It's a con! He's going to use Russia to jack up gas prices. I'm sure Putin is all for it. If you think they're high now just wait. They've already been getting higher. I have a question, why does Trump look so weak in every photo with Putin? He looks like he needs to be petted.
It's a con! He's going to use Russia to jack up gas prices. I'm sure Putin is all for it. If you think they're high now just wait. They've already been getting higher. I have a question, why does Trump look so weak in every photo with Putin? He looks like he needs to be petted.
Only problem is Obama did zip to stop Putin's annexation of Crimea, which is vital to Ukraine's long term economic success. So in my book stares don't achieve much; it requires appropriate ACTION!
Chuck, not an expert, let alone a big expert, just an observer. The single most important thing he could have done was send arms to Ukraine, as we did after the invasion. He could have called a NATO meeting to help the EU determine an appropriate response, but instead he said that Ukraine would always be vulnerable to Russian invasion, therefore giving a big green light to Putin for the 2022 invasion. Weakness always encourages aggression and his failure set the stage for the current war and the mess we're in.
I agree on what Obama could have done. But Obama didn't suck up to Pootie and make promises without Ukraine input, call Zelenskyy an unelected dictator, call for Ukraine elections, try to extort profit by demanding half of their resources in exchange for our help (because it is all about the money), snub our NATO allies and threaten to pull out, or ambush Z in front of the cameras while the world watched a stupid political stunt. Keep in mind Russia hasn't honored any of the treaties it signed.
The US is rapidly losing its international influence as a powerful nation. Trump is destroying our reputation. He is owned by Russia and the greatest threat to our country in a very, very long time. This treasonous man is on a vengeance tour and it was so obvious to so many of us but here we are. I still believe that truth and love and connection will prevail but the road is going to be rocky.
It's an embarrassment to be an American right now. The US is no longer a beacon of hope!
Four years of this ЁЯТй. ItтАЩs going to be long, but I canтАЩt wait until this is over. Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of shirts everyday ЁЯСЗ
Our weakness is showing. It's called lack of Education. If you compare us to the rest of the world yes it's really embarrassing and they're going to make us more uneducated. It's a very strange way to compete in the world isn't it? We will lose and that's how you make America great again!
Lack of? No, just another kind of. As I said in another comment,
Keep your eye on the ball, folks. The Dept. of Ed, is just a small obstacle being removed from the field of play. The real game is to take over and privatize all of American education. The even larger game is to hollow out the minds of our children and replace them with compliant clones filled with the nonsense of fascist, white supremacist, Christian nationalist hogwash. That makes the dynasties of fascist kings and the Axis of Despots a permanent feature of the American landscape, as each corrupted child's mind grows up and teaches their own children the same. That's how racism has endured for 160 years after the civil war. It's no secret. Blueprints right there in the text of Project 2025. Keep your eyes on Hillsdale College, Patriot Mobile and Academica Educational Mgmt Co. They are the little noticed spearheads of the takeover, already fairly far along in their plans to capture and destroy our public education system.
Hollowing out kids minds and filling it with crap is exactly what I was talking about. That is a lack of Education. That's exactly what religion does and all the institutions by which we live
yes. I was just extending your own point. But it's really not much about religion. It's about the extremist ideologies of the right. That's the stuff they are really stuffing. Religion and religious schools were just a handy device to help them do that. They were simply able to hijack the religious school archipelago and graft themselves onto it. A convenient implement for their schemes. Before that happened, those religious schools pretty much kept to themselves and minded their own business. In many cases, they were important contributors to broader humanitarian and progressive agenda.
When Hillsdale College started out as a small religious college, it was abolitionist and the first university to admit black students, the second in the country to graduate women. It had generals who fought for the Union army. After it was hijacked in the 70's it became one of the architects of the educational agenda of Project 2025, and now is a leading spearhead of the right-wing takeover of public education.
Religion is a good thing. Forcing anyone's religion on anyone else is a bad thing. Operating like (fill in the blank) religion is a basis for government is worse.
a good thing for adults, perhaps. Putting it in the defenseless minds of young children who cannot comprehend or decide for themselves is a form of child abuse. A recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure themselves of new members. Nothing more.
I sort of disagree. Close-minded education is not a type of education. Teaching children about God Is Not An Education, especially since no one knows anything about him. If you read the Bible as if God was somebody's name, which can easily be spelled out in Hebrew, it's a totally different story. After all, we too can make people.
