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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Lucky . . .

. . . duckies . . .

(from Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:  A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken)
". . . In all this talk, one thing that gets lost is that there are forty-two million working Americans who have not gotten one cent in (Bush) tax cuts. The Wall Street Journal refers to them as "Lucky Duckies" because they earn so little that they don't pay any income taxes. Many lucky duckies are deeply in debt to predatory lenders. Man of these lucky duckies couldn't afford college and cannot afford health insurance. Some of these lucky duckies, working Americans, will be homeless sometime during the year. Their children, the lucky ducklings, are far more like than my kids, or Paul Gigot's, to be killed violently or die of a preventable disease. . . Apparently, the Wall Street Journal thinks that the unluckiest thing in the world is paying taxes. . . "





Friday, December 13, 2019

From No Less . . .

. . . than THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE.com . . .



(from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-case-for-impeachment-is-overwhelming/?fbclid=IwAR2zKmeOQSb17XK9i5wkQ6cqtLOT1XNrCf9ymzaxvym0brP-aewzF2dpr2w)
". . . The case for Trump’s impeachment seemed quite strong more than two months ago, and the evidence provided to the House’s impeachment inquiry has strengthened it further. The president’s abuse of power is not in dispute. It is clear that he used the powers of his office in an attempt to extract a corrupt favor for his personal benefit, and this is precisely the sort of offense that impeachment was designed to keep in check. It doesn’t matter if the attempt succeeded. All that matters is that the attempt was made. It is also undeniable that he has sought to impede the investigation into his misconduct. The president has committed the offenses he is accused of committing, and the House should approve both articles of impeachment. . . "





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Friday, November 15, 2019

Bigger . . .



Own work Author CharlesAPhillips63

. . . than mere partisan politics . . .



". . . it was the threat, not the fact, of impeachment that drove Nixon from office, and that the two other impeachments in U.S. history — of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton — couldn’t gain the three-quarters Senate vote required to remove a president from office. . . All Americans ought to be deeply fearful about what this portends for the future. If those responsible for illegal and corrupt acts don’t pay the price for their flagrant disregard of our laws and the U.S. Constitution — and if new laws and institutions are not created to prevent their happening again — the nation’s future is not bright. . ."





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Saturday, September 28, 2019

In Case . . .

. . .  you didn't know . . .


(from https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/09/26/the-definition-of-collusion-as-impeachment-proceeds-the-risk-trump-poses-to-all-americans/)
". . . There is an impact that Trump’s “collusion” and corruption have on everyday Americans, whether they wear pussy hats or MAGA caps, an impact that Democrats have permitted Republicans to obscure. Trump’s actions effectively rob Americans of the powerful executive on foreign policy issues that our Constitution very imperfectly sought to ensure, without stripping the weakened Trump of the tools he can wield to punish those who call him on his weakness. . .Because he always self-deals, Trump has made himself an intolerably weak President, one who makes the US less secure at every step. Republicans defending him need to be held accountable for weakening the US. . ."





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Thursday, August 1, 2019

When . . .

. . . do we CALL this? . . .
(from
". . . President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that African Americans are so delighted with his attacks on the city of Baltimore and US congressman Elijah Cummings, an African American, that they are calling him at the White House in large numbers to thank him. . .He also claimed that African Americans are generally happy with his performance as president. . . "What I've done for African Americans, no president, I would say, has done. Now, I'll say this: they are so happy, because I get the calls," he told reporters as he left for a speech in Virginia that was boycotted by black state lawmakers. . . A Fox News poll conducted from July 21 to July 23 had Trump at 75% disapproval among black registered voters, with 22% approval. In a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted June 28 to July 1, 81% of African Americans said they disapproved; 18% approved. Both of those approval numbers were substantially better than the one in the new Quinnipiac poll, but still: On the whole, large majorities of African Americans were displeased with him. . ."


. . . it's NOT funny anymore!






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Friday, May 10, 2019

Despond . . .


"If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters."
-Samuel Adams





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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Water . . .

(https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/water-human-right)
". . . The United States and 40 other countries abstained from the U.N. vote to recognize access to water as a human right (in 2016). . . Human rights come in many forms; they aren’t all prohibitions hammered into the stone tablet of the Bill of Rights. Americans tend to talk about only this kind of right, though. For this, I blame Thomas Jefferson. . . We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. . . Jefferson’s passage is so beautifully clear that it has come to define the word right in the American mind. But he is describing just one kind of right: the preexisting negative right. Preexisting because it doesn’t need a government to create it, and negative because it describes something the government cannot do: It cannot take the right away. Leave us alone to pursue happiness, Jefferson says, and we’ll be fine. Most of the rights in the Bill of Rights are corollaries to Jefferson’s description, but the Bill doesn’t ever claim to be a complete and exclusive list of human rights. . ."




