Sometimes I wish McCain had been elected in '08, and served to '16. Obama would have gained 8 years experience and would have left office a year ago. Unlikely we'd be in this fix.

ICE: Immoral Criminal Enterprise.

When I hear, "the big lie", and Make America Great Again, I realize the big lie is the 'Again'. While there have been many great Americans, they still haven't been able to reverse the evil their forebears wrought on so many.

Can you imagine, having taken the oath as a Secret Service agent, not defending it from Trump, at least walking away. Should we prevail, these cowards need to be ostracized and branded as the cowards they are.

UNMASK, DISARM, DEFUND ICE

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

"We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead,” President Donald Trump

In the face of the revolting, the only response is revolt.

When you ignore our most important laws, and rights, don't claim you are just enforcing our laws.

Today, 250 years later, I sit in my kitchen, in tears, and think about the time Jefferson and Paine sat with Franklin in his Philadelphia kitchen drafting The Declaration.

ICE Killed Good

I loathe confrontations, but things sometimes strike, similar to Kierkegaard's remark, a question arose out of ignorance, not knowing why. Young women, not always in distress, are easily exploited seeking the benefit of wealthy men. Not a good thing.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

It strikes me that, after all this making America great, it appears that 'great' didn't include most of the marks wearing those red hats.

The Don knows that all he needs is a fig leaf of deniability. There ain't no cops. He owns 'da judge. And the GOP (Grand Oligarchs Party) is shakin' us down and kick'n back. Life of Crime is going good.

You don't need to be in chains to be a slave.

If you're not part of maga, stop smiling. You've already lost your democracy. There won't be an election in '26. This won't end without a violent response to the violence are fellows are suffering.

Jesus was a socialist.

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

I remain at a loss to believe a felon just criticized a Fed governor for appearing too unseemly to serve, while simultaneously covering up his history of pedophilia.

Today, that idiot Mike Johnson proclaimed god saved Trump to save America. So, the faux christians believe god killed a volunteer fireman to preserve a rapist pedophile to lead us to the promised land.

If we were a more charitable people, and after more than a century of 'colonial' exploitation of southern Americans by US corruption of their political system, maybe if we helped rebuild their economies, these refugees would not have to flee for their lives and their children's futures.

-- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863

"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return" Gore Vidal

If any feel similarly, please reposting you, too, would appreciate not being presented media behind pay walls.

“I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.” ― Federico García Lorca

"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand." Lorca

"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return" Vidal

When you look at Trump's cabinet, that word 'deplorables' echoes loudly.

Just a random thought on a rainy evening, FDR gave us Woodie Guthrie, Woody gave us Dylan.

This notion that you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps seems worse than naive when offered to people without, even, boots on their feet.

[5:50 PM, 4/25/2025] g.h.kirsch: I've been around a long time. Never has anything like this happened. Things have never been 'great', but they've never been like this. We at least hoped to get better and be good.

While we are in shock, witnessing the potential demise of US democracy, I am also deeply concerned for all around the world who may lose faith in the American dream. We in the US are not the only Americans. And life ahead for those other Americans may be in even greater danger than we are.

"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." Sun Tzu @ 585 BC

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It appears that we are suspending food aid internationally causing farmers to lose a significant market. So now we will pay farmers who won't be growing crops. Thus to assure the needy will suffer, rather than buy food from those farmers and send it to the hungry.

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

I expect, there are, at least, a million people as nice as we are. How does it feel to be one in a million? 😉

How poor have we become when we can't afford free speech?

Wow, Mayor Wu brings it in her State of the City speech. 🧵 worth checking out. This is what we need.

You shouldn't have made him King, Johnny.

Shuck Schumer!

Don't expect help from the rich, they've too much to lose.

It seems necessary to point out, Democrats fear being seen as shutting the government down so much, they will soon vote to allow Trump/Musk and the GOP to continue shutting the government down.