Honestly, when I knew that most Americans don't age past their high school is when I connected the dots between the showbiz glitter of their last presidential campaign to the high school american movies I used to watch, specifically the ones about their high school elections for president and prom king and queens.
The similarity between what I used to watch a decade plus ago and what was unfolding right before my eyes last year was so uncanny that I immediately knew it was on purpose and the so-called adults at those rallies where just children in adult bodies who didn't grow past their teen years and were reliving their glory years that will never return
And this my friends, are whom we entrust every 4 years to elect the so called leader of the free world and the most powerful president on earth 👀👀. Someone wake me up from this nightmare please
Exactly Jenny, really? And you got likes for this comment. Disregard the majority of people as an un-understandable moron underclass much? High regard you have for yourselves on this feed and low understanding of people.
What a nothingburger of a reply. I hope you look at the figures for wages at the bottom sometime and realise that supporting a wealthy elite, warmongering class, is all you are about now.
Yeah selfishly working two jobs for less than it takes to make bills and rent. Why shouldn’t they get some money? Why shouldn’t they get some fucking power for a change. Your empathy is selective, always. You’ve plenty of empathy for a particular group but 0 for people suffering within your own borders.
I don't think you understand how empathy works or the true meaning of the word
Frankly, the beginning of your statement already tells me your values and beliefs are warped and too centralized around money and fame to ever begin to truly understand empathy
I don't think the values of integrity, honesty and doing work for the sake of the works enjoyment and passion alone and not for money mean a twat to you and so you will never truly understand how to be a normal human with normal human priorities rather than the nonsense that capitalism has filled your head with
I hope you come around to understanding what true values are but sadly, I doubt that is possible in your case and those of a huge majority of your country people
You don’t understand people because you don’t bother to listen to them. The wages for average people will go up and the taxes will come down, the very lowest already have with the laws being applied around illegal workers. When you work hard but it’s still not enough a small increase makes a big difference. These happy exited normal people were ecstatic then because he was the only one even trying to be on their side and so far he’s following through.
Do you think Palestine should be on the mind of a hotel maid when she sees that her twat employer is too scared now to use cheap illegal labour and feels confident to push him for a raise, finally? If she’s happy right now and supports Trump is she a stupid person?
Your last paragraph just shows all that is wrong and fucked up about your country in a nutshell
You guys are selfish fuckers who lack empathy and basic human decency and only look out for your pocket and worship money and power, even when those same people are screwing you in all your holes and then some
You guys need a major reconfiguring of your values and thinking patterns or you're fucking doomed forever more
Correct. Not to mention starting wars all over the world/regime changes because you don't like THEIR Govt. Then there is the never-ending greed for oil and precious minerals.
There are those who would accuse of him of being a dictator, but clearly he is nothing like Hitler as he sees no need for art or education and recognizes that all architecture and interior design are improved by an excess of gold.
The fact that his placing those he deems unworthy into detention camps happens to resemble the behavior of the historical figure of his admiration is purely coincidental.
Laws deem em unworthy son. And maybe Trump understands marketing more than you. Remember the names of those discreet, tasteful, soft spoken New York property tycoon’s? Nah me neither.
It seems Keir Starmer has now lost as many marbles as Trump. He's putting together a "coalition of the willing" (talk about not learning the lesson) to send troops to Ukraine after there is a Trump peace deal. He's now said that if Russia harms one UK soldier there will be serious consequences to pay. All you UK folks get ready, the USA and Israel may be invading Iran, but Starmer is going to have you take on Russia.
A former barrister at the European Court of Human Rights, he said it was "acceptable" for israel to withhold power and water from the people of Gaza. If anyone is relying on honesty and common sense from this numpty they're in for a rude awakening.
Starmer, like the rest of the EU, are just puppets of the US deep state ie BlackRock. The plan for continued primacy, using the UK and EU as proxies against Russia to weaken Putin, using Israel as a proxy attacking Iran to weaken China then attacking enemy numero uno, China. Please don't think Starmer is doing anything by himself.
