At his age, and considering his god awful diet, I suspect he will not make it through the end of his presidency. The right side of his face droops any time he tries to smile, which signals a previous stroke or TBI, and is the reason I believe he constantly does that scrunch up smile instead of smiling normally. He is hiding the true him all the way till the end.

Trump has announced that he will head the Kennedy Center and dismiss the current board.

They talk a lot about how guns are protection against tyranny. What they don't talk about is what they consider tyranny. To them it's only tyranny if it's something that's stopping them from buying a new gun.

I don’t think most people realize how bad the teacher shortage is across the country and what the ramifications are going to be. There’s a medium sized college near me and out of the 1200 or so grads, only 5 of them were teachers. Beyond that, there isn’t a lot of incentive for people to become teachers. Most districts are so throttled by state funding that the pay isn’t great. Behavior issues are a huge problem that parents aren’t doing anything about. Everybody acknowledges it’s a problem but people aren’t doing anything about it. Some districts are already hiring teachers from overseas because they can’t fill their positions.

Here’s my prediction. People aren’t going to give a shit until school districts have no choice but to have digital school where one teacher is teaching multiple classes via Zoom while the class is overseen by some underpaid para. By then the damage is done and it’s going to take decades to fix it.

The only way this doesn’t become a reality is if the feds and individual sates release more money for school funding. Young people don’t take jobs for “fulfillment” or “work culture” anymore. They take jobs because life is expensive. Even that isn’t enough. Parents are going to have to start parenting. I work for a school district. The amount of shitty parents dropping off their elementary aged kids off at school in their pajamas at 10:00 is fucking disgusting. The amount of parents who just don’t give a shit about their kids and their education are disgusting. The disrespect kids show their teachers is a direct connection to their home life.

Sorry for the word vomit. I’m on something today.

Edit: Talking about the United States, but I’m sure other countries are in a similar position.

When society & the economy inevitably crumbles, MAGA won’t have some grand epiphany. They’ll simply blame their failures on Democrats & Minorities, and use it as justification to increase the intensity of persecution.

This has been the case in every example.

I am fairly certain at this point that Mangione intended to get caught and turn his trial into a media circus.

You always read these stories of people hiring hit men to kill spouses for $15,000, what kind of hitman with someone get with a $500,000 payout from a spouse who died from a curable disease but was denied coverage by UHC? The guy left Monopoly money in his bag to be found, he had words written on the shell cases so they would be found. This seems like someone really wanted to make sure the point came across and I don't believe they're gonna find the shooter because he's probably in Europe by now.

They helped push the the Iraq war and it’s easier to dick us over than take from social security or Medicare

With the Julie Roberts narrated ad about who you vote for is private information, even from your husband, the right has completely lost their minds about the prospect their wives will secretly vote Harris.

As such, if Harris wins (which I think she will), the MAGA sect of the GOP will heavily push for “election reform” to limit the number of votes per household to 1, with the implicit goal of restricting women’s right to vote.

Getting rid of the 19th Amendment is effectively impossible, and “one vote per household” is a “work-around” women voting.

And probably in the not too distant future.

Since the new administration is just picking tv personalities to run the government...since the orange fellow doesntcan't read...figured it was fitting.