The success of the Biden administration will never be told to the American people by the American press because it is not to their financial advantage to do so. The republican party owns most entities that make up cable news, radio, social media, and the print media, half of which are out and out fascist and the other half is scared to death of being labeled liberal. These assholes are never going to help or in any way benefit the Democratic party because as criminal associates of the Republicans, there is no profit, $$$$$$, for them to do so.
I heard this week the price of groceries has gone up 40% since 2019,costing a family of 4 an extra $1,000 a month,that's just pure corporate greed and price gouging. One result of trying to make Americans fight each other is we might lose sight of who the real enemies are,the greedy corporate monopolies who completely control the supply and demand of everything thing we need,and now all the 'tech bros' are on a PR campaign to enable AI to eliminate even more American jobs,so they can provide record profits for shareholders.
U.S. food prices rose by 25 percent from 2019 to 2023
From 2019 to 2023, the all-food Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 25.0 percent—a higher increase than the all-items CPI, which grew 19.2 percent over the same period. Feb 14, 2024. Still not good, but otherwise you are spot on. Corporate/republican greed
From Michael Pollan: "The story begins early in the Reagan administration, when the Justice Department rewrote the rules of antitrust enforcement...As the industry has grown steadily more concentrated since the 1980s, it has also grown much more specialized, with a tiny number of large corporations dominating each link in the supply chain."
The Justice Department should be bringing Anti Trust suits around the clock ! What’s happening now is a mirror image of the Robber Baron age ! Monopolies are the rule rather than the exception today!
These corporations are at best anti-capitalist, since capitalism requires competitiveness (among other traits), while the impetus for these corporate entities is toward monopoly and a "grow or die" economic philosophy.
Americans of a certain persuasion detest comparing 'amurica' to any other country other than to say, "we're number one, we're number one." In this case we really are but try getting magats to admit that, it is a quandary.
And companies like Kroger and Safeway were planning a merger that would of made the largest grocery monopoly in the country 🤔 guess what that would of accomplished?
I think that the Biden administration has another problem hitting from within the party that could jeopardize his reelection and that is with transparency about the Isreal/Hamas and Ukraine/Russia wars.
If he thinks that Americans, especially the ones invested in these wars, don't need to know anything about talks between him and the leaders of those countries, he is making a critical mistake and it could cost him the election in November. And then we will all be screwed if either one of those two other bozos get elected instead.
Hey Donna, googled your concerns and could not find an article that directly addressed this, can you point me to a reference on this, thanks. I daily watch Karine jean Pierre as spokesperson for the President at the daily briefing and if you have ever watched one of these you would know that the room is filled with rabid dogs looking to tear Biden to shreds. Naturally they want Biden to give away state secrets so that they can equate Biden to dump.
The corruption and incompetence of the MAGAT’S in Congress are hamstring Joe on every level,regardless of the harm they are doing to the country and the world! 🌎
It was a topic of discussion at the Round Table with Martha Raditz this morning and from personal experience. I hear nothing about these conflicts on the news. Not like we did during the Iraq War. They need to quit worrying about scaring people and more about informing us. trump did the same thing, especially with COVID until it was knocking on our front doors.
There are too many closed door meetings with the president and his advisors and watered down info coming back to us. I have seen him avoid direct questions in regards to both conflicts and used them as a stump speech during the SOTU. the newspapers are useless and many people, including myself and my husband can't afford cable since there has been no more funding for the ACP since it's conception. The rubes fault for that.
I would love to see him more frequently, giving updates on what is going on in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza. I am still voting for him, no doubt. There are Democrats that feel like I do and are not sure if they will vote at all. We need everyone to vote.
Thanks for your reply Donna. Quite frankly i hear too much war news and feel that we are in the very best of hands with Joe Biden and i really do not have any qualms with him informing the American public to that degree that still keeps us safe and informed to the degree we need to be informed. i would never say this about bush, trump or any other republican president..
Absolutely,Hoyt ,Joe can’t allow confidential information about negotiations and strategies to be made public! His job is to use his position as President to make the best possible decisions and deals with the information provided to him by all U.S. intelligence agencies,he has decades of experience doing that,far more than anyone else in government has ever been known to have. 50 plus years in national offices is nothing to sneeze at!Hoyt is totally correct it’s a need to know situation.
No one said anything about confidential intelligence. And you are also forgetting about Obama when he was hunting down Bin Laden and how he was on the TV all of the time. And people need to know something rather than NOTHING, ffs.
Trumps secret weapon in Israel is doing his damnedest to ensure trumps election. The Netanyahu problem is one that President Biden has finally been forced to deal with. If reports are correct, the die was cast because of the overwhelming number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza at Netanyahu’s hands. The American public is also getting tired of Israel’s stance and is moving toward equity in judging the war.
Unlike many Western countries, Israel has maintained relations with the Kremlin, refused to impose sanctions against Russia, and rejected calls to send defensive weaponry to Ukraine. This policy is of course exactly what trump and Netanyahu believe will bring each of them greater power in moving toward full authoritarian governments. Both men are currently under criminal indictment.
