As bad as the status of Democracy is becoming we must all be speaking and sharing our thoughts publicly through social media, town halls and letters to government officials.
My fears have been realized. The literal reality of a then presidential candidate. He said the immigrants were eating pets in Ohio. Now we have people being arrested and deported because there immigration status is not in good standing. I recall the first lady's parents getting there citizenship in Trump's first term. Sure there enjoying our lovely country and the fruits of citizenship.
Simply had a situation with one of my children this week. Verbally someone working with one of my children just bashing them and there ethnicity. I could have lost my shit. Gone in the place of work and been arrested and removed. I drove around angry and mad talking withy sibling. Cooling my ass off. I raise my children better and she handled it by appropriate channels. Not good. But all be well and all who voted for this tyrant should be slapped.
The added angst re: how your own daughter has been abused within her workplace…and knowing any intervention on your part could worsen the situation…isn’t something any parent should have to consider. And yet, this is the reality you and other parents and their family members are enduring in this upside down version of earned citizenship which the current regime is randomly revoking.
When I tried to understand how Hitler could have accomplished his extermination of 6 million Jews, after walking the grounds and entering the death chambers of Dachau in 1972, I rationalized it was the absence of timely, accurate communications and geographical isolation from our country and other world powers which contributed to the Holocaust. But that was then and this is now.
My now almost 101 yr. old friend Clara, who was liberated from Stutthoff concentration camp 80 years ago last month, told me during tRump’s first Pres. campaign “This man is like Hitler…no one should trust him…” Yet, even with 24/7 cable TV channels and worldwide access to the truth about tRump and his alliances with autocratic tsars who were once considered our country’s arch enemies…he and his Gestapo-like cabinet members, and his cadre of blackmailed? “Supremes” and Senators and Congress puppets are intent on marginalizing, exiling and endangering the lives of non-Whites/whites and anyone who doesn’t fit their version of an Aryan race which can be controlled by greedy, sadistic gazillionaires’ sick lust for power.
Someday they will have to answer to a Higher Power.
In the meantime, staying connected with kindred spirits on The Front Page and elsewhere with family and friends, especially my beloved friend Clara, who share our ethics is the key to holding on to Hope and mutual support.
My mother, who grew up in Nazi Germany, already saw the parallels to fascism in Republican rhetoric during the first Bush administration. Think about that. That’s how long their descent into madness has been going on. And that’s just when it became noticeable to those who were looking for it. Someone here mentioned the frog in the slowly heating water metaphor a while ago and it applies to us here. There was no deep state, but there was and is a group of billionaires who have long felt democratic governance was cramping their style. Trump is not smart enough to have engineered this, but he was the right guy for the job of bringing it to fruition, with his easily manipulated ego, skill for ginning up a crowd, and his total lack of moral compass.
I feel exactly as you do Ken. He is definitely on thr path to b dictator and thr fact that no one is stopping him makes me more afraid. It could really happen. I feel very helpless. What. Governmental agency should I contact to say Hey! Let’s do something! It’s so upsetting I wake every morning feeling anxious. So I focus on being with my family my grand nieces my friends, getting ready for Easter dinner like everything is normal and I am able to get thru the day. I walk Bella at Hovey pond. I stay in my little world so I can get thru the day and get some sleep. But these feelings are short lived.
Sigh. 6:07 am. Guess I’ll make coffee Bella is still asleep. Oh to b a dog.🐾😢🐾
I guess what I would have done in Nazi Germany is what I am doing now, expressing my opinion to any one who will listen, and protesting on a street corner once a week. It doesn’t seem like much, considering what we’re facing. But I have no ability or wherewithal to do what I really want to do which is to throw the lot of them into that El Salvador prison and see how they like it, so it will have to do. If everyone did it, it might make a difference, though. At least I’m not being silent.
On a lighter note, I’m proud of Albany and our area for our ice cream standings! In my travels I have noticed that the Northeast in general has a plentitude of ice cream shops, far more than any other part of the country I’ve traveled through. Just try to find an ice cream stand down south!! I think it’s BECAUSE we have such short summers and long winters. We want to grab it all in while we can when it’s hot, and defy the elements when it’s cold. Go ice cream!!
