There you go again Marty - pretending that Democrats work for the common good. Trump is in office because Democrats promote the interests of the rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us. Just like Republicans do. Both sides give us perpetual war for profit. The Biden Administration destroyed women's rights by reversing Title IX. They also broke the border, bringing in millions of undocumented aliens to take jobs from working Americans, especially black and brown people in blue collar fields.
Sure, Trump is a greedy, ignorant man. But Biden was probably senile for years. So who is actually in charge behind both the parties in our duopoly?
Democrats don't need “a new “Chicken in Every Pot” message.” They need to stop lying to us. Democrats should say, “We were wrong. Sex doesn't actually include gender identity. If men can claim a woman status and get female sex-based rights, then women no longer have female rights under the law.” That would earn back our vote. Not another phony messaging ploy where they pretend to support us again. Heck, Oregon is still claiming to support women's rights while putting male convicted rapists in female prisons. Guess what they're doing there. Yep, raping more women.
Instead, the Oregon Attorney General is suing for the right to transition more gender nonconforming kids, mostly youth who would become lesbians or gay. Our state literally commits conversion therapy on homosexual youth, tricking them into sterilizing themselves.
When Harris & Biden said the economy was doing great, you looked at your 401K and said, Yep, I'm getting richer off money I don't have to work for. Meanwhile, the rest of us were paying twice as much rent. Democrats give lip service but their policies actively hurt us. That's why 20 million Democrats refused to vote for Democrats last fall.
Let's just look at the people you list who could run for president in 2028.
Tim Walz – established a sanctuary state so a parent from another state who wants to secretly transition their child can hide from the kid's other parent. Nice.
Pete Buttigieg – supports male rights above female, as long as that male claims to be transgender, nonbinary or a woman
Gavin Newsom - same as the above, including hiding children from their parents and using public money to secretly transition kids. He also prevents teachers from telling parents the school is transitioning their child with California's law requiring teachers to lie to parents.
JB Pritzker – makes money off transitioning of children who can't possibly understand the ramifications of decision like cutting off your breasts, taking opposite sex hormones or surgically altering your genitals. What a nice guy, taking advantage of kids that way.
Gretchen Whitmer, Rahm Emanual & Jared Polic – more Dem politicians willing to sacrifice the health of children to remain in power. Go Democrats!
C'mon Marty. Be the one Democrat who helps our Party stop abusing children. Take a stand.
WOW! You had a couple of salient issues but took off into BULLSHITLAND and I wonder if you are a PEDOPHILE YOURSELF? All your issues dovetail back to that issue without making any suggestions for any solutions for all your straw man arguments! However,you sure won't get ANY SOLUTIONS FROM BANANA republiCONS!
That's a bizarre take, that a woman who stands up for women and children's rights is somehow secretly a pedophile. I don't make strawman arguments. I caught a man jerking off in front of kids in the local YMCA female shower. Women can't even report men in our spaces because the Y will revoke our membership. Why don't you quit complaining and go fix that problem.
You want to hear my solution? Keep men out of women's spaces. This isn't complicated. We protect our own and other people's children just fine. As long as the government doesn't force us to accept men and male transgenders in female spaces.
Here is an organization that is standing up for biological women and working on solutions. (This particular page shares a story of a woman who was abused in prison.) https://womensliberationfront.org/womens-prisons
You may also want to check out the Cass report, commissioned by the NHS (England) to improve gender identity services.
Each one of us has a story. Is my story not as important as yours? Is your story not as important as mine? Our current political system does not allow for any nuances. It stirs up self- righteousness...on both "sides"... and then robs us all...
Good Morning. Do you know if the people opposed to the Fire Fee were able to get enough signatures to put it on the ballot (which then creates a mess for budgets thus year)? I haven't seen any follow up for this.
Yes, it'll be on the November ballot. I support the fire fee. Restrictions on revenue raising by the state on local governments don't leave a lot of options for revenue generation. I served on a revenue subcommittee of City Budget some time ago where we explored the options. This is as good as any of the others. The timing is awkward in that it would be better if it were on the May ballot in terms of the budget timeline, but that's the way these things go sometimes.
Bummer, my understanding was, that by putting on the ballot, instead of actually implementing it as it was, is going to severe restrict funding for animal control, Cahoots, the Library and several other services we depend on. Sad.
I may have misunderstood your meaning. I believe that there will be a short funding gap. It’s not the end of the world, but it definitely hurts. If it had been on the May ballot, I believe that it could have been implemented more quickly (assuming voters support the fee). However, I’m not ad plugged in as I used to be so I can’t vouch for the timing.
So, the library, and other organizations have to produce their budgets BEFORE the ballot measure will be considered and will be facing a pretty big shortfall. They had counted on the fire fee going into effect on the passing of it by the city council and then in turn, that would have freed up some funds to go to animal control, the library and Cahoots. Now they have to produce a budget without those finds and my understanding is, the library will be looking at shorter house (possibly closing at least 1if not 2 days a week) animal control will be barely functional and Cahoots will be heavily impacted. It's not an inconvenience, it was a deliberate act to cut funding to organizations that people pretend we don't need. The Chamber of Commerce was behind this and I have no idea why.
Remember, when governments produce budget shortfall estimates, what they've done is take this years expenditures, add new programs they want us to pay for and convince people to vote to increase taxes to cover the "shortfall" caused by the additional programs.
