When Mr Trump leaves office we should change his ballroom into a soup kitchen to support the people he is trying to prevent from having an affordable way of life.
Egger’s commentary is spot on. JD Vance’s defenses are paper thin and ultimately serve only to illuminate that trump’s picks are white men with very little (to no)”merit.” Thanks for footnote no. 2 - when I first read Scott’s comment in another publication my reaction was “but the racist comments about blacks and Asians are okay?”
Thank You Communist China for subsidizing rural American farmers. My hope is that one day, Chinese and American farmers can stand together proudly in solidarity. 🇺🇸🤝🇨🇳
"a way of showing you’re an edgy freethinker who isn’t afraid to hold dangerous opinions and, as importantly, not some crypto-lib. A lot of times it starts out as a posture of semi-irony—before long, it becomes a habit of mind, then hardens into actual belief."
This is key. People have an inflated view of their ability to dabble in bigotry/hatred and not get sucked in. But it's like a song that you hate: Make fun of it enough times and it's almost inevitable that you start to like it a little. It's also a corollary to the whole "wolf you feed" parable.
When that ballroom is done it's likely gonna make Leonards of Great Neck look like Napoleon's apartments. Regional reference, I know (the former!). But there isn't a single person growing up in the boroughs in the '70s who didn't attend at least one Bar Mitzvah there. 50 years later we still cringe when recalling its gaudiness. And yet right now we'd all take that over what we're about to get.
I made sure i was signed in before watching Bill & Tim’s episode, and still was dumped as if i was a freeloading viewer. My hundred bucks a year isn’t enough? Likely going to drop you. Thanks
Why is it OK for trump to ruin the White House without any checks and balances? Or permission from the National Parks Service? This is THE PEOPLES HOUSE!!
Exactly!!! I get how convenient Amazon is, how much I use my mac and ipad and iphone but these are only non violent political weapons at this time. Look at what happened with Disney. They tried to can Kimmel and something like 6 million people cancelled their subscriptions. And then he was put back on the air.
The major corporations, almost without exception, have kissed the ring. Time for them to be forced kiss our asses and make them hurt where it counts and in the only place they care about, their bottom line.
I am hoping No Kings, Indivisible, and their ever-growing networks lead us in a 2-3 day boycott of eg buying gasoline, listening to Spotify, or shopping on amazon. Consumers have tremendous power; we just need unifying.
"Why does ICE need guided missile warheads? —but hey, as long as they’re using all that ordnance responsibly—" Ha and Like Hell are they responsible! ICE is unable to control a "Peaceful small Group of People" without deploying Tear Gas! Portland Oregon is an example of their lack of training in any legal "Crowd control tactics" other than Brute force! Pepper spraying a woman in the face, that took a real man! If a small young woman asking a question or even defying an order fostered such fear that an ICE agent charged six or eight feet toward her to spray her ---- well I guess that speaks for itself. 😒 Guided Missile Warheads? Good grief!
With the White House thing, I've been thinking about an old Law & Order episode. There's this woman, the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors who kills someone trying to get back some rare coins stolen from her family by the Nazis. There's this line she all but screams at the court shrink evaluating her state of mind, about her father: "His family, his business, the house he grew up in, his dogs He wanted to get one thing back!"
I keep hearing that scene in my head whenever I read about the White House construction project. I know, I know, compared to everything else going on it's so beyond stupid to get so upset over that. It's probably good for him to focus on that since he's not really hurting anyone the way he is with the ICE raids or the Medicaid cuts or the Ukraine teetertottering. Who cares if he desecrates the White House, in the end?
It turns out I do. Much more than I would have thought. I think it's because it's such a small thing, and he can't even leave us that. I knew there were no limits, no appeasing him. Obviously I knew. But the reminder is a truly painful gut-punch. :-$
Even if we're not paying for it directly (long shot, I know), it's still paid for by corruption and influence-peddling. Whoever "donates" surely isn't doing it out of the goodness of their heart. And that will cost us in the end, too.
Rarely do I read Bill's Morning Shot without learning something. I take pride in my knowledge of Western history (in particular, British history, although not British myself), but Churchill and the rebuilding of the post WWII rebuilding of the House of Commons is new to me. Perhaps this very shape is one of the several factors which helps explain why the British government has led the free world for much of the past several centuries, and is still going strong (at least in comparison to the Johnny-come-lately country across the ocean, with their constantly self-proclaimed "exceptionalism" despite rarely ever looking outside their shorelines for either knowledge to back up this assertion or for inspiration for improvement).
America is seriously on the ropes and even in our best days woefully imperfect, but let us not be so glib about Britain’s many mistakes. Can you spell colonialism? Ireland, The Troubles? Chamberlain at Munich?Boris and Brexit?
Will Sommer doing God’s work. ❤️
When Mr Trump leaves office we should change his ballroom into a soup kitchen to support the people he is trying to prevent from having an affordable way of life.
Egger’s commentary is spot on. JD Vance’s defenses are paper thin and ultimately serve only to illuminate that trump’s picks are white men with very little (to no)”merit.” Thanks for footnote no. 2 - when I first read Scott’s comment in another publication my reaction was “but the racist comments about blacks and Asians are okay?”
