Musings about our changing times and how I anticipate it may effect me (us)

[Uncle Al]

I'm starting to think the media is just fanning b.s.

I'ld call it with a capitol B & S

The 'current' media is still trying to cover up
what really happened during the past 4 years.

An old saying comes to mind:
"The Rich get richer and the Poor get poorer"

Certain political groups do their darnedest to control using emotion
instead of 'common sense' and what's written in our Constitution.

Our founding fathers would be aghast if they new what America
has turned into

( Just my $.02 worth. )

Uncle Al

[crfriend]

I'm not buying that sentiments have changed all that much. I think it's typical media hype. To date, every single Republican voter that I've known personally since before the Biden and first Trump administration remains a VERY strong supporter of Trump today.

Wait until Trump's base realises that he double-crossed them to provide more welfare money to the billionaire class in the form of "tax cuts" that they neither need nor deserve. Wait until Social Security is wiped clean and shut down impoverishing millions upon millions of ex-middle-class folks. Wait until Medicare is gone. It wouldn't surprise me if he went after the VA as well. All in the name of unbridled greed.

He's on precisely the same path, using precisely the same tactics, and that little Austrian in the 1930s -- and he's doing so completely and unabashedly naked about it. We all see how that worked out. Perhaps the world will get wise and do something about the matter, because somebody has to, and we don't have the chutzpah to do it internally. Some of us study history for a reason, and that reason is best quoted as, "Past as Prelude." (which, incidentally, is the motto of the United States Archives -- another agency under imminent threat of shutdown because history is the enemy of these thugs).

[moonshadow]

Wait until Trump's base realises that he double-crossed them to provide more welfare money to the billionaire class in the form of "tax cuts" that they neither need nor deserve. Wait until Social Security is wiped clean and shut down impoverishing millions upon millions of ex-middle-class folks. Wait until Medicare is gone. It wouldn't surprise me if he went after the VA as well. All in the name of unbridled greed.

Carl, I honestly don't think they'd care if Social Security was wiped. As long as there aren't "men in the women's room" and they're "owning the libtards" then Trump will always be popular.

As for me, I'll be dead in 10 years anyway, so I honestly couldn't care less myself. (Almost all men in my family die in their 50s, and I've basically let myself go, resolving that my life just isn't worth the expense. I'm not suicidal, I just don't give a sh!t anymore.I'm tired of this world, and I just want to rest.)

And people can cut the crap when they say my life is worth it.... if that were the case health care wouldn't be so expensive. It's a con. I know where I rate, my blood is worthless.

[Grok]

New Zealand family reviewing a [url=https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=INMYjDx93hg] video[/url]. At about 1:56 the microphone has a glitch during the American national anthem. The Canadians in the audience continue the anthem...

[Grok]

Try that again. The video was from awhile back.

[Grok]

A somewhat more recent. Notice that the Canadians are booing during the American national anthem.

[Grok]

Try this again. Try 1:56.

[crfriend]

It's well known that the Canadians boo'ed the US national anthem during the final NHL playoff game. That made the news here -- somehow making it past the censors.

I kind of like the PM of Ontario. "We're not going to pick a fight with the US, but if it starts we'll win." And I don't doubt it. All Ontario has to do is shut down the electrical interconnect grid to the US and the Northeast will go dark (and cold) almost immediately.

The inhabitants of New England are savvy enough to know what's going on, and that might cause the entire region to secede and join with the Canadian Maritimes (and we have vastly more in common with them than, say, Texas or Florida).

[Elisabetta]

Wait until Trump's base realises that he double-crossed them to provide more welfare money to the billionaire class in the form of "tax cuts" that they neither need nor deserve. Wait until Social Security is wiped clean and shut down impoverishing millions upon millions of ex-middle-class folks. Wait until Medicare is gone. It wouldn't surprise me if he went after the VA as well. All in the name of unbridled greed.

Carl, I honestly don't think they'd care if Social Security was wiped. As long as there aren't "men in the women's room" and they're "owning the libtards" then Trump will always be popular.

As for me, I'll be dead in 10 years anyway, so I honestly couldn't care less myself. (Almost all men in my family die in their 50s, and I've basically let myself go, resolving that my life just isn't worth the expense. I'm not suicidal, I just don't give a sh!t anymore.I'm tired of this world, and I just want to rest.)

And people can cut the crap when they say my life is worth it.... if that were the case health care wouldn't be so expensive. It's a con. I know where I rate, my blood is worthless.

I promised my husband that I would clarify this later today.


Moonshadow is sick of how things in our country are going. Before anyone jumps the gun and think he's suicidal, hates his life with me, his stepdaughter, job, etc he doesn't he hates the current events. In fact Moons a bit scared about what's taking place and feels he'll never be able to retire.

