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Politics, Religion, and Human Rights. United States News of varying themes and topics.
"No wonder egg prices are high, all the chickens are in congress."
Popular current internet chatter. February, 2025.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on
a human face, forever. The moral to be drawn from this dangerous
nightmare situation is a simple one: don’t let it happen.
It depends on you.” Orwell
"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." Einstein
"The price tag on the things I need getting bigger everyday
I got a bullet with a name on it". Nonpoint, Bullet with a name, 2006
In the United States, people waste 92 billion pounds of food annually,
equal to 145 billion meals. They throw away over $473 billion worth of
food annually. Shockingly, the country waste 38% of all the food in America
at approximately 150,000 tons a day!
Americans collectively owe a record $1.21 trillion on their credit cards,
according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with balances increasing
by $45 billion in the fourth quarter.
There's some waste for ya Elon.
Musk- richest in world
trump- Approx 7 billion
Vance- 4 to 5 million
Johnson- 6 million
Sanders- 43 yrs in service worth approx. 2 million.
4 Incompetents vs. 1 Competent.
4 Elitist greed mongers vs. 1 standing against Inequaility.
Bernie Sanders is an American hero. A gift to this country
who emulates strength and perseverance better than most ever could.
Does Policy outweigh the constitution?
No, the Constitution takes precedence over policy, or state laws,
when there is a conflict.
This is because the Constitution is the "supreme Law of the Land",
as established by the Supremacy Clause.
The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article VI, Clause 2).
-In reference to Representative Al Green being thrown out of trump rant. 3-4-2024-
Anytime cuts in funding come up count on those cuts being to education, medicaid, social security,
and various other programs that help the American people. The right to the *pursuit of peace and
happiness* is constantly thwarted in things that directly affect the poor, disadvantaged, and seniors
in America so the elite can remain bankrolled. They don't care about us, they never have.
*It was just a statement not an allusion to the DOI.*
68.6 million Americans are in school.
69 million Americans are on Social Security.
12.2 million Americans are on Medicaid and Medicare.
That is my point. Cuts to these programs hurt alot of people.
This is a current talking point of Magats online:
"Women do not get into combat situations that's a lie!"
In answer:
Lori Ann Piestewa
Jessica Lynch
Shoshana Johnson
Tammy Duckworth
Martha McSally
Virginia Brodie
Katherine Boy
Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester
Captain Linda Bray
and many other women not listed Disagree.
Krasnov's (trump's code name as a Russian Operative) deal was not executable.
Afghanistan Withdrawal Facts:
- Trump not Biden Negotiated directly with the Taliban terrorists and excluded the Afghan army.
- Trump not Biden Drew down US forces from 13,000 to 2,500 making then vulnerable to attack.
- Trump not Biden Ordered the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison,
one of whom would become the new leader of Afghanistan.
- Trump not Biden Wanted to invite the Taliban leaders to Camp David on the anniversary
of September 11th.
- Trump not Biden Agreed to a May 1st exit from Afghanistan, then bragged that
he didn’t need an exit strategy.
- Trump not Biden Refused to brief Biden’s incoming team on the situation in Afghanistan.
- Trump not Biden Shut down every airbase in Afghanistan except one,
crippling the US’s ability to extract its assets safely.
One of my biggest fears has always been biological. Now the measles are in a number
of states and a absolutely incompetent RFKjr. is spending millions to launch a major
study concerning vaccines and a supposed connection to autism.
In 2020 I felt they were promoting American deaths and I still do.
Recognition is all anybody wants
I never get it and when I do I'm disappointed
Always an attack never support
A boyhood issue I never outgrew
I'll never forgive you
Any of you.
Trump took office with the best economy in decades, and wiped out four years
of market gains and economic growth, in six weeks.
trump is a purveyor of chaos.
His goal in America is to divide the nation.
He's effectively done that.
Now his goal is to divide the world.
He is effectively doing that. Emergency meetings between world
leaders are becoming a daily occurrence.
The markets can't figure out if they are coming or going.
Everything beneficial for the American people is being eliminated.
A moron is heading up a health department that is virtually
ignoring a growing highly contagious disease while dropping millions into
an unnecessary study concerning vaccines and autism.
This whole thing is dystopian in nature with nihilistic attitudes of
"if we cannot have our way we'll burn it all down".
Scary times we live in.
Pestilence is a deadly epidemic or disease that affects a community.
That's the republican party.
Rip, March, 2025
"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."
Fredrick Douglas
Any adherence to their commands means a protester should drop their sign and go home.
Your protest has failed.
We have an absolute right to protest!
Two points within the exceptions clause are:
1. Protests that incite violence or are imminent threats are not protected.
2. Police and other government officials must respect protesters' rights and
cannot use force to suppress peaceful protest.
Both of these exceptions are violated by the police and politicians.
