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Yes, he is dumb enough. But more than that: he is a sure of himself bully, who has gotten away with the most incredible things...embarrassed our country to no end, deplorable choices, squandering our tax dollars on his vacations, lied and contradicted himself constantly, running our country on twitter, appointed the worst kinds of people to run (dismantle) our education, environment, courts, health system....and so much more: AND SO FAR, NO-ONE HAS STOPPPED HIM, because we have a House and Senate run by criminals, financed and master minded by the Koch and gang...all sure they can ransack and do whatever they want with their billions. So far it is working for them....what is there to stop them????
The NRA cost will increase!
YES HE IS! However it really depends on how much of a smoke screen the corporation corrupt republicans require at the time.
I don't think it's a matter of whether he's dumb enough to do it. It's that this is his modus operandi. When you're in trouble, fire someone. All Trump's adult life has been one long stretch of being one step ahead of the law. Running from one lawsuit and another, casting legal hand grenades and lies in his wake as stalling and diversionary tactics. It is the only way he knows how to operate.
I believe he will fire Mueller and anyone else who gets too close and we will have four years of scandal and criminal activity by POTUS, sanctioned and abetted by the Republicans in congress. Trump and his Republican co-conspirators will cut across every legal principle and historic convention that gets in the way of them ramming through their oligarch focussed agenda, and stacking the political system irreversibly in their favor.
The Republicans are taking us to a very dark place in our history. They are trying to impose a one-party state on the US.
They will use it as an excuse to say gun control doesn't work, look at California! They will have gun control when they suppress our voices.
I think he is sinking in the quicksand of the "SWAMP", and yes he is that stupid.
Not a matter of being dumb or not. Trump is psychologically deeply flawed and this Malignant Narcissism prevents him from rational behavior. Particularly when he perceives him being attacked. Anything is possible from this creature.
Yes, they're calling for "unity", and espousing sentiment that we're all "Americans first", blah, blah, blah.....But let's not forget that the Republican agenda is evil, and not very broad based, because it only benefits the wealthy contributors to the Republican party. I hope that these b-stards don't think that all this talk of coming together is going to give them a free hand to dismantle Obamacare, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Diane: You indicated support for additional tax cuts for billionaires. Based on this I conclude you believe they pay too much tax. You also indicated that extreme concentration of wealth would lead to happiness for this tiny group, but no comment about how it would impact the rest of us. You also seem OK with for profit health insurance being the answer to our healthcare crisis. I mention this because you didn't express any sentiment regarding single payer. I'm not going to waste anymore of my time on this, but your answers are exactly what I expected.
What is your true ambition for posting on this blog?
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Are the sins of Russia the same as the sins of Radical Right?
There appears to be much in common with the allegations of Russian attempts to weaken the US and what the Radical Right has been doing.
It makes one wonder if there is collusion, or an accidental common behaviors. I wonder if Putin and the other cleoptocrats are not that much different than the Koch's.
Studying the Russian attempts to weaken the U.S. may awaken people to the Radical Right's attempts to do the same thing, with similar ends.
Off topic but you asked,
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Diane: Rather than constantly complain about the postings of individuals who care deeply about social and economic justice, try participating by sharing your thoughts on the issues being discussed.
For example, what's your opinion of the American Health Care Act?
There is nothing to comment on until it is refined and voted on by both the house and senate. I do know the obamacare is imploding by design. Don't give me the Rubio meme, it is false and you know it.
How do you feel about the massive tax cuts being proposed for billionaires?
Unlike leftie/socialists I carry no resentment for the wealthy. As for tax cuts for everyone, I support that.
Do you really think continued extreme concentration of wealth will have a happy ending?
For the wealthy it will.
What do you think about Putin selecting your political party as his weapon of choice to weaken our democracy?
The Russians, the Russians. Do you think the US has not had it's finger in the election process of any country? Show me Hillary and hundreds of democrat party seats were lost because of the Russians and we will talk, until then, think Benghazi If you have your panties in a wad over election fraud, adopt the same rules they have in Mexico with paper ballot backup.
The voting requirements in Mexico are as follows:
Mexican citizenship (by birth or naturalization)
18 years of age at the moment of casting one's vote.
a valid voting credential (issued free of charge bu INE, Instituto Nacional Electoral)
to be free from incarceration or imprisonment.
On topic. One of the most virulent, vile, outspoken haters of Obama is rocker Ted Nugent. He has been a very offensive right wing spokesperson for the anti-Obama crowd and a huge Trump supporter.
He may have had a bit of an epiphany after the VA shooting of republicans. Hopefully he will follow through with his promise and encourage others to do the same.
https://www.leftscoop.com/2017/06/trump-loving-ted-nugent-gives-intervie...
Will the leftie/socialists follow suit?
yes the second amendment should be repealed. We live in a "civilized" society. The second amendment was put in place because at that time the terrain was much more unsettled, people hunted for food and, there was no standing army. Today none of those things are true. Every few months it seems, there's a massive shooting why, it's because of the open access we have in this country to guns. It's easier to buy a gun these days than it is for a vet to visit a VA hospital and every time one of these tragedies occur Wayne Lappier and his cronies are the first ones to run in front of a camera and scream "THERE'S NO NEED FOR MORE GUN CONTROL". If that's the repeated answer for everytime one of these senseless acts of violence then obviously it's wrong.