Everyone is talking as though a) Trump has nothing to do with this and b) that Trump is going to make a peace deal. Wrong and wrong. The UK and EU are following what crusader fan Pete Hegseth said that they should do. Convince the public of scary Putin's untrustworthiness, up their military spending and buy arms from the US (cos they have a nasty trade deficit). Trump is making a lot of noise about bending Putin's ears, but there is no peace deal nor any reset with US-Russian relations. Putin is just humouring Mr. Trump. The proxy war will grind on til the last Ukrainian as was the stated objective to over-extend Russia (which did have consequences in Syria). Or if the UK and EU are stupid enough to put their 'reassurance force' on the ground, the war will grind on until the last European/Britisher. This would fill both tattooed Hegseth and Dyed Orange Trump with extreme happiness.
I am in Europe and I have absolutely NO interest in what Mr. "SIR" Starmer has to say BUT apparently EU has decided (for us) that we now have the GEAT BRITISH EMPIRE on our side!
England voted for Brexit, Scotland did not. Scotland voted 62% to stay in the EU, and every single constituency voted to remain, Scotland's capital city voted 73% remain. Scotland's democratically elected government wanted to be part of the undemocratic UkEng 'Brexit' 'deal' but were told to F-off and Scotland was dragged out of the EU against the will of the people.
During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the Eng/Brit state pulled out all the stops, and used every trick in the book to convince people that Scotland was a pathetic basket case and, that only staying in their 'family of nations' re their 'UK' (UKOK as the 'better together' scammers called it!) would secure our place in the EU. Many EU nationals living and woking in Scotland voted no to Scottish independence, now most have had to leave our amazing country of Scotland!
The BritEng state are experts at division, lies and propaganda...
but my point is if Scotlalnd is to be considered part of England's Britain or whatever it's called, then it must be made clear that Scotland did not vote to leave the EU! Of course the 'auld alliance' and all that...is important.
And people like to accuse Americans of not knowing history! Should I remind Sir Keir and his followers of Napoleon and Hitler and their glorious invasions of Russia?
We reap what we sow, and my country, the US, is harvesting nothing but shit right now and for a long time. Patriotism is a childish ideology. I remember being a proud American. Proud of my father's and uncles who served in WWII. Turns out they fought to swap one kind of fascist with a different fascist.
What Americans do forget always: The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour which brought the Americans into the War. You forget History but I know it is not talked about in schools in the USA
But don't you see that people are completely free to agree with everything Trump does and says, and to love, honour, worship and obey him, Musk, Netanyahu, Starmer, Zelensky, Macron and all of our wise, noble and glorious leaders? In a real democracy, the rabble, like children, are meant to be seen and not heard, and seen only briefly at election time and otherwise never in large, loud numbers. Otherwise, what would become of the world? I mean, their world?
Laura, for some odd reason your writing here minds me of the Nelwyn, from the 1988 movie “Willow”. They were a little folk, foraging and small farming at the edge of a forest, but under the shadow of an evil empire mad for baby-slaughtering. Their indefatigable pluck and courage in the face of relentless, murderous brutality was exemplified by their main character, Willow Ufgood.
You could be related? Blessings upon you, your family and your work
Trump has stacked the courts (including the Extreme Court) with ideologue "judges" who will vote his way almost 100% of the time. [I am glad Roberts stood up to him -- just once -- but that's the same Chief "Justice" who effectively allowed the presidential "immunity" farce, which should never even have been heard, to become the law of the land.]
Trump has also gained absolute control over the ReThuglican Party. No one has the courage or integrity to stand up to him.
More to the point, he has effectively "taken over the government." He vowed that he would be a "dictator on day one" and has never stepped down from that new, extra-constitutional position. The beauty of the US system of "government" is that the imbeciles he is fleecing and abusing keep cheering for him, largely because they enjoy the freedom to hate (i.e., to hate those who favor reproductive choice and rights for minorities; those who use scientific data to reach conclusions about environmental and medical issues; et al.). With cuts to (and possible destruction of) the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, NOAA, medical and scientific funding, and the pathetically small amount of taxes the corporations and the wealthy pay, Trump will begin to reduce the USA to the level of a Third-World nation.
About destroying the department of education, it will be replaced by the department of propaganda. All trump’s accusations are projections, don’t we know?
