Question: Why stay in this country? 12% of our way through Trump2 and the damage is serious, permanent, and accelerating. My grandparents stayed too long in Poland and were killed by the (original) Nazis. My father survived and came to this country, and now I feel that I need to escape. I am 68, and would like to live the rest of my life where I now reside, but I am increasingly active working on an alternative.
I applaud your initiative. I am in the process of doing as you describe. It's very demanding, but being an exile beats being a refugee or internee -- as your family knows. Wishing you and others Godspeed.
It's a personal decision that you need to make yourself and with your family's history, I can certainly understand it.
Unfortunately, the rise on the right seems to be a global phenomena as we're entering an era of resource scarcity and upheaval.
Things like having LGBTQ+ loved ones and wanting a place for them to be safe in makes an already fraught decision more difficult, when trying to judge politics in places that you might not be as plugged into.
Lying on loan applications? Didn't trump have to pay a half billion dollars for practicing that racket? Wasn't that one of the majors at Trump University?
TX redistricting plans -- only 1 part of multi-pronged attack. Tunnel vision is tempting but usually pernicious. Ds were approx. 100% unprepared for B v G in 2000. Rs' corporate jets were warming up on runways as D attorneys scrambled for seats on commercial flights. 2000 scotus also prepared to exercise its discretionary power to overturn FL Sup Ct. [Shadow docket sure is handy....]. Are Ds thinking about known firms such as Palantir [ aka parasites on middle class taxpayers ] and the capacity for electoral data collection aka data manipulation-?? We should acknowledge multiple blinking red lights.
That's huge news about Schiff who was the House manager of the first impeachment of Trump and has been a target for Republican vilification from way back. Not coincidentally Schiff is in the ranks of democrats who show up in the 2028 democrat presidential primaries. Trump has done this kind of thing before when he target Biden in 2024. I suppose Trump will target Jamie Raskin next if he can find even a scintilla of dirt on him.
Anyone surprised either that Trump’s a vindictive scumbag or sooo wanted a DOJ fully compliant to his wants, please. It’s obvious to anyone who’d been paying attention.
As for that Jeffries/Martin thing: If anyone needs yet more proof that the DCCC and Jeffries have no meaningful interest in getting a House majority, the shit David’s reporting.
"...learning from the 'blacks'..."...yup, those darkies can teach us real good. And one just knows Guttfield was straining to avoid saying — you know — THE "word", in his efforts to destigmatize it.
Question: It's clear we're in a dark period of US history and things are fraught. What do you do to help with the free floating anxiety of the news? Or perhaps another way what bits of light do you see at the moment?
As to the assault on the universities. I spent a lot of my working life in academia and am dismayed at Trump's attacks. Public universities are highly dependent on tuition and fees to stay solvent. This in turn makes them vulnerable to both state and federal political interference. This usually shows up in budgeting for departments and schools. Another Achilles heel is that the big research universities are dependent on out-of-state students paying higher tuitions and especially postbacc level international student enrollments in a given universities graduate colleges and schools. Usually the state legislatures don't mess with our enrollments, but this recent ideological approach is something we haven't seen in decades from the federal government. It's embarrassing to see private institutions like Columbia and Harvard with their massive private endowments, getting on their knees. The big public research universities in the blue states are going to be harder nuts for Trump to crack.
Question: Why stay in this country? 12% of our way through Trump2 and the damage is serious, permanent, and accelerating. My grandparents stayed too long in Poland and were killed by the (original) Nazis. My father survived and came to this country, and now I feel that I need to escape. I am 68, and would like to live the rest of my life where I now reside, but I am increasingly active working on an alternative.
Stay and fight. Please. Pretty soon there might be no place left to run to. I'm 76 and feel almost exactly as you do.
I applaud your initiative. I am in the process of doing as you describe. It's very demanding, but being an exile beats being a refugee or internee -- as your family knows. Wishing you and others Godspeed.
