I still have to say with RFK,JR as the head of HHS scares me to death. First and foremost he has no history in medicine and secondly he's a conspiracy theorist which truly scares me because for one reason or another he truly "believes" all those conspiracy theories! And that Nativism also doesn't have any place in our Country!
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” It's so obvious that everything Trump is doing is very deliberate. He is an enemy of this country and is doing everything he can to destroy it.
Cecily Strong, please come back to SNL for a skit or two about this situation. Notes to SNL- maybe do filmed shorts during the off season?
My thoughts: Jeanine, how much did your hair blow out cost? How much did that knock-off Chanel dress cost? BTW- you look great, sincerely.
But it's not a great look that you are denigrating teaching dance and Sesame Street to children in countries that are struggling economically and, I don't know, also struggling with water issues of their own.
Drink some tap water if you don't want to make to make a fool of yourself by not joining the Water Club.
It is a sad comment on Trump's administration that the only large industry that seems to benefit from it's slashing of government and oppressive policies is the private prison industry. Even the Oil and Gas industry who you'd expect to benefit from "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn't.
I think its telling that most of these "detainees" are being held in corporate owned prisons who lavishly donated to Trump's. "campaign". It looks like the Detention Corporation business will be booming? I'd say they are certainly getting a return on their investment in Trump.
Those who elevated him and voted for him are the Sharpie markers that caused the stain on our democracy and history. One felon didn't do this alone, and the destruction of democracy and enabling of it by the Republican Party and its so-called Movement "Conservatives" all in the name of enriching the wealthy is despicable. He still has support even though he's punishing his base by taking away programs and agencies they utilize more than those who didn't vote for him. And they'd probably be dumb enough to vote for him again if he once again brazenly disregards the Constitution and attempts to run for a third term. It's disgusting, and we must defeat this madness.
The report focuses "on systemic corporate and regulatory issues—from a food supply oversaturated with ultraprocessed foods, to overmedication of children, to underregulation of a host of dangerous chemicals. All of these, the report argues, are outcomes shaped in part by lax regulatory regimes frequently captured by corporate interests."
I thought Republicans were in favor of "lax regulatory regimes...captured by corporate interests"
Or does that only apply to fossil fuel, tech, crypto, billionaire corporations, etc? Oh wait, it also seems to apply to health care providers/insurance companies. It's all just lies to push an agenda with this government. You can't believe a thing they say about anything.
Concerning the cheap shots....for the entirety of my professional W2 career I was a Gov't contractor at a national lab. When the government stopped paying for bottled water it wasn't individual bottles, it was water cooler bottles along with a number of other small things that improve employee morale. I found it incredibly cheap, and behavior you wouldn't see at many private companies.
Pirro should ask the Silicon Valley guys who own wineries to step up and spot the DC US Attorneys Office free wine coolers (I mean like water coolers, but with wine in them). If DoD (Trump) can get a “pimped out” 747 (to quote Bill) from Qatar, why not?
My mother was an immigrant. I am glad she has passed away, because I am sure the Trump administration would find a way to revoke her citizenship and put her on a plane. Most nursing home residents can’t run…
Why isn't the Trump Administration considered treasonous? They throw out the words "treason" and "anti-American" and "unpatriotic" all the time. It seems to me, their actions are textbook examples.
Because Article III, sec. 3 of the Constitution defines Treason in the United States:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. "
That's why what they accuse people of is not treason, and neither is most (but, particularly as relates to Russia, perhaps not all) of what the Administration is doing, either. Not that a lot of it isn't illegal. It probably is, it's just not treason.
I'd say Trump is levying War against the US, or at least the half he considers his enemies. And his infatuation with Putin is certainly giving our enemies Aid and Comfort.
I certainly agree with your sentiments, but sentiment is a poor basis for public policy. One of the things that has most corrupted our public discourse, in my view, has been the willingness to confuse metaphor with reality. Words have objective meanings, and when we give that up in favor of everyone having his or her own meanings we lose the ability to communicate at all: we are actually speaking different, mutually incomprehensible languages that just sound similar.
Both sides have done this with equal zest. The Left has tried to place its policy prescriptions, whether good (health care, welfare, food assistance, treatment of sexual minorities, humane immigration policies ...) or bad (student debt cancelation, abortion normalized as birth control, NIMBYism and anti-growth policies, the hunt for "microaggressions" ...) beyond the reach of policy debate by relabeling them "human rights". The Right has learned the game and plays it better, because they lie more and have fewer scruples about it.
I haven't read all of Trump's Executive Orders -- my thanks and sympathy to those who do -- but all the the worst ones so far are based on metaphors -- differences of opinion and/or subjective disagreements on values re-interpreted as actual offenses -- and then punished as such. So negligent border control is recast as an "invasion" under the Alien Enemies Act, private opinions published by foreigners who are legal residents are recast as "threats to the foreign policy of the United States" over the signature of the Secretary of State, law firms are barred from federal premises until they pay for their "crimes" -- and insurrectionists are recast and rehabilitated "patriots".
Trump is guilty of so many real crimes and has gotten away with so many of them (so far at least) that it sets me off a lot more than it should (my bad!) that so many people feel that they have to accuse him of one of the few where he's technically innocent.
I still have to say with RFK,JR as the head of HHS scares me to death. First and foremost he has no history in medicine and secondly he's a conspiracy theorist which truly scares me because for one reason or another he truly "believes" all those conspiracy theories! And that Nativism also doesn't have any place in our Country!
