Everyone does realize now that we are no longer in a normal democracy, don’t they. We cannot blame Democrats any longer for losing the last election.
The American people have decided what kind of country they want, and it bears little resemblance to normal.
I see a lot of blame for our disastrous pull out of Afghanistan, but we could have stayed another decade and not sure what would have changed. I saw so many Hamas fighters carrying their weapons in Gaza during the ceasefire hostage release. Israel bombed their country to rubble and nothing much changed.
Like JVL says, we are getting what we want in this country awash in drugs, guns, and hate. Don’t want to be dark, but the Trumplicans are not leading any longer, but following. Democrats seem to be starting to follow along.
Real Americans include those who are what MAGA would consider DEI Citizens. As Trump tears apart the Equal opportunity employment act, DEI hiring offices in government and is leaning on businesses to follow suit, eliminating birthright citizenship, attempting to purge the Federal government of employees with seniority in every branch of government (who may be a few years away from full pensions), ending the department of education which will destroy equal access to education, destroying women's rights to control their own fate by planning to criminalize abortion, ending research in US so China, Russia, India and Middle East will surpass US as the leaders in science, medicine and technology, destroying healthcare bit by bit so only the wealthy have access to healthcare. More white babies will be born but more children of all races will die because of poor maternal healthcare and unvaccinated children who no longer have access to healthcare.
My three year old granddaughter has been sick and in pain for the entire month of January but because Medicaid renewal applications are being slow walked, she hasn't been able to see her nephrologist since December, who at that time thought she needed surgery to remove an extra kidney she has that doesn't drain correctly and gets mucous and blood-fillied cysts that spill over into her urine causing her terrible pain every time she urinates. The ER doesn't do anything but give her antibiotics that make her sick when she doesn't have an infection.
I know another woman who's son had a series of seizures and needs some tests and imaging that will cost $10,000 up front before the hospital will do them. Fortunately, she is still a British citizen and she took her son to the UK to get treatment because waiting for Medicaid while he had more seizures was no longer bearable and they didn't have $10,000.
I wonder how many children are suffering and getting sicker, not getting necessary care in the world's richest country so Elon Musk can try to slow the government supported healthcare down and create chaos and maybe rid the country of some of the "excess population" so billionaires can not pay taxes.
The saying "if you break it, you own it" should be modified to "if you want more babies, you are responsible for the basic needs of the children: healthcare, food, clothing, housing and education.
Bye environmental protections, Consumer protections, discrimination protections, legal protections, labour protections, safety net protections. It is all about the grift. Trump essentially admitted yesterday that he wants all government privatized. Medicare Advantage as default will be first, USPS ( Bezos?) Will be next
Have we reached a point where, even if Trump passed away tomorrow, this extremist project rolls on? I go back and forth. JD Vance is a sad and boring noodle. I can’t see anyone enthusiastically following him. Does it matter? If they do enough damage the next two years, leadership may not be important because the mechanisms of control by the extreme right will be in place to prevent serious objection.
New issue. Did the felon-in-the-WH announce the tariffs that took down the DOW today to divert attention from the plane crashes following his sacking of FAA chief?
Is his play book to keep upping the chaos ante until our order is totally obliterated?
Trump is the benchmark for individuals who never reached their potential. Trump chose to stunt his own intellectual growth thus becoming the stupidest person to ever live in the Whitehouse! What’s so stunning is that Republican Senators like John Kennedy, Bill Cassidy, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and many others have sold their intellectual souls to Trump and his unelected/unvetted billionaire cabinet!
We can't possibly be surprised by fpotus's words and actions. He has consistently blamed blacks, women, LGBTQ persons, and the disabled, as being the unqualified DEI people causing all the problems in the USA and the world. He is an insane psychopath, put into power by the billionaires, to brainwash the gullible, and to implement Project 2025 - that MuskX and his minions are putting into practice right now.
If we don't get serious, united, collective opposition to this thuggish takeover of our once democratic republic, We the People are as doomed as serfs in a monarchy.
t has neither the competence nor the interest in governing. His sole objective was to eradicate his legal jeopardy. It will not be long before he hauls off to FL to play golf and run money making scams for the rest of his (hopefully short) sorry life. Left to run the show will not be Musk who will lose interest and be distracted by the plethora of other businesses he operates. It won't be Vance who is little more than a bauble. It will not be Miller who is a one trick pony. It will be the one whose name has been barely a whisper but who is the mastermind and the puppetmaster, Steve Bannon with the creators of Project 2025. The demolition of the Federal Government as we have come to know it is well under way and is the ultimate goal. As we focus on the circus, the clown car, the absurd nominees whose actual purpose is just that, distraction, Bannon is orchestrating the destruction of the "administrative state" otherwise known as the American Federal Government. Don't believe me? Keep watching.
Can’t wait to see what happens when all those disconnected voters who voted for Trump can’t get their tax returns.
Wish those of us who didn’t vote for him could go to the front of the line. I definitely didn’t vote for this.
Everyone does realize now that we are no longer in a normal democracy, don’t they. We cannot blame Democrats any longer for losing the last election.
The American people have decided what kind of country they want, and it bears little resemblance to normal.
I see a lot of blame for our disastrous pull out of Afghanistan, but we could have stayed another decade and not sure what would have changed. I saw so many Hamas fighters carrying their weapons in Gaza during the ceasefire hostage release. Israel bombed their country to rubble and nothing much changed.
