Gromnir

another trump 2024 campaign lie which gets overlooked: he were gonna finally get the people who stole the 2020 election. bolton, comey and james cases have nothing whatsoever to do with overturning the 2020 election. if trump believes it is true, that the greatest fraud in the last 100 years took place, then where are the prosecutions? HA! Good Fun!

some trump lies is difficult to assess in a normal context in part 'cause we give trump a different standard. trump lies about how tariffs wouldn't raise prices for americans is maybe not a lie 'cause trump is so stoopid that he believes it? trump claiming he would bring down the cost o' groceries from day one would be deflationary and a sign o' a recession, which nobody would genuine want, so "what he meant was..." trump is ignorant to a unique degree, so we shrug off a few trump lies as just his improbable stoopid? other trump campaign lies is excused by chronic whataboutism from his supporters. trump claimed he would end the weaponization o' the doj, but you know, "it was really unfair how biden used the doj to go after trump, so..." and is amazing how quick people forget doge failed promises, eh? trillions of dollars saved once all the waste fraud and abuse were ended. nowhere near trillions and trillions were always impossible, so that were a lie from day 1. even so, very little waste, fraud or abuse were discovered. tens of billions (once you remove the misleading claims of future saving from the accounting) may sound like lots, but in terms o' the US or even the foreign aid budget, such is minor. there were programs working efficient and sans fraud that republicans did not like, but sending plumpynut to sudan or providing condoms and vasectomies to deal with the aids crisis in various african nations, while distasteful to many (for reasons) were ended not 'cause o' waste, fraud or abuse. in a similar context, much like with his first campaign, trump campaigned on ending government corruption and draining the swap. tangential he were gonna get rid o' the socialists/communists taking advantage o' real americans. farmer bailouts and corporate golden shares is socilaist/communist. period. the government literal taking control o' the means of production. boggles the mind. and trump's promises about ending corruption were/are... laughable. do we serious need to list all the crazy-arsed corrupt dealing from this admin? ending fbi investigation o' foreign election interference as well as domestic securities fraud means trump and bruce can pretend that the corruption ain't happening? sorta like with covid, trump's solution to the US increasing covid infections were to "slow the testing down," as ludicrous as that sounds. nevertheless, such willful ignorance is now policy, 'cause if you end any regulation o' crypto and then stop the feds from investigating any white collar or foreign interference crimes, then the crimes is not happening and there is no corruption... right? a few o' the policy fails as lies which previous Presidents got punished for is not held against trump the same way. the war in ukraine did not end w/i a day. can double-check that one 'cause when pressed a couple times he made clear he were speaking literal 24 hours and even claimed he would end the war between the election and his inauguration. inflation has not come down as promised, but normally inflation is something the President has only indirect control over, and it takes at least six months for any changes he does to have an impact. trump claimed he were gonna get tough on the chinese. thanks to his "deals," the chinese now get access to the ai chips they wanted and we get a promise the chinese will make real future efforts to do something or other about fentanyl. ummm. oh, and the chinese will buy more soybeans, which were only a problem for american farmers 'cause o' trump tariffs. is serious through the looking glass how trump creates a crisis and then walks it back partial so we are now in a worse position than where we started, but somehow the trump supporters cheer his genius for ending the crisis. regardless, trump hasn't looked particular tough on the chinese when you look at the full context o' what has happened as 'posed to focusing on transitory moments. ... trump campaign claims about bringing back free speech is looking positively orwellian at this point. etc. am not sure what world we live in where folks is able to convince themselves that trump were honest during his 2024 campaign. yeah, he said he would mass deport... although he claimed 20 million would be deported and that number far exceeds the number o' undocumented people in the US... heck even with the shenanigans where trump arbitrarily ended the temporary documented status of afghanistan, haitian and venezuelan refugees who were here legally, 20 mil is a made-up number. again, 20 million is a bit more than the entire population of ny STATE. so as @Amenteprecognizes, even the truth about mass deportations were a lie. trump has effective shut down the border as he promised, but he has done so via means only stephen miller coulda' fully predicted. trump lied about immigrant crime in US cities during his campaign. as such, claiming that mass deportations and closing the border would reduce big city crime were a lie too. so even when trump were honest about how terrible he would be, he managed to lie about reasons and numbers. oh, and violating the Constitution to achieve promises may not count. if a President were to promise to end homelessness in los angeles, and they achieved that goal by sending marines to la and ordering those troops to kill any homeless person on the streets after 8pm, am not thinking anybody would consider such a campaign promise kept. as a President it is kinda implied that you gotta do stuff legal even if you are personal immune from prosecution for official acts. "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed," is literal in the Constitution... article 2, sec iii. this Court has rolled over for trump, but even those jokers has also declared, more than once, that what trump is doing is unconstitutional... such as sending people to cecot without due process. yeah, trump said he would do terrible and horrible and many voters picked him BECAUSE he promised terrible and horrible. no denying that truth. nevertheless, in addition to project 2025, trump lied a whole lot during his 2024 campaign, and his lies were o' a scope and magnitude am having difficulty finding meaningful comparisons. HA! Good Fun! ps at the end o' the day, whether trump campaign promises were lies is kinda meaningless. if voters is satisfied with trump job performance, then the fact he lied becomes an academic question, as unfortunate as that may be. link. democrats lost the Presidency in 2024 'cause too many voters became single-issue voters, and the single issue they cared about were their displeasure with democrats. heck, democrats didn't like democrats and large numbers voted 3rd party or not at all to punish establishment democrats. whether it were gaza, the environment or social issues, democrats lost faith in the democrat party. converse, in spite o' the fact you got cold war warriors and pro-putin folks taking up space in the republican party, with very differing views on ukraine, they near all voted for trump. republicans were single-issue in 2024-- hatred of democrats. trump's approval is in the toilet, and if the situation gets bad enough, most voters in 2026 and 2028 will be single issue voters and the issue is gonna be their hatred o' trump. unfortunate for democrats, even if they eek out political wins, they nevertheless need deal with the serious and foundational problem that almost nobody likes democrats, not even democrats.