No, the first thing we learned was that the shooter was a middle aged WHITE male. The today show mentioned the shooter's race 5 times within 1 hour of the shooting. I guess they were chomping at the bit on the assumption that it was an act of a "white supremasist" instead of the usual "Mohammed" or "Naquan". The blame is, of course, on the deranged shooter, undoubtedly instigated by the constant barrage of caustic left wing rhetoric which dehumanises the present administration. The hatred toward President Trump has become an obsession for liberals who cannot and will not accept the fact that lost the election, and will resort to "any means necessary" to end his presidency.
No, the first thing we learned was that the shooter was a middle aged WHITE male. The today show mentioned the shooter's race 5 times within 1 hour of the shooting. I guess they were chomping at the bit on the assumption that it was an act of a "white supremasist" instead of the usual "Mohammed" or "Naquan". The blame is, of course, on the deranged shooter, undoubtedly instigated by the constant barrage of caustic left wing rhetoric which dehumanises the present administration. The hatred toward President Trump has become an obsession for liberals who cannot and will not accept the fact that lost the election, and will resort to "any means necessary" to end his presidency.
Each "life cycle" is a priceless opportunity to progress, where life and death is one, unending, awe-inspiring process of innocence and purity -- dying to each moment, being reborn in the next. "Tuning out and falling asleep" is the only true death -- the death of consciousness. Well said, Outback!
Deepspace, you write beautifully. And to think, you're only a horse! ;-)
What you describe is a level of higher consciousness that few among us can fathom, much less achieve in a lifetime. I believe Christ was one, though I'm not "Christian". Ghandi, The Buddah, and Confucius may have been among that number.
You touched on my personal belief just now when you asked '....are our individual feelings and thoughts separate things that we "own," different from a wider consciousness, or just a tiny part of something nameless and indefinable....'?
My answer to your question would be "both". I believe we "come around again", each time with a tiny bit more perspective than in the previous incarnation. We are spiritual beings that actually live on some other dimensional plane, and we are evolving. To that end, it's necessary that we each experience the horrors of life along with the joys. To live as sultans and again as paupers.
So we must engage to progress. To tune out is tantamount to falling asleep in our first grade classroom.
Outback: ...Good one! Then again, we are all monkey people flinging crap from our cages, are we not? Well, technically, I'm a horse -- details, details.
Ah, to think, or not to think, that is the question...
Realistically, that is not a binary choice, an either/or proposition, is it? Besides, who can answer it for you or anyone else? Actually, I "propose" nothing and "claim" nothing-- literally. I only try to describe things as they are or seem to be, however inadequately. After all, it is you who must experience your life in real time in all of its wonderful complexities and glory. I have my hands full with my own. All we can do is share with one another when the opportunity arises.
Anyway, the actual experience of life is not really a choice at all. Simple, choiceless awareness of the miracle of life is not a matter of some magical, mystifying, pseudo-religious "epiphany" nonsense, suddenly descending from on high to enlighten our minds and awaken our spirits, upon reading some tortured religious text, or engaging in some forced, arduous meditative process, some disciplined, studied "solution," some step-by-step, focused program to suppress or direct the chain of thought and feeling, or shouting hallelujah in church every Sunday, or kneeling and bowing and contemplating one's naval ...or perhaps the bald spot on the head of the fellow parishioner standing in front of us.
This is all just meaningless claptrap that false religions and so-called priests, imams, rabbis, and gurus have handed us, their trusting flock of faithful followers, down through the ages -- the repetitive conditioning to "believe," the singsong patterns of prayers and chants, the blind worship of cartoonish cloud beings in flowing robes immortalized in stained glass windows, the feel-good promise of eternal salvation in paradise ...because life on Earth totally sucks! "Oh yeah, and don't forget to throw money in the damn collection basket before you leave! Hey, holy people gotta eat too, ya know!"
No, true understanding would seem to come from the common, moment-by-moment experience of our normal lives, as we wake up, dress, eat, and trudge off into the real world, one full of mistakes and failures and occasional inspirations and successes. Obviously, one must have thought discipline to navigate the sometimes very difficult and always very complicated course of daily life; it would be silly to "think" otherwise. But once the pragmatic chores, the necessary and elective routines, and the business of survival have all been satisfied, or at least held at bay for the time being -- work, food, clothing, shelter, recreation, entertainment, education, hobbies, music, art, various other intellectual pursuits, travel, family, friends, and all the rest of it -- then what?
Where do our minds wander? Rather, from whence does thought come, and can we ever be fully aware of those quiet moments between thoughts, and the unspoiled, firsthand feeling of pure life itself, as well as the thoughts themselves that may arise after the fact? More profoundly, are our individual feelings and thoughts separate things that we "own," different from a wider consciousness, or just a tiny part of something nameless and indefinable, where even the magnificence of a grand and majestic spiral galaxy with a hundred billion stars shrinks into nothingness? Not to get too abstract or existential, but "something" cannot contain nothing; yet, "nothing" contains everything. Alas, words and symbols and thoughts are only reflections that can never truly describe the indescribable.
