Americans are mad, and that is putting Republicans at risk.
A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds voters looking toward the midterm elections are overwhelmingly unhappy with the country's direction, dissatisfied with its political leadership, and interested in electing a Congress that will confront President Trump.
By close to 2-1, 58%-32%, those surveyed say they want to elect a Congress that mostly stands up to the president, not one that mostly cooperates with him.
The level of voter unrest is rare at a time of prosperity, when a 55% majority rate the economy as being in a recovery. Even that assessment has a partisan cast: Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to say the economy is growing.
Seven in 10 Republicans say the country is headed in the right direction. But more than eight in 10 Democrats say it's off on the wrong track, and seven in 10 independents agree with them.
This of course reinforces what we have already witnessed in these special elections where Democrats are emerging victorious in places that have traditionally been GOP strongholds.
That blue wave is definitely coming, and it is being driven by women, minorities, and the newly energized young people of this country.
This could be a bloodbath.
Metaphorically speaking of course.
This is true. Americans are through with bad actors, liars and outright enemies in the USA and those sitting in communist countries attempting to create chaos. We the people know who they are. We the people know what they do. We the people watch them daily. The Removal of toxic poison and cancer is a slow process.
ReplyDeleteNever forget...
America is the greatest and most powerful nation on earth along with her good citizens they will win always.
Meh, it's more than other countries. It is also this administration and it's supporters being extremely short sighted.
DeleteGreat article in Rolling Stone on the future of trucking as a career. Automation in the works (Tesla and others) for self-driving trucks. But neither the T.Rump administration or the silly truckers themselves want to be concerned about re-training. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/death-of-the-american-trucker-w514802
@ 6:29 - I disagree with your statement that America is the greatest nation on earth. We fall far short of other nations when it comes to universal heath care, education, standard of living, and environmental protections, while at the same time we have one of the highest murder rates in the developed world. Greatest? I don't think so.
DeleteAmerica is becoming a third world country under trump and we are already lagging behind most countries in healthcare, childcare and women's rights.
Delete@7:19: +++
Delete7.19 It is not the USA people that did not want universal health care, education standard of living and environment protections. It is those that bamboozled our politicians and NRA terrorist. We the people want those issues to be law. Ignorance and corruption have temporarily stole our country, get on board to turn it around. The republican party are the enemy today. The enemy changes their color and spots. Identify those that want chaos, hate, and freedom to murder. Identify them. I contend, America and her citizens are like no others, we will not allow communist dictators to corrupt our citizens, nation, politicians or way of life. We will take them out, send in team 6, and fight. Don't accept the chaos, change it.
DeleteTake alook at who wants to automate America. Who will profit? Who will lose their job? Americans must fight for what jobs are left and bring back proud manufacturing of all products. NO more shit from china. NO more foreign corporations buying our natural resources and polluting our soil and air. Stop the take over of our country.
Delete@8:16 "The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart
DeleteRobots are hiding in plain sight. It’s time we stop ignoring them."
https://medium.com/basic-income/the-real-story-of-automation-beginning-with-one-simple-chart-8b95f9bad71b
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/computer-scientist-author-jaron-lanier-part-1/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/computer-scientist-author-jaron-lanier-part-2/
https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-New-Everything-Encounters-Reality/dp/1627794093
'Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox'
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-cant-fight-the-future?ref=home
I'm the 7:19am poster and want to add this. If you have never seen this or haven't watched it lately, I would encourage you to watch this six minute YouTube video. It's the opening scene from HBO's "Newsroom," titled, "Why America Isn't the Greatest Country in the World Anymore." From 2012, but even more relevant today:
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@8:54 Truth & CONsequences have everlasting
Deletere·per·cus·sion$.
I would use a bloodbath politically or electorally speaking. And I welcome and work for it.
ReplyDeleteOT but Raw Story has a good read “Bill Maher calls Jared Kushner ‘so stupid’ he might as well be called ‘Jared Palin’”
ReplyDeleteBeginning to end GOOD was Real Time last night!
