anony.miss

Genuinely curious: If you believe half the people posting in this forum suffer from a severe psychological disorder, why are you here? The only kind of salad Trump likes ; )

Agreed. Once we (as in society) start arguing that the murder of two innocent people - peace advocates by many news accounts - can be explained as the killer's reaction to watching news coverage of a genocide, we've completely lost the plot.

The Canadian economy (and most of the west) dove into a recession first appearing in 1989-90, so those seniors probably needed the money: "Canada's economy is considered to have been in recession for two full years in the early 1990s, from April 1990 to April 1992. Canada's recession began about four months before that of the US, and was deeper. Canada's economy began to weaken in the second quarter of 1989..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession Just in general, I don't think the majority of senior citizens want to work in a fast food joint just for the socializing (if money were not an issue for them, they could find social contact by volunteering at literacy programs, animal shelters, joining Senior Corps, or joining walking clubs, book clubs, etc, etc.) If some seniors do enjoy working that kind of gig at that age, good for them - but they deserve to make that decision based not on dire economic need, but personal choice. Any economy forcing elders into that kind of work is disgraceful, imo.

...and this is how they drive ; )

For what it's worth: You've spent months insisting all you want is constructive dialogue with people in this forum - fair enough - but posting this kind of content is a red flag on that front.

Untrue - Kamala Harris presented multiple policies: 1) Sign the bipartisan border security bill. 2) Have Medicare cover in-home health care. 3) Will not raise taxes for those earning less than $400,000 a year. 4) Raise the minimum wage. 5) Expand the startup expense tax deduction for new businesses from $5,000 to $50,000. 6) Expand child tax credit to $6,000 for families with newborns. 7) Provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 for down payments. 8) Ban corporate price gouging on food and groceries. 9) Eliminate the filibuster to restore the Roe v. Wade precedent on abortion. 10) Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. 11) Require Supreme Court justices to comply with ethics rules. 12)Extend the $35 cap on insulin and the $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket spening to every American. This is not the complete list - more policies available at: https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/sep/30/kamala-harris-2024-campaign-promises-here-are-her/ You can agree or disagree with the well thought out policies Harris presented, but claiming she "had no policies to speak of" is not true.

Me neither. Queen's med school banned Black students starting in 1918. That ban would not be lifted until 1965: "In its apology, Queen’s acknowledged that the university had derailed the medical careers of at least two Black students who had been forced to leave Queen’s and who were then unable to find placement at any other medical school. One of those students was Ethelbert Bartholomew, a member of the class of 1918. After leaving Queen’s, Mr. Bartholomew worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railways. He died in 1954. In a 2019 convocation ceremony, Queen’s conferred a posthumous Doctor of Medicine degree upon Dr. Bartholomew, which was accepted by members of his family." https://www.queensu.ca/alumnireview/articles/2020-07-17/queen-s-school-of-medicine-confronting-exclusion Queen's is trying to address and redress a very shameful history - what they're doing is admirable and necessary, imo.

No. Aside from the illegality of Trump accepting the plane (the Emoluments clause of the Constitution) and the "America is for sale" gifting-as-grifting vibe, accepting the plane is untenable b/c it's a massive security risk. There's no way to ensure the plane is safe (from spyware, control of the plane being overridden, etc) without stripping the plane down to its very bolts and rebuilding it. That security risk becomes even more profound given Qatar funds Hamas. eta: @ProudMary - jinx! I owe you a coke ; )

The image was posted on the official White House account, which is the voice of the president and his admin. All Trump had to do was apologize - instead, he mocked anyone offended as not having a "sense of humor". Hardly the smart move when the people who found it distasteful included millions of Catholics, and their religious leaders: "There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President," the Catholic Bishops of New York State wrote on X. "We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us." https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/05/08/melania-trump-pope-photo-catholics-leo-joke-conclave/83517510007/

Agreed. I wish the show had mentioned that Harry also faces threats related to his military service in Afghanistan - Al Queda called for his death (again) a couple of years ago. Another point I wish the show had covered - Harry and Meghan very much wanted to remain working royals, serving in a Commonwealth country - apparently, the Queen herself was also thinking along the same lines: "QUEEN ELIZABETH II helped come up with the idea that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should live in a country somewhere in the Commonwealth about a year before their bombshell announcement that they would be stepping back as senior royals, according to a royal biographer." https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1350043/queen-elizabeth-ii-prince-harry-meghan-markle-commonwealth-malta-prince-philip-spt Charles wrote his own official "tell all" book in the 90s (the Dimbleby bio). He said Elizabeth was a cold and distant mother, his father was a bully, his marriage to Diana was a sham, he had never loved her, the monarchy was broken, etc etc. It came close to causing a consitutional crisis. Charles was forgiven by his parents, and never shunned, ostracized, etc - it's a shame he's chosen to not extend the same grace to his own son. He did offer to pay, and his request was rejected: LONDON (AP) — A London judge rejected Prince Harry’s bid to pay for his own police protection Tuesday, denying the royal’s request to challenge the U.K. government in court." https://apnews.com/article/prince-harry-police-protection-uk-565e4a2f542f2f64cd343656324f11b0 I wish The View did more basic research - they rarely bother to offer facts and context, which often leads them to end up in "discussions" that would be completely different if an intern had taken two minutes to round up a few facts. Just maddening.

