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Brittanica defines a blockade as an act of war. Thats what Trump launched against Quatar to punish it for not caving to his son-in-laws request for a loan of over $1B. Now he launches a trade war to blow off steam. And he controls our nuclear codes. God help us all.
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DonaldTrump suddenly turned US foreign policy against our (counter-ISIS partner) Quatar just weeks after its govt refused to bail Jared out of $1.5B in debt on 666 Fifth Ave. This stinks to high heaven. We have a crime family running our country and risking our nations security.
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"The Right Can't Fight the Future" By Joy-Ann Reid
Source: The Daily Beast
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In every way, Donald Trump is a president built for the past; a benighted, late 19th Century figure who spun his supporters a tale that he could restore a bygone era when coal fires burned, factories hummed, steel mills belched out soot and opportunity and a (white) man with a sturdy back, a high school diploma and a song in his heart could buy a little house, marry a little wife and have 3 cherry-cheeked kids he didnt ever have to cook or clean for, plus if he can afford it, a hot mistress on the side. Trump is the slovenly but brash, gold-plated emblem of a time when in the imagination of his followers, black women hummed a tune while they cleaned your house or did the washing, black men tipped their hat on the street but didnt dare look you in the eye, and neither would dream of moving in next door. A time when women asked their husbands for an allowance, not their boss for a promotion, men were allowed to be men complete with ribald jokes and a slap on the fanny for the pretty secretary at work, and there were no gays, no trans people, no birth control
they somehow just didnt exist! The rural folks were the salt of the earth and we only let in a certain kind of immigrant whose only goal was to shake off his ethnicity and assimilate. Everyone went to (separate) church on Sundays and everyone got along. Its a plasticine world that for many must feel like it truly existed, though of course it never did.
Going backward, to a world without ambiguity on race, gender and work is a powerfully attractive idea, particularly for those who fear losing their cultural and social hegemony as the nation browns, and their economic ascendancy as technology creates new industries they scarcely understand.
But heres the thing: the past really is past. Coal is still a dying industry and America will never again have an industrial revolution. Its other countries turn to do that now. Black and brown people arent giving up our dignity, including the right to protest and to survive mundane encounters with police. Immigrants arent going away (and in fact we need them to keep the economy and the safety net flush). LGBT people arent going back into the closet. And women are staying in the workforce, with many aiming to become the CEO, while insisting on hanging onto our reproductive liberty. There is indeed a sizable minority of Americans who want to go back to the old times. But we arent going back.
More at https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-cant-fight-the-future
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My daughter sees @TuckerCarlson report on TV saying California is becoming 3rd world and asks me why. I tell her CA has highest taxes in USA that make it hard for people to afford to live here. She responds Dont you get paid to fix it?
https://twitter.com/DevinNunes/status/969752756800991232
Trump Being Trump Makes Him Less Popular
Source: NYMag.com
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During the last three weeks, political news has been dominated by fresh evidence of turmoil in the White House (punctuated by the Porter scandal that represented a combo platter of incompetence and insensitivity about domestic violence), new developments in the Mueller investigation, and erratic Trump behavior on Twitter and elsewhere. A particularly dangerous juncture for Trump may have been the Presidents Day weekend when he went on an extended Twitter rampage, mostly about the FBI and the Mueller investigation, even as media focused on the Parkland massacre. The jurys still out on the effect of the presidents personal involvement in the post-massacre debate on gun control, though his steadily increasing investment in the loopy idea of arming teachers doesnt bode well for him.
If this theory is right, or even half right, we should expect some more short-term deterioration in the presidents approval ratings and the GOPs standing in the generic ballot. More importantly, it underscores a persistent dilemma for the presidents team. Without question, Trump being Trump is important to the maintenance of maximum excitement within his electoral base, and that is an asset of great importance in relatively low-turnout midterm elections. But if Republicans need the simmering anti-liberal resentments of the MAGA crowd to remain at a near-boiling-point as November approaches, the presidential behavior that most reliably keeps the heat on also appears to repel voters who might be otherwise persuaded to stick with Trumps party on policy grounds.
How to balance base mobilization and swing-voter persuasion is a perennial puzzle for any political party. But its especially complicated when the base glories in the very characteristics of a leader that actually frighten others. If Republicans become convinced that revving up the base is the only thing they care about in this midterm election cycle, they wont have to do a whole lot to encourage Trump to go absolutely wild for weeks on end. Lord help us all if thats where we are headed for the balance of 2018.
More at http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-being-trump-seems-to-make-him-less-popular.html
Maybe it's just me, but I think John Dean has very little respect for Dotard.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/967538684789739520
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Borrowed from the Comments Section of Tom Toles' Strip on GoComics.com
It looked extremely rocky for the Trump White House that year
With Mueller breathing down their necks, the crooks all shook with fear
Their treason, money-laundering, their high crimes (and their low!)
They knew when Mueller got the goods, then off to jail theyd go
But then a ray of sunshine: theyd forgotten Pardon Pence!
(Whose honesty is none the best, whose brain is rather dense)
Though Jerry Ford played Pardoner, no-one had done it since
No need to serve a prison term, because of Pardon Pence!
He pardoned both the Donalds, also Flynn and Manafort
Jared, Ivanka, Sessions, and all others of that sort
Pence pardoned all that he could find, the traitors and the crooks
(Though, to be fair, Pence met the glare of many dirty looks)
But, sad to say, our story ends in ways to make us weep
For Pence, that mighty Pardoner, picked Ryan for his Veep.
"Why can't you love me like you love him?"
https://twitter.com/BlueVotr/status/965319455726190592The GOP, when it comes to gun legislation
"It's like watching Devin Nunes drown in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese"
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Jill Stein is on MSNBC right now whining about she was a legit candidate in 2016. Its like watching Devin Nunes drown in the ball pit at a Chuck E. Cheese.
https://twitter.com/jkarsh/status/965275919177797632
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