Juliajms

I love that the White House is calling these hypocrites out on social media.

3 hours ago, MichaelGL said:

The White House did not come to play with these fools, they are calling out Republicans who took out PPP Loans:

 

 

Good! I paid my student loan ages ago, but I don't mind other people getting help. Tuition wasn't quite as crazy during the GenX days. I really feel that younger people need this help or they aren't going to have decent, normal lives.

And please lord let this be true.

This on the other hand irritates me.

I'm glad Biden was ready to answer that question about fairness in the loan forgiveness program. I don't really think much of the question itself, because since when are things fair? I mean, please. Some people die of starvation days after they are born, meanwhile others are born millionaires, is that fair? Was it fair that lots of elderly people died in poverty before social security passed in to law?  Should we just stop progress because it isn't "fair".

I do think he was wise to cap it at $125,000 income though. Also to make it $10,000, instead of blanket forgiveness. Plus, the number of black people with student loans is almost double that of white people so I think it address that initial inequity. You can't please everyone, but this was a decent middle ground.

On 8/20/2022 at 6:57 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

This is inhumane.

It really is horrific. There are just going to be more and more women and girls made to suffer through these awful tragedies.

On 8/4/2022 at 12:30 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

Wow, Brittney Griner had been sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia. Irrespective of whether a prisoner swap can be arranged, that’s still a harsh sentence for some CBD oil.

 

EDT. it was hashish oil, I stand corrected. 

For a first time offense though? No intent to sell or distribute.

They are holding our citizen hostage. It's really that simple and has nothing to do with their actual law. I mentioned this a few months ago. It's completely infuriating.

4 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Sorry to hear about you’re getting COVID-19 @Vee. Wishing you a speedy recovery back to full strength.

In terms of the accidental delivery of Alex Jones’ phone data/messages, some people believe there are no accidents. Whatever it was, it’s karmic justice afaic and I hope the penalties for Jones are high and numerous. He’s a horrible person who deserves to be made to hand over every last cent to the people whose lives he has made unbearable. He also deserves jail time.

Yeah, I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but I have to wonder if his lawyers (or one of them) f*cked him on purpose. Didn't one of them even start crying during testimony?

@Vee I hope you have a mild case and that you get well soon.

I know most of this board does not care for James Carville, but he just cracks me up sometimes. He's such a 90's relic and yet he's not wrong here.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

For the last several weeks I have been thinking of how awful Joe Manchin was and now here comes Susan Collins to remind of how much more awful a human being can be.

She is flat out admitting that her party consists of a bunch of petty terrible people.  I can't believe she isn't utterly ashamed to admit that they will hold up an equality bill to punish democrats for something completely unrelated. 

2 hours ago, Ponds said:

I feel like we're back in the 70's.  Haven't we learned at thing?

I'm not quite sure which issue you are referring to, but it doesn't matter. The answer is the same, we have not learned one damn thing.

Thank goodness! Lord knows doctors, nurses and engineers don't have enough job opportunities. We have a shortage of workers in these areas!!  I guess I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, but I really need these folks to up their game.

13 hours ago, DRW50 said:

These days it's so hard to tell between doomposting and real life. I could see pretty much everything in those tweets happening, even if I don't think Biden would blame gays for buck-passing (I do think some others would, sadly).

I'm just so tired of this slowness and apathy and blindness toward the threat in this country. I don't believe Welensky or the CDC are deliberately fostering homophobia, but that's what is happening anyway through such poor responses that beg people to assume gay or bi men did something to children. 

I'm with you. My main issue is guilt by association. Even if Monkey Pox was spread by a pedophile that happened to be gay, that should have nothing to do with gay people as a whole. It's the pedophilia that's the problem, but of course certain people will make it sound like gay equals pedophile. Some days I'm just sad that people aren't smart enough to see through this sort of hate mongering.

