The answer IS Georgia. I see it every day. I watch people drive up to the grocery store in their Land Rovers, Lexus’, and Mercedes, then pay with their EBT cards. And none of them ever thank me for buying their groceries. All while I count our pennies, follow a budget, and drive home in my 15 year old truck with 300k miles on it.
We have developed and continuously foster a parasite class. The only way to stop it is to eliminate all government handouts, subsidies, and assistance programs. No more unemployment, no EBT, no help of any kind. Leave that to our churches, synagogues and private charities.
So sick of the parasites, these human “ticks” that feed off the blood they suck from their host. Starve them. Let them fall, let Darwin clear the debris.
That is the most important thing, Valoree. Charity must be performed face to face with each person looking in the other's eyes. There must be clear understanding that this charity is being given with the expectation it is to help you get back on your own. This is not an allowance that comes automatically. Remember when Democrats cried how inhumane it was to require welfare recipients to actually come and wait in a line? That was dehumanizing for the poor fraudsters. Now it is much easier and no one has to see them doing it.
I would say Texas….grift in Houston from millions of foreigners allowed in 8 years of Preezy and 4 w SniffPerv - a good number are on construction jobs, but families, cousins, and grift of african & asian cultures planted all over this huge state, Tx IT systems do NOT have DOGE Big Ball wonks running them - Big Software system Integrators running their $100 million 5 year ‘projects’ to design ‘Programs’ ……. State has billions in surpluses, Legislatures job is to spend it, and give a little back to homeowners it came from….
Living in TX and seeing how it has changed in the past 11 years we’ve been here, that was my conclusion as well. Heck the left wing City Council (not our council person, but she is only one vote) voted to NOT cooperate with ICE.
Plus, TX is a huge state so the numbers would add up.
In "Georgia", "Theoretically", if you can claim you are a family of Four making a gross income of under $3400 (Maybe now $6800) then you get the Lamborghini and a handicap decal, as long as your name is Joe! The real question is: Why do we keep voting for perpetrators of fraud?!?!
Who was the primary architect of the Welfare Reform act of 1996? Good intentions gone astray! Not so uncommon! Another is the Patriot Act which now goes after Patriots! After 30 years, EBT has evolved into a taxpayer Nightmare and republicans, I voted for. Turned a blind eye!
Yup. Everything you've named is unconstitutional on its face. Too bad we have 535 alleged "representatives of the people" who pretended to take an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Kennedy is clearly very educated, very bright, and seems thoughtful, but he spends more time on his jokes than he does pruning legislation. And all his colleagues are “his very good friends.” Wonder who he voted for as Leader? Probably the empty suit (Thune) but maybe the biggest RINO (Cornyn.) Florida’s Scott seems not to be “Kennedy’s good friend.”
I like Sen Kennedy & Sen Scott, but I never considered either as solid conservatives. Of course Scott would have been a 100% improvement over Thune & is more conservative than Kennedy. But I wouldn't call Kennedy a RINO.
I think we must be very careful in “describing solid conservatives”. After all, the greatest president in my 82 years is none other than DJT! I was a history major and have serious doubts that any president has had a greater positive impact on change than Trump. Of course, Washington, Lincoln and Grant all made highly significant contributions, and none were “solid conservatives.”
I don't think we would describe PDJT as a solid Republican, but he is most certainly the most effective, consequential President we have ever had certainly in my lifetime (and I've been around since before Eisenhower was President because when he came to visit the AFB that was just outside of my hometown, my Girl Scout troop marched in the parade given in his honor)
I like and respect Senator Kennedy very much. He is a genuine person with a nice way of expressing things. He must be very smart as he took his graduate studies at Oxford, and had to adapt to, and embrace, the very stodd English manner of doing everything. Say what you want about the English but they are very demanding in their schools. My son did his junior year of college at University of Cambridge and students in our own colleges have no idea of what "tough" actually is. Students go through three separate terms with no tests. At the end of the year, you have your final exam for every subject. Many kids in my son's exchange class ended up losing credit for their entire year and had to completely repeat it.
Reminds me of HS in NYC - you take World Hist 1 & 2, American Hist 1 & 2, Economics - and then in your senior year, you take the NY State History Regents exam. I managed to pass it - but some didn't.
I would bet you are correct - I took that History regents exam in 1964. Even tougher was the NY State Electronics Regents exam, which also covered 3 years of Electronics classes. I graduated with both the Regents (Academic) and NY State Electronics diplomas. If I recall correctly, I was only 1 of the 8 students that passed the Electronics exam. Public education has really gone downhill in the last 60+ years.
I am tiring of Kennedy and his "big as Dallas" etc because he takes to much time spitting out the words...get on with it already. He is performing, not legislating and yes we know all the degrees from England,etc., still not that impressed.
This. THIS. Is why we need to end ALL federal social programs. Not their job. IDC how many poor destitute hungry homeless people there are. Our government should not be involved in that. It’s a local community problem and should be handled locally.
