" ... a gaping void"

Sounds like Donald Trump.

"Why'd he resign?"

He wanted Newsmax to know he was available.

" if I ever found out what a Lumper was."

Think "proggie".

"Maybe you didn't have internet last week."

Maybe you didn't read the law correctly: the other 45% is being borne by importers, employees, or shareholders.

IOW, by someone ON AMERICAN SOIL.

" Condemning the beliefs is implicit in condemning the actions."

Not when you turn around and use your vote to enable the beliefs. Not when you vote FOR the folks who gave these "kids" their marching orders by setting examples.

That would make you complicit.

" its not really about people being racists"

Keep telling yourself that.

Next you'll suggest hunger can best be addressed by digging through the garbage.

" I don't vote for activist groups."

What a riot.

You're soaking wet from carrying all that water.

" They are an activist group."

And their "activities", if they had their way, would be to torture and incinerate their political enemies. According to their own words.

Do you ever stop to think about what your vote is enabling?

" Was it a flex as hard as your mom's search for a wire coat hanger?"

Admit you've got nothing, without using those specific words.

" I notice you condemn the actions and not the beliefs."

The mark of a true enabler.

" He just lives in a state of confusion most of the time"

Ask him, if Republicans get the majority of statewide votes in NC, they should control the government.

When I asked, he accused me of a "gotcha" question.

" Israel's attacks on Sunday were the most serious test of an already fragile ceasefire"

Test?!?

A big "F" on that test.

This might be a good time to point out, under the Trump Code, a waitress making $25K per year will save about twenty bucks a week.

Meanwhile, the average billionaire will save over a million dollars per week.

"He only commuted the sentence. Kept the felonies on his record so he wouldn't be able to run for office anymore.."

Felonies don't preclude running for federal office.

Just ask the Melon Felon.

"Hamas did target some civilians"

They shot rockets into Israel randomly, on a daily basis.

And remind us of the exact wording of the Hamas Preamble. How does that go again?

"no one's standard of living will change, nothing will fundamentally change."

Right AFTER he told them income inequality would have to be addressed.

Interesting, how you left out the important part.

" Joe Biden to a group of billionaires while he was running for nomination."

So, you were against it so much you've remembered it to this day, but ...

... now it's okay, because Trump?!?

" Why would the Republicans ever fix something the Elite Democrats broke."

Because they're in power.

Trump talked about his plan, coming out in two weeks. Remember? Better care, for lower prices.

Of course, that was eight years ago.

Trump has failed on both fronts.

" Guess so many are not aware that it was the dems that set the COVID subsidiary to sunset this year - NOT Trump."

And Republicans wrote tax giveaways to billionaires to sunset ... but the Republicans voted to extend them, so ...

... clearly the folks in power can do what they want. If Trump wanted to continue the subsidies, Republicans could do it the same way they extended tax cuts.

You've got all three branches of government. It's time for The Party of Responsibility to take some responsibility.

" Bob McMichael, 63, and his wife, Leslie, 62, are retired and make about $42,000 a year."

Then they're eligible for subsidies. Unless that's $42K apiece.

Eligibility for couples was below $62K initially, and has risen with inflation since then.

Also ... what kind of stupid fkkks retire in their early 60s with so little money?!?

" I guess GOP voters on Obamacare are getting a look at the healthcare plan Der Dotard"

The triple-digit premium increases are so bad, Trump will have to release the Epstein Files for cover.

" We are forcing everyone to view USA as "vendor of last resort"."

Thanks, Trumpers! You Built That!!!

"dig through the garbage"
~Oneironut's answer to the hungry in America.

" Its all a grift"

That's always the view from the cheap seats.

Meanwhile, a lot of non-profit CEOs are taking pay cuts compared to what they'd make in the corporate world.

When I was on the SAG-AFTRA Board, our exec was making $500K ... but as a Rhodes Scholar and Stanford Summa, he could've commanded $2-$5 million on the open market. And that's a low estimate.

Our SOSA exec director was making about $65k a year.

EVERYBODY was expected to pitch in.