We should all wear black on July 4th. There is nothing to celebrate. We allowed a tyrannt into The People's House and he destroyed it, figuratively and with actual construction machinery. Our elected representatives stood by and did nothing to stop him from dismantling our institutions. Our highest Court did not protect our laws and handed him the power of a monarch. We lost our "more perfect Union". We gave up our "Great Experiment". Rub our faces with aches and put on our hair shirts. We should all be in mourning.
As of now, trump's tanking polls have fallen enough to not be disregarded by anyone as mere polls. It is a bad idea for trump to think there would not be another Impeachment and this time a conviction in the Senate. Many of us Republicans are ready to support that NOW.
trump has shot himself and the Party in the foot daily since he took office to the point where he is the earliest Lame Duck President since Nixon and has destroyed our political chances in November. Nothing in his addresses changed that or could.
If he doesn't turn his polls around 180 degrees by June (he won't, he's trump) we are DONE with him. We are close to the point that is a physical impossibility. Events and inertia are completely in the wrong direction. Everyone must deal with the reality that trump has completely screwed up his presidency.
In fact, inside the Party we are already planning on The Day After trump. That day is a certainty and we must repair the trump damage to the Party if we want any future. It is a reality that could happen in 2027, not in 2029.
The last thing we want to do prior to the looming midterms is to give them a huge ability to paint Democrats as America-Hating - Imagine the ads with footage from across the country?
Eh, my opinion on these things is "nobody is gunna." You can't make everyone wear black, you can't not make everyone wear black. I prefer myself to let different people pull in different directions. If we live in fear of right-wing media, we'll never do anything. But the average person making their opinion known is just life until it becomes illegal. Nobody is gunna do what we recommend or don't recommend. They're gunna do what they feel is right.
And that would be different from now how? They already paint us as America-hating "radical left lunatics". But we just act like nothing is happening. We deserve what we get if we do nothing.
You are welcome to suggest your own thing to do. But I don't think having a party is sending any message at all (except "we're fiddling while Rome burns").
I would love to see crowds of people in black on the National Mall, protesting how Trump has killed the best things about our country.
I’m interested in the activist alternatives planned for July 4- No Kings, Women’s March, etc. Remember No Kings on Flag Day? We’re the patriots fighting to preserve our democracy and the rule of law. We need to render them an autocratic aberration.
Your suggestion combines mourning (black) with repentance (ashes, hair shirts). We mourn the dead to accept death. We repent to resist accepting sin, to turn toward the good in defiance of what is evil (including our own complicity in it). There is still a life in repentance that there isn't in mourning.
Memorial Day was a few days ago. It's a somber holiday, combining gratitude with ruefulness, depending on how you look at it. It's also colorfully patriotic. One attraction of the No Kings movement to normies like me is its displays of ordinary patriotism.
Repentance, when we stray, IS patriotic, and looking like it is helps normies like me appreciate it.
Wow - I have to admit that is horrifically accurate - the image of what MAGA has done to this country. It used to be a flawed nation. Now it is hallow. Heartbreaking - and this comes from a left wing socialist!
It would be the ultimate “funny money”. He could add a proclamation that it was actually worth $45.00 when ‘radical leftist Marxist democrats” were in charge of the House and $47.00 when “MAGA” is in charge as an incentive to, “vote American”….in either case it won’t be worth a plug nickel at the rate we are going.
Oh Cheap Shots. This is why I think Trump is going after E. Jean Carroll, by the way. People like Boebert have to take Trump's abuse and say thank you. Of course they hate anyone who didn't say thank you sir, may I have another.
Anyway, it sure got Trump the headlines he wanted. How does the NY Times describe a court case where a jury - a JURY - found Trump liable for rape?
"Scrutiny turns toward private citizens who antagonized Trump."
The New York Times calls Trump's rape victims "citizens who antagonized Trump." They call his rape victims people who antagonize HIM. His victims. Are people. Who antagonize. Trump. According to the New York Times. His rape victims. And apparently I'm the only person gobsmacked by how much the Times hates women.
It's so, so bad. Honestly, the only thing saving me from being a hermit is having a son in my 20s. Otherwise, I might believe the constant propaganda that all young men are MAGA pigs. But I see a lot of young men in my real life, and they're all liberal, so I know it's hogwash. But man does it get me down how much the men with money and influence in the media hate women.