Nope Mars belongs to Martians, but not be worried, elon trump have already announce the Martians will be deported to Venus. Or was it Uranus? Or many his anus, “Not sure”, but anyway apparently is for their safety and this have nothing to do with colonising which apparently is now for some odd reason is seen as crime against humanity “and aliens”.
American 'democracy', it's a sham. So Emperor Trump doesn't mind being naked in front of the world and revealing, for all to see, what the USA's true nature is; barbarism at home and slaughter abroad. Will this be a wake up call or perhaps a last hurrah?
Love you MUCH but/and the US Dept of Ed was, from fhe get-go when the Rockefellers and Carnegies created it, for the express purpose of suppressing critical-thought ability. Look up their mission statement, from the early 1900's; it's clearly stated. And they've succeeded fabulously, as you know.
That said, I doubt that Trump's masters will allow any real improvement.
Honestly, when I knew that most Americans don't age past their high school is when I connected the dots between the showbiz glitter of their last presidential campaign to the high school american movies I used to watch, specifically the ones about their high school elections for president and prom king and queens.
The similarity between what I used to watch a decade plus ago and what was unfolding right before my eyes last year was so uncanny that I immediately knew it was on purpose and the so-called adults at those rallies where just children in adult bodies who didn't grow past their teen years and were reliving their glory years that will never return
And this my friends, are whom we entrust every 4 years to elect the so called leader of the free world and the most powerful president on earth 👀👀. Someone wake me up from this nightmare please
Yes. Exactly.
Exactly Jenny, really? And you got likes for this comment. Disregard the majority of people as an un-understandable moron underclass much? High regard you have for yourselves on this feed and low understanding of people.
What a nothingburger of a reply. I hope you look at the figures for wages at the bottom sometime and realise that supporting a wealthy elite, warmongering class, is all you are about now.
Exactly.
Yeah selfishly working two jobs for less than it takes to make bills and rent. Why shouldn’t they get some money? Why shouldn’t they get some fucking power for a change. Your empathy is selective, always. You’ve plenty of empathy for a particular group but 0 for people suffering within your own borders.
I don't think you understand how empathy works or the true meaning of the word
Frankly, the beginning of your statement already tells me your values and beliefs are warped and too centralized around money and fame to ever begin to truly understand empathy
I don't think the values of integrity, honesty and doing work for the sake of the works enjoyment and passion alone and not for money mean a twat to you and so you will never truly understand how to be a normal human with normal human priorities rather than the nonsense that capitalism has filled your head with
I hope you come around to understanding what true values are but sadly, I doubt that is possible in your case and those of a huge majority of your country people
You don’t understand people because you don’t bother to listen to them. The wages for average people will go up and the taxes will come down, the very lowest already have with the laws being applied around illegal workers. When you work hard but it’s still not enough a small increase makes a big difference. These happy exited normal people were ecstatic then because he was the only one even trying to be on their side and so far he’s following through.
Do you think Palestine should be on the mind of a hotel maid when she sees that her twat employer is too scared now to use cheap illegal labour and feels confident to push him for a raise, finally? If she’s happy right now and supports Trump is she a stupid person?
Your last paragraph just shows all that is wrong and fucked up about your country in a nutshell
You guys are selfish fuckers who lack empathy and basic human decency and only look out for your pocket and worship money and power, even when those same people are screwing you in all your holes and then some
You guys need a major reconfiguring of your values and thinking patterns or you're fucking doomed forever more
Correct. Not to mention starting wars all over the world/regime changes because you don't like THEIR Govt. Then there is the never-ending greed for oil and precious minerals.
Ha!
There are those who would accuse of him of being a dictator, but clearly he is nothing like Hitler as he sees no need for art or education and recognizes that all architecture and interior design are improved by an excess of gold.
The fact that his placing those he deems unworthy into detention camps happens to resemble the behavior of the historical figure of his admiration is purely coincidental.
Thought you meant migrants. They’re putting tourists in camps? Ok must of missed that. Bombshell.
4 German Tourists
https://www.dw.com/en/german-nationals-us-immigration-detained-interrogation-ice-donald-trump/a-71987211
1 Canadian citizen working in the U.S.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
1 Welsh tourist
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly67j35y99o
And yes, the situation seems to be resolving itself - foreign countries are simply advising their citizens not to travel to the U.S.
