And let's not forget, it takes two to perpetuate hateful divisiveness.
That’s like comparing Jeffrey Dahmer’s dietary choices to vegetarianism.
Maddog said
Dec 1 5:13 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
“You give him too much credit for whatever damage you think has been inflicted upon America.”
Dawg ….gotta love all nonchalant shrugging off you do. But hey, if you want to risk repetitive strain injury to your shoulders, then who am I to argue? 🤷🏻♀️
It seems clear you’re cool with the damage trump, his coterie of pay-to-play billionaires and robber barons, his clown car of a cabinet, his submissive Congressional majority, and a supremely fucked-up Supreme Court, are all doing to your country.
I just know the alternative isn't any better. At least an alternative that the American people will vote for.
I feel like a Pole in 1939 watching two groups of lunatics divide my country and you want me to just get worked up over one of them.
Or maybe Spain in 1935 is a better example because it was a civil war. Franco is much like Trump, but let's not pretend the communists were a bunch of fine people. In fact, most western countries preferred Franco because the alternative was that bad..
I've just decided to not let Franco get me worked up.
Maddog said
Dec 1 5:17 PM, 2025
Think about it. I live in a country where Trump and Mamdani are two of the most worshiped politicians. We've all seen this before..
While rankings are subjective, the US was once considered near the top in terms of education.
That's not even close to true now and it's pretty well understood who runs education in this country. Very few wear red hats. It's not surprising there is support for Trump when you see what the alternative has been for years..
-- Edited by Maddog on Monday 1st of December 2025 05:54:53 PM
Vam said
Dec 2 9:38 AM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Think about it. I live in a country where Trump and Mamdani are two of the most worshiped politicians. We've all seen this before..
I'm just here for the show now..🍿
I get it, Dawg, I really do. I’ve told you a hundred times that I have to respect what you say, because you’re living it in real time over there.
Meanwhile, folks like me the whole world over are looking in from afar and are absolutely staggered by how this cycle of criminality, corruption and grift can be allowed to continue unabated. How can Americans have become so desensitised to it all? 🤷🏻♀️ There has to be a better alternative, surely!
Btw, Senator Mark Kelly has been handling himself very well in the face of trump and Hegseth’s histrionics. He’s looking more and more like a credible contender for 2028. This evisceration of trump and Hegseth has gone viral.
Could you be okay with a President or Secretary of Defense Kelly?
While rankings are subjective, the US was once considered near the top in terms of education.
That's not even close to true now and it's pretty well understood who runs education in this country. Very few wear red hats. It's not surprising there is support for Trump when you see what the alternative has been for years..
-- Edited by Maddog on Monday 1st of December 2025 05:54:53 PM
“unregulated phone use is destructive to learning and creativity.” ~ like we didn’t see that coming!
“phone-based childhood” ~ sadly, that’s a perfect way to describe the consequences of parental indifference.
BIB … who/what do you mean?
-- Edited by Vam on Tuesday 2nd of December 2025 02:45:03 PM
While rankings are subjective, the US was once considered near the top in terms of education.
That's not even close to true now and it's pretty well understood who runs education in this country. Very few wear red hats. It's not surprising there is support for Trump when you see what the alternative has been for years..
-- Edited by Maddog on Monday 1st of December 2025 05:54:53 PM
“unregulated phone use is destructive to learning and creativity.” ~ like we didn’t see that coming!
“phone-based childhood” ~ sadly, that’s a perfect way to describe the consequences of parental indifference.
BIB … who/what do you mean?
-- Edited by Vam on Tuesday 2nd of December 2025 02:45:03 PM
Education and the teachers unions are run by the donkey party..
Can a decent human being fix a dysfunctional system while handing out goodies to everyone that he needs to, to get elected?.
Can he distance himself from the bat shit lunatics of the left, enough to win a democratic primary?
Vam said
Dec 3 9:53 AM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Mark Kelly is a decent human being..
Can a decent human being fix a dysfunctional system while handing out goodies to everyone that he needs to, to get elected?.
Can he distance himself from the bat shit lunatics of the left, enough to win a democratic primary?
Imo, yes. He’s nobody’s fool.
Whilst the special election results margin in ruby-Red Tennessee yesterday should make Republicans pay attention, ultimately, Behn has been carrying around too much alarming ‘woke baggage‘. A much more centrist candidate would have done even better.
Vam said
Dec 3 10:26 AM, 2025
Trump’s war on drugs….. (the reality is, he doesn’t give a flying fuk about drug-running)
Blowing up alleged Venezuelan narco boats that could never even reach American shores, without evidence and without due process. It seems he’s also gearing up to launch land strikes on Venezuela pretty soon.
Yet, he has issued a full and unconditional pardon to a cartel kingpin, the former Honduran president, who has now walked out of a federal jail a free man, after writing a letter to trump which began with the words ‘Your Excellency’ 🙄
Former president Hernandez was tried and convicted by a jury in the US, for conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 400 tons of cocaine has been assessed by the Justice Department as equating to 4.5 billion doses.
