@ksorbs Respectfully, good question. The answer at its heart is that government needs to print money for business and society to function combined with society and business needs government to function. But you’ve hit on something with why do YOU pay taxes if government can … @ksorbs …print $. You pay everything - not just your taxes - with $. We’re not a barter society. If you bought a car with something more real than paper money or a personal check or a plastic card and paid with something more real what would it be? Corn? Chickens? Who would accept it?

@DanRather TFG admin reversed Obama era coal emission standards despite their own scientists saying that would result in 1400 more premature (virtually state aborted) a year. For what p? No new coal plants. Fewer jobs. Failing industry. Pollution kills people not just plants. Now TFG … @DanRather … Federalist Society chosen alt right a Supreme Court judges ( one of them sitting in a seat stolen from Obama’s Garland ) have the audacity to suggest environmental decisions should be made by elected officials not “bureaucrats.” Three of them were appointed by TFG who lost …

This is long abandoned coal fired power plant near river where I fish. Why abandoned besides being old? My guess would be it simply could not compete with natural gas economically or in terms of environmental protection. What’s it got to do with today’s GOP Supreme Court … … decision? This particular plant maybe nothing but plants like it polluted heavily causing injuries and deaths so Obama put in stricter coal emission standards. TFG admin rolled back these Obama era coal emission standards despite its own scientists saying that would lead …

1. Jake Tapper after saying not just republicans have used misinformation gave irrelevant misleading ( in my opinion ) example of misinformation case of cancer cure long ago widely believed to work that was just as ineffective as ivermectin for Covid. For one thing false hope … 2. … for cancer cure was not politicized. It was more just false hope for difficult problem. Tapper’s point was we should “blame” the spreaders of misinformation for politics or profit or control or whatever not the uninformed. In general good point but TFG saying if he shot …

@SherylNYT @maureendowd Afghanistan situation now not about Obama or Trump or Biden but about “will” - not theirs - Dowd’s. We know their armed forces haven’t shown “will” to fight despite having means. Is Dowd suggesting Biden or America as a whole is Antoinetting AFGH interpreters and Americans in … @SherylNYT @maureendowd … danger still there? I don’t know. The pay wall will not let me see. I don’t think Dowd can see either if that’s what she’s suggesting because of some kind of personal prejudice or politics. To me the Taliban is a danger to AFGH body politic as Covid is to our bodies. Trump …

Listening to acquaintances say Biden opened border & that’s where COVID is coming from & Florida’s doing fine with COVID & welfare people aren’t taking open jobs because they get “free” money more draining than the heat. Telling me facts I mention are not true is disappointing. Disappointing because when I say they ARE true they respond “I don’t believe that.”
It was like flower after “alternate facts” flower opening in a MAGA garden of misinformation and outright lies taken as gospel. If I had hours and they would listen for hours I think they ...

@SenatorSinema 1. Respectfully, addressing filibuster misuse doesn’t threaten democracy as you suggest or is meant to change GOP “attitude” you imply can not be changed - it’s about actions not attitudes - facts not opinions. Fact is GOP senate negotiators were given 100% of ... ... 2. conditions they asked for for set up of bi-partisan agreed upon independent Jan 6th Capitol insurrection investigation commission but GOP senators voted against even having open discussion about let alone having vote on because McConnell asked for “favor” not to vote for.

👇The sun will still come up. People in deepest darkest jungles of Africa or South America who never heard of the killing of George Floyd will go on with their lives as before.

Regardless in case of a “ not guilty” verdict most Americans after not too long will go ...

https://twitter.com/DutchessWoodall/status/1379602746156912642

... on with their lives as before with preconceived notions police will always “get away” with killing Black suspects or though killing of Floyd bad there are always a few bad apples.and there’s nothing we can do about it.

Me? I have no control (and should not have) over...

@DesignationSix All it takes to acquit in SERIOUS crimes with serious penalties is just one juror with “reasonable doubt” (as practical amount “any doubt” since “reasonable” is undefined) as per Supreme Court 2020. Good news is unlike OJ trial where everybody saw EXACTLY THE SAME EVIDENCE but... @DesignationSix ... opinions as to OJ’s quilt between Blacks and whites nationwide were astoundingly different ( probably because Blacks and whites nationwide have astoundingly different life experiences which influenced their opinions ). Maybe I’m naive but despite the fact jury trials ...

Checking out at grocery store with eggs and margarine to make cookies clerk holds up margarine and says, “What do you think about THIS!”

I’m thinking “margarine?” but I say nothing.

She helps me out saying, “THEY took the Indian off!”

Still processing ( long day tired ... ... pulled up to a stop sign not a stop light on way there and waited for it to turn green ) she asks, “WHY?”

At this point I’m pretty sure question while important to her is mostly rhetorical.

But clerk presses on “THEY took ___ images of ___ and ___ off ___ and ___).”

👇

https://twitter.com/tammyduckworth/status/1376988646839058433

Reportedly former President called people ( like Duckworth military veteran double amputee ) “suckers” for volunteering for military service. Also reportedly threatened to disinherit his child if they joined our armed services or Peace Corps. Setting aside “Peace Corps” ...

