Honestly this makes me sick. My wife said they all listened to VoA in secret when she was a child and knew it was the truth. Now it is being turned into a mockery.

#10 | Posted by Nixon

I know a BUNCH of Lebanese people. A couple are really good friends, really we have kind of been accepted into their family. They kept telling us how the invasion in southern Lebanon was not a big deal where they visited and their relatives lived. "This happens all the time... etc." I told them this is different. "We aren't Muslim so it won't come here." Well then the bombs fell. The Israelis dropped bombs some Hezbollah traveling through their village. Killed and wounded a bunch of people. Our friends lost an uncle and cousin and another wounded. Their parents family house - all the windows blown out and other damage.

Our friends know very well how we feel. They tell us they didn't vote for Trump but I know at least most of the other Lebanese people we know well did. I even asked a couple of them - are you not paying attention? Trumps own team leaked that he is telling Nuttyahoo "Do what you need to. He has announced expanded travel bans he intends and they include Lebanese now." I also told them that there isn't a US President that wouldn't support Israel - some more than others...

That guy is insane. AND btw - they don't want to kill you at all. They want to survive.

The irony is rich because Dotard Trumpf's grandfather was forever banished from Bavaria in 1904: www.snopes.com

Another projection from Trumpf.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

This is what you get in dictatorships. What a draft dodging boot licker his Granddaddy was. That explains a LOT. No wonder he lives for boot lickers and licks the boots of his heroes (Putin and Little Rocket Man - not Xi though - weird right?)

You know, I was amazed by the executive team here. They can't believe the market plummeted like that. They don't seem to grasp how much impact these taxes are going to have on our goods. My mind is blown.

#11 | Posted by northguy3

That is really noteworthy as that is truly red bible thumping Michigan and it is only a town of 35k.

USDA is withholding loans and grants it already promised to farmers. I can't wait to drive through farm country now. I think I am going to have a giant magnet made for the back of my vehicle laughing at them.

Pretty sure the GOP is going to get right on re-opening the lab being the party of do as I say and not as I do and all that.

#2 | Posted by snoofy

Since when has being legal bothered the orange turd and the MAGA droppings?

Another massive regressive tax.

#16 | Posted by GalaxiePete

NM, yes it was.

#13 | Posted by snoofy

Is this the lawyer they fired?

Where is DOGE on this wasteful spending?

#18 | Posted by gracieamazed

Planning by who, Operation 2025? Where was it to be held? What were circumstances? If it is "in its early stages" - did it REALLY begin last year?

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