US 2026 Midterm Elections Thread

[Meengla]

77M votes. 81M votes. Does it really matter?

What matters is actual results and both parties fail in that accord.

@Meengla, as you know I am in the middle of the last group of Boomers. Growing up in the 60s, I saw all of the programs that were implemented to address homelessness and hunger. Yet, as I can see 70 from my front door, we still have homelessness and hunger in this country. Why?

Countless billions wasted likely trillions now. For what?

Yet, we can waste money on NGO programs studying transgender frog screwing programs in Zaire and other related nonsense. How does that serve the people?

It is too late in the day for me to respond. Please start another thread with your questions and tag me.

 

[Davey Crockett]

@AZ_HighCountry
@Meengla

[The following story about the famed American icon Davy Crockett was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, a pseudonym used by Edward S. Ellis. The events that are recounted here are true, including Crockett’s opposition to the bill in question, though the precise rendering and some of the detail are fictional.]

Not Yours to Give​

Not Yours to Give - FEE

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several

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[Meengla]

[The following story about the famed American icon Davy Crockett was published in Harper’s Magazine in 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, a pseudonym used by Edward S. Ellis

As I said some years ago in this forum: I did have a David Crockett in my friends circle and he related to the Frontier man. The local David Crockett/wife came to our Halloween Parties and wife and I went to their 4th of July poolside parties. But the Pandemic changed all that. Me and Wife didn't change much because we refused to be in some shell even in 2020 while the rest in my circle, including 'the Crockets', went into an unncecessary prolonged 'quaranteen'. They and everyone else in my circle and in my little community permanantly changed. I have drawn an unmistakable conclusion that people who over protected themselves during the Pandemic are changed permamenntly.

(Pardon typos: Late night)