Okay so let me try to explain it to you like this I have a job I make good money I have side jobs because I like making money and I also buy and I sell things fix them up repair them sell them to make money I get to deal with so many different types of people it's unreal and no matter what I'm doing whether it's my real job a side job or selling something there are people that want it cheaper everybody wants it for next to nothing now I can either will and deal so I can get what I'm either worth as I'm working or at least what I pay for it if I'm buying and selling
Because of the quality of work I do and because of the eyes that I have on the things that I buy and sell I know tons and tons of people they all want to come to me for Wheels and Deals they want me to work for them because I charge a good price and I do quality work if I buy something fix it up and sell it people come to me because they want things like that because it is unique different and they know it's a good product and I stand behind my word
I'm just a regular person but now let's take a politician look how much money they spent by trying to get elected and the moment they get elected they want that job they want to keep that job and the people that help them get elected gave them money and they gave them money because they want laws changed they want things to be different to benefit them you have more than a hundred to a thousand donors all pulling at you because they're going to give you money so you help them in one way or the other and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and and you just keep growing that brand until you have lied to so many people that you have to do exactly what they want or otherwise they're not going to give you money next year to the point if these long-term politicians have basically sold us out just to get that money to get reelected they say one thing to one donor and save the complete opposite to another donor it's a big lie it's a big manipulation now you get 500 of those same type of people doing the exact same thing that you are that you are part of their system so now they all get together and say we need to do this for more money so we can have this agenda their movements are b******* they are selfish and only do it for themselves not what they got sworn in for not what they promised to do for us but they do it for themselves and their party this is why our country is the way that it is look at all the f****** poor hungry people and they just sent how many billions of dollars to Ukraine and then once the war is over who's going to rebuild Ukraine who's going to give money for that we are the American people's taxpaying money I don't mean to be a dick but I mean there are Americans that need money there are children in America that are hungry and our government has to step up to those people first before anybody else if we're going to go broke at least let's keep the money in our country so taxes will still be paid and the government would get back some of that money but you are so right everything is going downhill because it's all been a lie it's all been in manipulation just so these people can be it elected and the sad part is not one of them out of all the official elected seats that we vote people into office for not one of them will stand up to be great not one of them they collect their $250,000 in your paycheck or more and way more because of all the inside business opportunities that they come across why because they're going to get money to be reelected if they do certain things think about the Taliban think about the Russians what they're doing to Ukraine America government is one of the biggest gangster type things going on that are against the law but they can get away with it because they are elected officials they can do or say manipulate anything that they want to and the American people pay for it we are all being manipulated so bad I mean since the toilet paper scare it's because they
US politics is a tug-of-war between angry Republicans and angry Democrats, and nothing gets done. Both are full of crap, and both have nothing positive to offer for society. Both get salty and offended, but call the other party salty and offended. Both are hypocrites and do not walk the talk. Both are fueled with white supremacy and have nothing to offer minorities. The only difference is that one is honest about their dislike for black people while the other tries to hide it and have them vote to get them into office, then forget about them for the next 4 years until the next election. One is a lion and the other is a snake. The lion will attack you just like you expect it to, while the snake will hiss and shake it's tail before it lunges at you in a split second out of nowhere.
I encourage all black people to not vote for any. It's a popularity context between two rich and old white men that are full of empty promises and don't give a damn about you. 2 years in office and Biden increased police budget. Funny that Libs would critisze someone, but still vote for them under the "anyone is better than Trump" excuse. If you critically critisize him and he is from your party, he is NOT WORTHY to be president. Trump on the hand encouraged his Hill Billy supporters to invade the most sacred government building in America. Yeah.
And before you say anything about BLM, I can care less about them. I'm for the idea, not the movement. The movement can die and another one with a different name will be born. The organization can be corrupt and people will still fight for a cause. With or without BLM, this fight will continue. With or without Dems, this fight will continue. As for other LGBTQIA+, feminism and that other stuff, count me out. I didn't sign up for this, and if fighting for Black liberation means I have to co-sign on a lot of this, then I cannot compromize my own values just to have "potential" allies. I don't think the US is going backwards, I just think more and more people are getting tired with bullshit.
