I took apart an uncomfortable "my pillow" once when I threw it out and the "patented filling" was torn up foam. Someone left the new boxed pillows out for free. No wonder they were free.
I also don't buy company logo clothes which are usually ugly large logos and clothes.

I always wondered why consumers are willing to pay EXTRA for company advertisements emblazoned on their chests, hats, hoodies. I get the little Levi's tag or the swish on the side of your sneaker. Most normal people don't look there to see what brand a person is wearing.

But shirts, hoodies, hats that have the company logo big enough that the casual observer can't possibly miss it - why aren't those people being paid to advertise those companies? Why are you all paying for it?

Same thing with buying cars from dealerships. They should be paying me to have their sticker on the back of my car.

Ironically, he has almost all immigrants working in his factory. Such a phony.

Who is he? And what is wrong with providing jobs to immigrants? My grandparents got started here like that

Care to back that up? I'll wait...

The Villages golf apparel makes me golf better than Adidas’s

Woah, WSJ not fair? I found them very fair, just too conservative for my taste. I have no problem quoting them as a reliable source.

The super-rich Canadians come here for surgery because they think so highly of themselves that they NEED people to JUMP quickly to serve them (like their personal medical slaves). They know that their money ($) will JUMP them to the front of the line in the US.
........It IS nothing more than that !

So you're fond of our neighbors to the north. Any other countries you would like to bash at this time??????

For example, when I watch a particular TV channel at 8 PM ........I get 10 minutes of his opinion piece. If I pay close attention, if find that he "fast-talks" quickly through some false statements (lies) while sprinkling in some real facts (truth).
.......If you pay attention, then the combination of 80% truth and 20% lies - is setting up a "big Picture" theme that is designed to plant the idea that the TV network (owned by some jerk British guy) wants the viewer to internalize. Thus, it is simply PROPAGANDA ! And it is designed to SLOWLY seep into the minds of the audience.
.........This TV channel is very successful at what it does. I am sure that their purpose is to WEAKEN the strong will of the Ameican people. What I and many other experts do NOT know is WHY they would WANT to DO such a terrible and unpatriotic thing...............best guess.....maybe it is for POWER that they MIGHT get if they succeeded at their US anarchy ??????????

I agree about car dealer stickers or around the license plate. I get rid of them. They don't pay me for advertising for them!

When your grandfather came to the US, the population was probably less than 200 million people. The US had the room and infrastructure to support them......THEN. Today our highways and bridges are falling apart and houses cost over $400,000.........that is due to OVERPOPULATION. So, today people are outraged at ILLEGALS entering the southern border. And many think that we need to turn down the faucet on EVEN legal immigration.
.....Hope that answers your question.

Not bashing the wonderful people of Canada and the very interesting ones in TV Land here. Just bashing the TOP 1/2 of 1 percenters that think of themselves as TOO GOOD to use their own country's SOLID National Health Care........which by the way, I am very JEALOUS of and wish that the US had.
..........I am sure that others may disagree, but I find that MONEY usually tends to CORRUPT and that individuals in the upper 10% are often jerks.......like Jarad, Zuckerberg, Koch, Musk, and Jeff Bezos. Some people may idolize them, of course. But, obviously, I am NOT one of them!

Unbelievable... Just unbelievable... The thoughts that rattle around up there never cease to amaze!

Exhibit B...

You call them "thoughts"?:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

No, our bridges and highways are falling apart due to LACK OF PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE... Typically in cities run by incompetents...

And I haven't seen ANYONE post ANYTHING about wanting to stop LEGAL immigration...

Jealousy is not an attractive trait. You should work on that...

Everyone agrees there is a lot of propaganda served up as "news" today. What is hard to agree on is which side is news and which side is propaganda.

I am going to go out on a limb and say both are propaganda.

And I am going to suggest, a thought experiment. And hope people will think and not just jump to the easy answer "the other guys". The experiment is, ask yourself WHO profits buy the destabilization of the US?

Well, I usually agree with you posts. This time I will take some exceptions.

1. Infrastructure is falling apart because it was built but never maintained. Everything used needs maintenance, and maintenance is expensive and not a sexy political issue. So, kick the can time.

2. Illegal immigrants have been used as a political kick toy for decades or longer - Google the "repatriate" movement sometime in the 1930's I think when the government rounded up all the illegals in buses and bused them back to Mexico. It could be solved, but neither party wants to solve it, because then they can't get the based **** off every 4 years.

