Amen ;-)

#5 HotCoffee: I don't believe it matters in the least who the Dems decide to run in 2020. It would take a total "purge" of the DNC to alter their "DNA". We've seen what happened after the debaclke of 2016 and it's .... nada. It'll taka a total tsunami, similar to what happened with Bernie, but much, much larger to tilt the balance of power between the real interests of "the people" and these two political abominatinations (I'm talkinhg BOTH established political parties, which are only variations on the same theme) to make a significant difference in our leadership. A) Ginsberg needs to hang on until the mid-terms of 2018. B) We need a Dem sweep of at least the Senate to block any further right wing justices being installed. C) Only then can the real work begin of throwing out the career corporatists of both parties in favor of a really progressive government. It'll take at least a decade, maybe three. I won't be here, but I wish you the best ;-)

So lets assume that Trump is Hitler re-incarnate....who do the Dems plan to run in the next election? It seems bashing Trump is the only thing on the agenda. Dems are leaving office so as not to be outed for sexcapades. A subject dems don't want to talk about, unless it's a repub.

I would vote for Tulsi Gabbard ( Hawaii ) in a heartbeat...A woman president...intelligent...been in the military, not a warmonger...thrown out of the DNC by DWS for speaking up about the BS going on there, a Hindu..what more could you want...disipline and nuturing.

Silicon valley has more wealth. CA may have the highest taxes but it also has the most opportunity.

Humans are by nature hierarchical and align themselves in a status hierarchy, which in our society parallels financial worth. So we submit to an alpha male with the most money, who demands our subservience. The lack of these behaviors on the part of our former president was one of the reasons he was (is) seen as weak by many in need of a powerful alpha male leader. Relatively few animal species sort themselves out below an alpha female, but it does occur in nature, including many examples among humans. I had an old fellow physician friend in Georgia, who summarized Georgia politics as: "he just figures out which way the crowd is heading and hurries to get out in front".

Excellent deepspace!

BTW: It doesn't help that Sunday AM shows like Meet the Republicans, pretend to be bipartisan by asking questions based in truth, but then give a Republican most of that part of the show to lie with impunity and make it seem like Chuck Todd is the misinformed one. Rarely do you see the show allowing a Dem to counter the lies with facts to back up truth... actually never lately. It's like sly foxaganda.

I'm a little shocked about how relative little attention has been spent on the tax bill by even many media progressives, a bill that most certainly will speed up total collapse of the empire. Trillions on war for profit with simultaneous tax cuts for billionaires, this at a time of already record concentration of wealth, LOL...the Romans of the 5th century are also laughing loudly in their graves.

Sex scandals both sell and distract ..... the focus and timing isn't coincidental

"But when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life. The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion. The war upon fascism must be begun there." -- John Thomas Flynn in As We Go Marching, 1944.

The wealthy donors are always going to do what they always have done: line the pockets of corrupt politicians who will do their bidding. And corrupt politicians are always going to do what they always have done: do the bidding of wealthy donors who will line their pockets. This is the immutable law of what America has now become: a fascist oligarchy.

But understanding this fundamental dynamic of a society that has such a huge wealth disparity won't change a damn thing, because it is only one predictable symptom of a much deeper problem, a problem little understood on the right. Think about it. The super wealthy and their bought and paid for politicians are only a tiny minority of the population; so how is it that they wield such outsized power over the majority, which has almost no power? How did We the People allow our Founders' dream of a People's government to turn into a military-industrial-congressional-Wall Street, fascistic nightmare from which we can't seem to wake up?

It's the "mainstream," or rather, the right-wing corporate media with their flickering mindless big screens, little screens, blaring hate radios, and meaningless internet word salads firmly planted on every street corner in every pocket, in every gas-guzzling car, in every crumbling public building and gleaming private skyscraper, and even in the inner sanctums of our private homes, our last places of refuge from the greedy, violent rat race.

Our ubiquitous, hypnotizing devices have replaced Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book as a means of corporate-sponsored political discourse. If you control their minds, you control the People. That's Chapter One in the playbook of every despot down through the ages. It's as old as dirt.

For-profit news and shallow infotainment have utterly failed their primary mission under the First Amendment: to inform voters of objective, relevant, and consequential reality -- so that the People can make, yes, informed decisions when they fill out their goddamn ballots! How fockin' hard is that supposed to be for chrissake in this high-tech world of advanced information technologies!? It should be as easy as it has ever been in all of human history to get at the simple truth of things. Then why has our most important and sacred civic duty turned into such a monumental problem and gut-wrenching experience for most people -- to the point where so many just curl into the fetal position and refuse to vote at all, election after election?

Is it by design? Fact: The fewer people who vote the more power millionaires and billionaires accrue for themselves in their zero-sum game, a deadly downward spiral to oblivion for everyone else, the little people who are nothing but gum on a Gucci. In less than twelve months, voters will once again be asked to step up and save their nation from the abyss. The climb is steep, the time is short ...and the People are still ignorant as fock!

It's a sad statement of how far we've devolved as a democratic republic when a comedian can tell more truth in 24 minutes than all of corporate media has in, what, a whole year, a whole decade ...or ever? John Oliver nailed it last week! (It's like he's talking directly to the delusional trolls who insist on shamelessly posting -- and linking to -- their far-right brainwashed nonsense all over this blog and virtually every other one, forever deflecting, diluting, and detracting from the absolutely critical conversations Americans need to have at this no-turning-back juncture of history.)

Informed ridicule is sometimes the most effective weapon against the abject insanity of publicly subsidizing and facilitating tax-dodging millionaires and billionaires and the idiocracy that is Trump Land. If you haven't seen this episode yet, ​it's worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZAPwfrtAFY

Krahlin:

Thanks for your conclusion, that conclusion and a dollar will get me a cup of coffee at McDonalds

Are the wealthiest so insecure that they have to have all the money in the world? Or is there a mindset that other people don't matter? I mean is it truly a blindness to the problems we have just in the U.S.? Homelessness, crumbling buildings and roads, losing insurance, drug addiction, hatred, not enough jobs, environmental problems, hypocracy, etc. There is so much more that is wrong, but apparently money speaks louder than people who would like a country that actually believes in equality and helping each other.

No one said it would have to be anywhere near legal. trump will sign it.

Dianereynolds, How are you doing with your medicare? Want to lose it?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-vote-for-the-gop-tax-bill-is-a-vo...

Hi Thom n Staff,
This blog is total truth. Tax scam for the rich to live off the people like fat ticks on dogs... The rich say some in society are living off their money, but in reality the rich are living off the working n middle class. If they are not paying taxes, yet live free and still get the benefits of American infrastructure, they are the ones living free.

Why don't they move to Europe where taxes maybe 50%. Remember when Italy imprisoned Sopia Loren for tax evasion???

Don't know why I can't talk on the radio program, did I do something wrong and got banned, I do make mistakes at times, but I ask that my voice be heard n I love ur show...