On a different note, I want to slap whatever white house genius came up with the idea of changing the common definition of a recession. Did they think we wouldn't notice? It's the type of disingenuous BS I would have expected from the Trumpers, who are now tripping over themselves with righteous indignation. I hate these kind of self inflicted wounds.

Mercy.

This video is disturbingly funny. Herschel Walker telling a story about how he almost hunted down a man and killed him. Luckily Jesus intervened. I would ask if things can get any crazier, but it's clear there is no bottom.

Speaking of trans hate there is a group all the way from Texas protesting outside The Children's Hospital here. There was a kid's pride parade last night sponsored in part by the hospital and these fools came all that way just to be ass*oles. The most ridiculous part is they are protesting against gender reassignment surgery in children, which doesn't even exist.

Also, that article with people openly ragging on Manchin makes me very happy.

^ Give me a break! No one has said he is a monster. He is obstructing his own party's agenda and of course that's going to frustrate people. Why wouldn't we be pissed off that this is happening, especially when it feels like things are going to hell in a hand basket? As for the Republicans, they are beneath contempt at this point. Who expects them to do anything decent?

I have such a dread of the upcoming election.

I hope this doctor has security around her.

3 hours ago, marceline said:

That's a pet peeve of mine. I know I'm showing my age but "pregnant people" just doesn't sound right to my ears. I understand and agree with the need for inclusive language but it just sounds off to me. It's like when people say that something is "AN historic event." (That has driven me crazy for most of my life.)

That said...however I feel about all that "messaging" stuff, the thing I really hate is how the trans community is such a small part of the population and yet they've been targeted with unimaginable hate. Not just the trans community but LGBTQ+ children especially.

Yes! When I lived in Tampa I had a trans woman friend. She was pre-op and about 6'3.  We ended going through the drive thru at McDonald's one night. I was the one ordering and I felt such a cold, hard wall of hate from the order taker. It was palpable. 

At first I just thought it was a black/white thing.  I was so used to Jackie I didn't even think it could be about her. Then I saw the cashier look over at her with such disgust and she did not try to hide it at all. It has to be awful to deal with that kind of random hardcore hate.

On 7/11/2022 at 9:05 AM, marceline said:

I happen to be grateful for it. By drawing a line between the far left and "the mainstream of the Democratic Party" we get permission to push these leftists back to the fringe. A lot of people, including mainstream voters, are tired of the performative left especially since all they ever seem to do is screw everything up.

Yeah, things are getting a little out of hand.  I know James Carville is a nut, but I agree with him on the language issue to an extent.  Are people really going to keep insisting on the term "pregnant people"? That comes across as so nutty, imo. I don't even disagree with using the term, but insisting that everyone else does or they are trans phobic is a weird hill to die on. There are about 50 pregnant men a year and that's where you're focus is? It's embarrassing.

I am trying so hard not to be filled with anger and hate. Situations like this are going to happen over and over again.

Is it possible that Esme is Mac and Felicia's child? I wasn't watching when Ryan was obsessed with Felicia.  The way Mac and Felicia have talked about not having a child together really makes me wonder what's up. They even agreed the other day that being grandparents is enough. Seemed random.

Count be in with those who like Mrs. Wu.

I want to believe this is accurate so badly.

2 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

The fact that she can stand there and say that with a straight face after what happened in Uvalde clearly shows how completely clueless these people are.

That is for sure.

I know Republicans don't actually have a plan, but if they were trying to create a generational underclass, I'm not sure how they would do things differently. Make poor women have babies, then make sure a good chunk of those babies don't have access to equal education. Then shame their parents if they need help providing food, medical care or housing. F*ck everyone of these people.

5 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

They feel free to remove their hoods.

The human suits are dropping at an alarming rate that is for sure.

23 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I feel like if I talk about this topic it takes away from the women and children who are going to suffer from the Roe decision, but yes, I also thought about this, as you have and so many others have.

