Joe Ferguson forever

I’m beginning to think trump’s cutting of social programs is ok considering the electorate. Every man for himself. I don’t benefit from any of them nor do any of my friends. We’ll pony up more to keep nor and pbs going. Just don’t f up the market. Don’t alienate our allies. And don’t cozy up to autocrats. At this point, this is probably as good as we can expect. I’d vote for that

1 point for the team down by 30 at halftime. ESPN calculates a 99.9% loss probability.

what party.? the party of the economically disenfranchised? you're saying that misery loves company? liberals still care deeply about climate change and women. We just now care much less about sleazy, stupid maga's and their problems. So we'll learn and play the new rules and win just like we did with the old rules. and maga's will still be losers. And most of the best business schools and economics departments are teaming with liberals. plenty to choose from.

we were at a dinner party last night with folks near or in retirement. some had kids who played college sports but I don't believe any played lacrosse - more a baseball/football crowd. the anger that was once only directed at trump and maga leaders is now directed at all trump voters. they're the enablers. the divide and anger has never been higher. This thread is interesting in that the maga's here aren't bothered by the market dropping like a stone. that might well be due to the amount of their hard earned money at risk from trump's policies. Perhaps they feel they're owning the libs in this way. but the wealth divide isn't shrinking significantly. everyone is getting poorer or at least, less wealthy. One of the attendees last nite has recently been approached about running for office. he never considered it before but is now. 2 years from now might be a really good time to run for congress.

you're a sad, strange pervert.

Well I never expected eliminating tax breaks for the super rich to be part of the plan . I'll believe it when I see it but it would be good for the country. https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/trump-taxes-wealthy By the numbers: Currently the top income tax rate is 37%, charged on income above $609,351 for an individual or $731,201 for a married couple. If the 2017 law were allowed to expire, that would jump to the pre-2018 rate of 39.6%, and lower the threshold above which the top rate applies. Around 1% of taxpayers are in that top bracket, though they pay a disproportionate share of income taxes. Under the budget reconciliation rules that Republicans seek to use to extend the tax cuts, that would free up more revenue that could be used to fulfill some of Trump's populist promises, such as eliminating taxes on tips. Zoom out: It would aim to flip the script on Democrats, whose messaging focuses on Republicans potentially slashing Medicaid and enlarging the deficit in order to fund tax cuts for the super-rich. "If we renew tax cuts for the rich paid for by throwing people off Medicaid, we're gonna get !@#$ slaughtered," the White House official said. As the GOP under Trump becomes more of the party of working-class voters, the political risks of raising rich people's taxes are relatively small, compared to the payoff of cutting taxes on tips in the growing service-sector economy. A majority of Americans, including a plurality of Republicans, support raising taxes on wealthier individuals, polls have shown.

good thing we're not trying to sway morons. trump has a firm hold on your group.

ADHD Elon versus actual astronaut and patriot Mark Kelly: https://www.yahoo.com/news/musk-doubles-down-calling-mark-233009438.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

"I always thought it was Mike"...his story changes as fast as his face color https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/trump-blames-mike-waltz-signal-00252707

I vacillate between it being lack of intellectual curiosity or them just being ignorant and lazy. Leaning toward the latter.

yes, it's clear you never spent much effort studying.

Maybe you should study up on Fidel before criticizing someone for being impressed by him.

castro was ruthless. but was a political genius. had he not been shunned by the US after the revolution, he could have been valuable ally. A ruthless ally but still an ally...

so sad. an ad hominem on Goldberg and then another on 4th. you're on a roll. double down on a push. and he stayed in because he publishes news! duh...

or that war plans were discussed on signal?

You mean he's an excellent reporter that finds and publishes important stories that withstand the scrutiny of time?

this is mostly good news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna198389 She's dreadful but the R's are obviously worried about losing her house seat in a very red district. maybe lowering prices and protecting social security are more important to people than they estimated. The bad news is that she still a congresswoman...

Two pilots' names are listed here. Seemingly they were honorably discharged and satisfactory as pilots. so it' not really about finding someone on the internet making a claim I want. It's about people with similar qualifications and experience coming to vastly different conclusions than you. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/youre-going-to-kill-somebody-pilots-fume-as-hegseth-blows-off-responsibility-for-leak/ar-AA1BN3Bz

Used cars will definitely go up. and repairing older cars will be more expensive. I heard an industry analyst saying many middle class people will be priced out of the new car market and that automakers may stop making current sub $30k cars because they'll be out of reach. There is also less profit margin. What a mess.

clearly, the pilots quoted above had much greater concern over the incident than you did. So let's not pretend yours is the only informed position.

I just disagree about universities. our best universities are the best in the world. are there schools letting kids in who have no business at college? Yup. I taught an intro chem lab at a public university while a grad student. it had open admissions. There were kids who could convert fractions to decimals. but the best are the best... health care is run by big business. trump's kinda people. The HCA CEO who was convicted of medicare fraud rings a bell. Rick Scott anyone? You left off the environment which R's have consistently been insensitive to. trump is worse than most. Notice that climate change was not presented as a intelligence and security threat in the recent hearing on security risk in the house. The are always med students who wash out before the boards or eek thru and fail. This is not new. Despite the highly competitive admission process, some folks are just not up to it.

perhaps but definitely increased. that's bad enough for me. and lying about it at the top levels of the government when it's obvious they're lying is disgusting.

My point is it increases the risk of a jet being shot down by a finite amount of exactly what that amount is I don’t know but analysts seem to agree it’s not zero.

One rarely hears of fighter jets going down but they certainly do. Say the chance is 1/1000 and giving this info increases it to 2/1000. You good with that?

Many military experts disagree. The houthis have formidable anti aircraft weapons.