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@FD1000, you will be well served if you listen to right-wing nut Tucker Carlson interview right wing nut and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes the other day. This is the same Nick Fuentes that right wing nut Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for fine dining.
What? Right wing MAGA leaders who hate Jews? Whodda thunk? Almost as implausible as a Jew voting them into power. And defending their every fascist move.
I just read an article about a MAGA voter on SNAP benefits who asked her mother-in-law for food money. "Until their benefits come in". Neither she, nor her husband have jobs. They have two children. They exist on government benefits.
Re: Carlson/Fuentes: just let me point out the naive and uncritical way they ignore the fact that the modern Israeli State is not the same thing as the biblical nation from thousands of years ago.
The red carpet is rolling out for Trump across the world — and there’s a reason. It’s about respect and a desire to do business with America again.
You are misinterpreting events once again! President Trump is emotionally insecure and he reacts favorably to pomp and circumstance and fawning praise. Foreign leaders are taking advantage of Trump's weakness.
Vivian Salama: And there were other meetings that the president held, obviously stopped in Malaysia, Seung Min, he stopped in Japan, he stopped in South Korea. And, I mean, the pomp and fanfare was just in full force. The flattery efforts were in full force. What do you think world leaders are learning about how to deal with President Trump?
Seung Min Kim, White House Reporter, The Associated Press: Flattery is the fastest way to his heart is what they have learned and really utilizing in Trump's second term. My colleagues and I wrote about this, about how the president really did seem to be enjoying himself on this trip. You know, during the first term, these foreign trips weren't necessarily his favorite -- the favorite parts of his term in the White House. But now, especially that world leaders have learned to pull out all the stops for President Trump, he's really having a good time. You saw him on the tarmac in Malaysia dancing as he was welcomed to the country. In South Korea, he was granted with honors and a gold crown. Obviously, gold is very deliberately chosen there.
But this has, this is not unique to this particular trip. You saw how at NATO earlier this year that the secretary general basically said he was the daddy to NATO. They know that, you know, flattering him, kind of bolstering him is the way to work with him. And that's certainly something that world leaders have learned and is a change from his first term.
A gold fucking crown! How ironic. Almost like they were trolling him.
And he is certainly 100% unaware that they are playing him for the fool. A "world leaders" version of the special olympics - which explains his dancing.
@FD1000, you will be well served if you listen to right-wing nut Tucker Carlson interview right wing nut and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes the other day. This is the same Nick Fuentes that right wing nut Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for fine dining. ...
All the monger is doing is copy-pasting WH whacketa-whacketa press releases:
A very good night for non-fascists: all the important elections went D, and only one of them was even a bit close (the VA att'y general). Oh, the gov race in NJ was going to be so close! But the D won by 13 points. The Virginia gov by 15. CA redistricting by 30. D's won all three PA supreme court races. DINO Cuomo is losing by 9, and Mamdani looks to have 50%+ in a three-way race.
Sweep. Landslide. And not the fake, lying Dump "landslide" of a year ago.
One wish: that the Dem Socialist party would bring their name in line with their policy preferences, i.e., as Social Democrats like their brothers & sisters in Scandinavia.
It turns out that not only do "elections have consequences", but that failing to deliver on promises to voters has consequences as well! All except the most diehard of cult members, are apparently very angry at trade wars, inflation, and the K-shaped economy. Many are also disgusted at masked, unidentified hoodlums, recruited using Nazi-themed propaganda, to abuse people on our nations streets, their homes and workplaces.
Massive reconciliation spending bills, gerrymandering/re-districting and huge debt accumulation are no doubt adding to the anger.
Suddenly trump wants republicans to end the shut down. Oooops!
@DrVenture Ah, I get it now. Thanks. I myself never figured out whether I supported the filibuster or not. It does seem to moderate the government, but should the majority elected by the people be moderated? For example, the court appointments.
I agree, I have no solid opinion. Certainly, eliminating it has pros/cons for both sides.
They are now planning everything they can to hold onto power. Running scared. Actually acting on promises they made to lower inflation, lower food/drug costs and help the bottom economic rungs to improve quality of life, has not occurred to them.
Nor has it occurred to them that they may have initiated a runaway train.
"(Charles) Munger (Jr) could not have known everything that was to come: fundraising failures, the painful dissolution of a good-government coalition, his name dragged through the mud, and the ultimate fall of the independent redistricting laws which he helped architect.
-Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September and 175% higher than the same month a year ago. It was the highest level for any October since 2003 and has been the worst year for layoffs since 2009.
-Companies in the technology sector announced 33,281 cuts, nearly six times the level in September.
Good time to be retired. All others get screwed. A friend has been promoted within DHS (going back to last February) and moved to Washington area. He's not getting paid. It's real.
President Trump, once again, has reneged on yet another promise! When will his non-billionaire adherents awake from their deep slumber to realize that Donald J. Trump has not been, and will never be, their savior? From Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American newsletter.
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s dramatic Democratic victories around the country. 'The [Republicans] ran on affordability in 2024. They gave sanctimonious lectures on cable news on election night about how the ‘silent working class majority’ had spoken. Then they governed as reckless authoritarians, punishing the working class.'”
"For nine months now, officials in the Trump administration have pushed their extremist policies with the insistence that his election gave him a mandate, although more people voted for someone other than Trump in 2024 than voted for him. Tuesday’s elections stripped away that veneer to reveal just how unpopular their policies really are."
