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deepspace, If you are not a professional writer, you should be. As much as I enjoy and appreciate your posts, I often wonder if your talents are largely wasted on barstool activists like myself. Hopefully your writing finds a larger audience than a somewhat obscure internet comment page.
Most Americans will not wake up until the damage has been done. Then, they'll blink their large, trusting cow eyes and wonder how any of this could have happened.
Do you want to talk about a terror attack that will kill thousands and brutalize millions?
The Trump/Tea party budget is off the savage charts. This country is headed for an economic disaster of the magnitude we've never seen before...when will citizens wake the f up??? We're looking at the possibility of third world economic extremes on a large scale. None of this should be happening, the election was a total fraud and we all refused to do anything about it, including Clinton and Obama.
The billionaires don't need more billions and it sure as hell never trickles down.
Dianereynolds RE#18 -- Are you pointing out that FAUX News is more into spectacle than MSNBC and CNN? However, it is only 15 minutes more.
I must of missed that salt and pepper thing, or are you promoting the meme that FAUX is generating. The meme that giving code word classified information to the Russians is no more important than the order of salt and pepper application.
Whenever terrorists attack and innocent people die in Western countries, the ghostly images of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney loom above the carnage like the Wizard of Oz in Emerald City (also the nickname of the "Green Zone" in Baghdad). In Manchester, England right now, it's the mocking specter of Tony Blair's head (Bush's poodle) smiling down in "shock and awe."
The chain of events after 2001 brought us to where we are today -- the last time a delusional minority of fake Americans installed a fake president, who started a fake war over oil, killed and displaced millions, squandered trillions of our tax dollars, and destroyed the world economy.
Because their latest fake president is too stupid even to manage his shrinking staff of loyalty-pledged brownnosers, it's been reported that basically the entire government of this "exhausted," low-energy fat man is aboard Air Force One on an overseas apology trip of shame and embarrassment, confirming that Americans are the laughing stock of the world. God forbid should a laptop explode in the cargo hold...
In related (buried) news: A half million Yemeni children are in danger of starvation. But who cares about all those little Muslim bastards ... no splashy chyrons on Fux News about that American-induced tragedy!
By the way #23, based on your definition of anti-immigration, that would make George Washington and Andrew Jackson "anti-immigrationists" with regard to England and it would also make Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle "anti-immigrationists" with regard to Hitler and Germany.
I guess the Palestinians are "anti immigrationists" for rejecting the building of Jewish settlements on their occupied territory. But, #23, typical of Republicans, you have dreamed up your own definition of the word immigration to suite your ideological agenda.
Here is a typical trump voter. Embarrassment to American intelligence. Way too many of his type in the USA. I hope that he is currently residing in a Shanghai jail.
2950-10k, yes the Trump budget will destroy America as we know it. Homeless and starvation in America up by uncountable amounts. $1 trillion cut in Medicaid and SNAP in a 10 year period. They want to bring unwanted children into the world and let them starve and not treat medical problems.
Do you mean Joan of Arc the anti immigrationist who drove the English out of France?
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake…and the conservatives cheered and cheered and chanted and ranted and cheered...
And whatever happened to Joan of Arc?
The negative implications of the Trump win were obvious and predictable to all but the devout Trump supporters. But the win itself was like the U.S. being diagnosed as insane and overdosing on heroin, all at the same time. That it could actually happen has left most of us in a state of shock while many of the Trump supporters remain blissfully ignorant, even while this belligerent corrupt, immoral and incompetent train wreck wipes out everything in its path.
Trump likes to brag about getting more done than any other president. But he is confusing demolition with accomplishment. He pretends that undoing is doing. That undoing regulations is positive rather than negative. His term is comparable to someone that has been given a new car and the first day he removes an outside rearview mirror, the next day he removes the other rearview mirrors. The next day he removes the seat belts. The next day, he removes the brakes, the next day he removes the air bags and so on, and so on. This is his concept of a positive course of action.
Hillary made of had many faults, but at least she was competent and rational. Hell….compared to Trump, she was Joan of Arc.
Thank you God, for the whining from the leftie/socialists that keep bringing Christmas presents. The repetitive futile babbling I hear and read looks like it will continue for another seven and one half years, and thank you for graphically point out last evening how pathetic these people are when immediately following the Manchester Arena attack Fox News was covering it fifteen minutes before MSNBC and CNN who were too busy pointing out President Trump used the salt before the pepper while seasoning his food.
Me? Scientist? Do not think so. To trust climate investigation to simple people who have no idea how to do it right is a bad idea. Everyone should do his work, sicentists should explore climate changes so that later on there were no mistakes and so that we didn't suffer consequences. I as an essay typer can only publish the outcome of scientific research in my pulications.
stopgap: :It's more about Trump "winning"? Relative to what? A crazed Wall Street hooker that would have compounded her "husband's" well known propensity for advancing the interests of the transnational capitalist class's interest in beating down the great unwashed? A Clinton win would have been a "death by a thousand cuts". A trump win forced the issue.
