Dwain Northey (Gen X)

I wish that Dear Donny was the only one getting hurt… sadly he won’t feel a thing but we will.

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The recent visit by the Ukaine leader and the horrible treatment he received from the WH are examples of the proof that America is going to suffer for the glory of a traitors bank account. Not only did they treat their guest badly they even had a Russian news representative in the room to live stream it back to Russia. Our own news agaents have been barred because they have not taken up the Gulf of America nonsense and a Russian news agent has been allowed in.
The security of the WH became a major project after Lincoln was assisinated and yet it is so lax today that a foreign, hostile government agent was allowed access. Another example of the result of not holding Trump accountable for the Jan 6 insurrection. The Defense Department is culling military leaders that either have stated they would not or it is believed they would not follow orders from the President if those orders are in direct conflict with the Costitution. We can not allow our military to be commanded by asskissers. The Constitution is the basis of our democracy and all government employees have sworn a oath to uphold the Constitution. Since we know that at least the top two people on the totem pole of leadership are working to destroy that document and what it stands for, it is obvious that they are enemies of the Constitution and therefore not allowed to remain in power. Someone arrest them.
Speaking of security, many of the employees of the government that had security in their jobs are being put at risk or fired for no reason other than the whim of a man with deminisished mental capacity. The idea that the government is too big may make sense but every large business requires large numbers of people to run them. It is very possible that every system has dead wood in it, at present the government dead wood seems to reside most absolutely in the White House, the houses of Congress, and the Supreme Court. All of these agencies are manned by numerous individuals that should not be in the positions that they hold. Most of the current cabinet heads are unqualified to be in those positions, many members of the House of Representatives are useless as anything but poor entertainment, and they aren’t good at that either. Most of the members of the republican party are either useless or afraid of the President. The majority of the Supreme Court are corrupt or meerly acting as rubber stamps for the President, and then their are the personnel that occupy the offices in the White House. None of these people are doing anything that is remotely good for the nation, just trying to destroy the Constitution and our way of life all for personal gain. These are people that need to be fired and removed from government, and some of them should be removed from earth. Musk has vehicles that go into space, lets load all of them into those vehicles and aim them to parts unknown.

Dwain Northey (Gen X )

Let’s get this perfectly straight, your cry’s of Pro-Life are just a hypothetical call to arms.

If you are against women’s healthcare… you are not pro-life

If you are against welcoming the stranger, i.e. refugees… you are not pro-life

Pro-Gun… devise designed to take life.

If you are for abolishing the Department of education, you’re definitely not pro child which would be a life.

If you oppose vaccines, definitely not pro- life.

If you’re four cutting funding for Ukraine, which has been attacked by Russia and killing tens of thousands of citizens, how is that pro life?

This list could go on and on and on of all the things that are against your stance of pro life so to stat I say go F yourself.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

In an hour and forty minute ’look how great I am’ address to the world, Donald did nothing but continue the rhetoric of one of his rallies.

His misinterpretation of how tariffs work was reminiscent to the middle school boys gym teacher that gets tasks with teaching sex ed to 12 year old girls.

Those of us that have volunteered to serve this country are disgusted that a draft dodging felon had the audacity to talk down to an elected leader that is actually fighting for the life of his nation. The mere notion that our support for an ally is transactional, and that they have to give us their natural resources for any kind of support against an enemy, trying to take their country from them, makes me nauseous.

The number of lies that Donny Dumbass told in 100 minutes would be humerus if it weren’t terrifying and dangerous to the United States and the World.

There were once three popes at the same time.

You’ve heard of The Young Popeand you’ve heard of The Two Popes, but did you know there were once three popes at the same time? The history of the papacy stretches back some 2,000 years and is full of oddities, few of which were more contentious than the Western Schism. It had its roots in the Avignon Papacy, a period that lasted from 1309 to 1376 and saw seven popes reside in Avignon rather than Rome. (Now a French prefecture, Avignon was then part of the Kingdom of Arles, which itself was part of the Holy Roman Empire.) Pope Gregory XI ended this period when he returned to Rome on January 17, 1377. After his death the following year, Romans rioted to bring about the election of a Roman pope.

Urban VI won, but proved so hostile to his cardinals that most of them regretted their decision and retreated to Anagni, Italy, to elect one of their own, Clement VII, as the antipope later that year. They declared Urban VI illegitimate because his election took place under duress. Clement VII resided in Avignon, with the two sides at a stalemate until the 1409 Council of Pisaelected a third pope, Alexander V, who was quickly succeeded by John XXIII following his untimely — and, according to some, conspiratorial, death the following year. Yet another council followed, this one taking place in Constance, Germany, from 1414 to 1418, ending the conflict for good. The Pisan and Avignon popes were deposed, the Roman pope agreed to resign, and Martin V was elected the one true pope.

Today’s modern calendar comes with a lot of quirks, not least of which are the names of the last four months. Although September, October, November, and December seemingly begin with numeral prefixes, the numbers don’t match their place in the calendar. October, for example, is not the eighth month of the year, but the 10th. So what’s going on here? Well, blame the Romans. 