There you go again Marty - pretending that Democrats work for the common good. Trump is in office because Democrats promote the interests of the rich and powerful at the expense of the rest of us. Just like Republicans do. Both sides give us perpetual war for profit. The Biden Administration destroyed women's rights by reversing Title IX. They also broke the border, bringing in millions of undocumented aliens to take jobs from working Americans, especially black and brown people in blue collar fields.
Sure, Trump is a greedy, ignorant man. But Biden was probably senile for years. So who is actually in charge behind both the parties in our duopoly?
Democrats don't need “a new “Chicken in Every Pot” message.” They need to stop lying to us. Democrats should say, “We were wrong. Sex doesn't actually include gender identity. If men can claim a woman status and get female sex-based rights, then women no longer have female rights under the law.” That would earn back our vote. Not another phony messaging ploy where they pretend to support us again. Heck, Oregon is still claiming to support women's rights while putting male convicted rapists in female prisons. Guess what they're doing there. Yep, raping more women.
Instead, the Oregon Attorney General is suing for the right to transition more gender nonconforming kids, mostly youth who would become lesbians or gay. Our state literally commits conversion therapy on homosexual youth, tricking them into sterilizing themselves.
When Harris & Biden said the economy was doing great, you looked at your 401K and said, Yep, I'm getting richer off money I don't have to work for. Meanwhile, the rest of us were paying twice as much rent. Democrats give lip service but their policies actively hurt us. That's why 20 million Democrats refused to vote for Democrats last fall.
Let's just look at the people you list who could run for president in 2028.
Tim Walz – established a sanctuary state so a parent from another state who wants to secretly transition their child can hide from the kid's other parent. Nice.
Pete Buttigieg – supports male rights above female, as long as that male claims to be transgender, nonbinary or a woman
Gavin Newsom - same as the above, including hiding children from their parents and using public money to secretly transition kids. He also prevents teachers from telling parents the school is transitioning their child with California's law requiring teachers to lie to parents.
JB Pritzker – makes money off transitioning of children who can't possibly understand the ramifications of decision like cutting off your breasts, taking opposite sex hormones or surgically altering your genitals. What a nice guy, taking advantage of kids that way.
Gretchen Whitmer, Rahm Emanual & Jared Polic – more Dem politicians willing to sacrifice the health of children to remain in power. Go Democrats!
C'mon Marty. Be the one Democrat who helps our Party stop abusing children. Take a stand.
WOW! You had a couple of salient issues but took off into BULLSHITLAND and I wonder if you are a PEDOPHILE YOURSELF? All your issues dovetail back to that issue without making any suggestions for any solutions for all your straw man arguments! However,you sure won't get ANY SOLUTIONS FROM BANANA republiCONS!
That's a bizarre take, that a woman who stands up for women and children's rights is somehow secretly a pedophile. I don't make strawman arguments. I caught a man jerking off in front of kids in the local YMCA female shower. Women can't even report men in our spaces because the Y will revoke our membership. Why don't you quit complaining and go fix that problem.
You want to hear my solution? Keep men out of women's spaces. This isn't complicated. We protect our own and other people's children just fine. As long as the government doesn't force us to accept men and male transgenders in female spaces.
Here is an organization that is standing up for biological women and working on solutions. (This particular page shares a story of a woman who was abused in prison.) https://womensliberationfront.org/womens-prisons
You may also want to check out the Cass report, commissioned by the NHS (England) to improve gender identity services.
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250310143933/https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/
Each one of us has a story. Is my story not as important as yours? Is your story not as important as mine? Our current political system does not allow for any nuances. It stirs up self- righteousness...on both "sides"... and then robs us all...
Good Morning. Do you know if the people opposed to the Fire Fee were able to get enough signatures to put it on the ballot (which then creates a mess for budgets thus year)? I haven't seen any follow up for this.
Thanks
Yes, it'll be on the November ballot. I support the fire fee. Restrictions on revenue raising by the state on local governments don't leave a lot of options for revenue generation. I served on a revenue subcommittee of City Budget some time ago where we explored the options. This is as good as any of the others. The timing is awkward in that it would be better if it were on the May ballot in terms of the budget timeline, but that's the way these things go sometimes.
Bummer, my understanding was, that by putting on the ballot, instead of actually implementing it as it was, is going to severe restrict funding for animal control, Cahoots, the Library and several other services we depend on. Sad.
I may have misunderstood your meaning. I believe that there will be a short funding gap. It’s not the end of the world, but it definitely hurts. If it had been on the May ballot, I believe that it could have been implemented more quickly (assuming voters support the fee). However, I’m not ad plugged in as I used to be so I can’t vouch for the timing.
So, the library, and other organizations have to produce their budgets BEFORE the ballot measure will be considered and will be facing a pretty big shortfall. They had counted on the fire fee going into effect on the passing of it by the city council and then in turn, that would have freed up some funds to go to animal control, the library and Cahoots. Now they have to produce a budget without those finds and my understanding is, the library will be looking at shorter house (possibly closing at least 1if not 2 days a week) animal control will be barely functional and Cahoots will be heavily impacted. It's not an inconvenience, it was a deliberate act to cut funding to organizations that people pretend we don't need. The Chamber of Commerce was behind this and I have no idea why.
Remember, when governments produce budget shortfall estimates, what they've done is take this years expenditures, add new programs they want us to pay for and convince people to vote to increase taxes to cover the "shortfall" caused by the additional programs.
I’m here for coffee! Where is everyone 😀.
Keep up your writing- i appreciate you.
Sorry, I must have just missed you! Next time.