We are being robbed. We are being robbed by billionaires. We have taxation without representation. This money does not belong to the trump family or to the president.
Trump has lost the war, and the Trump dream of a hotel on the Persian gulf is a fantasy.
Iran has a greater tolerance for pain, than America. The IRGC and the Ayatollahs, are immune to the suffering of the people. On the other hand, even the hard core Trumpers will bitch when it costs $100 or more to fill their gas tanks. already truckers are paying up to $1,800 to fill up on diesel,and truckers were a core Trump constituency.
Went to the supermarket yesterday, almost all prices have gone up $.50 to #1.00.I can afford that, but not the person in line ahead of me that is living pay day to pay day and buying food on credit card.
Trump's ego needs an off ramp,and there is none, so he claims victory or peace;
There is no off ramp because BB demands that Iran give up its uranium,and that they are not about to do. The daddy,who BB assassinated, was older and more moderate than his son, the new Ayatollah, and the IRGC leadership that BB assassinated. was older and wiser, the younger replacements are more entrenched and fanatic, so there is that.
BB learned nothing from Gaza. You can knock off one group of leaders,and a younger, angrier, more fanatic group will step up
The TRump Administration is treating our military and us civilians like any typical abuser would. Bitch about your weight, don't buy dinner, and drag you to some dumb-ass fight when you'd rather watch a good movie.
The White House has been turned into a project right out of a horror classic like Something Wicked This Way Comes. Grotesque. Corrupt. Satanic. TRump's birthday will be a carnival for the king.
Let's find our own way to celebrate his big 8-0 by fighting back. Tick-tock, Donald. See you in the streets.
We really seem to be ruled by a "Let them eat cake" monarchy that we "chose" at the ballot box. The Trump regime clearly has no interest in governing. Otherwise, the GOP would have staffed the administration with competent people, and not nincompoop sycophants incapable of administering anything or anybody. The Oval Office has been transformed into a gilded Throne Room, where suplicants come to bend the knee to beg for support.
Philosophically, the administration is fascist in the Mussolini sense. Like Benito, Trump thinks he rules the entire world. Leaders like Putin and Xi are subordinates in his deluded megalomaniacal worldview. The EU nations are unruly lieutenants whom he is currently disciplining, so they know their place in the world. The rest of the world is just filled with useless indigenous natives sitting on natural minerals we might need someday.
Because most Americans are well-off, our response to this outrageous affront to our democracy has been lethargic and casual. We too share responsibility for our hungry fellow citizens, and the millions globally who are starving and dying from diseases our ruler withheld funds for. Like many Americans, Trump stupidly fails to realize that if we do not help the Congo get a handle on their Ebola epidemic - it will, like COVID, become a deadly pandemic in search of a cure. Only this time, Trump has so damaged medical science in the past 18 months, that finding a cure may be far more challenging than last time, and many millions more will die.
We need a monumental house cleaning. Corporate-owned politicians of both major parties tend to be the same ones shekeled to Israel via AIPAC, thus useless, if not complicit in perpetuating our accelerating decline. Democrats are burdened with the likes of Jeffries, Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker, etc., each of whom has demonstrated a disdain for actual Democrats, evidently preferring to remain big fish in an evaporating pond. Calls for moderation, centrism, half-measures, incrementalism, tweaks at the periphery of fundamental problems, all the preferred solutions of the consultant class, are calls for failure. Playing it safe has fostered the fascism confronting us today. It’s past time to stop doing that.