Naw, going backwards is the liberals constantly trying to take away guns... and restrict them from people who've done nothing wrong. Red flag laws are a prime example, someone who has broken no laws, now has a right taken away and often they have to pay CASH to get their property back that the government stole from them, while missing work to appear in court to prove they are not a threat.
How does one PROVE they aren't a threat, you can't prove your not something.
We are also going backwards in regards to inflation, gas prices and other things since Biden took office... Trump had us progressing excellent forward.
Abortion is not illegal, the SCOTUS did not change that it did a legal ruling, states have the power to decide which is actually a great step forward. If more states had rights, vs. the big central dictatorship government telling everyone what to do, there would be less division.
Don't like what your state does, fight to change it or move to one that suits you better. State rights is major progress forward.
I agree. Perhaps they want women to increase the population numbers (especially after COVID), maybe is the strategy used by government so that this “soon to be mother’s” consume products that right now are overpriced and sure, will be future consumers. Maybe they are starting to see that women are becoming more independent than they expected and it doesn’t work in this man’s world. Or it will be a way to excuse future tax payers money going to to the foster care system. But in no way this looks good
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Why do you want to just look at things in a negative way? I am in my 60s and years ago I learned that I will ONLY find what I am looking for. While I try to be real when I make an observation, I don't limit myself like this. Almost every day when I go out I see human generosity that sometimes amazes me. A while back I saw a middle-aged black couple give a young white mother money to finish paying for food for her kids. Not long ago I saw a white male stand out in the driving rain to stop a cab for a young black female. I spend a lot of time in Europe and Asia. In fact, I will be in Europe very soon and so far it looks like I will be there for at least a month. While it is not my intent to insult you, I do want to make it absolutely clear! Before you start badmouthing the US go spend some time in some other places! Is the US a perfect place? NO, we are not! Am I happy with a lot of the things political I have seen here over the last 10 or so years? NO! I am not! Still, the US is my home and I REFUSE to badmouth my home! Especially when I have with my own eyes witnessed MUCH worse places all around the world!
America has been rolling down hill for many years. We have simply started rolling faster. It's past time to get rid of the career politicians on both sides and stop electing new ones. Put in strict investment laws for people in office and their family members. So that we no longer have officials regulating a industry that they are heavily fiscally invested in. Make campaign financing 100% public and force campaigns to publicly account for every cent they take in. Get rid of Super Pac and cut down on the sheer amount of money a campaign can take in. Push for regulations that bar anyone leaving office from taking a job in wall street. Since we have elected officials on both sides that take jobs in investment firms after they leave office.
Because the simple truth is for generations our government has been a revolving door between corporate America, Wall Street and our government. It is an issue that both major parties are guilty off and it's an issue that is in a lot of ways preventing any meaningful change from happening. Simply because the same people making a mint of the joke that is our government are the ones have the majority of officials on both sides by the purse strings. Simply because if people going into or already in office refuse to ball Wall Street and Corporate America have enough finical power and influence to publicly trash their life and ensure the vast majority of people see it happen.
I appreciate your honesty, but sadly through your ignorance. You, like so many others want to cry, "They're taking our rights!" What rights, per se? Abortion rights? You are aware that Roe did not set precedence on abortion, right? Due process and privacy were the issues. And the case created a glitch. So the glitch was fixed. Amazingly, you have a problem with it, yet I'm willing to bet you proudly support a protestor that held up a sign that said "Hands off our bodies!" If you did, then you should be very pleased with the overruling of Roe. The federal government has removed itself from your body. That is a good thing, if you actually believe in women's rights.
SCOTUS also empowered YOU, a member of the PEOPLE, to elect officials that support your viewpoint in order to make laws that support pro-choice positions.
I highly doubt you're standing up for people who live in a state where recreational marijuana is illegal, whereas it is legal in other states. Their bodies, their choices, right? Same for vaccines as well, right?
