You don’t get it. He’s a gangster. You can make a deal with him and he’ll exempt you. He wants the $$$. He’ll take it and now it’s not a crime because he stacked the court and got his moneys worth there. Elon is simply nuts and probably so drug addled that he’ll come completely apart before our eyes in the next 18 months. (That’s a prediction I’d love someone to hold me to account about ). People are so stupid. DJT is completely transparent. Surrounded by fundamentally delusional suck ups with no integrity, we’ve just landed in an inversion of the Spanish Civil War without the technocrats running the economy. We will not survive as a country which may be fine in the long run. I want the country remnant with only the smart decent people who don’t resort to violence and aggression like it’s the Middle Ages.
Jackasses. Reminds on my mom’s saying, they’ll cut off their nose to spite their face. The most insincere insane incompetent people possible still in Washington. 2026!
"GOP Representative John Duarte, who just lost his seat in the elections, explicitly tells Reuters that farming interests in his California district depend on undocumented immigrants — and that Trump should exempt many from removal."
While Old Handsome Joe Biden has his pardon pen out, he should just pardon all the undocumented workers (who have not committed any other crimes) just to piss off the repubs.
Biden should also pardon any American-owned business who hired any undocumented worker; to remind the Repubs that these pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps business owners were also breaking the law by hiring them. (I'm assuming it's illegal to do so... I'm just assuming)
someone needs to explain how "mass deportation" can work? will they drive around in a truck picking up everyone who isn't white? how's that work? aside from limited circumstances, no one, absent probable cause, is required to verify their lawful status, and even then , only to to a DHS officer
Cue the "Shocked, shocked that there's gambling in Rick's" memes? They say kids learn better when you set things to music - think this ditty will help explain it to those regretful Trump voters? "Why Are You Surprised When a Snake Hisses?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMts7FpvRk
Trump supporters are frequently too uninformed to be reliable voters. They continue to prefer wealthy celebrities like Trump and Elon Musk who spew the kind of vile rhetoric they enjoy hearing over qualified civil servants like HRC and Kamala Harris who had actual experience and plans to improve voters’ lives.
The mass deportations are highly unlikely to happen. We already have enormous resources devoted to immigration and the deportation of foreign criminals. Like all things Trump, he will sign some bombastic executive order hereby banning all illegal immigrants and ordering they vacate the premises immediately, then claim total victory and move on. Like most things in politics, it’s not about what is actually happening, it’s only about what people think is happening.
Access to healthcare under Trump would become far more expensive for the sick and the poor if his gop have their way. The insurance industry is already teetering, and the wealthy don’t want universal healthcare coverage, they want pay-to-play, with the most needy people paying the most, an untenable system. They want to chop Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. They oppose even a $15 minimum livable wage. And yet, millions of poor and desperate Americans voted for this. It’s inexplicable.
Unfortunately Obergruppenfuhrer Stephen Miller really wants concentration camps and paramilitary enforcement of executive orders, so unless someone figures out how to sideline that scumbag there will probably be some really evil actions ahead.
I disagree that it is inexplicable. The majority of Peach Pol Pot's voters have not 1 miniscule clue about The Heritage Foundation's policies. They voted for a man who is as much of a thin skinned bullying racist woman hating asshole as they are. Once they start to see themselves affected they still wont blame PPP.
I’m all for free and fair elections, but if we are supposed to be choosing our best and brightest to lead us, then the responsibility of making that choice should be earned. This past election has proven that the American masses are not capable of making such an important decision. Even when they choose the candidate they want, they vote against their best interests.
Trump is selling access to everything, including tickets to his inauguration ($50,000 to $2 million) and private, quiet dinners with Melonia for $2 million. That’s just insane. The utter hypocrisy and cynicism the GOP show for the monetization of our government is horrifying. Everything is for sale, and the interests of rural voters barely getting by are of no interest to the Trump GOP.
If our elections are simply popularity and fundraising contests vulnerable to endless misinformation and manipulation, we can expect results like this to continue. Count on President Elon Musk in the coming years.
Well, sometimes kid needs to burn the shit out of their hand before they learn. It would have been nice if the US wasn't a kid that needed their whole hand to burn away to learn, but here we are. Hope they learn.