You’re so right, Tanya. The Unholy Trinity of Cheney/Rumsfield/Rowe and their Federalist (Federal-Lust?) Party were well established long before 9/11…
Bush Jr. was sitting in a Kindergarten classroom on the other side of our country, reading to little kids, (who scheduled that?) when the towers crumpled…while Cheney commandered the country that morning…and throughout those 2 terms…as he deepened his ties with SaudiArabians etc.
Don't give up Ken, we have an election next year, and an opportunity to make things right in NY 21. I do believe, with all tRumps antics and Elsie's concurrance, voters will FINALLY be willing to get rid of her. How about you interview our democrat candidate and devote a column to his platform??? This might spur more coverage of his campaign. This IS where we can make a difference...Thank you for all that you do!!!
The election is 19 months away and I'm not sure the democracy can hold for that long. I know that seems far-fetched, but so has everything in the first 100 days of Trump.
I see Trump's deportation chief is now suggesting those who are critical of sending an innocent man to the El Salvador prison for terrorists are guilty of aiding and abetting terrorists! Quite honestly have to admit one feels hesitant about firing off a communication voicing opposing views to the White House, but did anyway in response to Trump's verbal war on CBS and 60 Minutes and suggesting they should pay a big price for their targeting of him and his Executive Order Presidency. Going back to Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace and Dan Rather the network and 60 Minutes have always been the symbol of what investigative journalism and support for free speech and freedom of the press should be all about, including the present team of 60 Minutes interviewers. Did open minded German citizens fire off protest letters to Hitler and if so, did they manage to make an "enemies list?" I eventually came to learn I had been part of J. Edgar Hoover's list simply for my opposition to the Vietnam War, involvement with the Urban League and efforts to desegregate schools. But as MLK advised us: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
North Country Public Radio reported it yesterday. Unnamed sources, but she may be wanting to just keep her name in the limelight. Seems like a tough sell in New York for MAGA Ultra. Pataki was moderate ultrade.
I was going to thank you for not writing about her latest cry for attention. If she did run, I’d look forward to her and Lawler going at it. Maybe they could invite her endorsees George Santos and Carl Paladino.
I would like to add, he says we should call our senators and representatives.. I would add to this, in NY21, I suggest calling Billy Jones and asking him to start having empty seat town halls since pos_tfnKKK will not have one and will not listen to the concerns of all her constutituents
AND she will not defend the constitutioin.
the democratic party needs to take legal court actions
I still think the best way to put pressure on Republicans is to ask Local officials if they agree with Trump policies at Town Board meetings. Immigration officials are already starting to snatch up people off the street and no one knows why.
Faced with excommunication for his dissent, Martin Luther said "Here I stand. I can do no more." His namesake, Martin Luther King in his last speech said "I may not get there with you." He knew. I am not, nor will never be, in their league. But after 1000 folks & I marched in Sackets Harbor, 2 days later the local immigrant family wrongly detained by ICE, was released. Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post, etc., cheered it on. Then "Deportation Czar" Tom Homan on WWNY TV, said "Criminal investigations have begun," & "Criminal prosecutions" (will follow). Almost 20 anti-Trump letters of mine in the local papers, I may be a high profile target if he's not bluffing. They can find me w/my "Save the VA" sign in Watertown's Public Square. Any pro Bono lawyers out there?
Though my VA Dr. cautioned me this week re: continuing my participation in protest rallies, if I lived up near Watertown I’d be standing next to you on the Public Square, Roland. Our country needs more “town criers” like in eras past.
Of note, there are multiple pro-Gendenbien campaign signs, and support the VA signs posted downtown near our Civil War monument… and up on the corner of Quaker Rd. and Upper Glen…and elsewhere… which have not been defaced or knocked down this week. Some very clever captions too!
With respect to Trump's threat to withdraw federal aid from Cornell, Harvard, Northwestern, Columbia as part of his purported war against campus antisemitism, I highly recommend the op-ed piece by American University Professor Michael Brenner in Inside Higher Ed. Brenner is a Professor of Israel Studies and talks about the minefield their programs have become over the past several years. Brenner courageously contends that Trump's initiatives are, in fact, a crusade against the rights of free expression, academic freedom and due process for everyone involved in higher education in the U.S. His op-ed piece is entitled "Not in the Name of Israel and Jewish Studies." He laments the fact that Columbia, unlike Harvard, has surrendered to the threats of this crusade. Of course, Harvard has an unbelievable funds available account to fall back on to contest the insidious initiative.