The “local community” where I live —land of 10k frauds—just passed another $40mm of our money for ‘rent assistance’ to those ‘affected by ICE.’ At a generous rent of $2500/mo, that works out to 16,000 affectants. Signed, another cold hearted taxpayer
Well, HUD uses the market rents to determine how much rental waste will be.
I'm sure this completely distorts the rental markets; why wouldn't landlords continuously raise rents, knowing the new pricing will be used to justify increases in rental waste that goes into their pockets?
One addition. DFL stands for democrat, farmer, laborer (singular? plural? close enuf). I do not know a single farmer and I live in farmland, who is a d. And most of the men who rebuilt the road in front of my house last summer had Trump bumper stickers. Not a scientific sample, but…
It's from a long gone era. If you look at the old symbol for the USSR, it featured a hammer, the laborer, and a sickle, the farmer. Minnesota democrats are communists to the marrow and had dreams of a Stalinesque utopia in the land of 10,000 pot holes.
Not much has changed there.. maybe someone should tell them the Soviet onion got peeled.
But maybe they know. Maybe that's why tampon Timmy is sucking up to communist China.
I hate to bring this up, but although we conservatives usually point to LBJ as the progenitor of expanded welfare (to "get those ni__ers to vote democrat for a hundred years"), his efforts were magnified by Nixon, whose Quaker roots predisposed him to thinking kindly of "social welfare" as some kind of eleventh commandment. "Thou shalt take from the rich and give (what you stole) to the poor." He proposed the Family Assistance Plan which, although it was narrowly defeated in the Senate, proposed massive expansion of public assistance in the form of "negative income tax" (i.e., what we now have in the form of "tax credits") as well as expanded medical and other freebees. Under Nixon, America was gifted with SSI-which has nothing to do with Social Security itself, but is purely another payment transfer mechanism, funneling money from taxpayers to tax eaters. He oversaw approvingly a massive expansion of Medicare for "senior citizens" and Medicaid, which is simply using taxpayer money to pay for medical care to everybody-the proverbial "socialized medicine." Of course, a democrat party dominated Congress was instrumental in this socialization of America, expanding everything from so-called "voting rights" (a system that promoted black votes over those of white citizens) to unemployment benefits, and "affirmative action", which determined outcomes based on skin color (now expanded to cover a myriad of group characteristics, from gender/sex to national origin to deviant sexual proclivities) over every other consideration. Sadly, ever since FDR, the socialization ratchet has always and everywhere moved leftward. And here we are, left holding the bag, out of which the cats were let out decades ago, never to be put back in again. A truism: once people learn that they can "vote themselves rich," and politicians realize they can get elected by promising "free" money and benefits, the doom spiral begins and it never ends until doom descends. Have a happy day, fellow Surberites.
Good & accurate trip down memory lane. In retrospect, I think Medicare & its offspring Medicaid & Obamacare that will turn out to be the straw that broke the camel. I didn’t think anyone could out grift politicians, but I was wrong, aka the healthcare industry.
Medicare is less of a freebie than many people think. Since I retired and was forced to accept Medicare, I have paid MORE monthly for my health insurance covering LESS, than I did while I was still working. When I first switched to Medicare, my monthly cost jumped by 27% over my previous coverage, for far LESS coverage. I don’t know where all that Govt money is going, but it sure ain’t coming to me.
Agree cost wise. My intent was to call out the basic concept behind these programs - that governments can provide these services reasonably & effectively.
I've always wondered why liberals hated Nixon so much since he accomplished many things on their wish list. In retrospect JFK cold be considered conservative & you could label Nixon a liberal.
Luckily, we learned today the Voting Rights Act has been challenged by the Supreme court to stop - undo - the racist gerrymandered voting districts created by Democrats to provide an undeserved representation in our government. Your comment also suggests the Uniparty has been in power a lot longer than it is given credit.
Wasn't that in the days of the dustbowl and Great Depression? There certainly was great need back then but somehow most people were able to scrape by and even give a little bit to those who were in greater need than themselves
We lost the Constitution part of our Republic years ago and nobody (neither party) seems to want to talk about that fact. We pretend everything is as it was intended at our founding but we never highlight the laws, abuses, and direct obfuscation of our Constitution on a daily/weekly basis.
The above is only a short list tied to Obama with expansion on others from history. Our system is not perfect, but the abuses of record suggest it is no longer an important piece of our operations. Some abuses have been corrected with later rulings (that's part of a good system), others continue without anyone caring. There is plenty of blame to go around, but the Democrats have perfected ways to find and build loopholes into our system as we have seen so many times reading this substack.
"I prefer to support reform daily rather than dooming . . "
If you re-read my comment, I reference corrections that are sometimes made to mistakes, which does NOT remove the threat of widespread work to destroy our Constitution.
The rot is deeper and wider than most anyone would imagine. I do hope you realize this kind of erosion on our Constitution is one of the deep state's most important missions - and goals. They are gaining on it every year. It took 49 years for the Roe decision to be properly scuttled and which resulted in massive reaction/violence from about half of the country. It also strongly suggests that the deep state obfuscation of Constitutionality can truly build a supportive audience willing to destroy it.