The North Carolina GOP legislature has introduced a bill for the ages. It defines abortion as first degree murder and allows for armed intervention to save the life of the fetus. Nothing like giving men a get out of jail free card to murder their wives and girl friends.
If that doesn't help turn NC blue, nothing will. These reps seem to think their voters don't notice when women die. Newsflash: Men actually don't like it when their wives are killed by lawmakers looking for new podcast content.
I don't think it's a serious bill. It appears to be the product of one far-right legislator trolling for publicity. It's not like the GOP caucus generally is behind it. In a better world the GOP might suffer from not pushing back hard on the idea, and ostracizing its lone sponsor. But in our world, this is just clickbait du jour.
I think I'm going to need a citation needed here, but I will be honest and say that's because my mind has been poisoned of decades of anectdata in the form of men saying to me something like "If only the GOP would drop this crazy anti-birth control crusade by religious nuts, I might support them." But politics is local, and I guess people haven't been saying that since the 1980s in other areas of the nation.
How does killing a woman wanting an abortion protect the fetus? The fetus depends on a living mother. And if they wait until its born, you will have an awful lot of babies without mother's. Wouldn't it be easier if you wanted a woman to not abort is pay her a salary for a year so she can live well while carrying a child? Most women abort because they are situations that make it impossible for them to have a child.
Not just to save the life of the fetus, but violent intervention against anyone who prevents a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the uterine wall. Any woman with an IUD or using other birth control that does that can now be "legally" murdered by vigilantes.
Or anyone who is struggling to get pregnant and using IVF. I currently have multiple frozen embryos, so I suppose I'm glad I don't live in NC or they would have me killed! These people, man.
My reaction to read about Trump siccing the DOJ on E. Jean was white hot rage. The rapist wants to find some way to criminally charge his VICTIM. 🤬🤬👹👹👹
I remember the Bicentennial vividly. The country was coming out a tumultuous time in our history, and people let loose with goofy fun all across the country. The striking difference between the Bicentennial and the Semiquincentennial is that the 70s were a time of expanding individual rights and freedom, and the 2020s are, sadly, a time of contracting individual rights. Here's hoping the country will be in a better place 50 years from now for our Tricentennial.
I remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor, majestic even when viewed on a 12’ black and white CRT in a trailer (sigh). The President didn’t have his mug all over everywhere or make it sound like that milestone was celebrated only because of his own gracious munificence. This wasn’t a nation of Hatfields and McCoys. That universal happiness is missing. May this country live to see a better 300, keeping in mind that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Doxxing my own age, my parents would mention from time to time how cool it was that I was a "Bicentennial Baby." Corny as it sounds, for most of my life I was genuinely and patriotically looking forward to the 250th as having a particularly special meaning to me. Now I dread it. We'll probably stay home and pointedly cook something from a foreign cuisine.
I certainly hope Donald is planning a pre FCC fight by having Melania mud wrestle Candice Owens on the lawn, both in red white and blue T shirts. That would certainly be in keeping with the crassness that maga culture enjoys
I love the World Cup and have attended games in the US (‘94), Germany (‘06) and South Africa (‘10). I love the Olympics and ran with the torch in 1984. It makes me sick that he is our president during these events that will never happen again on our soil in my lifetime. And, make no mistake, he is killing this year’s World Cup and will do the same for LA ‘28.
It is kind of darkly ironic and appropriate that if the $250 bill fiasco is approved, such a unit of currency would mostly only have value to criminals
Whatever Iran says about the control of the strait, the whole world saw that they can close it and the U.S. cannot deter them. The strait will be controlled by the Iranians.
The only things this waste of a war proved was that under trump the US is weak and that the Iranians control the World's oil spigot. The only winner is Iran.
Republicans including their voters bear equal responsibility for this. They love the disfiguration of America. They love how much it pains so many good and decent people out there. America is being raped right now, and being forcefully disfigured so we will never truly free ourselves from Trump and his cultist. This is only going to get worse. As we continue to fight, Republicans will disfigure us more to break our spirit. They will tattoo our faces, brand us a traitors, and do everything in their power to break our will.
Never forget who did this to us, and never let them have a moment of peace.
VOTE in the midterms in November. KEEP voting in every election. VOTE as many of them out of office as we can going forward, at EVERY level - local, state, and federal....