umm yeah... you aren't even trying anymore. the biden stuff failed. the circular strawman got the stuffing knocked out if it multiple times-- am not knowing the specific motivation for a doctor administering the initial MoCA test o' trump and we sure never stated that presumed dementia were necessarily that motivation. am having linked to sources describing how the MoCA is actual used as 'posed to zor mischaracterizations. have shared the observations o' a real psychiatrist who were a professor at johns hopkins (could provide multiple other psychiatrist and neurologist opinions btw,) and is convinced trump has dementia and that his condition is definitional degenerative... though in an over-abundance o' caution, and precise 'cause we do not have accurate trump medical records, am unwilling to go so far our self. when there is conflicting info it is better to wait for clarity before announcing a conclusion which may look foolish in five minutes, a situation with which zor is all too familiar. your patently unbelievable gullibility in believing statements from trump about his health exams in the absence o' clear and convincing evidence to the contrary is ludicrous. etc. and so on... before the 2024 election, we observed how trump's mental fitness were such that we wouldn't trust him to operate a gas stove, and we sure as hell wouldn't voluntarily be a passenger in a car he were driving in boston or chicago rush hour traffic. if we wouldn't trust trump's mental (as opposed to physical) faculties in such situations, and am suspecting many/most here would have similar reservations, the notion we would be okie dokie with trump as President of the United States were untenable... even w/o reflecting on all the jan 6 (tds? HA!), digital rape, business fraud, tariffs and mass deportation promises and so on and so forth. we didn't need a clinical diagnosis o' dementia, but a normal and reasonable person, given all the circumstances and expert opinion on the matter previously shared these past few pages, and recognizing that trump has lied about his health since always, and has specific been unbelievable about the MoCA since 2018, would no doubt find it challenging to conclude with any certainty that trump were mental ok. potus should not be an office where you need have such a debate. go to 15:00 is maybe how zor thinks, but hey, take trump at his word that he true believes that there aren't alot of people in that room who would get every question on the MoCA correct. doctors almost never see a perfect score. *chuckle* he is convinced o' such. no doubt you believe that his doctors were legit surprised by how well he scored. there were a guy on this board recent who posited "chronic narcissism" as the motivation for initial taking and then bragging about passing the MoCA. hard to believe, no? but hey, if trump is so delusional that he thinks that what he were saying at 15:00 about the difficulty o' the MoCA test and his doctor's responses, then maybe you are right... but 'course then we got a whole different set o' problems and am left back where we started that it don't matter if there trump is clinical demented 'cause he is clear nuts. @Chairchucker am seeming to recall a little detail which made the biden v. trump stuff irrelevant. HA! Good Fun!

it would be fantastic if it were true, 'cause then the solution would be simple. gonna guess the real solution is less straightforward. HA! Good Fun!

is a cartoon, but nevertheless, the displayed situation aligns with what we witnessed. evolving student and parent behaviour explains the capitulation, but it don't change it. is doubtful anybody is satisfied with the conclusion that decreases in overall student performance is the fault o' misguided parents and recalcitrant students. today we demand less from students... save for in mississippi? ... there is an obvious follow-up query, no? HA! Good Fun! ps removed the image to reduce our clutter.

apologies for the double, but we shouldn't make anybody suffer another response about trump's bs regarding his 2018 MoCA. the atlantic article is behind a paywall, but am seeing there is a 49 minute interview wherein the author discusses the relevant subject matter. were posted today. have not watched the interview, but since am having read the article, am admitted curious to hear what mr. kahloon has to say. edit: we saw 1/2 o' the interview and am tempted to remove the link. the interview is not bad, but similar to tucker carlson, sean hannity and don lemon, the interviewer is an opinion person who is too invested in having the interviewed person agree with them. will leave, but... am thinking the linked tweet is enough to trigger a couple people, but in any event, we found the take to be thought provoking. @Hurlshot and @Amentep is the individuals who most frequent express strong opinions about the US educational system, but is noteworthy that kahloon also speaks to a few european trends by way o' contrast, but more surprising as similarity o' problems. as an aside, am gonna admit that post retirement am actual less involved in volunteering at local schools than when we were gainful employed. the reason we pulled back is 'cause we noticed a trend o' teachers becoming more hesitant and reluctant to correct bad personal and educational habits. if a student weren't doing assignments, then it were the fault o' the teacher for offering too much homework or for failing to make assignments students wanted to complete. bullying and obnoxious students has always been a thing, 'cause kids are obnoxious and bullying is human nature that must needs be taught is wrong, but we were disappointed by how what we saw as bad behaviour were becoming normalized too frequent. our problem with kids these days were actual an issue with teachers and administrators, 'cause am not thinking the kids changed for reals. nevertheless, we were discouraged enough by the prospect o' going full grumpy old man, so am now only volunteering at the mustard seed school in sacramento, but 'cause o' issues, the drive is a bit difficult for us to manage regular. HA! Good Fun!