"Reaganonics is the end of the free world and America will never recover." Stock market dropped 20% and the end of civilization was only a few months away. Meanwhile, the savvy were buying stocks at bargain prices, inflation dropped and, the greatest generation, now in their senior years, sat back, watched baseball and grateful "the more things change, the more they remain the same." Those guys sitting in back of you at the baseball game know what matters and baseball, conversation and mid-afternoon chuckles are priceless. America's best days are ahead. Robotics, A.I. and new foreign investment will lead the way. Maybe, just maybe, students loans not forgiven might entice the elite oppressed to take those jobs now being performed by hard working illegal immigrants. Just kidding of course.
The Supreme Court ruled that Biden couldn't do student loan forgiveness with an executive order because of the current Court's fascination with the "major questions doctrine," The "major questions doctrine" is a legal principle used by the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the power of federal agencies. It holds that if an agency wants to decide an issue of "vast economic and political significance," it must have clear and explicit authorization from Congress. In other words, agencies can't make big, society-changing decisions unless Congress specifically told them they could.
In a 6–3 decision in Biden v. Nebraska ((2023), the Court ruled that the Biden administration lacked clear congressional authorization to cancel up to $430 billion in federal student loan debt. The administration had relied on the HEROES Act, which allows the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify” student loan provisions during national emergencies. However, the Court found that this language did not authorize such sweeping debt cancellation.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, emphasized that forgiving such a large amount of debt constituted a matter of “vast economic and political significance.” Under the major questions doctrine, the Court requires clear and specific authorization from Congress for agencies to make decisions of this magnitude. The Court concluded that the HEROES Act did not provide such authorization.
Yesterday California sued Trump, seeking an immediate ruling to stop his wide-reaching tariffs, alleging that they're poised to "hurt states, consumers, and businesses." The lawsuit invokes the major questions doctrine, which, again, means "in matters of vast economic and political significance, federal agencies and the executive branch must have clear and specific authorization from Congress."
If the High Court could stop Biden from loan forgiveness (he found other ways around it for many borrowers), then the justices can stop Trump from imposing tariffs and many other instances where his executive orders affect economic and political ways.
You seem to, like the President, take glee in "owning the libs." That is, you want people with higher education to work in menial, backbreaking jobs. What you are, all kidding aside, is akin to Communist Maoist thought at the time of the Cultural Revolution, when they sent professors, journalists, scientists to do menial work in the countryside, like cleaning toilets and picking crops. In other words, you want the highly educated to be slaves. I know you say you are kidding but clearly you seem to get pleasure out of this in the way that sick minds like Trump and Musk do.
I don't think you know very much about robotics or AI. As for new foreign investment, do you think Trump is making advanced nations more or less eager to invest in the US? The Chinese are not going to buy Treasury notes and bonds forever, and that is why the bond market is in chaos.
Anonymous shows his lack of deep thought with every post, but you, sir, have apparently done your homework!! If only Anonymous would read the whole thing and try thinking about it, they might learn something too.
"it" is my pronoun of choice. My lack of deep thought mandates that I use the simplist choice and "it" fits the criteria. There are a lot of deep thinkers on this forum, Ed is my favorite.
Foreign investment is being scared away right now by Trump. But I do agree with you that people in Trump’s inner circle who had a little foreknowledge of tariffs on/tariffs off probably made a killing in the market. That’s the kind of insider trading that should land them all in jail. Oh wait, the head of the SEC was nominated by Trump, who values personal loyalty to him above competence and integrity. Our best days will not come again while Trump rules as king.
I totally agree. Two of the nonsensical things Trump is doing::
1 Removing the welcome mat for foreign born college and graduate students.
2 Working toward the removal of millions of other foreign born individuals even though they take less desirable jobs and can help keep the social security system afloat.
As bad as the status of Democracy is becoming we must all be speaking and sharing our thoughts publicly through social media, town halls and letters to government officials.
I agree totally with Fred Grunewald.
These days are not going to be easy.
My fears have been realized. The literal reality of a then presidential candidate. He said the immigrants were eating pets in Ohio. Now we have people being arrested and deported because there immigration status is not in good standing. I recall the first lady's parents getting there citizenship in Trump's first term. Sure there enjoying our lovely country and the fruits of citizenship.
Simply had a situation with one of my children this week. Verbally someone working with one of my children just bashing them and there ethnicity. I could have lost my shit. Gone in the place of work and been arrested and removed. I drove around angry and mad talking withy sibling. Cooling my ass off. I raise my children better and she handled it by appropriate channels. Not good. But all be well and all who voted for this tyrant should be slapped.