Id love to see that. I pray that Trump doesnt rig the elections. He is trying to. Getting rid of mail in voting (even though he votes by mail). He said he is having ICE patrol polling places. He is desperately trying to get voter data, I bet so he can disenfranchise Democrats.
He doesn't have to "fix" elections. All he has to do is cry "fraud" at any result he doesn't like. Those claims will be advanced by a credulous media, and justification for not seating the "fraudulent" legislators is provided!
America is becoming a cashless society, almost everyone uses debit or credit card or PayPal or Venmo. If they do flout the law and print these bills, very few people will ever see one.
I hear you, Garvin, but are we all that sure that our cost of groceries isn't going to require more of a $500 bill soon enough? Just one Boomer to another, I assume...
Don't say "old and worn out", say "well used and loved". I grew up in Philadelphia and it spurred my love of history. I thought it was so cool that many important buildings were still standing. Then I was stationed in England in the 80's, a fellow airman and his wife were living in flat in a building that was well over 400 years old! Made Independence Hall seem like new construction!
I recall, with amusement, explaining to a couple of US tourists that the castle keep we were admiring was 850 years old, but that the surrounding Roman walls were 1750 years old.
I could see 'Does not compute' in their faces, bless 'em...
When I lived in France there was a Roman well from the 2nd century. It was small and outside of a building that had a niche and gate so you could still see it. Cool.
I loved England! Everyday I was "marinating" in history. My only regret is not having enough time to visit even more places in England and the rest of the UK.
At some point back in the 1980s I remember meeting an American airman stationed in the UK. He was in Lincoln and was entranced by many monuments and had become an expert on the cathedral. I have degrees in history, but after I finished high school I took hardly any American history classes, it didn’t seem old enough.
I can't wait for ads that say, "your good old American greenback $100 bill not going so far anymore? Well, Trump has an answer for your rising cost of living: a new red-white-and-blue $250 bill with his face on it, to remind you what $100 used to buy." Not quite accurate? Who cares? I don't want the Democrats to become vice signalers, a la JVL's suggestion, but a little poetic license in advertising seems like agood thing to borrow from Republicans right about now.
As much as I hate being subjected to Trump's scowl, I find it hilarious that he thinks it shows his powerful Manliness.
His put on pseudomacho look is just another example of his constant reminder of the Dunning-Kruger Effect of him mistaking his glower with actual competent leadership.
In the event that the Arc d'Madness is built, on February 1, 2029, there should be a public commemoration of the breaking down of the Berlin Wall, with U.S. patriots peacefully taking sledgehammers to the horrendous edifice.
We should all wear black on July 4th. There is nothing to celebrate. We allowed a tyrannt into The People's House and he destroyed it, figuratively and with actual construction machinery. Our elected representatives stood by and did nothing to stop him from dismantling our institutions. Our highest Court did not protect our laws and handed him the power of a monarch. We lost our "more perfect Union". We gave up our "Great Experiment". Rub our faces with aches and put on our hair shirts. We should all be in mourning.
What did Ol' Ben Franklin say about our Republic?
Yup yup. We have failed at keeping it for sure.
It's like the sun chair in Independence Hall. Let us hope that the sun is rising, not setting.
It will start to set on DJT, starting this November.
It already is.
As of now, trump's tanking polls have fallen enough to not be disregarded by anyone as mere polls. It is a bad idea for trump to think there would not be another Impeachment and this time a conviction in the Senate. Many of us Republicans are ready to support that NOW.
trump has shot himself and the Party in the foot daily since he took office to the point where he is the earliest Lame Duck President since Nixon and has destroyed our political chances in November. Nothing in his addresses changed that or could.
If he doesn't turn his polls around 180 degrees by June (he won't, he's trump) we are DONE with him. We are close to the point that is a physical impossibility. Events and inertia are completely in the wrong direction. Everyone must deal with the reality that trump has completely screwed up his presidency.
In fact, inside the Party we are already planning on The Day After trump. That day is a certainty and we must repair the trump damage to the Party if we want any future. It is a reality that could happen in 2027, not in 2029.
I still find it hard to believe that there will ever be 60 votes to convict.
Let alone the necessary 67
Losing big time clarifies the mind.
Updated: a dictatorship if you want it.