Just yesterday in Robert Malone's Substack we read about the latest destruction attempts of our Constitutional rights that are being promoted by big industry and government of both parties: Kill switches in cars, another "Patriot Act" stealing of our Constitutional rights:
The frequent reference to dooming from some in the female cohort here seems to apply to anything that tries to illustrate the emergency status we face, which at times is to say we have 'lost' something. That is just name calling instead of offering a substantive response. It is no different than leftists calling MAGA folks racists all the time.
Dooming, as you like to say, is EXACTLY how this country was founded in 1776. If that group of men sat around waiting (hoping) for slow incremental change over years, decades, we would have perished. They demanded swift, seemingly extreme, decisive, risky action, immediately to confront the threat from England - or what you refer to as dooming.
My reply to this appears to be lost in the ether, so this may appear as a duplicate…
What I meant by dooming is surrendering, quitting.
It’s the difference between “we WILL lose, because we have already lost” as opposed to “we WILL lose” if we don’t do everything possible to fight, know our enemy, know the obstacles.
And I do. Nothing in your comment about the fight we’re in is new to me.
If you meant the latter, I apologize. I guess it sounded like the former to me because it was a good list I’ve heard so many times.
It’s in God’s hands anyway. We need His help for the latter.
You say, "It’s the difference between “we WILL lose, because we have already lost” as opposed to “we WILL lose” if we don’t do everything possible to fight, know our enemy, know the obstacles."
I haven't heard anyone say "we will lose because we have already lost". When I say we have lost our Constitution - that fact is backed up by dozens of examples going back more than a century and most aren't aware of it's completely eroded state. We are living in a dream state regarding the Constitution. I have heard many express a deep concern we are absolutely losing the House (and the Senate is in play more every passing week) but nobody knows until it actually happens, but at this point in time we have lost the House. Is that dooming to state what is based on data?
I have seen regular references to 'dooming' in response to any comment that correctly states the dire straits we are facing against the deep state, especially since some of our biggest foes are Republicans in the Senate.
I can understand if some believe certain policy priorities are (or are not) as important as others because smart people can disagree. The answer is substantive debate - using facts and sources - as the proper reply if one chooses to engage. What I object to is the seemingly regular attribution that a strong and highly alarming fear comment over an issue is dismissed as 'dooming' rendering it as meaningless. It is not. It is an honest attempt by that person to bring attention to an issue. If you disagree that it is lost, then reply with your substantive evidence to the contrary.
> “ but at this point in time we have lost the House. Is that dooming to state what is based on data?” <
I have not seen evidence or “data” enough to make me believe we have lost the house; especially after today’s victory at the SCOTUS. I also haven’t seen enough evidence to prove we will win it.
I thought that Brandon Gill was spectacular yesterday with his questioning of whoever that woman was about which exactly was her preferred for of abortion among the various gruesome ones he so patiently described to all those present. He is definitely a rising star for TX as far as I'm concerned and he may be the youngest member in Congress
The art of debate - even difficult, in-your-face debate - is rocket fuel for moving issues, creating awareness, and changing minds. We have a lot of minds to change before November.
the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it. These are required to temper the emotions of the moment that would otherwise trample a minority. See Virginia.
been that way for decades. when i was 13 (1961) we were visiting my grandmother who lived on van wagoner street in north flint,mi. i was sitting on the front porch with my great uncle george who then was probably 75 years old. we were discussing the detroit tigers of course. a black lady with 5 kids lived across the street. she pulled into her driveway with groceries and the kids all came out of the house to unload the haul. i said: "she has a nice car uncle george". he said: "yup. if you're going to be on food stamps you might as well drive to the welfare office in a cadillac (she was driving a new one). so that was 65 years ago just 3 years after the food stamp program had kicked in i believe.
“So while Senator John Kennedy was complaining about troops getting a nice meal before a heavy assignment…” I don’t think this is actually what happened. Not his style at all.
Per ClaudeAI: “It doesn’t appear that Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) was among those criticizing the military steak and lobster meals. In fact, based on the search results, the criticism came primarily from the other side of the aisle…Sen. Kennedy’s name does come up in relation to a past spending criticism — back in 2019, Kennedy questioned federal agencies going on end-of-fiscal-year spending sprees, which included $2.3 million for lobster tails and $293,245 for steak — but that was aimed at general federal agency waste, not military meals specifically.”
Grok: Kennedy said in 2019: “It’s like we gave Paul Manafort the government’s credit card and told him to spend like crazy. This is absolutely ridiculous... It’s reckless, runaway spending.”
Any bias in a LLM is a result of its training. I use ChatGPT quite a lot and, while it’s a very useful tool, I think it has a definite bias to the left. Grok, on the other hand, seems to be the most centered of the major platforms. But maybe that’s my bias showing through. LOL
It is owned by Google so that is not an unwarranted concern. But it is the goto used by a young friend of mine who is knowledgeable about this stuff. Leftist as it maybe apparently there is no government back door channel (???).
Claude is a major problem. In response to a recent command from its “bosses,” it responded by wiping the company’s databases, including backups, and did it all in nine seconds, far too fast to be stopped.
