We're far, far beyond decency, swamps, sewers ...
Here’s the reality of Trump and his enablers: No lie is too big. There is no bottom. There is no such thing as wrong, despicable, inhumane, “evil.” There are only Trump’s wishes, wants, needs, desires, whims, “reality.”
“Mueller’s investigation has gone on too long. End it now!”
“Mueller and his investigators are Democrats!”
“Witch Hunt!”
“Fake News!”
“Hugest crowds ever!”
“Mexicans rapists!”
“Muslim terrorists!”
“All those women we’re lying!”
“John McCain is dying anyway.”
Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren are … umm, … (the “c” word).
Joe Arpaio, and wannabe Alabama senator Roy Moore, -- great Americans.”
“Lock her up! Lock her up!”
“Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Adam Schiff -- making things up. (Yeah, but, what do you expect? They have Jewish names.)”
All that's missing is the declaration from the orange creature in the White House, that: “L’etat, c’est mois”; the statement by King Louis XIV of France that literally meant, “The state am I.” (Or, --I am the state, the country, the king, the ruler, the final word. I Am In Charge. Nothing matters but what I say. Nothing matters but what I want to do. Nothing matters but ME. ME. ME.)
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, et. al., were educated men. They knew about people like Caligula, Nero, Vlad the Impaler, and virtually every other monstrous villain in history. They knew about The Crusades, The Inquisition, The Salem Witch Trials, The … oh hell, they knew about all the dangers of demented people in power oppressing humanity.
So they came up with the Constitution of the United States of America.
And, yes, they knew they couldn’t cover and protect all the horrors that could befall humanity. But, Jesus fucking Christ. You’ve really got to give these brilliant men all the credit in the world for understanding human nature; for understanding “The Dark Side,” and for trying to foresee, prevent and reign it in.
The deaths of the American Civil War, the Holocaust, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the countless other horrors that humans have, and still, inflict on other humans, are virtually impossible to prevent. Seems that whether anyone likes or dislikes it, approves or disapproves of it, mass murder and inhumanity are built into human nature.
So what now? Vote?
At this moment, our obedience to our Constitution really does seem like a death pact. Will we survive Trump? Pence? The Republican Party?
Who knows? If you could throw a message into a bottle in the middle of this sea of terror, and hope it was found and acted upon, what would it say? “Help”?
That doesn't seem to be good enough.
So I guess it's going to be left to history to judge what we Americans were willing to do about the horror that's befallen us.
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the majority rulers and majority members of the House and Senate.
THEY could stop this right now - IF they wanted to.......................................
you call it "tribalism," I'm calling it greed. They'll stop supporting him when they don't get their pockets lined any more - or face prosecution/jail for illegal donations, or an uprising from the "home folks" (not counting on THAT - they elected the jerk and his people to begin with!).
Hoping for "decency" from this crowd?
HA!!!!
Murphy creamed Christie's lap dog last November.
We already had one Democratic Assembly member in our district - we now have two as of November 2017.
We flipped two Town Council Seats.
We actually have people running for Freeholder - when was the last time that happened?
We have a solid Democratic running for mayor.
Two council seats - we have strong candidates for.
We have Bob Menendez and a VERY strong Tom Malinowski.
Things look good - and will look better. The people selected (including myself) to run for those Democratic Committee seats in NJ were picked at least in our district? For being viciously partisan.
I have no problem publicly telling our Mayor's racist knuckle dragging anti semitic anti muslim wife to go fuck herself publicly.
And many people like that. I literally got applause for that. 
We gotta go ovaries (in my case) and balls to the walls. Pummel these fuckers with everything we've got.
I can be nice later.
Now what works in NJ might not work in Michigan or Wisconsin. We also know in our state that our voting machines are NOT secure - we have no paper trail . . .
It's numbers number numbers.
If we know they threw out 27K votes in Wisconsin - we have to id that district and get 50K Democratics to vote.
The numbers have to be overwhelming.
And I have helped financially?
Kansas's 3rd
They don't have the finances that our district in NJ has. They just don't have the money there.
Next up? Right up the road from me? NJ 11th.
Hold until June 6th. There is a healthy race between four Democratics. After that - that team might need help.
Just as we got Lance to come to Town Halls and got them on the Rachel Maddow show - 
You oughta see what the 11th did. They were doing what we did here - going to their Congressmans location EVERY single week. They would hold town halls without him. . .
Ahhh - they are gorgeous trouble makers up there! I'd bet they could use phone canvassers after the Primary.
Democratic Party Primary Candidates - they did a GOOD job - and two more dropped out. So a total of six were vying for this seat!
•Mitchell Cobert[9]
•Tamara Harris[10]
•Alison Heslin[11]
•Mikie Sherrill[12]
•Mark Washburne
our situation is certainly providing further evidence that these insightful predecessors were correct to be concerned