The added angst re: how your own daughter has been abused within her workplace…and knowing any intervention on your part could worsen the situation…isn’t something any parent should have to consider. And yet, this is the reality you and other parents and their family members are enduring in this upside down version of earned citizenship which the current regime is randomly revoking.
When I tried to understand how Hitler could have accomplished his extermination of 6 million Jews, after walking the grounds and entering the death chambers of Dachau in 1972, I rationalized it was the absence of timely, accurate communications and geographical isolation from our country and other world powers which contributed to the Holocaust. But that was then and this is now.
My now almost 101 yr. old friend Clara, who was liberated from Stutthoff concentration camp 80 years ago last month, told me during tRump’s first Pres. campaign “This man is like Hitler…no one should trust him…” Yet, even with 24/7 cable TV channels and worldwide access to the truth about tRump and his alliances with autocratic tsars who were once considered our country’s arch enemies…he and his Gestapo-like cabinet members, and his cadre of blackmailed? “Supremes” and Senators and Congress puppets are intent on marginalizing, exiling and endangering the lives of non-Whites/whites and anyone who doesn’t fit their version of an Aryan race which can be controlled by greedy, sadistic gazillionaires’ sick lust for power.
Someday they will have to answer to a Higher Power.
In the meantime, staying connected with kindred spirits on The Front Page and elsewhere with family and friends, especially my beloved friend Clara, who share our ethics is the key to holding on to Hope and mutual support.
My mother, who grew up in Nazi Germany, already saw the parallels to fascism in Republican rhetoric during the first Bush administration. Think about that. That’s how long their descent into madness has been going on. And that’s just when it became noticeable to those who were looking for it. Someone here mentioned the frog in the slowly heating water metaphor a while ago and it applies to us here. There was no deep state, but there was and is a group of billionaires who have long felt democratic governance was cramping their style. Trump is not smart enough to have engineered this, but he was the right guy for the job of bringing it to fruition, with his easily manipulated ego, skill for ginning up a crowd, and his total lack of moral compass.
Amen and thank you.
I feel exactly as you do Ken. He is definitely on thr path to b dictator and thr fact that no one is stopping him makes me more afraid. It could really happen. I feel very helpless. What. Governmental agency should I contact to say Hey! Let’s do something! It’s so upsetting I wake every morning feeling anxious. So I focus on being with my family my grand nieces my friends, getting ready for Easter dinner like everything is normal and I am able to get thru the day. I walk Bella at Hovey pond. I stay in my little world so I can get thru the day and get some sleep. But these feelings are short lived.
Sigh. 6:07 am. Guess I’ll make coffee Bella is still asleep. Oh to b a dog.🐾😢🐾
We must all rise to the challenge that we face. I believe we can. And will.
https://albellenchia.substack.com/p/all-rise?r=7wk5d
I guess what I would have done in Nazi Germany is what I am doing now, expressing my opinion to any one who will listen, and protesting on a street corner once a week. It doesn’t seem like much, considering what we’re facing. But I have no ability or wherewithal to do what I really want to do which is to throw the lot of them into that El Salvador prison and see how they like it, so it will have to do. If everyone did it, it might make a difference, though. At least I’m not being silent.
On a lighter note, I’m proud of Albany and our area for our ice cream standings! In my travels I have noticed that the Northeast in general has a plentitude of ice cream shops, far more than any other part of the country I’ve traveled through. Just try to find an ice cream stand down south!! I think it’s BECAUSE we have such short summers and long winters. We want to grab it all in while we can when it’s hot, and defy the elements when it’s cold. Go ice cream!!
You’re so right, Tanya. The Unholy Trinity of Cheney/Rumsfield/Rowe and their Federalist (Federal-Lust?) Party were well established long before 9/11…
Bush Jr. was sitting in a Kindergarten classroom on the other side of our country, reading to little kids, (who scheduled that?) when the towers crumpled…while Cheney commandered the country that morning…and throughout those 2 terms…as he deepened his ties with SaudiArabians etc.
Don't give up Ken, we have an election next year, and an opportunity to make things right in NY 21. I do believe, with all tRumps antics and Elsie's concurrance, voters will FINALLY be willing to get rid of her. How about you interview our democrat candidate and devote a column to his platform??? This might spur more coverage of his campaign. This IS where we can make a difference...Thank you for all that you do!!!
