America is just completely broken

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Anonymous wrote:both parties are broken

Republican candidate Nick Plumb highlighted Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracts awarding millions to IT staffing firms reliant on H-1B visa workers, including one company that received over $10 million since Governor Greg Abbott took office in 2015. He pointed to public data showing hourly rates of $90 to $150 for roles like systems analysts, with suspicions of visa rule violations like benching based on LinkedIn profiles. The post drew calls to halt state funds to such firms and investigate, even as Abbott's recent directive freezes new H-1B petitions by agencies but leaves contractors untouched amid over $6 billion in active deals.

H1B is fraud. No one believes it is for skilled labor.

How does the statement "both parties are broken" jibe with the follow on post that some GOP businessman and crony of republican governnor Abbot has abused the immigration system? That isn't a "both sides" thing.

Pathological need to blame both sides. It’s super weird.

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Anonymous wrote:both parties are broken

Republican candidate Nick Plumb highlighted Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracts awarding millions to IT staffing firms reliant on H-1B visa workers, including one company that received over $10 million since Governor Greg Abbott took office in 2015. He pointed to public data showing hourly rates of $90 to $150 for roles like systems analysts, with suspicions of visa rule violations like benching based on LinkedIn profiles. The post drew calls to halt state funds to such firms and investigate, even as Abbott's recent directive freezes new H-1B petitions by agencies but leaves contractors untouched amid over $6 billion in active deals.

H1B is fraud. No one believes it is for skilled labor.

How does the statement "both parties are broken" jibe with the follow on post that some GOP businessman and crony of republican governnor Abbot has abused the immigration system? That isn't a "both sides" thing.

Because Democrats, the party of labor, are suing the federal government to KEEP H1Bs!!!!!

why would Democrats do this?

A coalition of blue states is suing the Trump administration over its fee of $100,000 for H-1B Visas, several Democratic attorneys general announced on Friday.
The Trump administration announced in September that it would be implementing the fee for H-1B visas, citing that the program for the visas is overused. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, joined by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and New York Attorney General Letitia James and others, is leading the suit.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/h-1b-visa-fee-lawsuit

"It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive."
Notre Patrie (1905), Charles Péguy.

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Anonymous wrote:both parties are broken

Republican candidate Nick Plumb highlighted Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracts awarding millions to IT staffing firms reliant on H-1B visa workers, including one company that received over $10 million since Governor Greg Abbott took office in 2015. He pointed to public data showing hourly rates of $90 to $150 for roles like systems analysts, with suspicions of visa rule violations like benching based on LinkedIn profiles. The post drew calls to halt state funds to such firms and investigate, even as Abbott's recent directive freezes new H-1B petitions by agencies but leaves contractors untouched amid over $6 billion in active deals.

H1B is fraud. No one believes it is for skilled labor.

How does the statement "both parties are broken" jibe with the follow on post that some GOP businessman and crony of republican governnor Abbot has abused the immigration system? That isn't a "both sides" thing.

Democrats are the leading advocates for more and more immigration

And yet it is the democrats that expand immigration which allows companies to stomp on workers , and they wonder why they lose Elections . Focus on US workers first and never lose.

1.Biden refused to mandate e-verify. there is no reason to require corporations to hire US workers. -https://www.governing.com/work/e-verify-creates-loophole-for-undocumented-workers-employers.html

2.Biden helped US companies replace US workers with cheap foreign labor by expanding H1B - https://www.axios.com/2022/01/12/h1b-visa-approval-rate-tech-biden-immigration

3.Biden expanded OPT to new job categories, this helps companies replace US workers with cheap foreign indentured servants - https://www.fragomen.com/insights/united-states-white-house-announces-expansion-of-stem-opt-program-and-other-initiatives-to-attract-stem-talent.html

F1 - Legal system requires F-1 students to remain with employer for approximately 7-12 years

4.Biden proposed to create brand new W-1 visa with unlimited Green Cards, because we mythically don't have enough workers in the US, we devalued a master with H1B, and now we will devalue PhDs with W-1 visas - https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/01/27/house-adds-game-changing-visas-for-immigrant-startups-and-phds/?sh=500faa1810be

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There needs to be strict policies against h1bs and offshore work until unemployment is below a certain level by industry. This is what normal counties do.

