Yup, I was actually considering it at one point. But Elon started getting nutty and I was thinking that may not bode well down the road and then he fell off the proverbial wagon completely. Special K rotting his brain.

Kids - Don't do drugs...

Certainly not great numbers for Trump but pretty offing far from a broadly supported counter revolution.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger

Wait for things to start hitting home for people. Vets and Seniors don't like it when you touch what they earned calling them entitlements.

#1 | Posted by et_al

Another act of Russian Agent Orange Chaos at work.

I get that, but they also are accountable to their constituents. When you look at what that idiot DeJoy did to USPS, I can only imagine what this one will do to SS/MC. I mean 90% on time delivery down to 60% and a massive drop in revenue - that's Republican efficiency. Don't get me wrong I know they are trying to destroy USPS - but they are trying to destroy SS/MC as well. The elderly are a massive voting block you don't want to PO.

I haven't read all the comments here but I watched her video, read some about her online and looked up some of her articles. Her communication and marketing skills seem excellent. I would like to see her debate someone in public - not the televised debacles but an informal one. I am sure we will see something like that on a news channel soon enough.

Media Matters has been a great source of actual facts and information for a long time. The fact that right wing extremists are going after it so hard makes it all the more credible. This is the right wing way in everything - can't win? Cheat. It has been interesting to watch some of the educated young people in her age bracket switching sides recently too.

She SOUNDS like what is needed desperately by the party. What AOC should have been. She may very well win the primary and the district. She is an excellent communicator and I believe has good intent just looking at her track record. One of the biggest things the Democrats have lacked for a long time is a united front. It is a bunch of competing groups who are not actually united. The platform tries to be inclusive but in doing so drives people off. Her points are EXACTLY what Democrats need to be hitting hard at in the next year. Inflation under Biden was out of the administrations control. Inflation under Trump is by design. I saw the recent news on what makes someone middle class by their income. I am over middle class but it sure don't feel like it so I really am sure the middle class is really feeling the pinch and Trump and co are making it worse. Young people who were pro-Trump are already turning. You want to see boomers turn? Wait until their SS/Medicare is mucked up. Vets? Wait until their benefits are mucked up more. Don't get me wrong a lot of them are still too brainwashed to make a difference but enough will turn. I predict a Blue Tsunami unless Trump pulls some stunt and declares Martial law.

On Presidential elections, the party also needs to understand the AMERICAN demographics and not the party demographics. A woman will not win the Presidency of the US until boomers are gone. The misogyny is real and women are just as guilty as men. My darling mother is one of them. Sorry but IMHO a Gay man is not going to win either. Look at the number of voters in presidential elections as a clue to what gets them out and what was up for debate during those elections. Not only was Harris a woman, she was in they eyes of the nation black and she had a messaging problem throughout. The only reason the "popular vote" was close was it was Trump. Many actual patriots remember J6 and other things. Most Americans are truly dumb and ignorant even though they think otherwise.

Can they grow a spine and block this goober?

If Trump doesn't go full king, first thing the Democrats need to do is double the 2024 size of the IRS just to go after the very wealthy and corporations. Add judges for Tax courts.

#5 | Posted by itchyp

Well yes it does result in a pathway to citizenship. You have to follow the pathway but at the end it is almost automatic. It is a fairly easy path unless you break the law. True, it is full of annoying forms and lack of 100% clarity on the forms and the fees...

My wife and I followed the pathway. I know many others that did as well. You just have to be something less than a complete moron and follow it. Of course in the time of Trump, the path was probably stopped cold turkey anyhow. I hope she dumps him for being so dumb. I know a Latina that dumped her husband for being so dumb last time. Dude came out and even said some outright anti-Latino racist stuff - dumb as dumb gets. Difference being her family is multi-generational Americans.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter

He knows anger and fear. Angry yes, he throws temper tantrums all the freaking time. Fear, he knew they should have nailed him to the wall post election and was very afraid. And then they didn't.

#37 | Posted by ScottS

Sorry you didn't make sense there. Willingness to fight doesn't mean everyone is jumping to go to the front lines. Of course it didn't happen just one time. Ukraine had conscription legally even before the war and passed a law in this regard last year. They also have a problem with people dodging their draft. Without enough volunteers they are actively conscripting the eligible. Do I like it certainly not but I get it. So do most Ukrainian's as shown but their support of Zelensky following trump's orders to capitulate and him standing up to the Dumb and Dumber tag team in the White House.

As for your mentally deficient guy, can he move stuff? Carry Stuff? He doesn't have to go to the front line and might not even be accepted into the service. The conscription teams I am sure have quotas to fill. We have done the same in this country as well in times of war. I honestly know a clearly mentally deficient guy that served for 20 years - Chaplain's assistant. He signed up post draft though...

