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"DRAIN THE SWAMP”? NO. {a rhyme}
Just add some plumbing
to provide appointees a fine Jacuzzi, …
… where the gummint incoming
can relax while making Trumpism a doozie.
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DISASTERS OFF THE CHARTS {a rhyme}
Even BEFORE he officially starts,
Trumpian disasters are off the charts.
Why can’t the Left
be of more heft
in countering The Donald with political smarts?
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THE NEWS: A SYNOPSIS THEREOF {a rhyme}
Trumpian dangers for America/World
continue described and decried as unfurled
while Donald’s tweets flurry
with intelligence blurry.
To hellish disaster we’re being fast hurled.
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MUCH MENDACITY, LITTLE CAPACITY {a limerick}
Quite too bizarre to be president
is Trump the new White House resident.
Much mendacity,
little capacity.
To trust him we oughta be hesitant.
{… Coda:
He’s quite without precedent,
and of danger he’s redolent.}
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THE AMERICAN SYNDROME {a rhyme}
re the American syndrome,
a systemic disorder: -
- We’ve a hapless genome
in which Trump as chief warder
stimulates Alt-Righters
as chaos-igniters
for Plutocrats’ gain, …
… their power to retain
in a Fascist campaign.
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The MX892 prints, copies, scans, and faxes. You can scan to email—it’ll open up your email client and attach a scan to a new message—and send fax either from your PC or the printer’s keypad. To the right of the output tray is a port for a USB key or PictBridge-enabled camera. Behind a protective door are slots for a variety of memory-key formats, even the increasingly scarce CompactFlash. read more It’s a handsome device, glossy black with rounded corners and a beveled, matte-black top, though a little bulky for a home-office inkjet at 8.6 by 19.4 by 17.7 inches (HWD) and 25 pounds.The MX892 has ample paper capacity, between a 150-sheet main cassette and a 150-sheet top feeder. It has an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. It also has a 35-sheet duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF) for easy scanning, copying, or faxing of two-sided documents. For printing, the MX892 uses 5 ink tanks, including both dye-based and pigment-based black. read more https://kita-aceh.blogspot.com/2016/03/canon-pixma-e400-driver-download.html To the right of the 3-inch color LCD screen is a 4-by-4 grid of fairly large buttons. The Canon Pixma MX892 offers Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and USB connectivity. I tested it over an Ethernet connection with its driver installed on a PC running Windows Vista. read more https://2000driver.blogspot.com/2015/08/canon-pixma-mx330-driver-download.html When the machine is idle the grid is dark, but when you press the Copy, Scan, or Card button to the left of the screen, the backlit buttons light up so a 4-way controller (arrows pointing up, down, left, and right, with an OK button in the middle) appears within the grid.The MX892 supports printing from Apple mobile devices through AirPrint Another new feature is support for Pixma Cloud Link, which lets you download and print office templates like stationary, check lists, calendars, memos, envelopes and more right to the MFP, without a computer. It also lets you print photos from the online photo album sections of Canon image Gateway and Google Picasa. read more https://driverresetter.blogspot.com/2016/12/epson-l210-resetter-download-pictures.html When you press the Fax button, though, the controller is replaced by an alphanumeric keypad.Last year when I reviewed the MX882 $548.99 at Amazon, I noted that its speed was typical of inkjets in its price range. The MX892 printed out the latest version of our business applications suite (as timed by QualityLogic’s hardware and software) at a speed of 2.8 effective pages per minute (ppm), essentially the same as the MX882 (2.9 ppm). . The hybrid setup isn’t necessarily original, but this is the most exciting one there’s ever been – the i8 drives like aThe i8’s nature as part-supercar, part-eco car means it has different driving modes that affect how the engine and electric motor interact with each other. So, slot the gearlever to the left into Sport mode you get the petrol engine running all the time, the full output from the electric motor, firmer settings for the dampers and more aggressive power steering. supercar read more http://www.240drive.com/2015/07/bmw-i8-review.html Officially, 0-62mph takes 4.4 seconds, but because you have the instant torque of the electric motor, it actually feels a lot faster in the real world. It doesn’t matter what gear you’re in – the i8 comes as standard with a six-speed automatic transmission – the i8 responds instantly to every prod of the throttle., A sports car with a three-cylinder engine doesn’t sound like the most thrilling prospect in the world, but thanks to the assistance of an electric motor, the i8 feels every bit as quick as an Audi R8.