Like JVL says, we are getting what we want in this country awash in drugs, guns, and hate. Don’t want to be dark, but the Trumplicans are not leading any longer, but following. Democrats seem to be starting to follow along.
Real Americans include those who are what MAGA would consider DEI Citizens. As Trump tears apart the Equal opportunity employment act, DEI hiring offices in government and is leaning on businesses to follow suit, eliminating birthright citizenship, attempting to purge the Federal government of employees with seniority in every branch of government (who may be a few years away from full pensions), ending the department of education which will destroy equal access to education, destroying women's rights to control their own fate by planning to criminalize abortion, ending research in US so China, Russia, India and Middle East will surpass US as the leaders in science, medicine and technology, destroying healthcare bit by bit so only the wealthy have access to healthcare. More white babies will be born but more children of all races will die because of poor maternal healthcare and unvaccinated children who no longer have access to healthcare.
My three year old granddaughter has been sick and in pain for the entire month of January but because Medicaid renewal applications are being slow walked, she hasn't been able to see her nephrologist since December, who at that time thought she needed surgery to remove an extra kidney she has that doesn't drain correctly and gets mucous and blood-fillied cysts that spill over into her urine causing her terrible pain every time she urinates. The ER doesn't do anything but give her antibiotics that make her sick when she doesn't have an infection.
I know another woman who's son had a series of seizures and needs some tests and imaging that will cost $10,000 up front before the hospital will do them. Fortunately, she is still a British citizen and she took her son to the UK to get treatment because waiting for Medicaid while he had more seizures was no longer bearable and they didn't have $10,000.
I wonder how many children are suffering and getting sicker, not getting necessary care in the world's richest country so Elon Musk can try to slow the government supported healthcare down and create chaos and maybe rid the country of some of the "excess population" so billionaires can not pay taxes.
The saying "if you break it, you own it" should be modified to "if you want more babies, you are responsible for the basic needs of the children: healthcare, food, clothing, housing and education.
Bye environmental protections, Consumer protections, discrimination protections, legal protections, labour protections, safety net protections. It is all about the grift. Trump essentially admitted yesterday that he wants all government privatized. Medicare Advantage as default will be first, USPS ( Bezos?) Will be next
It took Hitler 53 days (so I've read somewhere) to the topple their government. We'll match 53 days in little more than a month.
Move fast and break things. Burn it all down. I'm glad I'm old. Good luck to the rest of you.
SAME:(
Have we reached a point where, even if Trump passed away tomorrow, this extremist project rolls on? I go back and forth. JD Vance is a sad and boring noodle. I can’t see anyone enthusiastically following him. Does it matter? If they do enough damage the next two years, leadership may not be important because the mechanisms of control by the extreme right will be in place to prevent serious objection.
New issue. Did the felon-in-the-WH announce the tariffs that took down the DOW today to divert attention from the plane crashes following his sacking of FAA chief?
Is his play book to keep upping the chaos ante until our order is totally obliterated?
Do we all remember when that ass pleaded to the Christian right and said, “Vote this one time and you won’t have to vote ever again “
They fell for it, hook line, and sinker. What he really meant was, “Vote this one time and you’ll never get to vote again“
Too late.
Trump is the benchmark for individuals who never reached their potential. Trump chose to stunt his own intellectual growth thus becoming the stupidest person to ever live in the Whitehouse! What’s so stunning is that Republican Senators like John Kennedy, Bill Cassidy, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and many others have sold their intellectual souls to Trump and his unelected/unvetted billionaire cabinet!
Lindsey Graham lives to sell his soul.
We can't possibly be surprised by fpotus's words and actions. He has consistently blamed blacks, women, LGBTQ persons, and the disabled, as being the unqualified DEI people causing all the problems in the USA and the world. He is an insane psychopath, put into power by the billionaires, to brainwash the gullible, and to implement Project 2025 - that MuskX and his minions are putting into practice right now.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say | Reuters https://search.app/wsYp6pEEgqmVo3Uw5
If we don't get serious, united, collective opposition to this thuggish takeover of our once democratic republic, We the People are as doomed as serfs in a monarchy.
One only need watch on PBS Masterpiece Theater a series entitled Vienna Blood. Same playbook. Scapegoat politics.
This is the best cheap shots of all times! I am screaming.
t has neither the competence nor the interest in governing. His sole objective was to eradicate his legal jeopardy. It will not be long before he hauls off to FL to play golf and run money making scams for the rest of his (hopefully short) sorry life. Left to run the show will not be Musk who will lose interest and be distracted by the plethora of other businesses he operates. It won't be Vance who is little more than a bauble. It will not be Miller who is a one trick pony. It will be the one whose name has been barely a whisper but who is the mastermind and the puppetmaster, Steve Bannon with the creators of Project 2025. The demolition of the Federal Government as we have come to know it is well under way and is the ultimate goal. As we focus on the circus, the clown car, the absurd nominees whose actual purpose is just that, distraction, Bannon is orchestrating the destruction of the "administrative state" otherwise known as the American Federal Government. Don't believe me? Keep watching.
That's a lot of really fortuitous stuff that needs to happen. Isn't Bannon a convicted felon? Or did he get a pardon? Don't recall.
Yes and yes.
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Straight outta the Nazi playbook. Lost WWI? Blame the Jews. Plane crashes? Blame the women and minorities.