the fact you offered the same non-response twice does not double its value. just an fyi. as to why any reasonable person would be curious about why the President were given the MoCA following an event in which he displayed possible neurological symptoms is hardly a mystery and we don't need some kinda proof o' degeneration to explain to any honest person. the wh team doctors and a dozen specialists did a battery o' tests in response to an event which startled americans but looks positive banal by trump's 2025 standards. is also more than a few psychiatrists who based on a considerable volume o' observable trump behavior has also expressed concerns... we linked one such but it is hardly an outlier. describing trump symptoms as pathognomonic and comparing to recent and past footage makes Gromnir ask reasonable questions. 'tween genuine expert concerns, coupled with trump lies, we got a choice to either accept zor's self-serving and misleading conclusions based on his flawed description o' tests and conditions (have already pointed out the mischaracterization o' the MoCA and the degenerative aspects of dementia via links to reputable sources,) or we could admit we still don't know just how mental fit is trump or why he were given the original MoCA. am asking the question 'cause is more relevant today than were the case in 2018 when an episode led to a team o' experts testing trump. am also asking the question, 'cause while zor medical observations about the possibility o' trump's mental fitness is quaint, they run up against actual psychiatrist and neurologist opinions, real experts who has genuine concerns. 'am also asking questions 'cause trump lies, so is near impossible to provide conclusive medical proof; nobody save trump and his doctors has access to his medical records and test results. unlike tucker or zor just asking questions about seth rich, there is no way get essential information about the President's condition. one-uping biden were never a convincing answer to the question, in spite o' fact that were one proffer. taking what came straight from the horse's mouth in the absence o' concrete evidence were also hardly a reasonable answer to the question. no. as noted, for all we know, the test were administered 'cause the doctors believed he had suffered a stroke, TIA or even some other event (again, am not the one pretending expertise an misrepresenting the MoCA and dementia which has necessitated us linking actual sources on multiple occasions) which could have had a very limited impact or duration. however, am recognizing that the explanation offered by trump and his doctors were not convincing at the time. heck, trump, following the recent media focus on his hand bruising and cankles, finally admitted to chronic venous insufficiency. again, whether trump has clinical dementia at this time is largely immaterial in our estimation. trump has lied about his medical issues near as many times as zor has done the whatabout and strawman schtick; is difficult to keep an accurate count. we don't know answers and so like everybody else, we ask the question knowing we will never get definitive proof. lord knows am not taking zor's medical conclusions as particular compelling and your efforts at logic is... amusing. willing following zor down rabbit holes is exhausting and stoopid, so am not able to blame anybody save our self. nevertheless, am always shocked by your endurance in the face o' pointlessness. congratulations? HA! Good Fun! ps @Gorgon the walk issue is addressed in the link we shared. is just one guy, but you seem to have questions...

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didn't click on the link, and am admitting we rare make quiche, but am frequent making frittata... and since our typical approach has us finishing the dish in the oven, am kinda blurring the lines a bit 'tween quiche and frittata anyways. am rare baking, so quiche is a harder sell for us than is the frittata. other than cheesecake, which isn't really a pie, am reluctant to go through the effort to make pie crust, and we don't ordinary use pre-made pie crusts. as such, a frittata is an obvious alternative to quiche. cheese, onion, meat (bacon, ham or spanish chorizo is the typical proteins,) and spinach is our most common fillers... though this is one o' those dishes which alters depending on what we have on hand. mushrooms? sure, why not? tomato? we got a single small roma, so throw that in the mix. our frittata filler is gonna change depending on what we got available, but am admitting is rare that am making a frittata sans cheese. aside, even if you slice or dice chorizo extreme small or thin, it may be hard and chewy particular in a dish which does not have extreme long cooking times. however, we use a box grater for the spanish chorizo and when prepped in such a way it makes for an interesting alternative to recipes where am ordinary using bacon. edit: we use shredded chorizo almost the same as bacon, rendering and/or crisping it a bit before throwing it into something like a frittata or omelet. HA! Good Fun!

we need a good apple for apple cole slaw. we don't like big and thick matchstick cut for the apple, but most apples we would want to use is too juicy and/or not firm enough to endure a julienne... particularly a julienne from our lazy man julienne tool which we initial bought on a whim 'cause it were 50% off, but now utilize so often that our knife julienne knife skills is degrading. ... am maybe going unacceptable beyond a normal first world problems threshold. curious, but most o' our young relatives are not fans o' our pulled pork, but the adults enjoy it, save for a few o' the aggressively health conscious types. am not recalling ever having disliked pulled pork, so am kinda perplexed as to why am disappointing the pre-teen crowd. HA! Good Fun!

edit: in case people missed from the previous linked article, "Meanwhile, the economists continued their research. Longitudinal studies of family income in the 2000s and 2010s show volatile income and earnings pushed income above and below poverty levels. A study of annual incomes between 2007 and 2018 finds that 40% of households spent at least one year out of 10 in poverty. A study of monthly income between 2013 and 2017 finds that, in any four-year period, a third of Americans would experience at least two months in poverty." a whole lotta hardworking americans and their families has suffered from poverty level incomes for not insignificant periods of time. snap is not a cure for poverty, but it has been an incredibly successful safety net. the gop believes there is political leverage in creating hungry kids. ... 'cause this is where we are. as for zor... *chuckle* groundhog day. zor claiming a subject has been addressed is no more meaningful than were your pointless biden whataboutism. the previous time you claimed that you had already addressed an issue is when you offered nothing but a quote from the horse's mouth. 'pon reflection, maybe you should stick with your irrelevant biden observations. so now the issue is some ridiculous focus on dementia v. any concern trump's physicians may have had about cognitive impairment or decline... in a 79 year old who has displayed numerous verbal ticks not common attributed to normal aging, one o' which led to more than a dozen specialists looking into possible neurological causes for trump slurring during a december 2017 speech. am hoping zor never gets lost in the woods or even a corn maze 'cause you will never find your way out. have stated ad nauseum at this point that am not knowing what is trump issues. while recognizing how strawman and red herring is your modus operandi, how we get to a point where the "onus is, of course," on Gromnir to prove a "significantly progressive" condition in trump for our initial query to be meaningful is not plausible, but believable for somebody struggling to find a lifeline. HA! Good Fun!