If you are in the 1% I fully understand why you vote Republican. If not, and you vote Republican, WTF are you thinking?
D'AnneMarc, You could very well be right- I probably should be eating bugs. I've been reading about how much more protein and othet nutrients are in crickets, for instance, than in beef. I'm seriously considering raising bugs for food. They eat table scraps and by all measures are easier to raise than cattle. And to prepare them for eating, just toss 'em in the freezer for awhile- that's easier than slaughtering cattle- I know, because I helped do that once, what a lot of work!
A friend of a relative is fit as a fiddle at over 75 years of age, and he eats bugs...
It’s raining pigs and noodles
it’s pouring frogs and hats
chrysanthemums and poodles
bananas, brooms, and cats
assorted prunes and parrots
are dropping from the sky
here comes a bunch of carrots
and some hippopatami.
And why is this so worrisome, you might ask?
Read on, and in this prophetic wisdom you may bask:
The pigs will take your guns away
the frogs n’ hats don’t care what you say,
they’ll burn your American flag up anyway.
The chrysanthemums and poodles
will turn the constitution into socialist doodles,
the bananas, brooms, and cats
don’t like the mass murders, begots, and begats
in that wonderful old testament,
they'll pull that thing off Donnie's head
while trying to make sense of what he's said
and they’ll pour tar and feathers on ol' Mike Pence
and refuse to build the Mexican fence.
The assorted prunes and parrots
will take the rights for which you fought
will drench those suckers with paraquat,
and the bunch of carrots and hippopatami
will cancel your freedoms until you cry.
Now you know why the republicans are so scared of children’s poems.
(The first paragraph of this poem is from James Prelutsky's book, "It's Raining Pigs and Noodles" and its use herein as part of a parody is allowed by copyright law. I have no idea where Mr. Prelutsky stands regarding politics. The rest of this post was written in a highly patriotic manner by David Abbot and he can prove it because he wore a flag pin on his lapel while humming the Star Spangled Banner.)
Attackers wore "bluelivesmatter" wrist bands? Who's investigating this crime?
And liberals can't understand why the poor didn't vote for the most anti-poor candidate to date. Much of the voting bases of both parties rejected their own party's candidate. Only some 60% of eligible voters voted, believing that no matter how this election turned out, masses of us will lose. This left much of the country with the choice of voting third party or withholding their votes.
Meanwhile (more broadly speaking) those on the right wing spent the last eight years building up their base, growing more inclusive, while those on the other side only more deeply divided their base by class and race.
How does one define "democracy?" Some had hoped to see the US move toward a legitimately representative form of government, but it just didn't happen. The rich have full reprresentation, the middle class have quite a lot (and have the money and means to organize to demand more), and the poor have no representation whatsoever.
The last eight years revolved around more deeply splitting apart those who aren't on the right wing, pitting us against each other by class and race. This has ensured that this time, there is no chance of bringing the "masses" together to push back against the hard right -- those who meet the definition of "fascist."
Democrats split apart the Dem voting base back in the 1990s, middle class vs. the poor, and the past eight years confirmed that this split is permanant. The Dem Party is over for the forseeable future. Liberals embraced middle class elitism, alienating the masses of post-middle class/poor. Racial tensions have risen significantly. Divided, subdivided, conquered.
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HOPES HARSHLY DISPELLED {a rhyme}
Most of my decades were lived content
that Democracy’s progress increasingly meant
that “commonweal” values were on the ascent, -
- that all was going just ducky, quite well. …
… But alas, that’s all passed. We couldn’t foretell
that Rightists our hopes would so harshly dispel.
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The purpose of broad laws like min. Wage is to make everyone play by the same rules so no one business or type of business has an unfair advantage.
It's people like you, smug in their blissful ignorance of reality, who are what is wrong with the planet. Please stand in the center of your burning tires and do the world a favor.
Ha! Thanks for the entertainment Deepspace. It is time for me to get outside and burn some tires. Try and stop me.
You folks are not living in reality. There is nothing wrong with the planet.
