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Joe Nation's JournalI beseech you to check your 401K today
Thank you Joe Biden. I hope somebody in this administration is pointing out this fact to the voters.
Let's face it, military aid to Ukraine isn't pallets of cash.
Often times when our leadership talk about 10, 15, or 50 billion dollars in aid to some country like Ukraine, we are not sending them a giant check or a pallet of cash to spend. What we are sending is military (and some humanitarian aid) in equipment that we assign a numerical value to, and it isn't the newest or the latest equipment we have in our arsenals. For example, the ATACMS we recently supplied are 90's technology and certainly not the latest most expensive highest tech military equipment we have. We are not building much in the way of arms and sending it abroad. We have warehouses full of this stuff. So don't be fooled by those that say that we shouldn't be sending all this money to Ukraine or Israel when we need the money here at home. It was money spent a long time ago for weapons that were never used.
Rigged elections my ass!!!
I am so sick and tired of tRump and his crooked allies screaming about rigged elections when they lose. tRump even went so far as to say that if he lost the 2020 election, it was because it was rigged. Many of his accolights then repeated the same nonsense after they lost their elections. None of them ever came up with even a scrap of evidence to prove their claims but the damage, oh the damage to the election process was the point after all.
In a developing country, observers are sent in to monitor the integrity of the election process. Something unimaginable in a country like ours. It should never be necessary in a Constitutional Democracy like the US but the times they are a changing thanks to MAGAt diehards bent on tearing this country down and replacing it with Trumpistan.
I think that we should call their bluff. They either agree to international election observers, which they would absolutely hate, or shut the hell up. They can't have it both ways because what they really mean is that everytime they lose, only they are the arbiters of fair and free elections. I'd love to watch them talk their way around that situation.
We know the elections don't need international observers but it would go along way towards restoring faith in our election process to expose these phonies for who they are. SORE LOSERS WITH NO IDEA OR INTEREST IN HOW TO GOVERN.
The new loyalty test for GOP field
"Will you support a convicted traitor, a convicted insurrectionist, a convicted sexual preditor, a convicted election fraud conspirator, if he wins the GOP nomination?"
"Well, ya! Sure!"
How far has this party fallen to reach this level of collaboration with a man that has only two faces? Grumpy grandpa and painted on orange plastic smile.
The ONLY way we'll get better politicians is to send the crooked ones to jail
I think the pardoning of Richard Nixon served only to embolden people like Trump to do whatever they pleased. They realized that any president would receive a pardon for "the good of the country". In reality, it had the opposite effect for our country and swung the door wide open for crooks and grifters to break the law as they pleased.
The wealthy, the powerful, the well connected have always had a different judicial system than the rest of us. The plea deals, the partisan pardons, the slight slaps on the wrist, have created a sense that crime is worth the costs and the risks.
Well, if Trump isn't treated like the criminal he is in a court of law after all is said and done, or if the Supreme Court somehow rescues his sorry ass, I for one am going to be extremely pissed. I just don't see him doing time no matter what comes out of these trials. Somehow, some way, he will skate right back onto his golden toilets until his flabby ass dies of a well deserved heart attack.
Rural vs Urban: The dirty little secret you were never told
After listening to yet another news piece on the views of rural vs urban voters, I am convinced more than ever that the rural vs urban "divide" in this country is just nonsense. Oh, not that it doesn't exist. It's just that it is manufactured, not an inevitable dichotomy that would arise in any political environment.
I'm in my middle 60's and have lived on farms (born on one), lived in the suburbs, lived in LA, and lived in small towns surrounded by cornfields at various points in my life. I've shared neighborhoods with people from almost any walk of life. However, there is one dynamic I keep hearing about and it sort of makes me angry.
Anytime you hear someone interviewed about their rural life, they will almost without fail say that the people in the "city" look down on the folks that live rurally. I hear this opinion constantly. I heard some young people joking to the interviewer on NPR that they all have all of their teeth as if everyone in urban America thinks they don't. This opinion is common in my experience in rural areas.
Here's the dirty little secret. People in the "city" don't think about people that live rurally and they never have. If you asked someone in an urban setting about what they think about the people that live in rural areas, they'd probably struggle to come up with an opinion at all. But don't tell that to the small-town crowd. They are convinced that everyone from the big old city looks down on them. They aren't looking at all.
Can anyone else relate to this observation or is it just me.
Two 8-year old girls talking
My wife and I are both retired and my wife volunteers as a teachers aide in my daughter-in-laws 3rd grade classroom when she is in town. The other day, my wife overheard two 8-year old girls talking about a cousin one of them has. She said, "My cousin is a girl but wants to be a boy." The other girl thought about her classmates situation for a moment and then said. "I can support that."
If only adults in a certain political party had the caring and compassion of an 8-year old, what world it would be.
Trump admits his guilt everytime he cites Clinton, Biden, (fill in the blank)
He isn't saying that he is innocent, well he is saying that he is innocent, but he is saying that he is innocent because others have gotten away with what he did.
When has that ever been a viable defense in any court of law?
***Trump whines****
"I'M BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY"
The former Philanderer-in-Thief isn't what baffles me.
Let's face it, Trump is who he is and is who he has always been. I'll credit him with not even pretending to be someone he is not. He has been the same piece of crap he has always been and will most certainly go to his grave being the same piece of crap he was raised to be. A narcissistic sociopath convinced of his own victimhood anytime he is caught red-handed on tape with photos and a signed affidavit confessing his crimes. He is so obviously corrupt and observably stupid and yet somehow completely shameless like most sociopaths. You and I get this, however...
There is a sizable portion of this country, I'll say about 30 percent-ish, that can't seem to see anything wrong with this openly criminal buffoon and support him as if he is the second coming. I get Donald Trump. People like Trump can be found at the edges of decency and integrity but never in the mix of either moral congregate because he wouldn't know how to display decency or act with integrity.
All I can wonder is how so many are so broken and oblivious to all of his failings and basic evil tendencies that they see only a leader when they look at him? I know how cults work. I've just never seen one on this scale before. His base is Evangelicals, red-necks, white nationalists, ex-military fanatics, law enforcement racists, and every other type of bottom feeder this country has produced.
What do these people hope to achieve from their support of this lying sack of crap? What could they possibly think this maniac will do for them? Again, I understand the sick puppy that is Trump but where have his supporters brains gone?
I witnessed a murder this weekend while visiting a friend in Minneapolis
It turned to be about a dozen crows fighting over the contents of a discarded fast food bag in a parking lot.
In retrospect, I may have merely witnessed an unkindness.
After all, it is hard for most of to tell the difference between crows and ravens.
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