Loved seeing Fitzpatrick and McKenzie from PA on that letter about funding. Clearly they are in trouble which is good. I don’t understand why Fitzpatrick’s District keeps sending him back to Congress as he clearly does not represent their views.
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Concerns. Maybe they can send a strongly worded letter. Then Trump will yell at them on the phone and they’ll fall in line.
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Mike Johnson has Neuticles.
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He really does. I don’t remember ever seeing anyone before who had it so exactly. That alleged mouth of his…wow
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Antifa stole the “conservative path” so it will probably never be found
it is really awful to realize that a TRUMPF was actually elected by americans to lead their country. this shoots dpwn all the bullshit about American GREATNESS….all americans are great about is the enormous stupidity that has become so visible to the world at large.. it is now an eassy target for any one to take advantage of…lol, even RUSSIA is showing that they have gotten all they want from TRUMPF ,lol,‘hell no.we don’t need to talk to him.. he can go pound sand.
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its a sad day when an news source from outside the country, has the nerve to expose exactly what is happening in the USA…I WONDER WHAT roberts would do if trumpf was expelled from office, the supreme court is no longer supreme,it is just another group of people with opinions.
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hey, don’t sell the old ladies short, just because they don’tjump up and down , yell obscenities, means nothing, they do always vote, and it is a fact, young americans have been coddled all their lives; most of what they hold dear has been handed to them.’rent free’…now reality is catching up to them…old ladies know how to survive, the young peole do not.
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A bipartisan handful of lawmakers aren’t happy.
Laughable clowns aren’t even in session…the HOR is effectively defunct at the moment. They have ceded their power to Mike the lapdog and are being paid to malinger their way through what is rapidly becoming a disaster for millions of Americans…a feature of their policies…not a bug.
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I don’t know. They probably did vote, because as you note, we old ladies do vote!
But If ladies who were on Social Security in the very early 1970s apparently thought that Social Security was not government-related – as was the case that in that anecdote )) I’m not sure that their votes wre likely to be well-considered in the least and therefore quite possibly even more damaging for the country than if they’d stayed home. So I can definitely see why McGovern was terrified by what they said.
If somebody was on Social Security around 1971, then that person was adult before Social Security existed – and thus had seen the poverty of the elderly that prevailed around the country and the need for something like Social Security. And the person was an even more mature adult when FDR and conservatives fought like hell over his attempt to institute Social Security to help that situation.
So those particular ladies – who’d seen pre-Social Security poverty and definitely had been full-grown adults when the bitter political fights were waged over creating SS as a new government program to ease poverty – had forgotten by the time they were in their 60sthat the government had anything to do with their Social Security checks.
So while I think people should, I have my doubts about how smart the voting will be from people who-- as adults – lived through the high-profile founding of someting like Social Security and then just a few decades apparently forget entirely that those checks they get come only because the government is acting. I expect those are gonna be the people who vote for " a GREAT businessman" – like Trump, for example – as president because he’ll “keep the goverment out of” their Social Security! Not pulling the lever is one thing but pulling the lever when you have literally no idea how anything works even though you’ve seen it with your own eyes is also a problem! … Maybe an even bigger one!
I think this country is pretty cool. But we are having a bad patch. You can trash it all or realize there are few if any countries that have not had their rough moments in history. In the scheme of the world, we are rather young.
That is what gets me when we are chided from elsewhere. They tend to forget their own trespasses. For the pain, the blood, the sweat, we made a hell of impact on this world and we could argue good or bad. I lean definitely to the good. This malevolent administration, pulling aid away from many places in this world is showing us the price to be paid by not following through.
We are learning something right now. If we make it through, it will be a hell of a lesson and I expect our evolution has stepped past a plateau and it is headed to something new. Maybe better. Are we exceptional. I am biased. Always will be. And I have to see all of this through and see if we can recover that bit of conceit.
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i speak only for myself..i really have no idea what other e;derly people do or think. the current culture in this country is very depressing to say the least…so many people are dependant on the FEDs for ‘help’..from farmers to baby sitters, it will all collpase eventually, and i hope i am not around to see it.
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no, theUSA is not exceptional..you used the word ‘conceit’, the world is getting is getting smaller’ every day..look around you, what makes you think the USA is ‘exceptional’ in any way??
I’m sorry that I made myself so very unclear. I did not intend AT ALL in my original post or the second to imply anything about the voting of older women/people.
I was referring only to a very particular incident described in the post I was responding to about very specific women who said a very specific thing at a very specific time…And all I meant to say was that what they said clearly indicated that they had either forgotten or chosen to overlook two major events that happened during their adult lives and that would almost certainly affect your voting. And that voting when you’re either ignorant of major germane facts or choosing to ignore those facts isn’t necessarily any better for the country if you don’t vote at all.
I meant to talk about that one incident – and incident that’s substantially similar to it – but it in no way did I intend any shadow at all on older-women voters generally, and I completley agree with everything you’ve said about voters generally. I just didn’t make it clear enough that I was bitching a very particular case! Sorry to seem to have insulted people that I never intended to insult!