Ta, Gary. When I went to public school, I'd already been reading for quite some time. I got my first library card at the age of two, because in Brooklyn one could get one the day one could sign it (in script; printing was out). I practiced signing my name for a week to get it small enough. Anyway, back to public school in NJ. I spent ten years waiting for the idiots to get through Dick and Jane (or so it seemed to me). And people have only gotten stupider since.
I feel for you and your kids. The county where my parents bought a house did not allow grade skipping; I clearly should not have been forced to sit through first grade. It also did not help that I was the only child in the class who had not been in the teacher’s kindergarten; that was the year she switched grades. She had my parents come to school and suggested I belonged in private school. She also wanted to have my kindergarten teacher disciplined for having taught me to read; no, she used my ability to read to help teach the other kids. Fortunately, my mother told her the truth: I’d been reading for four years before I ever entered her classroom.
Eh, it's a mixed bag - I started first grade at 5 and already could read and write. As such I was always the smallest kid in class and couple that with the smartest and my school days were not that enjoyable. I was bullied constantly and buried myself in books to escape the tedium of the classroom. Going to college at 17 was a mistake too, fortunately I dropped out early and saved myself another four years of wasted time.
My son was born on the cusp of age related acceptance and I didn't push the matter, as a result he became one of those star pupils who also was considered a leader and an asset to his school and a well rounded human. He's also a bit more social than I ever have been, as he didn't suffer the same experience of how mean kids can be.
Peach Pol Pot! I love that!😂
You don’t get it. He’s a gangster. You can make a deal with him and he’ll exempt you. He wants the $$$. He’ll take it and now it’s not a crime because he stacked the court and got his moneys worth there. Elon is simply nuts and probably so drug addled that he’ll come completely apart before our eyes in the next 18 months. (That’s a prediction I’d love someone to hold me to account about ). People are so stupid. DJT is completely transparent. Surrounded by fundamentally delusional suck ups with no integrity, we’ve just landed in an inversion of the Spanish Civil War without the technocrats running the economy. We will not survive as a country which may be fine in the long run. I want the country remnant with only the smart decent people who don’t resort to violence and aggression like it’s the Middle Ages.
Jackasses. Reminds on my mom’s saying, they’ll cut off their nose to spite their face. The most insincere insane incompetent people possible still in Washington. 2026!
"GOP Representative John Duarte, who just lost his seat in the elections, explicitly tells Reuters that farming interests in his California district depend on undocumented immigrants — and that Trump should exempt many from removal."
While Old Handsome Joe Biden has his pardon pen out, he should just pardon all the undocumented workers (who have not committed any other crimes) just to piss off the repubs.
Biden should also pardon any American-owned business who hired any undocumented worker; to remind the Repubs that these pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps business owners were also breaking the law by hiring them. (I'm assuming it's illegal to do so... I'm just assuming)
"the exact opposite has been true". Plus, minus, what's the difference?
someone needs to explain how "mass deportation" can work? will they drive around in a truck picking up everyone who isn't white? how's that work? aside from limited circumstances, no one, absent probable cause, is required to verify their lawful status, and even then , only to to a DHS officer
They’ll start at Home Depot parking lots
AN OPEN LETTER TO ANYONE SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH A TRUMP SUPPORTER
The GOP's Lies, Cruelty, and Hypocrisy Are the Real War on Christmas
https://open.substack.com/pub/patricemersault/p/an-open-letter-to-anyone-spending?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Cue the "Shocked, shocked that there's gambling in Rick's" memes? They say kids learn better when you set things to music - think this ditty will help explain it to those regretful Trump voters? "Why Are You Surprised When a Snake Hisses?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMts7FpvRk
This is Cassandra, Icarus, and Tantalus combined.
Trump supporters are frequently too uninformed to be reliable voters. They continue to prefer wealthy celebrities like Trump and Elon Musk who spew the kind of vile rhetoric they enjoy hearing over qualified civil servants like HRC and Kamala Harris who had actual experience and plans to improve voters’ lives.
The mass deportations are highly unlikely to happen. We already have enormous resources devoted to immigration and the deportation of foreign criminals. Like all things Trump, he will sign some bombastic executive order hereby banning all illegal immigrants and ordering they vacate the premises immediately, then claim total victory and move on. Like most things in politics, it’s not about what is actually happening, it’s only about what people think is happening.