I have seen, and attended, a few protest that saw police intimidating and inciting
people toward violence.
Calling for people to be thrown out and even arrested at politically biased
"rally's". We need the constitution to stand firm in entirety instead of just for the 2nd.
Not one National news station covered the veterans march that happened March 14th with
tens of thousands of participants surrounding Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in DC.
Yes, we do need to reflect on the reality that complicit voters decided trump would be
good for this country. Everything moving forward is on them!
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians
sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women,
in many cases without the free and informed consent of their patients.
In some cases, women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure
was reversible. In other cases, sterilization was performed without the adequate
understanding and consent of the patient, including cases in which the procedure
was performed on minors as young as 11 years old.
Biden's economy saw economic growth which surpassed expectations adding
stronger productivity growth returned despite a global slowdown.
Inflation was tamed without a recession and workers benefited from
the strongest labor market in generations.
Households, especially those limited by prior barriers, saw
substantial wealth gains while the stock market saw repeated record breaking
closings through the end of Biden's term.
Trump took office with the best economy in decades, and wiped out
four years of market gains and economic growth, in six weeks.
Biden administration notifies Congress of planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel. Jan 4,2025
This morning, U.S. forces conducted three successful self-defense strikes
against Houthi targets in Yemen.
This is the fourth preemptive action that the U.S. military has taken in the past
week against Houthi missile launchers that were ready to launch attacks, in this case,
anti-ship missiles," spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the daily press briefing.
December, 2023.
The US Air Force said in a statement that it had
“executed deliberate strikes on over 60 targets at 16 Iranian-backed Houthi militant
locations, including command and control nodes, munitions depots, launching systems,
production facilities, and air defense radar systems”.
Biden administration notifies Congress of planned $8 billion weapons sale to Israel.
Jan 4, 2024.
Civics should return to the classroom.
In the U.S. government, "checks and balances" refers to the system where
each branch (legislative, executive, and judicial) has the power to limit the
actions of the other two, preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful.
I just found out that apparently a lemon isn't naturally occurring and is a hybrid by
cross breeding a bitter orange and citron.
Which means life never gave us lemons We invented it all by ourselves!!
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Nietzsche
Message to trump: "YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND DISSENT!"
The capitulator in this should be putin and trump needs to butt out.
500 billion in minerals is not a deal. America gave nowhere near that.
putin attacked Ukraine bombing a maternity hospital and a school.
Took over Chernobyl, very wrecklessly, putting the planet in nuclear jeopardy.
Murdered Ukrainian civilians heading for the polish border
women, children, even their pets!
Massacred civilians in Maripol and Bucha robbing and looting all the way.
And now this worthless administration has the audacity to attack the victim
demanding he cry and beg for peace?
Submit to a murdering tyrant?
Get on his knees and kiss trump's ass with gratitude?
To hell with him, vance, and all the sycophantic sheep
that think this garbage makes America great.
KARMA
“Karma is like a rubber band…
You can only stretch it so far before it comes back
and smacks you right in the face.”
THE ANTHEM
"The song has developed a sacrosanct nature, people are more likely to
uphold it as tradition and detest anyone who either tries to change
the song or, "USE it in a way that is not perceived to reflect American
patriotism." That last part which stresses my point so save your fake
patriotism.
(In reference to the perversion of the anthem by the J6 Choir
as these fake patriots call themselves.)
Fascism is Capitalism in disguise. -Rip,2019-
Sinclair Lewis wrote a book titled, It Can’t Happen Here, which included a quote that seems
to be the closest to the revolving meme quote.
The quote below is NOT and cannot be attributed to Lewis.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
The above quote is falsely attributed to Lewis. From the book It Can't Happen Here Sinclair writes:
“But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst
Fascists were they who disowned the word ‘Fascism’ and preached enslavement to Capitalism
under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty.” -Sinclair Lewis, 1935-
This is the closest quote to Sinclair Lewis's falsely attributed meme.
HEGSETH VS. ACTUAL PATRIOT
Tammy Duckworth is a combat veteran of the Iraq War, she served as a U.S.
Army helicopter pilot. In 2004, when her Black Hawk helicopter was hit by
a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents, she lost both legs
and some mobility in her right arm. She was the first female double amputee
from the war. Duckworth served in the Reserve Forces for 23 years before
retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2014. She was elected to the
U.S. Senate in 2016. She is far more quailified than he'll ever be.
THE INAUGURATION
Everything that happens after January 20th is on them.
Maga cheerleads for it daily with the supreme courts this,
and trump that, and names will be rounded up, false charges
without evidence levied, families and lives upended, various
programs, departments, opposition media all perverted by
incompetency and misinformation and they're all for it.
Dark times ahead with red hat approval.
BE THE KEEPER OF THE FLAME