Grok: Kennedy said in 2019: “It’s like we gave Paul Manafort the government’s credit card and told him to spend like crazy. This is absolutely ridiculous... It’s reckless, runaway spending.”
It is the death of shame. Ben Franklin said, "the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
In the mid 70s I was a student at Berkeley, and was broke. My parents had no money and I was working part time to support myself and go to school—barely making ends meet. My girlfriend at the time said I should apply for food stamps, as I was likely eligible, so I did. I had to pay some nominal amount (I honestly don't remember what) for the first month's $25 book of coupons. I was deeply embarrassed to use them, and worse, I had to re-apply the next month so my situation and eligibility could be reviewed. I was waiting in the Social Services office in Oakland in my Berkeley sweatshirt looking around at mostly older people and young women with babies. Mine was the only white face in the room. I got up and left and never put my hand out to the government again.
Today, no one can tell if someone is using an EBT card or a Platinum Amex at the self-checkout line. There is no stigma attached to scamming the system, and almost no risk. Like our elections, the EBT system is broken, yet working pretty much as designed.
I bet it's GA, and I bet that 90% of it is Fulton County, and 99% is metro ATL. I grew up in ATL, moved away 34 yrs ago. But when I visit relatives, I'm always astounded by all the luxury vehicles. There's so many, it can't just be wealthy people driving them.
I think it's like the $300 Nikes worn by kids living in public housing. In that culture, the display of expensive consumer goods is an extremely significant status symbol.
You don’t even have to know about the cars to know about how broken the system is. You can see it by noting that the vast majority of EBT users are morbidly obese.
Poster Adorable Deplorable above notes that it should be churches and the community which should be taking care of the poor and sick rather than the government. Agree. But I vividly remember being at my church decorating it for Christmas when food baskets were being handed out to those who supposedly couldn’t afford to pay for their own Christmas dinners. Every single person from the local community who showed up for a basket was obese or morbidly obese. And that was about 30 years ago.
Not only should the whole system be cleaned up, but those EBT cards should only be paying for fresh vegetables, lean chicken and staples such as rice, milk, flour, canned tuna and eggs.
There's another way to look at the "morbidly obese" food stamp recipients. Their life expectancy is 8 to 14 years shorter than for people "with a healthy BMI." It follows that the fatsos won't draw "benefits" for nearly as many years, which should save the government money.
EBT recipients are driving luxury cars? Good grief.
Giving the states a 10% commission on all of the EBT‘s that it sells is like giving someone a 10% commission for giving away someone else’s money. Oh wait, that’s exactly what it is.
I used to have a rental property located two blocks from the local food pantry. On distribution days the street would be lined with Cadillacs and Lincolns waiting to get their free food.
My brother worked as a bagger after he retired. He once told me that the number of EBT recipients buying high end steaks and driving luxury vehicles was mind boggling. He also said they never tipped.
The answer IS Georgia. I see it every day. I watch people drive up to the grocery store in their Land Rovers, Lexus’, and Mercedes, then pay with their EBT cards. And none of them ever thank me for buying their groceries. All while I count our pennies, follow a budget, and drive home in my 15 year old truck with 300k miles on it.
We have developed and continuously foster a parasite class. The only way to stop it is to eliminate all government handouts, subsidies, and assistance programs. No more unemployment, no EBT, no help of any kind. Leave that to our churches, synagogues and private charities.
So sick of the parasites, these human “ticks” that feed off the blood they suck from their host. Starve them. Let them fall, let Darwin clear the debris.
APS out
Yup, always thought the local church and community would take care of the poor and sick an awful lot better than grubmint. At a fraction of the cost.
And we do. On the ground, face to face.
That is the most important thing, Valoree. Charity must be performed face to face with each person looking in the other's eyes. There must be clear understanding that this charity is being given with the expectation it is to help you get back on your own. This is not an allowance that comes automatically. Remember when Democrats cried how inhumane it was to require welfare recipients to actually come and wait in a line? That was dehumanizing for the poor fraudsters. Now it is much easier and no one has to see them doing it.
And they don’t have to look into the eyes of the person from whom the money comes, as you said.
When the govt doesn't interfere.
Agreed....stop it all.....
isn't that ya'll?
Didn’t know, but picked Georgia. Something must be in the water there.
but al...how do you really feel about it.
100 percent agree
I would say Texas….grift in Houston from millions of foreigners allowed in 8 years of Preezy and 4 w SniffPerv - a good number are on construction jobs, but families, cousins, and grift of african & asian cultures planted all over this huge state, Tx IT systems do NOT have DOGE Big Ball wonks running them - Big Software system Integrators running their $100 million 5 year ‘projects’ to design ‘Programs’ ……. State has billions in surpluses, Legislatures job is to spend it, and give a little back to homeowners it came from….
Living in TX and seeing how it has changed in the past 11 years we’ve been here, that was my conclusion as well. Heck the left wing City Council (not our council person, but she is only one vote) voted to NOT cooperate with ICE.
Plus, TX is a huge state so the numbers would add up.