Moreso where we are likely heading - a model of Turkey and Russia, idolized by much of the US right, which will be lgbt people officially listed as groomers and dangers to the family, unable  to  work, unable to foster or adopt, or have any access to even their biological children, unable to share legal benefits, or a home, with their partner. Unable to have  dating or sex lives. Inevitably put in camps, tortured, and killed.

Yes, people should fight, and one twist of fate or person can make a difference, but it's hard to shake what is likely coming.

(and I don't buy the lies from the right that these policies are up to each state - look at the  SCOTUS gun ruling for proof of what a joke that is).

I've been ashamed of this country ever since we "liberated" Iraq. I should have been long before that, probably, but that was when I fully saw what the apparatus was...and while there were good people who made a difference in some years, and still are, there has been no going back.

Somehow the idea of gay marriage being banned is even more horrifying to me, if that's possible. With abortion the White Christian Nationalists can pretend they are trying to save babies. With same sex marriage the mask comes off the serial killer and we are forced to acknowledge what is really happening. That this was never about babies at all. It's about WCN and anyone who doesn't conform to that is in danger.

18 minutes ago, Ponds said:

One can only hope (I don't pray) that this will spur an onslaught of voters to vote these f*ckers out of office.  Of course, the Republicans have already put their people in charge of certifying the votes.

I have lived through years before Roe V. Wade and have seen what women were forced to do.  There will still be abortions, but women will be dying by the thousands.  Don't rely on the "pills" because their coming after them as well.  

The first birth control pills were fraught with break through pregnancies.  I was one of the women who couldn't depend on them.  I wish I was strong enough to tell my story!  

True. This will lead to a black market I imagine.  Beyond that I really wonder if there will be check points trying to stop pregnant women from going to other states or countries?  I wonder if there will be boarder clinics in Mexico like there is for dentistry and insulin?

I wondered the same. Also, are these companies going to pay for ALL of their employees to travel for abortions or just their executives who don't even need the help? I have a very hard time believing that Starbucks plans to pay for all of it's baristas to get care. I'm happy to be wrong though.

4 hours ago, Fevuh said:

So I'm a gay male.  I have spent the last half hour crying.  I do not know why, other than it pains me to see someone treated with less respect, and be treated truly not equal/unequal.  I identify with it.  And I see a group of people - Republicans in general - that somehow have the market cornered on what American means.  And it disgusts me.  

I posted on Facebook about this decision.  And said the Republican party completely disgusts me now.  I already have 2 replies from people I knew in High School telling me that I'm gay - so my opinion doesn't matter because this doesn't even affect me.  And to go *** my boyfriend.  I didn't TAG anyone in my post, and  both replied to MY post, and THEN TAGGED ME ON their page and started their OWN discussion with threats and disparaging comments.  They 100% without prompting just CONFIRMED what I said in general about Republicans.  

It's what discrimination is.  You know it's there.  You KNOW it's there.  And no matter how far we seem to progress, it always rears its head.  I already KNEW how you felt, I just ignore it and hope I'm wrong.  Well, I'm not wrong and they just proved it.  

That's obviously illogical nonsense. So we are all supposed to sit quietly when other people face injustice. I don't think so. That's what has led to one tragedy after another. I'm sorry those f*ckers came after you. Try to remember they can't think their way out of a paper bag and obviously are incapable of empathy.

2 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

People really do not fully comprehend how this will potentially impact everyone, not just women and not just women in child-bearing years. Even in states where the governor and state legislature has vowed to protect a woman’s right to an abortion, stands to be the unintended consequence of women in need of abortions coming to these states and overwhelming the health systems, that is, those who will even be able to get (t)here.

There will be so many unintended consequences as a result of this law (which has been law since before I was born) being overturned and a great many of these consequences will ultimately be tragic.

If you think poverty in the U.S. is bad now, wait a few years with an overturned Roe v. Wade in effect.

Child abuse will also go up. An already nightmarish foster system will be further overwhelmed. It's just an awful decision in every way.