Trump has partially abandoned trumpism. It seems he’s been ideologically captured as he was in his first term. We must help get him back on track. Was there ever a philosophical base for your support or just a cult of personality?

Why hasn’t Iran blown up our refineries?

Remember: the enemy always gets a say.

Can we please talk about something else other than voting red, communism, racism that doesn’t exist or any of the other boogie men.

America lost one in six of its neighborhood bars in a single decade, and the killer was real estate math. A bar like this can pour $3 beers because the building was paid off decades ago. The owner often lives upstairs. No rent, no investors, no debt service on a Pabst sign that's been hanging there for 40 years. The moment that building sells, the math dies with it. A new operator inherits a market-rate lease, which forces $9 drinks, which forces a renovation to justify $9 drinks, which produces another exposed-brick cocktail bar where the dive used to be. The Midwest kept its dive bars because of how they got built in the first place. Before Prohibition, Milwaukee's breweries put up corner taverns themselves. Pabst and Schlitz wanted guaranteed outlets for their beer, so they built bars directly into residential blocks. That's why these places sit on quiet snowy corners between houses instead of on commercial strips where rent explodes. Chicago had around 3,300 tavern licenses in 1990. It's down to about 1,200. At the worst of the decline, America was losing six neighborhood bars a day. And every single closure is permanent. You can't build a dive bar. You can only inherit one.

how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS?? cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved??? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single. monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH??? birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about. there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait. squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES. and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT??? your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to??? the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR. I’M SORRY????? we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????

Thanks to this Pullitzer prize article, I’m now writing my own titled: “If you keep the oven closed, the food will cook more gooder”

Rep. Thomas Massie just dropped a bombshell. There are “secret laws” being used to spy on you right now. And a Democratic Senator is the one who uncovered this bombshell. “Ron Wyden discovered… that there’s a secret interpretation of the FISA law that is used to spy on you all that you don’t know about.” His solution? “Try to exist outside of the system as much as you can.” “Get your food outside of the system.” “Do your finances outside of the system.” “Generate as much of your energy outside the system as you can.” “If you can communicate outside of the system, do that.” “If you can educate outside of the system, do that.” @RepThomasMassie @RonWyden @Polyface_Farms

Let me put it to you this way. You're ill, you get medicine and it doesn't help, infact it makes it worse. You go and get a different medicine which does the same. Doesn't work. Makes it worse. You go back, and they tell you there's no other option but these two medicines that don't work and make things worse. Do you keep taking them? Or do you start researching other ways?

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi and Kathy Hochul’s eyebrows on pace to reach Mars before Elon Musk

In 1776 Benjamin Franklin had propaganda leaflets disguised as packets of tobacco, so they would reach the enemy's soldiers. The offer inside was a farm. Britain had hired 30,000 German troops to put down the rebellion. They were peasants' sons, mostly from Hesse-Kassel, conscripted by their prince and rented to George III at a price per head. If one was killed, the prince was paid extra. At home they owned nothing. The game in the woods belonged to the prince. The wild boar that rooted up a family's crop could not be touched. Congress read the situation at once. In August 1776 it offered any German who walked away 50 acres and full citizenship. In 1778 it raised the bid, to land and livestock, scaled by rank, up to 1,000 acres for an officer who brought his men with him. The leaflets went into the camps wrapped as tobacco. The Germans could also use their eyes. They were marching through a country where an ordinary farmer owned his land, kept a smokehouse full of pork, and answered to no lord, prince or gamekeeper. Around 5,000 of them never went home. One in six. The British Crown had paid a German prince for the use of the man. The Americans won a good many of them over by offering him livestock.

There is no "burning it down." Establishment Republicans want to lose the midterms. Then they can push for "bipartisan" amnesty. Sometimes I wonder how old some of you people are. Talking like children.

Thomas Massie actually voted what he ran on and now half of you are mad he kept his promise. What timeline are we living in?

I want to add deep water horizon to the Chernobyl series as required watching for any management level, watching in the chemical industry, oil, industry, nuke industry. Thinking about adding dark waters to the list too, but that’s more of a long-term issue versus day-to-day management issue.

December 23, 1913. The day the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law. At that point the Federal Government became the property of a cabal of unelected, unaccountable, wealthy bankers who own the Federal Reserve Corporation. The government has not been answerable to the people ever since. Our dollars have lost 97% of their value since then. Tens of millions of our young people have died in wars paid for by inflation and debt. And our debt is now FORTY TRILLION DOLLARS! And guess who gets to keep 100% of the interest on that debt? If you said “the very same cabal of wealthy bankers who own the Federal Reserve Corporation,” give yourself a gold star.

But honestly, does it matter? We’ve had the control and clearly pissed it away. It’s become obvious that both parties are tentacles of the same snake.

Granted that Taylor Swift probably should’ve kept her mouth shut about politics. She should’ve taken a page from Dolly Parton and Michael Jordan book. Republicans buy tennis shoes too. Outside of that, I can’t understand the hate for her. she’s cute as a button. No idea if she can sing or not and I don’t care.

Has an escape from New York feel as well. Although the Snake Pliskin is a far superior protagonist.