Oh, unless you work in the U.S. tourism industry or run a business dependent on tourist traffic. Then you're kinda screwed.
Laws deem em unworthy son. And maybe Trump understands marketing more than you. Remember the names of those discreet, tasteful, soft spoken New York property tycoon’s? Nah me neither.
Laws deem them unworthy?!
When did they outlaw free speech and tourism?!
It seems Keir Starmer has now lost as many marbles as Trump. He's putting together a "coalition of the willing" (talk about not learning the lesson) to send troops to Ukraine after there is a Trump peace deal. He's now said that if Russia harms one UK soldier there will be serious consequences to pay. All you UK folks get ready, the USA and Israel may be invading Iran, but Starmer is going to have you take on Russia.
A former barrister at the European Court of Human Rights, he said it was "acceptable" for israel to withhold power and water from the people of Gaza. If anyone is relying on honesty and common sense from this numpty they're in for a rude awakening.
Starmer, like the rest of the EU, are just puppets of the US deep state ie BlackRock. The plan for continued primacy, using the UK and EU as proxies against Russia to weaken Putin, using Israel as a proxy attacking Iran to weaken China then attacking enemy numero uno, China. Please don't think Starmer is doing anything by himself.
He was made a Sir (Knight). This should tell you a lot about the STILL BRITISH Monarchy.
Everyone is talking as though a) Trump has nothing to do with this and b) that Trump is going to make a peace deal. Wrong and wrong. The UK and EU are following what crusader fan Pete Hegseth said that they should do. Convince the public of scary Putin's untrustworthiness, up their military spending and buy arms from the US (cos they have a nasty trade deficit). Trump is making a lot of noise about bending Putin's ears, but there is no peace deal nor any reset with US-Russian relations. Putin is just humouring Mr. Trump. The proxy war will grind on til the last Ukrainian as was the stated objective to over-extend Russia (which did have consequences in Syria). Or if the UK and EU are stupid enough to put their 'reassurance force' on the ground, the war will grind on until the last European/Britisher. This would fill both tattooed Hegseth and Dyed Orange Trump with extreme happiness.
This is the 'laugh of the century.'
Suddenly THE UK is part of Europe.....NO!
The little "Great Britain" decided to Brexit.
I am in Europe and I have absolutely NO interest in what Mr. "SIR" Starmer has to say BUT apparently EU has decided (for us) that we now have the GEAT BRITISH EMPIRE on our side!
Macron is the 'Idiot.'
MIcron, not MAcron please !!!
England voted for Brexit, Scotland did not. Scotland voted 62% to stay in the EU, and every single constituency voted to remain, Scotland's capital city voted 73% remain. Scotland's democratically elected government wanted to be part of the undemocratic UkEng 'Brexit' 'deal' but were told to F-off and Scotland was dragged out of the EU against the will of the people.
During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the Eng/Brit state pulled out all the stops, and used every trick in the book to convince people that Scotland was a pathetic basket case and, that only staying in their 'family of nations' re their 'UK' (UKOK as the 'better together' scammers called it!) would secure our place in the EU. Many EU nationals living and woking in Scotland voted no to Scottish independence, now most have had to leave our amazing country of Scotland!
The BritEng state are experts at division, lies and propaganda...
but my point is if Scotlalnd is to be considered part of England's Britain or whatever it's called, then it must be made clear that Scotland did not vote to leave the EU! Of course the 'auld alliance' and all that...is important.
Excuse typos...
:-/
If Britain sends troops to fight Russia it wlll probably be a "cock up" like before:
https://www.historyhit.com/british-intervention-in-the-russian-civil-war/
And people like to accuse Americans of not knowing history! Should I remind Sir Keir and his followers of Napoleon and Hitler and their glorious invasions of Russia?
YOU maybe knowledgeable BUT I assure you that the 45% of Americans are dim.
I had a child in school in the USA!
I am being kind here saying 45%
Our prez is nuts.
He should be put into a straight jack and hauled away to a criminally insane hospital.
Refuse Fascism
Oppose Oppression
People
Planet
Peace
Dear comrades
We reap what we sow, and my country, the US, is harvesting nothing but shit right now and for a long time. Patriotism is a childish ideology. I remember being a proud American. Proud of my father's and uncles who served in WWII. Turns out they fought to swap one kind of fascist with a different fascist.