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Friday, April 27, 2018

Let Us . . .

. . . bow our heads. . .
(. . . the prayer offered by Rev. Patrick Conroy on the House floor on Nov. 6, 2017, before tax legislation was passed and signed the into law by President Donald Trump. . .)


(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-ryan-forces-out-house-chaplain-n869421)
". . . "As legislation on taxes continues to be debated this week and next, may all members be mindful that the institutions and structures of our great nation guarantee the opportunities that have allowed some to achieve great success, while others continue to struggle," Conroy said. . . "May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans," he added. . . "


(. . . then Paul Ryan FIRED him!)





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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

History . . .


(from https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/murphy-brown-returns-20-years-later-culture-feminist-icon-helped-n841366)
". . . “Murphy Brown” fired back in its fifth-season premiere, depicting its protagonist listening to the (Dan Quayle) speech and musing: “Perhaps it’s time for the vice president to expand his definition and recognize that, whether by choice or circumstance, families come in all shapes and sizes.”. . . The feud between Quayle and Bergen’s primetime alter ego dominated headlines at the height of President George H.W. Bush’s re-election campaign. Bush went on to lose the election to Bill Clinton that November. . . “It’s hard to overstate how huge a deal that was in American culture,” Press said. “[Quayle] demonized a fictional character for being representative of the downfall of American family values!”. . ."






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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Suffering . . .


(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/president-trump-rips-lavar-ball-yet-again-blasting-him-fool-n823211)
". . . Trump (recently) escalated his feud with the father of one of the three UCLA basketball players who was detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting (LaVar Ball), calling him a "fool." . . . "It wasn't the White House, it wasn't the State Department, it wasn't father LaVar's so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME," Trump tweeted early Wednesday. "Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man's version of Don King, but without the hair." . . . "ungrateful" . . . LaVar Ball, known for his bombastic public persona, has refused to thank Trump, telling CNN on Monday: "How'd he help? If he helped, I would say thank you.". . ."


(https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-pocahontas-insult-makes-mockery-native-americans-diverse-history-ncna824471,  Arvina Martin is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and is Stockbridge-Munsee)
" . . . Trump had the opportunity to show respect to a group of brave Americans by bearing witness to their stories, and he squandered it. Instead of preparing something meaningful to say to these American heroes, he chose to reveal his own ignorance in conversational banter. He could have acknowledged the place of importance that these men hold in their home communities, and how they continue to be role models to so many. He could've acknowledged the sacrifices they made despite the terrible crimes the United States has inflicted on so many Native people living within its borders. He could have, at the very least, acknowledged the Code Talkers' accomplishments somewhere other than in front of the portrait of the architect of so much mass death and displacement for indigenous people. . . . But he didn't, because he had no idea how great they were. And he has no idea how great they are, let alone who they . . . are.



Note:  These are not anomalies.  These are not gaffes.  Not only has he been accused of similar transgressions to those of Roy Moore, Louis C.K., Al Franken and Harvey Weinstein, in addition this person exhibits symptoms of a severe problem on a daily basis causing the general population of this country much suffering.




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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Let's . . .

. . . File A Joint Tax Return . . .
(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-populist-not-when-it-comes-his-tax-plan-n824851)
THEN
". . . it will no longer be accurate to describe him (Trump) as an economic populist who pursues policies to benefit the poor and the middle class at the expense of the wealthiest Americans. The reason: The Senate tax plan he’s selling is the exact opposite of economic populism. . . During the 2016 presidential campaign — and even in his first year as president — Trump portrayed himself as an economic populist. . .  Do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy? TRUMP: "I do, I do, including myself. I do." (Today Show town hall, April 21, 2016). . . “The thing I'm going to do is make sure the middle class gets good tax breaks. Because they have been absolutely shunned.” . . .(“Meet the Press,” May 8, 2016) . . . “I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves” (GOP convention speech, July 21, 2016) . . . “We are transferring power from Washington DC and giving it back to you, the American People ... The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” (Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 2017) . . . “I have wealthy friends that say to me I don’t mind paying more tax. . . " (Wall Street Journal interview, July 25, 2017) . . “Our framework includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low-income and middle-income households, not the wealthy and well-connected. They can call me all they want. It’s not going to help. I’m doing the right thing, and it’s not good for me. Believe me.” (Speech on the GOP tax plan, Sept. 27, 2017). . ."

