And they are STILL blaming the immigrants?! WTF?! If people who are born here and have at least that going for them can't afford a house, what makes them think that those who come here with nothing more than clothes on their backs have anything to do with it? Don't get rid of the immigrants - get rid of the billionaires!
This is a lovely sentiment - but, sadly, we do not yet live in a global community where this stance is shared. We just... haven't grown up to that level as a species. So, for those of us who are not American-born, the derision, the hatred, and the routine attempts at humiliation are very real.
Oh, you are right of course. Children just about everywhere are taught from birth that there are borders: WE are the best and THEY are rubbish.
Was reading a pretty good science fiction space opera the other day, and someone said:
"Different" does not mean "lesser".
I'll say one thing about the Rump regime… it's teaching SOME people that "Different" does NOT mean "Thou shalt not give a f*** about them".
One step closer to that level of species you and I both hope for, desperately. I'm 73 years old, and during that time have seen a creep in that direction. Yes. Please don't give up, Marvellous Person.
I am 50, and I would say we have seen a lot of back and forth. EU being a HUGE achievement, of course - but even they manage to squabble. I grew up reading a lot of sci fi and am a huge Star Trek fan - so I WANT us to grow up and have a global community, which is bound to make working on all the other problems easier (climate, poverty, hunger, injustice, oppression, etc.)
But no.... too many are like that idiot in the fable, where god tells him, "I'll give you anything you want, but your neighbor will get twice as much of the same." and the idiot says, "Take one of my eyes." People! Let's go! You are supposed to be the pillar of evolution - freaking ACT like one.
I'm don't think Raygun "caused" right wing stupidity but he sure encouraged it. More than anything I think he along with Rush Slimeball and right wing media gave cover and permission to all the misogynists, racists and xenophobes to crawl out from under their rocks and be accepted as having legitimacy in political discourse. We beat them back in the Civil War and WW2. Now we have to do it again?! My point being MAGAts have always been with us and always will be.
To reply to both of your responses, I just see Reagan's Three R's of education as his attempt to remove any kind of critical thinking from education, and yes, it paved the way for all the undesirables to crawl out of the woodwork, because he and Rush Limpdick made it chic to be a misogynist, xenophobe, racist, etc. I'm well aware of how much racism was supposed to be dead, according to Bill O'Reilly, but I'm caucasian, so I was always privy to the water cooler conversations in which my white co-workers made fun of and/or put down my black co-workers. Bill O'Reilly is full of shit.
On the second point, yes. Women should be barefoot and pregnant, blacks should be butlers and maids, and those damned Hispanics shouldn't be here at all, except to pick our tomatoes. /s And Project 2025 always inspires me to say: I do NOT want laws INFLICTED on me that are based on someone else's superstitions!!!
If you don't like immigrant people and want to throw them out, then throw out their entire culture: all of their foods too.
But can you live without potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, corn, some beans, pumpkin, zucchini, avocado, papaya, vanilla, passionfruit, pineapple, coconut, cocoa, chocolate, coffee, peanuts, Brazil nuts, cashews…?
The beloved turkey, by the way, is not from Turkiye but from southern Mexico. So that will have to be banned as well.
Yeah, I saw that too. There seem to be people who bought that stupid statement from Just Dance Vance that “illegal immigrants” are the reason housing is so expensive… like the Central American family running for their lives is plunking down a cool million for a house. Makes no sense.
What do you mean, one can enter for a raffle to win the weed cup? I'd buy one, provided you can ship it out of the country :D
As for Trump's 50-year mortgage plan. Nothing shocks me anymore. Each day is just another rendition of "Idiocracy." I'm not going to put any stock in this statement, because he won't remember he said that within an hour and therefore won't execute on it.
50 year mortgages are short for Trump. He built Trump Tower in 1979 & STILL has a loan on it. As we learned from I don’t remember which lawsuit/indictment, he’ll take out a loan with a balloon payment & refinance when the balloon is due with another loan with a balloon payment. Lather rinse repeat for 45 years so far.
Forty billion American taxpayer dollars to Argentina, not twenty. Because, presumably, the escapees from the new Nuremberg trials will need some place to hide out.
