What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

toomuchbaloney · Jun 11, 2021

15 minutes ago, Curious1997 said:

Just wondering if I could have been right about Garland the whole time or he's just Biden ?? his time?

Doesn't explain how so many Trump appointments are still in office in the justice department?

I was very frustrated by his congressional testimony the other day. Today's remarks made me feel better. Somewhat.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jun 11, 2021

2 hours ago, Curious1997 said:

Apparently her constituents do. They keep releecting her. Maybe they are all anti semites or just uninformed.

Also by your statement, that means about 50% of congress shouldn't be there.

Well they've only re-elected her only once. I wouldn't paint her constituents with that brush. Her voters and district are pretty diverse with a high number of people of color, poor, and millennial. American Somali's also apparently turned out in large numbers. Her and AOC and a few others in 2018 were the beginning of the power of the millennial vote over the boomers.

guest1163268 · Jun 11, 2021

I'll tell you one thing I will be eternally grateful to Trump for, is he was able to pinpoint all of the holes in our very leaky constitution and highlight the load of twaddle we have been fed over the years re how great our country is!

So great, that a wannabe mafiosi was able to fool 40%? of the people to vote for him and then convince about 30% to stay loyal!

My job in Psych is safe for years to come with so many lunatics running around!

My only drawback is that I have ethics and a moral compass that prevents me from exploiting these hapless afflicted people. I kick myself every day because it would be so easy to just rake in the bucks. I'm not even religious and these moral constraints are worse than the guilt of the catholics. Religious people seem to be able to indulge their hypocrisy so easily, but ethics and morals are much better jails and constraints.

guest1163268 · Jun 12, 2021

Does Texans feel embarrassed by Louis Gormless? Is he embarrassed that on the domestic stage he is such a fool?

Look up Gormless everyone, because it describes him perfectly!

guest1163268 · Jun 12, 2021

Re the reports about the justice Dept illegally monitoring Dems communiques, that's how a functional country operates. Unfortunately it took the press to make the discovery when it should have been addressed by the justice Dept itself, but we'll see what happens?

I have repeatedly expressed scepticism about Garland primarily because he reminds me of Mueller. I sort of changed my judgment slightly about him with his recent investigations but underneath his OS remains the same. On one hand he is exactly who you would want for an AG, but not directly after a Trump govt. Preet Boharra or Sally Yates would have been better. But he can still make the right choices.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Jun 12, 2021

23 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

I prefer people who understand the importance of apology to the other side of that spectrum.

It would be better if she learned to curb her tongue. She expresses some familiar sentiments of Marjoie TG who believes my peeps send lasers to start fires in California and that's enough to make my stomach lurch. It would be better if she just put her nose on the grindstone and went to work without all the drama. Hilary Clinton had the smarts and the grace to shut up and learn when she was our senator in NY. I'm also leery of folks in politics sending religious signals with their head dress.....even if they were Amish! The congress had a exemption clause from religious garb until her and I wish they would have kept it. There's church and then there's state. I really don't want to know my congressperson's religion. I just want to know how they vote on bills and if they are respectable to their constituents. I understand where her anti-Semitism comes from. She is the poster child for the damage political conflict does to children and rare is the person who's life isn't dictated by the constant trauma they endured. But secular Jews in Israel (about 80% of the population) are sympathetic to the Arab's plight. It's the religious loonies in Likud who have the political clout there (sound familiar?). I doubt that there is a large Hasidic population in Minnesota, so why brush your own liberal Jewish constituents with slurs? Bite thy tongue, please.

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jun 12, 2021

FYI: Minnesota + Pennsylvania have had a 45% increase in Jewish population over the last few years.

toomuchbaloney · Jun 12, 2021

41 minutes ago, subee said:

It would be better if she learned to curb her tongue. She expresses some familiar sentiments of Marjoie TG who believes my peeps send lasers to start fires in California and that's enough to make my stomach lurch. It would be better if she just put her nose on the grindstone and went to work without all the drama. Hilary Clinton had the smarts and the grace to shut up and learn when she was our senator in NY. I'm also leery of folks in politics sending religious signals with their head dress.....even if they were Amish! The congress had a exemption clause from religious garb until her and I wish they would have kept it. There's church and then there's state. I really don't want to know my congressperson's religion. I just want to know how they vote on bills and if they are respectable to their constituents. I understand where her anti-Semitism comes from. She is the poster child for the damage political conflict does to children and rare is the person who's life isn't dictated by the constant trauma they endured. But secular Jews in Israel (about 80% of the population) are sympathetic to the Arab's plight. It's the religious loonies in Likud who have the political clout there (sound familiar?). I doubt that there is a large Hasidic population in Minnesota, so why brush your own liberal Jewish constituents with slurs? Bite thy tongue, please.

