It's time to speak up.

~ Robert Reich

The time to "speak up" was Tuesday, November 5th 2024.

does anyone else feel like Bill might be a long term Russian bot/mole?
#40 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

But honestly that could be said of every republican who supports Trumpy without question and who repeats Russian agitprop.

Yes, they are breaking the federal government, and then they are going to say, "See, we told you it was broken." Precisely.

#27 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

Yup. That's obviously The Plan.

does anyone else feel like Bill might be a long term Russian bot/mole?
#40 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT

No, he is just another brain dead white Christian nationalist unable to think for himself and deal with different religions cultures and change.

Is it time to water the Liberty Tree?

It is starting to feel like it's just about time. Again.

Deliberate Chaos as a Strategy--DOGE's goal is not to streamline' Social Security--it's to cripple it, creating delays and dysfunction so that Republicans can later argue the program is broken and push for privatization.

And then they will say "see? we told you it was broken and would fail!"

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

people will know it.

#18 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

Unfortunately by the time the "people" finally really "know it" then it will be too late.

It may take decades (if ever) to undo the damage King Trumpy is doing to the country.

Trump, Musk and Doge shuttering Social Security offices means longer lines and some not getting their benefits.

A fact-sheet: bsky.app

POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY

If you haven't gotten any SS benefits yet it's quite possible now that you never will.

"Same idiot, different day."

Thanks for not repeating his inanity.

Plonked that idiot long ago.

It has been said: "No society is more than three (or sometimes nine) meals away from revolution"

Not sure whether that is true but many Americans are just a paycheck away from homelessness and there is a critical mass whereby the hoi polloi will begin to rebel.

Which is easier? Selling your gun for food and shelter or just taking it with that gun.

Should TrumpCo thoughtlessly end SS, it would mean systemic starvation and eventual homelessness of untold elderly Americans, myself included.

I suspect it will be even worse than that.

There are 400 million guns in America.

Trump is a bull in a china shop.

And we are the china.

People that survive only on social security cannot save money
and they depend on social security because they couldn't save in the first place. So now they are supposed to magically start being able to somehow save money in their old age?

Yup. We are doomed.

My choice of headline was:

SS could collapse in 30-90 days under Trump assault

Because that is what governor Martin O'Mallley has said already.

"Ultimately, you're going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits," O'Malley said. "I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days." Ahead of any interruption in benefits, "people should start saving now," O'Malley said.

Oh I missed thread.

Just posted another one because it's a pretty significant change in what was "promised".

But in the other hand falls right in line with what was proposed by project 2025. Tho most of the Plan was hidden from the public.

Leadership fails to propose any solutions for Social Security and says, on page 710, that its proposals for the program could not be "covered here in depth." Notably, that line was co-authored by economist Stephen Moore, who has advocated to slash and privatize Social Security, once calling it a "Ponzi scheme" and encouraging students to burn their Social Security cards. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, has also gone on record to say the Mandate for Leadership manifesto is just the basis of their plan and "there are parts of the plan that we will not share with the left." Last month, his organization called for raising the retirement age, and the author of that analysis, Rachel Greszler, is listed as a Project 2025 contributor.

Now they are comfortable enough to release the rest of their plan which is to send Elmo in to destroy and push what's left of SS (and grandma) off the cliff.

I have been saying for quite sometime government has been propping up a weak economy.

We have many many examples of Kings in history.

A good king takes care of his people. Even the ones he conquers.

A bad king only takes care of his own family coffers.

Which kind of king do you think King Trumpy will be?

No way getting rid of the debt is going to be painless.

#29 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

A biblical jubilee was pretty painless. How about we do one of those?

After all.. it's in the Bible!

A "jubilee" in the Bible refers to a special year that happens every 50 years, where debts are forgiven, slaves are freed, and land is returned to its original owners, as described in the Book of Leviticus; while in the Catholic Church, a jubilee is a period declared by the Pope, usually occurring every 25 years, where special indulgences are granted and people are encouraged to make pilgrimages to sacred sites

Where is our Jubilee?

"Oh that is going to really piss off Lockheed, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Harris, Boeing, just to name just a few!"

Unless they move to Europe. If they stay in the US, they get to join the ranks of other large US companies that failed for not being competitive.
POSTED BY MADBOMBER

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

DEI strikes again!

Once they get some competent white men back in charge over there we can send them some rakes and paper towels.

Re 9

{Heavy sigh}

Hope that dog food isn't already out of your reach.

POSTED BY ZED

Just the good Top Shelf stuff.

"Yes....Kamala is dumb."

Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Kamala was the 49th vice president of the United States under President Joe Biden. She was the first female U.S. vice president, making her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history. She was also the first African-American and the first Asian-American vice president. She served from 2017 to 2021 as a United States senator representing California and from 2011 to 2017 as attorney general of California. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

Where did you graduate from?

What have YOU done with YOUR life?

Proud boys and Oath keepers were released for a reason.

#7 | POSTED BY MBLUE

Yup

And I cannot wait to shoot one (in self defense of course!)

Ideally with one of their own weapons.

Semper Fi.

Most of the NATO countries are buying F-35s made in the US, but that means that they are reliant on the US for parts and service support for those aircraft. What if Europe were to come into a conflict, and the US elected to withhold those parts and services?

Yup. It's already begun.

Is Europe's defence too reliant on the US?

As the UK and EU plan to 're-arm', how easy will it be to disentangle from US equipment and support?

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen has said that, at an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Thursday, she will present a "comprehensive plan" to urgently "re-arm Europe". She said member states must be given "more fiscal space to do a surge in defence spending".

Europe "can build up most of the critical defence enablers needed to deter or defeat Russia without US support within five years " provided the political will to invest is there", said Defense News, after a survey of security researchers and experts.

people can gravitate to news without their lies and disinformation about literally every topic.

#19 | POSTED BY THEBULL

So you did even not bother to even listen to reason for 9 minutes.

From one of your own. (Though I doubt that is really true .. the farmer was obviously an intelligent hard working American ... which Mr Bull is obviously not.

Mr Bull is a perfect example of how Maga maroons are not physically capable of listening to reason. Especially for a whole 9 minutes!