NOW
". . . Under the Senate tax plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the poorest Americans are worse off (due to no longer receiving tax credits because the bill eliminates the health-care law’s individual mandate), while the richest American are better off; . . . Even if you exclude the individual mandate from the analysis, the CBO showsthe poorest will see their taxes go up by 2027, because the individual tax cuts are temporary while the corporate ones are permanent. . ."


Let's File A Joint Tax Return

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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Jump . . .

(from http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/trump-s-presidency-enters-uncharted-waters-n793446)
". . . Four in ten Americans now support the impeachment of President Donald Trump - a ten point jump in the last six months - according to a new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). . . The survey found that 40 percent of Americans - including nearly three-quarters of Democrats but just seven percent of Republicans - back impeaching the president and removing him from office. That's compared to 30 percent who said the same in February. Trump's overall favorability rating in the poll stands at 38 percent favorable, 56 percent unfavorable. . ."





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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Best . . .

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/07/17/trumps-made-in-america-week-is-a-hypocritical-joke/?utm_term=.8f4fae4be0d0)
". . . “Made in America” week, a new Washington ritual during which a president who routinely boasts of being the best at everything admits that he is not the best after all. Because if American-made products are the best, then products made abroad, such as many of Trump’s own branded products, are by definition not the best. . . But because the Trump Organization and related companies haven’t seen fit to produce their own goods in the United States, that means either their products aren’t the best or Trump is engaged in a craven manipulation of his fans. Or both. . . Trump’s own clothing and home accessories are produced overseas in countries including China, Bangladesh and Mexico. When he excoriates American companies for moving manufacturing jobs overseas, then, he is including himself in his own criticism — but of course would never admit that. Instead, when questioned about why he manufactures items overseas, his answer was, essentially, everyone else does it.". . ."




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Friday, June 2, 2017

More Facts . . .

. . . to IGNORE . . .


(from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paris-agreement-science-research-wrong-misunderstood-latest-a7768296.html)
". . . Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) officials have said US President Donald Trump badly misunderstood their research when he cited it to justify withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. . . "Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100 . . . Tiny, tiny amount." . . . The Cambridge, Massaschusetts-based research university published a study in April 2016 titled "How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make?" showing that if countries abided by their pledges in the deal, global warming would slow by between 0.6 degree and 1.1 degrees Celsius by 2100. . . "If we don't do anything, we might shoot over 5 degrees or more and that would be catastrophic," said John Reilly, the co-director of the program, adding that MIT's scientists had had no contact with the White House and were not offered a chance to explain their work. . ."


(from http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kerry-trump-decision-abdication-of-responsibility/)
He (John Kerry, former Secretary of State) accused Mr. Trump of "unilaterally walking backwards from science and backwards from leadership on behalf of polluters and fringe ideologues," and said it "may be the most self-defeating action in American history."





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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

High . . .


. . . time . . .



. . . somebody in the government put an end to the current farce that has been staged for the benefit of ill-equipped citizens who are sick and tired of what goes on behind closed D.C. doors.  I, quite frankly, am both insulted and embarrassed that the chief executive of my country is not only unable to speak two consecutive coherent sentences, but either cannot, or refuses to read (and therefore, learn) anything, and I, as an American, can only sit back and watch. . . and cheez, is there a LOT to watch. . .


(http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/ and https://www.google.com/#q=trump+psychological+analysis)
". . . President Donald Trump claimed that former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has definitively said the Trump campaign did not collude in Moscow’s interference with the 2016 election. . . Clapper’s comments have not been as definitive as Trump said. Later that day, Clapper directly contradicted Trump’s claim in a TV interview. . . "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story," Trump said May 11. "It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won." . . . In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, then-FBI Director James Comey confirmed that his agency was investigating Russian efforts to interfere with the election. . .John D. Gartner said Trump “is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president.”. . . He believes Trump shows signs of “malignant narcissism,” which is defined as a mix of narcissism, antisocial personality disorder, aggression and sadism in Campbells’ Psychiatric Dictionary. . . In December, three leading professors of psychiatry wrote to Barack Obama expressing their grave concerns over Trump's mental stability . . . Through numerous interviews and his infamous tweeting sprees, it seems Trump only believes facts that praise him - anything else is ‘fake news’ in his eyes. And according to psychologists, this pathological disconnection from reality is dangerous. . ."




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Monday, July 25, 2016

Great . . .

Headline . . .
. . . well, OK.  ANOTHER great headline . . .


American Gas Will Be First to Pass Through Expanded Panama Canal

-American Journal of Transportation







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