NONE of what I just highlighted is protected directly under the Constitution, including abortion. There was never a right to it. So if you don't like Texas, don't live in Texas. Live in California, go get knocked up, and abort away, and be proud of your abortion. Be proud of not valuing life. Be proud of never wavering and accepting late term and partial birth abortions. And most of all, you better be protesting in front of the prison Scott Peterson is in, because it is wrong that he got convicted of murdering his unborn child. He should only have one conviction, right?
Stop being a consumed sheeple puppet. Don't let ANTIFA, social media, social justice warriors, and mainstream media control your mind. Think for yourself, leverage actual rights afforded to you under the Constitution, and go from there.
Yes, it is. What happened to the constantly advertised "country of liberty, democracy, freedoms, diversity, the great American justice (and so on)"? Ever since Chump was elected USA became a synonym of homophobia, racism, bigotry, religious fanatism (Jan 6th, Capitol, among other examples), it became a crime to choose what to do with your own body (the recent ruling of the USSC). I wouldn't be surprised if soon all transgender people in America become "criminals" bc their transition is acclaimed to be illegal. America may have changed the president but clearly the US Supreme Court and many government officials are still on Chump's payroll.
What's even worse, many Americans now think that arming the whole nation will fix their problems when in fact it will make them worse. When 230 million people are armed to the teeth, they'll start killing each other over petty things. Why no European countries ever came with news of a school shootout with victims? Not even the "third world countries" (as you Americans call my country)? Because here and in Europe only certain individuals can own a gun and usually they have been mentally evaluated and/or are working either for the police, or for the army. Sure, criminals do have guns but they don't mix up with the regular people and even they have some kind of feeling for responsibility and don't wave it out for anything and everything. That's why our kids manage to grow and go to school without being shot by mentally unstable class mates who were able to buy guns as easily and unchecked as they buy ice cream.
How does abortion being sent back to the States from where it came just 49 years ago represent evidence of America going backward?
Abortion is once again being decided the same place and by the same people every other form of murder and medical procedure is being decided, and has been decided since the beginning. How is that undesirable?
Is "forward" for you toward oligarchy of 5+ unelected politicians in black robes dictating an elaborate set of policy on any issue they choose on a case by case basis?
Is "forward" to you everyone fighting over the chance to select 1 of 2 men who set every policy for everyone?
It's been going backwards since the early 90's when gangster rap music culture started to take over and gang warfare shit became popular. The whole bullshit about "disrespecting someone" went mainstream and it became tough and acceptable to shoot someone or bust them in the face because they called you a name, or something you didn't like.
Kids born in 80's and beyond who grew up with that and video game violence all the time learned to think of violence as a solution. Add to that the political polarization started by Newt Gingrich, the parents of these kids accepted the idea that compromise is weakness, and you don't have to accommodate 49.99% of people if you're part of the 50.01% majority.
Language skills got dumbed down to text talk.
Fake news became the rage.
Making up your OWN facts became valid
Telling the lie over and over again until it stuck as truth became the tactic.
Little regard for the elderly, the poor, education and water quality became more commonplace. When that happens, it marks the beginning of the death of a society.
"It's land of the brave, and the home of the free, where the less you know, the better off you'll be."
"going backwards" as in "FUCK EVERY STRAIGHT WHITE MAN OUT OF EVERY RIGHT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY THROUGH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION"? yep, count me on board with opposing Reverse Discrimination -Marxist movement engineered to destroy our civilization by driving people into identity groups , pitting them against each other till the entire nation falls -like Venezuela did.
welcome to the new Dark Age , where after Rome fell (due to "diversity"), the per capita life expectancy fell to ~ 34 years!
we are in for brutal times - ALL PREVENTABLE- because Liberals hate Trump "conservatives" more than they love normal working folks.
Yes, it has been going backwards for the last 18months. We have runaway inflation and high energy costs not seen since the 1970s. Our southern border is wide open letting deadly drugs into the country to poison our young people. I have not seen this level of incompetence or corruption in my whole life.
The whole world is in decline and as much as it loathes me to say it. It is just a repeated cycle. It takes a huge war (sometimes the whole world) to remove bad people who crave power, and then it goes around again.
