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MargaretPacL's avatar

Mabel is a cutie. She looks very loved!

Thank you for the reminders of what America means to the people. We, the American people, will never break our friendship with Canada.

Kandace Korth's avatar

Thanks for the lovely photo of Mabel.

Lisa Farlin's avatar

Good Morning Sweet Mabel! Thanks for giving me a smile. I very much needed that today. ❤️

Linda Barnett's avatar

MY HUSBAND & I ARE SO DAMNED DISGUSTED. HARD TO FIND THE RIGHT WORDS.

Oh, the sheer audacity of POTUS 47’s (HOPE???) — that one day his face could be on Mount Rushmore !!!

ZERO sense of humility = ZERO personal honor.

NEVER so proud as to have NEVER 👎 voted 🗳️ for such an UNBELIEVABLE example of a “Stupid” Jack Ass - if ever there was such a creature???😵‍💫

Melanie's avatar

I’m not going to add anything except: Well said and thank you!

Linda Barnett's avatar

Thank you for voicing your support. It is always good to hear from others who share the same corner of the room, eh???

Ann Kaplan's avatar

Steve,

Mabel looks sweet. Can you find out if the following is true? I saw on FaceBook that Trump wants to build a golf course where the cherry trees now are thus uprooting all those beautiful trees Japan gifted us. Sounds in keeping with his destruction of so much of our history but FB isn't a reliable messenger. It breaks my heart that he uprooted Jackie Kennedy's beautiful roses and paved over the Rose Garden. He needs to be reminded that he is not the owner of the WH, just a temporary tenant. He needs to be stopped before he destroys more of our history.

Punkette's avatar

Hi, Ann. I heard that too about the cherry trees and did a little digging. Check out this article:

Fact Check: Is Trump administration cutting down DC's oldest cherry tree for a golf course?

The claim emerged after Donald Trump announced that he plans to begin work on the East Potomac Golf Links in September

https://news.meaww.com/fact-check-is-trump-administration-cutting-down-d-cs-oldest-cherry-tree-for-a-golf-course

Melanie's avatar

Thank you! But we need to keep an eye on this!

Punkette's avatar

Definitely. I don’t believe a word he says. Dump doesn’t give a damn about Washington’s iconic cherry trees.

Wendy Shelley's avatar

Hugs and treats for Mabel, the sweetest puppy ever!

Mark's avatar

Steve Schmidt is a keeper!

A.Gnosticthefirst's avatar

She's a lovely dog with warm eyes.

RICHMOND DOCTOR's avatar

Yesterday was the organized mind-altering drug presented by the aristocracy.

The aristocrats want you to maintain the current social system that allows them to abuse the general population and promote their profit-making interests. They want you to believe in the beauty of our country's history, which holds that for 250 years, we have been a successful experiment in democracy. They do not want you to look at our country's history as it was, but rather as they present it to you in the form they want. An uneducated citizen allows them to continue promoting their two-tier society, where the wealthy deserve their wealth and the public benefits from their success. Consider what their primary fear is when they hear the term "revolt".

Yesterday was the day of an organized presentation of their illusionary America. Our famous forefathers gathered and agreed on our Constitution, and we, as a country, prospered. As a result of this agreement, we grew, and we were all happy and proud of what we had done. This is not our history. We enjoyed the Kool-Aid; we allowed them to take advantage of us. They, on every cable and TV station, present their make-believe America.

Yesterday was an outright lie. We sit in the cave and watch the shadows. We think and believe that what is presented is accurate and true when it is not. Our knowledge of American history comes from our movie world, not our history books. They want to keep us in the cave, and yesterday was all garbage, sheer illusions presented by the controlling billionaires and their millionaire cohorts. Yes, we had tall ships, and we fought and won the war against Hitler. What about the rest of our history and our millions of slaves, whom the southern aristocrats killed, and our destroying the native population, and most importantly, what about the fact of our naturally embedded resources that promoted our growth, and it was not the form of government that promoted our growth?