I'll share a short story that will explain where he's coming from. Roughly about almost 4 months ago I was mopping our downstairs in our Duplex. During that time my sciatic nerve decided it was going to act up and shot a pain down the entire left side of my body all the way down behind my right knee. I called my doctor's office trying to be seen and they were booked out by several months. I kept being told I'm sorry there's nothing we can do try Urgent Care. Urgent Care is limited on how much they can do but I went. All during this time I was in agony tossing and turning, no sleep nothing. Called my doctor's again with absolutely no help. So ended up going to the Emergency room where finally a doctor actually was already looking at my chart knew I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 2 and had a diagnosis of my issue. He then referred me to a new doctor in the same building where my other one is and they got the issue fixed. This is the issue. What if it was life threatening? What if I was at the Emergency room and went through exactly what our daughter did 3 years ago when her skin was falling off from plaque psoriasis? We didn't get seen in over 24 hours. She just wasn't important. What about the guy who came in after her who was involved in a motorcycle accident and broke his arm who was screaming in pain? They made the poor guy just sit there.


This is what Moons talking about when he says nobody cares. Let me ask you Republicans a question and this is a serious question no flame war, no political rants a serious question. Will you hold Trump accountable when he's wrong? Do you feel some of the things he's currently doing is for the American people? While I voted for him this past January in honor of my late father in law as I do not go back on any promises I don't believe what he's currently doing is benefiting the American people. I'm sorry am not aiming to offend but look at Fred. He's still in the hospital and has no clue when he's going back home and his care hasn't been the best there.

I hope everyone understands that he's not ranting he's very concerned especially with how he'd leave his wife if God took him home before me. How we'd survive or if he'll ever retire it's just a lot and hard to grasp sometimes.

[Uncle Al]

First of all, Elisabetta, I'm very happy that you found relief
This is one of the reasons I always ask for, or get, a second opinion
for anything medical. You, me, we all need to be our own first
responders. I've stopped, in many ways, relying on a single medical
practitioner. I want to keep going beyond my 74 years on this planet

I must advize anyone that the current administration has only been in
office less than 2 months. The kind of 'changes' people are looking for
will take time to implement. It won't happen over night for the immediate
gratification of people demanding such stuff.

IMHO, we(America) are looking around the end of '25 for the major changes
to happen. I know, it's a tough road but, I'm willing to 'walk that mile'

May you continue having pain relief with your new medical staff

Uncle Al

[Grok]

First of all, Elisabetta, I'm very happy that you found relief

Agreed!

[Grok]

The inhabitants of New England are savvy enough to know what's going on, and that might cause the entire region to secede and join with the Canadian Maritimes (and we have vastly more in common with them than, say, Texas or Florida).

I have noticed a renewed interest in the secession of the West Coast, possibly forming a new Canadian province.

And anger at the MAGA voters for foisting this mess on country. Leading to a *#%# you attitude towards the red states when their fortunes sour.

[moonshadow]

Nobody is going to secede.

And for what it's worth, if it ever came down to a referendum vote, I'd vote to stay with the Union.

I honestly don't know why, but for some reason, I still believe in this place. I'm not saying the the U.S. is "the bestest of the best!", but I am saying that this land is my home, and The United States is my country.

I do believe we can do better, and I want to do my part to help.

[Jim]

I do believe we can do better, and I want to do my part to help.

I appreciate that attitude. Let's at least go down trying.

[crfriend]

Moonshadow is sick of how things in our country are going. Before anyone jumps the gun and think he's suicidal, hates his life with me, his stepdaughter, job, etc he doesn't he hates the current events. In fact Moons a bit scared about what's taking place and feels he'll never be able to retire.

Well, I had to reject -- likely permanently -- my dream of retiring (which was right around the corner, but depended on Social Security which I am now pretty positive isn't going to be around much longer, and with no Medicare I'll lose any and all access to health care. So I get it. I never hinted that Moon might be suicidal; I've been in that deep dark pit before, and it's not a pleasant place to be -- and he's not acting that way; he's acting like someone who is angry and knows that there isn't one whit he can do about it.

There is no practical means to remove a tyrant once they're in power in the USA without resorting to illegal actions. The only legal mechanism for getting rid of Him and his pet muskrat would be for Congress to rise up and say -- no, BELLOW -- "NO!", impeach him and get him on a guilty verdict for any one of the crimes, high and low, he's committed -- and Congress is scared to death of Him so nothing is going to happen there.

As far as health care goes, the answer to that will be one of the Canadian or the European ways of tackling the problem -- and all the dirty money ("insurance" scams) needs to come out of the system and be returned to the aggrieved and suffering -- at the expense of the "insurance" industry.