Open Threads 5.25-28
Hola everyone. Hubster got a text earlier this am from an old friend whose son works in finance in NYC. A deal has been struck re: default. That’s all I know. What I will say is brace yourselves as I have. Expect the worse but I feel that SS and Medicare will be frozen at their current payment levels. That’s as far as I will go. Hope everyone is getting set for the Holiday Weekend. 🗽 No, I do not feel patriotic, but I’ve been that way for years. Stay safe, healthy, and sane. Our Nest is Open for action. ☮️☮️🗽🗽👍
jcb:I have a feeling SS, Medicare, Tricare will be frozen in terms of COLAS. The War shit will be increased. The tax decrease? As dumb as Byedone is, even the financial crooks know when they have bribed/ pushed to the max. That will be minimum. McCarthy is up sh1t’s creek without a paddle. 💩💩💩🙂🙂 Let’s see who votes to replace him. 😂😂😂😂😂
If Social Security and Medicare are messed with in any way, both sides are going to pay. There will be a turn out election, as in Throw The Bums Out.
It helps Trump or any serious GOP candidates.
I don’t think so. Not when the GOP are driving this. It will produce general disgust with the status quo. I suppose in that way it will help the GOP in the presidential race but will it help seven million votes worth? Probably not, once the GOP candidate starts acting out on the campaign trail. 2016 was an odd year, and much of the country was in shock over Trump, in general. I don’t think anyone really believed he was going to be elected, not even Trump. But this time we do know, we’ve all lived the possibilities. If Biden agrees to anything that messes with Social Security or Medicare, he needs to step out of the race. He won’t stand a snowball’s chance at reelection.
IMO, GOP is better than messaging than the Dems.
The Repukes need to rein in the QAnon fruits. I’m waiting on DeSh#tface to self-destruct.
Now that’s inevitable.
They certainly have the media sewn up. But more and more people know they’re being lied to, every year. Along with an increased general awareness Gen Z seems to actually be voting. I don’t pretend to understand Gen Z (older guy here) but I do know they don’t vote for Republicans. Part of what the GOP does with their media is set this scene and mood of fatality, as if fascism is inevitable. It’s not. They just don’t have the numbers even if it seems like they do, another trick of the media. Biden beat Trump by seven million votes, in a year when Trump got more votes than any previous Republican. No, I don’t think anything is fated. But I don’t think we can let our guard down, either, and we have to work to field solid, progressive candidates. That’s the struggle, always.
‘It’s not their money’: Older Americans worried debt default means no Social Security
Since 2001, the United States has spent more money than revenue it has taken in overall.
(i wonder how much of that caused by those forever billionaire tax breaks?)
“I’m pretty confident that payments would be fulfilled,” Richtman said. “That’s not much comfort to those people who will not be able to pay for their groceries, their utilities or their rent while they’re waiting to receive a back payment.”
Lynda Fisher, 80, told ABC News that her budget relies on her monthly Social Security check and that a delay would complicate her essential spending, frustrating the 80-year-old who has spent her life contributing to the system “I paid into Social Security, and I paid into Medicare,” she said. “And now they’re trying to take it away. It’s not their money, it’s my money that I paid into.”
And a lot of GQP seniors have pulled the R lever for thier life time and only now begin to understand that the GQP donest care about them -just thier vote. The sad thing they’ll still pull the lever for the R on the ballot.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/older-americans-worried-debt-default-means-social-security/story?id=99506742
No Sh!t, fellow futurist! They have cut off their nose literally, and more if they have kids, etc. Do you have a direct link to the jwst?
Drawing a blank on the jwst?
James Webb ST. They’ve got some really cool new pics posted. 🙂
thanks ORL going to check it out
Since when is the MSM caring about us?
Snort!
Just another name for a really vile biped piece of excrement.
Were those tables filled with war criminals? Because that’s the only suitable celebration of Kissinger’s 100th.
Oh, it’s Yale, of course they were.
Another pretty good poll for Katie. It is similar to the Lee internal.