Not me - happy to be liberal red (eta: or liberal blue, depending on which side of the border I'm on!)

Israeli Holocaust survivor, Veronika Cohen, on why she protested the horrors in Gaza on Holocaust Remembrance Day: "I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute, for which we are partially responsible. It occupies the same place in my heart." She acknowledged that she was in the minority in Israel when it came to speaking up about the terrible cost of the war to Palestinian life. “People here see Palestinians as the other and that’s why they have created a barrier,” she said. “They have managed not to feel their pain and I find that incomprehensible. To me, when I read the stories of their suffering in Gaza, it blends completely into how I feel about the Holocaust.” I spoilered the rest - her comments graphically deal with the bruality of Israel's bombing campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/we-have-lost-our-humanity-holocaust-survivors-call-for-end-to-war-in-gaza Hopefully,her words will resonate with her fellow Israelis, and soon.

That's not accurate re: American policy. Most recently (under Obama) the U.S. gov paid 1.4 billion in reparations to Native American plaintiffs over a dispute that originated in the late 1880s - we've already cleared any theoretical hurdle when it comes to multi-generation descendents being paid for harm visited on their ancestors. As well, the U.S. paid reparations to slave owners in the District of Columbia, per a law Lincoln signed in April of 1862: "...It gave former slave owners $300 per enslaved person set free. More than 3,100 enslaved people saw their freedom paid for in this way, for a total cost in excess of $930,000 – almost $25 million in today’s money. In contrast, the formerly enslaved received nothing if they decided to stay in the United States." https://today.uconn.edu/2021/03/there-was-a-time-reparations-were-actually-paid-out-just-not-to-formerly-enslaved-people/# The U.S. paid reparations to multi-generation descendents of atrocity and injustice. The U.S. paid reparations to slave owners. But when it comes to the descendents of slavery themselves, suddenly it's no-can-do, even though that position flies against the history of reparations in America. Doesn't pass the smell test, imo.

Me, too ; ) As tasty as an Easter Chocolate bunny!

A few salient facts regarding Abrego's tattoo and supposed life of crime: "Donald Trump posted a statement from the Oval Office Friday with what appeared to be a digitally altered image that Trump said was the hand of a Maryland father who was deported to a brutal El Salvador prison following officials’ unproven claims he is a member of the MS-13 gang.... “They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc.,” the president posted on Truth Social on Friday evening. Courts have not found that Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang. As for “beating up his wife,” Trump was apparently referring to a short-term pointed to a protective order filed by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, in 2021; she dissolved the order a month later. Government attorneys have never referenced the tattoos in court filings to support their claims that Abrego Garcia is a gang member. Their allegation rests on the word of a confidential police informant who in 2019 claimed the Maryland father was a member of MS-13’s “Westerns” clique, which operates out of New York, where Abrego Garcia has never lived." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-hand-b2735920.html So government attorneys - eager to deport Garcia - never once mentioned that Garcia had a flamboyant gang tattoo on a highly visible part of his body, but somehow, Trump manged to unearth a crystal clear photograph showing the "MS-13" insignia? Doesn't pass the smell test. If Garcia really had that series of letters and numbers on his tattoo, why did nobody ever use it as proof before? Why did the courts not find him guilty of being a gang member, if he had such a highly visible tattoo on his person? It boils down to this, imo: Trump is refusing to help a wrongly deported man return to Maryland, citing the excuse that the United States is so weak and powerless a nation, it cannot possibly demand that a prison they are paying return a wrongly incarcerated man. Trump is choosing instead to repeat outright lies about Garcia, in hopes of convincing enough of Trump's base to ignore the constitutional protections Trump has defied just because Garcia is a 'bad' man (the same protections Trump plans to ignore when he starts deporting "home grown criminals" next). One ray of light in this shit storm: even many Trump voters are rejecting Trump's lawlessness: "..his approval ratings are taking a hit as his administration faces legal scrutiny and criticism for flying out migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process. This includes Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump admin admits was wrongly deported to El Salvador after living in Maryland..." https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-immigration-polls-2060973 And a slow-clap to the Supremes who have woken up from a state of paralysis, just in time to realize American democracy truly does hang in the balance.