Make it make sense…🤷🏻♀️
Maddog said
Dec 3 3:27 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Trump’s war on drugs….. (the reality is, he doesn’t give a flying fuk about drug-running)
Blowing up alleged Venezuelan narco boats that could never even reach American shores, without evidence and without due process. It seems he’s also gearing up to launch land strikes on Venezuela pretty soon.
Yet, he has issued a full and unconditional pardon to a cartel kingpin, the former Honduran president, who has now walked out of a federal jail a free man, after writing a letter to trump which began with the words ‘Your Excellency’ 🙄
Former president Hernandez was tried and convicted by a jury in the US, for conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 400 tons of cocaine has been assessed by the Justice Department as equating to 4.5 billion doses.
Make it make sense…🤷🏻♀️
Its his version of "The Bay of Pigs"..
Maddog said
Dec 3 3:34 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Mark Kelly is a decent human being..
Can a decent human being fix a dysfunctional system while handing out goodies to everyone that he needs to, to get elected?.
Can he distance himself from the bat shit lunatics of the left, enough to win a democratic primary?
Imo, yes. He’s nobody’s fool.
Whilst the special election results margin in ruby-Red Tennessee yesterday should make Republicans pay attention, ultimately, Behn has been carrying around too much alarming ‘woke baggage‘. A much more centrist candidate would have done even better.
I'm assuming Behn won a primary..That's my point..The primary system is preventing normal people from being either party's candidate. That's why most congress people are shit..
It seems the democrats think that shifting more to the left is the solution to authoritarianism.
I keep seeing similarities to Spain in 1936..
Vam said
Dec 4 8:35 AM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Vam wrote:
Trump’s war on drugs….. (the reality is, he doesn’t give a flying fuk about drug-running)
Blowing up alleged Venezuelan narco boats that could never even reach American shores, without evidence and without due process. It seems he’s also gearing up to launch land strikes on Venezuela pretty soon.
Yet, he has issued a full and unconditional pardon to a cartel kingpin, the former Honduran president, who has now walked out of a federal jail a free man, after writing a letter to trump which began with the words ‘Your Excellency’ 🙄
Former president Hernandez was tried and convicted by a jury in the US, for conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 400 tons of cocaine has been assessed by the Justice Department as equating to 4.5 billion doses.
Make it make sense…🤷🏻♀️
Its his version of "The Bay of Pigs"..
Yeah, cos that turned out so well, right?
Vam said
Dec 4 8:47 AM, 2025
I mentioned scorched earth PlayStation games earlier, and also questioned why not simply intercept these boats, arrest the crew, and seize the drugs they are allegedly carrying. But Rachel Maddow has expressed it all far better than I ever could.
Trump’s war on drugs….. (the reality is, he doesn’t give a flying fuk about drug-running)
Blowing up alleged Venezuelan narco boats that could never even reach American shores, without evidence and without due process. It seems he’s also gearing up to launch land strikes on Venezuela pretty soon.
Yet, he has issued a full and unconditional pardon to a cartel kingpin, the former Honduran president, who has now walked out of a federal jail a free man, after writing a letter to trump which began with the words ‘Your Excellency’ 🙄
Former president Hernandez was tried and convicted by a jury in the US, for conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 400 tons of cocaine has been assessed by the Justice Department as equating to 4.5 billion doses.
Make it make sense…🤷🏻♀️
Its his version of "The Bay of Pigs"..
Yeah, cos that turned out so well, right?
The eradication of socialism from external forces didn't work well anywhere. Unfortunately, that has to come from within.
Maddog said
Dec 4 4:26 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
I mentioned scorched earth PlayStation games earlier, and also questioned why not simply intercept these boats, arrest the crew, and seize the drugs they are allegedly carrying. But Rachel Maddow has expressed it all far better than I ever could.
This isn't hard to understand. We (congress) have given the president the power to declare anyone he considers a threat, a terrorist. Because we have a declared."war on terrorism" we can use lethal methods against these people.
It could be "terrorists" in Libya, Sudan,.Somalia,.Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or now Venezuela..
What's happening in the waters off of Venezuela isn't new, just an extension of the past 3 presidents.
Vam said
Jan 3 11:55 AM, 2026
@ Dawg…
(how could you let him slip down the page while I’ve been otherwise occupied?! 😳)
Soooo…haven’t I been saying for pages here that he’d rustle up a war with Venezuela to:
- deflect from the Epstein Files
- fuck with the midterm elections, if he can drag the hostilities out to November (Martial Law could probably be the next move at some point)
- all that glorious O I L to commandeer!
Vam said
Jan 3 11:58 AM, 2026
😂 … geez… if the Shamans are predicting it, then I guess it must be right. They sure as hell nailed Maduro’s fate
Just now: "We're gonna run it [Venezuela] essentially... we're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country "
That’s like comparing Jeffrey Dahmer’s dietary choices to vegetarianism.
