I'm in my early 60's, I'm an Advanced Practice nurse and love to read romances and science fiction, get herded by my basenjis to their treat jar, and music.
By David Abbruzzes:
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Very well stated.
Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who is disgusted that trump is trying to let fellow criminals get paid from a $1.7B slush fund AT OUR EXPENSE, with no oversight or controls, because THAT is how criminals operate.
That could include Jan 6th thugs.
WE. ARE BEING. LOOTED.
Voter at a town hall on Republican gerrymandering:
"These maps are the wet dream of soft men who won't even look up from their phones to face their voters. These are men who lust for a world where the powerful do what they can and the rest of us suffer what we must. Jesus wept."
Tomi doesn't seem to understamd that the badass women who protested the Vietnam war at age 17 are now protesting another useless war at age 68
These same women marched so Tomi can wear pants to her job at FuxNews and put her paycheck into her own bank account
@KitMaherCNN The hypocrisy is DEEP with this one! YOU, as the VP, are also supposed to support ALL Americans, regardless of right or left, or the color of their skin. Guess what? YOU’VE FAILED in this Constitutional obligation. So…FU & the Trump Horse you rode into office!
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying….Everything that is in these files—it could bring an entire house down. And if it has to, it has to. If it brings down Democrats, bring them down. If it brings down Republicans, bring them down. Bring down princes, world leaders, Hollywood people, bring them down. But what it feels like right now is that there's a giant cabal of people that do not have to listen to the law
Listen to British member of Parliament Ed Davey completely tear Trump apart, calling him, the "most corrupt president America has ever seen" and "an international gangster":
"President Trump is acting like an international gangster, threatened to trample over the sovereignty of an ally, threatening the end of NATO altogether, and now threatening to hit our country and seven European allies with outrageous damaging tariffs unless he gets his hands on Greenland. This is an incredibly grave moment for the United Kingdom, Europe, and the world. He is a bully. The most corrupt president, the United States has ever seen. So there are only two ways to get him to back down: bribing him with a new jet, perhaps, or a few billion in his crypto account."
Russ Buettner, investigative reporter for the New York Times, explains how President Trump and his family has profited off the presidency in his second term.
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.