Xi is going to take Putin to the woodshed. Trust me on this one, Putin thought he was going to rebuild the old USSR. Xi will be taking territories from Putin
Our wealthiest compete to outdo each other. It seems to be about ego. My yacht is bigger than your yacht. Some people just gotta lord it over the others.
Netanyahu was trying to dismantle Israels court system, saying it is 'too liberal', funny when right-wing government is trying consolidate power,and a duly-elected court system is standing in there way,because it's supposed to be a democracy,the right-wing,and usually the minority,thinks they can spout the magic word 'liberal' and try to eliminate the threat to their power. That's Nazi stuff,and that's dictator stuff. Pretty sure the American people aren't going to let the Israelis commit war crimes using US weapons. Did anyone else notice when Israel targeted the aid convoy,they claimed maybe ONE Hamas terrorist was firing at them?? Seriously?? You unleash 3 different smart bombs, because ONE FUCKING GUY might be shooting at you with a AK-47?? And that's a reasonable threat response?? Please,that's a goddamn war crime IMO,and has nothing to do with 'self-defense', it's just an unending cycle of murder and revenge cycle of the thousands of years Holy War, and I believe,the rest of the world is tired of it.
Wrapping your mind around the fact we are funding deaths at the hand of Israel and at the same time supplying humanitarian aid to Israel's victims. Very strange times, but for some reason i feel this may just be history repeating itself.
Personally, I have no problem with continuing to supply defensive weapons like the Iron Dome to Israel, but we would do well to cut off the supply of offensive weapons until they start adhering to international law.
RMS Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, 38th Parallel, Gulf of Tonkin. Yes, we are tired of history repeating itself.
As for this "holy" war, I am depressed for the MAJORITY of Israeli and Palestinian people who thought the Oslo Accords would bring an end to this insanity repeating itself. I highly recommend reading "Apeirogon" by Colum McCann. Two fathers who are willing to talk after each lost a daughter to the conflict.
I don't recall that anybody was actually shooting at the IDF; there was, they say, someone with a gun though. Over the top responses by the IDF seem to be the order of the day there.
The trick for Biden is to separate criticism of Netanyahu from criticism of Israel. He's caught between AIPAC and a growing anti-Israel sentiment, especially among our youth and Muslim-Americans. I have a good friend who is Palestinian, and she is so incensed that Biden kowtows to Israel that she will not vote for him come November. And she's a liberal.
She still has a lot of time to come around to logic and reason hopefully. Yep, Netanyahu is the culprit, not Israel. hard to separate, just as hard to separate Biden from America.
What I find so infuriating is that we do NOT dictate to Israel how to run/manage this war. We can advise, but that is where it ends. Can you imagine another country insisting that we follow a certain policy that is contrary to what we want to do? And another thing, it seems that what Hamas has done repeatedly to Israel gets lost in the plight of the “poor Palestinians.” People should read the full history of what has transpired over the years.
Thanks for the link. I agree with much of what that person says, but I have a somewhat different take on the origins of all this. After the holocaust the need for a Jewish state was more than evident, and the Zionist movement worked to establish one. The trouble was that the land had been occupied by generations of Palestinians. When European Jews flooded into the area, at least two terrorist groups were formed to rid the land of the people who lived there. The Irgun was one (I forget the name of the other). They attacked villages and drove the people, mostly shepherds and farmers, out and pushed them elsewhere. That is why the Palestinians refer to this as the "catastrophe.' I think that they were foolish to reject the offer of their own state, frankly, but what they wanted was to get their land back. Everything that has happened since flowed from those events. Anyway, that's how I understand it.
It's hard to believe that people would vote for this monster, I have to think the voting is rigged, who in their right mind would vote for Greg Abbott, or Ted Cruz...🧐
I've always said it's a 'team' thing. As long as it has an (R) beside its name on the ballot, a lifelong Republican team voter will vote for it. 20 years ago I was often saying that a Republican voter would vote for Mickey Mouse if there was an (R) beside his name. And of course they did - in 2016.
I think it is safe to say that MAGAts not in anything close to their right minds. Texass has managed to elect some of the worst slimeball politicians in the country… not to mention criminally mean.
Oh hell yes. I have an 88 year old Aunt still living in Texas and a cousin..I cant talk about it with them. I suspect they are MAGA but I dont even want to know. *shudder And Florida? YUK. No thanks. The STD capital of the world is evidently The Villages. I visited friends there and what a Stepford Wives experience THAT was. 🤦♀️ WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!??
Sadly true, deathSantis our fascist gov is calling all magats to move here. The place is going downhill, yet getting more expensive. Evidently a bunch of them moved here during the pandemic, and have continued to do so . Ugh, like our asshole quotient wasn’t high enough before!
I live here too. I don’t like it at all, but my family and friends are here so I do what I can to work on Democratic causes and vote blue in every election. I live in a blue city (mostly) and avoid the sea of red that surrounds us.
I literally just texted this to my Mom when I sent her this article. And added “and no one be allowed to help him out.”
What a truly evil, sadistic and sick fuck he is. And I’m a born here, lifelong Texan. I also live in Ted Cruz’s district.
What a lucky gal I am! Fuck me!! 🤢
Every election I think, this time we’re gonna do it; Cruz is gone…and every time, these assholes vote him back in. And for what? They can’t name one thing he’s done to make their lives better. Same with Abbott and Paxton. Whose names I can’t say without retching.
