(February 20, 2025 at 10:04 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(February 20, 2025 at 6:52 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: The Orange moron has, basically, just declared himself "king".

I hope he visits the Senate on the Ides of March...

What American senator will have the gumption to do anything more than cheer or wring his hands?

Where’s Brutus when you need him, amirite?

Boru

(February 20, 2025 at 11:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Where’s Brutus when you need him, amirite?

Boru

Given the way they've rolled over, supine, as the Executive Branch strips away Congressional powers, I'd be surprised if they were even vertebrates.

All this talk of messing around with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and on and on made me curious. There is a one-time payment made at the time of death to the surviving spouse (or children) of $255.00. This is the same amount I got when my first husband died in 1984. That $255.00 was better than a sharp stick in the eye forty years ago but not by much...now it's just a slap in the face. WTH are you going to make a dent in with final expenses with $255.00? Unless your plan is to buy a shovel and dig a grave out in the woods yourself.

(February 20, 2025 at 12:51 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: All this talk of messing around with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and on and on made me curious.  There is a one-time payment made at the time of death to the surviving spouse (or children) of $255.00.  This is the same amount I got when my first husband died in 1984.  That $255.00 was better than a sharp stick in the eye forty years ago but not by much...now it's just a slap in the face.  WTH are you going to make a dent in with final expenses with $255.00?  Unless your plan is to buy a shovel and dig a grave out in the woods yourself.

That’s fucking insulting. Here, the death benefit is around $7500.

Boru

Was listening to the Faux News drivel on a resident's telly, and the amount off delusion spread by that channel is sad.

^ Welcome back, buddy!

(February 19, 2025 at 1:58 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Domestically, he's carrying out the 2025 plan to remove all opposition within the government - just as predicted. Not surprisingly, the success he has had so far in doing that has emboldened him internationally.

We knew this was going to happen. He is a grave threat to democracy not only at home but abroad as well. It remains to be seen if he will be stopped. It may take a civil uprising to do it.

(my bold)

Good luck getting John Q out from in front of his Game of Thrones re-runs.

(February 19, 2025 at 1:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(February 19, 2025 at 1:15 pm)emjay Wrote: I just mean i've never seen him so aggressive before... warmongering, in the guise of peacemaking. I'm not American and I've never followed him or his politics closely before, but this time round feels very different... here I feel I have to watch his every move like a hawk, waiting with baited breath for whatever fucked up thing he might do next that could have catastrophic consequences for the world.

I agree that Trump was a dangerous idiot during his first term but this time he is absolutely manic in churning out executive orders and letting Melon Husk hack into data at every turn.

Every day here there seems to be another list of truly frightening things coming out of the Oval Office.

Wonder what's going to happen when the unemployment numbers skyrocket from the "You're Fired" frenzy.  I am pretty sure it will be blamed on Biden and the Democrats.

Until someone has the balls to stand up to him, we are well and truly fucked.

So far, I will grudgingly give him this one thing...he can do away with Daylight Saving Time before he runs out of Sharpies and I won't complain.

(my bold)

As long as he leaves the switch in the on position.

(February 20, 2025 at 9:40 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:

(February 19, 2025 at 1:58 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Domestically, he's carrying out the 2025 plan to remove all opposition within the government - just as predicted. Not surprisingly, the success he has had so far in doing that has emboldened him internationally.

We knew this was going to happen. He is a grave threat to democracy not only at home but abroad as well. It remains to be seen if he will be stopped. It may take a civil uprising to do it.

(my bold)

Good luck getting John Q out from in front of his Game of Thrones re-runs.

Bread and circuses, fat, dumb, and happy.