There is a lot more at play than just drugs with Venezuela. The US needs to own its own Hemisphere and get China the heck out of it. Dems will fight Trump on anything. Kill a Narc and they come out of the woodwork. They said nothing when Obama was droning innocents in the Middle East.
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All insurance is going up thanks to MAGAnomics and tariffs. EVERYTHING is more expensive. That's why the economy has lost over a million jobs....Most since Covid. Guess who was President then?? What a Clown show.
- Small business plans: Small businesses with ACA-compliant plans could face an average premium increase of 11% for 2026.
- Employer-sponsored plans: While not as directly impacted by the ACA subsidy expiration, these plans are still seeing rising costs, with average family premiums increasing by 6% in 2025, as detailed in a KFF report.
1.1 million layoffs this year — more than any since the pandemic
2025 has seen the most layoffs in the US since the pandemic, after over 70,000 jobs were cut in November, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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Finally an arrest after almost 5 years. We will learn soon who it is...and you know this arrest would not have taken place if the Dems were still in control:
Obamacare was passed to supposedly fix this affordability issue. You flat out admit here that it isn't. Surely you support getting rid of it & starting over.
The economy isn't dying. We're not in a recession. It's got problems as it always does. It certainly doesn't have 9% inflation.
Does anyone liberal recall anything negative about other liberals? Lol. They've all gotten pain blocks, epidurals, blinders, and lobotomies when it comes to any crimes of their own commission.
We've been in a recession since Biden. Still trying to dig out from it. It took 4 years of digging to get us into the hole we're in now. We've put back 1/2 in about a years time. Long way to go before the coffin can be recovered. Still signs of life...
This article is the most concerning wrt assimilation (Meaning lack there of) of Muslims into US or any western society that I've ever seen in the WSJ:
"....an unbiased observer could be forgiven for thinking Minnesota’s Somali population isn’t capable of assimilation. From Mr. Rosen’s essay: “Bad actors within the community would approach potential coconspirators without any fear of betrayal. Even the people who said no to phenomenal offers of tens of thousands of dollars in free taxpayer money didn’t inform the authorities that a major, community-wide fraud against the public was in progress. Potentially criminal oddities . . . went almost totally unreported to anyone in government. The FBI learned about Feeding Our Future”—a nonprofit that was one of the main vehicles of fraud—“from a whistleblower in the Department of Education, and not from any of the scam’s ground-level witnesses or participants.”
Ponder some observations made recently by the British historian Tom Holland. His book “Dominion” (2019) contends that Christianity has left an imprint on the West so deep as to be ineradicable and imperceptible. Even atheists, in nations once Christianized, think in Christian terms without knowing it. Only a Christian nation, I suspect Mr. Holland would say, would invent a social-welfare system as lavish and easily exploitable as Minnesota’s.
“Essentially, what Christianity has that Islam does not is a concept of the secular,” Mr. Holland remarked in a September podcast interview. From its beginning, he points out, Christianity has acknowledged that some parts of human society will function outside the demands of revelation—think of Jesus’ imperative to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. Islam, classically, acknowledges no such sphere. “I think Islam is uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset,” he says. Minnesota’s Somali population plainly doesn’t think of itself as digestible.
IOW, there is no non-religion aspects to life for Muslims. Added clarity to the problem.
But large-scale Muslim immigration is a far bigger problem for Europe than for America. And in a curious way, Mr. Holland’s reflections shed light on the immigration problem the U.S. does have: that of illegal border-crossers from Latin America.
On Tuesday President Trump, asked about the Minnesota fraud prosecutions, expressed his disgust. “These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain. . . . They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but *****.” The president singled out for particular scorn Minneapolis’s Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Put aside, if you can, Mr. Trump’s failure to distinguish between criminals and law-abiding Americans of Somali ancestry. The president isn’t wrong to sense something deeply amiss in a community of Americans so contemptuous of the country that took them in.
Perhaps Mr. Trump can turn his attention to those illegal aliens from nations that, for all their dysfunctions, are indelibly Christian. Immigrants from Latin America work—indeed they have a higher labor-force participation rate than whites. Reasonable people agree that criminals in the country illegally ought to be removed, but those working construction and agriculture jobs are saying, in so many words, “Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.” And they don’t *****."