I’m sorry. Florida used to be a pretty nice place to be until Desantis and Gaetz and Rubio to name a few. It’s like these creeps are just oozing out of the woodwork.
Sometimes the issue is voter suppression, making it more difficult for people to vote. Reducing ballot drop boxes, making it more difficult to register in the first place. In AZ you can now only drop off or mail ballots for people living in your household (perhaps also a relative). This negatively impacts many rural communities such as Native Americans. Also, although the federal government does not require an approved ID (does not include a student ID) and last four digits of social security number to register to vote, the state legislature passed a law, approved by GOP governor, that residents need to provide this info to vote for state-wide and local offices.
It's great that we have a rich bored white man with a death trap factory and there's no legal way of stopping this. While he continues running Texas into the ground while burning potential tourism income on gorn.
I can't figure out why foreign allies don't trust us.
And would trust us even less if felonious fuckface were to be reelected. Not only would more of our freedoms be erased but the negatively would be felt globally. The thought of Trump and Netanyahu collaborating on a solution for Gaza and then with Putin and Ukraine spells an epic shitstorm that might not ever be reversed.
You have to wonder whether Abbott is so pissed off at the world because of the terrible accident that befell him and he is seeking some personal vendetta against those who wish to find a better life in America. He is a small-minded man who might be around for many more years given there are no gubernatorial term limits in Texas.
I believe that! He’s trying to make others as miserable as possible because of his own disabilities! His sadistic behavior is a direct consequence of his own losses!
It’s all about deflection— did Abbott or Cancun Cruz ever fix Texas’s failed power grid? No, these two losers just continue to jump on tfg’s trainwreck political bandwagon! Continue to work to vote these two clowns out of office.
Have you ever watched the movie Annabelle? When the girl that had polio was outside in her wheelchair and something pushed her into the barn and dumped her onto the floor? Greg Abbott likes to go to the Rio Grande. Maybe he needs a closer look. 🤷♀️
Oh, and do you know how he got his start at being rich? He sued the people who put him in the wheelchair.
Then when he became governor, he capped the amount with which juries can award victims monetarily for malpractice, etc.
I read an article on it in one of the Texas magazines a long time ago. A lady who was misdiagnosed with cancer, went thru chemo, radiation etc, then was told she never had cancer to begin with.
But her body was so messed up from the chemo and radiation and drugs, that she now had to take meds for all kinds of issues. She was very sick.
She sued and the jury awarded her enough to pay her medical bills, pay for her current meds and treatment and live comfortably. But thanks to Abbott, she the award was reduced down to where she didn’t have enough to pay off the medical bills for the cancer she never even had. She was righteously upset.
I wish I had saved that article so I could quote it by name, for proof. If anyone else has read it and remembers, please let me know so I can credit them.
I may misremembering some of the details about her diagnosis or whatnot, but I do remember the basics of her being misdiagnosed with cancer and the treatment making her sick etc.
This is an article about how he won his money and how he worked to cap it for everyone else. He claimed anyone would have the same rights as he did to sue if they got hurt, but they’d never receive what he did, which was $5.8 million at the time of this article in 2013, with payment to continue until he dies.
No one else would ever be able to recoup costs like that no matter what was done to them. At least as I remember from the article I read before. This isn’t it. Wish I could find it.
Why does it take so damn long for us to realize that there are monsters among us? Are we all so self consumed and or distracted by the traveling circus across the globe that we are blind to the devastation that may soon smack us all in our little worlds?
The monsters have morphed into raging giants, giddy with power and weapons. Armed with minions that will scurry to help make nightmares come true.
Perhaps stripping the corporate goblins in this nation of their unlimited power and wealth would be a start? Feeling so fucking tired of the nonsense.
The monsters have had too much of a free ride. There may be a way to hurt them. Finally. I just watched "Scoop" on Netflix about the Prince Andrew scandal born of his friendship with pimp and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
Yesterday, Trump raised 50M thanks to Palm Beach, Florida billionaire John Paulson hosting an event there.
A thought: The press needs to take advantage of the timing and triangulate 1) the ick-factor revealed in the Netflix's "Scoop" dramatization about the Epstein's vile crimes and cover-up 2) the upcoming NY criminal trial of Trump's porn star sex cover up to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and 3) Trump's on Ghislaine Maxwell's list of Epstein's clients. Given #3, journalists need to "Scoop" deeper on Trump's possible sex with underage girls. One came forward then retreated for fear for her life.
In summary, tell the John Paulson party goers that supporting Trump is no different than supporting Epstein. And like Prince Andrew, that proximity is enough to destroy their reputations. Questions like, "How could you continue supporting Trump if you knew he was on Epstein's list and there were innocent girls coming forward implicating Trump?"
You can shrug off a lot, but pedophile rapist is a great way to make the big donors run for the hills. Hopefully, the media has it in them to find that story, link the other stories in the news and finally find the shame, the rock bottom - that thing that makes the devil himself too toxic to touch.
