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Maybe when Trump is done magically getting the narcos to fund the entire border wall, he can get them to come pay off my student loans and deposit a few million into my bank account.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317337-trump-frederick-douglass-has-done-an-amazing-job
He obviously has no idea who Frederick Douglass is. Astounding.
Basically, some kind of wall (and who knows how long it will end up being) will be built at U.S. taxpayers' expense. It is not a deterrent, it is merely a crumb thrown to his core base who want "the wall". He had already walked back on it being built - then he and Bannon decided to change tactics and go full bore. Angering and deriding Mexico, who is a major importer to the U.S., oh and is an ally, is anything but smart. Trump just continues to make our country look bad. Isolationism and bigotry at the forefront. With dollops or impractical ideas and Keystone Cops ability to roll out new laws and regulations.
Black History month and he turns it into another rant about ... himself.
And while Trump is ripping funds from the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts, let's keep this in mind, too:
Those are not small things ... with this administration bent on dismantling our democracy and systems and institutions, we have to take note of all they are doing. But some things are more dangerous, or more odious, than others.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/01/senate-confirms-rex-tillerson-to-become-secretary-of-state/
Sorry for the late response on this. Was going to reply last night but there were some circumstances that kept me from doing so.
I do see the merit in the arguments of both sides of the Democratic party as they debate on how to approach this. While I do happen to go along with those that want to pass on this particular nomination fight in order to live to fight another day, I can't help but also feel like there's a pretty good rationale behind wanting to fight the GOP using their own tactics from the last time.
At some point, though, one party is going to have to decide to be the big boys in the room and act like it. We all know that's not going to happen with "President" Trump occupying the White House, so it's not going to be the GOP. While this Gorsuch individual may end up being worse in the minds of liberals than Scalia, he's still only got the one vote, and the balance of the court will remain what it was before. Just in terms of tactics, I think that they could get some mileage out of playing nice now and hopefully keeping the filibuster option on the table for the next time, all while perhaps quietly urging some of the aging justices to hold out until 2020 before trying to retire, when we'll almost certainly be electing a Democrat into the presidency.
But, even with all of that said, the GOP couldn't very well complain, and would certainly have it coming to them, if the Democrats turned right around and did to them what they did for the past year. Even as someone who typically votes for the GOP, I found that in particular to be a disgraceful dereliction of duty, not voting on Justice Garland. Their behavior over the past six or however many years it has been has been downright disgraceful, to say the least, so I couldn't fault Senator Schumer and his people for wanting to fight back in kind.
*Satire- I wish no children to go hungry, ever. But sadly they will....
The thing is that time will eventually shine through all the current hype and cataclysmic predictions and quite frankly, numb voters to it and question credibility. Meanwhile the dem base will get fired up as they now have a common goal. It's going to be a fun 4 years (and probably 8) because some people really just need reality to whack them in the face after getting comfy from their 8-year high.
There's one big BIG difference. Obama was voted in, winning the popular vote and majority vote. His agenda had a full mandate.
Trump did NOT win the popular vote; most Americans wanted someone else. In other words, the majority of Americans reject this agenda...and yet it's being shoved down their throats. That's the reason for the intensity of the backlash.
This is in NO way normal party politics as usual. It isn't. That reasoning, that hope will not work now. It would work if this were usual, like in the past, when your choice was not elected. This situation is radically different and not the same scenario. So regular political thinking won't work, won't resolve anything.
But we need to think clearly, do the best we can, hope that legal steps are being taken by those in govt. So stay focused, no matter what is happening, and keep speaking up to our representatives. Get involved with your own local politics. Don't sit back and wait for things to escalate ... or give up and let things go. Just each of us do our best, on a daily basis. Because the events, the words, the actions will get worse. We can do it, we need to stay strong and keep doing what we can.
Americans don't take things lying down easily, and after our initial shock of this administration's early days (not even 2 full weeks) - we'll buckle up for the ride, no matter how bumpy, and do our best. That does not mean accepting we have 4 years and get another president. It means taking civil, calm, and strong action now. Speak up when there is bigotry and injustice. I am encouraged by many Americans these days, just not the ones in the White House.
Apparently Trump was fatigued, so don't take it personally or anything.
What kind of a sociopath is he?
But where will I go to get my regular doses of walrus abuse?
Watch Gregory Beam in QOS. =))
Let's consider the five major religions, of which Christianity and Islam are but two. Obviously at most one of them can be the "correct" religion. Who says Christianity is that hypothetical "correct" religion? A few exceptions tossed aside, most religious people have furthermore adopted that religion which holds sway of the immediate environment in which they were born and raised. Being a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, ... has thus become a matter of chance and shouldn't induce any illusion of divine predestination. "Us, Christians" may very well have been "us, Muslims" if you had been born to a different mother and father.
One can of course commit to feeling superior to other religion-heavy cultures when assessing each culture's habits, morals and practices, and concluding that one's own culture is by far the "best" in every way. Of course every religious person is most likely to crown his own religion and culture as the superior one. Here again we have no readily available objective test to determine whose culture is superior or inferior. "Our Christian world" may be worth defending for thousands of reasons, but is it truly superior to the point where it must be shielded from the cultural "pollution" of other religions? In the end, the only true schism exists between people of faith and secular folks, who generally oppose every religious system and none less than another. Muslims and Christians should rather team up to discuss the ever increasing evidence against the notion of a divine Creator and plan how to save themselves from coming off as total lunatics when scientific progress - the only true form of progress our society knows anymore - continues to be made, laying waste to almost every single religious idea without even trying.
In the end, Christians and Muslims, both splintered off into various fractions, nevertheless cling to an organised religion which draws its "wisdom" from dogma's and is leaded by a few sinisterly appointed authority figures, appointed through anything but a democratic system. Its teachings typically involve nothing that can be empirically verified, nor does it leave any room for constructive criticism, scepticism or dissident thinking. When left unchecked, it would terrorise our educational system by exercising control over nearly every subject taught in school; science classes would fall victim to a system that filters their contents and eliminates views, despite having successfully passed rigid sets of tests, if they oppose the teachings of holy scripture.
The sad part is that this form of religious power abuse actually exists in America, as well as in several Muslim countries. The Christian world is no less dangerous than the Muslim world in many respects, even if the obvious "suicide bomber" cases seem more prevalent on Islamic side than on Christian side. I don't want an Islamic "invasion" anymore than the average Trump voter does, but neither do I want an expansion of the Christian world. In fact, I want both to disappear as quickly as possible since both are essentially making the same mistakes. They deprive people of the one thing that separates us from most dumb animals: the power of reason. Trump won because America has allowed its population to be a programmable, easily frightened group of mindless slaves. This very thing was predicted by the likes of Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan decades ago. By encouraging (too) many Americans to render themselves at the mercy of superstition, magical thinking and religious devotion, schools will in several parts of the country replace evolutionary biology with Creationism, powerful people will consult fortune tellers and priests right before they impose radical changes in whatever affairs they have going but which influence us all, and mad men like Trump will be allowed to rise to power because they spout dangerous ideas but which sound good, address people's basic fears and are almost always backed up by god's infallible blessing.
America is ill. Xenophobia, war fever, greed, superstition ... they are all cancers which will corrupt the country from the inside. The election of Donald Trump was the first clear sign of ultimate doom for the country. Most of all, America is losing grip with reality; to say that its Christian identity must be preserved while Muslims must be shunned is similar to a heroin addict saying cocaine is not good for you.
Yeah, you're right, Felix -- we should only talk to the good guys.....
"There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child."
Call to Putin not recorded ...
and oh just you know, stuff: