We are a sovereign nation and are not supplicants to this court.

I'm using common sense.
#157 | Posted by BillJohnson

I've stumbled into a world of fiction.

MAGA is splintering over things like Forever Wars and Hidden Epstein Files.

Splitters are splitting. Who'd a thunk?

Folks are spending fat stacks on AI, and no one has figured out much about monetizing it

Only 2% of Americans use AI at this time; when the "internet" had 2% usage, no one was monetizing it either.

Loser ---- Turds salivating about poor white women with children losing food money to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

Is a fascinating statement of ignorance; it completely ignores the fraud rates and assumes that the "poor" people are receiving benefits.

I see no reason American taxpayers should pay for high rates of fraud. I recall when I arrived here, politicians held the taxpayer in high regard.

Today, not so much; it just seems it's just someone to mooch off of. The more the government can take and give to fraudulent people, the better.

What I find incredible is that if fraud were diminished us Liberals could get what we want. America is, by socialist definitions, a socialist state; 61% of federal tax dollars are allocated for BOOMERS to receive. Yet people here would have you believe the US is a capitalist hell hole.

idk seems like socialists are getting what they want, but they also want to kill the golden goose as well.

Pres Trump has not a clue how to treat long-term allies.

Neither does Canada. You'd think DialAgain would care about the tonnes of CO2 released, but he'd rather talk about the Lewzer than actually help the environment.

It's just pure coincidence that BullJohnson parrots what Trump and Republicans say verbatim.

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If the criteria is such that 41 of 50 states currently fail, the actual purpose and effect of the legislation will be to reduce even the proper and justified SNAP payments.

The criteria isn't that difficult. The fraud is actually the reduction, not the cutting back by the legislation.

For instance, this is related.

I am all for helping the homeless... but this is where the money is going, and this is just one such case.

LFT rides a Pedo Protector Purity Pony... or maybe it rides him, you know, down in Tijuana.
#16 | POSTED BY CORKY

I knew Lfty supported Walz! I knew it.

"They're giving the states with the worst waste until 2030 to get it together."

If the criteria is such that 41 of 50 states currently fail, the actual purpose and effect of the legislation will be to reduce even the proper and justified SNAP payments.

This is much like the Republicans purging voter rolls based on first name, last name, and date of birth. And ignoring any evidence that multiple individuals might all share the same names and birthdays. It's designed to get the outcome it wants, which is fewer people allowed to vote.

Surely you understand all of that, and you're just playing dumb about the real intent of Republicans, which is to cripple the social safety net.

What are the fraud rates?

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 07:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

So far, it hasn't been called "fraud". It's simply being treated as mismanagement of funds - a lot of funds. And the states with the highest amount of it are being given until 2030 to get it reeled in to 6%. Or they can opt to pay for it themselves.

You mean the immigrants who didn't have to prove their vax status when entering the country?
#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Nobody has to prove their vaccination status when entering the country since the COVID pandemic ended, and then, it was only COVID.
Measles in 2026 isn't because of people who entered the country illegally in 2021-2025.
The incubation period... isn't 1-5 years.

You probably already know that's true.
You're just so committed to racism that blaming immigrants is more important to you than telling the truth.
Just like your dreamboy J.D. Vance and his eyeliner.

Pres Trump proves once again that he does not care about the Americans who have cope with his economic disasters as they try to put food on the table for their children.

I believe the people who allow and are committing the fraud are the ones who don't care about the Americans.

Its noble to want to give to people to put food on the table, BUT that's not where the money is going.

Why do you Lumpers avoid that fact completely.

Can't we agree fraud is bad?
Can't we agree lots of fraud is worse?
How do you propose to stop it without incentives?

I expect crickets from the so-called posters that want to actually discuss issues.

Do you actually believe in climate change?

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-22 06:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

I do, but how does that address my #12?

The closer we get to elections.

The more desperate Trump will become.

November is 3 months away, which is an eternity, and more than enough time for Trump and republicans to finalize their plans to steal the election.

Four years of unchecked illegal immigration will do it every damn time.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-22 05:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Is your hair on fire?

They're giving the states with the worst waste until 2030 to get it together.

Mid-term elections marks the beginning of the dismantling next year.

Social Security and Medicare are going to be siphoned away.

Empty Bank Day looms closer.

Did you know Piggy condemns Canada for their wildfire and recognizes "we didn't use to see these massive wildfires" {paraphrase]

Yes Piggy those wildfires are due to YOUR climate change policies and the result of your party's climate policies for the past 3 decades

"In a statement, Talarico spokesperson JT Ennis said the campaign "has no control over contributions to any super PAC," noting that federal law bars political campaigns from coordinating with outside entities.
#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-22 03:15 PM | Reply | Flag:
Silence is consent. That's his excuse not that the cat is out of the bag.
#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Telling a PAC what to do is called Coordination. That's illegal.

We know you Pedophiles don't care about laws. You guys let convicted pedophiles go after all. But Talarico does follow the law.

the maximum legal amount ...