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Absolutely, it is war! The guts of politics are what people perceive to be true. Period. Power struggles throughout history have succeeded or failed on whether or not the combatants get their message out to as many people as possible to build a consensus opinion. That's how armies are raised and people are won over ... or conquered.
In modern America, the Republicans have succeeded spectacularly in creating an alternate reality of elaborate and pervasive lies, and the Democrats have failed miserably in counteracting with the simple truth. It is time to attack on all fronts with everything and everybody and breach the propaganda walls on the radio, on TV, and on the Internet.
Its not good enough just to give inspiring floor speeches in Congress, or to conduct the occasional press conference to "outline plans," or to wait for the next election and hope the people will come to their senses. The Democrats must forsake Wall Street, the establishment media, and business as usual! They must get out among the people -- right now -- in every state, in every community and shout out the truth and never compromise with the lie! They need to learn to fight back hard! There is no other choice when your back is up against the wall.
Get ready to see Republicans overrun state's rights in Congress in matters such as gun rights, LGBT equality, voter rights, abortion. Congressional Republicans, who complained about "government overreach" by Democrats, will state this would be necessary to protect the Second Amendment, "unborn babies" (thus illegally giving citizenship rights before birth) and America's "moral fiber" as well as to ensure an "honest vote" (despite the GOP's voter suppression and few cases of voter fraud in recent elections).
GOP Operatives inside the Democrat Party?
The prize is The United States of America, and the GOP oligarchy stole it. Cleverly crafted voter oppression laws disguised as ‘protecting the vote’ by the GOP and their well established GOP Propaganda machine have successfully pulled a coup d'état. We defend The United States as a nation of laws, yet the Koch Brothers and the GOP with the help of the Supreme Court have been for years, infiltrating and redefining the law of the land. We defend the rule of law, but do we now defend the laws of sociopathic rulers?
And where is the Democratic Party? I find that their dereliction of duty, or even desertion, of their defense of democracy can only be explained by shills, moles and operatives within the Democratic Party. Much is being made of Russia, as an external nation, influencing our election. Has the subversive organization of the Koch Brothers been less influential? Would a Koch Brothers CIA be less likely than a Russian KGB to infiltrate our election process?
And why are we comparing Trump to Hitler? There is a much closer correlation between Trump and his oligarchy about to seize control of The United States and Putin and his oligarchy that now controls Russia. Does that now leave China as the odd man out, the bad guy that Trump forces will rally his followers against?
A Republican Governor of Michigan has already pulled a dictatorial coup with the declaration of marshal law over a city and subsequent appointment an economic czar-all because of financial problems caused by Republicans. The citizens of that city no longer have a democracy. And we as a nation do nothing? Is this going to be the blueprint for our future with the GOP, the Koch Brothers, and Trump’s billion dollar and military general filled cabinet?
The Democratic Party must use its organization to educate and enlighten the people of the United States of America of what the Republicans represent and what the Democratic Party represents. The Democratic Party has a duty to redevelop and learn how to communicate to this nation of people the ‘realities’ of today’s politics. If Trump and the GOP Propaganda machine can successfully brainwash their followers to believe that (1) the stock market has gone down and (2) unemployment has gone up what else are they capable of? The Democrats took the hit for Republican obstructionism in Washington. Democrats have to learn that this is a real civil war and they are losing.
America’s oligarchy has the GOP and the Koch Brother’s propaganda machine to sanction their rule. They are redefining ‘law’ to be their ally and the ‘rule of law’ is being used to sanctify their take over. And when that fails, there will be marshal law and Trump’s generals. We, The People, need the Democratic Party to enter this war on democracy now.
It seems that control, oppression, and power tripping is very important to corporations.
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TOO SURREAL {a rhyme}
Too bizarre. Too surreal.
Surely The Donald can’t REAL-ly be real!!
Too much is Trump a loudmouthed schlemiel.
Too much does he threaten our commonweal.
Too much of our lunch he would ravenously eat.
Surely he’s not won the President’s seat!?!?!
{ … As a novel it’d surely not ever get printed.
Too crazily twisted, aberrant, demented.}
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They did this in Floriduh, too. I think it also prohibited mandatory sick pay. But poor people still vote Republican -or don't vote at all - same thing.