies! They had HAIR! On their HEADS! Talkin’ all ‘bout peace and love! BAH! HUMBUG! Skinheads rule! Racism and Hate is the only way! MAGA!
Epstein files - DOJ to Congress - “One for you, two for the burn bag. One for you…oops…one for the burn bag. One for you…burn bag, burn bag, burn bag….”
We need to stop mollycoddling fascists. Kidnapping under color of law can lead to personal liability under s. 1983. It is also a crime. Ordering kidnapping the same. Incarceration and deportation without due process are kidnapping. Where are our state prosecutors and civil lawyers? Time to saddle up
The 3.5% number represents only the named legal owners of slaves. It does not include the owners’ families. With families the number of owners climbs to 25%. At least 12% of GDP was attributable to slave labor in 1860. This percentage excludes personal service values.
1. Oil and gas money dominates our politics. a) outside the cities people use gas for home maintenance, travel to stores and doctors, recreation with, boats, ATVs, farming and travel. 2. US elections are controlled by money. See point 1. 3. We can fix 1 by fixing 1(a) or 2. 2 is easier.
Remember in Trump’s first term when he was obsessed with the danger of thrown cans of soup? Now he has called out the army over a sandwich. I think he’s getting soft.
Ha! I see it so clearly now! As clearly as you can see Russia from Sarah’s dock!
Perfect defense: “I heard Trump’s voice in my heart. He said ‘give him the pastrami!’ So I did! MAGA!”
Is this any way to run a country?! Of course not! MAGA!
Rubio and Witkoff assisting Trump in “negotiations.” An empty suit and a real estate investor vs. Putin and a couple of Kremlin negotiators. What could possibly go wrong?
The “3/5 Compromise” dealt with counting people for the purpose of determining representation in the House. Slavers wanted to count slaves for representation but not allow them to vote. The compromise counted indentured servants but not Indians and slaves at 3/5ths of a person.
Remember the Hillary “you want me to stay at home and bake cookies” comment that caused the entire Republican propaganda system to stroke out? So, Dems ran a candidate who actually cooks and that stroked them out. Best approach is Republicans’ blood pressure is not my problem.
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I seem to remember being warned as a child of the danger of serving two masters. You cannot serve the tyrant and The People.
In the beginning there was Trump and Eve, and Eve was hot! So there was this tree and somebody, not Trump, Trump doesn’t know anything about it, but there was this deal, probably the greatest deal nobody knows about that would make America Great Again, this great HUGE deal….
They know they are breaking to law, that’s why they wear masks.
A klepto-fascist state is the ideal capitalist system, no labor problems, no strikes, no troublesome regulations. Sure you got to pay the big guy, but, hell, you do that anyway.
Probably could have managed it himself if he just hit those bad boys with his big balls, kind of like a purse.
Your wife is an artist!
For very good reasons representatives begin negotiations not the leaders of the involved countries. Among the reasons are time to consider, getting other input, researching practicalities, and making sure all involved parties are onboard before going forward. This is just an old man grandstanding.
I was speaking of Trump’s view of the world. Why negotiate only with Russia when Ukraine was attacked. I think he equates international value with possession of nuclear weapons. Russia has them, Ukraine does not. If a nation has the weapons it may bully. If not, it will just take it.
The question is does AI add value to people’s lives, or only wealth to Silicon Valley’s billionaires? The huge server farms are enormously expensive and damaging to the environment. Do The People get anything of value out of this technology?
She fades back, jumps, SCORE!
If you care, read my post again. If you just want to post your own views on an issue different than I addressed, by all means, proceed.
I’m betting IF Republicans lose power the ICE files will end up the same place the Epstein files have gone. Regardless, there need to be prosecutions from the bottom to the top.
I am concerned Trump sees international power as determined by who has the most nukes. So he sees Russia as a great power, though its economy is half the size of California’s. This is potentially an incredibly destabilizing view of the world.
Article II, Section IV: “The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” This refers to individual officers not all at once. Nice thought, though.
I have seen a similar “breaking news” about an NFL quarterback. Turned out not to be true. Ms. Goff does a lot of charitable work, but without some source, other than Facebook I would consider this likely untrue.
Is accepting a personal gift in return for a policy exemption part of a president’s official duties? No, of course not. But let’s not place all the blame on these two miscreants. Where is Congress and the power of impeachment? We have elected hundreds of grifters who steal from us every day.
The Constitution says judges in all courts shall hold their office “during good behavior.” Art. III, Sec. I. This clearly indicates no judge has a vested interest in the position. The Constitution is silent as to terms, so I would argue Congress and the states have power to limit respective terms.
A multi-multi billionaire contributed more than t $250,000,000, and ran million dollar lotteries to get the president and other Republicans elected. We, all Americans, should hang our heads in shame.
We could use a modern luddite movement. It seems pretty clear that AI is intended to eliminate white collar workers like robotics has eliminated blue collar workers.
Maybe we should put some money and effort into solving our drug purchasing problem rather than someone else’s drug selling problem.
