As bad as these Sociopathic Oligarchs are now, imagine when they start reaching Trillionaire status, and can start competing with entire nations. They will manufacture their own armies of Slaughterbots, and demand anything they want.

It is inevitable. Unless we end them.

I’ve been saying this to my naturalized citizens friends since the beginning: They don’t even respect Birthright Citizenship, and that’s for people who were actually born here. They certainly aren’t going to respect citizenship granted by some other administration.

Bottom Line: If you were born somewhere else, they want you out.

Sounds like that’s one of the new MAGA amendments we’re going to have to pass.

Yeah, maybe like a separate legislature in each state, to take care of the local issues.

Oh wait, they already have that, and they tend to be even more corrupt than the Feds, current administration excepted.

First of all, he doesn’t KNOW anything. Literally. He is profoundly ignorant, easily the dumbest person to ever occupy the presidency. It’s isn’t even close. He is mind-bogglingly STUPID.

So he knows what he wants, and he thinks wishes are facts, and repeats them with the full confidence of the narcissistic simpleton. Don’t mistake that confidence for competence, or anything else. He’s a Sociopath, who has learned to hide it under bluster and noise. He’s just shouting like a crazy homeless person. It doesn’t make any sense, why would you listen to it?

You are under no obligation to believe it, or worry about it. He thinks he can rig the election by gerrymandering a few extra House seats, but that isn’t going to get him anywhere near the number of seats he needs, and he’s not taking into account the 5-10 MAGA seats that are almost certainly going to be surpirse flips that nobody will know about until election night.

He’s trying to convince you not to vote. Instead of listening, you have between now and November to convince at least one friend who wasn’t going to vote, to finally do it, especially if you are in a red state or district. That’s where the flips will happen, and we need all the votes we can get.

Giggity

Yeah, that was the era of the one party system, when Republicans ran everything, and the Corporate Dems let them, because they believed in Lite Conservativism.

The fact that “Democratic” legislation was introduced during a Republican administration, and was voted for by most Republicans, and then signed by a Republican president, would indicate that it was probably not a very “Democratic” piece of legislation.

Back then, it was often hard to tell the difference between the parties. Those differences have widened greatly, and will continue to widen into the future. Just because Conservatives, and Conservative Lites, all backed multiple bills that were engineered to fail, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take another crack at it, but in Good Faith this time.

No, not the MAGA Federal government. But when they’re out, and they’ve been crushed, we are going to have to reconfigure the new government. We should take that opportunity to create a new paradigm that serves the people, and then Yes, I expect the government to convene a panel of educators to create a new Federal Educational Curriculum.

That curriculum would look to the future, and not worship dead old ideas from the past. In Florida, DeSatan wants to make Cursive Writing mandatory again, instead of teaching kids real history “that makes white kids feel guilty about being white” (he actually said that). We need a history curriculum that acknowledges and teaches about Slavery and the Native American Genocide, and how to avoid such atrocities in the future. We need two math tracks, one for those who want to go into engineering, sciences, etc., and one that emphasizes Business Math, for everyone else who mostly uses math for their personal finances, or perhaps to start a business.

But mostly, the Federal curriculum would have a strong emphasis on Critical Thinking Skills, which help people recognize and reject propaganda from both sides, and avoid dumb conspiracy theories.

Critical Thinking Skills are literally the most important think any human can learn. All the knowledge you pick up in school is right there on the phone on your pocket, you can look that up in seconds, learning all that is not that important. Critical Thinking is how we are supposed to think, and it has to be taught and practiced at a Elementary/High School level, so students can flourish in college and beyond. Without Critical Thinking Skills, we substitute a chaotic ad hoc style of thinking that is easy to manipulate by bad people, and leads to destructive lifestyles like poverty and crime.

Critical Thinking Skills are what kept the Conservative scourge from rising and morphing into MAGA for so many years. So Cons took advantage of the 50 separate curriculums to deliberately suppress the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills for decades, claiming that it teaches children to defy authority, when what it really does is teach people to think for themselves. Authoritarians don’t want to teach kids how to challenge their power.

We also need free college education, and free trade school educations for all American citizens.