Enough of this shit! Federalize the National Guard at the border and order them to stand down. The President has the authority to do this. Send the 82nd Airborne down there if necessary. Federal law supersedes fucking state law. Fuck you, Abbott!!😡😡😡
Maybe, and I hope, people will swarm into Eagle Pass to support the town and donate to its businesses and to the organizers of the festival to recoup the costs associated with the event. And enjoy the eclipse. The real eclipse is the eclipse of humanity at the hands of psychopath cowardly governor.
The guy who’s trapping and killing pregnant women who are desperate to give their children a safer and better life is the same one who’s stripping American women of their reproductive rights because a clump of cells is a full human, This is so on-brand for the GOP. And as far as the festival is concerned, TX voters need to realize these Republican ghouls are the reason they can’t have nice things, and stop voting for them.
How is Greg Abbott not being charged with violating U.S. Code Section 3056(d) of Title 18?
Didn’t SCOTUS already (justly) rule in favor of the Federal Government?
How is Abbott not being charged with murder?
How is Abbott not being charged with Crimes Against Humanity?
Shouldn’t the DOJ be on top of this and making certain the Federal Laws are enforced on this “governor?”
Enough is enough DOJ!!! Get on the ball AG Merrick Garland! Learn from your mistakes!!!! Look at the justice our country’s being deprived of because of your delay in appointing Special Counsel to investigate Trump!!!
Don’t make the same error twice to avoid potential accusations by Republicans that the government has been weaponized!!!
Among his many heinous crimes, Abbott also continues to get away human trafficking. Like Trump, this barbaric bastard has no empathy and won't stop at anything to get his way.
Whenever Greg Abbott is up for reelection I sure hope the good people in Texas get their head out of their ass and deny him another term — if he’s eligible that is…
Unfortunately, Texas doesn't have gubernatorial term limits. These Texan nitwits had Rick Perry (definitely one of the dumbest men in the planet) as governor for 14 years until he decided to retire.
Who could forget? There’s an unbroken line back to him since Abbott was Perry’s AG and Good Hair Perry was Bush’s Lt. Gov. Several decades of fuckery courtesy of the 2nd worst POTUS
Same. I have a friend who wishes I’d move [back] to Texas and family who wishes I’d move to South Carolina, and I keep saying no fucking way, I’m not setting foot in any red state.
The success of the Biden administration will never be told to the American people by the American press because it is not to their financial advantage to do so. The republican party owns most entities that make up cable news, radio, social media, and the print media, half of which are out and out fascist and the other half is scared to death of being labeled liberal. These assholes are never going to help or in any way benefit the Democratic party because as criminal associates of the Republicans, there is no profit, $$$$$$, for them to do so.
I heard this week the price of groceries has gone up 40% since 2019,costing a family of 4 an extra $1,000 a month,that's just pure corporate greed and price gouging. One result of trying to make Americans fight each other is we might lose sight of who the real enemies are,the greedy corporate monopolies who completely control the supply and demand of everything thing we need,and now all the 'tech bros' are on a PR campaign to enable AI to eliminate even more American jobs,so they can provide record profits for shareholders.
25 percent
U.S. food prices rose by 25 percent from 2019 to 2023
From 2019 to 2023, the all-food Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 25.0 percent—a higher increase than the all-items CPI, which grew 19.2 percent over the same period. Feb 14, 2024. Still not good, but otherwise you are spot on. Corporate/republican greed
From Michael Pollan: "The story begins early in the Reagan administration, when the Justice Department rewrote the rules of antitrust enforcement...As the industry has grown steadily more concentrated since the 1980s, it has also grown much more specialized, with a tiny number of large corporations dominating each link in the supply chain."
https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/the-sickness-in-our-food-supply/
Yes some day in the not too distant future there will be one corporation with the stock exchange symbol amazfacebgooglapplwmart
Why am I suddenly thinking about that
COMPANY STORE, in the old song SIXTEEN TONS ?
‘an I sold my soul like a company whore’.
I heard it that ways once and now I can’t unhear it. It always makes me think of the Lindsey Grahams and Mike Johnsons of the world.
what goes around comes around! and history repeats itself! If Tennessee Ernie Ford reincarnates, i guess it will be ok. 😊
The Justice Department should be bringing Anti Trust suits around the clock ! What’s happening now is a mirror image of the Robber Baron age ! Monopolies are the rule rather than the exception today!
These corporations are at best anti-capitalist, since capitalism requires competitiveness (among other traits), while the impetus for these corporate entities is toward monopoly and a "grow or die" economic philosophy.
Think how bad the situation is in other countries whose inflation rates make ours pale by comparison.
Americans of a certain persuasion detest comparing 'amurica' to any other country other than to say, "we're number one, we're number one." In this case we really are but try getting magats to admit that, it is a quandary.
Agreed. And unfortunately, America is rapidly becoming Amerikkka. The Greatest Generation has to be spinning in their graves. Sad.
And companies like Kroger and Safeway were planning a merger that would of made the largest grocery monopoly in the country 🤔 guess what that would of accomplished?
More and more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s, some of which will find its way into dumbos pockets..
Capitalism. Our National Religion. I am an atheist for a reason. Democratic Socialism is our survival.
Which is why the DNC needs to use a lot more paid advertising.