"....an unbiased observer could be forgiven for thinking Minnesota’s Somali population isn’t capable of assimilation. From Mr. Rosen’s essay: “Bad actors within the community would approach potential coconspirators without any fear of betrayal. Even the people who said no to phenomenal offers of tens of thousands of dollars in free taxpayer money didn’t inform the authorities that a major, community-wide fraud against the public was in progress. Potentially criminal oddities . . . went almost totally unreported to anyone in government. The FBI learned about Feeding Our Future”—a nonprofit that was one of the main vehicles of fraud—“from a whistleblower in the Department of Education, and not from any of the scam’s ground-level witnesses or participants.”
Ponder some observations made recently by the British historian Tom Holland. His book “Dominion” (2019) contends that Christianity has left an imprint on the West so deep as to be ineradicable and imperceptible. Even atheists, in nations once Christianized, think in Christian terms without knowing it. Only a Christian nation, I suspect Mr. Holland would say, would invent a social-welfare system as lavish and easily exploitable as Minnesota’s.
“Essentially, what Christianity has that Islam does not is a concept of the secular,” Mr. Holland remarked in a September podcast interview. From its beginning, he points out, Christianity has acknowledged that some parts of human society will function outside the demands of revelation—think of Jesus’ imperative to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. Islam, classically, acknowledges no such sphere. “I think Islam is uniquely indigestible for a secular mindset,” he says. Minnesota’s Somali population plainly doesn’t think of itself as digestible.
IOW, there is no non-religion aspects to life for Muslims. Added clarity to the problem.
But large-scale Muslim immigration is a far bigger problem for Europe than for America. And in a curious way, Mr. Holland’s reflections shed light on the immigration problem the U.S. does have: that of illegal border-crossers from Latin America.
On Tuesday President Trump, asked about the Minnesota fraud prosecutions, expressed his disgust. “These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, ‘Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.’ These are people that do nothing but complain. . . . They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but *****.” The president singled out for particular scorn Minneapolis’s Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Put aside, if you can, Mr. Trump’s failure to distinguish between criminals and law-abiding Americans of Somali ancestry. The president isn’t wrong to sense something deeply amiss in a community of Americans so contemptuous of the country that took them in.
Perhaps Mr. Trump can turn his attention to those illegal aliens from nations that, for all their dysfunctions, are indelibly Christian. Immigrants from Latin America work—indeed they have a higher labor-force participation rate than whites. Reasonable people agree that criminals in the country illegally ought to be removed, but those working construction and agriculture jobs are saying, in so many words, “Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place great.” And they don’t *****."
He tried once but got thrown out for beating up the guy sitting next to him. On his way out he was heard shouting,”YOU NEVER SPLIT TENS, SAM!!”
MIT group was a great story. Wonder what they’re doing now.
From the article:
An illegal immigrant from Mexico who previously served nearly two decades in federal prison, was indicted Tuesday after allegedly conspiring to move tens of millions of dollars in methamphetamine in the Atlanta area, leading authorities to seize nearly 1,600 pounds of the stimulant drug hidden in blackberry shipments.
While staking out a cold storage warehouse in Fulton County on Nov. 20, federal agents and Hall County sheriff’s deputies saw three refrigerated box trucks parked outside.
They followed one of the trucks to a gas station in Gainesville and watched as Solorio-Alvarado picked up the driver and left the abandoned box truck at the gas station, according to officials.
After a K-9 alerted officers to the odor of narcotics, agents searched the truck and recovered about 661 pounds of methamphetamine hidden among pallets of blackberries.
During a subsequent search of the box truck parked outside the Atlanta home, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents, assisted by the FBI, recovered about 924 pounds of methamphetamine concealed in pallets of blackberries.
“We’ve seen the cartels operate this way before. … We have seen massive methamphetamine seizures of drugs that were smuggled in with cucumbers, celery or jalapeño peppers. And now … blackberries.”
My health insurance premiums are going down in '26. Deductible and coverage staying the same.
I understand I'm one of these rare cases who actually works in the private sector so this information could be circumstantial.
Gas prices helping the commute.
401k not too shabby either.
Hope that helps.
I understand I'm one of these rare cases who actually works in the private sector so this information could be circumstantial.
Gas prices helping the commute.
401k not too shabby either.
Hope that helps.
I think the economy sucks as well but citing a report that includes six figures of government jobs being eliminated and including that in the private sector is intentionally misleading.Don't recall Obama shooting missiles at the dying
Nobody's health insurance is going down this year and you know it. You're either delusion, lying or both.
Speaking of going down......The US economy is dying under MAGAnomics. Make America Covid Economy Again.
