I am so tired of hearing the nonstarter argument from Republicans that "We'll extend healthcare after the CR is passed." I call bullshit: that's what they said last time, when Schumer gave in and voted for it. And of course, they didn't extend it - or provide any of the other programs.
I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them - trite, but true.
A frightening and painfully accurate description of the U.S. today. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . " How much worse do things have to get before we make the changes we need? And what are those changes? And how do we make them?
I think Mary was mad when she wrote this. Or, maybe I was getting more angry as I read it. "The most expensive shellfish in the world" and paid for by what must be biggest White House food budget EVER. Paying staff at mar a largesse puts more money in pocket of despot.
I pulled, "The regime’s answer? Propose a 50-year mortgage so Americans can spend half a century paying interest to banks while pretending to own homes. Even MAGA commentators called it “indentured servitude with a yard.”
The Republicans are Peanuts’ Lucy, the ACA extensions are the football and the Dems are Charlie Brown. At least they have figured out that Lucy will pull the football away.
What Mary describes is beyond infuriating, enraging, sickening.
Trump and his acolytes not only don’t care, they are harming millions of Americans as a sadistic show of dominance and what happens when the king is disobeyed.
Abusing the vulnerable to establish absolute authority is the signature of pathologies most commonly associated with destructive personal relationships. I’m no expert, but it’s hard not to wonder if Fred Trump used these sadistic tactics on his son, and we’re paying for it.
Just a thought. It doesn’t matter. Government by sadistic abuse of the governed and those who stand up for human rights and freedoms is not only evil, it violates the Constitution. These criminals must be held to account.
How much more of this can we abide? Trump is deliberately splitting the country in half, politically and emotionally. When ICE agents tell people, "It's the lib's fault," as they are handcuffing mothers, something is very wrong. When women are dressed skimpily to dance for the pedophiles and perverts. When a fifty-year mortgage is even an idea. When not only is the White House above the law, but the actual building is treated like a tear-down. We are in trouble but that's not new news.
I hope everybody is reading or has ordered a copy from the library of Virginia Guiffre's American horror story. These men are circling the wagons around Trump because they are in the files, know somebody in the files or perhaps, and I'm spitballing here, have been victims of sexual abuse and cannot imagine their secret showing on their face as everyone realizes exactly what it means to be raped, abused and trafficked. Guiffre's abuse started when she was young and was perpetrated by her father and her father's friend. How many families carry those secrets? (Actually this book is extremely triggering. I would not recommend it to somebody with suppressed and/or open wounds.)
The book I want to read in a few years is about how women were viewed by White House Maga, how women were expected to act, how wives subsumed to their powerful husbands, and how many of those wives have escaped. Some women are volunteers, like that nasty press agent, and some women are trapped, like, I believe, Usha Vance. Get their stories when they are ready to talk. That's the real story I want to hear from Melania, not some bullshit fairy tale as told by pervy Brett Ratner and the grossest gold digger of all time.
Trump wants all females to be 16 years old with lots of make up on and not much else. Read his poem on Epstein's birthday letter. Then read between the lines.
Whether you read between the lines or work behind the scenes, the trenches have been the same for centuries. Most every social worker knows. This is not a new ballgame. But it certainly is far less secretive ..in your face and go ahead try to sue me..is near blatant.
Window dressing has ,as has make-up tummy tucks-boob jobs ,smiling cons, or Mother Nature ..raped anything they could forever, selling what looks good on paper appealing. Technology made it easier.
Striving for equality is admirable, the hippies had utopian dreams, then turned on and fell out of a rat race. Near everything was resourced abroad , the rich got richer. The facts still remain though, the happier countries keep balance best practice.
The writing has ,as stated in this post, been going on hard for 40+ (+++++) years , the middle class hollowed, our #1 status down to 18-30th, our over health statistics worst of the civilized ( loose interpretation) nations, and our world climate on a precipitous brink , but a lot of people would prefer to hear the fantasy “we’re doing just fine,the best ever..” and the famous..”trust me”.
What you describe isn’t just policy failure — it’s the performance art of indifference. The cruelty is deliberate, ritualized, and public. A government that withholds food and medicine while throwing galas for oligarchs isn’t broken; it’s functioning exactly as designed....and cruelty IS the point
Macbeth's soliloquy keeps running in my mind especially the last part, "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing", and yet as emblematic as those words are to today's disaster, it continues, droning on and on, and the longer he remains in his ivory tower of safety, established by his ever-ready adoring Republicans, this will continue. The lobotomies have been successful on them, the MAGA fools, and until they realize they have been bamboozled into intolerable food, housing, and health costs by this current administration, we all must suffer. May the reckoning day be swift in coming and cover fully the lack of responsibility and criminal activity hoisted upon our country by this disastrous group. I'm angry too, Mary, and I'm not taking it without a fight to the finish.
