I've been in sales my whole life.
People buy for their own reasons....not mine.
don't tell voters what should be an issue to them.
#7 | Posted by eberly at 2024-10-14 01:37 PM

Isn't politics "sales" of ideas, not just people?

Yes, Laura because we opted OUT of paying federal taxes and the federal government won't honor that and continue to make us pay them. Adjust your TV antenna rabbit ears dear, you're not getting National news about both hurricanes.
#25 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-10-13 06:28 PM

The hurricanes you watch are named Greg, Dana, Jesse and Jeanine.

The local health orders require masks to be worn in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other healthcare facilities

A Federal hospital system would just institute this immediately throughout the systems nationally and would have facilitated access to Covid equipment and information during the crisis.

The privatized healthcare system apparently better serves... someone.

Is it shareholders? I'm guessing it's shareholders.

@#6 ... Gotta make the Master's Rich. ...
So sez Pres Putin?
#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-12 11:28 PM

"The Kremlin says his annual income is about $140,000"

"Calhoun's total compensation in 2023 was $32.8 million, a 45% increase from the $22.6 million he received for 2022. And it could have been a lot more: He declined to accept his annual incentive bonus of $2,800,000 " a request the board said he made after part of a Boeing 737 Max plane blew off the side of an Alaska Airlines flight in January, kicking off a series of federal investigations, a temporary grounding, executive ousters and another embarrassing public relations blunder for the company."

Ironically, US-fed capitalists also hate democracy. Sisters!

"One issue I see is that Pres Biden has said that the US will always support Israel. Fmr Pres Trump has said similar things." LAMPLIGHTER at #5 above.
Both come from a generational perspective steeped in Israel's founding and the mythologies surrounding it. You could hardly escape exposure that in the US during the 1950s and 1960s. Think of the movie Exodus, based on the 1958 Leon Uris novel with the same title. Add the political reaffirmation of Israel by both political parties, politicians looking for money and votes, organized lobbying, etc., and you can end up where both Biden and Trump are now on the subject: up that proverbial creek without a paddle. Trump could hardly care less: he'd be hawking copies of the Koran if he thought it might give him some advantage. As for Biden, at best he may feel badly misled and deeply disappointed, for which he should blame only himself. That mythology I mentioned earlier? It bears critical examination, as do all mythologies . From that, perhaps rethinking and reformulation of one's outlook with an eye toward attaining a more reality-based view.
#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-13 07:34 AM | Reply | Flag:| Newsworthy 2

Gorgeous sentiment, being a messiah. He knows children are being massacred en mass.

It is obvious that Biden does not love Netanyahu. The nature of this relationship is not just theological or military. It is political.

Netanyahu is threatening something political that impacts successions of presidents.

Some knowledge his predecessors utilized that apparently cannot be circumvented by anything less than power that Bush Sr. wielded.

Frankly, it's strange.

The U.S. does not ban companies from making fully autonomous lethal weapons nor does it explicitly ban them from selling such things to foreign countries. Last year, the U.S. released updated guidelines for AI safety in the military that have been endorsed by many U.S. allies and requires top military officials to approve of any new autonomous weapon; yet the guidelines are voluntary (Anduril said it is committed to following the guidelines), and U.S. officials have continuously said it's "not the right time" to consider any binding ban on autonomous weapons.

I can imagine the confusion on where the bribes went come Empty Bank Day.

No suspect name. No picture. No security videos. You know damn well who it is not, a MAGA supporter.
#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2024-10-13 09:36 AM

While that might be true, MAGA supports school shooters.

Obviously the weather could make an incredible weapon.

Saying "impossible" is an even more incredible weapon.

= she isn't Taylor Swift.
She also isn't Donald Trump, which is good enough for this election, no matter how unfortune one thinks that might be.
Pining over Jill Stein isn't going to help.
#119 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-11 07:11 PM

What fundamental changes should I expect?

If any of these politicians were in office for progress we would notice.

What they don't want us to recognize is the grift.

Contractors, lobbyists, PAC's and dark money is hard to compete with on a minimum wage.

She's taken over the Party with no prior planning and in 2 mos turned the election around completely.
That sounds like competence to me.
#94 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-11 05:06 PM

The DNC was forced to acknowledge reality after petitions, several celebrity scoldings and public outcry.

#95
Not exactly sport.
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#97 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-10-11 05:27 PM

So, legalized bribes. Got it.

Normalization of this imbalance creates a government of grifters.

You might admire Harris' monetary draw for now, but she isn't Taylor Swift.

Israel attacks Iran and both America and Israel both will be in direct confrontation with China, Russia and Turkey. It's not that hard to figure out.
#3 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-10-11 10:18 AM

40,000 US kids $40 billion in weapons.

That LARGE of an investment would not be capable without understanding the nature of the Israeli invasion = war crimes.

Turkey's UN response to the Israel's invasion of Lebanon will cripple US air capacity. What a strange way to self-garrotte.

Biden or Harris supporting the strategic importance of Israel while condemning the genocide is better than having Traitor Trump in office again. Period.
Let's not pretend there's a third choice; there is not.
Comparing imperfections, since holding out for the perfect is self-abusive, not to mention abusive to others, is an irrational position; one finds that Harris is a much better choice of the only two options no matter what warts she might have, real or imagined.
#65 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-10 09:45 PM

War with Iran appears to be on the Biden agenda. The escalation is entirely under the control of the US of A. So are voters if she can earn them.