I want the better angels of our nature to win. But they are losing. If starving builds character, let the morbidly rich starve. The day may come when the choice for those of us not morbidly rich becomes not food or medical care, when we can afford neither, but spending the last few dollars we have on food or something a bit harsher, as it may take that for the morbidly rich to lose their grip. Not a scenario I want. It means we are done as a country. We may be. We are already a world pariah for the first time, and November will be our last chance to BEGIN undoing the damage that is not already irreparable. We must all do all we can to vote, support progressive candidates, and remove the festering sore of MAGA world wherever we can. Because in case you missed it, which would be well nigh impossible, the methods of these people in the MAGOTocracy are dividing and destroying families in multiple ways, not only the country. For that they cannot be forgiven, only defeated and suppressed. Will that happen? And peacefully? We will find out if that is even possible come November
I learned that as a mayor. When I came home to the city I grew up in – a place that had lost its biggest employer decades earlier and never fully recovered – I didn't run around promising to bring back what was gone. I didn't tell people we were going to somehow make things go back to the way they used to be.
That's not how it works. And deep down, everyone knows it.
But here's what I also know: the absence of "again" is not a loss. It's an opening. The question isn't how we restore the past. The question is whether we have the courage and the clarity to build something better.
That's true for a city. And it's true for a country.
The systems we inherited – our agencies, our norms, our political institutions – many of them were designed for a world that no longer exists. Some of the things being torn down right now was already overdue for change. That doesn't make their destruction any less reckless or wrong. But it does mean that when we get the chance to build again, we should build something worthy of this moment – not a replica of what came before.
That's the work I want to be part of. And if you are looking to be a part of something like that too, then I hope you’ll consider making a contribution today:
That is a quote from Mayor Pete..
He may never be President, but he talks sense - just s does Community loving Pope Leo XIV.
He gets it - we need to fix the Constitution by writing it again - to match our times, not that of those men (all men, many owning people as their belongings - ie slaves of all colors and ages)
Re conservatives have shorter life spans: couldn’t happen to a more deserving group. If only they would hurry it up and rid the rest of us of their stupidity! Re Trump grift: you forgot to add the Tod blanch special treat granting Trump his family and businesses freedom from taxation on past and future wealth! And he only owes over $100 million in back taxes plus interest so far!
With a $39T dollar debt and foreign investors wanting to be compensated for the risk taken for buying into America's debt, interest rates on the 10y T bill has risen to 4.7% The high watermark beyond there is a point of no return is 5% above which the US can no longer afford its debt America is a debtor nation soon to become a bankrupt nation
In 1971 Nixon took America off the gold standard because of the run on the Treasury to exchange dollars for the country’s gold(you might remember France’s Charles DeGaulle running that effort?) In 1973 the dollar crashed and viola the price of gold by the Fed’s slight of hand was revalued to prevent debasement of the currency Since that time the purchasing power of the dollar has lost 98% of its value since 1973 due to both Nazi Republican and Democratic overspending Since the purchasing power of the currency is tied to inflation, this is the real reason Americans are having trouble making ends meet And this is the Fed and many administration’s dirty little secret that it has been keeping from the American people for 50 years of spendthrift government policies
Now the Fed, Cheeto, and Bessent are getting ready for another debasement of the currency to keep the government afloat But since the government is in a debt trap, any raising of bond yields to entice foreign investors to buy American debt will in essence force Cheeto into another bankruptcy….his sixth and this one is a doozie since it involves a whole country
And our adversaries, Russia and China, are sitting on large gold reserves, multiples of what the US claims to have in unaudited terms If Cheeto debases the currency by raising the price of gold, they win Fiat money(currency not tethered to a gold standard) is doomed and the 50 year old ride is over The dollar is on its last leg and lesson learned…..get out of dollars and into gold or silver and stay away from bitcoin
Thom , and all this nothing they do for nobody but themselves. Thinking hunger is a joke, well they haven’t reached close enough to that bottom yet Thom. Crazy, stuff! For, sure, Thom!
No words.
You beat me to it. I just saw your comment. The mind boggles. But there are good news stories every day and the good guys always win in the end.
Thank You.
We are being robbed. We are being robbed by billionaires. We have taxation without representation. This money does not belong to the trump family or to the president.
Come on Supreme Court, do your job or get out!
