@lawrence Happy Birthday!
I just woke up and saw that this thread has really taken off again. I don’t know what I missed overnight but I will say that I think T. has dementia and that you can already both see (in his gait) and hear it (in his babbling). I’m sure that his family is trying to keep it under wraps for as long as possible but that he will claim infirmity when they finally try to hold him to account.
...and, especially with the newest generation, are so spoiled that they can complain about having no opportunity for prosperity while sipping a $5 latte in starbucks while watching a movie okn their ipad before getting in their SUV and driving to the mall to go shopping for a coach purse because nothing they have goes with their new outfit they just bought last week(not being sexist, just flowed better than a stereotypical "guy" waste of money?)
If I can sound one note of hope, if I may... while this may be true in anecdotal cases, it's actually not really true of the younger generation as a whole. I say this as "a grumpy GenXer."
I've had to look at some of this data for work, and if you look at the actual spending pattern data, members of the younger generation are actually FAR more likely to be savers than either my generation (GenX) or the Baby Boomers. As a group, their spending patterns actually most greatly resemble my grandparents, The Greatest Generation, which makes sense if you think about it since that's the last generation to experience a recession/depression of that magnitude in their formative years.
They're much more likely to save their money to buy something than to buy on credit, and a shocking number don't have credit cards at all.
There are two major points on which they differ from the Greatest Generation. One, no surprise, is that they're under a backbreaking amount of student debt. The other is that they heavily distrust large employers. That's generally attributed to the trauma of seeing family members laid off during the Great Recession. So they do tend to be more entrepreneurial than the preceding generations, as far as starting their own businesses, and they strongly tend to seek a greater purpose in their work than just a paycheck.
Anyway, that's a long winding way to get to the hopeful part which is, a number of people on the boards have predicted that the U.S. would turn away from its hyper cultural focus on consumerism, and more of a return to community and smaller, local businesses. While I definitely do not go so far as some of the boards, there is a good amount of data that that is occurring, and for all the flak they get as the "snowflake generation," Millennials and GenZers are leading the way.
Am I the only one who feels the Ukraine leader seems corrupt and needs to be held accountable in some way as well
This crowd strike trump is referring to I heard is a American company but trump is trying to make out its Ukraine and it was the one who interfered in the 2016 election not Russia so he can falsely blame it on Ukraine, so he can help Putin and lifting the sanctions. T is so compromised by Putin
Tweet from DT: To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
DT just tweeted this. WTH? I dont even know where to begin here but this man is completely broken.
@lawrence, Happy Birthday! My son found the stage in middle school. It made a world of difference in his life. He hasn't continued with it, but he will do stand up at local clubs from time to time.
I've always said from day one that this situation would be one to expose serious flaws in our system, and would serve to expose the underlying infection of our society. I've used examples like pimples and boils. The infection is there, but until it comes to the surface to be excised, it goes undetected.
There are many reasons people believe that this administration is being victimized. Part of it is Faux news and the social media influence. This scandal has traction and will run it's course. It will take down the administration. For some, it will show that the previous scandals were real, and that they should have been paid attention to. So many of the Russian stories were linked back to the Obama and Clintons in an effort to discredit them as real threats. Projection and diversion - tactics of the narcissistic mindset. This time, there is no blaming anyone else. It is all on this administration, and eventually, there will be some who were suckered into believing that the Russian issues were manufactured who will realize that their elections were compromised.
I agree with Jimmy Carter. This president is illegitimate. I think in time that will come to be the general consensus-whether there were any changed votes or not. The influence of the Russian meddling did alter the election results, and eventually that will be something that can be tabulated. Faux news won't be able to spin things as they have in the past. They'll be seen for who they've been, as will some of those in DC circles who helped keep this travesty going for so long.
I hold on to the image I got in church a few years ago of Drumpft in prison stripes. If he's not physically incarcerated, he'll at least be known as a criminal. He won't be able to continue to do business-no one will want to associate with him. It will all come crumbling down.
Nixon left with a 33% approval rating. Some will always believe. But many will reevaluate. As I've said before, all of this will bring about new laws to protect us from having this ever happen again. This has allowed the bullies and racists to come out of hiding thinking they were going to be back in power. Not true. All that has happened is that they are now exposed. They'll have to change or be ostracized.
I don't know how it will play out. It could be like in the days of Nixon, where Agnew was ousted first, and both parties agreed on who the new VP would be before they focused on Nixon. I think if it was an anonymous vote, we'd be able to impeach in the senate as well. Unfortunately, the republicans are more concerned with appearances and staying in power than with protecting the constitution and the country. Knowing that he no longer has the support even in the republican party, Rumpus will leave so he can say he was victimized. He may cut a deal so he's not tried on some of what he did in office, but he was a criminal before he was elected, he won't get away unscathed.
I have faith in our younger generations. They are the ones who are struggling with being able to buy homes, student loan debt, a climate crisis. They grew up watching the older generations losing huge chunks of their retirement because the top 2% were trying to get richer and caused stock market crashes. They are the ones who have lived through bomb evacuation and live shooter drills at school. They are fed up with the violence and the thought that the rich should be entitled to get richer at their expense. They are less racist. They are less misogynistic. They are more accepting of differences, and seek to work together to bring about change. They give me hope. Each generation has seen some change-from those who watched the civil rights movements, to women's lib, etc. Each generation becomes more tolerant, and more aware.
As a country we will heal. All wounds are painful, and pain is a symptom of healing. This is no different. With all healing, pain lessens as we get closer to a full recovery.
I do not get that vibe. Just from his looks, I like him. He was doing the best he could while facing a big BULLY. I took the empath test and got a 15-15 1/2. I answered one question as a yes and no.