poverty in the US is not what most people believe it to be. Kathryn Anne Edwards Opinion: The tyranny of the low-quality job "Longitudinal studies of family income in the 1970s and early 1980s show that, while long-term poverty exists, it is a slim, fractional minority. Poverty is a mostly transient state experienced by a much larger share of people and caused by household and/or labor-market disruptions. Poverty isn’t a function of where you lived or how wealthy your parents are. Income can drop for lots of reasons: Someone moves out of the house, a job is lost, an accident prevents someone from working full-time. A new job, or recovered earnings, can end the spell." is not a long piece and is worth reading. aside, most o' the traditional solutions is wrong, or at least poor crafted. when california raised the minimum wage for fast food workers, not surprising, the prices o' fast food skyrocketed. raise the minimum wage is inflationary as a whole, as such the general economic wisdom is that raising the minimum wage counter-intuitive hurts the people you are most trying to help. however, studies show there is a kinda sweet spot for raising the minimum wage-- if wages increase just enough, everybody wins and you will not see noteworthy general inflation. however, what is the chances this government gets the number right? @ShadySandshas, on more than one occasion, observed how medical debt is the primary cause o' US bankruptcies. after obamacare, employers turned fulltime jobs into multiple part time jobs and slowed wage increases in part to pay (not pay) for healthcare. obamacare has helped millions o' people, but pretending as if healthcare is no longer a problem for anybody who is at least trying to find a job is wrong. poverty and healtcare in the US is inextricable linked. am gonna suggest you cannot fix US poverty w/o fixing healthcare, and that is a big ask. childcare? *groan* would need a very long post to describe the problem in part 'cause some o' the solutions run counter to other solutions. US women with children disproportionate need good part-time jobs 'cause they cannot work full time or at the least they aren't gonna be able to take advantage o' jobs with traditional hours. no (or no meaningful) sick leave for a large % o' lower paying jobs is also a surprising big problem that unlike the rest o' the problems listed has an ez fix, but good luck with that. housing costs... am only scratching the surface o' the problem... US poverty is not what most americans believe it to be, so many o' the suggested solutions is also gonna be fails. HA! Good Fun! ps am habitual socratic method so am often forgetting to state the obvious: because american poverty is so difficult to solve, but also largely transitory, snap is an ideal government response in spite o' fox news perpetuating a boomer welfare queen narrative. snap is highly targeted and reactive. people is able to access and then decouple from the snap program quick. there is indeed a free rider problem, but it is not as large as many boomers believe it to be. snap does not and cannot fix poverty, but it has been an overwhelming success.

made pulled pork, carolina gold bbq sauce and cole slaw. the pork we made in the oven instead o' smoking. turned out nice even so. were a small pork 1/2 shoulder, a bit under 3.5 lbs, and it nevertheless took near eight hours to get to fall-apart doneness. we cooked the meat in the oven 'cause our carob shrub (is more than 30' tall and a bit wider, but am thinking it is technical a shrub 'cause it branches at the base instead o' having a single trunk, but am so not an arborist,) is current in bloom. we do not want to spend anytime outside and within 100 yards o' our carob... shrub, 'least not for another week. am almost never making carolina gold bbq sauce, which is weird 'cause am a fan o' the stuff. we went a bit light on the sweetness and added a tad more heat than is typical... not that we needed to make the sauce particularly hot as we had liberal spiced the pork. almost forgot to add worcestershire sauce... probable 'cause we make carolina gold so infrequent. the coleslaw we prepared is o' the sacrilegious midwestern variety being heavy on mayo, sweetness, vinegar and always is including a bit o' celery seed. our celery seed must be ten years old by now 'cause is maybe two other recipes we near never prepare for which we need celery seed, but in spite o' the age, it tasted fine. after shredding the cabbage and carrot, we salt the vegetable matter and then let it sit for about an hour to dehydrate a bit... and then we ring out much o' the remaining moisture via a tea towel. am always annoyed by wet midwestern coleslaw, so we take effort to prevent such an outcome. *shrug* am not general a fan o' mayo or miracle whip based slaw, but we had a hankering for it and nobody were gonna tell us it were a bad idea. am gonna have pulled pork for a few days. HA! Good Fun!

fox news is at it again BREAKING: FAKE NEWS! Fox News just got caught reporting on disgustingly racist AI videos as REAL! we did double-check other sources to make sure the facebook claim is legit. the fox article https://www.foxnews.com/media/snap-beneficiaries-threaten-ransack-stores-over-government-shutdown am knowing europeans cannot read the comments section, but keep in mind that most o' the following is being contributed after the correction to the story were made, and only a couple point out fox's switcheroo and avoiding the double-post, while admitting am exhausted... zor invents an argument nobody made, then argues against it, while in part relying on trump integrity to reach a pointless conclusion. sure. zor medical expertise aside, *eye roll* dementia progresses different with every patient and actual progresses is slower when signs appear first later in life, but this is also irrelevant and red herring fodder. find where Gromnir claimed trump has dementia. for all we know, the doctors thought he had suffered a stroke or might have Parkinson's. tired o' repeating, but the MoCA is not a dispositive test for dementia, so whether trump passed or not would hardly prove (or disprove) that he had dementia in 2018. trump acing the test is not particular meaningful to us 'cause am far more concerned as to why the doctors thought the test were warranted. "am curious why the obvious question regarding the MoCA administered by walter reed doctors as part o' a trump exam is never asked: why did doctors feel it were prudent to have trump take the MoCA?" one-upping biden were not a plausible option 'cause calendars... duh. and no, as has been shown numerous times now via actual linked expert opinions, the MoCA would not have been utilized as a screening test. doctors woulda' had a reason to believe the test were appropriate. more than a dozen specialists examined trump following his episode in late december o' 2017, and then he is given a dementia test. believing trump without any corroborating evidence that he personally requested a dementia test just 'cause requires a level o' gullibility we cannot muster. so, back to square one. btw, Cognitive Test Trump Took May Have Been Undermined by Publicity, Doctors Warn an examinee knowing the contents o' the test may interfere with its value. "person, woman, man, camera, tv." for all we know, trump spends considerable effort preparing for the test each time he takes it. sure, if he were impaired into insensibility, then no amount o' preparation or foreknowledge would save him from failure, but again, we were in the room when our father took the test and "aced," it which shocked us at the time. is also apparently the reason why, "It can be more valuable to ask family members or others who know the patient well whether the person has been inefficient at tasks they once did well, like negotiating a new route when driving or following a recipe." but again, "as grotesque as it might be, am gonna suggest americans is much better off with a President who reflexive lies than one who is honest taking pride in his dementia test results." notice we didn't place trump's possible dementia in the balance, but if we take zor's max gullible position, that would mean the President o' the united states is genuine proud of having been able to draw ten-to-eleven on a blank clock face. "I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did..." sooooo... no doubt zor also believes that the doctors were "very surprised," by trump being able to identify an elephant. HA! Good Fun!

the commercial isn't particularly funny, but Gromnir can't be the only one who hears how similar it is to... can't help but feel like somebody is getting punk'd. HA! Good Fun!

The H-2A Visa Trap "As the hearing drew to a close, Judge Lisa Godbey Wood explained that she had watched Sofi’s body language and studied the tone of her voice as she testified. And she could see how much Sofi had to lose, especially in the face of threats to her and her son. She couldn’t find a single reason not to believe Sofi. “I would find by any standard of proof that she’s telling the truth,” Wood said. “As a result I find that the rapes did occur.” "Wood turned to Mendoza. “People think that there’s no slavery anymore,” she told him, moments before sentencing him to 30 years in prison. “There is, and you were doing it right here in our state.”" ... "The Biden administration increased protections for H-2A workers, but several lawsuits filed by states including Georgia have prevented them from fully going into effect. This past June, the Trump administration went one step further, suspending any enforcement of the new program’s rules until that litigation is resolved. "The number of H-2A visas issued has increased every year since Sofi arrived. The escalation of Trump’s deportation efforts this year has led to arrests of undocumented farmworkers — who account for over 40% of all field laborers — and sparked enough fear to convince others to no longer show up to work. If farmers are squeezed further by the shortage of farmworkers, the H-2A program can fulfill that demand. There’s no limit to how many visas can be issued." ... am still perplexed as to why so many farmers voted for trump considering the pain they felt during his first administration and in spite o' the bailouts, bailouts which am thinking everybody believes will be replicated and increased this time around. tariffs is brutalizing farmers again, and is no way they may pretend that the misery they are suffering due to trump's ignorant trade wars were unexpected or that they were lied to when they voted overwhelming for trump in 2024. that said, one reason why the mass deportations don't rule out trump support by farmers is 'cause so many prefer an expansion o' the h-2a program which for them is cheaper and easier to maintain through labor contractors such as mendoza as 'posed needing deal with messy free market forces which has individual farm workers able to chose their employer and to leave at anytime if they do not like their employment situation. the trump admin is exponential increasing the h-2a program while simultaneous ending any enforcement issues o' a program which were already rife with criminality. during the pandemic, estimates o' h-2a visa holders being victims o' human trafficking increased to 25% and in spite o' the subsequent biden admin resolve to clean up the program, estimates only fell to 20%. one in five? trump has effective ended enforcement efforts all together, so what do you believe is gonna happen to the numbers? does anybody trust trump's claims he is concerned about human trafficking especially when farmers is now, more than ever, gonna need a cheap and reliable source o' labor other than undocumented workers? HA! Good Fun!

more significant than the traditional turin horse fiasco we indulge with zor from time-to-time... via ny times: "President Trump said late Friday that the administration would provide the funding for food stamps in November once a federal court could clarify “how we can legally” supply the money." am expecting a snarky response from the judge, but usda foot dragging is expected... to what aim? again, the method used by the trump 2018 administration to fund snap were deemed illegal after the fact and the Congressional emergency fund were identified as the appropriate source o' funding at that time. trump playing dumb may be believable, but the lawyers who need argue for the government won't get such grace. there is no basement for the current gop, so perhaps am reading this situation wrong, but there is a vast number o' trump voters receiving snap money, and in spite o' aggressive (and possible illegal) efforts by the administration and the usda to blame democrats for the upcoming snap benefit delays, am not seeing how they may successful svengali this into a republican win, but... also, if you are looking for a glimmer o' sunshine, "President Trump late Thursday renewed his call to eliminate the filibuster to force through legislation ending the government shutdown, but his plea is unlikely to get much traction among the Republicans who control the Senate." thune and other R senators do not have an appetitive to eliminate the filibuster. thank goodness for sinema and manchin, eh? am not actual thankful for sinema btw, but am admitting we shared her reluctance to end the filibuster, precisely 'cause we envisioned the possibility o' something like 2025 even if am admitting is no way we literal coulda' predicted the Congressional 2025 charlie fox. *sigh* back to the salt mines. somebody loses track o' the thread quite easily. "am curious why the obvious question regarding the MoCA administered by walter reed doctors as part o' a trump exam is never asked: why did doctors feel it were prudent to have trump take the MoCA?" there were an event in december o' 2017 wherein trump were public slurring words during a speech. as a result, trump gets neurological tests, and at least a dozen specialists is involved in trump's exams... but according to trump and ronny jackson, the MoCA he took at that time and aced, were administered not at the request o' doctors, but by trump himself. ok. no reasonable person in their right mind takes a trump explanation as to why he wanted the MoCA to be administered at face value in part 'cause trump is a pathological liar. (is a rando vid... have never previous seen the guy in the hat and glasses) have stated multiple times now that we don't know the real motivation, but that is immaterial too. can say with near certainty it had nothing to do with biden however. duh. in any event, is no intelligent and honest person who is gonna suggest that in the absence o' evidence o' trump's specific lies, words direct from the horse's mouth should be taken at face value, 'cause that is not how real people behave and even court evidentiary rules recognize how stoopid that kinda trust would be. in january 2018, there were particular concerns 'bout trump's mental fitness, so lying about the reason why the MoCA were administered is in character for a "chronic narcissist." oh, and biden, anything concerning biden, is complete irrelevant to answering such concerns. as may be seen via quoted and linked material we already shared, the MoCA is not dispositive as a test for dementia and is not routine tests in any event. seems highly unlikely trump knew about the MoCA in december o 2017, but we are told that he asked to be tested for dementia in 2018. not being satisfied with the full testing procedure o' his team o' more than a dozen specialists, trump requested the dementia test. whatever "circular reasoning" you wanna strawman is as pointless as were your biden observations. again, we don't know for certain what were the motivation o' trump and his doctors, but the story they fabricated in january 2018 were not particularly believable and there were a clear motivation to lie. the fact that trump has spent the intervening years doubling-down on his dementia test glory doesn't help zor in any event 'cause as already noted, all the alternatives is bad... and doubling-down ad nauseum is also complete in-character for trump. that trump took a dementia test in 2018 and has been using that unfortunate necessity through the intervening years to try and convince his base o' his stellar mental acuity does not seem at all out of character. trump genuine believes acing a dementia test proves how smarty he is? trump is lying or reflexive doubling down... or mayhap he lied at first and now he genuine believes that being able to draw the time on a clock and the ability to recollect, "person, woman, man, camera, tv," were "very difficult." is literal more than five years later and Gromnir didn't need look up, "person, woman, man, camera, tv." regardless, is literal no good outcomes for trump as far as we can see. nevertheless, particular as the dementia test which started all this silliness happened so long ago, many people forget what were trump's excuses and the circumstances surrounding his initial dementia test. is clear zor forgot. *chuckle* why did doctors administer the MoCA is a relevant question. is not a dispositive test. is not a routine test. alternatively, you can squint your eyes shut tight, cover your ears and repeat over and over that you believe trump and ronny jackson until you believe it. 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regarding the impending halt of snap: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQb2n6yETOC/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/federal-judge-food-stamps.html "Despite the imminent lapse, the Trump administration has maintained that it would not try to cover the shortfall, not even by using billions of dollars that Congress had previously set aside for SNAP to address possible funding emergencies. That prompted 25 states and the District of Columbia to sue this week, arguing that the White House had a legal and moral obligation to provide the benefits. "During a tense hearing on Thursday, Judge Talwani appeared to doubt the government’s claims that there were legal, technical and budgetary hurdles to reprogramming the money during the shutdown. "“Congress has put money in an emergency fund,” she said during the hearing. “It’s hard for me to understand how this isn’t an emergency, when there’s no money and a lot of people are needing their SNAP benefits.”" this is not a new thing. there has been previous government shutdowns, including idiotic ones such as the 2018 wall shutdown. snap benefits continued during previous shutdowns 'cause Congress had foreseen the possibility o' such interruptions and they included a mechanism to make certain that snap funds were available even in the event o' emergencies, no doubt 'cause regardless o' which side o' the aisle you were on, children unnecessarily going hungry were seen as politically bad.... and wrong. and as a reminder for those who is opposed to handouts for the unworthy, the vast majority o' snap recipients receive benefits for six months or less, and sixty-something % o' all snap money goes to children. even if you believe folks taking welfare is habitual ne'er-do-wells who interminable suck off the government teat to pay for their drug and alcohol addictions, snap ain't the program you should want ended. edit: update: Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund funny aside, we went back and looked at the 2018 wall shutdown situation and discovered that, to our surprise, the trump administration did not use the Congressional emergency fund to pay for snap during the government stoppage. the thing is, what trump did last time, and what the government is arguing they can't do this time 'cause is too complex and difficult, were declared illegal sometime after the shutdown ended, but maybe not for reasons you might initial expect. the government accountability office found that trump ignored all the money Congress had set aside for emergencies such as shutdowns, and instead used other inappropriate funding sources to prevent a delay o' snap. the reason why the 2018 funding o' snap were deemed illegal were not 'cause trump did it but 'cause he did not use the funds specific provided by Congress to deal with the problem. in short, the usda and trump is saying they can't use the emergency funds 'cause a shutdown is not the sorta emergency envisioned by Congress, but there were already a post 2018 shutdown ruling on the mater which concluded the exact opposite. trump were able to fund snap in 2018 w/o much difficulty and in spite o' technical hurdles, but his actions were illegal because he didn't use Congressional emergency snap funds to accomplish the feat. nuts.

