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Your forebears created the House of Representatives for a reason. So, even Don Lemon stated that DEI became a house of worship and if you didn't sing with the choir; you were out of the church. IMO; it was an enhanced form of race relations. Congress, not EO. Agreed. Who or how? My grandfather had to come over twice. First time, he was a WOP. Congress. Not EO GAC should be between children, parents and doctors and is really none of any one else's business. One of the issues with transitioning in the military is - once hormone treatment started, they were non-deployable for three years. That is the length of an enlistment, so for many they went in just to get the change (affordability). An issue which could be resolved with Universal Healthcare. Any? How do you feel about the physically disabled? You might want to expand on this. Did you vote FOR the revolting guy? If so; then he is "your guy."

Government isn't and should never be ran as a business. That is not it's function. More so when current leadership has more experience with bankruptcies than with actual successful businesses.

Did you ever think through the implication of the fact that the only President who's ever been willing to do the things you want is a dumb, revolting sonofabitch? Call me crazy but I can't help thinking that might say something about the merits of the policies. Nah, you're right - it's probably just a coincidence.

But he's your guy anyway. Because there is nothing he could do that would cause you to re-think your support of him, and risk potentially having been wrong. I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. I'm assuming that means that your humanity has a price, and so does everyone else's. Wendy P.

My grandparents were born in Ireland before the advent of airplanes. Ireland was still reeling from the effects of the potato famine that happened about 40 years earlier, and no one was really doing well. She was a potato farmer; his family owned a sheep farm, which meant he was a bit richer than she was. But richness is relative, and when they decided to emigrate to the US, all their savings together could barely pay for one ticket. So my grandfather came over first. The New York he arrived in around 1925 was very anti-Irish. There were strict immigration quotas, and they were stricter than normal for the Irish since there weren't many in the country at that point. I don't know how he got past that, but he did. He came into the US, found a place to stay, and got his bearings. Then he did something that would make him a criminal today - he started to work. It is how most illegal immigrants become illegal immigrants today. He had to work to make enough money to wire it back for my grandmother to come over. But back then that was legal, and thus he worked at odd jobs until he could send for her. Jobs were very hard to find; "Irish need not apply" was a common sign seen back then, due to the common knowledge that Irish immigrants were ignorant, brawling drunks. They lived together in Queens for decades. He passed a New York civil service test which was lifechanging for them, because he could then get steady work as a city bus driver. My grandmother worked at the Chemical Bank cafeteria. And while they lived there they had two girls - my mother and my aunt. The tenement they lived in was classic Old New York, with no elevators, massive stone steps, huge air wells so that people could have light throughout their apartments, a good half inch of paint on everything and antiquated, dim lighting fixtures in the hallways. It always smelled like boiled cabbage in the hallways. I think about them often when I hear about the immigration debates today. As Irish they went through what Hispanic immigrants are going through today; everyone just "knows" that they are a problem. They are criminals, lazy, leeches etc. Which is sad, and I think indicates most people haven't met many. Over the years I have met, in person, perhaps a dozen illegal immigrants. Out of all of them, only two were what the media portrays as illegal immigrants. These two I met on the way back from Eloy after a long weekend of skydiving. I saw them standing next to a broken down car in the 105 degree heat, and figured I would stop to see if they needed anything. As I rolled to a stop I realized that the car was standing on four flats and hadn't been driven in months, if not years. The people there were two Hispanic guys who asked me in broken English if I could give them a ride to San Diego. I told them that I couldn't, but did leave them with all the water/food I had left over from the weekend. I hope they made it somewhere safe. The rest started out legally - then violated immigration law and became illegal immigrants. One was a member of the Swiss national skydiving team who came here on a tourist visa - and then offered to coach someone for a few bucks. She was then an illegal immigrant; she had violated immigration law. Another was legal but had a paperwork problem with his green card. His only legal option was to leave the US while it was sorted out, since his visa had expired. But he did not, since he had a company to run. He was, at that point, an illegal immigrant. A co-worker had his visa renewal delayed, and on the day the renewal was supposed to arrive, he waited by the mailbox all day. It did not arrive. He was then illegal. To his credit he did the best he could, and moved to Mexico the next day to await the arrival of the visa. Our company helped as much as they could, setting him up for remote work and pressuring the INS to move on the paperwork. Now, right wingers reading this may claim "but they're not REAL illegal immigrants! They came in legally and there was just a paperwork problem!" The thing they miss is that MOST illegal immigrants fall into this category. About 40% just plain overstay their visas. About 35% work illegally. About 10% have problems with paperwork that makes them illegal. (And many fall into two or three of those categories.) The image of illegal immigrants crossing the border illegally under cover of darkness - that's less than half of all illegal immigrants. Now these people, again by the letter of the law, would have a very hard time becoming legal if they were honest. I've helped a few people with green card and citizenship applications, and the applications ask a very important question - have you violated US immigration law in the past? And if you have, it is VERY difficult to get a green card, because you have a history of not following the law. So most people just say "no" and it usually works out, because the INS is a government program that politicians love to cut. But there's a catch there, too. If you obtain a green card, or become a citizen, under false pretenses, it will be revoked. Thus those people just have to pray that no one looks at their history very closely. This brings us to two of our most famous illegal immigrants - Elon Musk and Melania Trump. Musk first came to Palo Alto in 1995 under a student visa; he said he was going to go to school at Stanford. But he never did. He never even enrolled. Instead he began working at a startup called Zip2. He flew under the radar for a while until 1996, when potential investors looked at everyone's immigration status, and required both Musk and his brother to get a visa within 45 days. Derek Proudian, who was with Zip2 at the time, said that “their immigration status was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S. We don’t want the founder being deported.” Given that Musk then quickly got his work visa, it is safe to say that he lied on that application, and said he had never violated immigration law. Melania Trump (Melanija Knavs at that point) came to the US in August of 1996 on a B1/B2 tourist visa. Under a tourist visa, of course, it is illegal to work. Per employment records, she was paid for 10 modeling assignments between September 10 and October 15. Then on October 18, 1996, Knavs got an H-1B visa, the visa intended for skilled workers, allowing her to legally work. Again given the speed that she got the visa, she did not admit she had violated immigration law. So although people rail against illegal immigrants, it might be wise to afford them the same opportunities to skirt the law that was afforded to Knavs and Musk. It would have been a bad thing for the US economy to have deported Musk just because he was an illegal alien.