Access to healthcare under Trump would become far more expensive for the sick and the poor if his gop have their way. The insurance industry is already teetering, and the wealthy don’t want universal healthcare coverage, they want pay-to-play, with the most needy people paying the most, an untenable system. They want to chop Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. They oppose even a $15 minimum livable wage. And yet, millions of poor and desperate Americans voted for this. It’s inexplicable.
Unfortunately Obergruppenfuhrer Stephen Miller really wants concentration camps and paramilitary enforcement of executive orders, so unless someone figures out how to sideline that scumbag there will probably be some really evil actions ahead.
UberStrumFurhrer Miller now that they won.
I disagree that it is inexplicable. The majority of Peach Pol Pot's voters have not 1 miniscule clue about The Heritage Foundation's policies. They voted for a man who is as much of a thin skinned bullying racist woman hating asshole as they are. Once they start to see themselves affected they still wont blame PPP.
I’m all for free and fair elections, but if we are supposed to be choosing our best and brightest to lead us, then the responsibility of making that choice should be earned. This past election has proven that the American masses are not capable of making such an important decision. Even when they choose the candidate they want, they vote against their best interests.
Trump is selling access to everything, including tickets to his inauguration ($50,000 to $2 million) and private, quiet dinners with Melonia for $2 million. That’s just insane. The utter hypocrisy and cynicism the GOP show for the monetization of our government is horrifying. Everything is for sale, and the interests of rural voters barely getting by are of no interest to the Trump GOP.
If our elections are simply popularity and fundraising contests vulnerable to endless misinformation and manipulation, we can expect results like this to continue. Count on President Elon Musk in the coming years.
Well, sometimes kid needs to burn the shit out of their hand before they learn. It would have been nice if the US wasn't a kid that needed their whole hand to burn away to learn, but here we are. Hope they learn.
Problem is that kid is also gonna set the house on fire, and the house next door, and the whole damn forest behind the houses.
This is the electorate that blamed Biden for the Dobbs decision. In order to learn, one must first be capable of learning.
Not capable but willing.
An Open Letter to Trump Voters
The True Cost of Your Willful Ignorance and Vile Idolatry
https://open.substack.com/pub/patricemersault/p/an-open-letter-to-trump-voters?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Ta, Gary. When I went to public school, I'd already been reading for quite some time. I got my first library card at the age of two, because in Brooklyn one could get one the day one could sign it (in script; printing was out). I practiced signing my name for a week to get it small enough. Anyway, back to public school in NJ. I spent ten years waiting for the idiots to get through Dick and Jane (or so it seemed to me). And people have only gotten stupider since.
And half the people are stupider than that! Ola’ Zyxomma….
The battles I had with our kid's teachers about allowing them to read at their ability level and not grade level.
I feel for you and your kids. The county where my parents bought a house did not allow grade skipping; I clearly should not have been forced to sit through first grade. It also did not help that I was the only child in the class who had not been in the teacher’s kindergarten; that was the year she switched grades. She had my parents come to school and suggested I belonged in private school. She also wanted to have my kindergarten teacher disciplined for having taught me to read; no, she used my ability to read to help teach the other kids. Fortunately, my mother told her the truth: I’d been reading for four years before I ever entered her classroom.
Eh, it's a mixed bag - I started first grade at 5 and already could read and write. As such I was always the smallest kid in class and couple that with the smartest and my school days were not that enjoyable. I was bullied constantly and buried myself in books to escape the tedium of the classroom. Going to college at 17 was a mistake too, fortunately I dropped out early and saved myself another four years of wasted time.
My son was born on the cusp of age related acceptance and I didn't push the matter, as a result he became one of those star pupils who also was considered a leader and an asset to his school and a well rounded human. He's also a bit more social than I ever have been, as he didn't suffer the same experience of how mean kids can be.
I was bullied CONSTANTLY. 1) I was smaller than everyone. 2) I was smarter than everyone. 3) I was the only Jew in class.
Ya got me beat there. Plus points for being a girl, girls can be mean in ways that boys don't have the imagination for.
Our daughter was actually kicked out of kindergarten for correcting the teacher's spelling.
Don’t know that it’s stupider (more stupid?) so much as inundated.
Saint Gore Vidal left us in the lurch back in 2012 when he shuffled off our mortal coil. But he left us much wisdom before he died.
"The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."
Gore Vidal
So fucking true.
If there is an election in 2028 Republicans and LowInfo voters will forget all about those consequences and Fox News will say it was Democrats.