Not sure which comment you're responding to. My own view is that any religious training/conditioning in early childhood is a serious form of child abuse. One's choice of religious belief (or none) is a matter that can have lifetime consequences, positive and negative. A choice to be made only by adults who can comprehend what they are being told , not something to be fed into the defenseless minds of young children. In reality, it is nothing more than a recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure they will have new members. A completely dishonest and disingenuous method of creating captive audiences.
I donтАЩt know how other countries run their educational programs, as IтАЩve never taught in a school that wasnтАЩt a US Education of students is done on the STATE/ LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LEVEL, States determine what students should know at each grade level. Individual school districts determine what programs/ books/ hands on science programs, etc. will be used for teaching all subjects & what grade theyтАЩll be taughtтАж in WISCONSIN 4th grade is usually the grade that covers Wisconsin history. Classes take field trips to local historical places: preserved old one room school houses, & whole day trip/ tour to the state Capital in Madison, WI. Sometimes the kids get a chance to meet the Governor.
The Federal Government is where states get funding for speech, & language teachers, guidance counselors, classroom aides for both physically disabled children & mentally challenged students including children w/ various degrees of autism.
I donтАЩt think itтАЩs correct to make such a blanket statement on education unless you have actually seen test results for every school in the nation. And I doubt that most people have that type of access. As a retired elementary school teacher for the last 9 yrs., I donтАЩt look up my former colleagues yearly testing scores! They are working & while we may text each other sometimes, itтАЩs usually wishing each other HBD, it sharing &/or some photos. I know that made some curriculum changes.
Not @ all a tRUMP fan, never have & would never vote for the insurrectionist, but heтАЩs obviously in the throes of dementia, his butt buddy VP is even worse than him! However I believe that he will not be around 4ever!!
Heather.B: If Trump avoids a stroke it will be 8 years. Or, consider if he does have a stroke, then Vance gets re-elected to 2 more terms!! Then a Vance executive order suspends the 2 term limit citing emergency powers. With all the red voting shenanigans, this could last 20+ years.
Follow your own trajectory. Dark Ages typically run about a thousand years. Given the unlimited powers and modern weaponry and tools this one has at its disposal, it could last considerably longer. Might be better to think in terms of Isaac Azimov's "We can't prevent the Dark Ages from happening, but perhaps we can shorten its length by a little."
Glad we bought a Prius a few years back. It's going to be hard on folks who chose/are stuck with non hybrids. Transportation will be hit VERY hard, as well energy producers and other industries that are heavy petroleum users. It also gives more strength to Trump's stupid idea of trying to invade Canada and Mexico. Both produce good amounts of oil. (As far as I know, there's no known oil in Greenland. I could be wrong).
I'm still side eyeing the stock and bond markets warily for signs of a deep recession or even a depression. ЁЯдм ЁЯдм ЁЯдм ЁЯдм
I bought a gas guzzler in 2021 (Kia Stinger GT2) - the thing drinks more gas than my ZR1 Corvette did. As a high earner I didn't care ( keep my emission controls in place btw and will keep them in place when I tune it - so many folks who tune their cars take the cats off but there's no reason to, and every reason not to. At 500whp, who cares about the 5HP the cats cost?) I now suddenly care because the oil we produce here, is heavy crude that we normally don't refine into gasoline, and because of Donald's stupid trade war and his evident boner to initiate WWIII, I worry about gasoline _availability_ due to trade sanctions and blockades, more so than the cost. :(
Yeah, we're producing something more like tar. ЁЯЫв ЁЯЫв
My wife and I are retired and do some investing. We just want to be able to make it to the end of our lives, and maybe help out our kids and grandkids. What's going on eerily reminds me of the late 20s, and I think it's deliberate. With the current gutting of the FDIC and centralizing all banking (FDIC, OCC, CFPB, FSOC, and more) under the Executive Branch (not to mention the obsession with f--king Bitcoin), we're scrambling to find ways to protect our family.
We also have a Grand Voyager we use for Sheltie Rescue or hauling big loads. Otherwise, the Prius is the go-to car.
The long lines were an artificial shortage the companies used to drive up prices. This time Biden squared off with them to get the prices back from $7-$8 and they HAVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE. There won't be long lines but the price will be up around $5-$6 a galklon because of those wonderful tariffs.
I was blissfully unaware sucking my bottle but I am aware of the events that led to the malaise era of automobiles. That was also due in large part to conservative politicking.