Amen Mr Sweeney!!
Also remember all the private sector unemployable non-whites who the Democrats and Rinos created all these agencies to employ for votes.
In "Georgia", "Theoretically", if you can claim you are a family of Four making a gross income of under $3400 (Maybe now $6800) then you get the Lamborghini and a handicap decal, as long as your name is Joe! The real question is: Why do we keep voting for perpetrators of fraud?!?!
I'm not sure we do. The election systems are as fraudulent as EBT in many jurisdictions, I'd wager.
Who was the primary architect of the Welfare Reform act of 1996? Good intentions gone astray! Not so uncommon! Another is the Patriot Act which now goes after Patriots! After 30 years, EBT has evolved into a taxpayer Nightmare and republicans, I voted for. Turned a blind eye!
Yup. Everything you've named is unconstitutional on its face. Too bad we have 535 alleged "representatives of the people" who pretended to take an oath to uphold the Constitution.
I trust you’ll tell us the answer soon.
I’m ruling out Florida and Texas, because they have Guvs capable of shame. That leaves Georgia and Mississippi, either of which seems possible.
I’m awaiting the answer soon so that my bullsh*@ detector can be recalibrated.
I bet it's GA, and I bet that 90% of it is Fulton County.
Has to be Georgia because Mississippi doesn't have those kind of cars in the state. Georgia has plenty
Kennedy is clearly very educated, very bright, and seems thoughtful, but he spends more time on his jokes than he does pruning legislation. And all his colleagues are “his very good friends.” Wonder who he voted for as Leader? Probably the empty suit (Thune) but maybe the biggest RINO (Cornyn.) Florida’s Scott seems not to be “Kennedy’s good friend.”
I like Sen Kennedy & Sen Scott, but I never considered either as solid conservatives. Of course Scott would have been a 100% improvement over Thune & is more conservative than Kennedy. But I wouldn't call Kennedy a RINO.
I think we must be very careful in “describing solid conservatives”. After all, the greatest president in my 82 years is none other than DJT! I was a history major and have serious doubts that any president has had a greater positive impact on change than Trump. Of course, Washington, Lincoln and Grant all made highly significant contributions, and none were “solid conservatives.”
Well put analysis !!
I don't think we would describe PDJT as a solid Republican, but he is most certainly the most effective, consequential President we have ever had certainly in my lifetime (and I've been around since before Eisenhower was President because when he came to visit the AFB that was just outside of my hometown, my Girl Scout troop marched in the parade given in his honor)
I like and respect Senator Kennedy very much. He is a genuine person with a nice way of expressing things. He must be very smart as he took his graduate studies at Oxford, and had to adapt to, and embrace, the very stodd English manner of doing everything. Say what you want about the English but they are very demanding in their schools. My son did his junior year of college at University of Cambridge and students in our own colleges have no idea of what "tough" actually is. Students go through three separate terms with no tests. At the end of the year, you have your final exam for every subject. Many kids in my son's exchange class ended up losing credit for their entire year and had to completely repeat it.
Reminds me of HS in NYC - you take World Hist 1 & 2, American Hist 1 & 2, Economics - and then in your senior year, you take the NY State History Regents exam. I managed to pass it - but some didn't.
I had cousins from NY and I remember how demanding and difficult those Regent exams were. I bet they are no longer like that!
I would bet you are correct - I took that History regents exam in 1964. Even tougher was the NY State Electronics Regents exam, which also covered 3 years of Electronics classes. I graduated with both the Regents (Academic) and NY State Electronics diplomas. If I recall correctly, I was only 1 of the 8 students that passed the Electronics exam. Public education has really gone downhill in the last 60+ years.
That's how they should be in the USA but everything has gone stupid and woke,to name too things. I have a lot more to say on education these days.
It was Schumer, not Kennedy.
I am tiring of Kennedy and his "big as Dallas" etc because he takes to much time spitting out the words...get on with it already. He is performing, not legislating and yes we know all the degrees from England,etc., still not that impressed.
This. THIS. Is why we need to end ALL federal social programs. Not their job. IDC how many poor destitute hungry homeless people there are. Our government should not be involved in that. It’s a local community problem and should be handled locally.
The “local community” where I live —land of 10k frauds—just passed another $40mm of our money for ‘rent assistance’ to those ‘affected by ICE.’ At a generous rent of $2500/mo, that works out to 16,000 affectants. Signed, another cold hearted taxpayer
$2500? That’s not rental assistance…that’s a mortgage payment in Mississippi.
Well, HUD uses the market rents to determine how much rental waste will be.
I'm sure this completely distorts the rental markets; why wouldn't landlords continuously raise rents, knowing the new pricing will be used to justify increases in rental waste that goes into their pockets?
Or a used single wide.
NOT GOVERNMENT JOB. The local community is you, charities, churches, etc. vagrancy laws also help. Stop enabling this behavior
Tell that to the DFL — Walz, Flanagan, Frey, Klobuchar, Smith, Omar, McCollum… long long list.
