Its value is to make its CEO a multibillionaire.
09.11.2025 13:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@pndrp.bsky.social
Former HS teacher, photographer, dishwasher, styrofoam fabricator. Current eater and breather. In the post-truth era, memes are power.
Its value is to make its CEO a multibillionaire.
09.11.2025 13:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Trumpβs brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
09.11.2025 11:53 β π 6464 π 2076 π¬ 216 π 77#AnotherRepublicanLie
09.11.2025 12:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0sacrificing for the good of the nation. Apparently this concept is no longer recognized, at least among the wealthiest and most powerful. The United States of America: it's worth dying for but not worth paying for.
09.11.2025 06:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The last time the US had a debt burden approaching what we have today was in the WWII era. Not only did people put their lives on hold and gave their lives during that period, but after the war, they paid taxes at a much higher rate than today. Those Americans understood the concept of...
09.11.2025 06:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
I will never forget the shock I felt when, as a teenager working a summer job, I was told by an adult coworker that he had seen James West beat up five men on the Wild, Wild West and that James West had to be the toughest guy in the world and realizing that he seriously believed this. Eye opening.
08.11.2025 16:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Never underestimate the capacity for people to believe whatever they see on TV, film or the interwebs is real.
08.11.2025 16:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0higher consumer electricity bills? They are going up. And up.
08.11.2025 14:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Placing your industrial base on a wartime footing while your billionaire backers pay taxes at a 10% (if not avoiding them altogether) is putting your country on the road to disaster, militarily and economically.
08.11.2025 14:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was going to eat pecan pie, but Walmart cut it from their Thanksgiving dinner package.
08.11.2025 06:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hegseth removes military leaders for being politically incorrect.
08.11.2025 00:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is he really offering to remove something that will cause Republicans painn in the midterm elections (healthcare cuts) until one week after the midterm elections? Then they can do what they want?
08.11.2025 00:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If I had his record, I wouldnβt want to hear about affordability either.
07.11.2025 18:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Interior view of the building showing massive stone columns with detailed carvings and colorful hieroglyphs as well as the ceiling. The columns are shaped like lotus or papyrus plants and are closely spaced, supporting a decorated ceiling. π· Daniel von Recklinghausen
Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...π§΅1/3
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50% less pie, no sweet taters with the little marshmallows.
07.11.2025 15:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We drink our oil and gas from the can over here.
What is potato?
Something Iβve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That thereβs a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time.
But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.
The problem is that there are far too few representatives for our current population. They need to expand the house, by a LOT. Like, we should have around 1500 representatives in the House, maybe 2000.
07.11.2025 04:27 β π 21 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Amen! We are currently underrepresented with so many voters/ representative.
07.11.2025 05:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All my life (in my 70s) people have said we donβt have a democracy because society did not seem democratic enough. & for many in Alabama where I lived it wasnβt. We now have about as much democracy as we have ever had. That said I think we can still improve upon where we are. A more perfect union.
07.11.2025 05:07 β π 41 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Just because something is a matter of time doesnβt mean that now is the time.
07.11.2025 04:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0He negotiated a wonderful price for those beans too, if you are China. Chinese buyers are getting those beans at a very affordable price.
06.11.2025 21:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In RFK jrβs defense: I wouldnβt want him in the room if I were undergoing a healthcare crisis.
06.11.2025 19:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Low birth rates are not caused by lack of fertility drugs. It would be more helpful to lower the cost of all healthcare, and more importantly, the cost of food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
06.11.2025 19:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He likes big things and 100% is not as big sounding as 1000%.
06.11.2025 18:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Love that you captured the halo formed by the out gassing of the cheese fumes.
05.11.2025 23:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Afrikaans is a second language for so many South Florida residents. Afrikaaner radio stations playing Afrikaaner music. An Afrikaaner restaurant every other block.
05.11.2025 22:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Afrikaans is a second language for so many South Florida residents. Afrikaaner radio stations playing Afrikaaner music. An Afrikaaner restaurant every other block.
05.11.2025 22:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not if you include conflicts like the Bolivian-Laotian Fishing War and the Mauritania-Mauritius Border War.
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