The election is 19 months away and I'm not sure the democracy can hold for that long. I know that seems far-fetched, but so has everything in the first 100 days of Trump.
We need ti remember all this when its time to vote for now god help us
Why do we eat so much ice cream? Easy answer: Stewart’s!
There are always long lines at Sprinkles and Martha's too. We don't have warm weather for every long, but we take advantage of it.
I see Trump's deportation chief is now suggesting those who are critical of sending an innocent man to the El Salvador prison for terrorists are guilty of aiding and abetting terrorists! Quite honestly have to admit one feels hesitant about firing off a communication voicing opposing views to the White House, but did anyway in response to Trump's verbal war on CBS and 60 Minutes and suggesting they should pay a big price for their targeting of him and his Executive Order Presidency. Going back to Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace and Dan Rather the network and 60 Minutes have always been the symbol of what investigative journalism and support for free speech and freedom of the press should be all about, including the present team of 60 Minutes interviewers. Did open minded German citizens fire off protest letters to Hitler and if so, did they manage to make an "enemies list?" I eventually came to learn I had been part of J. Edgar Hoover's list simply for my opposition to the Vietnam War, involvement with the Urban League and efforts to desegregate schools. But as MLK advised us: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
I'll bet you see that as a badge of honor now.
Where did I see that Stefan"i(c)k" was considering running for....governor?????? I'm NOT even capable of imaging that possibility really happening!!!!
North Country Public Radio reported it yesterday. Unnamed sources, but she may be wanting to just keep her name in the limelight. Seems like a tough sell in New York for MAGA Ultra. Pataki was moderate ultrade.
I was going to thank you for not writing about her latest cry for attention. If she did run, I’d look forward to her and Lawler going at it. Maybe they could invite her endorsees George Santos and Carl Paladino.
Sorry, that's is coming on Friday.
I’ll stay tuned. 📻
https://substack.com/@roberthubbell/p-161362804
Robert Hubbell is saying what I have been saying
We have enough crimes to impeach hmpy trmPEDOphile.. and beyond that
I would like to add, he says we should call our senators and representatives.. I would add to this, in NY21, I suggest calling Billy Jones and asking him to start having empty seat town halls since pos_tfnKKK will not have one and will not listen to the concerns of all her constutituents
AND she will not defend the constitutioin.
the democratic party needs to take legal court actions
I still think the best way to put pressure on Republicans is to ask Local officials if they agree with Trump policies at Town Board meetings. Immigration officials are already starting to snatch up people off the street and no one knows why.
From every thing I see on pos_tfnKKK and stec-ickkk's presence on the internet they not only condone it they publicly applaud it.
i.e. part of the treason
“It’s always something.” Gilda Radner.
“RosannaRosannaDanna” said it best 🙂
Faced with excommunication for his dissent, Martin Luther said "Here I stand. I can do no more." His namesake, Martin Luther King in his last speech said "I may not get there with you." He knew. I am not, nor will never be, in their league. But after 1000 folks & I marched in Sackets Harbor, 2 days later the local immigrant family wrongly detained by ICE, was released. Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post, etc., cheered it on. Then "Deportation Czar" Tom Homan on WWNY TV, said "Criminal investigations have begun," & "Criminal prosecutions" (will follow). Almost 20 anti-Trump letters of mine in the local papers, I may be a high profile target if he's not bluffing. They can find me w/my "Save the VA" sign in Watertown's Public Square. Any pro Bono lawyers out there?
yeah, some prestigious law firms who capitulated to Trump will be doing some pro bono work
Though my VA Dr. cautioned me this week re: continuing my participation in protest rallies, if I lived up near Watertown I’d be standing next to you on the Public Square, Roland. Our country needs more “town criers” like in eras past.
Of note, there are multiple pro-Gendenbien campaign signs, and support the VA signs posted downtown near our Civil War monument… and up on the corner of Quaker Rd. and Upper Glen…and elsewhere… which have not been defaced or knocked down this week. Some very clever captions too!
Bravo Susan and Roland!