YOU were sold this lie.
What Americans do forget always: The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour which brought the Americans into the War. You forget History but I know it is not talked about in schools in the USA
My quote-of-the-month: "Most history lies unread, while the unread lie about history."
Boycott the USA. Imagine turning up for a wonderful holiday and immigration decide they don't like what is on your phone or laptop!
Yes.
But don't you see that people are completely free to agree with everything Trump does and says, and to love, honour, worship and obey him, Musk, Netanyahu, Starmer, Zelensky, Macron and all of our wise, noble and glorious leaders? In a real democracy, the rabble, like children, are meant to be seen and not heard, and seen only briefly at election time and otherwise never in large, loud numbers. Otherwise, what would become of the world? I mean, their world?
This is a question which nobody ever asks:
Is Trump in control of Elon Musk or is it vice versa?
Just take a look at all the images of Trump with Musk. Who rules?
Is it possible that Elon Musk and Donald the duck will eventually 'fallout?'
2 Narcissitic people.....who wins?
The Devil!
Which one is the 'devil?' Surely it can't be a white male American!
Laura, for some odd reason your writing here minds me of the Nelwyn, from the 1988 movie “Willow”. They were a little folk, foraging and small farming at the edge of a forest, but under the shadow of an evil empire mad for baby-slaughtering. Their indefatigable pluck and courage in the face of relentless, murderous brutality was exemplified by their main character, Willow Ufgood.
You could be related? Blessings upon you, your family and your work
Utterly brilliant Laura
Trump has stacked the courts (including the Extreme Court) with ideologue "judges" who will vote his way almost 100% of the time. [I am glad Roberts stood up to him -- just once -- but that's the same Chief "Justice" who effectively allowed the presidential "immunity" farce, which should never even have been heard, to become the law of the land.]
Trump has also gained absolute control over the ReThuglican Party. No one has the courage or integrity to stand up to him.
More to the point, he has effectively "taken over the government." He vowed that he would be a "dictator on day one" and has never stepped down from that new, extra-constitutional position. The beauty of the US system of "government" is that the imbeciles he is fleecing and abusing keep cheering for him, largely because they enjoy the freedom to hate (i.e., to hate those who favor reproductive choice and rights for minorities; those who use scientific data to reach conclusions about environmental and medical issues; et al.). With cuts to (and possible destruction of) the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, NOAA, medical and scientific funding, and the pathetically small amount of taxes the corporations and the wealthy pay, Trump will begin to reduce the USA to the level of a Third-World nation.
About destroying the department of education, it will be replaced by the department of propaganda. All trump’s accusations are projections, don’t we know?
America, the land where everyone is free “to be a slave”.
A country in which the law is the one which you are not allowed to know, and where the word patriot is more important than freedom..
After all who needs freedom when you have donald musk and his space force?
Anyhow don’t worry about the Illegal aliens, they will be soon sent to mars where they will finally became legal “aliens”.
Is not Mars already owned by Elon (the great) Musk?
Nope Mars belongs to Martians, but not be worried, elon trump have already announce the Martians will be deported to Venus. Or was it Uranus? Or many his anus, “Not sure”, but anyway apparently is for their safety and this have nothing to do with colonising which apparently is now for some odd reason is seen as crime against humanity “and aliens”.
You make it possible for me to loathe Trump and chuckle at the same time. We'll done.
American 'democracy', it's a sham. So Emperor Trump doesn't mind being naked in front of the world and revealing, for all to see, what the USA's true nature is; barbarism at home and slaughter abroad. Will this be a wake up call or perhaps a last hurrah?
Love you MUCH but/and the US Dept of Ed was, from fhe get-go when the Rockefellers and Carnegies created it, for the express purpose of suppressing critical-thought ability. Look up their mission statement, from the early 1900's; it's clearly stated. And they've succeeded fabulously, as you know.
That said, I doubt that Trump's masters will allow any real improvement.
That’s true, but it has changed. For some states, the federal DOE is the only enforcement of civil rights the students have.
Trumpy see Trumpy do
God Bless the Devil IsRael States of America!