There can be good and compelling reason for removing those who are not citizens and associate with terrorists. That said there is a legal process and one should have the right to provide their own case. The legal process is not being followed. The GOP and Trump are not the legal and moral arbiters for this country. Allowing anyone's rights to be trampled is abhorrent no matter what you think of them. The Patriot Act set the tone for this.

As true today as when originally conceived:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

-Martin Niemller

This is more and more Brown Shirt territory. Night of a Long Knives? They are dragging it out and carefully destroying law and order to make a bureaucracy to their liking. Going so far as to openly defy the courts and talk about removing judges that oppose them.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Because the police helped means they didn't break in? That is the logic right? Your average "police" officer doesn't understand basic constitutional rights so them helping makes it not a break in? What agency are they with again - these "police" that is? Was there a court order authorizing their entrance?

It must be really difficult for Trump to keep finding ways to one-up his previous stupid statements to divert our attention from his ongoing crimes.

#3 | Posted by censored

Never under estimate the power of stupidity. Stupidity knows no limits. And remember a wise man once said many times "You can't fix stupid."

#2 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

Shared that with my Arab friends and acquaintances that voted Trump and GOP because Biden and the Dems were "so bad" because they didn't do more to stop Gaza. Crickets. Of course I did tell them "This is just the beginning. Remember this is what you voted for."

I forgot to add the GOP has actually voted to cut/eliminate farm subsidies as well. The Democrats protected those subsidies.

Look, the GOP has been talking about cutting farm subsidies for a while - at least the first Trump term. The thing is that it is the only feasible way to keep farms out of the red and production of food in the US without bankrupting all the non-mega farms out there. Even the mega farms would be challenged to stay in business. If these dumb ******* want to keep voting for the GOP they get what they deserve. They are against things like welfare and medicaid yet eagerly take their own handouts. Why? I have yet to hear a good reason.

Something on Automation. I believe it is 100% needed but it is NOT inexpensive and still requires people. In fact it requires people that are not your average factory workers today. You have to outlay a massive amount of money to build the machinery and it requires years of time and THEN you have maintain it. I know lot about manufacturing and automation. One of the things I am involved with is automation. Americans are not great workers by and large. The farther right they are, the more useless they seem to be IMHO. Not to mention loud, obnoxious and entitled.

The average machine where I presently work is now over $500k. Most are like $750k. These are basically standard off the shelf machines in the industry. Annual maintenance on them is in the order of $150-200k. Then you have to have operators to run them. An operator can be trained to setup and run them competently in 3-4 years. And the top manufacturers are in Germany, Switzerland, Czechia and Australia. There is one American maker and they are sub par. All the parts are made overseas as well. The other thing is the average person who is learning to run these machines is NOT well paid and I have to say about half of them shouldn't be running them but you work with what you can get.

Another example, a long time ago I worked at a Tech startup funded by the owner of a US machine maker. I actually helped them out from time to time. They made custom automated manufacturing solutions primarily for Automotive. The average machine they worked on at the time was about $10 million and they had to layout the cash to build these machines until paid by the customer. The build time was typically 3-5 years. The company had messed up on a machine that delivery was refused on and lost in court basically because of owner arrogance which was a blow. About a year later they were put out of Business by Delphi who refused to accept and pay for a machine that machined brake rotors. That machine today would probably run $35-40 million but back then was $12 million. The problem they claimed is it didn't meet the specification even though they had several check points along the way. The sad thing is that machine was built to the spec but the Delphi engineer building the spec messed up and the product was not to spec. But a small company that had fronted millions already couldn't take on a billion dollar company in court. Sadly I work with the putz that messed up that spec.

I could go on and on.

Just when you thought he couldn't find a worse pick than DeVoss

#12 | Posted by fortfisher

WT...?

Echos of MS St. Louis.

She is spot on and we are clearly in that spiral at the moment.

Holy ----. That is all I can say.

Zelensky was absolutely correct. I guarantee he did not know this was coming. Why should he sit there and listen to dumb and dumber. Sad thing is, I am not sure which one is actually dumber. Premeditated 2 on 1 because they know Trump can't manage a single sensible sentence or stay on message. Dementia Donnie working hard at it.

Follow that up with all the Republiturds cheering it on. I am actually ashamed to be an American today.

The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

bsky.app

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

THIS. Companies are all going into recession or even depression plans. Cuts and layoffs everywhere. I have said it before my company is a manufacturing bell weather. When our orders drop we know planned production is slated to decrease or even cease. Uncertainty destroys economies and businesses learned a lot about upheaval events in the past 25 years. This is both unnecessary and unpredictable upheaval. I personally believe it is the plan to destroy this country.