I am so tired of hearing the nonstarter argument from Republicans that "We'll extend healthcare after the CR is passed." I call bullshit: that's what they said last time, when Schumer gave in and voted for it. And of course, they didn't extend it - or provide any of the other programs.
I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them - trite, but true.
A frightening and painfully accurate description of the U.S. today. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . " How much worse do things have to get before we make the changes we need? And what are those changes? And how do we make them?
Or....It was the darkest of times, it was the dumbest of times.
I think Mary was mad when she wrote this. Or, maybe I was getting more angry as I read it. "The most expensive shellfish in the world" and paid for by what must be biggest White House food budget EVER. Paying staff at mar a largesse puts more money in pocket of despot.
I pulled, "The regime’s answer? Propose a 50-year mortgage so Americans can spend half a century paying interest to banks while pretending to own homes. Even MAGA commentators called it “indentured servitude with a yard.”
The Republicans are Peanuts’ Lucy, the ACA extensions are the football and the Dems are Charlie Brown. At least they have figured out that Lucy will pull the football away.
What Mary describes is beyond infuriating, enraging, sickening.
Trump and his acolytes not only don’t care, they are harming millions of Americans as a sadistic show of dominance and what happens when the king is disobeyed.
Abusing the vulnerable to establish absolute authority is the signature of pathologies most commonly associated with destructive personal relationships. I’m no expert, but it’s hard not to wonder if Fred Trump used these sadistic tactics on his son, and we’re paying for it.
Just a thought. It doesn’t matter. Government by sadistic abuse of the governed and those who stand up for human rights and freedoms is not only evil, it violates the Constitution. These criminals must be held to account.
Go Ireland! (Lindsay Graham is such a fool.)
How much more of this can we abide? Trump is deliberately splitting the country in half, politically and emotionally. When ICE agents tell people, "It's the lib's fault," as they are handcuffing mothers, something is very wrong. When women are dressed skimpily to dance for the pedophiles and perverts. When a fifty-year mortgage is even an idea. When not only is the White House above the law, but the actual building is treated like a tear-down. We are in trouble but that's not new news.
I hope everybody is reading or has ordered a copy from the library of Virginia Guiffre's American horror story. These men are circling the wagons around Trump because they are in the files, know somebody in the files or perhaps, and I'm spitballing here, have been victims of sexual abuse and cannot imagine their secret showing on their face as everyone realizes exactly what it means to be raped, abused and trafficked. Guiffre's abuse started when she was young and was perpetrated by her father and her father's friend. How many families carry those secrets? (Actually this book is extremely triggering. I would not recommend it to somebody with suppressed and/or open wounds.)
The book I want to read in a few years is about how women were viewed by White House Maga, how women were expected to act, how wives subsumed to their powerful husbands, and how many of those wives have escaped. Some women are volunteers, like that nasty press agent, and some women are trapped, like, I believe, Usha Vance. Get their stories when they are ready to talk. That's the real story I want to hear from Melania, not some bullshit fairy tale as told by pervy Brett Ratner and the grossest gold digger of all time.
Trump wants all females to be 16 years old with lots of make up on and not much else. Read his poem on Epstein's birthday letter. Then read between the lines.
Whether you read between the lines or work behind the scenes, the trenches have been the same for centuries. Most every social worker knows. This is not a new ballgame. But it certainly is far less secretive ..in your face and go ahead try to sue me..is near blatant.
Window dressing has ,as has make-up tummy tucks-boob jobs ,smiling cons, or Mother Nature ..raped anything they could forever, selling what looks good on paper appealing. Technology made it easier.
Striving for equality is admirable, the hippies had utopian dreams, then turned on and fell out of a rat race. Near everything was resourced abroad , the rich got richer. The facts still remain though, the happier countries keep balance best practice.
The writing has ,as stated in this post, been going on hard for 40+ (+++++) years , the middle class hollowed, our #1 status down to 18-30th, our over health statistics worst of the civilized ( loose interpretation) nations, and our world climate on a precipitous brink , but a lot of people would prefer to hear the fantasy “we’re doing just fine,the best ever..” and the famous..”trust me”.
Have a nice Sunday
What you describe isn’t just policy failure — it’s the performance art of indifference. The cruelty is deliberate, ritualized, and public. A government that withholds food and medicine while throwing galas for oligarchs isn’t broken; it’s functioning exactly as designed....and cruelty IS the point
https://jaywilson1.substack.com/p/a-masterclass-in-cruelty?r=10sd39
Macbeth's soliloquy keeps running in my mind especially the last part, "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing", and yet as emblematic as those words are to today's disaster, it continues, droning on and on, and the longer he remains in his ivory tower of safety, established by his ever-ready adoring Republicans, this will continue. The lobotomies have been successful on them, the MAGA fools, and until they realize they have been bamboozled into intolerable food, housing, and health costs by this current administration, we all must suffer. May the reckoning day be swift in coming and cover fully the lack of responsibility and criminal activity hoisted upon our country by this disastrous group. I'm angry too, Mary, and I'm not taking it without a fight to the finish.