1.1 million layoffs this year — more than any since the pandemic
2025 has seen the most layoffs in the US since the pandemic, after over 70,000 jobs were cut in November, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Hunter on zoom- "Well, Dad, I mean "Big Guy," at least they think it was "foreign" terrorist cartels..."
Big Guy- "I still get my 10%."
Hunter- "Sent the froyo gift cards to your email."
Big Guy- "Which account?"
Hunter- "The stairsRmynemesis at aol dotcom"
Big Guy- "Thanks, Beau."
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I can tell you as someone watching it unfurl in his own city, Trump is 100% spot on here. The recent Muslim immigrants largely want nothing to do with assimilating to our culture.
But the very odd thing I'm seeing, the Muslim/Afghani immigrants I know, who came here 20-25years ago, HAVE assimilated. They've adopted the culture and societal rules, just like Italians, Irish, etc have over the past 200 years. They still keep their own cultural identity. My buddy does his fasting during some of March Madness and he hates it. But he believes in the religion and that's completely fine. He's a property manager and was also a nurse. His brother owns his own auto-mechanic business. His other brother is my dental hygienist.
They come from a good family with values and morals. However, they worked to get to America 20-some odd years ago and I'm sure it wasnt easy. I have to imagine they were educated and hard working and that's how they made it here as opposed to the criminals and useless ones.
I’ll be curious to hear his story. I still don’t believe the two attempted Trump assassins were simply lone actors, so I’m inclined not to believe anything about this either.
Brian Cole is the suspect's name. 33 years old.
Yeah, Tim, Candace Owens is why Republicans will lose the House. It definitely isn't the GOP Congress and Trump admin that has pissed off a huge portion of their base while serving the donor class and prioritizing a foreign country and global issues.
Thanks. Have you ever spoken with them about the non-assimilation issue of recent immigrants?
My God man! He's talking about logic! You green blooded, pointy eared...
Easy answer. Their parents broke the laws.
It seems to me that, as with the SNAP records, Trump has about cornered them. They don’t want show that their states are full of illegals. So what next? Allow them to keep giving welfare and the vote to illegals? Or begin arresting those who don’t comply? It’s a major watershed moment. If he allows them to keep doing it then the Union is broken.
Well, those are the Muslims that need to stand up and say no to the new Muslim immigrants.they need to tell them to assimilate or go back . Until they do that, all Muslims will be seen as the same.
What's logical about this when he started with the falsehood that she's a non-citizen?
"She’s a democrat, which means she’s a partisan. That’s self-explanatory. Good grief man, you’ve got to learn to read.
All he did here is state the obvious. How does that make him logical?
I haven’t made any mistake. The inherent implication here is that she should renounce her foreign citizenship.
Say she's a non-citizen isn't a mistake? That's logical? He can imply whatever, but that doesn't make it logical that she renounce her Lebanon citizenship? What's the logical legal basis for that?
As for a nativist, OF COURSE I AM. I want this country to be for Americans and our kids. We’re not a global economic zone.
So no immigration is logical when all but native Indians are descend from immigrants? What's the logic in that?
You are boomerized
"boomerized isn't even a word, so I guess that makes it logical Got it.
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beyond much hope, I’m afraid. I know you’ve had it pounded into your head that being America first is nativist, or racist, or something.
Show where this supposed conclusion about me is logical. It's a rant not logic.
All I can tell you is: it turns out you were lied to and that you’re horrifically wrong."
He has no idea wth he's talking about, but it's logic to you. What it is is emotion. Sad.
Tell him the same thing when any friends family moves away.
All insurance is going up thanks to MAGAnomics and tariffs. EVERYTHING is more expensive. That's why the economy has lost over a million jobs....Most since Covid. Guess who was President then?? What a Clown show.
- Small business plans: Small businesses with ACA-compliant plans could face an average premium increase of 11% for 2026.
- Employer-sponsored plans: While not as directly impacted by the ACA subsidy expiration, these plans are still seeing rising costs, with average family premiums increasing by 6% in 2025, as detailed in a KFF report.
1.1 million layoffs this year — more than any since the pandemic
2025 has seen the most layoffs in the US since the pandemic, after over 70,000 jobs were cut in November, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
You said in April that Trump destroyed the economy when the market was in a tariff panic attack. How is that doing now?
How about those gas prices?
If you aren't putting a few extra bucks in your pocket at this time, then the ignorance is your own.