I was all ready to be offended! :O)

#20 TH: on the one hand i can very much relate to your disdain for all the working class morons who voted for Trump over and over again. As if they deserve now every bad thing that is happening to them and their communities. On the other hand, I think we all know that if this country is once again to become whole and move forward there must be some meaningful level of reconciliation after these past ten years of the greatest national polarization sine the Civil War. It cannot come from the top down. It must come from us, We The People, in our attempts to lay the disdain aside. Tall order but I think that becomes our duty if we truly are patriotic Americans.

#24 | Posted by moder8

You seem to be under the impression that there is a solution to this problem.

There isn't

There are 2 types of people in this country-the sane and the insane

The insane cannot become sane and the sane cannot become insane

Half the population is morally bankrupt. They do not have nor understand the most basic concept of ethics or morality.

Either they are stupid or evil, but there is no changing that, there is no reconciliation

They believe you are less human than them. They believe they have a god given right to rule over you.

That cannot be changed

And certainly not while the conservative regressive revolution is underway.

They have destroyed the connective tissue that held our country together. They are the ones perverting the mystic chords of memory Lincoln talked about

Teach them morals first, then we can talk

Republicans tried to do that with regime change , and clearly that was not going to work.

Did they? i thought it was to destroy Iran's nuke program or helping the protestors, or destroying their missile capacity or preventing their helping hezbollah or opening the strait or stopping the drug trade or......

You guys just love taking shots at these people and letting them know that you take pleasure in their suffering. And then you wonder why they have as much disdain for as you as you do for them and consistently vote against people they associate with your ilk.

#16 | Posted by sentinel

They started the disdain first. They convinced themselves that dems are pedophile protectors. They stripped the rights from women. They tried to overthrow the government.

They deserve disdain and worse

You guys just love taking shots at these people and letting them know that you take pleasure in their suffering. And then you wonder why they have as much disdain for as you as you do for them and consistently vote against people they associate with your ilk.

#16 | Posted by sentinel

These people voted for an obvious conman, grifter, felon, rapist, insurrectionist who has endangered my loved ones and is in the process of destroying the country I love

All to punish trans kids

Biden tried working with them, Biden tried investing in red areas

They chose Piggy over a normal human being.

Fuck them, I hope they all starve.

Wouldn't it be ironic if Hegseth was charged and found guilty of murder for the Venezuelan boat murders, is condemned to death and his execution was televised?

The ------ who raped her started communicating with her with an apology

He knew he raped her

he knew it was gang rape

She was traumatized

She was justifying the situation to herself

She did not consent to being "free -----" for every frat brother

You're a sick piece of ----

Look at jeff excusing gang rape. I am sure the drunk and drugged woman gave consent for a snapchat group chat inviting the frat bros for "free -----".

You're a disgusting piece of ----

I remind people that Piggy pardoned some US soldiers convicted of war crimes including murdering civilians

Pete Hegseth has been committing war crimes and perhaps he should suffer a similar fate

Christ these people are sick

Given this administration's track record this televised murder will be a fiasco

Its even worse

The donations, (since they can be targeted to specific communities) might be used to pressure recipients into doing things that are in the best interests of a corporation, and not necessarily the best interests of the public.

For example, let's say a company wants to build a data center in your area. That company might try to effectively bribe locals by stuffing cash into the Trump Accounts of the area's kids. Or, an executive might lobby Congress against some regulation or other, on the grounds that the policy will hurt profits"and therefore, punish the children in a given lawmaker's district. Deregulate our industry, Mr. Congressman! Please"it's for the children! Hell, maybe the parents in that district will whip votes on the company's behalf, too.

You think that is a joke

The text of the new regulation nakedly pledges as much: "Donors are attracted by the hope that a stock contribution with a five-year holding period may lead recipients and their families to feel that they have a stake in the fate of the corporation to a greater extent than if the child's holdings of the corporation were only through an index fun

But the worst part is the lockup period where you can't dump the stocks

Not only are families barred from rejecting donated shares at the outset, they are also prohibited from selling those unwanted shares, in most cases for at least five years.6

The best time for an executive to offload stock is when they think it's overvalued, and may soon drop.

So a company realizes its stock price is inflated, "donates" the stocks to kids, the kids cannot sell the stock while the stock price plummets

YAY capitalism

The corporation sees a tax windfall as the donation (i.e. tax write off) is on an inflated value

And in this case, the gift recipient is a captive audience, which may help set a sort of price floor on a falling stock. After all, some portion of the company's shares can't get dumped for a while, no matter how crappy the stock looks.

Of course, this stock thing is likely illegal

But here is where the corruption and scamming comes into play

You can't re--se the "donation" even if it means your kid has to hold the stocks of a nazi.

Or maybe you work in an industry that has actual ethics that prohibit owning stocks. Too bad. --

So, say a journalist who practices ethics and doesn't hold stocks now has his kid owning stocks in a company their parent is investigating.

But last week, the Trump administration changed the ways that these benefactors could benefact. Now, instead of giving cash, donors can give shares of individual stocks, so long as they give the stock grants to groups of at least 5,000 kids in a given age group and geographic area. Moreover, the recipients cannot refuse the gift.

So, you begin to see the issue. Our tax dollars set up an account for kids and then "philanthropic" corporations add donations to those accounts in the form of stocks. now our tax dollars are tied up in these stocks

Note that the donors can target which kids get the money and THEY CANNOT REFUSE IT

You beginning to smell the problem???

Hey Elom Musk's space x is taking advantage of this donation, which is a tax write off

Then you must see a lot of dog ----

She minimized the crimes committed against the teenaged victims of Jeffrey Epstein, observing last fall that he victimized 15-year-olds, not 8-year-olds. (Kelly has a daughter about the same age as the girls that Epstein groomed and molested.)

Reminder that Kelly claims to have been sexually harassed by Roger Ailes, but refused to come forward until Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him.

She criticizes a young woman, drugged and gang raped at 18 for not immediately running to the police, when she was too cowardly to do anything when far less was done to her

This is your typical magat scum

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