DeleteSeriously, you don't need to post the link in every thread today
DeleteDevin Nunes says Stephen Colbert is a danger to the country for making criticizing and making fun of Nunes.
DeleteI guess he must have got that redacted memo Stephen taped to his door.
"Devin Nunes is a [redacted]."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/swedish-appliance-manufacturer-pulls-plug-250-million-tennessee-plant-investment-retaliation-trump-tariffs/
ReplyDelete"“Public interest, the collective well-being of the community and the safety of residents must be weighed for all projects introduced into a municipality,”"
Delete200 CitiZens WON!
@8:12 157 to be exact.
Deletehttps://thinkprogress.org/oil-company-loses-suit-d94a0b09804a/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-trade-war-globalization_us_5a99dacfe4b089ec353a4c95
Delete"rump hasn’t shown a hint of interest in reversing any of this humanitarian damage. But criticism of his tariff has come with a reflexive defense of these policies that have empowered anti-democratic movements because they are, ultimately, undemocratic.
Trade on mutually beneficial terms can’t solve every political problem. But by guaranteeing citizens of democracies access to resources, jobs and credit, it could remove the economic fuel for resentment and hostility. Instead, globalization has created the impression that the system is rigged ― because it is."
Hope those soon to be out of work Tennesseeans are proud of their Deplorable representatives in government.
DeleteHow's that MAGA working for ya?
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/dont-apologize-double-pastor-reveals-trump-encouraged-post-pictures-hillary-blackface/
ReplyDelete'Pastor! Who told you to apologize?” Trump allegedly said in the call.'"“It’s because of Donald Trump that I became a Republican, learning his principles and learning what the conservative movement really stood for,” Burns told the The Post and Courier.
“He was just such a normal person,” Pastor Burns" <NUT$
100! ''“Tickets to the event are priced at $2,700 a person, while a reception and two seats at a dinner with Trump cost $25,000.”
ReplyDeleteAs the report notes, this fundraiser – dubbed by Trump’s team as “victory reception” – is a make-up event for a similar event he was forced to cancel in January when he marked his first year in the White House by shutting down the federal government " 2X
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/03/trump-mar-lago-fundraiser.html
humanitarian VALUES vs Gloataholic dRUMPf
Delete'Trump’s sole VALUE is being an impressive WINner of the game'
" “this will be the greatest waste of time, money and energy in my lifetime, by a factor of 100.”
"“That makes me smart,” when Hillary Clinton accused him of not paying taxes for 18 years."
'The only VALUE is being top dog. WINning is its own reward and the only reward.''To WIN, you need to use other people’s VALUE$ against them.'"he’ll say and do anything to WIN."
"His hypocrisy and lying know no bounds. He has no higher purpose in mind, nothing to constrain his quest for ever more power."
"We have elected a rebel without a cause"
"greater goods don’t matter to pathological climbers they can exploit any popular cause. There have been plenty of leftist pathological climbers, and religious ones too, people who will pay lip service to any cause if it helps them gain and hoard impressive power."
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/psychological-condition-really-explains-donald-trumps-twisted-worldview/
What's he celebrating this time? Our soon to be TRADE WAR with the world?
DeleteOT? "The State Department “could literally change this overnight,” "the Obama administration couldn’t OR wouldn’t modernize government policy on who gets to be a U.S. citizen" {Easy Peasy}
ReplyDelete"Some Kids Born To LGBTQ Americans Aren’t U.S. Citizens
The State Department is relying on an outdated policy that is at odds with federal court precedents."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbtq-parents-kids-citizens-state-department_us_5a8848a4e4b00bc49f449455
The battle is esoteric in nature. Not exoteric.
ReplyDeleteIts both. But its esoteric.
~IT's~ On NOW!
ReplyDelete"rump has vowed to seek revenge on BuzzFeed for publishing the Steele Dossier almost a year ago. NOW, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is suing BuzzFeed for defamation." BRING ~IT~!
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/one-trumps-devious-tactics-tries-silence-critics/
Depositions anyone!!!