THEY do...

For a free country, there is a lot of "brainwashing" going on here. People, in general, should be careful because it is affecting about 40% of US people. And there is an expression that may (?) apply here.....Doctor, heal thyself.

Well, my statements on immigration would have been different in the 1930s. We probably had only 130 million people here then. Now we have 350 million. I would guess that considering our science, technology, and tax structure designed to move wealth from the middle class into the upper class - that the US would be about ideal at 280 million people. So, we are currently over-populated, in my opinion. We would have less crime and a better quality of life.
.........Consider Switzerland .......they have tight control of their borders and, as such, have a much greater quality of life than the US. And the quality of life CAN be quantified and can be checked on world lists for such things.
..... thank you

As to the question of who profits from the destabilization of the US .....I would think that it is obvious........V. Putin.

I'm brainwashed, but you're clear headed? :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

So we need less people? You first...

We need MORE people. The problem is that some only want more if they are white. That ain’t happening as this country is seen as a step down to most white countries

Well, as usual I mostly;y agree with you. but...

I don't know we are overpopulated, I think it might be more than we hav a huge uneducated populous. The dumbing down of America is well underway. But, I expect there are a lot of opinions about that.

As to Switzerland, there are maybe 14 or 15 other countries that are also much better off today than Americans. How far the great has fallen, and all the while we fight with each other constantly, which isn't helping matters.

Hmm, that pesky question keeps coming up - as Deep Throat said "Follow the Money"... or, who is profiting by US spending all our time fighting each other, instead of agreeing on what we can agree on, and fixing things.

I guess it is hard to sit down with people that eat children faces... ahem...

Which "white" countries have more immigration?

There you go!!!!!!!!! You have taken that IMPORTANT 1st step toward throwing off the terrible addiction of PROPAGANDA - that many in the US are suffering from.......congratulations on becoming a member of the propaganda anonymous club!

Don't know, but it is NOT Sweden, Norway, Canada, Finland, and Switzerland. But also, in my opinion, the US is OVER-crowded (look at the roads and bridges). US population would be more ideal at about 250 million. The US can't fix its problems like RECORD fentanyl overdoses and record numbers of TEEN MENTAL problems. Washington is just divided and POWER hungry - not working together to fix the many problems - just inventing culture war problems.

3000 clubs here and this one is not for me.

We should go together and have a vasectomy. And maybe that and tube tying should be a requirement for visas to the US. Let's INSPIRE a move toward 280 million US people as our goal. Just think of the great effect that it would have on GLOBAL WARMING.
........That way we would be LEADING the cause, not a mere teenage girl like Greta Thunberg! Come on America, you are better than a little teen girl from Sweden!

That was a very good post. As to the "dumbing down of America"........I went to a VERY good PUBLIC school way back in the 60s. But thereafter Public schools were positioned by the rich and POWERFUL to FAIL. Everything goes back to tax policy and public schools are paid for by PROPERTY taxes. Who has the MOST PROPERTY....Why (?) surprise....... it is Rich people, who then manipulate the election of school boards - that then fight to lower costs, which causes bad public school outcomes. And thus the "dumbing down of America". Yes (!) correct, that is a major US problem today. We have many!
Lately, we have to fight even imagined problems. (also involving schools) (who knew schools had become s battleground). We are fighting culture wars conspiracy theories that are born in dark media places and by Putin's Russian trolls. Good luck LADY LIBERTY.....I hope you survive this CRUEL attack!

That's good. Never become addicted to propaganda and you will never need rehabilitation. It's less costly that way.

Does appear we have a much different view on what is propaganda

And I don't think that is an accident.

Our intelligence services have been telling us for years, that Russian trolls are bombarding all our social media from both sides, intentionally stoking arguments and spreading conspiracies.

Some people relate to and accept one set, others accept the other side, and a fight breaks out.

Once upon a time we fought over polices over a beer. Now we fight about jewish space lasers online.

If anyone knows propaganda, it's you! You post it daily...

So you're for forced sterilization? And you like Wagner... I'm sensing a trend...

But as much as I'd like to have a "boys day out" with you, please keep my junk out of the conversation...

To paraphrase Will Smith, "Keep my Junk Outta' your M*****-F****** Mouth!"