@johnlundin Reportedly McConnell bragged he told Obama to his face he’d never get a SC nominee & followed through refusing to bring Obama ‘s SC nominee Garland up even for discussion as required by Constitution Senate duty to advise & consent (or not). Filibuster NOT even in Constitution. @johnlundin McConnell saying he will obstruct is entirely disingenuous because that’s all he’s done holding 100s of dem bills on his desk not bringing up even for discussion relishing “grim reaper” nickname quite literal with bipartisan Covid relief on his desk bill May to Dec 2020 ...

Put upcoming Biden three trillion dollar infrastructure bill in context with trillions Fed used (printing $ trillions put right on deficit) artificially propping up stocks good for those with stocks, 401ks, even pensions but for half country w/o nada who nevertheless pay for ... ... roads. Set aside value of all the jobs created by infrastructure work (work unemployed need) just look at 1940-1961 when highest tax rate over 90% & not so many richest paid zero in taxes let alone complained about using $ to pay for Eisenhower interstate highway system ...

Manchin focused on his personal opinion about importance of 2A minority rights not held by majority of Americans & minority rights of smaller population states many GOP & rights of minorities in his state who hold views like his 2A views contrary to majority in his state let... ...alone majority of Americans’ views in every state contrary to his own like approval of universal background checks & red flag laws has a right to go “scorched earth” along with McConnell & GOP to protect his minority views but is he willing to kill voting rights to protect 2A?

@Bodhi66 @BerniceKing @soccermom1517 Respectfully, “in God we trust” did not appear on U.S. paper money until 1957 when Eisenhower signed it into law. It was NOT part of Constitution or “centuries,” of American life afterwards. I don’t know why he did it or if he would regret it now. Eisenhower in memoirs did ... @Bodhi66 @BerniceKing @soccermom1517 ... regret making a campaign stop for commie fear mongering Joseph McCarthy who ruined many people’s lives. Eisenhower knew McCarthy’s fear mongering was wrong but upon the advice of political advisors played along to get along just to get a few votes - something as I said he ...

@BerniceKing @soccermom1517 I so agree.

Whatever happened to common sense one person’s rights end where another person’s begin?

1A freedom of religion means for each person individually - it was ever intended one person or one religion force their beliefs on others.

Pilgrims escaped persecution of ... @BerniceKing @soccermom1517 ... Church of England which COULD persecute because it was part of the state.

We became independent because we did not want a king like England ( one man rule ) or any one religion forced on us ( Church of England take it or suffer consequences).

No religious declaration is...

Coincidence Amy Barrett believes Justices’s “opinion” should trump “precedence” in cases like Roe vs Wade?

Argument for HER is w/o original thinking of Justices like her slaves not free & women wouldn’t be able to vote.

She reveals herself in her 2013 hypothetical opinion on... ... what would happen if Roe vs Wade were overturned. She said states would be “free” to ban or keep abortion. Problem is while “states” would be “free” women would no longer be “free” to decide what to do with their own bodies.

Set aside fact Federalist Society (GOP) put in ...

2018 FL passed a Constitutional amendment former felons who previously could not vote could vote. But GOP Desantis legislators being who they are passed a more restrictive version with, yes, they can vote, but not any who have outstanding court fees or costs. Here’s my ... ... question. Previous felons who paid their debts to society can still vote which is only fair.

But are non-previous felons who have outstanding court costs or fees prevented from voting?

I hope not - I’m not advocating that.

Just pointing out this targeting court costs is...

Worth repeating Trump who just when asked answered he would not guarantee he would accept election results or a peaceful transition of power saying “Get rid of ballots!” earlier when attacking validity of ballots said except Florida because they’re doing it right?

Disingenuous. What I think is someone told Trump how many senior GOP voters voted by mail in FL & he made a political calculation to “like” mail in voting in FL & “declare it honest there but not elsewhere.

Trick or treat surprise for Trump will be seniors don’t WANT to die for Trump’s ...

Old saying is “you can indict a ham sandwich” meaning you don’t have to have level of proof as in actual trial just enough to suspect crime may have been committed. Grand jury testimony secret. Too bad. Breonna Taylor dead. Police who killed her not charged. Rationale unexplained No judge present in a secret Grand Jury hearing. Prosecutor presents case. Ordinarily prosecutor works with police but, in this case, police were the shooters and would have been charged. Grand jury records are SEALED afterwards. Someone needs to explain this to public. As for...

Remember poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with
“Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink”?

How about “Crime of the Prescient Marinator” Reagan who in 1987 let lapse Fairness Doctrine which had stood since 1954 requiring “news” be “true” maybe put in as response to ... ... Joseph McCarthy’s commie fear mongering and insinuations of non-existent conspiracies?

Did Reagan KNOW how what he did would be used and abused by right wing rural radio talk show analysis of “news,” Sinclair local broadcast “news,” and Fox cable internet “news”?

I’d ...