The New Coffee Room

The problem is that, not all, but a vast majority of these immigrants are decent people looking for nothing more than to provide the a decent life for themselves and their families. Bad actors in their community and bad actors in the US Congress make it difficult. Our ancestors somehow managed to get in to America without much trouble and we all have a good life. While it's easy to blame Trump and the Republicans, it was the Democrats that let these people in illegally without requiring or even providing citizenship. The bishops are right we are doing a sucky job as a country. These are people just like us.

ZERO. I'm aging and the neighborhood is aging with me.. It used to be a lot. Now, what to do with this f-ing bag of M&M's?

@Mik said in Interesting re MAGA for the post Trump era:

Please, God, a return to the party of Buckley would be soooo welcome.

AMEN brother!

JD, what is good in life?

"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their men."

Count me in on the side of people that want her to run again.

Run Kamila run, you can WIN!!!!!!!

@Doctor-Phibes said in An E-Bike for your feet:

What's the point in going faster if you're burning fewer calories?

You do give away the fact you're not American buy making comments like this. Americans just want to go faster--and that's all there is to it.

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

They called him "The Stupid"—and that's exactly what he wanted...

Actually, during the Vietnam War there was a program to enlist low IQ people and send them into combat.

[McNamara's Morons](https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Project_100,000)

Thanks Renauda. The ad was better than I thought it would be and then later maybe not so best when I heard the run through from the BBC. But edited or not Reagan's point is good in the long run. The USA and EVERYBODY ELSE would benefit from free trade.

JK Rowling did it WAY better. (But you can see where she got the idea!)

@Axtremus said in O Canada:

... because, according to Trump, "Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement" featuring former president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.

I haven't seen it but that seems like a pretty clever thing to do. Good for the Canadians.

We all fill in when people are missing. Everyone is doing the best they can.

And you know that ballroom is going to be kitsch from the top to the bottom. All you have to do is visit Trump Tower, or look at all those "gold" candelabras behind him when he greets visitors in the White House to see where he's going with this. I'm contributing to the re-renovation of the place after he leaves office.

Don't laugh. If any one of us made $978 million from selling something we'd be looking like that and endorsing Thomas Massie (whoever he is) too.

The French are idiots. Really. They deserve what they get.

Well we know the country where he's going to be president of next after he finishes his term here.

I baith in my own urine. To each his own.

The only reason to end the war is to spare the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. But if you don't care about that--then the war can go on forever. In that respect Putin is like Hamas--as long as they get what they want in the end human suffering really doesn't matter.

So you're sitting there with your beautiful wife on the beach in Tampa and that's what you're thinking of, a doctor doing a prostrate exam???

You have to expect a bit of "eating their own." I think the major players like Trump and the Arabs are going to steamroll over the Palestinian and Israeli outliers and just settle things. The war at this point is pretty much over--they'll be plenty of minor squabbling, but things will quiet down in a while.

It's probably not much different for the Russian guys fighting in the war either. At least the Ukrainian is fighting for his country, if that means anything.