Long Live The Motherland!
Thank You Communist China for subsidizing rural American farmers. My hope is that one day, Chinese and American farmers can stand together proudly in solidarity. 🇺🇸🤝🇨🇳
https://youtube.com/shorts/dojNGhRyyhA?si=YhKtNEtaIdCdaB6g
"a way of showing you’re an edgy freethinker who isn’t afraid to hold dangerous opinions and, as importantly, not some crypto-lib. A lot of times it starts out as a posture of semi-irony—before long, it becomes a habit of mind, then hardens into actual belief."
This is key. People have an inflated view of their ability to dabble in bigotry/hatred and not get sucked in. But it's like a song that you hate: Make fun of it enough times and it's almost inevitable that you start to like it a little. It's also a corollary to the whole "wolf you feed" parable.
When that ballroom is done it's likely gonna make Leonards of Great Neck look like Napoleon's apartments. Regional reference, I know (the former!). But there isn't a single person growing up in the boroughs in the '70s who didn't attend at least one Bar Mitzvah there. 50 years later we still cringe when recalling its gaudiness. And yet right now we'd all take that over what we're about to get.
I made sure i was signed in before watching Bill & Tim’s episode, and still was dumped as if i was a freeloading viewer. My hundred bucks a year isn’t enough? Likely going to drop you. Thanks
Long-time supporter and love you guys, but “Close proximity” sounds a lot like “pre-planning”.
Why is it OK for trump to ruin the White House without any checks and balances? Or permission from the National Parks Service? This is THE PEOPLES HOUSE!!
So depressing
Exactly!!! I get how convenient Amazon is, how much I use my mac and ipad and iphone but these are only non violent political weapons at this time. Look at what happened with Disney. They tried to can Kimmel and something like 6 million people cancelled their subscriptions. And then he was put back on the air.
The major corporations, almost without exception, have kissed the ring. Time for them to be forced kiss our asses and make them hurt where it counts and in the only place they care about, their bottom line.
I am hoping No Kings, Indivisible, and their ever-growing networks lead us in a 2-3 day boycott of eg buying gasoline, listening to Spotify, or shopping on amazon. Consumers have tremendous power; we just need unifying.
"Why does ICE need guided missile warheads? —but hey, as long as they’re using all that ordnance responsibly—" Ha and Like Hell are they responsible! ICE is unable to control a "Peaceful small Group of People" without deploying Tear Gas! Portland Oregon is an example of their lack of training in any legal "Crowd control tactics" other than Brute force! Pepper spraying a woman in the face, that took a real man! If a small young woman asking a question or even defying an order fostered such fear that an ICE agent charged six or eight feet toward her to spray her ---- well I guess that speaks for itself. 😒 Guided Missile Warheads? Good grief!
If there are mid-term elections they are going to be uglier than any seen on US soil.
With the White House thing, I've been thinking about an old Law & Order episode. There's this woman, the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors who kills someone trying to get back some rare coins stolen from her family by the Nazis. There's this line she all but screams at the court shrink evaluating her state of mind, about her father: "His family, his business, the house he grew up in, his dogs He wanted to get one thing back!"
I keep hearing that scene in my head whenever I read about the White House construction project. I know, I know, compared to everything else going on it's so beyond stupid to get so upset over that. It's probably good for him to focus on that since he's not really hurting anyone the way he is with the ICE raids or the Medicaid cuts or the Ukraine teetertottering. Who cares if he desecrates the White House, in the end?
It turns out I do. Much more than I would have thought. I think it's because it's such a small thing, and he can't even leave us that. I knew there were no limits, no appeasing him. Obviously I knew. But the reminder is a truly painful gut-punch. :-$
He's taking a dump on America.
He's hurting us taxpayers because he is funding his fucking ballroom with taxpayer money.
Even if we're not paying for it directly (long shot, I know), it's still paid for by corruption and influence-peddling. Whoever "donates" surely isn't doing it out of the goodness of their heart. And that will cost us in the end, too.
Can we not, we the people, do something to stop this outrage?!?!
Rarely do I read Bill's Morning Shot without learning something. I take pride in my knowledge of Western history (in particular, British history, although not British myself), but Churchill and the rebuilding of the post WWII rebuilding of the House of Commons is new to me. Perhaps this very shape is one of the several factors which helps explain why the British government has led the free world for much of the past several centuries, and is still going strong (at least in comparison to the Johnny-come-lately country across the ocean, with their constantly self-proclaimed "exceptionalism" despite rarely ever looking outside their shorelines for either knowledge to back up this assertion or for inspiration for improvement).
America is seriously on the ropes and even in our best days woefully imperfect, but let us not be so glib about Britain’s many mistakes. Can you spell colonialism? Ireland, The Troubles? Chamberlain at Munich?Boris and Brexit?
Andrew, in this day and age all Republicans should be assumed to be Nazis until proven otherwise. I have yet to see any of them be proven otherwise.
You know who else wears masks and terrorizes their fellow countrymen? Hamas.