With respect to Trump's threat to withdraw federal aid from Cornell, Harvard, Northwestern, Columbia as part of his purported war against campus antisemitism, I highly recommend the op-ed piece by American University Professor Michael Brenner in Inside Higher Ed. Brenner is a Professor of Israel Studies and talks about the minefield their programs have become over the past several years. Brenner courageously contends that Trump's initiatives are, in fact, a crusade against the rights of free expression, academic freedom and due process for everyone involved in higher education in the U.S. His op-ed piece is entitled "Not in the Name of Israel and Jewish Studies." He laments the fact that Columbia, unlike Harvard, has surrendered to the threats of this crusade. Of course, Harvard has an unbelievable funds available account to fall back on to contest the insidious initiative.
"Reaganonics is the end of the free world and America will never recover." Stock market dropped 20% and the end of civilization was only a few months away. Meanwhile, the savvy were buying stocks at bargain prices, inflation dropped and, the greatest generation, now in their senior years, sat back, watched baseball and grateful "the more things change, the more they remain the same." Those guys sitting in back of you at the baseball game know what matters and baseball, conversation and mid-afternoon chuckles are priceless. America's best days are ahead. Robotics, A.I. and new foreign investment will lead the way. Maybe, just maybe, students loans not forgiven might entice the elite oppressed to take those jobs now being performed by hard working illegal immigrants. Just kidding of course.
The Supreme Court ruled that Biden couldn't do student loan forgiveness with an executive order because of the current Court's fascination with the "major questions doctrine," The "major questions doctrine" is a legal principle used by the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the power of federal agencies. It holds that if an agency wants to decide an issue of "vast economic and political significance," it must have clear and explicit authorization from Congress. In other words, agencies can't make big, society-changing decisions unless Congress specifically told them they could.
In a 6–3 decision in Biden v. Nebraska ((2023), the Court ruled that the Biden administration lacked clear congressional authorization to cancel up to $430 billion in federal student loan debt. The administration had relied on the HEROES Act, which allows the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify” student loan provisions during national emergencies. However, the Court found that this language did not authorize such sweeping debt cancellation.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, emphasized that forgiving such a large amount of debt constituted a matter of “vast economic and political significance.” Under the major questions doctrine, the Court requires clear and specific authorization from Congress for agencies to make decisions of this magnitude. The Court concluded that the HEROES Act did not provide such authorization.
Yesterday California sued Trump, seeking an immediate ruling to stop his wide-reaching tariffs, alleging that they're poised to "hurt states, consumers, and businesses." The lawsuit invokes the major questions doctrine, which, again, means "in matters of vast economic and political significance, federal agencies and the executive branch must have clear and specific authorization from Congress."
If the High Court could stop Biden from loan forgiveness (he found other ways around it for many borrowers), then the justices can stop Trump from imposing tariffs and many other instances where his executive orders affect economic and political ways.
You seem to, like the President, take glee in "owning the libs." That is, you want people with higher education to work in menial, backbreaking jobs. What you are, all kidding aside, is akin to Communist Maoist thought at the time of the Cultural Revolution, when they sent professors, journalists, scientists to do menial work in the countryside, like cleaning toilets and picking crops. In other words, you want the highly educated to be slaves. I know you say you are kidding but clearly you seem to get pleasure out of this in the way that sick minds like Trump and Musk do.
I don't think you know very much about robotics or AI. As for new foreign investment, do you think Trump is making advanced nations more or less eager to invest in the US? The Chinese are not going to buy Treasury notes and bonds forever, and that is why the bond market is in chaos.
Anonymous shows his lack of deep thought with every post, but you, sir, have apparently done your homework!! If only Anonymous would read the whole thing and try thinking about it, they might learn something too.
He? Some sisters might disagree.....
Sorry. Anonymous shows their lack of deep thought. Happy now?
"it" is my pronoun of choice. My lack of deep thought mandates that I use the simplist choice and "it" fits the criteria. There are a lot of deep thinkers on this forum, Ed is my favorite.
Foreign investment is being scared away right now by Trump. But I do agree with you that people in Trump’s inner circle who had a little foreknowledge of tariffs on/tariffs off probably made a killing in the market. That’s the kind of insider trading that should land them all in jail. Oh wait, the head of the SEC was nominated by Trump, who values personal loyalty to him above competence and integrity. Our best days will not come again while Trump rules as king.
A very rare thing these days - optimism.
I totally agree. Two of the nonsensical things Trump is doing::
1 Removing the welcome mat for foreign born college and graduate students.
2 Working toward the removal of millions of other foreign born individuals even though they take less desirable jobs and can help keep the social security system afloat.