#7 - Doesn't make it justifiable or right does it?

!942 was a little different than 2017

Don't you think?

Before we allow any talk of reducing social security and medicare, let's demand that the pensions the parasites in Congress receive, along with their health care, is subject to the same scrutiny. You wanna take my retirement money you bastard better be prepared to feel some pain also. One way or another, whatever means necessary.

Emergency solution:

extend Medicaid to everyone until they come up with a plan.

Senate might find that simple $100 per month payroll deduction

would keep it running forever.

ct.

So, they DON'T have a replacement yet they've voted to repeal it for 8 years. Sounds a GREAT way to screw over the American public. So, they "say" they are going to give us health care that is cheaper, with more options so we can have our favorite doctors, BUT they have NO IDEA HOW? Is this the best democracy money can buy? How stupid are people.

ikeberltersen's (#8) has a moral compass that points true.

The false direction that fascist leaders and their naive followers point toward is not worthy of serious consideration in these perilous times.

Despicable lies, like claiming "the left pretends actions like this have never been taken before," are the tripping hazards on the wrong path. No one on "the left" (which is actually right smack in the middle) "pretends" any such nonsense at all, nor does anyone excuse Roosevelt's internment camps -- foolishly enacted during the widespread paranoia of the worst war in human history, the blind fear of a shocked nation that went way beyond any crass political calculations. To excuse Trump's vindictive pettiness, ethnic hatred, and arrogant bigotry by shamelessly citing such a dark and haunting period in our past is beyond the pale, even for Trump trolls.

The people who put this disgusting bigot in office are disgusting bigots themselves, making up less than 25 percent of eligible voters. The campaign promise Predator Trump made against an entire religion of 1.7 billion people is the red meat to satisfy the voracious appetite for hate of the lunatic fringe of morally bankrupt Christianists, who hold an intolerant worldview shared by white supremacists and terrorists everywhere, a miniscule fraction of the world's population.

Notwithstanding three non-lethal attacks of naturalized U.S. citizens who came from Iran or Somalia as children, "It's certainly the case that none of the major, deadly attacks carried out in the United States were carried out by people from these countries [Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen]," -- Erin Miller, who manages the Global Terrorism Database for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.

"Far from being foreign infiltrators, the large majority of jihadist terrorists in the United States have been American citizens or legal residents. Moreover, while a range of citizenship statuses are represented, every jihadist who conducted a lethal attack inside the United States since 9/11 was a citizen or legal resident," -- a New America study.

"Since 9/11, no one has been killed in this country in a terrorist attack by anyone who emigrated from any of the seven countries," -- William C. Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University College of Law.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/29/jerrold-nadler/have-there-been-terrorist-attacks-post-911-countri/

Virtually all experts and all studies from all think tanks and all universities concur that "...the bottom line is that adopting extremist views and committing horrendous acts of violence in the name of some "righteous" cause, be it religion or politics or just plain old hatred, isn't something that only Muslims, or Arabs, or immigrants do; between 2001 and 2015, more Americans were killed by homegrown right-wing extremists than by Islamist terrorists. Banning people from a few Muslim-majority nations won’t reduce the terror threat. And it definitely won’t eliminate it." -- updated by Jennifer Williams:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/25/14383316/trump-muslim-ban-immigration-visas-terrorism-executive-order

Pervert Trump and his army of brainless ogres who are lost in a right-wing nightmare, along with all other fundamental "radical 'religious' extremists," are the ones who should be banished from civilized society forever (not just temporarily) -- preferably to outer space where they can no longer damage the planet.

I would just say - "the current President". What else was being expedited during the edict on immigration? Shock & mirrors!

There is other news. We need to concentrate on that as well.

Anyone who doubts that the t rump administration is anything other than a malignant fascist coup, isn't paying enough attention. This Psychopath in chief has no interest in anything other than his own power agenda. He is only a middle man in the daisy chain of command from the brilliant Psychopaths calling the shots to the psycho on the street. Being mad at t rump is like being mad at the sock puppet. If we survive this, it will serve as a historic example of the difference between agressive white supremacist ignorance and the intelligence of everyone else.

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Our body politic’s distressed,

by Trumpism sorely abscessed.

Not merely depressed

but fiercely wrest

and mangled at The Donald’s behest.

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Perhaps Gorsuch should refuse to proceed unless hearings are granted to Garland first. ’Twould chastise the Senate’s Repugnantans, - and ‘twould make an appeal to the nation’s dignity. … No big risk to Rightists, since Garland poses a choice which doesn’t involve a Lefty. … AND {as Shumer suggests}, a Garland might survive a 60% formula in the Senate. AND, were it not Garland but Gorsuch later, ‘twould validate Gorsuch as a legit Supreme. … Ie, Gorsuch, by so doing, could serve the honor of both Senate and Court.

A worldwide terrorist backlash does seem inevitable. The Trump "team" of slack-jawed mouth breathers just put every nation at greater risk, along with our troops on foreign soil, any American citizens traveling abroad, and especially guests and workers at soft targets like Trump hotels. Further terrorism, however, will give fascist plutocrats the excuse to ratchet up military expenditures (at the expense of social spending), which will make defense contractors and Wall Street even richer and marshal law more likely. That will complete the last steps to a totalitarian, fascistic state.

Trump will be the tin-pot dictator to which he has always aspired, and all the good Christian soldiers -- our own "religious" radical extremists -- will have the ultimate Armageddon battle between good and evil of which that they have always dreamed. It all plays right into the hands of the extremist crazies on the other ''side" who want the same exact thing.

Patriotism, religion, and greed are the most toxic products of the human mind. Our amoral idiocy will lead directly to the demise of not only our own species but most other life on Earth. We're running out of time to evolve a more harmonious mentality conducive to life rather than to death.

dianhow, deepspace: Fox News viewers are clinical victims of brainwashing. They view democracy like it's a football game. The important issues and truth don't matter as long as their team wins. Climate change is a hoax , Obama is coming to take my guns, there is a war on christianity, government is the enemy, etc. The Fascists/billionaires have them distracted with sht like this....it helped make the coup a bloodless one...so far anyway.