We also need to cancel all outstanding private and Federal student loans. They are a looming and increasing economic time bomb, that is already damaging the economy. They are so high because the federal government loosened up requirements for student loans so all kids could go, but didn’t put any guardrails on it. So the colleges responded by jacking up their tuitions to the max, and making kids mortgage their financial futures for the rest of their lives, enslaving them to mediocre paying corporate jobs, just to keep their healthcare, and make that onerous monthly student loan payment instead of a mortgage payment or take a vacation or get married or have kids…

Colleges and banks became the worst sorts of parasites over student loans, and have destroyed countless lives. It needs to end. They stole enough from our students, that’s enough. Forgive all current student loans, and if the colleges and banks whine about it, threaten to make them pay back all the past loans, too. That will shut them up real quick. Imagine the economic boom that would follow if millions of Americans suddenly got enormous student loans rebates of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars? The housing market would immediately explode, as many people use that money for a down payment.

We could do all this if we had a government that serves the people, instead of the wealthy. Remember that when we get it all back (and we WILL get it ALL back).

No Child Left Behind was signed into law by George Bush, so it was a Conservative scam from the beginning. Like all Conservative scams, it’s meant to work poorly, or not work at all, so that worse corrupt partisan concepts get promoted as government solutions. And surprise, what followed was the rise of Charter Schools and School Vouchers, siphoning tax money into private and religious educational enterprises where a most of the most gets converted into profits instead of education.

The educators - the people who actually gave enough of a fuck to go through years of college and take a dirt poor job because they believed in teaching - should be setting the curriculum. Not some bullshitting politician on the hill.

I don’t mind politicians who take the issue seriously being part of the solution, as long as they are participating in good faith. Conservative/ MAGA politicians should be totally banned from the table, we’re already too familiar with their “solutions.” They don’t get any input next time, they’re too stupid and corrupt, which is exactly what education is supposed to avoid, not encourage.

First of all, there should be one Federal curriculum for all schools. 2+2=4, CAT spells cat in every state. There is no reason to have 50 separate curriculums. The ONLY reason that exists is so MAGA states can use the schools to indoctrinate American schoolchildren into Confederate Treason, instead of giving their children an education that allows this country to compete in the world, instead of just compete against each other.

Oh they’re out there. Talking ABOUT them, instead of talking TO them pisses them off because they are looking for an argument with a “Liberal®” so they can practice the conservative debate skills they hear on the radio or TV when the host sounds so smart debating nobody. They think they can do it for real (they can’t), so it is immensely frustrating when their intended target won’t engage, and mocks them instead.

MAGAs. Sometimes I don’t even debate them, I ignore them and talk about them as if they weren’t there, make fun of their arguments, laugh at them, mock them, just generally bully them, without even addressing them directly. They really hate that.

MAGAs and Anti-Vaxxers are about the only acceptable bullying targets, and they should be bullied as viciously and as relentlessly as possible. The damage they have done is incalculable, they deserve it.

He spills enough alcohol on his hands that it kills the germs.

Dig deep enough, you’ll find something on anyone.

Yeah, because it isn’t about that. They don’t give a fuck about kids seeing porn. Even when there are age checks, there will be plenty of free porn.

It’s all about being able to connect an online post with the author.

Designated driver.

Most of who is left are the ones who are either rich enough that they want to keep gorging at the corruption trough, or are so stupid they don’t know how to turn way.

We’ll never do anything about that first group, except punish them harshly when we get the chance, but the stupid ones can be influenced by others who were like them and finally saw the light, and those people are starting to speak out. Carlson has been very noisy, and MTG just posted that TDS now stands for Trump Disappointment Syndrome. MAGAs are very susceptible to that sort of stupid propaganda, and that’s the kind of thing that could spread widely among MAGA dopes, like the original meaning did.

It will take time, but we still have 2 1/2 years to work on them. It’s unlikely that their love for Trump will increase. It’s not like he’s suddenly going become competent. At this point, just sowing doubt is a win. As more and more shit piles on top of them, those doubts will flourish, and eventually take over.

I’m going to start calling corn dogs Redneck Beef Wellington.

I like the idea of painting it, but to doesn’t have to be circus colors.

What? You mean when they are giving excuses for layoffs, the excuses are NOT the real reason? I’ve ALWAYS assumed they were ALWAYS telling us the truth! How can they do this? My entire world-view is smashed! I’m shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you!