Don’t be defeatist! Let’s not let it go without a fight. In sorrow, but with pitchforks…
There is nothing more American than taking to our streets. OUR STREETS!
There is nothing more powerful than the overwhelming sound of our boots and our voices.
That's right!. This nation was founded on protest. It's in our DNA.
America would totally like to be there, but they have a thing....
How about a black armband with an upside-down American flag patch?
The last thing we want to do prior to the looming midterms is to give them a huge ability to paint Democrats as America-Hating - Imagine the ads with footage from across the country?
Eh, my opinion on these things is "nobody is gunna." You can't make everyone wear black, you can't not make everyone wear black. I prefer myself to let different people pull in different directions. If we live in fear of right-wing media, we'll never do anything. But the average person making their opinion known is just life until it becomes illegal. Nobody is gunna do what we recommend or don't recommend. They're gunna do what they feel is right.
And that would be different from now how? They already paint us as America-hating "radical left lunatics". But we just act like nothing is happening. We deserve what we get if we do nothing.
Sorry, Kass, but there's a whole lotta room between doing nothing and everyone dress in black, isn't there?
You are welcome to suggest your own thing to do. But I don't think having a party is sending any message at all (except "we're fiddling while Rome burns").
I would love to see crowds of people in black on the National Mall, protesting how Trump has killed the best things about our country.
Suggestions?
I don't know about anyone else, but I am not letting what 'THEY' do manipulate my response.
We don't get to stop any of the s**t going on without winning control of at least the House in November, and ideally also the Senate.
Spot on MoosesMom! I can hear Sarah saying that.
You can edit creating & baking an American apple pie into a work of hostility if so inclined. So I vote for some reasonable resistance.
I’m interested in the activist alternatives planned for July 4- No Kings, Women’s March, etc. Remember No Kings on Flag Day? We’re the patriots fighting to preserve our democracy and the rule of law. We need to render them an autocratic aberration.
Your suggestion combines mourning (black) with repentance (ashes, hair shirts). We mourn the dead to accept death. We repent to resist accepting sin, to turn toward the good in defiance of what is evil (including our own complicity in it). There is still a life in repentance that there isn't in mourning.
Memorial Day was a few days ago. It's a somber holiday, combining gratitude with ruefulness, depending on how you look at it. It's also colorfully patriotic. One attraction of the No Kings movement to normies like me is its displays of ordinary patriotism.
Repentance, when we stray, IS patriotic, and looking like it is helps normies like me appreciate it.
That is a great idea! I’m in.
Isn't his favorite portrait of himself the mugshot? IMAGINE SOMEONE PUTTING A MUGSHOT ON A PIECE OF US CURRENCY????
It boggles my mind hourly that this is the outcome that makes Sam Alito and John Roberts happy and proud of their work.
Don't forget the other hard-core besides Alito, one Clarence Thomas.
Don't leave out John Roberts here. He is known to hate the legislative branch of the government. (a third and equal branch)
That assumes they understand either of those concepts as something that applys to ALL of us.......
Imo, John Roberts and Sam Alito have a very limited understanding of what constitutes happiness and pride
Wow - I have to admit that is horrifically accurate - the image of what MAGA has done to this country. It used to be a flawed nation. Now it is hallow. Heartbreaking - and this comes from a left wing socialist!
Is that a typo? Hallow means consecrated and sacred.
Most likely. I typed "wander" the other day. It ended up "wonder." Strange are the spellcheck gods.
I have a Samsung phone that does the same thing. But type "thr" instead of "the"? Never corrected 😆
Maybe he left out the S.
Why wouldn’t He make the new bill a, “$45.47” dollar bill?
Dont give him any ideas!! 😬
It could say “forty-five” US. Dollars on the front and “forty-seven” US Dollars on the back !
Thats worth nothing.
That struck me, too. He's a terrible smiler, but he's also unable to look somber or serious, except maybe when he's drifting off to dreamland.
It's because he can only envision himself as a caricature of a president ... because that is what he is.
Thats why he uses AI images of himself, the real thing scares him to death when he looks in the mirror!
For some reason he think it makes him look tough.
It’s a very WWE conception of “tough”, and sadly, about a fourth of the country totally buys it.
ROFLMAO
The mugshot shows what a victim he is, tho, which is the highest aspiration of all of MAGA.
