At $4.7M, dude can't even afford a Trump Gold Card.

I thought Trump only hired the best people.

Fraud and exploitation has always been rampant near military bases. Including the legal kind. I seem to recall some sort of law restricting payday loans within a certain distance of the base being passed, decades ago. Tattoo parlors, in the old days.

The amount of people who take their bonus and run out to buy new vehicle is laughable. Reminds me of Jay-Z:

If you grew up with holes in your zapatos
You'd celebrate the minute you be havin dough

"abominable"

Credit where credit is due.
Collins is the first Snowman to hold that high ranking position.

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
--Boaz, probably

"We voted to remove 100% of the illegals."

That's not even close to what you voted for.
You voted to wish 100% of the illegals into the cornfield.

Trump could just disappear them (probably is), and you'd love it.
Erase them from history, like Iran threatens to do to Israel.

That's what you want for the illegals.
Bodies dumped at sea, or incinerated in ovens.

"Donate an addition $3,300 automatically"

Holy ----.
That's like one and a half average Social Security checks.
Our President is a Televangelist.

So I was looking at buying gold, and since I also look at antiques and estate sales, there's always gold coins.

The first US minted coin to depict an actual person was around 1893 or so, and it's got a picture of Christopher Columbus on it. I believe they made $5 and $10 gold pieces.

This was hotly debated. The idea of memorializing any man's face and thus forcing your acquiescence to the values he stood for simply to engage in commerce is an unwarranted government intrusion into the private lives of free men. It woulkd have been absolutely unconscionable at that time to put a sitting President's image on a coin, and of course no President would have been so tawdry and tacky to have wanted such a thing. Many were staunchly opposed to depicting an actual person, for reasons that culminate with an Imperial leader striking his own image on the currency. Who does Trump think he is, another Caesar? (surely he does)

Before then, and for some time after, we had coins you're surely familiar with like the Walking Liberty Half Dollar or the Mercury Dime. These are symbols, representing the values of our Republic. Liberty, Justice, all that hoopla they talk about in the Declaration.

The values our Republic chooses to display have degraded significantly since then. We no longer celebrate the Virtues that make this nation great. Now, our coinage celebrates the Men, and very occasionally Women, who performed Great Works in this nation. But there is no Spirit. There is no universal truth being celebrated.

And now, we are turning the coinage into nothing more than a veneration of the current leader.

This Republic will fall soon enough, and history of our coinage tells the tale that it's been a long time coming.

When I was a kid we still had a few Indian Head nickles floating around. That was of course the end stage of Colonialism, when the colonists venerate those they eradicated, to puff themselves up of course, by painting the conquered as worthy opponents in combat.

I didn't buy the coins. I bought a gold ETF called RING. Gold didn't do bad, but it turns out I should have bought silver.

That's another sign things aren't meant to last. The USD is down 15% since Trump took ofice. That would be good, if we were a major exporter, but we're not, except for oil and jet engines, and with Trump abandoning the United States leadership role in the global hegemony, there's really no reason to keep using the Petrodollar.

So expect the dollar to completely crash. Wish I had bought the coins.

"She sure didn't seem concerned that someone may have sprayed a dangerous substance on her."

Did Trump seem concerned that somebody just took a shot at him? Or did he react defiantly and raise his fist in victory?

So you think that was staged, huh?

"That may be true however his actions in this video were not acts of bravery."

You don't think it's brave to stand up to fascism?
That tracks.

I looked up some rough numbers.
DHS reports 650,000 people deported in 2005.
ICE spending was $28,000,000,000.

Just on those numbers, we're spending $43k per person, to deport mostly non-violent non-criminal aliens.
And we're not even deporting any more people than Biden did.
And Biden did it for like $10K per deportee.

To Republicans, paying 4x more to do something less effectively is a good use of taxpayer dollars.

"And, agreed; I am underwhelmed with Jeffries."

Almost Fetterman levels of disappoint from that guy.

"Trump's Epstein Coverup is obviously designed to he.p someone or a collection of someones involved in sexually molesting young women and children."

Ten bucks says Robert Kraft is in there.
It was about a decade ago, the FBI or whoever was running a sting on a "massage parlor" that brought in illegals and turned them out.
Robert Kraft got caught on tape at this parlor after his Pats won a Super Bowl in Miami.
The whole sting got abandoned because Robert Kraft was not supposed to be caught up in it.
When the courts blocked that evidence, they blocked the entire case.