"Aside from the health of the country, this poses a dramatic political problem for the Republicans. The midterm elections are in slightly less than a year, and Tuesday’s vote, which suggests the 2024 MAGA coalition has crumbled, may spell bad news for the mid-decade gerrymandering Republicans have pushed in states they control, like Texas. Republican lawmakers created the new Republican-leaning districts by moving Republican voters into Democratic-leaning districts, thus weakening formerly safe Republican districts. That could backfire in a blue-wave election."
I can't cheer for either dog in the fight, but I'll be happier Blue rather than Red. There's no Republican Party any longer. Not for decades. Repugnant. Anti-American. Subversive. Oligarchic. Soul-less. Heartless. And at the Top: brainless.
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I just read an article about a MAGA voter on SNAP benefits who asked her mother-in-law for food money. "Until their benefits come in". Neither she, nor her husband have jobs. They have two children. They exist on government benefits.
Are things "great" enough yet for them?
The MIL said "no".
Seung Min, he stopped in Japan, he stopped in South Korea.
And, I mean, the pomp and fanfare was just in full force. The flattery efforts were in full force.
What do you think world leaders are learning about how to deal with President Trump?
Seung Min Kim, White House Reporter, The Associated Press: Flattery is the fastest way to his heart
is what they have learned and really utilizing in Trump's second term.
My colleagues and I wrote about this, about how the president really did seem to be enjoying himself on this trip. You know, during the first term, these foreign trips weren't necessarily his favorite -- the favorite parts
of his term in the White House. But now, especially that world leaders have learned to pull out all the stops
for President Trump, he's really having a good time.
You saw him on the tarmac in Malaysia dancing as he was welcomed to the country.
In South Korea, he was granted with honors and a gold crown.
Obviously, gold is very deliberately chosen there.
But this has, this is not unique to this particular trip.
You saw how at NATO earlier this year that the secretary general basically said he was the daddy to NATO.
They know that, you know, flattering him, kind of bolstering him is the way to work with him.
And that's certainly something that world leaders have learned and is a change from his first term.
— Washington Week, 10/31/2025
Edit/Add: Link to video showcasing the president's awesome dance moves!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4f12NyTbAA
And he is certainly 100% unaware that they are playing him for the fool. A "world leaders" version of the special olympics - which explains his dancing.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/10/president-trump-opens-asia-trip-by-securing-landmark-wins-for-america/
Don't feed the trolls applies here.
Sweep. Landslide. And not the fake, lying Dump "landslide" of a year ago.
One wish: that the Dem Socialist party would bring their name in line with their policy preferences, i.e., as Social Democrats like their brothers & sisters in Scandinavia.
Massive reconciliation spending bills, gerrymandering/re-districting and huge debt accumulation are no doubt adding to the anger.
Suddenly trump wants republicans to end the shut down. Oooops!
@FD1000- Well we sure know where you fit in the order of things.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/filibuster-trump-government-shutdown-8bcc1deb?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfeDrzVR9DIqMFmbqQDVMHSUD76ScRn3kVIwbmOAfKnNsLhlrhPzLxW&gaa_ts=690b9e02&gaa_sig=m8eh-HgHOMjGUmHYbDxJLJZu3vc_OiG6zRojYZvMGG_FUlqQQA5-TEPt30j7yoxLV0SBYJX1Qol2YI3p0dYtgA==
They are now planning everything they can to hold onto power. Running scared. Actually acting on promises they made to lower inflation, lower food/drug costs and help the bottom economic rungs to improve quality of life, has not occurred to them.
Nor has it occurred to them that they may have initiated a runaway train.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/no-tick-tock-hed-00631875
"(Charles) Munger (Jr) could not have known everything that was to come: fundraising failures, the painful dissolution of a good-government coalition, his name dragged through the mud, and the ultimate fall of the independent redistricting laws which he helped architect.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-cuts-in-october-hit-highest-level-for-the-month-in-22-years-challenger-says.html
-Job cuts for October totaled 153,074, a 183% surge from September and 175% higher than the same month a year ago. It was the highest level for any October since 2003 and has been the worst year for layoffs since 2009.
-Companies in the technology sector announced 33,281 cuts, nearly six times the level in September.
When will his non-billionaire adherents awake from their deep slumber
to realize that Donald J. Trump has not been, and will never be, their savior?
From Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American newsletter.
“None of this is complicated,” political data specialist Tom Bonier wrote yesterday about Tuesday’s
dramatic Democratic victories around the country. 'The [Republicans] ran on affordability in 2024.
They gave sanctimonious lectures on cable news on election night about how the ‘silent working class majority’
had spoken. Then they governed as reckless authoritarians, punishing the working class.'”
"For nine months now, officials in the Trump administration have pushed their extremist policies with the insistence that his election gave him a mandate, although more people voted for someone other than Trump in 2024 than voted for him. Tuesday’s elections stripped away that veneer to reveal just how unpopular their policies really are."
"Aside from the health of the country, this poses a dramatic political problem for the Republicans.
The midterm elections are in slightly less than a year, and Tuesday’s vote, which suggests the 2024
MAGA coalition has crumbled, may spell bad news for the mid-decade gerrymandering Republicans
have pushed in states they control, like Texas. Republican lawmakers created the new Republican-leaning districts by moving Republican voters into Democratic-leaning districts, thus weakening formerly safe Republican districts. That could backfire in a blue-wave election."