... one can donate in order to get idiots like you to suddenly take issue with people who went to Epstein island.

You voted for Trump 3 times and are still planning on voting for Ken Paxton.

You don't have a leg to stand on.

Your best hope is to drag others down to your level.

You're a turd.

Republicans take money from Epstein-tied megadonors every day

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-22 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Republicans take the same money Democrats do. The problem here is, people like you and the geriatric house bitch from #1 are pretending to ride purity ponies.

"attempting to kill an HSI agent by ripping off her body armor, slamming her head into the ground, and choking her. "

^
Trump pardoned the people who did that on J6.

What really terrifies MAGA movers and shakers is the prospect of even a modicum of justice whisking away the loot they've stolen and the immunity they believe their venality and cowardice have bought them.

What cannot be washed out - ever - are the memories and effects of the massive destruction and thousands of deaths they caused and condoned to ingratiate themselves with a mad-as-a-box-of-frogs dementia patient while materially enriching themselves and incinerating their reputations. Absolute pigs.

Canada has been named the most loved country in the world

Trump's idea of a forest is Central Park. He thinks raking the leaves is forest management.
Calling him dumb as dirt is an insult to dirt.

Donald Trump is the most hated man in the world for so, so many reasons.

" a regime that executed 356 prisoners by decapitation last year. "

That's probably Trump's favorite thing about them.

That and the fact that they're filthy rich. Richer than Trump. Gaudier than Trump, yet somehow not as tasteless.

The people that did 9-11 get nukes? We're bombing Iran because they're building nukes, but the Saudi's get nukes.

The next batch of Saudis that want to attack us like they did on 9/11 could well have access to nukes or dirty bombs thanks to Donald Trump.

"It is just an attempt to understand what the agents may have perceived"

No, you're lying.

You're not attempting to understand anything in this conversation.

You're trying to establish that what happened can't even really be understood.

You're covering up a murder in cold blood.

- Eberly, posting on a thread about another poster and nothing at all about the topic of the thread.

When that's a majority of one's posts, one is merely bitching at people for what they say or how they say it, with no salient point to make.

"most people grow and learn"

Most is overselling it.
Something like 80% of Americans still believe in the supernatural.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut

ICE shot and killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse for the VA. An unarmed man with a cell phone.

AI enhanced the original, blurrier photo. The ICE dude obviously and most definitely holding a pistol in his hand.

"toxic intellectual climate in which reasonable dissent on politically charged topics is routinely suppressed and punished."

Good to see Anthropology expressing current Administration ideals.

Remember how there were once many, many web browsers, to 'open a portal on the world' and blah blah blah? And now there are only a few browsers still functional and used. AI assistants will face the same fate in the coming year or so. Why? Folks are spending fat stacks on AI, and no one has figured out much about monetizing it to make back the funds spent--except, perhaps, for porn. Watch and see, clip and save...

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."
Red Cloud (1822-1909)
Oglala Lakota
The Fifth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Rights Association (1888)

Saudis put billions of dollars in the pockets of the Trump Crime Family:

"Since Donald Trump's noisy exit from the presidency in January 2021, the former commander in chief and his family have made billions of dollars in business deals with Saudi Arabia's ruling elite.

Jared Kushner, the former president's son-in-law who served as the de facto Middle Eastern viceroy during Trump's tenure in office, has been the biggest buck raker in the clan."

more

Comply or Die.

It used to be Don't Tread On Me.

Republicans have TDS. He's made them deranged.

I'm using common sense.
#157 | Posted by BillJohnson

I've stumbled into a world of fiction.

And we're now into the second generation of white Americans brought up that way, almost intentionally.

Which is where immigrants can help immensely. I frankly am not enthused by what I see in the Eurodescendant workforce ethic of 20-year-olds.

One the one hand, Trump set up ICE to be his brownshirt army, and on the other hand, he is handicapping the FBI and other agencies so they cannot act as controls on ICE behavior.

What on earth did he bring a gun to a protest for?

Boaz would say he had a right to, and doesn't need a reason.

You're a coward. You can't take a stand. And you act like that's a good substitute for having personality.

Too little, too late. The damage has been done and we're going to have to spend their lifetimes getting back to what we had 50 years ago.
Considering who controls pretty much all the sources of information in this country, I'm not optimistic. Happily proved wrong, but skeptical.

Hiya, Corky ... Your daughter is in a fascinating field - one about which practitioners I've encountered feel a real passion. She's also covering a lot of territory when you factor in the traffic. People in S FL seem to handle that by zoning out, freaking out, or dropping out. And the heat you mention? This is the northern Caribbean, basically, and the midday blast reminds me of a beachside town in Yucatan ages ago (built up now) coming into summer: painfully bright light from an incandescent sun, deserted beach, no-dogs empty streets, closed shops, nobody in sight. Eventually, a bus came by. Its kinds like that. The weird never seems too far off. Lol.