We might be making notes on how to be Vietnam or Afghanistan instead. Americans are our friends, unless they decide not to be.

I guess other countries won’t need to defend themselves against the US in the future because Trump is actively trying to kill off more Americans than any other country could.

TLDR: I drank the KoolAid then did as much as I could to convince others drink the KoolAid. Now I’m shocked that we were all poisoned.

Yeah that is part of the reason non-Americans are not visiting the US. We assume that what we have said has been recorded and flagged at some point.

We all know that with boyfriends like that, if one his friends did get her, he’d be calling her names and forgiving his friend.

Why do they think they should be protected from the type of havoc they are inflicting on other working people?

Used to be that satire could be understood or determined from the context but not now. Satire is policy for some people. Always need to use /s to show that you are sane and rational.

His wife would be illegal by current ICE standards so her and her anchor baby Barron should be deported or sent to El Salvador.

I’d agree that it peaked a long time ago. I joined in 2008 or so because my teenage sons had joined. We didn’t know each other’s IDs, I wanted to know what they were interested in and found a couple communities I liked for myself. Every year it got less inclusive and the toxicity that was contained to some communities started to spill over. I had already left when the corporatization started in earnest.

Republicans / Conservatives have always told their members that they are better stewards of finances and yet for the last 40-50 years they have been the ones to drive up the debt and run annual deficits while handing ever increasing amounts of money to the 1%. How they keep convincing their members that it is the left who are the problem, is a remarkable study in propaganda.

Very little. I’ve always wanted to be paid for the work I do so I have always paid others for the work they have done for me. If I couldn’t afford to pay for it, I didn’t steal it instead.

Another reason not to buy American produce.

Last time housing prices crashed in the USA, people’s incomes crashed as well or their mortgage obtaining ability did. All it meant was that the already rich and corporations were able to buy up real estate cheap. Did not remotely help 90% of the population.

Yep. For some reason I’ve never tired of that song. Others I would hate hearing 1/100th as much but not it.

It would be better if people stopped fucking billionaires. Really we don’t need their spawn.

Not all immigration is bad. Not all foreign workers are bad. However when companies/employers are allowed to freely manipulate the system so that Canadians cannot get the jobs or the training and ‘scholarships’ and apprenticeships are for women, indigenous, and immigrants first, then Canadians who are excluded will be resentful. There was a news report yesterday of someone trying to raise money to keep an unqualified student in Canada, all expenses paid, because that young person had “potential”. So do many other young Canadians and yet no one is trying to sponsor them if their parents cannot afford to send them to post secondary training. When a Canadian needs a trade certificate to do a job but a TFW can use the fake certificate his friend created for him, it isn’t a equal employment field.

When has he ever had the pretense of ethics?

They are…billionaires. That is the common denominator of horrible people. They think that because they are rich beyond measure that their opinions should rule the world. The world would be a much much better place if we were rid of the pestilence of the billionaire class and maybe the ‘$100s of millions’ class. No one gets to being a billionaire by being completely honest, law abiding, fair, moral and ethical. Rules must be ignored in the quest for superlative riches. Those rules are only for those who haven’t become rich enough to ignore them. Even if they seem like benign benefactors, scratch the surface and you will find they are, without exception, evil.

Except Trump has finally made every other country in the world question why we don’t just cut the rope. I think the rope will be cut if Trump continues to stay in office.

Was in a foreign country recently. The toilets were marked M/F. Walked in one door and my husband went in the other and they both opened into the same large room with sinks in the middle and fully closed cubicles around the edge.