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Anonymous wrote:The AMA advocates increased scholarships to foreigners attending US medical schools.

This is a resolution passed at their June 2025 House of Delegates meeting.

Not for US citizens. For foreigners

That is why we are broken

foreigners are willing to go to podunk red areas and serve the communities there because "real Americans" want to be in cities. Without those foriegners getting AMA grants, most of the rural, red state hospitals would be operating without doctors.

There is wholesale discrimination against Americans, especially white men, and you say we need foreigners? The nerve!

DP. Okay, so rural folks should have to drive an hour to a hospital? Fine.

White MAGA men are NOT studying science. They are eschewing colleges because Trump and co are vilifying them. When Trump tells his base it's patriotic to study math and science, then you will have a case.

Rural white men don’t have access to quality education so of course they don’t pursue academics.

the idea that rural white men are enduring some kind of special suffering and discrimination right now is beyond ludicrous.

OMFG. Rural white men and women are why this country is falling apart. Tons of people have REALLY challenging lives and don't turn to hatred and bigotry. Buh bye.

Pure ignorance. People who aren’t well off financially and don’t have advanced degrees are always going to be more prone to depression and anger and to taking their anger out of groups of “others.” Don’t believe me? Ask an educated gay person in Africa how they’re treated by uneducated people in rural areas.

Stop excusing someone being a complete horrible, hateful jerk on being poor and educated.

How does THEIR ignorance justify the vileness of their behavior? There are tons of people who are poor and uneducated who don't do the things the MAGA movement does. In 2016, many of us excused their error in voting for Trump. Looked to understand such a gross error in judgement. Now, nope. These people have proven themselves to be the worst of the worst of humanity. Harm others to make yourself feel better? Cheer human rights violations against immigrants and others? Nope. Nope. Nope.

MAGA are all the worst humanity has to offer and their are NO excuses for how deplorable, yes, deplorable, they are at this time. If you are MAGA after Trump's first term, something is horribly, horribly broken in you.

Do you morons ever notice that your condemnations are all generalities? “MAGA are stupid!” “They are destroying the country!” And so on.

Iran has been a violent rogue nation for the past 47 years. Plenty of prominent Democrats have condemned them & called for extreme actions to keep them from going nuclear. And one president after another took the easy way out by pretending Iran’s threats weren’t real.

Finally, a guy comes along who isn’t going to pass the buck, & instead of thanking him for having the resolve to risk it all to keep the world from having to deal with a nuclear Iran, you throw your pathetic tantrums.

We haven't been at war with iran for 47 years and we had a "peace" deal in place, the JCPOA. We are here today on Iran because Trump broke that deal. No other American president was stupid enough to take this kind of action against Iran for the very reason we are in today. So this argument isn't the flex you think it is.

Every president from Carter forward has said Iran cannot have nukes.

The democrat plan was just to chant it and sloganeer (as with everything from the left) repeatedly as Iran passes the goalpost.

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Anonymous wrote:both parties are broken

Republican candidate Nick Plumb highlighted Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracts awarding millions to IT staffing firms reliant on H-1B visa workers, including one company that received over $10 million since Governor Greg Abbott took office in 2015. He pointed to public data showing hourly rates of $90 to $150 for roles like systems analysts, with suspicions of visa rule violations like benching based on LinkedIn profiles. The post drew calls to halt state funds to such firms and investigate, even as Abbott's recent directive freezes new H-1B petitions by agencies but leaves contractors untouched amid over $6 billion in active deals.

H1B is fraud. No one believes it is for skilled labor.

How does the statement "both parties are broken" jibe with the follow on post that some GOP businessman and crony of republican governnor Abbot has abused the immigration system? That isn't a "both sides" thing.

Democrats are the leading advocates for more and more immigration

And yet it is the democrats that expand immigration which allows companies to stomp on workers , and they wonder why they lose Elections . Focus on US workers first and never lose.

