Juliajms

🤣 Nothing would surprise me. Like I've said before we are in straight up crazy town.

It's the time he uses to watch Fox news.

Well past it because I doubt most of the people who need to listen will. I'm really afraid of what the future will bring, but all we can do is keep moving and hoping that no one who matters drops the ball in the next election. On a different note I'd forgotten how pretty Nell Carter was. I was just reading her IMDB profile. What a tragic life she had. It really amazes me how resilient some people are, although someone reminded me just the other day that just because someone puts on a brave face it doesn't mean they aren't suffering in private. Clearly Nell was, but she still rose to the top.

Yes, and I agree that starting slowly by lowering the medicare age to 50 or 55 is a good way to go. I would love to see those two be the ticket. I guess we'll see how things shake out.

If he had just said I did it, but it was 35 years ago and I've changed. I think most people can probably understand that. At the same time, I don't think it's purity politics to want leaders who haven't dressed in Klan garb as adults to be our leaders. Even in the 80's people understood that the Klan was a terrorist organization, even if those weren't the words we used. There are things we do in this world that stay with us even if we've changed. I'd say putting racist photos in a medical school yearbook is one of them. Imagine finding out the the doctor who treated you did something like that against people of your group? It's terrifying. Blackface is harder for me to put into context, I'm not even sure I knew that existed until I was well into adulthood. I see someone doing that in the 80's as stupid versus evil, but I'm not black, so not my call.

A 22 year old medical student is responsible for what he or she does. It's a shame this didn't come out a lot sooner.

It's so odd to me that Sunday is going to roll around and we are going to pretend that what's happening on the field isn't destroying people's brains. Yet white parents are starting to flee that sport. This is a sad story about why it's harder for other parents to do the same. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/football-white-flight-racial-divide/581623/?utm_source=twb

It's hard not to like this guy, but I refuse to get on the love train this time around.

I agree, but in some ways it's also a non issue. I don't think we have a large scale problem of children or young adults failing to assimilate. Conservatives actually have less confidence in American mainstream culture than I do because I've seen how irresistible it is. As my husband says once you raise a child who isn't a Christian you see how completely ridiculous the supposed war on Christmas really is. The same goes for language, imo. At the time, wouldn't all of our children be better off if we became a bilingual nation like Canada?

^ That post made me notice this one.

^ Thank God he survived. They basically did a mock lynching on him and then it's called a "possible" hate crime.

🤣 So Schultz is seriously considering f*cking us over and our response should be to stop drinking lattes. Yeah, that'll show'em. He's not even CEO any more.

I found what Brokaw said just odd. It's mean spirited (to say the least) to expect first generation people of any culture to speak a new language well. Children tend to assimilate for better or worse. That's what the American public school system is designed to do, along with turning us into good workers of course. I'm not saying that's good or bad, it just is.

I can't believe this ban is still in effect.

This is almost certainly true. They may have other things too, but I would bank on the fact that the Trump/Kushners have been involved in money laundering. The sheer hubris it takes to do that and them run for high office amazes me, yet here we are two years in and most Republican lawmakers won't even admit there is a problem.

I don't think the person who wrote that thinks he has a grand strategy. He's just a natural when it comes to causing harm. I doubt it's a plan, but I do suspect we will be right back where we are in three weeks just because chaos and harm is what he does.

I see her point, since nothing has really been resolved and we will likely be back where we started in three weeks. I do think he caved though.

Our descent into dystopia is accelerating. I hate knowing that every move I make is going to be watched and analyzed by a cooler. Sometimes i just want to go back and live in the 70's. Not to be confused with the notion of wanting it to be the 70's so everyone else loses their rights. I just want to go back myself to a time where every single thing we do isn't watched.

^ The most appalling thing to me is the excuses people make. The victim blaming and the notion some have had over the years that if these kid's parents sold them to MJ, well that's not his fault the victims got what they deserve. Some people just flat out lose their minds when it's a celebrity they admire who is accused. That said, the matter has been confused enough over the years that I would need to see the evidence laid out in a logical matter to know what I believe. It sounds like this film does that. Their money and their Oscars. I can see how people managed to rationalize this to themselves. Think of all of the high powered actors who knowingly chose to work with predators. People think because they can't change it, they are justified in just going along with the rest of the herd.

I feel very lucky that we won the midterms and that she is Speaker. Who knows what will happen long term, but I don't think there is anyone who could handle him better than she is doing. He may blow us all to hell anyway, but at least someone is treating him like the narcissist that he is and standing up to him.

That it's come to this is completely insane. It terrifies me to think of the sheer military power this government has when our leader and a good chunk of Congress are unfit to rule. I wouldn't put these megalomaniacs in charge of an island the size of Catalina never mind a country with the military might that we have. God save us all until we can get rid of this man and those that allow him to continue to hold power. How Mitch McConnell lives with himself, I don't know.

You'd have to be living under a rock not to know. Oh wait! I come pretty close and yet still, I knew. Anyone in "the business" who claims not to know is lying, imo. That statement from Avi Lerner (who I had never heard of, yet still knew BS was a predator) is off the charts insane. Yes, BS is legally innocent, that does not mean it is right to work with him just because he is good at his job and makes money. One more case where people are not ashamed to openly support evil. It's stunning. It shouldn't be, but I just can't get used to it.

I agree it's a problem. We are in very unstable times. I'll admit I'm concerned about someone who is nearly 80 becoming president again. I wouldn't be as concerned about it if I trusted there would be transparency about health issues, but I don't. Been there, done that (possibly twice). That said, I would vote for Biden if he's the nominee. I do like him. I would like him even more if he picked a woman for vice president. I can't think of any Democrat who will run a credible campaign that I wouldn't vote for. I'm very pro choice and I would even vote for someone who isn't this time around, although I know it won't come to that.

This is what happens when you elect someone who is this out of touch with the lives of everyday people. No one in that family has any idea what it's like to need a paycheck.