As a low-earner with an economy car, I would love it if you could just throw some cash my way! (I retired from community mental health counseling, so I never earned a decent salary, even with a PhD!) Glad you had fab rich-kid cars. Sorry they will be costing you more.
It's a freaking kia, and the new ZR1 is priced out of reach in light of the fact that I want to own my own home in my lifetime (my ZR1 was "only" $65K). Even with my salary it's difficult to get ahead as we reach our 50s and are just paying off legacy debt. My wife only just now recently paying hers (student loans) and I've got another ~2yr on my legacy debt. Oh yeah, and when adjusted for inflation, even though my salary was half as much when I bought the ZR1 as it is now, I'm actually earning less when adjusting for inflation. It fraking bites.
Yeah. It bites. Welcome to the reality for most of us. If I had money to pay $65,000 for a car, I would definitely feel wealthy. Ever ride the local bus to work? Or walk, for that matter.
Welcome to my reality - Even as a high earner, due to legacy debt I'm still paying down, I had to finance my car and if I lose my job, I'll be as poor as the welfare collectors in red states within a couple months.
I've been saying for awhile, at least since he walked down the ramp ... he has the early signs of dementia/Alzheimer's. His arms hang down, like dead weights by his sides. Check out everyone else's stance. I think he shuffles some. His rt leg swings out a little, semi circle as if he can't flex his foot easily. A typical move taught post stroke. I hadn't thought of hip replacement, especially since he's really not been real active. But in he almost fell getting out of a golf cart a few weeks ago, you might have hit the nail on the head.
It's a con! He's going to use Russia to jack up gas prices. I'm sure Putin is all for it. If you think they're high now just wait. They've already been getting higher. I have a question, why does Trump look so weak in every photo with Putin? He looks like he needs to be petted.
I love when Obama stared Putin down. :) THAT was a Presidential POTUS!
Only problem is Obama did zip to stop Putin's annexation of Crimea, which is vital to Ukraine's long term economic success. So in my book stares don't achieve much; it requires appropriate ACTION!
Since you are such a big expert on this, let's hear what your idea of action should be.
Chuck, not an expert, let alone a big expert, just an observer. The single most important thing he could have done was send arms to Ukraine, as we did after the invasion. He could have called a NATO meeting to help the EU determine an appropriate response, but instead he said that Ukraine would always be vulnerable to Russian invasion, therefore giving a big green light to Putin for the 2022 invasion. Weakness always encourages aggression and his failure set the stage for the current war and the mess we're in.
I agree on what Obama could have done. But Obama didn't suck up to Pootie and make promises without Ukraine input, call Zelenskyy an unelected dictator, call for Ukraine elections, try to extort profit by demanding half of their resources in exchange for our help (because it is all about the money), snub our NATO allies and threaten to pull out, or ambush Z in front of the cameras while the world watched a stupid political stunt. Keep in mind Russia hasn't honored any of the treaties it signed.
We're watching The Truman Show and it's 24/7 insanity
Trump has never been on AmericaтАЩs side.
The US is rapidly losing its international influence as a powerful nation. Trump is destroying our reputation. He is owned by Russia and the greatest threat to our country in a very, very long time. This treasonous man is on a vengeance tour and it was so obvious to so many of us but here we are. I still believe that truth and love and connection will prevail but the road is going to be rocky.
It's an embarrassment to be an American right now. The US is no longer a beacon of hope!
Four years of this ЁЯТй. ItтАЩs going to be long, but I canтАЩt wait until this is over. Meanwhile I will be wearing these kinds of shirts everyday ЁЯСЗ
https://libtees-2.creator-spring.com
Our weakness is showing. It's called lack of Education. If you compare us to the rest of the world yes it's really embarrassing and they're going to make us more uneducated. It's a very strange way to compete in the world isn't it? We will lose and that's how you make America great again!
No one can "make America great again" by making it stupid.
Lack of? No, just another kind of. As I said in another comment,
Keep your eye on the ball, folks. The Dept. of Ed, is just a small obstacle being removed from the field of play. The real game is to take over and privatize all of American education. The even larger game is to hollow out the minds of our children and replace them with compliant clones filled with the nonsense of fascist, white supremacist, Christian nationalist hogwash. That makes the dynasties of fascist kings and the Axis of Despots a permanent feature of the American landscape, as each corrupted child's mind grows up and teaches their own children the same. That's how racism has endured for 160 years after the civil war. It's no secret. Blueprints right there in the text of Project 2025. Keep your eyes on Hillsdale College, Patriot Mobile and Academica Educational Mgmt Co. They are the little noticed spearheads of the takeover, already fairly far along in their plans to capture and destroy our public education system.