I disagree. The measure of success of a government is support of its people's freedoms, providing for essential basic services and defending the country against its enemies. It is not to make a profit. If a company lets itself be taken over by another company, and its shareholders double their money, that company is successful. If Russia took over control of the US and the people here got a hefty payout from Putin - would you consider that a success? So you support hiring unqualified white straight men over qualified black, LGBT or female candidates? Because DEI is the opposite of that. DEI is "hire the best candidate REGARDLESS of race or sex or orientation or religion." So no medical facilities in the military? No VA hospitals? No GI bill? No airshows? No recruiting? No on-base housing? Because none of those has anything directly to do with killing people. OK. So Melania Trump and Elon Musk flouted the rules. Is that acceptable because they are white? Or is it unacceptable, and should be held accountable? So no breast reduction surgery for female high school swimmers who might have a shot at the Olymics if they get it? No hair transplants for 15 year old boys who are losing all their hair? No breast augmentation for a 17 year old girl who has such lopsided breasts that she is bullied mercilessly? I think that their parents - and not you - are in a better position to decide. White straight men are all terrified that the special treatment they have gotten for 300 years or so is coming to an end. I can't get too upset about that. A president who does nothing, and lets Congress make all the decisions, is vastly preferable to a president who destroys democracy in the US. Indeed, that is how the Founding Fathers pictured the presidency to work. Harris would have been a president. Trump is working towards being a king. Sad that weak people support kings over presidents. You chose him. He is your guy,

Trump is evil by any definition of the word. Evil, evil, evil. And his people are invariably sycophants and thus enablers of evil, not to mention morons like RFK Jr.

Man, these make me feel really grateful for being young and more intentional about taking care of my body.

