Juliajms

She tried so hard to hold out.

RBG has passed. Heaven help us.

They love gas lighting and minimizing other people's pain.

^ That is horrific. I pray it isn't true, but sadly it is very easy to believe. Everyone with sense knew that putting people in camps like this could only lead to evil.

I'm hopeful that our (meaning most of us on this board) long nightmare is coming to a close. This is such a dark time with the pandemic, wildfires and the frightening reality that a huge portion of our population are haters living in a completely different reality. They have been brainwashed by Fox news and the "alt right" to the point that facts don't matter. Facts simply cannot permeate the cult mentality. What does it mean when so many people can have their minds twisted by social media, Fox and the Russians? I have a hard time seeing a way out. We have to hope that having a compassionate leader in Biden and a competent one in Harris will help stem the tide of insanity. Assuming they can get the electoral votes and nothing crazy happens.

^ Lord help us. This part is so true: They are impervious to messaging, advertising or data. They aren’t just infected with conspiracy; they appear to be inoculated against reality. or this: 🙃 Frank’s eyes fill with tears as she describes what she’s found: children who are being raped and tortured so that “the cabal” can “extract their blood and drink it.” She says Trump has seized the blood on the black market as part of his fight against the cabal. “I think if Biden wins, the world is over, basically,” adds Arthur. “I would honestly try to leave the country. And if that wasn’t an option, I would probably take my children and sit in the garage and turn my car on and it would be over.” Child services need to check in on this nut case often.

^ What a horrible example of environmental racism. I found his article on Cancer Alley, which is utterly enraging. That the government has allowed the Formosa plant to go forward is despicable. https://grist.org/justice/as-coronavirus-ravages-louisiana-cancer-alley-residents-havent-given-up-the-fight-against-polluters/

Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel! Tom Cotton on the Supreme Court? 🙄

^ That is f*cking crazy!! We are lead by someone who belongs in long term treatment.

Good God. He is just the worst. Every single time I think we've hit bottom he proves there is no such thing.

^ The Trump presidency has been the light that shows us just how many roaches we are living with it. We might able to turn the switch off in November, but that doesn't mean these people are disappearing.

Thanks for answering! The mask thing is just so foolish.

I cannot and will not watch this speech. If anyone did is this snip in context? Did he really all but say white people are here and "they" are not?? I find the setting for that speech incredibly creepy as well. I hate to admit it, but the Trumpers have managed to make Old Glory a symbol I have a negative connotation with now.

The RNC has to be the most pathetic, embarrassing thing I have ever seen in my life. To evoke an old saying, these people are not ready for prime time. Has even one serious person even taken the stage? Maybe, Nikki Haley counts. It's a low bar when you have six Trumps speaking. It just seems like they are completely lacking any kind of intellectual or professional meat at this convention. There are smart conservatives out there (unfortunately), but this time it really feels like the rats have abandoned the ship or maybe the ship has abandoned the rat. Either way.

What!? I'm glad that didn't happen. It was a total boondoggle.

^ And this guy in Walmart giving people "Covid hugs"! Ugh. WTF is wrong with people? It's sort of like that woman who coughed on the baby because the mother wouldn't wear a mask. All of these people are nut jobs. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/us/walmart-man-covid-hugs-trnd/index.html

Probably not the majority of individual journalists, but it does make sense that the higher up types would. Trump brings in the money by being a continual train wreck that people can't look away from. Psychopaths gravitate to the CEO position and to journalism as well. Just sayin'. https://www.cbc.ca/doczone/m_features/psychopaths-top-10-and-bottom-10-professions

Normally, I would feel some kind of sympathy for someone who gets destroyed like this by sibling. However, since Trump is only wearing a human suit, it just doesn't matter. I'm glad at least some of the people in his family seem normal.

It's something I thought about when Bernie was in the primary. I can see why people who lived under failed socialist regimes are afraid of people like him and his followers, even though I agree with some of their ideas, I could see the dangers in their demands for ideological purity. However, the nominee is JOE BIDEN for the love of God! He is a middle of the road capitalist if there ever was one. The Republicans are not going to convince many people that he is going to turn our nation radically left, imo.

I wouldn't recommend going near a balcony or open window either. Unbelievable.

This is shameless and infuriating. Also, go Biden/Harris!!!

He stayed pretty quiet for a long time. I kind of figured that Obama was fed up with the American public, which in many ways did not deserve him. I'm glad he still cares enough to bring down the hammer. He doesn't owe one damn thing to Trump who has broken every convention and norm.

^ Every time I think I hate that man as much as I possible can he manages to take it to the next level. I can't wait to be rid of him, so I can just let it go. It just never even occurs to him that if you see people in distress the answer is to try to help them, not trade them in or insult them. 🤬

Good, because she has grown on me, but it is all hands on deck as far as I'm concerned. We need to get rid of that MF in chief and anyone who can't get behind that can piss off.

I don't either. I hope to live long enough to see a democratic China. Given that country's vibrant cultural past it is a terrible shame that their people are so brutally oppressed. It really disgusts me that over one billion people are living in fear of the government. Don't get me wrong, I know we have enough of our own problems to worry about, but still I find it very sad.