Let's super fund the Lincoln project they know how and where to hit these assclown magas
I think that the Biden administration has another problem hitting from within the party that could jeopardize his reelection and that is with transparency about the Isreal/Hamas and Ukraine/Russia wars.
If he thinks that Americans, especially the ones invested in these wars, don't need to know anything about talks between him and the leaders of those countries, he is making a critical mistake and it could cost him the election in November. And then we will all be screwed if either one of those two other bozos get elected instead.
Hey Donna, googled your concerns and could not find an article that directly addressed this, can you point me to a reference on this, thanks. I daily watch Karine jean Pierre as spokesperson for the President at the daily briefing and if you have ever watched one of these you would know that the room is filled with rabid dogs looking to tear Biden to shreds. Naturally they want Biden to give away state secrets so that they can equate Biden to dump.
The corruption and incompetence of the MAGAT’S in Congress are hamstring Joe on every level,regardless of the harm they are doing to the country and the world! 🌎
one goal, help dump, period
All for dump and dump for dump.
It was a topic of discussion at the Round Table with Martha Raditz this morning and from personal experience. I hear nothing about these conflicts on the news. Not like we did during the Iraq War. They need to quit worrying about scaring people and more about informing us. trump did the same thing, especially with COVID until it was knocking on our front doors.
There are too many closed door meetings with the president and his advisors and watered down info coming back to us. I have seen him avoid direct questions in regards to both conflicts and used them as a stump speech during the SOTU. the newspapers are useless and many people, including myself and my husband can't afford cable since there has been no more funding for the ACP since it's conception. The rubes fault for that.
I would love to see him more frequently, giving updates on what is going on in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza. I am still voting for him, no doubt. There are Democrats that feel like I do and are not sure if they will vote at all. We need everyone to vote.
Thanks for your reply Donna. Quite frankly i hear too much war news and feel that we are in the very best of hands with Joe Biden and i really do not have any qualms with him informing the American public to that degree that still keeps us safe and informed to the degree we need to be informed. i would never say this about bush, trump or any other republican president..
Absolutely,Hoyt ,Joe can’t allow confidential information about negotiations and strategies to be made public! His job is to use his position as President to make the best possible decisions and deals with the information provided to him by all U.S. intelligence agencies,he has decades of experience doing that,far more than anyone else in government has ever been known to have. 50 plus years in national offices is nothing to sneeze at!Hoyt is totally correct it’s a need to know situation.
No one said anything about confidential intelligence. And you are also forgetting about Obama when he was hunting down Bin Laden and how he was on the TV all of the time. And people need to know something rather than NOTHING, ffs.
I concur. The media issue you have stated above it the culprit for the watered down news in MSM.
They would rather destroy an institution, like SCOTUS rather than lose power.
You hit the nail on the head, my friend.
Trumps secret weapon in Israel is doing his damnedest to ensure trumps election. The Netanyahu problem is one that President Biden has finally been forced to deal with. If reports are correct, the die was cast because of the overwhelming number of deaths of aid workers in Gaza at Netanyahu’s hands. The American public is also getting tired of Israel’s stance and is moving toward equity in judging the war.
Unlike many Western countries, Israel has maintained relations with the Kremlin, refused to impose sanctions against Russia, and rejected calls to send defensive weaponry to Ukraine. This policy is of course exactly what trump and Netanyahu believe will bring each of them greater power in moving toward full authoritarian governments. Both men are currently under criminal indictment.
All the authoritarians have to stick together
Yes, for now. Eventually won’t they fight each other to establish who’s top dog?
Xi is going to take Putin to the woodshed. Trust me on this one, Putin thought he was going to rebuild the old USSR. Xi will be taking territories from Putin
Tick Tock Tick Tock
No, there’s plenty of riches to exploit without fighting each other
Our wealthiest compete to outdo each other. It seems to be about ego. My yacht is bigger than your yacht. Some people just gotta lord it over the others.
A yacht measuring contest.
paraphrasing George Carlin 😬
Lenin’s and Mao’s dreams of global domination are on the verge of becoming reality!
Two genuinely sick bastards!
They are working in Conjunction with the Ayotalla and Islamists.
The all Hate America and They All Hate the West.
A dick measuring contest.
paraphrasing George Carlin
Netanyahu was trying to dismantle Israels court system, saying it is 'too liberal', funny when right-wing government is trying consolidate power,and a duly-elected court system is standing in there way,because it's supposed to be a democracy,the right-wing,and usually the minority,thinks they can spout the magic word 'liberal' and try to eliminate the threat to their power. That's Nazi stuff,and that's dictator stuff. Pretty sure the American people aren't going to let the Israelis commit war crimes using US weapons. Did anyone else notice when Israel targeted the aid convoy,they claimed maybe ONE Hamas terrorist was firing at them?? Seriously?? You unleash 3 different smart bombs, because ONE FUCKING GUY might be shooting at you with a AK-47?? And that's a reasonable threat response?? Please,that's a goddamn war crime IMO,and has nothing to do with 'self-defense', it's just an unending cycle of murder and revenge cycle of the thousands of years Holy War, and I believe,the rest of the world is tired of it.