Why does the owner of this site even publish a plonk count? Is it to "shame" us?
#82 | Posted by visitor_

Damn.
You figured it out.
The Plonk Count was a deliberate action by Liberals, to make you a Victim.

Republicans are avoiding this thread like it's a girl over the age of fifteen.

"The lack of repercussions and consequences for confederates will always be reason why America still so deeply rooted in racism"

Racism was bipartisan back then.

Republicans merely opposed slavery. They didn't support equality.

The notion that blacks should have equal rights was extremely radical and unpopular even after the Civil War. It's like a Republican of today saying Trans people should be accepted as equals.

So you can't blame it all on the South.

The blame rests with Whites. On Both Sides, even.

"We should have burned the south to the ground"

We kinda did?

You can't say you're against big money at the same time as you are taking big money donations. Nobody is going to believe you if you do that.
#41 | Posted by LauraMohr

If Eberly can be a Republican and be against what Republicans are doing, I don't see the problem with Corky being a Democrat and being against what Democrats are doing.

"I live in a hard blue state, so I vote 3rd party in an effort to grow the % of people voting for neither."

So you're not voting for the member of the majority party that's closest to what you want in the primary, like Eberly does?

Hmmmm.

I don't like what my party is doing, so I'm dropping out.... there's a way to make change, smh.
#7 | Posted by kwrx25

it's a good chance it'll be a blue area.....I'll gladly register as a Democrat when we do that.
#78 | Posted by eberly

Anyone else seeing it?

I see what Eberly is doing.
It's the not ever walking away part where he loses me.

It's like a wife who keeps going back to the man who hits her.
It's dating a crazy hot chick and telling yourself "I Can Change Her."
You. Can't.

" then it is prudent to register in a party where your vote might make a difference."

If you do that, then you're a Republican, and you run the risk of people thinking you're actually a Republican, which would make you a White Nationalist in the year 2026. And it's hard to see what's wrong with that logic.

If there's no point where you say "I keep losing bets in this Casino, but I'm going to keep playing in this Casino even as they are denying entry to black people" well, you've kinda chosen your side.

I'm listed as that because when I joined the site those were the options, and I definitely don't identify as R or D.
#68 | Posted by kwrx25

That doesn't actually explain why you picked Libertarian...
But it does reinforce my belief that people who pick "Libertarian" actually picked "None Of The Above."

There's no ideology there. There's no messaging there. There's no belief system, no vision for the future.
All it is, is "We hate both sides but it's not like we actually have any ideas that are better!"
It's Virtue Signaling to the other crabs in the pot that you'll pull them down if they try to escape.
It's a Hurt Feelings Report, lodged by grown baby-men.

Don't be that man.

"I admire folks like Mamdani who can run an alternative platform but not even in NYC will there be another party of consequence."

Yes but there's no other alternative.
To get a Parliament would require a Constitutional Amendment.
For obvious reasons, neither party in a Duopoly has anything to gain by allowing other parties to join the fun.

Perot did pretty well in '92. Huey Long probably should have won in the 30s.
But there's no sustained third party in this country because there's no unmet need that would drive the moneyed interests to fund a third party.

I will always boil down to the 2 parties....and who shows up.
#25 | Posted by eberly

Well, we're getting to "who is allowed to show up" territory now.
But yes, in a functioning democracy, this is all that really matters. Turnout.

"folks are just too lazy and apathetic to actually get away from the 2 parties."

That's also pointedly missing the point of how change actually comes about. What you're doing, voting for the moderates, is how change is affected. From within. You're failing at it, but you've got the right idea.

MAGA got what they want not by starting a new party, but by completely taking over the Republican Party and turning it into the American Nazi Party. Change comes from within.

Reagan, as you know full well, did a massive amnesty for immigrants. If Reagan did that today, he'd get shot, and not by a crazy person trying to impress Jodie Foster, but by a Patriotic Republican trying to save America from an invasion of filthy disease carrying mud races Who admittedly would also be a crazy person, but his crazy is 100% aligned with today's Republican Party.

Because Republicans changed. That Republican party left you a long time ago, Eberly.

She's not coming back.