It's a personal decision that you need to make yourself and with your family's history, I can certainly understand it.
Unfortunately, the rise on the right seems to be a global phenomena as we're entering an era of resource scarcity and upheaval.
Things like having LGBTQ+ loved ones and wanting a place for them to be safe in makes an already fraught decision more difficult, when trying to judge politics in places that you might not be as plugged into.
I wish I could leave. But there are many of us who have health and money issues that make such a choice impossible. I wish you well.
Lying on loan applications? Didn't trump have to pay a half billion dollars for practicing that racket? Wasn't that one of the majors at Trump University?
Thank you for your efforts!
TX redistricting plans -- only 1 part of multi-pronged attack. Tunnel vision is tempting but usually pernicious. Ds were approx. 100% unprepared for B v G in 2000. Rs' corporate jets were warming up on runways as D attorneys scrambled for seats on commercial flights. 2000 scotus also prepared to exercise its discretionary power to overturn FL Sup Ct. [Shadow docket sure is handy....]. Are Ds thinking about known firms such as Palantir [ aka parasites on middle class taxpayers ] and the capacity for electoral data collection aka data manipulation-?? We should acknowledge multiple blinking red lights.
That's huge news about Schiff who was the House manager of the first impeachment of Trump and has been a target for Republican vilification from way back. Not coincidentally Schiff is in the ranks of democrats who show up in the 2028 democrat presidential primaries. Trump has done this kind of thing before when he target Biden in 2024. I suppose Trump will target Jamie Raskin next if he can find even a scintilla of dirt on him.
They don't even look for dirt. They use lies 24/7/365.
Fortunately for all of us those lies quickly evaporate once they get to s court.
First the query: Anyone have a IRL for the Deacon/Litman paper?
Got it!
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A few quick points:
Anyone surprised either that Trump’s a vindictive scumbag or sooo wanted a DOJ fully compliant to his wants, please. It’s obvious to anyone who’d been paying attention.
As for that Jeffries/Martin thing: If anyone needs yet more proof that the DCCC and Jeffries have no meaningful interest in getting a House majority, the shit David’s reporting.
Gutfeld is German for "A head with a sphincter for a mouth"
"...learning from the 'blacks'..."...yup, those darkies can teach us real good. And one just knows Guttfield was straining to avoid saying — you know — THE "word", in his efforts to destigmatize it.
Question: It's clear we're in a dark period of US history and things are fraught. What do you do to help with the free floating anxiety of the news? Or perhaps another way what bits of light do you see at the moment?
Question: is Ghislaine Maxwell prohibited from press interviews? Has anyone combed her trial transcript for details relevant to current threads?
Schiff needs to be removed from congress and imprisoned
“Trump’s not targeting just any Democrats. He’s targeting precisely who he has promised to target: Democrats who came after him.”
I went to Gutfeld's Facebook page to congratulate him for finally coming out as a Nazi.
I think everyone who has a Facebook account should. It's rare to see such honesty from a Nazi, especially when one comes out of the closet.
Who is the Trump point person pushing the anti-transgender agenda? It seems like someone is focused on this.
Why isn't MM more pro active in supporting the
Protests scheduled, by
leads up to the events?
Make Good Trouble - July 17 - 1,200 protests scheduled across the country! There, fixed it for you David.
As to the assault on the universities. I spent a lot of my working life in academia and am dismayed at Trump's attacks. Public universities are highly dependent on tuition and fees to stay solvent. This in turn makes them vulnerable to both state and federal political interference. This usually shows up in budgeting for departments and schools. Another Achilles heel is that the big research universities are dependent on out-of-state students paying higher tuitions and especially postbacc level international student enrollments in a given universities graduate colleges and schools. Usually the state legislatures don't mess with our enrollments, but this recent ideological approach is something we haven't seen in decades from the federal government. It's embarrassing to see private institutions like Columbia and Harvard with their massive private endowments, getting on their knees. The big public research universities in the blue states are going to be harder nuts for Trump to crack.