Wrapping your mind around the fact we are funding deaths at the hand of Israel and at the same time supplying humanitarian aid to Israel's victims. Very strange times, but for some reason i feel this may just be history repeating itself.
Personally, I have no problem with continuing to supply defensive weapons like the Iron Dome to Israel, but we would do well to cut off the supply of offensive weapons until they start adhering to international law.
RMS Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, 38th Parallel, Gulf of Tonkin. Yes, we are tired of history repeating itself.
As for this "holy" war, I am depressed for the MAJORITY of Israeli and Palestinian people who thought the Oslo Accords would bring an end to this insanity repeating itself. I highly recommend reading "Apeirogon" by Colum McCann. Two fathers who are willing to talk after each lost a daughter to the conflict.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/books/review/colum-mccann-apeirogon.html
As Mark Twain said, “Common sense isn’t very common.”
I don't recall that anybody was actually shooting at the IDF; there was, they say, someone with a gun though. Over the top responses by the IDF seem to be the order of the day there.
The trick for Biden is to separate criticism of Netanyahu from criticism of Israel. He's caught between AIPAC and a growing anti-Israel sentiment, especially among our youth and Muslim-Americans. I have a good friend who is Palestinian, and she is so incensed that Biden kowtows to Israel that she will not vote for him come November. And she's a liberal.
She still has a lot of time to come around to logic and reason hopefully. Yep, Netanyahu is the culprit, not Israel. hard to separate, just as hard to separate Biden from America.
What I find so infuriating is that we do NOT dictate to Israel how to run/manage this war. We can advise, but that is where it ends. Can you imagine another country insisting that we follow a certain policy that is contrary to what we want to do? And another thing, it seems that what Hamas has done repeatedly to Israel gets lost in the plight of the “poor Palestinians.” People should read the full history of what has transpired over the years.
https://youtu.be/cI-YqklQbpI?si=BHCrul6DyZV0rxsP
Thanks for the link. I agree with much of what that person says, but I have a somewhat different take on the origins of all this. After the holocaust the need for a Jewish state was more than evident, and the Zionist movement worked to establish one. The trouble was that the land had been occupied by generations of Palestinians. When European Jews flooded into the area, at least two terrorist groups were formed to rid the land of the people who lived there. The Irgun was one (I forget the name of the other). They attacked villages and drove the people, mostly shepherds and farmers, out and pushed them elsewhere. That is why the Palestinians refer to this as the "catastrophe.' I think that they were foolish to reject the offer of their own state, frankly, but what they wanted was to get their land back. Everything that has happened since flowed from those events. Anyway, that's how I understand it.
Thank you for that explanation Bill, Hope you repost this in the future so more subscribers can see it.
It's hard to believe that people would vote for this monster, I have to think the voting is rigged, who in their right mind would vote for Greg Abbott, or Ted Cruz...🧐
I've always said it's a 'team' thing. As long as it has an (R) beside its name on the ballot, a lifelong Republican team voter will vote for it. 20 years ago I was often saying that a Republican voter would vote for Mickey Mouse if there was an (R) beside his name. And of course they did - in 2016.
That's an insult to Mickey...if not to his creator.
Democrats fall in love, REPUBLIFASCISTS fall in goose steps.
I remember that Mickey Mouse era!!
I think it is safe to say that MAGAts not in anything close to their right minds. Texass has managed to elect some of the worst slimeball politicians in the country… not to mention criminally mean.
That's just it: Many Texans are not in their right mind. I keep wondering if it's something I the water.(?)
It’s not the water , but what’s lacking in our educational system! Critical thinking,Civics and un corrupted Historical teaching!
May he wind up entangled in his own razor wire.
Hanged with it!😡😡
Yessss my point exactly let him die the same way drowning in razor wire
I hope so
Why do they keep voting these assholes into office!? Abbott is truly evil. I wouldn’t spit on Texas if it was on fire. JFC. Horrible
Same here. Florida is also on my shit list.
Oh hell yes. I have an 88 year old Aunt still living in Texas and a cousin..I cant talk about it with them. I suspect they are MAGA but I dont even want to know. *shudder And Florida? YUK. No thanks. The STD capital of the world is evidently The Villages. I visited friends there and what a Stepford Wives experience THAT was. 🤦♀️ WHATS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!??
The Villages is a cult compound. Florida is well on it's way to the Third World.
Sadly true, deathSantis our fascist gov is calling all magats to move here. The place is going downhill, yet getting more expensive. Evidently a bunch of them moved here during the pandemic, and have continued to do so . Ugh, like our asshole quotient wasn’t high enough before!
You have my sympathies. I live in Ohio, which is a gerrymandered state. We also have a high asshole quotient.
Susan & Charlie: Same here. I will not spend a cent in TX or FL so I avoid traveling anywhere near.
I used to do golf trips to Florida in the winter. No more unless something changes down there.
Me too! I’d never step foot in Florida or Texas. I have no words for the disgust I feel.
Governors can't be allowed to flaunt the authority of the Federal Government. That's what the fucking Civil War supposedly settled!
It seems like they don’t accept the fact that they lost that little spat ,just as they don’t accept Asshole face lost the election!
