It's so damned obvious that the politicians into into self service and not public service. We have looked into their lying faces for so long we've been brainwashed into thinking it's the truth. Guess again, they are lying. Look carefully.

Tie a democrat and a republican together with a rope by the ankles and toss them over a branch hanging upside down. Let them duke it out.

Did you say you were disappearing to the Gulch in December?

Similarly, a lot of if-then thinking is brought out in a decent geometry course as well, which is what gave me the initial training to be a good programmer.

That is exactly what bothers me! Is the GOP any different from the DNC? What we need most is lots of rope and strong oak trees.

I go along with much of what you say here, Thor, but Supreme Court precedent overturning precedent has already taken place. Do a search on “have Supreme Court rulings been overturned” and a bunch of interesting stuff pops up.

Clarence Thomas a vindictive ding-dong?

Best way to describe the uniparty I’ve ever seen, lol!

If, there is no way to financially support myself and my family in my selected choice of study in university
Then that area of study is not worth time or debt.

Me dino didn't know that. Popped you up a point. Still want him gone, though.

Dems and pubs are 2 cheeks on the sameass. No more discussion needed.

With you there. Programming ought to be like math or English at this point.

Although FORTRAN is almost totally dead. Too bad Pascal died out. That was a great learning language, and the way I taught myself how pointers work. Then I became a C zealot. What a crisp, clear, efficient, comprehensive language! The Kerninghan and Ritchie First edition is fantastic. It is all in there, in ~80 pages. Recursion in the index is the best! It is on p77, and refers you to p77! Basic allows so much laziness. So does Python another common lazy interpreted language.

Kids today don't seem to be learning rational thought or logic. I think it would be a good exercise for teens to learn a simple programming language, such as BASIC or FORTRAN. If-Then statements are very instructional.

The expansion into life decisions needs to follow: "IF I decide to 'blow off' work today ... THEN I might get fired". It would save a lot of them some nasty surprises from the real world.

Republicans (or Libertarians) need a compelling story. They have no message that can be absorbed by institutionalized young people.

The SCOTUS overturn of Roe-v-Wade, was no exception. It painted the entire party as religious zealots, regardless of the actual ruling details. In addition, it sets a precedent for overturning a precedent. I never expected to see that. Now wait for Heller-v-DC to get wrapped in barbed wire and shoved up our butts in a future court, when that vindictive ding-dong Clarence Thomas retires.

Some group needs to be working on absorb able messages for the wave of Boomer children coming. They are completely fiscally backward:
1. They think money from Capitalism is a zero sum game, discarding wealth creation.
2. They think money from government is infinite, with no piper to pay.
3. They look to government for answers, ignoring the wanton waste in government and the infinitely granular democracy in a free market.
They are brain washed, and it is going to take a MASSIVE effort to unwind.

I came her to learn more messages, but we whine a lot more than we do. I'd love us to add a section for content development of clear, compelling messages, and perhaps a test system to survey young people. This ought to be like GNU coding, although the benefit to us all is clear.

The only sensible alternative is some form of real gulch, and I don't mean in Texas, or to resign ourselves, sitting and throwing rocks at kids on our lawn.

agreed

we need to vote GOP for this Nov
and then FIX the damn GOP or replace it

For the most part, I agree. However, he did leave us one legacy: Merrick Garland is NOT a sitting member of SCOTUS. He's shown his true colors as AG; if he had become one of the nine...God help us all.

Actually I would think it only takes one good businessman to stop it. It has to be one that perhaps operates out of the normal, acceptable, maybe even legal, aspects of our rules, Constitution, our Bill of Rights, or even public acceptance. If only we could find another Trump, one in disguise, or a fake democrat that does the opposite of what he campaigned on.

If democrats really liked the country they might continue their story, but in the voting booth actually vote for another Trump, someone that just gets the job done. I mean, everything aside, what's right is right. I guess that's what makes it so difficult for me to understand the real other side. Do they really want to destroy this country? Of course they do, there is no other explanation other than a possible or more likely a probable pure and simple stupidity. Can someone help me explain this to one of my sons, before it breaks my heart?

Me dino has Ditch Mitch zero respect for RINO Senate Minority "leader" Turtle McConnell for too often hiding in his shell.
https://comicsandmemes.com/mitch-mcco...
Wish he'd crawl home to his Chine$e wife and stay there.

Too many on both sides of the aisle are profiting from ruining the country.
There aren't enough honest public servants in Washington to stop it.

Move along with eyes wide open! The democrats hate Trump almost as much as the republicans.
I can't vote for any dems but I can't feel good about voting for the Rs.

Nero.

Sadly, I don't expect much. Equally sad, I've done all I can (commentary, radio, books, active parenting) and consider it time (decades) wasted. I don't intend to help. I see very little value in this generation, and perhaps the last. They do not value wisdom. They can only appreciate the sobering sting of first hand experience. Let them sleep in the moldy, blood soaked, lice ridden bed they made for THEMSELVES and their posterity. Fortunately, my time on this earth is short.

Shrug in plain sight.

Repubs do have a plan but the Rino's out number the real problem solvers. But, case in point, the majority of repubs have forgotten, all such problems to be solved are to be left up to the states.

Your headline gives us a perfect picture of all this "fiddling"!

agree 1,000,000%

somehow Ukraine is more important than the United States to those in government(!!??)

the green energy crap, all designed to giver power to politicians and make money for them and their cabal

it could be a long list

all of it means more power for the traitors in our government or they would not be selling all of us out


clearly those running our government hate their children, grand-children traitors in our government