I just know the alternative isn't any better. At least an alternative that the American people will vote for.
I feel like a Pole in 1939 watching two groups of lunatics divide my country and you want me to just get worked up over one of them.
Or maybe Spain in 1935 is a better example because it was a civil war. Franco is much like Trump, but let's not pretend the communists were a bunch of fine people. In fact, most western countries preferred Franco because the alternative was that bad..
I've just decided to not let Franco get me worked up.
I'm just here for the show now..🍿
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
While rankings are subjective, the US was once considered near the top in terms of education.
That's not even close to true now and it's pretty well understood who runs education in this country. Very few wear red hats. It's not surprising there is support for Trump when you see what the alternative has been for years..
-- Edited by Maddog on Monday 1st of December 2025 05:54:53 PM
I get it, Dawg, I really do. I’ve told you a hundred times that I have to respect what you say, because you’re living it in real time over there.
Meanwhile, folks like me the whole world over are looking in from afar and are absolutely staggered by how this cycle of criminality, corruption and grift can be allowed to continue unabated. How can Americans have become so desensitised to it all? 🤷🏻♀️ There has to be a better alternative, surely!
Btw, Senator Mark Kelly has been handling himself very well in the face of trump and Hegseth’s histrionics. He’s looking more and more like a credible contender for 2028. This evisceration of trump and Hegseth has gone viral.
Could you be okay with a President or Secretary of Defense Kelly?
https://x.com/acyn/status/1995597872809771065?s=61
(re Hegseth) ”This guy is SO unqualified for the job! He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing Army. It’s embarrassing…”
https://x.com/acyn/status/1995600818142413208?s=61
“unregulated phone use is destructive to learning and creativity.” ~ like we didn’t see that coming!
“phone-based childhood” ~ sadly, that’s a perfect way to describe the consequences of parental indifference.
BIB … who/what do you mean?
-- Edited by Vam on Tuesday 2nd of December 2025 02:45:03 PM
Education and the teachers unions are run by the donkey party..
https://youtube.com/shorts/jieBmYkUQ-A?si=5sXcuuOR2u_CB9FC
Can a decent human being fix a dysfunctional system while handing out goodies to everyone that he needs to, to get elected?.
Can he distance himself from the bat shit lunatics of the left, enough to win a democratic primary?
Imo, yes. He’s nobody’s fool.
Whilst the special election results margin in ruby-Red Tennessee yesterday should make Republicans pay attention, ultimately, Behn has been carrying around too much alarming ‘woke baggage‘. A much more centrist candidate would have done even better.
Blowing up alleged Venezuelan narco boats that could never even reach American shores, without evidence and without due process. It seems he’s also gearing up to launch land strikes on Venezuela pretty soon.
Yet, he has issued a full and unconditional pardon to a cartel kingpin, the former Honduran president, who has now walked out of a federal jail a free man, after writing a letter to trump which began with the words ‘Your Excellency’ 🙄
Former president Hernandez was tried and convicted by a jury in the US, for conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the US. 400 tons of cocaine has been assessed by the Justice Department as equating to 4.5 billion doses.
Make it make sense…🤷🏻♀️
Its his version of "The Bay of Pigs"..
I'm assuming Behn won a primary..That's my point..The primary system is preventing normal people from being either party's candidate. That's why most congress people are shit..
It seems the democrats think that shifting more to the left is the solution to authoritarianism.
I keep seeing similarities to Spain in 1936..
Yeah, cos that turned out so well, right?
I mentioned scorched earth PlayStation games earlier, and also questioned why not simply intercept these boats, arrest the crew, and seize the drugs they are allegedly carrying. But Rachel Maddow has expressed it all far better than I ever could.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/1996214207491067911?s=61
The eradication of socialism from external forces didn't work well anywhere. Unfortunately, that has to come from within.
This isn't hard to understand. We (congress) have given the president the power to declare anyone he considers a threat, a terrorist. Because we have a declared."war on terrorism" we can use lethal methods against these people.
It could be "terrorists" in Libya, Sudan,.Somalia,.Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or now Venezuela..
What's happening in the waters off of Venezuela isn't new, just an extension of the past 3 presidents.
@ Dawg…
(how could you let him slip down the page while I’ve been otherwise occupied?! 😳)
Soooo…haven’t I been saying for pages here that he’d rustle up a war with Venezuela to:
- deflect from the Epstein Files
- fuck with the midterm elections, if he can drag the hostilities out to November (Martial Law could probably be the next move at some point)
- all that glorious O I L to commandeer!
😂 … geez… if the Shamans are predicting it, then I guess it must be right. They sure as hell nailed Maduro’s fate
https://x.com/reuters/status/2005939417035465146?s=61
Just now: "We're gonna run it [Venezuela] essentially... we're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country "