Recent Comments

1. about 8 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   ‘fool me once (2016), shame on you. Fool me twice (2024) shame on me’. This is simply shameful, incredibly shameful. This is going to be death by a thousand cuts. Almost every day of his presidency there will be something crazy.

2. about 8 hours ago on Prickly City

   You are sadly misinformed about these things, but what exactly are you fighting? I will always fight against ignorance and whatever it seeps in because of it. What you said in your comment was based on ignorance.

3. about 9 hours ago on The Grizzwells

   Tariffs are designed for and succeed in raising prices. The aim may be to produce goods in the US and better jobs, but those aims are not guaranteed and the success in achieving those aims after applying tariffs is very mixed. Most high-level economists don’t think much of Trump’s tariff plans.

4. about 10 hours ago on The Grizzwells

   If you’re referring to the H2-A visa program for short -term farm work, that is a relatively small percentage of the total farm workers, of which 40% are undocumented.

5. about 10 hours ago on Bottom Liners

   If he implements his tariffs, prices will go up even higher. So inflation will jump up. If he implements a rate of deportation greater than the present, expect a recession. If he is crazy enough to go all in on the idea that cryptocurrency investments by the US reserve would solve our National Debt problem, that may be a major financial disaster. The more I hear he is going forward with all of this, the angrier I get at all of the f*cking dimwits who voted him back in.

6. about 14 hours ago on Prickly City

   The role of the various secretaries is to provide advice to the President regarding situations related to their department. They can advise him to NOT do something if they think it is wrong, thus speaking truth to power. You focused on the very first part of my comment but ignored the rest. If the secretary believes strongly that it is the wrong thing to do and have not convinced the President of that, they may resign. As I said in my first comment ( the part that was ignored) there will be no speaking truth to power for Trump and that is where problems will manifest for all of us. Trump was and will be a bad President because he will not listen to the expert judgement of others well versed in a particular field. This can be a fault of any President, but it is especially apparent in Trump.

7. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   The hard part is that my fellow citizens normalized the events after the 2020 election and gave Trump a pass on trying to fraudulently overturn a fair election. He and his minions were already crying ‘rigged’ this time until they saw they were winning and suddenly fell silent. This time around he will have an even better chance to wreck us. I’m not sad for a party, I’m sad for my country.

8. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Please explain what you mean by ‘weaponization’. It’s been used a lot in response to normal legal procedures. So please explain the difference between the legal procedures used by an Independent Council of the DOJ and what you claim to be ‘weaponization’? You are free to provide as much irrefutable proof as you see fit to answer the question.

9. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   His picks come across as sycophants and opportunists for the most part. Many are under-qualified. Secretaries and department heads shouldn’t implement policy they are not on board with and would not hesitate to speak truth to power when the need arises. With Trump, that is a problem. Trump listens mostly to himself and having someone stand up to him is a sign of weakness in him and something he cannot abide. So expect a ‘pure Trump’ four years as it stands. Based on past history it will be very messy; lots of firings or subservience; lots of mistakes at the cost of the people.

10. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

    I have a similar idea. It’s the best way to cycle most of your remains back to nature. More and more states are allowing this type of process.