You got that right.
It's actually fitting, isn't it?
And also hanging it on the Fed building
It would be the ultimate “funny money”. He could add a proclamation that it was actually worth $45.00 when ‘radical leftist Marxist democrats” were in charge of the House and $47.00 when “MAGA” is in charge as an incentive to, “vote American”….in either case it won’t be worth a plug nickel at the rate we are going.
Oh Cheap Shots. This is why I think Trump is going after E. Jean Carroll, by the way. People like Boebert have to take Trump's abuse and say thank you. Of course they hate anyone who didn't say thank you sir, may I have another.
Anyway, it sure got Trump the headlines he wanted. How does the NY Times describe a court case where a jury - a JURY - found Trump liable for rape?
"Scrutiny turns toward private citizens who antagonized Trump."
The New York Times calls Trump's rape victims "citizens who antagonized Trump." They call his rape victims people who antagonize HIM. His victims. Are people. Who antagonize. Trump. According to the New York Times. His rape victims. And apparently I'm the only person gobsmacked by how much the Times hates women.
No you are not, I never used to think about it, but misogyny is rampant.
It's so, so bad. Honestly, the only thing saving me from being a hermit is having a son in my 20s. Otherwise, I might believe the constant propaganda that all young men are MAGA pigs. But I see a lot of young men in my real life, and they're all liberal, so I know it's hogwash. But man does it get me down how much the men with money and influence in the media hate women.
The North Carolina GOP legislature has introduced a bill for the ages. It defines abortion as first degree murder and allows for armed intervention to save the life of the fetus. Nothing like giving men a get out of jail free card to murder their wives and girl friends.
If that doesn't help turn NC blue, nothing will. These reps seem to think their voters don't notice when women die. Newsflash: Men actually don't like it when their wives are killed by lawmakers looking for new podcast content.
I don't think it's a serious bill. It appears to be the product of one far-right legislator trolling for publicity. It's not like the GOP caucus generally is behind it. In a better world the GOP might suffer from not pushing back hard on the idea, and ostracizing its lone sponsor. But in our world, this is just clickbait du jour.
Abortion restrictions haven't helped Democrats at the ballot box yet.
Maybe not in the south, but they most certainly have impacted State Supreme Court races and that's just as important.
I think I'm going to need a citation needed here, but I will be honest and say that's because my mind has been poisoned of decades of anectdata in the form of men saying to me something like "If only the GOP would drop this crazy anti-birth control crusade by religious nuts, I might support them." But politics is local, and I guess people haven't been saying that since the 1980s in other areas of the nation.
How does killing a woman wanting an abortion protect the fetus? The fetus depends on a living mother. And if they wait until its born, you will have an awful lot of babies without mother's. Wouldn't it be easier if you wanted a woman to not abort is pay her a salary for a year so she can live well while carrying a child? Most women abort because they are situations that make it impossible for them to have a child.
Maternal benefits! That's crazy talk!!!! We're a Christian Nation (tm), everyone is on their own! /s
What was I thinking!
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/north-carolina-politics/north-carolina-bill-would-authorize-deadly-force-for-women-seeking-abortions/275-353d54a3-9231-4341-ae44-a127546db76f 🤯
Idiots
Not just to save the life of the fetus, but violent intervention against anyone who prevents a fertilized egg from implanting itself on the uterine wall. Any woman with an IUD or using other birth control that does that can now be "legally" murdered by vigilantes.
Or anyone who is struggling to get pregnant and using IVF. I currently have multiple frozen embryos, so I suppose I'm glad I don't live in NC or they would have me killed! These people, man.
Rampant and not only acceptable but desirable in certain groups. 🤬
My reaction to read about Trump siccing the DOJ on E. Jean was white hot rage. The rapist wants to find some way to criminally charge his VICTIM. 🤬🤬👹👹👹
Will Trump task the DOJ with finding out who the jurors were and go after them individually?
Wouldn't be surprised!
This DOJ investigation will go nowhere, Zilch, Nada, Nothing. It is just another Trump intimidation tactic.
The Republicans remind me of Oliver in Oliver Twist: "Please sir, can I have some more"?
Pathetic headline at best. Sanewashing at worst.
Mostly they love money and status more than journalism. It has been that way for a very long time......
