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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 08:33 AM Dec 2017

Excuse me. There are TRAITORS in Washington.

Sorry if I seem selfish, but I am concerned right now about our Social Security, health care, air quality, national parks and the integrity of our banks. In three more years, Trump/Putin could lunge us into a real 1930s style Great Depression that will make 2008 look like a cake walk.

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global1

(25,251 posts)
1. Glad To Have You Finally On Board....
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 08:39 AM
Dec 2017

you're finally getting it. We just need to convince millions and millions more people to wake up - so they get out and vote to get the Dems to retake the House & Senate in 2018. That's our only way out of this mess Trump & the Repugs have been managing.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
16. Good luck with that strategy. The only solution is a open revolt.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 11:50 AM
Dec 2017

Its like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. I can agree with one charge that Trump has made: The system is rigged. It has been and will continue to be with absolutely no hope of change in sight. The Republicans will be able to accomplish their goals with the Democratic Representatives feigning opposition. The only thing they are interested in is getting reelected and being on the dole. Let's face the facts. The working class are screwed and share the majority of their plight on their own inaction. The government is totally controlled by the wealthy and is in fact a plutocracy. All accomplished without one shot being fired.

The Republicans are now in the position to accomplish their cherished goals. The will bankrupt ever so-called entitlement program starting with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They have all ready slashed funds for a number of agencies with little mention by the so-called free press. Good luck my fellow Americans, that's all that we have.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Welcome to awareness, Mc, but you're not alone.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 08:53 AM
Dec 2017

Hopefully, each day more wake up, and that determined deniers at least become increasingly frightened.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
18. Well, we do know how count right. Half of us are supporting
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 06:45 AM
Dec 2017

dishonest elections, though, they predominate in some areas, and that's why things go wrong.

The biggest problem by far is excessive partisanship. They're enjoying thinking we're the devil, so anything they do is justified. Abortion is an enormous wedge issue.

Excessive partisanship has been carefully created to divide us by right-wing extremists among the new ultrawealthy classes.

So my answer is hang that new class up by its heels and shake it down, then put a strong leash on it. Their destructive greed prior to the 1930s caused enough anger to make it happen, so hopefully we'll get them back under control.

My other answer to get to the first one is that perhaps the right's making abortion illegal would not necessarily be the worst thing in the world. It'd take away from their handlers a huge weapon being cynically used to divide us, and abortion could be made legal again later on. A majority do support legalized abortion, and the actual number who don't really care is far larger than realized.

Although most cons have been convinced that's their core more issue, most of those are just really sporting their team jersey, fooling themselves. Alabama has always allowed marriage and intercourse between first cousins, but most anti-abortionists also approve allowing first cousins to abort. Nevertheless, Alabama will elect Roy Moore because his opponent is pro-abortion.

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,732 posts)
5. And we must stay focused on that ...
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 09:00 AM
Dec 2017

and not fall for all the distractions that emotionally blur the vision. Those distractions are compelling but we have to always correct our focus back to the coup that took place in our government.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
6. Yes there are traitors.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 09:09 AM
Dec 2017

McCarthy: “There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,”
McCarthy: "Swear to God."
Ryan: "No leaks . . . all right? This is how we know we're a real family here. That's how you know that we're tight.”

rat-fucking traitors...

Botany

(70,511 posts)
8. Don't forget Mitch McConnell.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:00 AM
Dec 2017

How did he know that by waiting until after the election that he would have somebody else to
vote for the SCOTUS?

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
11. That's right! I also remember how he conspired against Obama on the very night of his inauguration!
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:51 AM
Dec 2017

His goal was to make him a "One term President".

Then there's the issue of dark PAC money that leads to McConnell's door that likely has Russian roots.

What he did regarding Merrick Garland was criminal, but he got away with it!

I detest him almost as much as I do BLOTUS. Some days it's a toss-up, with Paul Ryan close behind.

Botany

(70,511 posts)
13. McConnell is very dirty
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:56 AM
Dec 2017

Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.

Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.

During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/tangled-web-connects-russian-oligarch-money-gop-campaigns

SWBTATTReg

(22,130 posts)
15. no more dark money!
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 11:49 AM
Dec 2017

This is contrary to American values on all of this 'dark' money coming into our elections. The 'Bernie Sanders' method (millions of contributions by individuals) should be the only method used in raising money for campaigns. It's obvious that the current method of raising money for campaigns is being grossly abused.

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
9. Exactly the scoudrels who are actual thieves and traitors are the worst.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:20 AM
Dec 2017

They are an infestation in Washington.

keithbvadu2

(36,817 posts)
10. Putin running for president again... Russia won America's election
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 10:23 AM
Dec 2017

Putin running for president again.

Campaign slogan - 'I made America Great Again'

(Conan)

-------------------------------

Trump supporters celebrated their victory.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/news/world/make-russia-great-again-if-trump-lifts-sanctions-putin-could-finally-establish-his-country-as-an-equal-to-u-s&pubdate=2016-12-03

dlk

(11,566 posts)
14. Republicans Want to Loot the Treasury and Scoop Up All of the Resources for the Rich
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 11:20 AM
Dec 2017

How are they different than any other criminal enterprise?

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