Think about it: European nations had taken control of all usable space in Europe; there was no room to expand, and suddenly a vast country was discovered with enormous space and excellent resources, available to any country for the taking—vast resources, fertile land, rivers, and forests, and a similar temperature to Europe. America was the vast land of promise. There was no limit to America's potential; it had land not owned by any foreign country, so a rush to own this vast expanse began. Every European country recognized our resources, and our natural resources promoted our growth. Democracy is not what makes one successful; we were bound to be successful by our natural resources, and our democracy had nothing to do with it!

Our form of government, created by these famous founding fathers, was haunted by slavery and differences in spiritual beliefs that have existed up to the present. We had a group of southern states that wanted to secede, and they were correct in their belief. Lincoln was wrong in his decision to stop the secession, which cost our country six hundred thousand casualties and left the country still divided. Europe resolved its differences by forming individual countries, and we should have been at least two countries, the north and the south.

Democracy is the principle of government in which power is vested in the people, and our country has never really had that. The powerful aristocrats always controlled us, first in the form of slave owners, then by billionaire businessmen, and now by the billionaires and entrepreneurs. Our vote was influenced and controlled by these billionaires' money.

The myth of success has permeated our national belief system. We have become addicted to a two-tier society, allowing a massive accumulation of wealth to reside in the upper class. We almost enjoy the sense of royalty that exists in our society, and maybe having an upper class satisfies a need for a group leader; they are our royalty, and, like many societies, we also need our king, our pope, our royal family—considering that the entire history of our race has always been dominated by a few over the vast majority.

This past Saturday also paid homage to our royal couple, who were married at Madison Square Garden and, among them, have amassed a billion dollars in wealth and shared none of it, and who must have spent millions to get married in the garden, and we are OK with that. I am not aware of any hospital or school they funded; only self-indulgence is accepted and not questioned. What the aristocrats want is for us to remain in the cave of ignorance, without questioning, and for them to become the authoritarian rulers of our country and our lives. I, for one, am waiting for our revolt.

Marilyn's avatar

Although my pessimism tends to agree with you on many things, i haven’t given up hope on some of my fellow citizens and shared joyful celebrations. Love is something to celebrate in a hateful world. As for the royal couple, you do no one any favors via hateful lies. Simply google a search on them to find out how much they have given and who they are as people.

Corlis Robe's avatar

Love the Mabel picture!

Lynda Galella's avatar

What about the Women’ souls?

Protect the Vote's avatar

Nazi Republicans Spitting On The Constitution: White Power Politics

July 4th on the 250th anniversary marked the continued racist division. This time however instead of a physical Civil War, it’s a battle in the collective mind of the nation about who belongs and who doesn’t. Now it’s the CNPP(Christian Nationalist Ped Party) who says that not all men are created equal and that the country needs to go back to pre Civil war years where slavery was ok.

Our country is based on the rule of law. WE the People demand that our government uphold the rule of law and the foundational principle that all men are created equal. Executive orders to get rid of DEI and to abolish integration by government contractors done in the first weeks of the Nazi Republican occupation tell the story of a developing Confederacy and the eugenics philosophy that there are humans that are superior and deserve power.

Nazi Republican Congressional legislators turn a blind eye to this racist lawless conduct by a traitorous hateful racist misogynistic president supported by the partisan black robbed hacks that are called jurists on the Supreme Court. Regardless no one should give these Nazi Republicans any leeway because they are ALL complicit in the lawlessness and racist behavior. They took oaths to the Constitution but they’re spitting on that oath.

WE the People’s DNA demand WE fight tyrants. The Declaration of Independence was actually an indictment of a tyrant, at the time King George III. Now the tyrants of today, like those in WWII, are the Nazi Republicans. WE lose every fight WE don’t fight. So get angry and get ready to fight for all men are equal.

jacqueline's avatar

Thank you Steve, for sharing Mabel's oodles of cuteness with us! And, I'll say Ditto! to MargaretPacL's comments. Enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend, to everyone!

Jo Burns's avatar

Hi, Mabel! What a cutie!

❤️🤍💙🐾🐾💙🤍❤️

Melanie's avatar

Precious Mabel! Thanks for listing these! Are the previous episodes (1-12) available?