We have been heading towards a world war for some time now. I really do think it is inevitable, and you and I being in the UK? will have no chance if it turns nuclear!
I am an outsider, I live in the UK and rarely even travel to the US, but it does appear that a push in certain directions has reached a tipping point. As @OlderAndWiser wrote, "When the pendulum swings far in one direction, guess what happens next!".
The political system you have there is a mess, and until all the politicians get their heads out of the backsides and start actually working for the needs of the many instead of the needs of the few then nothing will change.
But, look further afield and you've actually got it good. Look at China, Russia, many of the Middle Eastern and African nations, when you do that then I think maybe we're all screwed and I should just go and move to a self sufficient island in the middle of the South Atlantic.
When it comes down to it we have only got ourselves to blame. We need to vote, we need to pressure the politicians to do what is right and not what gives us short term gain.
Yes and no. As a wise man once said, legislation dont drive change. Meaning that trying to force a change in society by for example banning abortion will not make people be against abortion. While they can control the supreme court temporarily and force through these changes they are very unlikely to last or change the course of time.
In 20 years I doubt USA would be in a different place regardless if Abortion became illegal or not. It is simply not realistic to stand against change when you are in the minority for any length of time. I see this more as a desperate attempt of a group that is losing power to lash out at the last minute before they go under. Like how the US civil war was the last struggle to keep slavery legal. It is ultimately futile.
American isn't going backwards because of recent events. It's been going backwards for much longer than that.
The divide between the wealthy/'normal' Americans has been slowly moving but is getting to be out of control. One example: how many peeps reading this can afford to buy a house?
Political debate has always been a healthy thing but it's become straight up toxic. In recent elections, lots of people are literally *excited* and *passionate* to vote for old guys like Trump or Biden for no other reason than it's a political argument where people choose a side. If that's not a sign of American in decline, just let the ship sink.
Yeah it is after a fashion
There is a bit of a bounty on those who are anti abortion.
https://twitter.com/PogoWasRight/status/1541067019382046726
Basically all states and persons on social media are now fair game for hacking.
Its going to get hard in a lot of states at a government level and for those who are visible on social media seeing as been anti abortion.
It was a topic today about a “legitimate” reason to attack the US states and individuals.
It's been going backwards for a long time, like my entire life. It's decline has seriously accelerated over the last 15 years or so. A quick partial solution would be to turn off the entire Internet. Just shut it down. Then if we are lucky things might get back more on an even keel. The Internet is tearing society apart.
It's only because of political gridlock. Sweden has the same issue, even though our parliament is more ideologically diverse.
We just recently had budget votes, and before that there was a no-confidence vote on the Minister of Justice, and even before that the NATO application. All of these were decided by an independent (in Sweden referred to as a "wildcard") candidate.
A wildcard politician is someone who has left, or been disch, from the party's group of representatives - in any assembly - during the term. They are only eligible for re-election if they still are a member of the party as a whole, which may or may not be the case.
We're experiencing the last tantrum of angry old working class white men. Why are they angry? They got screwed by automation and globalization, and along with the social change of the past 30 years it was all too much. Neither party did much to help them. When the Democrats tried, the Republicans blocked it.
Well, Thomas explained they were going to come back and revisit gay rights, access to contraception, etc. So of course the court is going to try to take away more rights. The funny thing is, he has provided the reasoning for racists to pursue overturning Loving V Virginia.
Having lived and worked in America it is only certain Cities/States of America that are going backwards even though they are being run by a 'Progressive' Political Party. That same party will still allow Abortion on demand with little thought being given to promoting the use of the 30+ methods of birth control that women in those Cities/States have access too,
Even though Abortion has NOT been banned but the decisions on its use has been returned to the individual states and there is no reason to think that black, gay, disabled etc rights will ever be affected in any way as the repeal of Roe Vs Wade was a one issue case and had nothing to do with anything outside of that issue.
"America" has always been backwards. They don't even use the metric system, and still figure out the temperature using the archaic Fahrenheit scale! Their health system sucks, and they don't even have adequate public transportation in most of their cities. In some states (ex. Texas) they still execute people.
