DudeMonkey
Semi-retired Geo/Archaeo/Hydrogeo-logist, boatman, resistor, zen-gineer, made of stardust, lubricated with whiskey and whimsy. Patreon and CoSoPRO
Joined Nov 2017
With Victor Orbán of Hungary showing up tomorrow at Mar-A-Lago with a diplomatic pouch that can't be examined, if the FBI/CIA/DOJ haven't managed to turn somebody on Trump's staff to find out what that is, they're falling down on their job. #politics
If only we could follow suit with TFG. #politics
"Former Pakistan President Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of leaking state secrets; ruling comes ahead of Feb. 8 national elections."
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has a unique opportunity to kick some badly neeglected legal proceedings in to gear while AG Garland is out with back surgery....just saying. I don't know who she is or how inclined she would be, but wouldn't that be a hoot? #politics
Looks like an innovative way to lower student debt costs or eliminate them for most people. It gets around the Republicans trashing biden's student loan forgiveness. First I have seen of this. It needs to get wider attention.
#Politics #StudentLoans
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/01/10/psst-joe-biden-has-solved-the-student-debt-crisis/
2/2 Wallace continues:
“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.
“Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
Thom Hartman, quoting FDR's 2nd VP Henry Wallace (a Socialist in fine standing): “The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact,” Wallace wrote. “Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy.”
https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-biden-take-on-trump-and-the-maga-310
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“On the day of our victory, I’ll put away my uniform, don an elegant gown and heels, and celebrate. I’ll get married and have a big happy family. But I’ll never forget the men & women who died for our freedom," Ivanna Lemeshko once wrote.
Ivanna died in combat this week.
Stolen from KOS: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/24/2195169/-Ukraine-Update-Ukraine-just-had-its-best-week-of-the-year
This war criminal is still alive.
*50 years ago on 9/11, Nixon and Kissinger killed Allende and Chile's Socialist Democracy*
Kissinger: "I read the briefing paper for this meeting and it was nothing but Human Rights," he told Carvajal. "The State Department is made up of people who have a vocation for the ministry. Because there are not enough churches for them, they went into the Department of State."
Greg Olear - Sunday Pages: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"If the First World War was dumb and avoidable, the Second World War was a necessary fight against a genocidal autocratic madman. The first Crimean War was dumb and avoidable. The war happening in Crimea now is a necessary fight against a genocidal autocratic madman."
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-the-charge-of-the-light
Here it comes...
All of them are in it...
Even folks I've never heard of.
40 charges or more...
Good hot summer afternoon!
I know you 'nauts, I trust you won't mind me making this small ask.
My friend Rich started this Change petition to get Colorado to make the return envelopes for your vote postage free. He's just short of 500 signatures - over that it gets promoted better. Do me a favor, add your signature.
42% of first-time voters don’t have a stamp in their home, yet returned ballots jumped from 43% to 74% when postage free. #voting #politics
TKS 💙
Call it Bidenomics. Call it luck, but the overall American economic situation is strong and getting stronger by a long shot. Not everyone feels this and certainly the media doesn't reflect this. Negativity drives clicks. I'm a Bernie socialist, but I think Biden has done an amazing job. Or call it luck.
https://fortune.com/2023/07/22/is-bear-market-over-stocks-sp-500-recession-economy/
Good morning all, headed for the coffee pot. Until I could get conscious enough I browsed the other site There are still a few gems left over there on the bird site. #CoSoMusic #politics
Enjoy...
https://twitter.com/alfreds74427060/status/1667095853398470656
There's child labor, then there's child labor. Anyone have any issues with this? I don't.
Also this morning I re-read this from Thom Hartmann from March 20, detailed in his books: *The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.* and *The Hidden History of the War On Voting.* #politics
|Republican candidates for president committing treason to get into or stay in the White House has been the norm since 1968: it’s time to seriously discuss the five-decade-long problem we have with treasonous and illegitimate GOP presidents.|
https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-has-ignored-gop-crimes-to
Good Sunday morning my friends. This morning in my email I read this from Greg Olear. #History, Tolstoy on Bonaparte, and present day corollaries, #politics, chance and *Great Men*.
"Bullshit, says Tolstoy. Great men are a product of their times—that is, of the random events that collectively shape history—and nothing more."
https://open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/p/sunday-pages-war-and-peace
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DudeMonkey
Semi-retired Geo/Archaeo/Hydrogeo-logist, boatman, resistor, zen-gineer, made of stardust, lubricated with whiskey and whimsy. Patreon and CoSoPRO
Joined Nov 2017