Her opinions aren't crazy, they just don't represent those typically expressed by American politicians, and that's likely because she's a Muslim immigrant from Somalia and not a white christian born in the USA.

Her preferred style of dress shouldn't offend anyone.

We should start limiting religious expression among politicians with the largest religious group represented in Congress, not the smallest groups ... don't you think?

guest1163268 · Jun 12, 2021

This is America!

We scoff at socialist/capitalist countries like the Nordic ones, but the end result is happier people with hope in their lives unlike us, with economic enslavement from a deeply corrupt system.

When you work as a team, much more is accomplished as opposed to us where only a few people rake in all the money and pay literally NO TAXES, while the middle class pays most because they are insecure and moronic enough to fall for the American exceptionalism nonsense!

Think about how much we spend on defense and petty crooks on a household budget is able to hijack critical infrastructure and bring the country to a standstill!!!

Who's the idiots?

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jun 13, 2021

I've great difficulty watching Fox network these days as I view so much distortion of events seen with my own eyes.

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“The Fox of 2021 is different even than the Fox of 2019.” That was the key point that CNN anchor Brian Stelter wanted to stress in his recent interview with The New Republic. Stelter’s recent book, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, an updated edition of which was published in paperback on Tuesday, covers the network’s metamorphosis and accelerating radicalism in the Trump era in exacting depth, offering a rare look inside the profoundly influential cable news network and providing a disturbing inside portrait of how it came to enable Trump’s disastrous presidency.

The book also provides the most detailed account of how Fox came to advance the two big lies of 2020: its decisions to downplay the danger of Covid-19 and back Trump’s deceptive claims about the presidential election....

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...I think of Fox as much more of a leader than a follower. I think of Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham as more influential than your average GOP lawmaker. These lawmakers and these base activists are taking their cues from Fox. So Fox is programming the Republican Party.

We kind of knew this in the Bush years. We sort of saw it in the Obama years. But it wasn’t clear as day, it wasn’t extreme until the Trump years. My gosh, in the Bush years there was a liberal in prime time! In the Obama years, Roger Ailes wouldn’t let the stars talk about birtherism. But in the Trump years, there were no rules. There were no leaders. In the same way that the GOP felt reckless and leaderless, Fox felt reckless and leaderless. ...

subee, MSN, CRNA · Jun 13, 2021

18 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Her opinions aren't crazy, they just don't represent those typically expressed by American politicians, and that's likely because she's a Muslim immigrant from Somalia and not a white christian born in the USA.

Her preferred style of dress shouldn't offend anyone.

We should start limiting religious expression among politicians with the largest religious group represented in Congress, not the smallest groups ... don't you think?

Anti semitic is not crazy. It's just anti-semitic. She has been radicalized by spending childhood in a refugee camp. I probably would feel the same way and wouldn't have been a evolved enough person until I was much older than her to realize that my childhood nightmare doesn't have to define what I am now as an adult. I am not ego-centric enough to be offended by people's clothing. It's just illogical to give one person a special exception and not another of a different religion.

toomuchbaloney · Jun 13, 2021

25 minutes ago, subee said:

Anti semitic is not crazy. It's just anti-semitic. She has been radicalized by spending childhood in a refugee camp. I probably would feel the same way and wouldn't have been a evolved enough person until I was much older than her to realize that my childhood nightmare doesn't have to define what I am now as an adult. I am not ego-centric enough to be offended by people's clothing. It's just illogical to give one person a special exception and not another of a different religion.

Her clothing preferences disturb you enough to mention that she shouldn't be allowed to dress that way for her work. No one person was exempted from the rule. The rule was outdated and bad and was removed for all members of the House.