Wow, and Katie knows how to garner the support of conservatives, too. She had to learn it to win her House district in Orange County.
Bernie op ed on Fox News.
One of the Fair and Balance pieces one sees on the Snooz.
Hubster keeps an eye on POX Prop(aganda), and sent me the link.
Yes a “reasonable” deal might be coming.
Evil, malignant creeps like him always live to be a million. Some sort of warped natural law. 🙁
So these two are going to be the holdups along with two other DINOs. And let me get this right: Dems can’t live without their votes whether they be in the minority or majority, right?
Balderdash.
What an insult to young folk in general.
Tone deaf.
Hope they remember come the next election for those two.
Factions of American youth joining Blue Dog Dems. I suppose we had to expect that. American ignorance is certainly not limited to them!
What is she, another closet Repuke aka DINO?
Apparently
When you lose Superman. A while back DC changed their Mantra; Truth Justic and the American way to Truth Justic and A Better Tommorrow. Since we went thru the reign of terror of Cult-45, Snot Walker and Defascist to name a few i grown rather distant from those 3 words. Truth, politicians have overtly lied with video evidence and on the witness stand and get off scott free Hell some dont even get charged. Justice = $$$$$ in todays America to get out of trouble and the American Way the one i used to believe in died a long time ago. I doubt i’ll live long enough to see that original phrase mean what it once meant. However the Mrs is still patrotic and has her flower garden in that theme of flowers. To me patroitism doesn’t mean all that much right now.
I stopped feeling/being patriotic right around the time of Trick the Dick. I always thought all the hot air and bloviating about American “Exceptionalism” was a load of you-know-what.
One of many reasons i escape to the Trek Universe every now and then- where on that earth mankind out grew the petty things that are destroying this earth.
I’m reading a book on the late cosmologist Stephen Hawking right now. Guess what? He was a fellow Trekkie. 🙂
Hawking also feared contact with any alien species, as he felt that it was inevitable that we would be meeting our conquerors. I prefer Roddenberry’s vision to that, thanks, but I could be just sticking my head in the sand. Hawking was brilliant.
That’s the great unknown, We could get ” The Day the Earth stood Still” Or the Abyss where those Alien’s said time to put away childish things -of course it was a suggestion 🙂 or “To Serve Man”
Star Trek or Dune? Dune gives a more skeptical picture of empire. It’s odd, but the town I live in–solid pro-Trump red–also has a big Trek contingent. They tend to long for the halcyon 1950’s.
Don’t forget, Hawking was still human like all of us. 🙂 EyeRound, that’s interesting about your area being red and Trekkie. Almost like some sort of weird kozmik opposite mix. 🙄 Roddenberry started the show in the 1960s. 💫
Until you bring up 1950s tax rates. And point out that the Interstate Highway System was built with those taxes. I think what they’re mostly nostalgic for is Jim Crow. I live in one of those places, too. Only without the Trekkies.
Ken Paxton updates: Texas House impeachment vote will be an intra-GOP showdown
I’ve just finished reading the commentariat on the 2 NYT articles on this piece of Texas excrement. You should have read the comments from the Texans. I know Floridumb is bad, but Texas makes us look like pikers when it comes to cheating and robbing people of their right to vote. Yes, it is that bad. This ************ country better get its act together!!
They did it:
I can’t believe it.
Molly Ivins is smiling from the skies.
A lot of the commentariat was wishing Ivins was still with us.
Wait,What??? An R got impeached? Is he really going to leave office? If so hell must be freezing over…
🙂 ! 🙂 ! Hey LD/JD: A Texas miracle just happened!!
Savage couldn’t resist the snark, and neither can I.
As Mouse V Defascist rolls on lets say it ends up at USSCi wonder what they’ll do. Remember they ruled that Corporations are people so rule in favor of Disney Defascist loses as Disney has the rights of free speach. if they rule in favor of Defascist does than mean corporations are no longer people going against thier own ruling? Odds are they wont take the case that will back them into a corner.
Good point. Still, the sooner DeStupid self-destructs nationally, the better.
Floriadum as Orl was the subject of a couple toons
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