One addition. DFL stands for democrat, farmer, laborer (singular? plural? close enuf). I do not know a single farmer and I live in farmland, who is a d. And most of the men who rebuilt the road in front of my house last summer had Trump bumper stickers. Not a scientific sample, but…
It's from a long gone era. If you look at the old symbol for the USSR, it featured a hammer, the laborer, and a sickle, the farmer. Minnesota democrats are communists to the marrow and had dreams of a Stalinesque utopia in the land of 10,000 pot holes.
Not much has changed there.. maybe someone should tell them the Soviet onion got peeled.
But maybe they know. Maybe that's why tampon Timmy is sucking up to communist China.
ouch... I can't move, either.
DFL= disgusting foreigners lovers.
Just to be clear, it's not that they love foreigners, it's that they love the disgusting foreigners.
And their kickbacks, I have no doubt.
Nailed it W.T.P. .
I hate to bring this up, but although we conservatives usually point to LBJ as the progenitor of expanded welfare (to "get those ni__ers to vote democrat for a hundred years"), his efforts were magnified by Nixon, whose Quaker roots predisposed him to thinking kindly of "social welfare" as some kind of eleventh commandment. "Thou shalt take from the rich and give (what you stole) to the poor." He proposed the Family Assistance Plan which, although it was narrowly defeated in the Senate, proposed massive expansion of public assistance in the form of "negative income tax" (i.e., what we now have in the form of "tax credits") as well as expanded medical and other freebees. Under Nixon, America was gifted with SSI-which has nothing to do with Social Security itself, but is purely another payment transfer mechanism, funneling money from taxpayers to tax eaters. He oversaw approvingly a massive expansion of Medicare for "senior citizens" and Medicaid, which is simply using taxpayer money to pay for medical care to everybody-the proverbial "socialized medicine." Of course, a democrat party dominated Congress was instrumental in this socialization of America, expanding everything from so-called "voting rights" (a system that promoted black votes over those of white citizens) to unemployment benefits, and "affirmative action", which determined outcomes based on skin color (now expanded to cover a myriad of group characteristics, from gender/sex to national origin to deviant sexual proclivities) over every other consideration. Sadly, ever since FDR, the socialization ratchet has always and everywhere moved leftward. And here we are, left holding the bag, out of which the cats were let out decades ago, never to be put back in again. A truism: once people learn that they can "vote themselves rich," and politicians realize they can get elected by promising "free" money and benefits, the doom spiral begins and it never ends until doom descends. Have a happy day, fellow Surberites.
Good & accurate trip down memory lane. In retrospect, I think Medicare & its offspring Medicaid & Obamacare that will turn out to be the straw that broke the camel. I didn’t think anyone could out grift politicians, but I was wrong, aka the healthcare industry.
Medicare is less of a freebie than many people think. Since I retired and was forced to accept Medicare, I have paid MORE monthly for my health insurance covering LESS, than I did while I was still working. When I first switched to Medicare, my monthly cost jumped by 27% over my previous coverage, for far LESS coverage. I don’t know where all that Govt money is going, but it sure ain’t coming to me.
Agree cost wise. My intent was to call out the basic concept behind these programs - that governments can provide these services reasonably & effectively.
I've always wondered why liberals hated Nixon so much since he accomplished many things on their wish list. In retrospect JFK cold be considered conservative & you could label Nixon a liberal.
Luckily, we learned today the Voting Rights Act has been challenged by the Supreme court to stop - undo - the racist gerrymandered voting districts created by Democrats to provide an undeserved representation in our government. Your comment also suggests the Uniparty has been in power a lot longer than it is given credit.
I remember the good old' days when accepting charity was accompanied by shame.
Wasn't that in the days of the dustbowl and Great Depression? There certainly was great need back then but somehow most people were able to scrape by and even give a little bit to those who were in greater need than themselves
Mr. S can become a history professor get on the dole and get that Bentley after all!!
The state of confusion ALWAYS gets my vote.
"A Constitutional Republic", replied Dr. Franklin, "If you can keep it."
We lost the Constitution part of our Republic years ago and nobody (neither party) seems to want to talk about that fact. We pretend everything is as it was intended at our founding but we never highlight the laws, abuses, and direct obfuscation of our Constitution on a daily/weekly basis.
https://www.google.com/search?q=best+examples+of+our+constitution+being+violated&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1080US1080&oq=best+examples+of+our+Constitution+being+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgDECEYoAEyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRirAjIHCAYQIRirAjIHCAcQIRirAtIBCjE2NjI0ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBfQ_KwOV0zUb&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The above is only a short list tied to Obama with expansion on others from history. Our system is not perfect, but the abuses of record suggest it is no longer an important piece of our operations. Some abuses have been corrected with later rulings (that's part of a good system), others continue without anyone caring. There is plenty of blame to go around, but the Democrats have perfected ways to find and build loopholes into our system as we have seen so many times reading this substack.
It takes time to beat back well over a century of intentional rot.
PDJT and SCOTUS scuttled Roe v Wade and made it a state issue, which according to the Constitution, it should be.
We are in the midst of a Reformation. I prefer to support reform daily rather than dooming that it can never happen. Just IMHO.