Trump has lost the war, and the Trump dream of a hotel on the Persian gulf is a fantasy.
Iran has a greater tolerance for pain, than America. The IRGC and the Ayatollahs, are immune to the suffering of the people. On the other hand, even the hard core Trumpers will bitch when it costs $100 or more to fill their gas tanks. already truckers are paying up to $1,800 to fill up on diesel,and truckers were a core Trump constituency.
Went to the supermarket yesterday, almost all prices have gone up $.50 to #1.00.I can afford that, but not the person in line ahead of me that is living pay day to pay day and buying food on credit card.
Trump's ego needs an off ramp,and there is none, so he claims victory or peace;
There is no off ramp because BB demands that Iran give up its uranium,and that they are not about to do. The daddy,who BB assassinated, was older and more moderate than his son, the new Ayatollah, and the IRGC leadership that BB assassinated. was older and wiser, the younger replacements are more entrenched and fanatic, so there is that.
BB learned nothing from Gaza. You can knock off one group of leaders,and a younger, angrier, more fanatic group will step up
Tacky, abusive, and so proud of it.....
The TRump Administration is treating our military and us civilians like any typical abuser would. Bitch about your weight, don't buy dinner, and drag you to some dumb-ass fight when you'd rather watch a good movie.
The White House has been turned into a project right out of a horror classic like Something Wicked This Way Comes. Grotesque. Corrupt. Satanic. TRump's birthday will be a carnival for the king.
Let's find our own way to celebrate his big 8-0 by fighting back. Tick-tock, Donald. See you in the streets.
We really seem to be ruled by a "Let them eat cake" monarchy that we "chose" at the ballot box. The Trump regime clearly has no interest in governing. Otherwise, the GOP would have staffed the administration with competent people, and not nincompoop sycophants incapable of administering anything or anybody. The Oval Office has been transformed into a gilded Throne Room, where suplicants come to bend the knee to beg for support.
Philosophically, the administration is fascist in the Mussolini sense. Like Benito, Trump thinks he rules the entire world. Leaders like Putin and Xi are subordinates in his deluded megalomaniacal worldview. The EU nations are unruly lieutenants whom he is currently disciplining, so they know their place in the world. The rest of the world is just filled with useless indigenous natives sitting on natural minerals we might need someday.
Because most Americans are well-off, our response to this outrageous affront to our democracy has been lethargic and casual. We too share responsibility for our hungry fellow citizens, and the millions globally who are starving and dying from diseases our ruler withheld funds for. Like many Americans, Trump stupidly fails to realize that if we do not help the Congo get a handle on their Ebola epidemic - it will, like COVID, become a deadly pandemic in search of a cure. Only this time, Trump has so damaged medical science in the past 18 months, that finding a cure may be far more challenging than last time, and many millions more will die.
We need a monumental house cleaning. Corporate-owned politicians of both major parties tend to be the same ones shekeled to Israel via AIPAC, thus useless, if not complicit in perpetuating our accelerating decline. Democrats are burdened with the likes of Jeffries, Schumer, Gillibrand, Booker, etc., each of whom has demonstrated a disdain for actual Democrats, evidently preferring to remain big fish in an evaporating pond. Calls for moderation, centrism, half-measures, incrementalism, tweaks at the periphery of fundamental problems, all the preferred solutions of the consultant class, are calls for failure. Playing it safe has fostered the fascism confronting us today. It’s past time to stop doing that.
I want the better angels of our nature to win. But they are losing. If starving builds character, let the morbidly rich starve. The day may come when the choice for those of us not morbidly rich becomes not food or medical care, when we can afford neither, but spending the last few dollars we have on food or something a bit harsher, as it may take that for the morbidly rich to lose their grip. Not a scenario I want. It means we are done as a country. We may be. We are already a world pariah for the first time, and November will be our last chance to BEGIN undoing the damage that is not already irreparable. We must all do all we can to vote, support progressive candidates, and remove the festering sore of MAGA world wherever we can. Because in case you missed it, which would be well nigh impossible, the methods of these people in the MAGOTocracy are dividing and destroying families in multiple ways, not only the country. For that they cannot be forgiven, only defeated and suppressed. Will that happen? And peacefully? We will find out if that is even possible come November
We don't get "again" in the real world.