Sultzberger is well aware of his mandate. He was raised in and among a certain class and will not let them down. It has been ever thus.
Yeah, that's why as a New Yorker, I always subscribed to the Washington Post. Until a year ago anyway. *sobs*
I remember the Bicentennial vividly. The country was coming out a tumultuous time in our history, and people let loose with goofy fun all across the country. The striking difference between the Bicentennial and the Semiquincentennial is that the 70s were a time of expanding individual rights and freedom, and the 2020s are, sadly, a time of contracting individual rights. Here's hoping the country will be in a better place 50 years from now for our Tricentennial.
I remember the Tall Ships in NY Harbor, majestic even when viewed on a 12’ black and white CRT in a trailer (sigh). The President didn’t have his mug all over everywhere or make it sound like that milestone was celebrated only because of his own gracious munificence. This wasn’t a nation of Hatfields and McCoys. That universal happiness is missing. May this country live to see a better 300, keeping in mind that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Of course not, because the president was Jimmy Carter, probably the most humble president we've had (to his own detriment).
I remember the flag themed fire hydrants!
Don't give DJT ideas. He may want his face on hydrants.
That would be the time for all to take their dogs for walkies.
How did SCOTUS rule on that thing that dogs do to flag painted fire hydrants?
They were barking mad! Ha! :)
Doxxing my own age, my parents would mention from time to time how cool it was that I was a "Bicentennial Baby." Corny as it sounds, for most of my life I was genuinely and patriotically looking forward to the 250th as having a particularly special meaning to me. Now I dread it. We'll probably stay home and pointedly cook something from a foreign cuisine.
Tacos for 4th of July deems like an EXCELLENT idea.
Seems. Not deems
I certainly hope Donald is planning a pre FCC fight by having Melania mud wrestle Candice Owens on the lawn, both in red white and blue T shirts. That would certainly be in keeping with the crassness that maga culture enjoys
Or Trump mud wrestle Candace. Like some weird half sumo wrestling competition. I bet good money that she'd kick his ass.
Better yet; DJT and Steve Bannon mud wrestling! Two pigs who love it. "lets get ready to rummmmble"!
I would certainly pay good money not to watch that!
I wonder who's going to MC the celebration of an old truck being put up on blocks?
Nice! Now how about this three: Melania; Candice and Rhonda Rouse. M and C get their asses kicked" Nice image. :)
I love the World Cup and have attended games in the US (‘94), Germany (‘06) and South Africa (‘10). I love the Olympics and ran with the torch in 1984. It makes me sick that he is our president during these events that will never happen again on our soil in my lifetime. And, make no mistake, he is killing this year’s World Cup and will do the same for LA ‘28.
You ran with the torch? How cool is that!
Now I get this image of Kid Rock bearing the torch in 28.
Sorry!
sigh
I'm sorry, America, but your long national nightmare is scheduled to remain in office for another 966 days.
Bernhard - Old Scratch may come a-callin for his due at any time
I was thinking the same thing.
On the down side, this is all going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
On the up side,, it's about to get a lot worse.
I really think that the Drear Leader should have his ugly mug on a new bill worth $17 and 76 cents.
As phony and useless as he is...
That makes sense. In the old days it would have been a $3 bill (as in "as phony as a ...," but with inflation ...
Now a days: A phony as Trump University
I'd happily settle for 'useless' as opposed to the reality of insanely destructive.
A fair point, to be honest! :)
It is kind of darkly ironic and appropriate that if the $250 bill fiasco is approved, such a unit of currency would mostly only have value to criminals
Whatever Iran says about the control of the strait, the whole world saw that they can close it and the U.S. cannot deter them. The strait will be controlled by the Iranians.
The only things this waste of a war proved was that under trump the US is weak and that the Iranians control the World's oil spigot. The only winner is Iran.
Richard - over on the sidelines, China is counting up its good fortune as well
Oh shit! Thanks for saying that! Iran and China are the winners. Russia will also benefit.
China has been saying that since Trump 2.0....... Happy days are here again!
免费 - I’m told these characters mean “free” - gift from our president
Trump thought it would be a big win, fast and effortless. What a moron. I bet they all told him it wouldn't work.
Bibi told him he'd end up with a Nobel Prize at the end of it. That's all he heard anyone say.
Trump and Hegseth got way over their skis on that one. Ill-conceived, ill-executed, and ill-exited, but to be expected.
