Correct.
Now take the next step.
The media has been bought and paid for.
They are driven by profit not principles.
They are no longer a free press, bulwark of freedom.
They caved.
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Correct.
Now take the next step.
The media has been bought and paid for.
They are driven by profit not principles.
They are no longer a free press, bulwark of freedom.
They caved.
Start with the first term, which will get you a head start of somewhere around 500 thousand needless COVID related deaths.
08.11.2025 03:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And yet I am less each passing year.
Take the torch and run with it, folks. I need a breather now and then.
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The very definition of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.
07.11.2025 20:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโll bet that Marine was never so happy to be wearing gloves
07.11.2025 20:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ghod yes
07.11.2025 20:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0James Tate
My lord he is going to kill us all for money.
What is this TV thing of which you speak?
Mine hasnโt been turned on at all in many months.
Someone citing the price of a Thanksgiving meal needs a lesson in the retail concept of โloss leaderโ
Almost every Thanksgiving turkey sold in the last 40 years is sold at a loss to drive sales of other more profitable things and drive traffic.
If only we had trains that were as good as China has
07.11.2025 04:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Let it be written
Let it be done.
The stupidest but very effective thing the GQP ever said was โWe should run the country like a businessโ
No, we should run it like a non profit foundation. Use resources wisely to do good things for the most people.
This autocracy is already in high school and maybe even a grown ass adult.
Pay attention. It was born a long time ago. It just came out in public is all
Ok. So hereโs the plan:
We need about 10 million wild eyed liberals who believe in equality and democracy to become official members of the GOP.
Show up in primaries, volunteer, give some small money and fill out every poll question as a GOP liberal.
And never vote for them in a general election
She dropped her script and someone slipped her a new one.
Most likely she read the tea leaves and decided to bail on Trump.
I could die from not surprised
06.11.2025 08:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I do believe that was the strategy of the Weimar Republic in 1932 Germany.
Look how well that worked out.
He confuses the two continents because the only thing he โknowsโ is they are full of people who are not white Anglos
05.11.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Probably got $$ from HR Blockhead and other tax prep firms
Wanna bet they bought his bitcoins?
The defeat of Cuomo is important not just because he was endorsed by Drumpf but because he is EXACTLY the kind of Dem we need to retire- self serving, entitled, amoral, snd oriented to the status quo for the privileged and powerful.
We donโt need blue versions of Drumpf.
Journalism died when the Murdoch proved that lies and anger were more profitable
This was part of the plan when the equal time rules were erased by Reagan, when the limits of media concentration were removed.
There are no advantages to truth and lies are profitable
The very best and most iconic Sherlock there ever was.
04.11.2025 00:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Guess what? An enormous portion of SNAP and similar benefits are paid to people who HAVE jobs - they just are so poorly paid they still
Qualify for benefits.
Partly because many jobs are structured as part time to avoid paying benefits.
Big abusive rich companies..like Walmart and Amazon
I canโt prove it but I believe menโs brains do not fully mature before the age of retirement.
03.11.2025 17:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0One of the best decisions I ever stumbled into was volunteering in my small town elections work. Setting up polls, assisting voters, ensuring accuracy, meeting every citizen - it is impossible to not take voting seriously.
03.11.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What would life be like if the Federal minimum wage had been indexed to the CPI?
What would our national economy look like if billionaires and corporations actually paid proportional tax like wage earners?
If you want to dream
Of equality
Start with economics
I wonder how many of the unidentified people who were killed on Caribbean boats thought of themselves as Christians
02.11.2025 16:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have no idea how, but somehow I am sure thereโs a Nigerian Prince who needs money involved in this
02.11.2025 05:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I thought the Right of Assembly was a part of the US Constitution
???
Of course as a consequence the Republicans were out of power at the Federal level for 30 years and we recovered and led the world for two generations.
So thereโs that.