'Death of a Weatherman', "two holes and a golf course."

Says the party of Diane Feinstein and Joseph Biden puppeteering.
No progress, no confidence.
#30 | POSTED BY REDLIGHTROBOT
Isn't it interesting that you picked the two of the most powerful democrats in the party who are voluntarily stepping back from power and handing the torch to a new generation instead of desperately trying to hold onto it til the bitter end by any means including violence.
Seems like progress to me.
#62 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-10 08:26 PM

Isn't it interesting that President Biden repeats ZAKA talking points. His PDB's are a product of our intelligence apparatus. Kamala has expressed no difference in opinion in regards to Bidens' secretive manner, abusive and short at all times and always propaganda continuing the genocide.

Whether it is a lobbyist-bought fist wiggling it's digits from inside of a dead, decrepit facade of a public servant, or just remembering the years of police raids on families for fear of a pot plant - Robinette does not serve the interests of the 99% but rather catering to a fictional "middle class" while factually in the service of privatizing interests.

No progress means no ---- confidence, my man.

When Biden speaks the truth about the genocide - ONLY THEN.

"It's a race, it's a chase, hurry up and irradiate!
Who will win? Everyone plays! Feed the hungry hur-ri-canes!
Hungry hungry hurricanes! (open up! torrential rain!)"

But seriously, in what manner does this impact climate, even at lower latitudes where it isn't witnessed?

Communications load balance so I'm unafraid of losing services.

The excited MAGA, however, exacerbate meteorological kevlar sales.

Any relationship between the star and the storm remains undescribed.

Laura,
Let me help you out.
-- Bill Johnson.
ST--.
#60 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2024-10-10 06:32 PM

Self-retort award winner!

Pity there are posts you can't abort. Blame QWERTY vs Wade.

#30 | We are well into the realm of Lesser Evil Voting... and whether it's wise to demean the lesser evil during an election where they are running against the Greatest Evil we've ever seen as a candidate.
#34 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-10 02:42 PM

Interesting framing, and I'm not swayed.

Another election of voting against, rather than for.

Which policy am I expected to benefit from? A small business loan? Tax refund? FFS.

Biden wouldn't even expand SCOTUS or curb the filibuster, let alone impose regulation on venture capitalist parasite or his own donor class.

Lowest hanging fruit just left to rot.

No progress, no confidence.

#28
Apparently there are no disqualifying factors where the Cult Leader is concerned.
#29 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-10 01:50 PM

Says the party of Diane Feinstein and Joseph Biden puppeteering.

No progress, no confidence.

It's hard to find much sympathy for someone so willfully stupid as Anthony's father-in-law.
#3 | POSTED BY QCP
Don't forget that this man is terrified at being out of step with his equally MAGA neighbors. He knows what they would to him because he knows what he would do to them.
#5 | Posted by Zed at 2024-10-10 09:47 AM

Precisely. Thus the intractability and abuse of his family. He's scared to lose his cult, imo.

MAGA worship treasonous capitalists, so I'll presume this topic can't be reported on Fox or any conservative news.

It's blatant and they know it.

I'm curious what "espionage devices" they were selling on the street to citizens?

This should be investigated why the devices haven't been recovered and whom allowed the entire organization of 200 Israeli spies to leave without even a single charge?

Would the British handle this similarly?

Immunity pro quo.

So how come the trump administration didn't do anything about it?
#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-09 02:31 PM | Reply | FlagSo how come the trump administration didn't do anything about it?
12 out of the last 16 years was a democrat sitting at the post. Maybe ask yourself why the people you support did nothing.
#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-09 03:46 PM

Republicans attempt removing all regulatory bodies and continue grooming parasite capitalism for both parties.

Swing states appear out of her reach regardless the "centrist cozy with Republicans" performance. Blatantly.

Kamala appeared on The View to tell the world she insists on having Republicans in her administration. Proudly.

Her "help" for businesses certainly sways no-one losing their home.

Pals with Cheney is offensive and stupid.

Sending 40,000 United States citizens to genocide on behalf of Israel is treasonous, just as continuing the Biden policy is criminal.

I can't expect her to immediately stop legislating impoverishment for Americans and deregulation for corporations to stimulate jackwagon elite portfolio fencing. I expect her to FORCE VOTES ON ANTI-CORRUPTION LEGISLATION. Putting Republicans in your cabinet may pretend to give you an "out", so make your Satanaide but don't expect the public to drink any. Biden used Manchin and Sinema as his excuse, refused to even dismiss the entirely made-up "parliamentarian" and allowed the child tax credit to fail - on top of the meager Covid check. The citizens well-being are not among Republican or Democrat priorities, only their economic value.

The American Dream can't afford to exist, but medical and student debts lives forever. Privatization of essential services is a cancer.

Nothing she has said or done has excited me. Keeping Walz from interviews is another red flag. The performance art is lacking.

Kamala very well may lose as this projection of "unity" and morality exposes the factual trust being abused.