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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.
I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
“The United States of America must always pay bills already incurred without gamesmanship, brinksmanship, or partisanship. House Democrats will oppose any effort to hold the economy hostage as part of any scheme by Extreme MAGA Republicans to jam its right-wing agenda down the throats of the American people.” Hakeem Jeffries
Well said, Rep. Jeffries! And thank you, Heather for your important link to the past.
Thanks for this referral, BK. I started reading Rosenburg’s site and enjoy the fact-based commentary. For starters, his welcome message that “part of Greater MAGA’s strategy is to intentionally poison our discourse with negative sentiment every day” is spot on. His numbers-based conclusion that the “last 3 Republican Presidents have brought recession, spiraling deficits, [and economic] decline” is what needs to be advertised loudly and broadly (on billboards, as others are suggesting here today), supported with graphs. I’ll chip in for that!
Haunting: the stupidity and cupidity of wealthy Republicans.
The wealthy ones are not the stupid ones. The wealthy vote R to preserve their wealth. They’re awful people, nearly all of them, but they’re not stupid. The stupid ones, and the ones responsible for every Republican victory since 1968, are the white working class, who are, by a two-to-one margin, vicious white supremacists out for blood. They’ve been that way since forever but the Republicans didn’t understand that until 1968. Since then, they’ve been riding the Southern Strategy to victory on …
If they bring down the country to “retain” their wealth? Are they changing their dollars for…?
The wealthy will remain wealthy. They have planned for all contingencies. It is the rest of us who will suffer. Nothing new here. There could have been something new in the US, but rampant racism prevents it.
Yes. You are right about rampant racism and its effects. The stupidity to which I refer is that given Republican denial of climate change, wealth may “save” you to a certain point, but after that you cannot eat hard currency. (Time to put nutrients in paper?)
Yes, but the wealthy know that they, their children, and probably their grandchildren will be able fo find places to live in comfort and very probably luxurious comfort all their lives, no matter how bad the planet gets. The rest of us, not me (I’ll be dead) but my grandchildren almost certainly, will find themselves struggling in a Mad Max world or worse. I’m doing all I can to prevent that but don’t think it probable that I will succeed. The wealthy, helped by the racist votes of the white working class, will continue to keep the world running on fossil fuels for fhe duration.