I learned that as a mayor. When I came home to the city I grew up in – a place that had lost its biggest employer decades earlier and never fully recovered – I didn't run around promising to bring back what was gone. I didn't tell people we were going to somehow make things go back to the way they used to be.
That's not how it works. And deep down, everyone knows it.
But here's what I also know: the absence of "again" is not a loss. It's an opening. The question isn't how we restore the past. The question is whether we have the courage and the clarity to build something better.
That's true for a city. And it's true for a country.
The systems we inherited – our agencies, our norms, our political institutions – many of them were designed for a world that no longer exists. Some of the things being torn down right now was already overdue for change. That doesn't make their destruction any less reckless or wrong. But it does mean that when we get the chance to build again, we should build something worthy of this moment – not a replica of what came before.
That's the work I want to be part of. And if you are looking to be a part of something like that too, then I hope you’ll consider making a contribution today:
That is a quote from Mayor Pete..
He may never be President, but he talks sense - just s does Community loving Pope Leo XIV.
He gets it - we need to fix the Constitution by writing it again - to match our times, not that of those men (all men, many owning people as their belongings - ie slaves of all colors and ages)
We don't do that today! -
Well done Pete!
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My brother in law came up with a solution for Trump's $250 bill with his mug on it. Let's put his picture on a $3.00 bill.
Re conservatives have shorter life spans: couldn’t happen to a more deserving group. If only they would hurry it up and rid the rest of us of their stupidity! Re Trump grift: you forgot to add the Tod blanch special treat granting Trump his family and businesses freedom from taxation on past and future wealth! And he only owes over $100 million in back taxes plus interest so far!
Cheeto Pretends That America Is Not Broke (https://bit.ly/4mCI1xJ)
With a $39T dollar debt and foreign investors wanting to be compensated for the risk taken for buying into America's debt, interest rates on the 10y T bill has risen to 4.7% The high watermark beyond there is a point of no return is 5% above which the US can no longer afford its debt America is a debtor nation soon to become a bankrupt nation
In 1971 Nixon took America off the gold standard because of the run on the Treasury to exchange dollars for the country’s gold(you might remember France’s Charles DeGaulle running that effort?) In 1973 the dollar crashed and viola the price of gold by the Fed’s slight of hand was revalued to prevent debasement of the currency Since that time the purchasing power of the dollar has lost 98% of its value since 1973 due to both Nazi Republican and Democratic overspending Since the purchasing power of the currency is tied to inflation, this is the real reason Americans are having trouble making ends meet And this is the Fed and many administration’s dirty little secret that it has been keeping from the American people for 50 years of spendthrift government policies
Now the Fed, Cheeto, and Bessent are getting ready for another debasement of the currency to keep the government afloat But since the government is in a debt trap, any raising of bond yields to entice foreign investors to buy American debt will in essence force Cheeto into another bankruptcy….his sixth and this one is a doozie since it involves a whole country
And our adversaries, Russia and China, are sitting on large gold reserves, multiples of what the US claims to have in unaudited terms If Cheeto debases the currency by raising the price of gold, they win Fiat money(currency not tethered to a gold standard) is doomed and the 50 year old ride is over The dollar is on its last leg and lesson learned…..get out of dollars and into gold or silver and stay away from bitcoin
Thom , and all this nothing they do for nobody but themselves. Thinking hunger is a joke, well they haven’t reached close enough to that bottom yet Thom. Crazy, stuff! For, sure, Thom!
I am speechless. But, hey, we may have just avoided a nuclear conflagration. Doesn't that warrant a Nobel Peace Prize?