"I prefer to support reform daily rather than dooming . . "
If you re-read my comment, I reference corrections that are sometimes made to mistakes, which does NOT remove the threat of widespread work to destroy our Constitution.
The rot is deeper and wider than most anyone would imagine. I do hope you realize this kind of erosion on our Constitution is one of the deep state's most important missions - and goals. They are gaining on it every year. It took 49 years for the Roe decision to be properly scuttled and which resulted in massive reaction/violence from about half of the country. It also strongly suggests that the deep state obfuscation of Constitutionality can truly build a supportive audience willing to destroy it.
Just yesterday in Robert Malone's Substack we read about the latest destruction attempts of our Constitutional rights that are being promoted by big industry and government of both parties: Kill switches in cars, another "Patriot Act" stealing of our Constitutional rights:
https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/AAGpPVdD46VDmVRlipPkcEpxgwP
The frequent reference to dooming from some in the female cohort here seems to apply to anything that tries to illustrate the emergency status we face, which at times is to say we have 'lost' something. That is just name calling instead of offering a substantive response. It is no different than leftists calling MAGA folks racists all the time.
Dooming, as you like to say, is EXACTLY how this country was founded in 1776. If that group of men sat around waiting (hoping) for slow incremental change over years, decades, we would have perished. They demanded swift, seemingly extreme, decisive, risky action, immediately to confront the threat from England - or what you refer to as dooming.
My reply to this appears to be lost in the ether, so this may appear as a duplicate…
What I meant by dooming is surrendering, quitting.
It’s the difference between “we WILL lose, because we have already lost” as opposed to “we WILL lose” if we don’t do everything possible to fight, know our enemy, know the obstacles.
And I do. Nothing in your comment about the fight we’re in is new to me.
If you meant the latter, I apologize. I guess it sounded like the former to me because it was a good list I’ve heard so many times.
It’s in God’s hands anyway. We need His help for the latter.
Last line steph !
Thanks for your reply.
You say, "It’s the difference between “we WILL lose, because we have already lost” as opposed to “we WILL lose” if we don’t do everything possible to fight, know our enemy, know the obstacles."
I haven't heard anyone say "we will lose because we have already lost". When I say we have lost our Constitution - that fact is backed up by dozens of examples going back more than a century and most aren't aware of it's completely eroded state. We are living in a dream state regarding the Constitution. I have heard many express a deep concern we are absolutely losing the House (and the Senate is in play more every passing week) but nobody knows until it actually happens, but at this point in time we have lost the House. Is that dooming to state what is based on data?
I have seen regular references to 'dooming' in response to any comment that correctly states the dire straits we are facing against the deep state, especially since some of our biggest foes are Republicans in the Senate.
I can understand if some believe certain policy priorities are (or are not) as important as others because smart people can disagree. The answer is substantive debate - using facts and sources - as the proper reply if one chooses to engage. What I object to is the seemingly regular attribution that a strong and highly alarming fear comment over an issue is dismissed as 'dooming' rendering it as meaningless. It is not. It is an honest attempt by that person to bring attention to an issue. If you disagree that it is lost, then reply with your substantive evidence to the contrary.
> “ but at this point in time we have lost the House. Is that dooming to state what is based on data?” <
I have not seen evidence or “data” enough to make me believe we have lost the house; especially after today’s victory at the SCOTUS. I also haven’t seen enough evidence to prove we will win it.
Fact is, nobody knows for sure, except God.
I thought that Brandon Gill was spectacular yesterday with his questioning of whoever that woman was about which exactly was her preferred for of abortion among the various gruesome ones he so patiently described to all those present. He is definitely a rising star for TX as far as I'm concerned and he may be the youngest member in Congress
The art of debate - even difficult, in-your-face debate - is rocket fuel for moving issues, creating awareness, and changing minds. We have a lot of minds to change before November.
the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it. These are required to temper the emotions of the moment that would otherwise trample a minority. See Virginia.
Last I heard the would-be tyrants there are at least momentarily blocked.
Should be a no brainier, but …
We cannot
been that way for decades. when i was 13 (1961) we were visiting my grandmother who lived on van wagoner street in north flint,mi. i was sitting on the front porch with my great uncle george who then was probably 75 years old. we were discussing the detroit tigers of course. a black lady with 5 kids lived across the street. she pulled into her driveway with groceries and the kids all came out of the house to unload the haul. i said: "she has a nice car uncle george". he said: "yup. if you're going to be on food stamps you might as well drive to the welfare office in a cadillac (she was driving a new one). so that was 65 years ago just 3 years after the food stamp program had kicked in i believe.
Do you recall when Reagan talked about welfare queens driving cadillacs? The left immediately freaked out and called that a stereotype.
racist. i do recall that. reagan was an honest man.
“So while Senator John Kennedy was complaining about troops getting a nice meal before a heavy assignment…” I don’t think this is actually what happened. Not his style at all.
