#18 | Posted by Danforth

Just to be clear, insurance rates are still increasing quite a bit faster than inflation. Most people don't see it because it's absorbed by their employer. But it's also a significant reason that wages don't keep up...

I take from Blanche's appointment
#3 | Posted by Zed

I think this appointment may put free and fair elections 6ft under. I think it has everything to do with their plans to sabotage the midterms

I could imagine being turned away from many countries if this Passport is what you present.

Happy extinction!

#8 | Posted by ClownShack

Sometimes I miss Zat's insight on such issues. He certainly understood the problem climate change would become. When he made that comment he knew he was spot on, even though he'd never live to see it.

The Earth is rushing to its 6th mass extinction. And the probabilities increase daily that mankind (at minimum a significant majority of it) will be one of the casualties.

Our legacy... Before they die, our grandchildren are going wonder WTF we were thinking.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut

You're correct. Who knew that Republicans would spend more than a decade undermining the ACA at every turn, instead of doing anything to actually improve healthcare?

We should of passed universal healthcare (or at least a single-payer option). Too bad the cronyist GOP would never let that happen. Which reminds me.. where is that plan to fix healthcare that Republicans/Trump have been promising every month for at least 15 years?

This may be the real test of whether we have a legitimate election.

BTW, contrary to GOP/MAGA nonsense, the U.S. made a profit from the automaker bailout.

#13 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

...While pensioners got completely screwed.

#9

Fair point. If Mitch were in KY, Beshear would probably have the legal authority to order a "wellness check". Does anyone know where the "rehab facility" is? Articles I've looked at are vague.

Beshear should demand no less than in-person access, and some video/audio footage of the interaction between Mitch and himself. That's the only way anyone will be convinced of McConnell's condition at this point.

It's pretty hard to take anything Alex Jones say seriously.

" at a General Motors facility"

So may we assume it was a captive audience?

Trump/MAGA either have no idea how elections work in mail-in states, or they're deliberately spreading lies and misinformation about it. I suspect both. As a Colorado mail-in voter, I'm getting pretty tired of their crap.

There is no such thing as a Federal election in the US. States run elections. MAGA simply wants to turn the US into a single party nation, just like any other authoritarian country.

A lot of people in the lower CO River basin, especially AZ and CA, are going to do some suffering in the next few years.

I wonder if some of the old Abu Ghraib soldiers are now guards at these facilities? Does anyone know what Lynndie England is up to these days?

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-07-17 11:44 AM

This is the kind of idiocy we're dealing with. I even see crap like this among MAGAts I know personally. Their brains have melted.

Humanity is doomed.

In the US, if it can't be monetized it isn't worth doing.

Pretty close to 10x elsewhere in the country.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut

10x = 1000%

I don't think so, bot. Care to explain your math?

Intimidation has become this regimes weapon of choice. Killing or arresting peaceful protestors. Arresting alleged vandals on very thin charges. Masked jack boots marching in the streets of DC. Sending agents out against dissenters. Threats of kangaroo courts and trumped up charges against enemies. ...A slow descent to authoritarianism, not so different from 1930's Germany.

It's not a Red Scare.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger

It obviously IS a gaslighting red scare. And you're either perpetuating it, or like most Trumpers it's working very well on you. Everything I've heard with any seriousness is NO worse than proposals that might have been made by FDR or Harry Truman. Were they "communists"?

Social media has been nothing but red scare for the last two weeks. One thing MAGA is very adept at... They can spread lies and misinformation all the way around the world, in memes and short sound bites, before the Dems can even get the truth out the front door.

#19

The right: We must protect the Epstein class!!

Most of the people who could change this only care about making certain that nobody is sponging off of a social safety net.

I look at maps and make my own predictions. The terrain I live in is far too varied for people to tell me what's going to happen from hundreds of miles away. I'm usually far more accurate than they are. But as this regime cuts funding, the infrastructure used for prediction is going to get much less reliable.

Hmmm... The shortages in supply are ongoing. And the Strait is still only passing less that 10 percent of its pre-war numbers... Still significant disruption in the supply chain. My understanding is that the futures price of oil is still far different than the actual delivery price. Don't believe everything you see.

There is a lot of manipulation going on to help Trump save face from one of the worst diplomatic disasters in US history.

Since she's brown, I'm sure they also mistook her for Muslim.

I'm surprised ICE hasn't also been ordered to go after the Buddhist Monks in Fort Worth.