Hollowing out kids minds and filling it with crap is exactly what I was talking about. That is a lack of Education. That's exactly what religion does and all the institutions by which we live
yes. I was just extending your own point. But it's really not much about religion. It's about the extremist ideologies of the right. That's the stuff they are really stuffing. Religion and religious schools were just a handy device to help them do that. They were simply able to hijack the religious school archipelago and graft themselves onto it. A convenient implement for their schemes. Before that happened, those religious schools pretty much kept to themselves and minded their own business. In many cases, they were important contributors to broader humanitarian and progressive agenda.
When Hillsdale College started out as a small religious college, it was abolitionist and the first university to admit black students, the second in the country to graduate women. It had generals who fought for the Union army. After it was hijacked in the 70's it became one of the architects of the educational agenda of Project 2025, and now is a leading spearhead of the right-wing takeover of public education.
I wrote a little history of how that all happened, www.poems4change.org/essays/education-end-of-evolution.pdf
Religion is a good thing. Forcing anyone's religion on anyone else is a bad thing. Operating like (fill in the blank) religion is a basis for government is worse.
a good thing for adults, perhaps. Putting it in the defenseless minds of young children who cannot comprehend or decide for themselves is a form of child abuse. A recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure themselves of new members. Nothing more.
I sort of disagree. Close-minded education is not a type of education. Teaching children about God Is Not An Education, especially since no one knows anything about him. If you read the Bible as if God was somebody's name, which can easily be spelled out in Hebrew, it's a totally different story. After all, we too can make people.
Not sure which comment you're responding to. My own view is that any religious training/conditioning in early childhood is a serious form of child abuse. One's choice of religious belief (or none) is a matter that can have lifetime consequences, positive and negative. A choice to be made only by adults who can comprehend what they are being told , not something to be fed into the defenseless minds of young children. In reality, it is nothing more than a recruiting tool used by organized religions to insure they will have new members. A completely dishonest and disingenuous method of creating captive audiences.
And create universes
I donтАЩt know how other countries run their educational programs, as IтАЩve never taught in a school that wasnтАЩt a US Education of students is done on the STATE/ LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT LEVEL, States determine what students should know at each grade level. Individual school districts determine what programs/ books/ hands on science programs, etc. will be used for teaching all subjects & what grade theyтАЩll be taughtтАж in WISCONSIN 4th grade is usually the grade that covers Wisconsin history. Classes take field trips to local historical places: preserved old one room school houses, & whole day trip/ tour to the state Capital in Madison, WI. Sometimes the kids get a chance to meet the Governor.
The Federal Government is where states get funding for speech, & language teachers, guidance counselors, classroom aides for both physically disabled children & mentally challenged students including children w/ various degrees of autism.
I donтАЩt think itтАЩs correct to make such a blanket statement on education unless you have actually seen test results for every school in the nation. And I doubt that most people have that type of access. As a retired elementary school teacher for the last 9 yrs., I donтАЩt look up my former colleagues yearly testing scores! They are working & while we may text each other sometimes, itтАЩs usually wishing each other HBD, it sharing &/or some photos. I know that made some curriculum changes.
Not @ all a tRUMP fan, never have & would never vote for the insurrectionist, but heтАЩs obviously in the throes of dementia, his butt buddy VP is even worse than him! However I believe that he will not be around 4ever!!
Heather.B: If Trump avoids a stroke it will be 8 years. Or, consider if he does have a stroke, then Vance gets re-elected to 2 more terms!! Then a Vance executive order suspends the 2 term limit citing emergency powers. With all the red voting shenanigans, this could last 20+ years.
Said it before and will say it again. Those two assclowns and E-Don Muskratshit need to share the fatal Big Mac Attack.
Follow your own trajectory. Dark Ages typically run about a thousand years. Given the unlimited powers and modern weaponry and tools this one has at its disposal, it could last considerably longer. Might be better to think in terms of Isaac Azimov's "We can't prevent the Dark Ages from happening, but perhaps we can shorten its length by a little."
...this could last 20+ years." Remember our climate crisis. We don't <have> 20+ years.