I looked it up; Argentina has an extradition agreement with the U.S. They'd better have a LOT of lovely bribes waiting to go once they flee down there. ;)
When you go to the bank for a mortgage, you need at least 25% down payment, before they will even speak to you. They show you a list of mortgage options: 15 year fixed, 20 year fixed or "flexible" which means the interest rate can increase. And the most popular, the 30 year fixed mortgage. All the options are scary. And now, demented Don-OLD tells you that a 50 year mortgage will allow you to buy the American dream. One way people pay off their mortgage is if they come into an inheritance. The other way, you buy term mortgage insurance on both owners, the consequence, one owner has to die and the mortgage is paid off. And once again, trump shows his ignorance by blaming immigrants? He still can't comprehend this is a nation of immigrants. The older I get, the more I learn about history...my home sits on stolen land, that belonged to the Native Americans.
And even then, the most recent cognomen for them isn't so much "native" Americans, but the First Nations, since even they were immigrants once upon a time (first sentients in the Americas, and 20,000 years or so ago, but even they were from somewhere else originally).
CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy, it is a business plan.)
Russia and China are red states.
Why would anyone feel there is a need for a metaphor about Corporate Communism? The short answer: political marketing.
The fascist Trump MAGA right is using socialist as a bludgeon to attack every bipartisan social progress program of the twentieth century (yes, I mean FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Obama, Biden, et al). Ninety nine percent of the US population, because of Corporate Communist Fox, has no idea what socialism is other than being the spawn of Satan. It is time to put these liars on their back foot by being forced to defend the lack of a free and fair media.
In NYC a self described socialist Zohran Mamdani resoundingly won in the race for Mayor. During the campaign an ad by political entertainer and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa who had less leadership experience than Mamdani attacked the leadership and ethics of Cuomo and Adams while yelling “Socialist” about Mamdani. The conservavictim whiny little bitch corporate communist media is spreading the fear lies that NYC businesses will leave NYC for Texas etc. since they have the same educated employee hiring pool as NYC.
“Corporate Communism” is when oblivious and frequently incompetent corporations own the means of communication and the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother (Palantir, Google, X aka Gulf of Twitter. Facebook, Amazon Instagram, etc). It is the worst of both utopian fantasies, e.g. altruism is a natural human trait and that the invisible hand is more than a metaphor.
A Note on Conspiracy Theory: A popular belief among life’s victims (conservavictims and libtards) is that they are not to blame for their lack of success because “those forces” such as space aliens, frequently with lasers, immigrants and beings with mystic power, e.g. The Illuminati are aligned against them, and “those people” (usually ethnic and or religious groups) all sticking together to subvert their pure patriotic programs.
Corporate Communism is anti-capitalism (Adam Smith and Ayn Rand). It is anti-communist, (Marx and Stalin). It is anti-competitive in its core. It hates the free market. Loves big government which it owns. Classic Capitalism and Classic Communism are utopian dreams based on the perfectibility of humans. The stunning materialist success of classic Capitalism in remaking the world is that it most closely follows the depraved human (that is us) indifference to consequences. The stunning failure of Russian/Chinese, Stalinist Communism is that it assumed that imperfect dogma dog bureaucrats could manage something other than being dogma dog bureaucrats: Red Guard political officers in every organization.
The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:
• Elect a useful idiot wholly controlled by those with extortion and blackmail skills and evidence. (Trump-Epstein anyone?).
• Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at polling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.
• Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. Consolidation of media
• A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling”..
• Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. E.g. Clinton, Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Ferraro. Compare and contrast with Nixon, Trump, Bush, et al. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her/them yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard. Why do popular (actually all) religions get to have their superstitions subsidized by the government as tax free business? Please don’t say they do good work like the Godfather passing out turkeys on Thanksgiving right before DeNiro shoots him.
• Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Cut Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).
• The anti-capitalist mentality. Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition.
• Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. This theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted via free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media or most likely in terms of agreement you signed and never read. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly most Musk minions stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.
o This from Consumer Reports: “Imagine being charged more for an airline ticket to a family member’s funeral just because you searched for their obituary online. ..surveillance pricing’ happens because corporations are allowed to secretly use your personal information against you – charging different prices based on how much they think you’re willing to pay, or how badly you need their product or service.”
o
• Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).
• Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.
• Tax Free Theocracy. Christo Fascism
• Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”
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So, the past few days, Trump and the GOP have: asked SCOTUS to let 42 million Americans starve; refused to take $40 billion that he is illegally sending to Argentina to bail them out and put it towards the ACA subsidies; and been shown to have known about Epstein and his trafficking of underage girls for sex and spent HOURS with one at Epstein’s house, but lied about knowing that it was happening.
MAGA- Make Argentina Great Again (by starving and killing American children)
It’s the death of the middle class and Republicans have been working on it since Reagan’s first day in office (remember he fired all the air traffic controllers to bust the union) to the culmination of their work Project 2025. He also started the brainwashing of the MAGA hoard playing to their fears and creating the Welfare Queen myth. It went downhill from there unless you are a billionaire.
And they are STILL blaming the immigrants?! WTF?! If people who are born here and have at least that going for them can't afford a house, what makes them think that those who come here with nothing more than clothes on their backs have anything to do with it? Don't get rid of the immigrants - get rid of the billionaires!
OMG I would give you a thousand likes for this comment! WTF! How can people be so, so stupid!
Thank you, that's very sweet. As an immigrant, I can tell you, being everyone's scapegoat is like a 24/7 job and it gets old REAL fast.
I’m so sorry…
Every one of us is an immigrant on this planet. Being born is immigration :-D
You can say the same for every living thing.
Some say that we are therefore automatically equal.
Others however say that if you are born in a healthy body, a beautiful house and a wealthy family you are automatically as golden as Oval Office 2025.
But I'd say just as shallow, trashy and cheap.
This is a lovely sentiment - but, sadly, we do not yet live in a global community where this stance is shared. We just... haven't grown up to that level as a species. So, for those of us who are not American-born, the derision, the hatred, and the routine attempts at humiliation are very real.
Oh, you are right of course. Children just about everywhere are taught from birth that there are borders: WE are the best and THEY are rubbish.
Was reading a pretty good science fiction space opera the other day, and someone said:
"Different" does not mean "lesser".
I'll say one thing about the Rump regime… it's teaching SOME people that "Different" does NOT mean "Thou shalt not give a f*** about them".
One step closer to that level of species you and I both hope for, desperately. I'm 73 years old, and during that time have seen a creep in that direction. Yes. Please don't give up, Marvellous Person.
I am 50, and I would say we have seen a lot of back and forth. EU being a HUGE achievement, of course - but even they manage to squabble. I grew up reading a lot of sci fi and am a huge Star Trek fan - so I WANT us to grow up and have a global community, which is bound to make working on all the other problems easier (climate, poverty, hunger, injustice, oppression, etc.)
But no.... too many are like that idiot in the fable, where god tells him, "I'll give you anything you want, but your neighbor will get twice as much of the same." and the idiot says, "Take one of my eyes." People! Let's go! You are supposed to be the pillar of evolution - freaking ACT like one.
Simple: First we elected Ronald Reagan to dumb down the US.
I'm don't think Raygun "caused" right wing stupidity but he sure encouraged it. More than anything I think he along with Rush Slimeball and right wing media gave cover and permission to all the misogynists, racists and xenophobes to crawl out from under their rocks and be accepted as having legitimacy in political discourse. We beat them back in the Civil War and WW2. Now we have to do it again?! My point being MAGAts have always been with us and always will be.
Reagan ushered in the foundation for Project 2025. The “return to the good ole days” was cover for disenfranchisement of women and POC.
To reply to both of your responses, I just see Reagan's Three R's of education as his attempt to remove any kind of critical thinking from education, and yes, it paved the way for all the undesirables to crawl out of the woodwork, because he and Rush Limpdick made it chic to be a misogynist, xenophobe, racist, etc. I'm well aware of how much racism was supposed to be dead, according to Bill O'Reilly, but I'm caucasian, so I was always privy to the water cooler conversations in which my white co-workers made fun of and/or put down my black co-workers. Bill O'Reilly is full of shit.