Trump supporters think that our despair is about Hillary losing. But it's really more about Trump winning. Not that it doesn't confirm what we thought all along about Republicans. Trump is no crazier or worse than virtually any of the Republicans. He's just more openly delusional. He reminds me of Willy Loman, and the whole Trump administration reminds me of the Marx Brothers film, "Duck Soup." Trump is a real-life personification of Rufus T. Firefly.
chuckle8: forthcoming only in terms of "formalizing" the charges. Common sense dictates that Trump's own documented comment to his Russian visitors that the heat was off due to his firing of Comey is, in itself, sufficient to send him down the river.
stopgap: I loved your phrase "a Trumpfuck'n". In fact, when I contemplated the relative merits of a Clinton vs Trump victory, I finally concluded that "a Trumpfuck'n" is precisely what this country needs to jolt it out of its apathy/ignorance/comatose lack of attention span regarding what's being handed us by the vaunted "job creators". I don't know if your chastity belt is in place, but mine is (even though I'm grabbing my ankles like everybody else).
I don't know much about the Deep State government, but I do know that Trump supporters are in a Deep State of Denial and Deep State of Delusional thinking regarding the veracity and character of one, Donald J. Trump.
Trump exemplifies the H. L. Mencken quote: "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." I also found another Mencken quote that is relevant here: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Bend over America…we are getting a Trumpfuck'n the likes of which we could scarcely imagine and that Trump supporters will never believe or ever understand.
Outback -- Why do you say it is forthcoming? I thought the interview with Lester Holt explicitly defined obstruction of justice.
I think we should not forget, what Thom said, that the impeachment clause "misdemeanors and high crimes" was written when there were no laws because no governing body existed until after the constitution was ratified. Therefore that impeachment clause implies that the congress can impeach the president for whatever they want. The people are supposed to rule, not somebody like King Don.
Is there Any Chance that the 2016 election will be declared Null and Void and that a New Presidential election be held?
if tRUMP goes, then we are stuck with Pence! which is worse!!!!
I believe Trump will be impeached and some in his cabinet, including the Vice President are also criminally indicted.
How will it play out? My prediction: As a distraction, Trump will bomb Iranian nuclear sites and all hell will break loose. War for profit with Iran has been a major goal of the Fascists for years, and Israel is pushing for it.
Along with that, the stock market could crash any day now.....it hasn't been this overvalued since 1929. That would change everything too, mass panic will set in because the Teapublicans won't agree on what to do. Crooked Donny will simply hang around blaming Obama for the economic depression.
Then there's the very real possiblity of an assassination of Putin. This would totally mess up Trump and company, because if Putin gets bumped off, my guess is that intel would immediately get released regarding Trump's treason....game over.
No matter what plays out, "We the People," need to demand a new election. Pence is no more valid than Trump.
I see the Repugs are about to decimate our social programs and get rid of the EPA. Come on Dems-you just must talk the reps into voting against it all and let's get Der Furor outta there before he destroys our country!!!!
Alas, if it really was the "Game of Thrones," the 70-year-old boy king would be duly poisoned or beheaded by now. End of episode one.
Meanwhile, as the peasants of our evil empire are distracted by Republican lies and rampant corruption, the deep state makes another deal with the devil:
"Your every wish is my command, Sire." The fake president bows to the blood-thirsty King of Saudi Arabia while lavishing Amerikkka's gifts of death and destruction upon the biggest exporter of terror in the world, which included the Saudi citizens who attacked us on 9/11.
Billionaires straddling the U.S. arms industry are orgasmic over the 10-year, 350-billion, state-terrorism deal, with Trump the Vassel discounting the first installment of 110 billion worth of our most advanced military hardware and weapons systems for the Wahhabis to deploy as they wish. At the moment, that means continuing their two-year pogrom of American-sponsored terror against the Houthis in Yemen -- mostly innocent civilians ...and "babies, beautiful babieees."
Alex Ward (Vox; May 20):
"The war has been brutal and has produced a humanitarian catastrophe on a staggering scale: at least 10,000 people have been killed and over 3 million displaced since the war began in March 2015. Millions more are currently at risk of famine.
Saudi warplanes have targeted hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, farms, livestock, and other civilian targets with zero regard for either the laws prohibiting such tactics in wartime or the horrendous suffering they’re inflicting on innocent civilians."
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/20/15626638/trump-saudi-arabia-arms-deal
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-trip-curtsey-bow-king-salman-gold-medal-honour-barack-obama-bowing-a7747016.html