am so not embracing the biden v. trump cognitive race to the bottom. neither one 'o them shoulda' been running for President in to 2024. we mentioned multiple times how we wouldn't trust either one 'o them behind the wheel o' a car or working a gas stove, so why on earth would we think they were up to handling the office o' President? am thinking it's possible that most o' the biden team had genuine convinced themselves that he could still handle the duties of President in 2024, 'cause people are capable o' all kinda self-delusion and goal post shifting when confronted with tough choices. what am not able to accept is that the biden folks thought joe could manage another four years, and if that is the case, then multiple people shoulda' stepped forward to insist on a traditional primary. should never have needed get to the debate performance. am not letting the biden folks off the hook. they doomed democrats by not convincing biden to step away and let somebody else be the democrat candidate. unlike biden, trump is the one who shows legit signs o' dementia as 'posed to just old age, but so what? biden were looking very old, too old to be President. nevertheless, biden weren't a threat to democracy who had already tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. biden were not a convicted felon who had, according to grand jury testimony of his own lawyers, attempted to prevent federal agents from retrieving top secret documents from mar-a-lago where he directed multiple persons to destroy evidence o' his interaction with those documents. biden were never found liable for sexual assault/digital rape. biden weren't talking about the enemy within and a mass deportation o' 20 million people, which is the approximate population of ny state. etc. elections is usually a lesser of evils choice. the thing is, biden were old and NOT on the ballot at the time of the election. we didn't much like kamala harris either, but compared to trump? even if all the republican fever dreams 'bout harris were born out, the worst case scenario for 2025 is... what exact? with a republican house, senate and this Court, harris wouldn't have been executive ordering her way to through the charred embers of the Constitution even if she had immunity from prosecution. so maybe a few more trans athletes competing in girls/women's sports? economically, what could she have done that were worse than trump's tariffs idiocy? and again, am a fiscal conservative, so am most certain not embracing many o' the progressive suggestions regarding economic change, but the US did better than virtual the rest o' the world post pandemic and is not as if the biden folks had implemented a communist takeover while nobody were looking. with biden out of the race and none o' those pesky age/capacity concerns at play with harris, it were difficult for us to see why a traditional free market conservative would vote for trump instead o' harris... even if we were able to ignore the rape, felonies, obstruction, mass deportation and "enemy within" crap from trump, which we couldn't. but yeah, the biden folks had to know he weren't fit to be President for another four years... and? HA! Good Fun!

