"Wow, it must be tough to be one of the wealthiest, most powerful cities in the world while sheltering a few illegal immigrants," said Arnie McClanahan while making his way through a crowd of 150 homeless strangers in his front yard. "As a citizen of a tiny border town currently populated with only 36 Texans and 89,000 illegal immigrants, I know how difficult that must be for them."
Leaders from the small town met to discuss ways they could possibly alleviate the suffering of stock brokers in SoHo, supermodels in Tribeca, and Broadway actors in Greenwich Village. "Surely, there must be something we can do to help those poor folks!" said Meemaw Gunderson, who runs the local homeless shelter currently populated with 20,000 border crossers. "Those poor souls won't be able to hold out much longer!"
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has begged for aid as his city struggles to provide for the handful of people who have been sent there from the border. "What am I supposed to do for these people?" said Adams. "I'm only the Mayor of the sanctuary city of New York, for goodness sake!"
At publishing time, the people of Acala had elected to send New York City 10,000 more migrants to assist city workers in settling the migrants already there.
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"The fusion of politics, news and entertainment has given prominence to comics especially those such as Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Bill Maher who serve as attack dogs for the Democratic Party, which has joined forces with the establishment wing of the old Republican Party against Donald Trump and his supporters.
By belittling Trump and his followers these comics feed the smug self-righteousness of the ruling establishment and their sense of moral and intellectual superiority. These comics and the networks that give them platforms – HBO, Comedy Central, TBS, ABC, CBS, NBC and even CNN which has hired comics such as W. Kamau Bell to host shows on the news network - have little to no effect on the political landscape. They are as loathed and ignored by Trump supporters as they are feted by Trump haters.
They are constrained by the corporations and advertisers that employ them. They function as court jesters, never questioning the right of the rulers to rule or the terrible social injustices built into a rigged system. They traffic almost exclusively in negativity – searching out the weird, the bizarre, the stupid and the inane in celebrity culture or mainstream news reports. They perpetuate the fiction that we live in a democracy. They do not challenge the folly of permanent war from the Middle East to Ukraine. They do not call out the corporations that have deindustrialized the nation and abandoned and impoverished American workers. They serve as attack dogs for critics of the system, even if these critics come from the left.
John Oliver, for example, devoted a show to mocking Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. Bill Maher made public his $ 1 million donation to Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign. These comics-traffic in a self-defeating cynicism that eschews all critiques of the real configurations of power. Power only laughs at its own jokes. And these are the jokes these mainstream comics tell. Joining me to discuss the transformation of comedy from an art form rooted in the counterculture to a one that has largely become a megaphone for power, is Lee Camp, who, like the comics of another era -- Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Mort Sahl, Bill Hicks and George Carlin and a handful of his contemporaries including Jimmy Dore – is not afraid to use his razor-sharp wit against our real enemies."
FM Zarif's #10YearChallenge tweet to Bolton: 'Same bull. Same bully'
Javad Zarif has again shown his knack for roasting US officials on Twitter, this time mocking National Security Advisor John Bolton for 10 years of calls to attack Iran. While Bolton remains...First thing I noticed was your commiserating with one another. I went through the whole thread.
Gator my friend, you're going to have to not put people you don't want alerted in here ---->[[ ]] Like LM.
horse and I have been doing the same thing, but on an article where he was the only one on it.
I trust 'ReRan' implicitly so if her lil bell gets lit up because of this note, it'll be fine, she doesn't appreciate mr.-know-it-troll.
So I called your attention here because the best way to deal with any is to not feed the troll.
Just post what you want, when you want, and completely ignore the
The sticks 'his' nose in others business and replies to conversations unbidden. Starve the :troll:, do not engage. will disappear.
There may be more than one of them known as mc..... Even if there isn't, best to keep ignoring and know that you are amongst friends !
Glad to know you guys !
i should just probably follow your advice.
ReRan
The world is running of the rails….
Trains, haha, my world is spinning.
Yeah that’s it mate, just freeze him out. Him and Linda can enjoy each other’s company if they so wish. I was incredibly surprised Linda resorted to name calling (I know I’m not one to talk, but I save my vileness for idiot strangers, never my or what I thought were my friends) but hey ho it is what it is.
horse Yeah this whole peado thing all stemmed from my initial comment
horse Thanks for the info on LM 👍 knowing what I know now, I’m not surprised.
I love how this community sticks together. Thank you everyone!!
Yeah I know everyone gets notified, but I like to personalise it a bit, just my style I guess lol.
WHO promotes homeopathy as 'integral resource' in medicine
WHO's support of homeopathy is concurrent with establishment of Global Centre for Traditional Medicine under guidance from Indian government. The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun...Been surmising the same... even added MoSsAd to the list...
but, as sbc mentioned in the FM Zarif commentary, lack of engagement let's the fool run wild, and I may've opted to take it to him, because I don't think it's just going to go away and fizzle.
LM also made it a point to prop up voodoo6 and ablackflag in a way I found strange and engaged with. she's on great terms with "mo hit " who pops up to solicit advice, then heap praise on her, and work in some verbiage.
Anyway, mostly I should not get baited to say dumb things.. and i don't know if it's true, but that looks like "it's from the horses' mouth" but, I had sent notes to Niall and Joe indicating I thought Mcs is a problem, and from what else I've read, ignoring probably doesn't work as well as moderator bans--I don't see much reason to include them here when the rest of the normal people weigh in and want them gone. You can send notes to editors/moderators if you get to their user profiles.
Laura's article on the Cosmic Context of Greek Philosophy part I has more McS b.s., and Niall is in there, and Joe is in here
House Oversight blows lid off Biden scandal: Emails expose corruption scheme 'without a shadow of a doubt'
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) requested the National Archives produce records, without redactions, showing Biden's communication with Hunter and business partners Eric...I think they're pretty active. Also, the contact us e-mail buttons on the page here work--I think the mods read but i dunno what their policies are.. I don't think there are any rules here, exactly, but house rules, and I think they keep us guessing to try and run a conscious ship.
hello to ReRan and Bezel Bub , Gator and Christian83 , slbeaudry , everybody
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Hello to all 🙏