1.Biden refused to mandate e-verify. there is no reason to require corporations to hire US workers. -https://www.governing.com/work/e-verify-creates-loophole-for-undocumented-workers-employers.html e-verify has issues from both sides of the aisle, it isn't "dems oppose it, GOP supports" binary

2.Biden helped US companies replace US workers with cheap foreign labor by expanding H1B - https://www.axios.com/2022/01/12/h1b-visa-approval-rate-tech-biden-immigration Biden was not a socialist president who told companies who to hire, the companies hired those people, most of them have owners and corporate boards comprised of respublicans

3.Biden expanded OPT to new job categories, this helps companies replace US workers with cheap foreign indentured servants - https://www.fragomen.com/insights/united-states-white-house-announces-expansion-of-stem-opt-program-and-other-initiatives-to-attract-stem-talent.html if cpmpanies need talent that isn't available, then yes, you need to import it. Maybe ask why the GOP continues to gut US education?

F1 - Legal system requires F-1 students to remain with employer for approximately 7-12 years

4.Biden proposed to create brand new W-1 visa with unlimited Green Cards, because we mythically don't have enough workers in the US, we devalued a master with H1B, and now we will devalue PhDs with W-1 visas - https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/01/27/house-adds-game-changing-visas-for-immigrant-startups-and-phds/?sh=500faa1810be again, who is hiring these people? capitalism and all, right?

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Anonymous wrote:The AMA advocates increased scholarships to foreigners attending US medical schools.

This is a resolution passed at their June 2025 House of Delegates meeting.

Not for US citizens. For foreigners

That is why we are broken

foreigners are willing to go to podunk red areas and serve the communities there because "real Americans" want to be in cities. Without those foriegners getting AMA grants, most of the rural, red state hospitals would be operating without doctors.

There is wholesale discrimination against Americans, especially white men, and you say we need foreigners? The nerve!

DP. Okay, so rural folks should have to drive an hour to a hospital? Fine.

White MAGA men are NOT studying science. They are eschewing colleges because Trump and co are vilifying them. When Trump tells his base it's patriotic to study math and science, then you will have a case.

Rural white men don’t have access to quality education so of course they don’t pursue academics.

the idea that rural white men are enduring some kind of special suffering and discrimination right now is beyond ludicrous.

OMFG. Rural white men and women are why this country is falling apart. Tons of people have REALLY challenging lives and don't turn to hatred and bigotry. Buh bye.

Pure ignorance. People who aren’t well off financially and don’t have advanced degrees are always going to be more prone to depression and anger and to taking their anger out of groups of “others.” Don’t believe me? Ask an educated gay person in Africa how they’re treated by uneducated people in rural areas.

Stop excusing someone being a complete horrible, hateful jerk on being poor and educated.

How does THEIR ignorance justify the vileness of their behavior? There are tons of people who are poor and uneducated who don't do the things the MAGA movement does. In 2016, many of us excused their error in voting for Trump. Looked to understand such a gross error in judgement. Now, nope. These people have proven themselves to be the worst of the worst of humanity. Harm others to make yourself feel better? Cheer human rights violations against immigrants and others? Nope. Nope. Nope.

MAGA are all the worst humanity has to offer and their are NO excuses for how deplorable, yes, deplorable, they are at this time. If you are MAGA after Trump's first term, something is horribly, horribly broken in you.

Do you morons ever notice that your condemnations are all generalities? “MAGA are stupid!” “They are destroying the country!” And so on.

Iran has been a violent rogue nation for the past 47 years. Plenty of prominent Democrats have condemned them & called for extreme actions to keep them from going nuclear. And one president after another took the easy way out by pretending Iran’s threats weren’t real.

Finally, a guy comes along who isn’t going to pass the buck, & instead of thanking him for having the resolve to risk it all to keep the world from having to deal with a nuclear Iran, you throw your pathetic tantrums.

We haven't been at war with iran for 47 years and we had a "peace" deal in place, the JCPOA. We are here today on Iran because Trump broke that deal. No other American president was stupid enough to take this kind of action against Iran for the very reason we are in today. So this argument isn't the flex you think it is.