I LOVE ALL THE SHIRTS!
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Trash is only concerned about Trash
Glad we bought a Prius a few years back. It's going to be hard on folks who chose/are stuck with non hybrids. Transportation will be hit VERY hard, as well energy producers and other industries that are heavy petroleum users. It also gives more strength to Trump's stupid idea of trying to invade Canada and Mexico. Both produce good amounts of oil. (As far as I know, there's no known oil in Greenland. I could be wrong).
I'm still side eyeing the stock and bond markets warily for signs of a deep recession or even a depression. ЁЯдм ЁЯдм ЁЯдм ЁЯдм
I bought a gas guzzler in 2021 (Kia Stinger GT2) - the thing drinks more gas than my ZR1 Corvette did. As a high earner I didn't care ( keep my emission controls in place btw and will keep them in place when I tune it - so many folks who tune their cars take the cats off but there's no reason to, and every reason not to. At 500whp, who cares about the 5HP the cats cost?) I now suddenly care because the oil we produce here, is heavy crude that we normally don't refine into gasoline, and because of Donald's stupid trade war and his evident boner to initiate WWIII, I worry about gasoline _availability_ due to trade sanctions and blockades, more so than the cost. :(
Yeah, we're producing something more like tar. ЁЯЫв ЁЯЫв
My wife and I are retired and do some investing. We just want to be able to make it to the end of our lives, and maybe help out our kids and grandkids. What's going on eerily reminds me of the late 20s, and I think it's deliberate. With the current gutting of the FDIC and centralizing all banking (FDIC, OCC, CFPB, FSOC, and more) under the Executive Branch (not to mention the obsession with f--king Bitcoin), we're scrambling to find ways to protect our family.
We also have a Grand Voyager we use for Sheltie Rescue or hauling big loads. Otherwise, the Prius is the go-to car.
I'm guessing you weren't around in 74, with the long gas lines and s***
I was 24 and queuing up just like everyone else. I had a 1970 Buick Skylark. I was a single mom and did hair for a living at the time.
The long lines were an artificial shortage the companies used to drive up prices. This time Biden squared off with them to get the prices back from $7-$8 and they HAVE BEEN THE SAME SINCE. There won't be long lines but the price will be up around $5-$6 a galklon because of those wonderful tariffs.
I was blissfully unaware sucking my bottle but I am aware of the events that led to the malaise era of automobiles. That was also due in large part to conservative politicking.
Yep, Americans never learned their lesson. I'm starting to think Americans don't learn anything
As a low-earner with an economy car, I would love it if you could just throw some cash my way! (I retired from community mental health counseling, so I never earned a decent salary, even with a PhD!) Glad you had fab rich-kid cars. Sorry they will be costing you more.
It's a freaking kia, and the new ZR1 is priced out of reach in light of the fact that I want to own my own home in my lifetime (my ZR1 was "only" $65K). Even with my salary it's difficult to get ahead as we reach our 50s and are just paying off legacy debt. My wife only just now recently paying hers (student loans) and I've got another ~2yr on my legacy debt. Oh yeah, and when adjusted for inflation, even though my salary was half as much when I bought the ZR1 as it is now, I'm actually earning less when adjusting for inflation. It fraking bites.
Yeah. It bites. Welcome to the reality for most of us. If I had money to pay $65,000 for a car, I would definitely feel wealthy. Ever ride the local bus to work? Or walk, for that matter.
Welcome to my reality - Even as a high earner, due to legacy debt I'm still paying down, I had to finance my car and if I lose my job, I'll be as poor as the welfare collectors in red states within a couple months.
He is dragging his right leg..hip needs replacing soon
I've been saying for awhile, at least since he walked down the ramp ... he has the early signs of dementia/Alzheimer's. His arms hang down, like dead weights by his sides. Check out everyone else's stance. I think he shuffles some. His rt leg swings out a little, semi circle as if he can't flex his foot easily. A typical move taught post stroke. I hadn't thought of hip replacement, especially since he's really not been real active. But in he almost fell getting out of a golf cart a few weeks ago, you might have hit the nail on the head.
Also his stance is wide... balance problems? He seems to be hitting the rug more square than the rest of them. As easier to judge how to approach it.
His brain needs replacing!
If you want a good look at our Mad King and his inner world, try,
www.poems4change.org/madking/mk-gallery.html
Same as when a beta dog is in the company of the alpha dog