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But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas ...

Does this DUmmie really believe that corporations "shipped jobs overseas" for giggles and grins rather than to survive foreign competition? Does this DUmmie really believe that their beloved iPhone, Mac, HP, or Dell would still be affordable were they still built in Appletino, Fremont, Santa Clara, or Round Rock?

There they go again, wondering "Why do MAGA supporters think the way they do?", and hoping to find the answer among people who don't associate with the MAGA movement.

MAGA isn't a political movement built on policy. It's built on resentment. The core message has always been "you've been wronged" — by elites, by immigrants, by cities, by universities, by the media, by women, by minorities, by anyone who isn't you.

This isn't a coalition that comes together to BUILD something. It comes together to tear things down. Hate isn't a byproduct of the movement. It's the fuel.

Completely wrong. MAGA policies include restoring infrastructure, bringing jobs back, border security, energy independence, strengthening the military... MAGA's message is one of optimism.

Here's the thing: a lot of the underlying pain is real. Deindustrialization gutted their towns. Opioids killed their families. Wages stagnated while costs exploded. The American Dream stopped working for them.

But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas, or the billionaires that rigged the economy, or the politicians that deregulated everything — they're taught to blame immigrants. To blame welfare recipients. To blame Black people in cities. To blame trans kids.

The bolded is exactly where we put the blame (along with officials who were never elected but nevertheless make policy, known as the "deep-state"). We are pushing back against those who want to pretend the problems facing this country don't exist, or aren't important, those who would say everything was just fine under prior administrations.

Community built on enemies

This is the part people miss: MAGA is a community. For a lot of these people — especially older, rural, isolated Americans — it's their entire social world. Their friends are MAGA. Their family is MAGA. Their church is MAGA.

The hate is the membership card. The shared enemies are what bind them together. Leaving the movement doesn't just mean changing your politics. It means losing everyone you know.

Completely wrong. We are bound by the desire to see our country succeed again.

Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter

https://www.thecentersquare.com/vermont/article_89adc3fd-7efd-403f-85d1-9b9b386705f0.html

(The Center Square) – Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont's Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can't be charged in a garage.

Spokesman for energy workers advocacy group Power the Future Larry Behrens told the Center Square: “Taxpayers were sold an $8 million ‘solution’ that can’t operate in cold weather when the home for these buses is in New England.”

“We’re beyond the point where this looks like incompetence and starts to smell like fraud,” Behrens said.

“When government rushes money out the door to satisfy green mandates, basic questions about performance, safety, and value for taxpayers are always pushed aside,” Behrens said. “Americans deserve to know who approved this purchase and why the red flags were ignored.”

It takes a special kind of moronicrat to think a battery-powered vehicle would be great for a cold-weather state! Cold weather adversely affects battery chemical reactions, affecting charging and range per charge.

‘We’re Not Criminalizing the Unhoused’: How a Homeless Encampment and Drug Dealers Are Destroying a Local Condominium Complex and Turning Its Residents’ Lives Upside Down

https://freebeacon.com/america/were-not-criminalizing-the-unhoused-how-a-homeless-encampment-and-drug-dealers-are-destroying-a-local-condominium-complex-and-turning-its-residents-lives-upside-do/

HYATTSVILLE, Md.—The sign outside the Marylander Condominiums, a 200-unit complex in Prince George’s County, Md., describes it as a "private community."

But for members of a homeless encampment in the condo’s backyard, the complex also serves as a crackhouse, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open-air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized crime and caused millions in property damage.

Transients break into buildings and smoke crack in the stairwells. Tenants traversing the property must navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half-naked in the hallways and sprawl themselves like welcome mats outside residents’ doors.

Half of the complex has gone without heat since Thanksgiving after vagrants allegedly vandalized the boiler room, causing pipes to burst in several buildings. Some units have lost electricity, too, due to the overuse of space heaters. Though the county instructed those without heat to "vacate immediately" in December, most have defied the order and tried to weather the cold. They say they have nowhere else to go.
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Billed as a "listening session" for condo-owners to air their grievances, the town hall featured a lengthy presentation on how the county was handling its "unhoused" residents.

"We have to be compassionate," the county’s deputy chief administrative officer for public safety and homeland security, Melvin Powell, said of the encampment, addressing the hundreds of residents who could soon be displaced because of it.

"We’re not criminalizing the unhoused," police major Thomas Boone added.

The situation shocked officials at Quasar Real Estate, a local investment firm, when it began managing the Marylander in April 2025. For months, they pleaded with police and county officials to address the open-air drug market that had effectively colonized the condo, which suffered so many break-ins that the company stopped repairing the locks.

But the county—which has the highest Democratic vote-share of any county in the United States, at 86 percent—didn’t clear the camp. Instead, it threatened to sue the condo, which was already tight on cash, for its failure to fix the nearly $5 million in property damage that has been caused by the drug den on its doorstep.

Something like 15 years ago, the City of San Jose tried the then newest proposed solution to homelessness. They set up several "tiny homes" in a corner of Columbus Park. They were right near where SR87 freeway crossed over I880 freeway, and were visible during my AM commute on I880. Very unsurprisingly, the Sacred Homeless swiftly trashed the site. The picture of the area on GoogMaps shows the trash, which included some blue tarps. About a year ago, in part courtesy of the Grants Pass USSC ruling, San Jose finally cleaned out that corner of Columbus Park.

Blame whatever combination of drugs, mental illness, hobo choices, and criminals, a lack of homes is not the problem. The problem is people who are unable or unwilling to live like the rest of society. Subsidizing and enabling the Sacred Homeless is NOT compassion, to the homeless or those they live near/among.

     The only people in the streets are middle aged cat women and 25-year old trannies. DUmmies are all 65 plus and dependent on Social Security. I am not concerned.