Every president from Carter forward has said Iran cannot have nukes.

The democrat plan was just to chant it and sloganeer (as with everything from the left) repeatedly as Iran passes the goalpost.

Uh, no, the democrats put a global coalition together to back the JCPOA that had international enforcement on the ground in Iran, with teeth. And it was working until Trump violated the agreement which led us on the path to where we are today. The JCPOA was so successful that moderate candidates for election were put into office as recently as 2017.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. It feels like everything is falling apart and there's very little we can do to fix it. It took everyone too long to realize what was happening. I'm struggling not to resent the older generations around me who let it get this bad. I'm grieving the children I will never have because I cannot afford it and because it feels morally wrong to bring a child into this just so I can experience motherhood.

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Get a grip. Read history. Look at all of the wars, famine, disease. There is nothing new under the sun. If you want to have a kid, have one. It is no worse now than 99% of human history. It is not objectively worse to have kids now than at any other time in history except maybe the 50s but would you really want to be a woman back in the 50s?

And also with the “I can’t afford kids”. Stop being brainwashed into thinking you have to have all of your financials figured out and perfect before you have a kid. Believe me, DCUM would have judged me quite harshly for having a kid when our HHI was 45k back in 2007, with no house, a crappy old car, and not being able to afford daycare. We did it anyway, and had two. Now they are in HS. I figured out my career once the kids were school aged. We were able to buy a house and sending DC1 to college next year. It hasn’t all been perfect - they didn’t do all the fancy activities, didn’t get the fancy Disney vacations or lots of expensive toys, but I would absolutely do it again, even if it meant using welfare and food stamps and living in a tiny apartment. There is really nothing else that gives life purpose as much as having kids.

I'm probably older than you, PP, and I agree with the first PP. Daycare and college costs have exploded, and wages have not kept up with those costs.

I have one DC about to graduate undergad and one about to go to college.

We have made six figures for a while, but we lived way below our means. And it was still expensive to send the kids to daycare and save for college. We don't drive expensive cars; we don't own name brand anything. My only expensive jewelry is my engagement ring, and a not that expensive necklace/earring set DH has bought me throughout our 20 years of marriage.

I don't blame women now a days for not wanting kids one bit.

It sounds like you have the same tunnel vision then, unable to see different possibilities and ways of doing things. Neither daycare nor college are/were the norm for 99% of human existence. But few people are willing to think outside of the box or go against the grain, which is also how we got here in the first place.

I stand by my point that if you want to be a parent, stop making excuses and don’t worry about doing it the “proper” way with a SFH, daycare, college, and expensive “family” car. Don’t let other people tell you what’s important. It sucks that there isn’t really a road map for this, but it’s doable.

Eh, yes and no. As a mom to two kids who lived much of my younger years in a sh*t 90 year old fixer upper with roaches and mice (thanks hoarding neighbor!), with a one percent down payment, in a crime ridden neighborhood where I learned to tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks....

This really ignores the issue of SUBSTANTIAL.wage suppression, explosion of housing costs making living on a single income plus a kid very difficult even in a one bedroom. Oh and at least I did have a college education that afforded me the ability to pull myself to a much higher income! In today's housing market, couldn't have done it again.

All of you are missing the point. Unless you are a 1 percenter, life is tough. Always has been. The challenges we face in 2026 are tough, but they are not uniquely awful. Most of humanity throughout history has been poor, has had to make difficult choices, has not had everything ideal. All of you seem to be under this spell where you think that there was this time in recent history where everything was great, and now it’s 100 percent horrible and will never be good again.

It may be that I think the way I do is because for me personally, even with the current events, things are still a thousand times better than when I was growing up, at least materially speaking. I went from a childhood of relative poverty to an adulthood where I worked upwards and have a great standard of living now. I can understand how downwardly mobile people might see the current situation as the worst, but they are objectively wrong.

Maybe the rest of us don't care about the material crap.

We want human dignity and security and basic education, housing and healthcare.