Trump Says He ‘Aced’ a Cognitive Test. What Does That Really Mean?Experts say one popular test that the president might have taken is by no means definitive, or even diagnostic. "Do medical societies recommend cognitive screenings? "No. Such exams are not like mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopies for colon cancer. With those tests, doctors can get a diagnosis and begin treatment. "But they are only part of an assessment of the mental functioning of an older adult. It can be more valuable to ask family members or others who know the patient well whether the person has been inefficient at tasks they once did well, like negotiating a new route when driving or following a recipe." "Screening tests like the MOCA cannot rule out declines in reasoning or memory, or difficulties with planning or judgment. The test is just too blunt an instrument, and for many high-functioning people, too easy. "For that reason, dementia specialists say they would not make a diagnosis based on a screening exam like the MOCA." btw, the test were original administered to trump in january 2018 shortly after an episode wherein the President were showing signs o' difficulty in speaking. "Asked about a much-discussed episode in which the president seemed to slur his words during a televised speech in December (2017) about the Middle East, Dr. Jackson said that he and his team of a dozen specialists conducted several tests, including an ultrasound of his carotid arteries, to determine whether there might be a clinical explanation. "Dr. Jackson said that the tests all were normal, leading him to believe that the slurred words might have been caused by Sudafed, a medicine for nasal congestion, that he prescribed for the president. He said Mr. Trump does not wear dentures “of any kind,” a popular theory on Twitter for the slurred words." so, if the number o' specialists reviewing a case is significant... again, biden is a red herring. irrelevant. trump had the test relative contemporaneous with a december 2017 speech which garnered much concern at the time. that said, am admitting having reviewed the video it seems positive pedestrian by donald's 2025 baseline standard. regardless, there were an obvious not-biden motivation for a doctor to administer the test. and speaking o' his 2020 MoCA test, trump observed, "I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did..." ... a dementia test. but hey, the statement came straight from the horse's mouth, right? trump has managed a kinda mass hypnosis in that most people has voluntarily disconnected any ordinary standards o' decency, intelligence and morality when reflecting 'pon trump behaviors and statements. how would any o' us ordinarily treat the self serving claims o' a pathological liar with literal thousands o' documented falsehoods to his name ranging from trivial golf score fabrication to pr0n star payoffs and even the most ridiculous and easily dismissed boasts such as the number o' floors in trump tower? have mentioned previous how post January 6, any accusation of tds sans irony is comical bold and deserving o’ brutal mockery, but zor using the derisive maga label in the context o’ the reliability of trump public utterances is exhibiting implausible credulousness which somehow managed to surprise us. when reflecting ‘pon trump’s improbable pride in his MoCA score, am faced with deciding whether it is more likely the President of the United States is so ignorant and divorced from reality that he genuine believes that acing a dementia test is praise worthy, or we must consider that trump is lying to the American people in an effort to explain why a doctor felt a dementia test was warranted for the most powerful man on the planet. curiously, zor’s defense o' trump’s explanation forces us to consider almost the same choice o’ unfortunates. but again, insofar as mr. trump, how the hell has he managed to so complete and utter change standards and expectations? we observed already that, "am having no idea what were the real reason why trump got the test," but we sure as heck wouldn't give any weight to trump's claims recognizing his tortured relation with truth. imagine not trump and instead your annoying neighbor who were the pathological liar, and they were bragging about their sexual, athletic, intellectual prowess. would you believe 'em w/o real proof? but let's say you somehow convince your self that corporal bone spurs and dr. feelgood are reliable sources regarding the motivations for the 2018 trump dementia test. the obvious alternative is that trump genuine believes that passing a dementia test (identify the elephant) is "very difficult" and praise worthy. ... as grotesque as it might be, am gonna suggest americans is much better off with a President who reflexive lies than one who is honest taking pride in his dementia test results. is not even one full year of trump's second term and we are in such a weird f'ing place, but somehow people have normalized it. 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trump's improbable ignorance is tedious for multiple reasons, but not least 'cause it compels normal people to fill in the logic and reason holes he leaves behind when he provides an explanation for getting a dementia test, imposing tariffs on brazil, or suggesting merrick garland should be investigated for the 2020 election fraud scheme. 'cause trump explanations don't make sense if you take him literal, even the folks at msnbc will reflexive fill in the gaps or massage trump explanations/excuses with something plausible. otherwise most any discussion o' trump would devolve into concluding that the President is an idiot, which while accurate is not particular constructive. that said, trump has a few patterns, and doubling down is one o' his most predictable. after trump were questioned and mocked about his 2018 dementia test braggadocio, am thinking most o' us thought it weren't gonna be the last we heard o' how fantabulous he were for acing the test. maybe not as funny as his ongoing and evolving war on windmills, but the pattern is similar. HA! Good Fun!

