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Giuliani doing a great job
Two ego maniacs sitting in a tree....
Two ego maniacs sitting in a tree....
I'm curious what the people in the UK think of trump with the little rocket man comments, the tough talk on the UN and NATO, and his disregard for our long term friendships as the ones with the UK and Europe. I still don't know what to make of all the hand holding, hugging and kissing with Macron.
There's allot going on there and following the money yields answers.
You give Trump too much credit. The only draining he's doing is huge staff turnover. He's like an angry, bratty, obnoxious, spoiled kid that keeps breaking his toys and wanting new ones. "Fire that guy, oh yeah, Fire that guy too". There were 15 indictments and 5 with felony convictions that included a general with a high level bio. Good draining there, except he was Trumps buddy. Trump did do some other downsizing. He decimated the EPA by convincing his followers that global warming is a hoax, fake news, and that allowing massive pollution was good for his rich buddies. Increasing the military budget at the expense of social services does work with a key part of your assessment, but it is also conservative republican favorite. Broadcast television is no doubt lowering the average intelligence of Westerners by limiting their field of view. For the rest, social media seems to be a next generation manipulator that even provides it's own statical analysis. Zuckerberg gets billions and "didn't know about the Russians on Facebook". Really? Frank Zappa saw this coming forty years ago -" I'm the slime oozing out from your tv set".
I am curious, What is the range of opinion on Trump in the UK? The gamut from the tabloids to Sky / BBC news, to the back benchers, They must think he's a boob, right?
Not draining swamp right? All these are just coincidence right?
Bob Corker - Republican
Jeff Flake - Republican
Orrin Hatch - Republican
No Name - Republican [Departure Soon]
[House]
Bill Shuster - Republican
Bob Goodlatte - Republican
Carol Shea-Porter - Democrat
Charles W. Dent - Republican
Darrell Issa - Republican
Dave Reichert - Republican
David Trott - Republican
Dennis Ross - Republican
Edward Royce - Republican
Elizabeth Esty - Democrat
Frank LoBiondo - Republican
Gene Green - Democrat
Gregg Harper - Republican
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - Republican
Jeb Hensarling - Republican
Jim Bridenstine - Republican
Joe Barton - Republican
John Delaney - Democrat
John J. Duncan, Jr. - Republican
Lamar Smith - Republican
Luis V. Gutierrez - Democrat
Lynn Jenkins - Republican
Niki Tsongas - Democrat
Paul Ryan - Republican
Rick Nolan - Democrat
Robert Brady - Democrat
Rodney Frelinghuysen - Republican
Ruben J. Kihuen - Democrat
Ryan Costello - Republican
Sam Johnson - Republican
Sandy Levin - Democrat
Ted Poe - Republican
Thomas Rooney - Republican
Trey Gowdy - Republican
[Resigned]
Al Franken - Democratic U.S. Senate
Blake Farenthold - Republican U.S. House
Jason Chaffetz - Republican U.S. House
John Conyers, Jr. - Democrat U.S. House
Louise Slaughter - Democrat U.S. House
Patrick Meehan - Republican U.S. House
Patrick J. Tiberi - Republican U.S. House
Thad Cochran - Republican U.S. Senate
Tim Murphy - Republican U.S. House
Trent Franks - Republican U.S. House
Xavier Becerra - Democrat Attorney General of California
All resignations or not seeking re-election, but nothing to see here
It's not draining a swamp if you just refill it with raw sewage, dummy
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I believe that positions of power attract the folks least suited to them. At the bare minimum the jobs attract decent people who are often corrupted by the power. At the worst, they attract persons who are already narcissists and ego-driven, or even, in some cases, sociopaths..
I'm not exaggerating or making that up. People on both sides of the aisle who can look the camera in the lens, and tell America what ever they think will get them elected; often dancing for the poll numbers, and little more. The most honest ones admit it.
To confound that, America has shifted more and more toward folks who either talk, or do, abrupt action. War on 'this', 'war on that,' Task force for this, task force for that. The sheep want an alpha wolf, as often as not; tough on crime, tough on the middle-east, tough on, tough on, tough on. Even if that wolf might eat them.
Following Nixon & Reagan, for many years the Ds and Rs seemingly competed to see who could pass the most Draconian drug bill; the Rs strutting their stuff re. keeping America safe from us hippies & the scourge of the boogey man, drugs, and the mainstream Ds, lacking much spinal fortitude for those years, were apparently terrified of being called "soft on crime" during an election year. So they would use US as the prop, to show America just how tough they really were on crime.
There's always got to be some poor bastard to push into the volcano to show the audience how committed the tribe's medicine men and leaders are. "Sorry 'bout that, but it's for the greater good... And if we get to cleanse the earth of some peace folks in the process, to permit the wages of war to march onward, then that's cool too, so, so be it..."
We weren't winning on pot because it was -their- idea, we're winning because it was OUR idea, and we didn't go away. Then we strategized on how we could get the most number of them on-board with excellent angles for campaign themes, further solidifying their shtick on the campaign trail, often helping to gather even greater number of supporters...
Never mind that we were inviting our own unintended consequences at the same time.
And for those still pushing for other issues involving social justice, the excessive/cruel treatment by the (In)Justice System kept right on a'rolling too. We now have journalists writing for blogs and fringe press being charged with terrorism, rioting, and more.
Louisiana just passed a State law making it a 20-year felony to be involved in organizing, consulting, or taking part in any way, in demonstrations at, or too near, any resource determined to be 'infrastructure.' Highway? Power plant? Dam?
So these freedom fighters who protect our rights, just drove another stake through the heart of the already wounded 1st amendment. There has to be control and order you know. Just ask the guys with the badges. They'll tell you.
I'm glad pot is getting legalized some place, some how, some time. I've personally witnessed families torn apart over anything from a 1/2 gram of crank, to a partial gram of coke, to some cannabis plants, to having some plants out in the corn field and happening to also have a .22 rifle as farmers, for ridding vermin, to.... the list goes on.
Class III weapons put to the heads of kids as young as 8 & 10 yrs. old by U.S. Marshalls and DEA, and their various cohorts. Mom & Dad in prison, kids at least temporarily in foster care, life's savings gone, vehicles gone, house gone, etc., etc..
But the only people who are going to bring change to the Oligarchy, the drug laws, or anything else in this Country, is US. The People. The same folks who have always gotten out in front of our frozen-in-poll-dependent-time 'leaders,' and pointed the way for them to see.
Even the 'good guys' required circumstances that would move them toward where they belonged in the first place.
So I personally don't think we owe too many of these folks much of anything in the way of an apology or gratitude for finally starting to remove their boots from our throats.
Their jobs were to help, assist, and to represent us and our interests all along. It's a damned shame so much effort and life has had to be poured into causing them to do that.
Wow! man.....there is some very beautiful. emotive and starkly honest text right there. In fact thru it all I was entranced and could not have said it better myself.
But it does conjure up the question that IF we the people have the power to change things if WE feel that things are not going the right way....so then where do we start?
How do we chip away at what we perceive as to be the precipice of destruction.....to form a staircase to salvation?
salvation
salˈveɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
noun: salvation
1.
preservation or deliverance from harm, ruin, or loss.