On the second point, yes. Women should be barefoot and pregnant, blacks should be butlers and maids, and those damned Hispanics shouldn't be here at all, except to pick our tomatoes. /s And Project 2025 always inspires me to say: I do NOT want laws INFLICTED on me that are based on someone else's superstitions!!!
If you don't like immigrant people and want to throw them out, then throw out their entire culture: all of their foods too.
But can you live without potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, corn, some beans, pumpkin, zucchini, avocado, papaya, vanilla, passionfruit, pineapple, coconut, cocoa, chocolate, coffee, peanuts, Brazil nuts, cashews…?
The beloved turkey, by the way, is not from Turkiye but from southern Mexico. So that will have to be banned as well.
How'd you like what's left?
Do you know what '/s' after a statement means?
Yeah, I saw that too. There seem to be people who bought that stupid statement from Just Dance Vance that “illegal immigrants” are the reason housing is so expensive… like the Central American family running for their lives is plunking down a cool million for a house. Makes no sense.
The only immigrant that should be held responsible is Elon Musk.
I'd ad Melania to your list.
AND the Racists
That too. There appears to be a bit of an overlap between those two groups.
What do you mean, one can enter for a raffle to win the weed cup? I'd buy one, provided you can ship it out of the country :D
As for Trump's 50-year mortgage plan. Nothing shocks me anymore. Each day is just another rendition of "Idiocracy." I'm not going to put any stock in this statement, because he won't remember he said that within an hour and therefore won't execute on it.
They’re in the shop, idk I just thought I would try something new.
Alright, God, I have ordered stuff. You need hoodies. It gets pretty cold here in Germany.
50 year mortgages are short for Trump. He built Trump Tower in 1979 & STILL has a loan on it. As we learned from I don’t remember which lawsuit/indictment, he’ll take out a loan with a balloon payment & refinance when the balloon is due with another loan with a balloon payment. Lather rinse repeat for 45 years so far.
And he still lost so much money, he had to turn to the Russians to bail him out... X-P
Forty billion American taxpayer dollars to Argentina, not twenty. Because, presumably, the escapees from the new Nuremberg trials will need some place to hide out.
I looked it up; Argentina has an extradition agreement with the U.S. They'd better have a LOT of lovely bribes waiting to go once they flee down there. ;)
The Great and Mighty Trump can lean on his pal Javier Milei to tear up that treaty. Milei has billions of reasons to say yes.
When you go to the bank for a mortgage, you need at least 25% down payment, before they will even speak to you. They show you a list of mortgage options: 15 year fixed, 20 year fixed or "flexible" which means the interest rate can increase. And the most popular, the 30 year fixed mortgage. All the options are scary. And now, demented Don-OLD tells you that a 50 year mortgage will allow you to buy the American dream. One way people pay off their mortgage is if they come into an inheritance. The other way, you buy term mortgage insurance on both owners, the consequence, one owner has to die and the mortgage is paid off. And once again, trump shows his ignorance by blaming immigrants? He still can't comprehend this is a nation of immigrants. The older I get, the more I learn about history...my home sits on stolen land, that belonged to the Native Americans.
And even then, the most recent cognomen for them isn't so much "native" Americans, but the First Nations, since even they were immigrants once upon a time (first sentients in the Americas, and 20,000 years or so ago, but even they were from somewhere else originally).
HOW WE GOT TRUMP 2.0
CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy, it is a business plan.)
Russia and China are red states.
Why would anyone feel there is a need for a metaphor about Corporate Communism? The short answer: political marketing.
The fascist Trump MAGA right is using socialist as a bludgeon to attack every bipartisan social progress program of the twentieth century (yes, I mean FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Obama, Biden, et al). Ninety nine percent of the US population, because of Corporate Communist Fox, has no idea what socialism is other than being the spawn of Satan. It is time to put these liars on their back foot by being forced to defend the lack of a free and fair media.