It's like slowing down a fan, so that each blade can be thoroughly examined as it passes by, and "felt" (for lack of a better word) for what it is, not what we wish it to be. Or, are we so shallow that our brains are always running at full speed, constantly chattering away endlessly on the surface, lost in a jumble of fragmented thoughts from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to sleep at night, without ever allowing any time and space to dwell, passively yet energetically, on the deeper meaning, to watch actively the whole amazing process as a single movement without a center, without a fearful little ego always trying to judge and sort and pick and choose and classify? If that is what we do, then that is what we must be aware of and understand, because that is our reality. If we can't understand ourselves, how can we ever expect to change, or the world to change?
Another way to look at the enigma of moment-to-moment, unfolding consciousness is to realize that our brains are like antennae with both the ability to receive and to project. Have we made our lives so hectic that we never have the opportunity just to sit (or stand or walk) quietly, innocently like a child, and to take it all in effortlessly, to replenish our well of energy -- to receive rather than to project -- this timeless and abiding mystery, which can always be discovered anew and yet can never be "solved?" How cool is that!?
In one sound bite: Greed, fear, violence, anger, jealousy, worry, regret, loneliness, depression -- all the small stuff of ego-centric selfishness -- are really very petty conflicts artificially created by the unwieldy edifice of fractured thought constructs, a terrible waste of precious energy that would be better spent understanding it for what it is, letting it all go, and immersing ourselves fully in the glorious wonder of this astounding phenomenon we call "life" on this "pale blue dot" lost in the this vast universe ...if only for a "moment," which is an eternity in every sense of the word.
1. The Republicans =reeeeeeeally= don't give a tinker's damn about =any=one except the 0.1%. The rest of us can go to hell, period, full stop. The fact that soooo many of the 99% =still= vote for these unAmerican bastards is a point of high hilarity for them.
2. I =really= wish more people knew about how and why we got the 2nd Amendment in the first place. Of course, at -this- point, far, -far- too many Americans simply wouldn't care .. and -that- is a serious problem in itself!
There is little doubt that you, and all of your readers are very disturbed about the shootings at the Rupublican practice for the baceball game tonight between the Republicans and Democrats, and all those injured are in our thoughts and prayers for a swift recovery. I'm sure you've heard the opinion expressed on such shows as Rachel Madow and Lawrence O'Donnel that it is very heartening that many Washington officials have expressed the feeling that all of the people on The Hill should take this event as a catalyst to restore sanity to rhetoric and debate in congress, and in the White House. Everyone on the shows agree, and some express the sentiment that, based on past similar events of violence, when similar feelings were expressed by many people, that they have no confidence that any long-term good will come from the agreement that change is needed. One of our friends said she'll give it a week before it's back to business as usual.
My hope is that people like yourself, Thom, will keep this issue on your list of priorities for the next year at least, and shine a light on any departures from what people on the hill have said they think should happen, if they go back to business as usual, each and every time it happens, giving names, and situations.
I plan to make the same suggestion to other media people, such as Rachel & Lawrence. If you all work in concert to keep this issue front and center, just maybe there will be some changes. If not, I have to agree with my friend, that it may last a week...at best!
I always enjoy your articles...keep up the good work.
William (Bill)
So, deepspace, if as you claim, it's not possible to "think" our way out of our predicament, what possible solution are you proposing? Some kind of spontaneous spiritual epiphany? If so I stand ready to change my blog name to "99th monkey". Who will be number 100?
Haw! Thanks but no thanks; that would be way too suffocating and demoralizing. Now, please tell Diane that she has me all wrong.
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Deepspace...please, run for president! The world needs a leader who thinks as clearly and deeply as you do.
We should start with the violence on the TV and other "entertainment". From childhood, we are programming people to view violence as the norm. Meanwhile, like mindless boobs, we continue to wander around and around in the question of gun restriction as some kind of answer to crime; never mind that if a person is set on harming another they can use a baseball bat, a kitchen knife, a rock. Shall we end all baseball games? Shall we close down all kitchens? Shall we quarantine all rocks? C'mon. Get real. Stop the entertainment brain programming, re-open all of the mental health clinics Reagan closed down, and stop stigmatising people with labels like "mental illness" for some conditions (depression) that are as common as the common cold. Guns do not kill people. People kill people. The Left needs to wake up. As long as this government has not returned habeas corpus, as long as this government has not rescinded Posse Comitatus, I say; hold your guns near and dear. Also, the media makes a big hoopla out of every incident where a gun is involved. Just stop and think; how many gun things happen in a day that don't result in some scandal? I've seen studies that say the amount of gun violence is nominal to insignificant considering there are 340 million people in this country and not all of them are gun waving crazies. But for those who are susceptible, we need to stop treating violence like it belongs in society. The only reason gun violence is touted in entertainment is because it makes money. So, we're back to the profit motive again.