You want housing and healthcare, pay for them yourself. You have basic education...K - 12.

You are not "owed" anything. Get out of that mindset.

What about our taxes?
Why do we privatize profits and socialize losses?
Why do we bail out all these crappy companies and these crappier nations?

Yes, what about that? Let me be rude and answer a question with another question.

Why do you keep putting your faith in Washington DC and wanting more of it?

You believe every problem can be fixed with more money and more government. WHY?

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Anonymous wrote:The AMA advocates increased scholarships to foreigners attending US medical schools.

This is a resolution passed at their June 2025 House of Delegates meeting.

Not for US citizens. For foreigners

That is why we are broken

foreigners are willing to go to podunk red areas and serve the communities there because "real Americans" want to be in cities. Without those foriegners getting AMA grants, most of the rural, red state hospitals would be operating without doctors.

There is wholesale discrimination against Americans, especially white men, and you say we need foreigners? The nerve!

DP. Okay, so rural folks should have to drive an hour to a hospital? Fine.

White MAGA men are NOT studying science. They are eschewing colleges because Trump and co are vilifying them. When Trump tells his base it's patriotic to study math and science, then you will have a case.

Rural white men don’t have access to quality education so of course they don’t pursue academics.

the idea that rural white men are enduring some kind of special suffering and discrimination right now is beyond ludicrous.

OMFG. Rural white men and women are why this country is falling apart. Tons of people have REALLY challenging lives and don't turn to hatred and bigotry. Buh bye.

Pure ignorance. People who aren’t well off financially and don’t have advanced degrees are always going to be more prone to depression and anger and to taking their anger out of groups of “others.” Don’t believe me? Ask an educated gay person in Africa how they’re treated by uneducated people in rural areas.

Stop excusing someone being a complete horrible, hateful jerk on being poor and educated.

How does THEIR ignorance justify the vileness of their behavior? There are tons of people who are poor and uneducated who don't do the things the MAGA movement does. In 2016, many of us excused their error in voting for Trump. Looked to understand such a gross error in judgement. Now, nope. These people have proven themselves to be the worst of the worst of humanity. Harm others to make yourself feel better? Cheer human rights violations against immigrants and others? Nope. Nope. Nope.

MAGA are all the worst humanity has to offer and their are NO excuses for how deplorable, yes, deplorable, they are at this time. If you are MAGA after Trump's first term, something is horribly, horribly broken in you.

Do you morons ever notice that your condemnations are all generalities? “MAGA are stupid!” “They are destroying the country!” And so on.

Iran has been a violent rogue nation for the past 47 years. Plenty of prominent Democrats have condemned them & called for extreme actions to keep them from going nuclear. And one president after another took the easy way out by pretending Iran’s threats weren’t real.

Finally, a guy comes along who isn’t going to pass the buck, & instead of thanking him for having the resolve to risk it all to keep the world from having to deal with a nuclear Iran, you throw your pathetic tantrums.

We haven't been at war with iran for 47 years and we had a "peace" deal in place, the JCPOA. We are here today on Iran because Trump broke that deal. No other American president was stupid enough to take this kind of action against Iran for the very reason we are in today. So this argument isn't the flex you think it is.

Every president from Carter forward has said Iran cannot have nukes.

The democrat plan was just to chant it and sloganeer (as with everything from the left) repeatedly as Iran passes the goalpost.

Uh, no, the democrats put a global coalition together to back the JCPOA that had international enforcement on the ground in Iran, with teeth. And it was working until Trump violated the agreement which led us on the path to where we are today. The JCPOA was so successful that moderate candidates for election were put into office as recently as 2017.

It had no teeth. It did not work. They did whatever the F they wanted to whilst you democrats dropped pallets of money on them.

The IAEA confirms that they were abiding by the terms of the JCPOA until 2018, when Trump tore it up. What's your proof that Iran was not abiding by the terms of the JCPOA?

