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The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 âpotentialâ noncitizens on the stateâs voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 âpotentialâ noncitizens on the stateâs voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
For instance - Passports.gov is registered to the White House, not the State Department, and returns a sign-in page with no agency seal or privacy notice.
Well, there will always be conservative Republicans, and some good ideas that go with them. And the push-pull with other parties is a good thing.
Itâs just the hyper-faux-religious, racist, felonious, greedy, stupid, hypocritical ones that need to go. Theyâll always exist, sure, but they donât have any place running the city/state/nation.
Let them keep to themselves while we try to improve education, infrastructure, health care, international relations and safety, food security, the environment, and our economy.
Because right now, theyâre screwing all that stuff up in the name of greed and racism and hypocrisy, coincidentally now the current official GOP platform.
I'm not disagreeing, but I think you're placing too much control and direction within the GOP. They are doing what the voters are telling them.
Look at Kurt. Instead of demanding anything from the POTUS on down, he defends what he thinks he can get away with, and just hides from reality on everything else. Even something basic like the National Debt no longer gets a second look from the GOP while Trump is driving us off the cliff. No engagement on facts, just piles of crap about Biden, Obama, and Harris.
To SFW's point, the opportunity is in voters looking around and deciding enough is enough. Congress needs to work for us, not the party and not the President. I've never thought an independent could win, but I'm not sure that Joe Manchin (or someone like him) can't thread that needle right now. The more the party's primary out rational people, the more likely that a rational person can win an election.
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Aug 19, 2026 - 6:05am
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Our national embarrassments will continue but on a state and county and local level, it's been a bloodbath for the Freedom Caucus here. Hooray, we elected a bunch of conservative Republicans! Who aren't batshit crazy but they're still conservative Republicans! It's funny what passes for good news around here.
Well, there will always be conservative Republicans, and some good ideas that go with them. And the push-pull with other parties is a good thing.
Itâs just the hyper-faux-religious, racist, felonious, greedy, stupid, hypocritical ones that need to go. Theyâll always exist, sure, but they donât have any place running the city/state/nation.
Let them keep to themselves while we try to improve education, infrastructure, health care, international relations and safety, food security, the environment, and our economy.
Because right now, theyâre screwing all that stuff up in the name of greed and racism and hypocrisy, coincidentally now the current official GOP platform.
sez the one who missed Biden's state of non compos mentos and attacked those who did see it and say something about it as unqualified to make such an observation, repeatedly cited and defended the SPLC as the Gospel According To Racism, and still blindly defends Fauci.
Our national embarrassments will continue but on a state and county and local level, it's been a bloodbath for the Freedom Caucus here. Hooray, we elected a bunch of conservative Republicans! Who aren't batshit crazy but they're still conservative Republicans! It's funny what passes for good news around here.
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Aug 17, 2026 - 8:24am
rgio wrote:
Barbados is a hotbed for MDs.
Given the US med school acceptance rate of 3%-4%... it's where the B students go (noting that B now approximates a C or C- for anyone over 50).
To be fair, I hired a trio of folks from foreign med schools and they were my best players. As someone who graduated from LSU (went in dumb, come out dumb too) college and med school, sometimes itâs possible to rise above the setting. Examples: Lake Charles high school graduate Tony Kushner, and my college roommate that Iâve mentioned before who became a planetary scientist and discovered the furthest known object in the solar system.
So, labeling someone as incapable because theyâre a FMG (foreign medical graduate) is a prejudice that can let you miss some very competent folks.