"Strait," please.
Noted.
Republicans including their voters bear equal responsibility for this. They love the disfiguration of America. They love how much it pains so many good and decent people out there. America is being raped right now, and being forcefully disfigured so we will never truly free ourselves from Trump and his cultist. This is only going to get worse. As we continue to fight, Republicans will disfigure us more to break our spirit. They will tattoo our faces, brand us a traitors, and do everything in their power to break our will.
Never forget who did this to us, and never let them have a moment of peace.
VOTE in the midterms in November. KEEP voting in every election. VOTE as many of them out of office as we can going forward, at EVERY level - local, state, and federal....
VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE
Id love to see that. I pray that Trump doesnt rig the elections. He is trying to. Getting rid of mail in voting (even though he votes by mail). He said he is having ICE patrol polling places. He is desperately trying to get voter data, I bet so he can disenfranchise Democrats.
He doesn't have to "fix" elections. All he has to do is cry "fraud" at any result he doesn't like. Those claims will be advanced by a credulous media, and justification for not seating the "fraudulent" legislators is provided!
"Gee, I hope it doesn't come to THAT!" laughed Mike Johnson.
That is why we must remove him from as much as possible ... except for the history books.
THIS!!!
As an old man who still uses cash, I for one am looking forward to being able to pay for most of my weekly groceries with just one $250 bill.
Hell, at this rate, you could use it to fill up your tank with regular unleaded.
America is becoming a cashless society, almost everyone uses debit or credit card or PayPal or Venmo. If they do flout the law and print these bills, very few people will ever see one.
Another instance that whatever Trump touches dies, like CBS news.
I hear you, Garvin, but are we all that sure that our cost of groceries isn't going to require more of a $500 bill soon enough? Just one Boomer to another, I assume...
ROFL
My greatest fear is that, again as an old man who frequently loses things, I'll just misplace this bill or drop it in the parking lot.
I do love me some big words. The ones I struggle to pronounce, especially.
I was just thinking of my school celebration of its' tercentenary back in 1966 - so that worthy seat of learning is 360 years old this year!
Slightly different perspective in the UK, 'cos everything is old and worn out, including me...
Don't say "old and worn out", say "well used and loved". I grew up in Philadelphia and it spurred my love of history. I thought it was so cool that many important buildings were still standing. Then I was stationed in England in the 80's, a fellow airman and his wife were living in flat in a building that was well over 400 years old! Made Independence Hall seem like new construction!
I recall, with amusement, explaining to a couple of US tourists that the castle keep we were admiring was 850 years old, but that the surrounding Roman walls were 1750 years old.
I could see 'Does not compute' in their faces, bless 'em...
When I lived in France there was a Roman well from the 2nd century. It was small and outside of a building that had a niche and gate so you could still see it. Cool.
I loved England! Everyday I was "marinating" in history. My only regret is not having enough time to visit even more places in England and the rest of the UK.
Me too - and I've lived here all my life!
At some point back in the 1980s I remember meeting an American airman stationed in the UK. He was in Lincoln and was entranced by many monuments and had become an expert on the cathedral. I have degrees in history, but after I finished high school I took hardly any American history classes, it didn’t seem old enough.
Older and wiser!
Just say 250th, that's my plan. ;D
I can't wait for ads that say, "your good old American greenback $100 bill not going so far anymore? Well, Trump has an answer for your rising cost of living: a new red-white-and-blue $250 bill with his face on it, to remind you what $100 used to buy." Not quite accurate? Who cares? I don't want the Democrats to become vice signalers, a la JVL's suggestion, but a little poetic license in advertising seems like agood thing to borrow from Republicans right about now.
Re: Trump's Glower in Pictures
As much as I hate being subjected to Trump's scowl, I find it hilarious that he thinks it shows his powerful Manliness.
His put on pseudomacho look is just another example of his constant reminder of the Dunning-Kruger Effect of him mistaking his glower with actual competent leadership.
In the event that the Arc d'Madness is built, on February 1, 2029, there should be a public commemoration of the breaking down of the Berlin Wall, with U.S. patriots peacefully taking sledgehammers to the horrendous edifice.
It'll probably come down pretty easily, bkz you know he's going to skimp on construction. Hell, it might just fall over on its own.