Per ClaudeAI: “It doesn’t appear that Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) was among those criticizing the military steak and lobster meals. In fact, based on the search results, the criticism came primarily from the other side of the aisle…Sen. Kennedy’s name does come up in relation to a past spending criticism — back in 2019, Kennedy questioned federal agencies going on end-of-fiscal-year spending sprees, which included $2.3 million for lobster tails and $293,245 for steak — but that was aimed at general federal agency waste, not military meals specifically.”
Thanks. I checked Brave browser search (AI) and got the same result about 2019.
It's what I use until I can figure out how to acquire and use Grok properly.
For what it 's worth, I've heard Claude identified as a lefty AI, but can't recall where I ran across that assertion, could also be inaccurate.
Grok: Kennedy said in 2019: “It’s like we gave Paul Manafort the government’s credit card and told him to spend like crazy. This is absolutely ridiculous... It’s reckless, runaway spending.”
I thougt it was more recent.
I use Grok
Any bias in a LLM is a result of its training. I use ChatGPT quite a lot and, while it’s a very useful tool, I think it has a definite bias to the left. Grok, on the other hand, seems to be the most centered of the major platforms. But maybe that’s my bias showing through. LOL
It is owned by Google so that is not an unwarranted concern. But it is the goto used by a young friend of mine who is knowledgeable about this stuff. Leftist as it maybe apparently there is no government back door channel (???).
I don’t know how the training works so 🤷🏼♀️?
But Don S. uses Grok so I am looking forward to trying it!
Claude is a major problem. In response to a recent command from its “bosses,” it responded by wiping the company’s databases, including backups, and did it all in nine seconds, far too fast to be stopped.
AI = Skynet. Why will nobody listen?
True - I found it hard to believe & couldn't find any evidence of that.
Grok: Kennedy said in 2019: “It’s like we gave Paul Manafort the government’s credit card and told him to spend like crazy. This is absolutely ridiculous... It’s reckless, runaway spending.”
I thougt it was more recent.
I use Grok
Thank you! You are the perfect host!
It is the death of shame. Ben Franklin said, "the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
In the mid 70s I was a student at Berkeley, and was broke. My parents had no money and I was working part time to support myself and go to school—barely making ends meet. My girlfriend at the time said I should apply for food stamps, as I was likely eligible, so I did. I had to pay some nominal amount (I honestly don't remember what) for the first month's $25 book of coupons. I was deeply embarrassed to use them, and worse, I had to re-apply the next month so my situation and eligibility could be reviewed. I was waiting in the Social Services office in Oakland in my Berkeley sweatshirt looking around at mostly older people and young women with babies. Mine was the only white face in the room. I got up and left and never put my hand out to the government again.
Today, no one can tell if someone is using an EBT card or a Platinum Amex at the self-checkout line. There is no stigma attached to scamming the system, and almost no risk. Like our elections, the EBT system is broken, yet working pretty much as designed.
If they buy a candy bar and get $95.00 plus back they are on ebt.
I sincerely hope that's not an option, but heaven knows, anything goes.
Your last sentence pretty well sums it up. There is no incentive to fix either system because it would hurt the Dems and the RINOs don't seem to care.
I bet it's GA, and I bet that 90% of it is Fulton County, and 99% is metro ATL. I grew up in ATL, moved away 34 yrs ago. But when I visit relatives, I'm always astounded by all the luxury vehicles. There's so many, it can't just be wealthy people driving them.
I think it's like the $300 Nikes worn by kids living in public housing. In that culture, the display of expensive consumer goods is an extremely significant status symbol.
You don’t even have to know about the cars to know about how broken the system is. You can see it by noting that the vast majority of EBT users are morbidly obese.
Poster Adorable Deplorable above notes that it should be churches and the community which should be taking care of the poor and sick rather than the government. Agree. But I vividly remember being at my church decorating it for Christmas when food baskets were being handed out to those who supposedly couldn’t afford to pay for their own Christmas dinners. Every single person from the local community who showed up for a basket was obese or morbidly obese. And that was about 30 years ago.
Not only should the whole system be cleaned up, but those EBT cards should only be paying for fresh vegetables, lean chicken and staples such as rice, milk, flour, canned tuna and eggs.
There's another way to look at the "morbidly obese" food stamp recipients. Their life expectancy is 8 to 14 years shorter than for people "with a healthy BMI." It follows that the fatsos won't draw "benefits" for nearly as many years, which should save the government money.
Yes, but in the meantime, we’re paying their medical bills for things like type 2 diabetes and heart disease.
I didn't know the answer, but guessed it was Georgia - because of Atlanta.
It has to be Texas where the statehouse RINO's elevate demonrats like James Talarico and try to put a good conservative like Ken Paxton in jail.
EBT recipients are driving luxury cars? Good grief.
Giving the states a 10% commission on all of the EBT‘s that it sells is like giving someone a 10% commission for giving away someone else’s money. Oh wait, that’s exactly what it is.
I used to have a rental property located two blocks from the local food pantry. On distribution days the street would be lined with Cadillacs and Lincolns waiting to get their free food.
My brother worked as a bagger after he retired. He once told me that the number of EBT recipients buying high end steaks and driving luxury vehicles was mind boggling. He also said they never tipped.