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-04/news/iaea-says-iran-abiding-nuclear-deal

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Republican candidate Nick Plumb highlighted Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracts awarding millions to IT staffing firms reliant on H-1B visa workers, including one company that received over $10 million since Governor Greg Abbott took office in 2015. He pointed to public data showing hourly rates of $90 to $150 for roles like systems analysts, with suspicions of visa rule violations like benching based on LinkedIn profiles. The post drew calls to halt state funds to such firms and investigate, even as Abbott's recent directive freezes new H-1B petitions by agencies but leaves contractors untouched amid over $6 billion in active deals.

H1B is fraud. No one believes it is for skilled labor.

How does the statement "both parties are broken" jibe with the follow on post that some GOP businessman and crony of republican governnor Abbot has abused the immigration system? That isn't a "both sides" thing.

Republicans are broken and corrupt. Look how much Trump's personal wealth has increased during his second term. Look at the wild options trading someone with White House connections is making. Look at their crypto scams.

Democrats are even more corrupt. Look at their inside trading (also applies to Republicans). Look at the widespread fraud in daycare and hospice, among others.

Neither party is interested in governing; both are looting. When the money runs out, and it surely will at some point in our lives, it's going to be ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. It feels like everything is falling apart and there's very little we can do to fix it. It took everyone too long to realize what was happening. I'm struggling not to resent the older generations around me who let it get this bad. I'm grieving the children I will never have because I cannot afford it and because it feels morally wrong to bring a child into this just so I can experience motherhood.

I mean this kindly:
Get a grip. Read history. Look at all of the wars, famine, disease. There is nothing new under the sun. If you want to have a kid, have one. It is no worse now than 99% of human history. It is not objectively worse to have kids now than at any other time in history except maybe the 50s but would you really want to be a woman back in the 50s?

And also with the “I can’t afford kids”. Stop being brainwashed into thinking you have to have all of your financials figured out and perfect before you have a kid. Believe me, DCUM would have judged me quite harshly for having a kid when our HHI was 45k back in 2007, with no house, a crappy old car, and not being able to afford daycare. We did it anyway, and had two. Now they are in HS. I figured out my career once the kids were school aged. We were able to buy a house and sending DC1 to college next year. It hasn’t all been perfect - they didn’t do all the fancy activities, didn’t get the fancy Disney vacations or lots of expensive toys, but I would absolutely do it again, even if it meant using welfare and food stamps and living in a tiny apartment. There is really nothing else that gives life purpose as much as having kids.

I'm probably older than you, PP, and I agree with the first PP. Daycare and college costs have exploded, and wages have not kept up with those costs.

I have one DC about to graduate undergad and one about to go to college.

We have made six figures for a while, but we lived way below our means. And it was still expensive to send the kids to daycare and save for college. We don't drive expensive cars; we don't own name brand anything. My only expensive jewelry is my engagement ring, and a not that expensive necklace/earring set DH has bought me throughout our 20 years of marriage.

I don't blame women now a days for not wanting kids one bit.

It sounds like you have the same tunnel vision then, unable to see different possibilities and ways of doing things. Neither daycare nor college are/were the norm for 99% of human existence. But few people are willing to think outside of the box or go against the grain, which is also how we got here in the first place.

I stand by my point that if you want to be a parent, stop making excuses and don’t worry about doing it the “proper” way with a SFH, daycare, college, and expensive “family” car. Don’t let other people tell you what’s important. It sucks that there isn’t really a road map for this, but it’s doable.

Eh, yes and no. As a mom to two kids who lived much of my younger years in a sh*t 90 year old fixer upper with roaches and mice (thanks hoarding neighbor!), with a one percent down payment, in a crime ridden neighborhood where I learned to tell the difference between gunshots and fireworks....

This really ignores the issue of SUBSTANTIAL.wage suppression, explosion of housing costs making living on a single income plus a kid very difficult even in a one bedroom. Oh and at least I did have a college education that afforded me the ability to pull myself to a much higher income! In today's housing market, couldn't have done it again.

All of you are missing the point. Unless you are a 1 percenter, life is tough. Always has been. The challenges we face in 2026 are tough, but they are not uniquely awful. Most of humanity throughout history has been poor, has had to make difficult choices, has not had everything ideal. All of you seem to be under this spell where you think that there was this time in recent history where everything was great, and now it’s 100 percent horrible and will never be good again.