Exactly!!👍👍
Don’t remind me: I live here
Me too 🤯🤦🏼♀️🤯🤦🏼♀️
Sorry about that.😟
Ditto.
I live here too. I don’t like it at all, but my family and friends are here so I do what I can to work on Democratic causes and vote blue in every election. I live in a blue city (mostly) and avoid the sea of red that surrounds us.
I would. I have friends who are stuck living in that state and are Democrats.
I literally just texted this to my Mom when I sent her this article. And added “and no one be allowed to help him out.”
What a truly evil, sadistic and sick fuck he is. And I’m a born here, lifelong Texan. I also live in Ted Cruz’s district.
What a lucky gal I am! Fuck me!! 🤢
Every election I think, this time we’re gonna do it; Cruz is gone…and every time, these assholes vote him back in. And for what? They can’t name one thing he’s done to make their lives better. Same with Abbott and Paxton. Whose names I can’t say without retching.
Hugs and my sympathies I live in Florida who breaks my heart every election since Obama’s.
I’m sorry. Florida used to be a pretty nice place to be until Desantis and Gaetz and Rubio to name a few. It’s like these creeps are just oozing out of the woodwork.
Yes, deathSantis gerrymandered us so badly, he removed two majority black voting districts, and merged them with rural rednecksville.
Sometimes the issue is voter suppression, making it more difficult for people to vote. Reducing ballot drop boxes, making it more difficult to register in the first place. In AZ you can now only drop off or mail ballots for people living in your household (perhaps also a relative). This negatively impacts many rural communities such as Native Americans. Also, although the federal government does not require an approved ID (does not include a student ID) and last four digits of social security number to register to vote, the state legislature passed a law, approved by GOP governor, that residents need to provide this info to vote for state-wide and local offices.
Man, the Republicans will cheat every way they can. I have no answers 🙄
A man in The Villages voted 9 times for the ORANGE OGRE
That jerk should be in jail. 🙄
And got a slap on the wrist.
Such a sad story-not even a “story” the sad truth…I feel sorry for the people of Eagle Pass…and clearly for the poor migrants.😢
It's great that we have a rich bored white man with a death trap factory and there's no legal way of stopping this. While he continues running Texas into the ground while burning potential tourism income on gorn.
I can't figure out why foreign allies don't trust us.
And would trust us even less if felonious fuckface were to be reelected. Not only would more of our freedoms be erased but the negatively would be felt globally. The thought of Trump and Netanyahu collaborating on a solution for Gaza and then with Putin and Ukraine spells an epic shitstorm that might not ever be reversed.
You have to wonder whether Abbott is so pissed off at the world because of the terrible accident that befell him and he is seeking some personal vendetta against those who wish to find a better life in America. He is a small-minded man who might be around for many more years given there are no gubernatorial term limits in Texas.
I believe that! He’s trying to make others as miserable as possible because of his own disabilities! His sadistic behavior is a direct consequence of his own losses!
Mad at the world, because of sexual frustration.
That's way, way too many people.
Most republicans I would bet, they all reek of sexual frustration.
It’s all about deflection— did Abbott or Cancun Cruz ever fix Texas’s failed power grid? No, these two losers just continue to jump on tfg’s trainwreck political bandwagon! Continue to work to vote these two clowns out of office.
Have you ever watched the movie Annabelle? When the girl that had polio was outside in her wheelchair and something pushed her into the barn and dumped her onto the floor? Greg Abbott likes to go to the Rio Grande. Maybe he needs a closer look. 🤷♀️
Oh, and do you know how he got his start at being rich? He sued the people who put him in the wheelchair.
Then when he became governor, he capped the amount with which juries can award victims monetarily for malpractice, etc.
I read an article on it in one of the Texas magazines a long time ago. A lady who was misdiagnosed with cancer, went thru chemo, radiation etc, then was told she never had cancer to begin with.
But her body was so messed up from the chemo and radiation and drugs, that she now had to take meds for all kinds of issues. She was very sick.
She sued and the jury awarded her enough to pay her medical bills, pay for her current meds and treatment and live comfortably. But thanks to Abbott, she the award was reduced down to where she didn’t have enough to pay off the medical bills for the cancer she never even had. She was righteously upset.
I wish I had saved that article so I could quote it by name, for proof. If anyone else has read it and remembers, please let me know so I can credit them.
I may misremembering some of the details about her diagnosis or whatnot, but I do remember the basics of her being misdiagnosed with cancer and the treatment making her sick etc.
This is an article about how he won his money and how he worked to cap it for everyone else. He claimed anyone would have the same rights as he did to sue if they got hurt, but they’d never receive what he did, which was $5.8 million at the time of this article in 2013, with payment to continue until he dies.
No one else would ever be able to recoup costs like that no matter what was done to them. At least as I remember from the article I read before. This isn’t it. Wish I could find it.
https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/04/candidate-faces-questions-turnabout-and-fair-play/
Why does it take so damn long for us to realize that there are monsters among us? Are we all so self consumed and or distracted by the traveling circus across the globe that we are blind to the devastation that may soon smack us all in our little worlds?
The monsters have morphed into raging giants, giddy with power and weapons. Armed with minions that will scurry to help make nightmares come true.