Ancient Rome’s original calendar, which according to myth was created by the city’s legendary founder Romulus in the eighth century BCE, contained only 10 months. The year lasted 304 days, beginning in March (named for the Roman god Mars) and ending in December, the 10th month (marking the annual harvest). But because this calendar woefully underestimated the true length of a year, it was replaced with a new calendar by the Roman king Numa Pompilius around 713 BCE. The new calendar put the year at 355 days long, divided into 12 months, based on the cycles of the moon. It added the month of January to the start of the year and tacked on February at the end, though the latter eventually moved to its current position between January and March. This change threw the numerically named months (which at that point also included Quintilis and Sextilis) out of whack. Strangely, no one seemed to mind, and this quirk of the calendar has been with us ever since.

ByTeresa Ghilarducci, Senior Contributor. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor.

While virtually everyone else has been struggling through the COVID-19 recession, billionaires have done well between March 18 and May 19. According to a report from the Institute for Policy Research and Americans for Tax Fairness, U.S. billionaires’ wealth grew by more than $400 billion over that period.

Consumer spending is down 7.6 percent in the first quarter of 2020 from the last quarter of 2019, but composition of consumer spending has changed. The demand for online shopping and news exploded Jeff Bezos’ wealth by over 30% to $148 billion (Bezos runs AmazonAMZN +1.7% and owns the Washington Post). His ex-wife’s wealth grew even more, by 33%. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, and some Walton heirs also have done well in the two months since the shutdown orders in the United States were put in place and an estimated 50 million Americans have lost their jobs.

Another odd phenomenon is that average workers’ pay actually increased in April, with average weekly earnings rising from $804 a week to $842. This is odd because wages and salaries usually fall or remain stagnant when there is surplus labor, and in March and April there were more people looking for work than jobs available.

The reason for the increase in average pay: low-income workers disproportionately lost their jobs and high-income workers kept theirs. In April, the low-paid leisure and hospitality sector lost half of its employment. Meanwhile, the finance sector lost hardly any jobs. High-income workers are usually a bit more secure in recessions. But economies are interdependent and in the last recession high-paid workers, especially those in finance, lost their jobs.

In this recession, the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s, high-income workers are more likely to keep their jobs and billionaires are seeing their fortunes grow. In short, the COVID-19 recession is causing more inequality. Even Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell felt compelled to point out the growing inequality. As the Fed noted in May, 40% of those earning under $40,000 will lose their jobs in the COVID-19 recession.

The wealthy are always more likely to win in recessions, as NYU economist Edward Wolff has found. During recessions, wealth and income inequality grows. And as economist Hilary Hoynes and others have discovered, poor and indebted households are affected much more by business cycles. Future research will likely find similar effects from the COVID-19 recession.

Another awful and quite pronounced effect of this recession is how it will worsen gaps in mortality. Longevity inequality was already growing before the pandemic because of the uneven access to health care, health care disparities, and unequal access to healthful living places with fresh air, fresh food, and walkable places. Those most at risk of dying early are also those more severely affected by this recession, due to the effect of the virus on those with diabetes and other co-morbidities.

The winners in all recessions are the people who keep their jobs and hours, can work at home, and those with excess cash and wealth to snap up what owners needing cash sell: lower-priced small business, lower-priced stocks and bonds, and perhaps even a lower-priced house or two. The COVID-19 recession will cause more wealth, income, and health inequality.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

So Felon 47 has gone 100% Kremlin… Our current administration signed on with Belarus, North Korea, and Russia condemning Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of its sovereign country. Yesterday in the oval office, Trump belittled the duly elected president of Ukraine pretty much telling him that we are not on his side, and we will not help him, his option is surrender. When did we start siding with the invaders and no those that are fighting to defend their country?

The King Donald version of the Bible and Constitution is Fuck the Poor and needy, expel the stranger, oh and by the way if you happen to have $5millions our doors are open. This is not the nation and its values I was raised in and I am very sad for our future if this is the path we are on.

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

The unelected South African that has been given carte blanche to dismantle our government needs to be sent back to where he came from. The majority of us have zero impact on this maniac but continuing to disparage Tesla by calling the cars SwastaCars and the CyberTruck the DouchePanzer is a start.

Canada stated a petition to remove Musk Canadian citizenship, even though he is not a Canadian citizen, it sends a message that they want nothing to do with this Bond Villain.

We are letting 2 trust fund fools cut funds from government agencies like hedge fund managers dismantling their latest acquisition. Donny who bankrupted multiple companies to include Casinos and Elon who bought Twitter for $44 billion and the platform is now worth $7 billion… amazing if they want to run government like a business the mission must be total destruction. Crazy that with all the waste and fraud DOGE is supposedly finding none of it is in the billion dollar contracts that Elon has… I am sure the is no conflict of interest there…

Send the South African apartheid trust fund baby back to South Africa.