what on earth are you talking about? am genuine baffled. never did we reference something said by joe biden... or is this your reflexive whataboutism at play? serious, am having no idea what you could possible be talking 'bout. and pointing out that you provided an answer is equal meaningless. could tell us the reason doctors tested trump in 2018 for dementia were sun spots. suns spots as an explanation would indeed be a response, an answer. so what? am thinking part o' the problem is that you don't know how to make sense of a calendar. who was on the democrat ticket in january o' 2018? trick question. answer: nobody. as o' january 2018, andrew yang and one other guy had announced they would seek to run as democrats in the Presidential election, and biden were not one o' those two. trump never mentioned biden when he had his dementia test in January 2018... which is in part why we questioned whether you had bothered to actual read the article past the quote you used. wanna go back and look at this board circa january 2018? see how much discussion there is o' the democrat candidates for President in 2020, much less an assumption biden would be trump's opponent. you get it now? you provided an irrelevant answer. sun spots. trump's response about biden from your linked article is just as irrelevant as is sun spots. the notion trump got a dementia test to preemptive set himself apart from biden makes no sense, no matter how many different ways you repeat. feel free to strawman all you want, but bringing up biden ad nauseum is transparent futile and pointless. biden mental problems, which we lamented more than once, is irrelevant as to why trump a doctor administered a dementia test to trump in 2018, january of 2018. as to tds... you must be joking. am certain you ain't joking, but am trying to give you the benefit o' the doubt. lord knows why you would wanna bring up questions of evidence and truth telling. is a movie clip, but it is educational 'cause if we are talking 'bout evidence, the witness' propensity for telling falsehoods is always relevant. the deluge o' documented and confirmed trump lies is too significant to catalog on this board, but that improbable bloated ledger is prima facia admissible evidence if it is offered to impeach a witness' testimony. proof of past falsehoods is relevant when attempting to convince the finder o' fact (jury or judge,) that the witness's testimony should not be believed. as hard as it is to believe, sometimes legal rules is just codified common sense. your improbable need to give trump the benefit o' the doubt is the actual tds. given thousands o' examples o' trump lies about anything and everything, when confronted with a situation where trump mighta' lied to protect his "chronic narcissism," zor nevertheless finds trump claims convincing... in spite o' the calendar. sheesh. am thinking it is safe to say that the 224 lb trump lied about his weight recent and is known he has pressured doctors into lying for him in the past. is not just that trump lies routine, but that he lies about his health and well being and has conspired with doctors in the past to perpetuate the lies. so we got a pattern as well as a propensity for falsehood... even so, zor soldiers on with his tds? no lawyer would ever put trump on a witness stand, not evar, 'cause his propensity for falsehood would be relevant under cross examination. it would require no great skill by an attorney to convince any finder o' fact that trump testimony is functional worthless, particular if there were some personal benefit to trump in lying. can zor imagine why a chronic narcissist such as trump might lie about the reason a doctor tested him for dementia in JANUARY of 2018? am betting literal everybody other than zor can come up with a plausible reason trump might lie to cover up the reason for his JANUARY 2018 dementia test. am not sure why your father's doctor thought he should take a dementia test, but our father's doctor most certainty were not worried about joe biden. am betting that in near all cases when a doctor recommends that their patient respond to MoCA questions, the motivation is approximately the same: the doctor has concerns that their patient is cognitively impaired. trumps 2024 word salad explanation for why he were being tested for dementia is clearly aberrational... is not the typical reason a person is asked to submit to MoCA questions. that a chronic narcissist would want anybody to know they took that test is also suspect, but perhaps zor is speaking to us from the upside down? our father were a proud man and he were mortified that he were needing draw a clock and identify a giraffe. am having a hard time believing a chronic narcissist would wanna discuss their dementia test results. ironic eh? you asked "why" and you got a far better answer than you offered us. again, biden is irrelevant. look. at. a. calendar. wanting a dementia test in january of 2018 cause o' biden is an idiotic claim for reasons obvious to anybody who can figure out how to read a calendar. jesus. 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the domestic terrorist label problem predates 1/6 by a smidge am not suggesting false equivalency and you could find older posts from Gromnir where we warn 'bout the slippery slope potential o' the domestic terrorist label. is not a new problem... but am admitting our failure o' imagination pre trump. the scale and scope o' what steven miller and the other trump admin authoritarians is implementing we so did not foresee short o' contemporaneous with a major war or economic cataclysm. in times o' relative peace and prosperity we could not have predicted the american people would shrug off masked troops in the streets acting on an extra judicial basis to intentional cause panic among the population. earlier in the year, trump identified people vandalizing teslas as terrorists. antifa is now terrorists, and antifa membership is pretty much determined by the doj disliking your social media? possible drug runners, thousands o' miles away from the US and likely carrying cargo meant for europe is narco terrorists. next? but again, as much as we would like that it were true, the problem didn't start with trump and it sure won't end with him. just kidding. the gandhi quote might be misattributed, but am thinking it is axiomatic that our current american divisiveness ain't gonna get better anytime soon... and is no chance for improvement while so many believes they is justified in exacting retribution on wrongdoers. they deserve it, so is ok that they should suffer. HA! Good Fun!

ya think? HA! am having a hard time taking you serious. trump wanted to be tested for dementia? his idea? the 224lb trump wanted to prove to self, prove to the world, that he were just as sound o' mind as he were o' body? alternative: mayhap the reason he mentioned it were 'cause the fact he got the test were recorded. Presidential records and all that. am having no idea what were the real reason why trump got the test, but is improbable biden figured into the calculus in January 2018. am s'posing that once trump took the test he could either find some way to hide the fact the test were administered, or he could try to spin the circumstances. as such, am seeing a relative obvious and plausible reason for trump mentioning it. admitted, hiding the fact the test were administered would not be unique in Presidential history; has happened numerous times in the past. however, trying to cover up scandals in the trump wh were a hit-or-miss proposition in 2018 as his staff were notorious for leaking and knowing that your co-conspirator were the pill-popping and alcoholic ronny jackson might have been cause for concern. heck for all we know, kellyanne conway found out the truth at which point trump woulda' suspected wapo or cnn would have the story w/i twenty-four hours? sure, we know that in 2025 trump coulda' had seal team 6 disappear ms. conway to keep her from spilling the news, but that weren't the case in january 2018. doesn't actual matter what were trumps' thoughts 'cause regardless it takes near zero imagination to picture a trump convinced o' his own ability to dr. mesmer willful obtuse maga faithful (and zor) into believing that there were nothing at all curious about his being the subject of a dementia test... 'cause how many other stoopidly bad situations has he successful spun? again, trump took the test in january 2018, so the biden explanation should immediately dissolve into insensibility for anybody paying attention... anybody but zor. ... and am wondering if you even bothered to read the rest o' your own linked article, which is pretty damning for trump. regardless, am amused anybody would find a gobbledygook bit o' word salad from a pathologically mendacious 224lb horse's mouth at all persuasive when there is a skeevy and self-serving explanation available. *shrug* in any event, as predicted, this become farce all too quick. HA! Good Fun!

Judge Blasts Border Patrol Boss Greg Bovino For Violating Excessive Force Order “Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis told Bovino during a court hearing Tuesday morning. “They just don’t.” am having no idea what is the "block club chicago," or how trustworthy they is as sources, but am having read a couple stories which are near identical but are paywall protected. also, much o' the relevant info is quotes by bovino and ellis which am able to tentative verify via multiple sources. also, this effective vacates the earlier appellate ruling, so the original tro preventing national guard in portland remains in effect... though am forgetting the duration o' the original tro, so there could be a need for the original judge to reissue the tros. gives us a headache trying to keep all the troops in the streets cases separate. HA! Good Fun!