Perhaps stripping the corporate goblins in this nation of their unlimited power and wealth would be a start? Feeling so fucking tired of the nonsense.
I'm with you Deb. I guess you have to look at Jim Jones and other cults to understand the people they brainwash.
The monsters have had too much of a free ride. There may be a way to hurt them. Finally. I just watched "Scoop" on Netflix about the Prince Andrew scandal born of his friendship with pimp and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
Yesterday, Trump raised 50M thanks to Palm Beach, Florida billionaire John Paulson hosting an event there.
A thought: The press needs to take advantage of the timing and triangulate 1) the ick-factor revealed in the Netflix's "Scoop" dramatization about the Epstein's vile crimes and cover-up 2) the upcoming NY criminal trial of Trump's porn star sex cover up to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and 3) Trump's on Ghislaine Maxwell's list of Epstein's clients. Given #3, journalists need to "Scoop" deeper on Trump's possible sex with underage girls. One came forward then retreated for fear for her life.
https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/
In summary, tell the John Paulson party goers that supporting Trump is no different than supporting Epstein. And like Prince Andrew, that proximity is enough to destroy their reputations. Questions like, "How could you continue supporting Trump if you knew he was on Epstein's list and there were innocent girls coming forward implicating Trump?"
You can shrug off a lot, but pedophile rapist is a great way to make the big donors run for the hills. Hopefully, the media has it in them to find that story, link the other stories in the news and finally find the shame, the rock bottom - that thing that makes the devil himself too toxic to touch.
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-wealthy-donors-will-gladly?r=6rz8u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-introduced-trump-14-ghislaine-maxwell-accuser-says-rcna7253
LACK OF IMAGINATION
When there are this many people in Texas that would vote for this malign cretin, I'd say Texas is gone for at least a decade or more. Fuck em.
it's hard to believe that 30 years ago Ann Richards was governor and Texas was reliably Democratic
And the wonderful Molly Ivins was entertaining us all.
We were just talking about her yesterday (up here in MN).
Last good governor of TX
But then there was DUBYA.
" He was born with a silver foot in his mouth. "
Gov. A.R.
Indeed…
And LBJ was a Texan.
So fuckin unbelievable
Enough of this shit! Federalize the National Guard at the border and order them to stand down. The President has the authority to do this. Send the 82nd Airborne down there if necessary. Federal law supersedes fucking state law. Fuck you, Abbott!!😡😡😡
PLEASE Please please
Maybe, and I hope, people will swarm into Eagle Pass to support the town and donate to its businesses and to the organizers of the festival to recoup the costs associated with the event. And enjoy the eclipse. The real eclipse is the eclipse of humanity at the hands of psychopath cowardly governor.
The guy who’s trapping and killing pregnant women who are desperate to give their children a safer and better life is the same one who’s stripping American women of their reproductive rights because a clump of cells is a full human, This is so on-brand for the GOP. And as far as the festival is concerned, TX voters need to realize these Republican ghouls are the reason they can’t have nice things, and stop voting for them.
Not gonna happen. This is the ‘don’t mess with Texas’ and ‘let’s secede from the union’ state.
Then maybe next time we should just let them secede.
THIS! Kick out Texas and adopt DC as a state so there's no need to change the flags.
AND Puerto Rico !
Perfect!
When I was young we had 48 states and 48 stars. Then 49. Then 50. It’s not hard at all to change the flag.
Rmember: Cruelty is the point.
WTF is going on?
How is Greg Abbott not being charged with violating U.S. Code Section 3056(d) of Title 18?
Didn’t SCOTUS already (justly) rule in favor of the Federal Government?
How is Abbott not being charged with murder?
How is Abbott not being charged with Crimes Against Humanity?
Shouldn’t the DOJ be on top of this and making certain the Federal Laws are enforced on this “governor?”
Enough is enough DOJ!!! Get on the ball AG Merrick Garland! Learn from your mistakes!!!! Look at the justice our country’s being deprived of because of your delay in appointing Special Counsel to investigate Trump!!!
Don’t make the same error twice to avoid potential accusations by Republicans that the government has been weaponized!!!
Among his many heinous crimes, Abbott also continues to get away human trafficking. Like Trump, this barbaric bastard has no empathy and won't stop at anything to get his way.
Whenever Greg Abbott is up for reelection I sure hope the good people in Texas get their head out of their ass and deny him another term — if he’s eligible that is…
Unfortunately, Texas doesn't have gubernatorial term limits. These Texan nitwits had Rick Perry (definitely one of the dumbest men in the planet) as governor for 14 years until he decided to retire.
And they also had dummy W as their Governor
Who could forget? There’s an unbroken line back to him since Abbott was Perry’s AG and Good Hair Perry was Bush’s Lt. Gov. Several decades of fuckery courtesy of the 2nd worst POTUS
Thank you. I was wondering.
OOPS !
I would have loved to attend that music festival except I refuse to spend money in any red state, especially TX! What a sh’thole state!
Same. I have a friend who wishes I’d move [back] to Texas and family who wishes I’d move to South Carolina, and I keep saying no fucking way, I’m not setting foot in any red state.
Same…I need to stay as far away from these hellholes as possible.