It isn't. There isn't. 1) It can't. Europe is already giving a lot of aid, but it is not capable of replacing US arms supply. Ukraine needs weapons from both sides of the atlantic. 2) That's not the goal. As things currently stand, doing business with Russia is the goal.

What was Trump's record of voting in the Senate before his first election? Inquiring minds want to know. Because it sounds like you are arguing that bankrupting companies and being a reality TV star is better preparation for the presidency than being an attorney general, a district attorney, a senator and a vice president. And again, if you are looking to a future of Trumps, I want no part of it. Even if Trump's opponents have an annoying laugh, and didn't vote as often as you would have liked them to.

Zelensky probably wasn't willing to pay for a whore to suck his dick. Respect is earned or given, NOT demanded. If you have to demand it, it's not respect. Wendy P.

Trump and Vance really showed the true depth of their depravity today. Petulant scumbags putting their own fragile egos above global security and the life and death of tens of thousands of people.

Agreed. A plumber might not be qualified. But being a DA, then an Attorney General, then a Senator, then Vice President - that does lend experience that tends to qualify one for the job. The Senate's output is based on the votes of 100 people; it's a group effort. No one person accomplishes anything concrete. They sponsor bills. They work on language for amendments. They participate in committees. They advocate for their positions. They lobby other senators. They vote. They kiss babies and shake hands. That's the job. Like you said, pick any vocation and they do something, even if you don't think it's much. To single her out, she was first senator to co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act of 2017. She and Rand Paul sponsored a bill to reform the bail system in the US. She wrote parts of the Senate bill making lynching a federal crime. She sponsored a bill to expedite the reunion of families separated at the border. And she voted hundreds of times while a senator. This experience came in handy when she set the record for tiebreaking votes in the Senate while she was VP. Now, you might think all that's nothing, but you could say the same thing about most vocations. Do insurance salesmen really do anything? They don't create the insurance. They don't pay out that insurance. They don't directly help people. They just move paper. Heck, I was only one of 400 people on the big-way record in Thailand. I didn't accomplish anything extraordinary. I wasn't an organizer, adviser or sector captain. I didn't stand out. All I did was not screw up by doing the same thing I had done in the past ~300 bigways I did. Did I do nothing? Failure to learn from the past means a future of Trumps. And while you might be OK with that, I think that would be the end of US democracy.

Negative. We wanted you to vote for Harris to decrease the chance Trump would be elected. You chose otherwise. In our country and in the last election, in particular, some of us consider that to be ill considered. Don’t over complicate our simple thinking.

I'd take someone who does nothing over someone whose every action is for his own benefit or that of his cronies, who embaces rioters, who openly threatens vengeance on those who oppose him, who spends millions of taxpayer money on golfing while cutting aid to the poorest members of society, who has no conception of the difference between the truth and a lie, who openly brags about being a sexual predator, etc. etc. etc. Nothing sounds pretty good in comparison.

Hi Keith, No matter how one measures it: IMO she was a far better choice than Trump. IMO in 2024 voting for anyone other than Harris or Trump was the same as not voting at all. A meaningless gesture, nothing else. Jerry Baumchen

Now Trump isn't just spending time on his golf game while he's on holiday, he's literally making golf his job too. He's personally spent less time on Gaza and Ukraine peace deals than he has mediating White House meetings between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, something that is quite definitely not a government issue. So why's that going on? Well the Saudis will pay him a shit ton of money to host events on Trump courses again if he helps them out.

After personal intervention by Trump's envoy his administration has successfully pressured the Romanian government into letting serial rapists and incel influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate travel to the US, essentially letting them off scott free from their numerous criminal charges across Europe because like fuck are they ever going back for any court date. This is the family values Republican party. Celebrating and defending despicable individuals about whom the absolute best, least controversial thing you can say is that they are professional pimps. Everyone down the chain even remotely involved in actioning this is fucking disgusting. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4kkv3e1v9o

I'd put his head on the block.

No he won't. He thinks the US sent 500 billion and is "trying to get it back". He's just trying to shake down Ukraine for far more than the US actually sent, and stopping all aid is already a given. He's fully a Russian asset. ...but at least DOGE might balance the budget right? (no, they won't do that either)