If we get out of this fascist attack alive we need to arrest, charge and if appropriate, punish all of the fascist helpers as well as the big boss.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy hubris.
Wonderful! Thank you!
We should all remember Trump was friends with Epstein not in spite of what Epstein was, but because of what Epstein was.
If America was serious about maintaining its Constitutional Republic Trump would have been arrested and jailed for treason on January 7th. He would have been removed from office by the Cabinet and Congress and tried for treason. Sadly, we are only serious about protecting the rich and famous.
Need news outlets to petition the court to make discovery public. What did Trump know and when did he know it. (Variation on Sen. Howard Baker quote re: Nixon)
Trump is giving Maxwell very special treatment, reclassification downward, and a move to a “country club” prison. The question is what is Trump getting out of it? Because we know damn well the victims and the American people aren’t getting anything out of the deal.
When a handful of men (and it is white men) own most of the world’s wealth, the rest of us cannot compete. Musk, alone, gave north of $250,000,000 to Trump’s campaign. Harris got about 75,000,000 votes. You would need more than $3.00 from each and every one to equal the total from Musk alone.
All political money comes from corporate and rich donors. We don’t have a political problem as much as a money problem. Too much money in too few hands. Fix that, fix it all.
The most watched media on cable, FOX, says media can’t be trusted. Pretty sure they should know. The oligarchs are confident of their owned media’s ability to confuse the rest of us.
Magic eight ball says, “must protect the rich at all costs.”
I suspect Trump doesn’t care what the real numbers are. I suspect based on his past behavior he expects everyone around him to lie for him all the time. He is “selling” his presidency to the world.”As is, no guarantees.” Ignore your lying eyes and nose! This is not manure! It’s pure gold! Buy now!
“On men getting laid.” Damn! That sounds progressive! Sounds like the crew can’t wait for the sex doll to arrive. Try growing up.
Trump’s budget provides for 1 million deportations each year. ICE is on track to deport 300,000 this year. I am sure the pressure on the agency and agents is enormous. They just don’t care if they are right or not.
With all due respect, “Trump thinks” is an oxymoron.
Sounds like a flat earther assessment.
A person with $1 billion can hire 1000 lawyers at $1 million each, or 1 million lawyers at $1,000 each. That’s why there are two systems of justice.
High praise, indeed.
Thanks to you and Mr. Blabalino for the wonderful learning experience!
Thank you. I am going to have to rethink more than a few cowboy movie heroes.
Wait! You are not supposed to sit in the saddle?!
Just got carried away by the Song of Solomon.
Attention! All persons will be ignorant beginning immediately! Critical thinking will be PUNISHED! Observation of facts with your lying eyes and ears is FORBIDDEN! It is unlawful to fact check noble leader!
Well you kind of have to, don’t you? That shirt’s not coming off by itself.
Had Huckleberry Finn been required reading for all American students, we might have avoided our current “Royal Nonsuch.”
There are some internet postings suggesting Epstein made his money selling kompromat to various intelligence agencies around the world, not as an agent of any, but as an independent contractor. If so we won’t see the files. It would destroy the usefulness of the information.
The Epstein files are distracting the men identified in the files from their primary activity of taking advantage of American workers and their children.
“I am not afraid! I am not afraid! I am not afraid,” said the Cowardly Lyon.
There has always been slavery, but America made it inherited in perpetuity. America committed genocide against the people who were here first. Many of the survivors that genocide still live in concentration camp- like “reservations.”
Brilliant!
Cannot confirm this story. Source, please.
Now that is cool! Well done!
“Fewer.”
Russia was never a hoax The 2020 election wasn’t stolen Tariffs are a tax on you Haitians didn’t eat pets The Epstein files exist
Every man who flew on Epstein’s plane was educated enough to at least know the story of Nabokov’s Lolita. They flew with very young women on a plane named “Lolita Express” that had a bed in it. Can we please be spared the protestations of innocence?
“Dems” are not who you need to worry about. People throw “parties” for rich guys. Trump met Melania at Kit Kat Club party for rich guys to meet young European models. ‘Course Epstein was his BFF for a long time. Wake up and smell the coffee.
AI gets all its information from the internet. The internet is filled with garbage. “Garbage in garbage out.”
Merrick Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by Obama because he was perceived to be a conservative non-controversial selection. Senate Repugnant-cons under McConnell refused their Constitutional duty. Biden then appointed him AG. He is no “liberal.” What are you talking about?
Three points. 1) Epstein was arrested during Trump’s first term. Whatever investigation was done began under Trump. 2) From Epstein’s arrest until today, DOJ has been run by a Republican. 3) Democrats know who’s on the list, half the rich and powerful in the country.
Beautiful!
Spot on! Both parties support a system that strips every bit of life and energy from each of us and gives all that value to the super rich. The only difference is the Dems give a little bit back.
Beautiful! Thank you.
Serving in Congress is a privilege too. You take away our privileges, it is only fair we take away yours.
Some of us have questions about his hand and his ear.
Wonderful colors, composition. Excellent. Thank you.
No lynching in America ever lacked a mob. Some of us think any violence against an “other” is just grand.