It may be that I think the way I do is because for me personally, even with the current events, things are still a thousand times better than when I was growing up, at least materially speaking. I went from a childhood of relative poverty to an adulthood where I worked upwards and have a great standard of living now. I can understand how downwardly mobile people might see the current situation as the worst, but they are objectively wrong.

Maybe the rest of us don't care about the material crap.

We want human dignity and security and basic education, housing and healthcare.

You want housing and healthcare, pay for them yourself. You have basic education...K - 12.

You are not "owed" anything. Get out of that mindset.

This country is founded on the premise that we are in fact owed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Healthcare is part of that "life" part. Education is part of that "pursuit of happiness" part.

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Anonymous wrote:The AMA advocates increased scholarships to foreigners attending US medical schools.

This is a resolution passed at their June 2025 House of Delegates meeting.

Not for US citizens. For foreigners

That is why we are broken

foreigners are willing to go to podunk red areas and serve the communities there because "real Americans" want to be in cities. Without those foriegners getting AMA grants, most of the rural, red state hospitals would be operating without doctors.

There is wholesale discrimination against Americans, especially white men, and you say we need foreigners? The nerve!

DP. Okay, so rural folks should have to drive an hour to a hospital? Fine.

White MAGA men are NOT studying science. They are eschewing colleges because Trump and co are vilifying them. When Trump tells his base it's patriotic to study math and science, then you will have a case.

Rural white men don’t have access to quality education so of course they don’t pursue academics.

the idea that rural white men are enduring some kind of special suffering and discrimination right now is beyond ludicrous.

OMFG. Rural white men and women are why this country is falling apart. Tons of people have REALLY challenging lives and don't turn to hatred and bigotry. Buh bye.

Pure ignorance. People who aren’t well off financially and don’t have advanced degrees are always going to be more prone to depression and anger and to taking their anger out of groups of “others.” Don’t believe me? Ask an educated gay person in Africa how they’re treated by uneducated people in rural areas.

Stop excusing someone being a complete horrible, hateful jerk on being poor and educated.

How does THEIR ignorance justify the vileness of their behavior? There are tons of people who are poor and uneducated who don't do the things the MAGA movement does. In 2016, many of us excused their error in voting for Trump. Looked to understand such a gross error in judgement. Now, nope. These people have proven themselves to be the worst of the worst of humanity. Harm others to make yourself feel better? Cheer human rights violations against immigrants and others? Nope. Nope. Nope.

MAGA are all the worst humanity has to offer and their are NO excuses for how deplorable, yes, deplorable, they are at this time. If you are MAGA after Trump's first term, something is horribly, horribly broken in you.

Do you morons ever notice that your condemnations are all generalities? “MAGA are stupid!” “They are destroying the country!” And so on.

Iran has been a violent rogue nation for the past 47 years. Plenty of prominent Democrats have condemned them & called for extreme actions to keep them from going nuclear. And one president after another took the easy way out by pretending Iran’s threats weren’t real.

Finally, a guy comes along who isn’t going to pass the buck, & instead of thanking him for having the resolve to risk it all to keep the world from having to deal with a nuclear Iran, you throw your pathetic tantrums.

You live in an alternate reality. I think someone has to to defend anything Trump has done. The only moron here is you.

[Anonymous]

I’m a Dem or was

Too much immigration. Yes immigration is necessary but it needs to be controlled

Too much off shoring with too few incentives to train American workers and keep jobs here

Inheritance tax needs to be more robust and close many loopholes for the uber wealthy.

More Progressive tax rates

[Anonymous]

Who knew this would be a documentary
RIP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a Dem or was

Too much immigration. Yes immigration is necessary but it needs to be controlled

Too much off shoring with too few incentives to train American workers and keep jobs here

Inheritance tax needs to be more robust and close many loopholes for the uber wealthy.

More Progressive tax rates

That is a GOP thing. They created it, they own the businesses and do most of the hiring and yet you blame the Dems.