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.” It's so obvious that everything Trump is doing is very deliberate. He is an enemy of this country and is doing everything he can to destroy it.
Cecily Strong, please come back to SNL for a skit or two about this situation. Notes to SNL- maybe do filmed shorts during the off season?
My thoughts: Jeanine, how much did your hair blow out cost? How much did that knock-off Chanel dress cost? BTW- you look great, sincerely.
But it's not a great look that you are denigrating teaching dance and Sesame Street to children in countries that are struggling economically and, I don't know, also struggling with water issues of their own.
Drink some tap water if you don't want to make to make a fool of yourself by not joining the Water Club.
It is a sad comment on Trump's administration that the only large industry that seems to benefit from it's slashing of government and oppressive policies is the private prison industry. Even the Oil and Gas industry who you'd expect to benefit from "Drill, Baby, Drill" isn't.
I'll bet undertaker aren't to disappointed either...
I think its telling that most of these "detainees" are being held in corporate owned prisons who lavishly donated to Trump's. "campaign". It looks like the Detention Corporation business will be booming? I'd say they are certainly getting a return on their investment in Trump.
Thanks for the link, sad, but important story....hope it goes well
Those who elevated him and voted for him are the Sharpie markers that caused the stain on our democracy and history. One felon didn't do this alone, and the destruction of democracy and enabling of it by the Republican Party and its so-called Movement "Conservatives" all in the name of enriching the wealthy is despicable. He still has support even though he's punishing his base by taking away programs and agencies they utilize more than those who didn't vote for him. And they'd probably be dumb enough to vote for him again if he once again brazenly disregards the Constitution and attempts to run for a third term. It's disgusting, and we must defeat this madness.
The report focuses "on systemic corporate and regulatory issues—from a food supply oversaturated with ultraprocessed foods, to overmedication of children, to underregulation of a host of dangerous chemicals. All of these, the report argues, are outcomes shaped in part by lax regulatory regimes frequently captured by corporate interests."
I thought Republicans were in favor of "lax regulatory regimes...captured by corporate interests"
Or does that only apply to fossil fuel, tech, crypto, billionaire corporations, etc? Oh wait, it also seems to apply to health care providers/insurance companies. It's all just lies to push an agenda with this government. You can't believe a thing they say about anything.
Concerning the cheap shots....for the entirety of my professional W2 career I was a Gov't contractor at a national lab. When the government stopped paying for bottled water it wasn't individual bottles, it was water cooler bottles along with a number of other small things that improve employee morale. I found it incredibly cheap, and behavior you wouldn't see at many private companies.
Pirro should ask the Silicon Valley guys who own wineries to step up and spot the DC US Attorneys Office free wine coolers (I mean like water coolers, but with wine in them). If DoD (Trump) can get a “pimped out” 747 (to quote Bill) from Qatar, why not?
My mother was an immigrant. I am glad she has passed away, because I am sure the Trump administration would find a way to revoke her citizenship and put her on a plane. Most nursing home residents can’t run…
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Re: RFKJ and his Covid vaccine placebo obsession. We have already experienced the Covid vaccine placebo - it’s the Trump cult koolaid.
I can’t get my COVID booster this season? After all these years, I guess I will die of COVID after all. Thanks a lot, Trump!
"stain on our history" implies that we have a future. I hope that's true.
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Why isn't the Trump Administration considered treasonous? They throw out the words "treason" and "anti-American" and "unpatriotic" all the time. It seems to me, their actions are textbook examples.
Because Article III, sec. 3 of the Constitution defines Treason in the United States:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. "
That's why what they accuse people of is not treason, and neither is most (but, particularly as relates to Russia, perhaps not all) of what the Administration is doing, either. Not that a lot of it isn't illegal. It probably is, it's just not treason.
I'd say Trump is levying War against the US, or at least the half he considers his enemies. And his infatuation with Putin is certainly giving our enemies Aid and Comfort.
I certainly agree with your sentiments, but sentiment is a poor basis for public policy. One of the things that has most corrupted our public discourse, in my view, has been the willingness to confuse metaphor with reality. Words have objective meanings, and when we give that up in favor of everyone having his or her own meanings we lose the ability to communicate at all: we are actually speaking different, mutually incomprehensible languages that just sound similar.
Both sides have done this with equal zest. The Left has tried to place its policy prescriptions, whether good (health care, welfare, food assistance, treatment of sexual minorities, humane immigration policies ...) or bad (student debt cancelation, abortion normalized as birth control, NIMBYism and anti-growth policies, the hunt for "microaggressions" ...) beyond the reach of policy debate by relabeling them "human rights". The Right has learned the game and plays it better, because they lie more and have fewer scruples about it.
I haven't read all of Trump's Executive Orders -- my thanks and sympathy to those who do -- but all the the worst ones so far are based on metaphors -- differences of opinion and/or subjective disagreements on values re-interpreted as actual offenses -- and then punished as such. So negligent border control is recast as an "invasion" under the Alien Enemies Act, private opinions published by foreigners who are legal residents are recast as "threats to the foreign policy of the United States" over the signature of the Secretary of State, law firms are barred from federal premises until they pay for their "crimes" -- and insurrectionists are recast and rehabilitated "patriots".
Trump is guilty of so many real crimes and has gotten away with so many of them (so far at least) that it sets me off a lot more than it should (my bad!) that so many people feel that they have to accuse him of one of the few where he's technically innocent.