In NYC a self described socialist Zohran Mamdani resoundingly won in the race for Mayor. During the campaign an ad by political entertainer and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa who had less leadership experience than Mamdani attacked the leadership and ethics of Cuomo and Adams while yelling “Socialist” about Mamdani. The conservavictim whiny little bitch corporate communist media is spreading the fear lies that NYC businesses will leave NYC for Texas etc. since they have the same educated employee hiring pool as NYC.
“Corporate Communism” is when oblivious and frequently incompetent corporations own the means of communication and the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother (Palantir, Google, X aka Gulf of Twitter. Facebook, Amazon Instagram, etc). It is the worst of both utopian fantasies, e.g. altruism is a natural human trait and that the invisible hand is more than a metaphor.
A Note on Conspiracy Theory: A popular belief among life’s victims (conservavictims and libtards) is that they are not to blame for their lack of success because “those forces” such as space aliens, frequently with lasers, immigrants and beings with mystic power, e.g. The Illuminati are aligned against them, and “those people” (usually ethnic and or religious groups) all sticking together to subvert their pure patriotic programs.
Corporate Communism is anti-capitalism (Adam Smith and Ayn Rand). It is anti-communist, (Marx and Stalin). It is anti-competitive in its core. It hates the free market. Loves big government which it owns. Classic Capitalism and Classic Communism are utopian dreams based on the perfectibility of humans. The stunning materialist success of classic Capitalism in remaking the world is that it most closely follows the depraved human (that is us) indifference to consequences. The stunning failure of Russian/Chinese, Stalinist Communism is that it assumed that imperfect dogma dog bureaucrats could manage something other than being dogma dog bureaucrats: Red Guard political officers in every organization.
The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:
• Elect a useful idiot wholly controlled by those with extortion and blackmail skills and evidence. (Trump-Epstein anyone?).
• Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at polling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.
• Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. Consolidation of media
• A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling”..
• Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. E.g. Clinton, Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Ferraro. Compare and contrast with Nixon, Trump, Bush, et al. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her/them yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard. Why do popular (actually all) religions get to have their superstitions subsidized by the government as tax free business? Please don’t say they do good work like the Godfather passing out turkeys on Thanksgiving right before DeNiro shoots him.
• Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Cut Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).
• The anti-capitalist mentality. Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition.
• Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. This theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted via free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media or most likely in terms of agreement you signed and never read. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly most Musk minions stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.
o This from Consumer Reports: “Imagine being charged more for an airline ticket to a family member’s funeral just because you searched for their obituary online. ..surveillance pricing’ happens because corporations are allowed to secretly use your personal information against you – charging different prices based on how much they think you’re willing to pay, or how badly you need their product or service.”
o
• Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).
• Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.
• Tax Free Theocracy. Christo Fascism
• Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”
• Return of a King (Donnie The Dumb)
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So, the past few days, Trump and the GOP have: asked SCOTUS to let 42 million Americans starve; refused to take $40 billion that he is illegally sending to Argentina to bail them out and put it towards the ACA subsidies; and been shown to have known about Epstein and his trafficking of underage girls for sex and spent HOURS with one at Epstein’s house, but lied about knowing that it was happening.
MAGA- Make Argentina Great Again (by starving and killing American children)
You should sell these mugs too so people who already have subscriptions can contribute to the cause!
I do lol
Try never. He never gave a crap about you unless you were in a position to bribe him. Wake up MAGAts!
It’s the death of the middle class and Republicans have been working on it since Reagan’s first day in office (remember he fired all the air traffic controllers to bust the union) to the culmination of their work Project 2025. He also started the brainwashing of the MAGA hoard playing to their fears and creating the Welfare Queen myth. It went downhill from there unless you are a billionaire.
Hoard = treasure, like a McDuck swimming pool full of gold coins (didn't know the laws of physics would allow diving into one of those...).
Horde = a large group of people, often followers.
It's weird to be alive during such a stupid, grotesque time...........
fuck these clowns.
My gift subscription order won’t go through.
I’m sorry to hear that! I wonder if everyone is having this issue!
Can he force banks to offer them? Can he force people to take out such loans?
Dear @God,
WHY isn't there a cure for STUPID yet???
It's time to play Whack a NAZI!!! (With my giant blow-up gavel)
Love,
me