Deletehttp://www.good4utah.com/news/politics/proposed-bill-would-rename-highway-to-honor-president-trump/1002487304
ReplyDeletehttps://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0481.html
MorMenmenBull$hit! Winning!
"“The president whose trademark campaign-trail dinner consisted of two McDonald’s Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish sandwiches and a chocolate milkshake is cutting back on doctor’s orders to drop a few pounds, according to three people familiar with the matter. Less red meat, more fish. One person said it’s been two weeks since he saw the president eat a hamburger. …
ReplyDelete“[Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson] and the vice president’s doctor are pushing healthy food choices throughout the West Wing. Trump so far has embraced the new regimen, giving aides the impression he feels he is thriving on his new dieT""
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2018/03/03/dems-spending-millions-already-to-boost-vulnerable-senate-democrats-trump-pushes-against-ny-nj-tunnel-251928
So no big mac, but 4 filet-o-fish instead.
DeleteSorry, but does anyone believe Trump is eating salads and soups? Bacon only once this week?
DeleteJust more propaganda, like that one pound short of obese line. We all know he's obese. We've seen the comparative photos.
Let him lie about his food. As long as he's still putting away the cheeseburgers, fries and malts, we are that closer to a "heart attack impeachment."
LOCK THEM ALL UP!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/hes-become-part-chaos-conservative-editor-turns-john-kelly-calls-chants-lock/
We need to get 'blue' governors, though! The Koch brothers are itching at the bites to get an extra State governor to be 'red', so they can convene a constitutional convention and revamp the Constitution! We HAVE to prevent that!
ReplyDeletehttp://billmoyers.com/story/kochs-to-rewrite-constitution/
Tell Koch their services are about to be severed.
DeleteLike way way back when Dain Bosworth managed the funds.
Like Trump: "your fired"!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-silicon-valley-giant-bankrolling-devin-nunes?via=desktop&source=Reddit
ReplyDelete" It was the timing of the giving.""The donations, which totalled nearly $35,000 came from five executives, several of whom gave so much that they surpassed the legal limit and had to be refunded."
"Oracle is a Republican outlier in Silicon Valley, and its executives’ right-leaning politics (and political contributions) present opportunities in Trump’s Washington unavailable to competitors like Amazon"
"Nunes does not represent the district where Oracle is headquartered."
That doesn't mean he can't or won't make decisions that benefit Oracle a lot. He's bought and he'll stay bought until he's voted out.
Deletehttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-personnel-key-administration-posts-38/
ReplyDeleteInTenT^
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-cant-fight-the-future?ref=home
ReplyDeleteFULCRUM
"men were “allowed to be men”
" President Lincoln declared that the country could not survive half slave, half free, and it took a civil war to force these two nations: one brutal but pastoral, the other urban and focused on finance and technological innovation, often with its own kind of cruelty, to remain"
"rump is speeding us toward decline—the very decline his supporters so feared. His imperious leadership; his family’s grubby pretense at royalty and the apparent mad dash among members of his cabinet and White House team to hawk their positions for cash and luxuries have the feel of a decrepit regime looting the palace in its final days; stuffing the silver in their coats as they flee into exile."
"Everyone went to (separate) church on Sundays and everyone “got along.” It’s a plasticine world that for many must feel like it truly existed, though of course it never did."
"Black and brown people aren’t giving up our dignity, including the right to protest and to survive mundane encounters with police. Immigrants aren’t going away (and in fact we need them to keep the economy and the safety net flush). LGBT people aren’t 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. "
" the America that objects to Russian interference in our elections, that welcomes immigrants and their economic contributions, that recognizes that even ancient institutions like marriage can modernize, that views women’s full equality as a boon not a threat to civilization, that doesn’t want to be ruled from Biblical texts or by a savage gun lobby, and that wants America to be a part of the world, not it’s creaky, cranky, lonely adversary.""Generation X, polls at 51-41 percent blue over red, for Millennials the Democratic-over-Republican preference is a daunting 62-29" "Young Republicans are more likely than their older counterparts to have left the party after Trump’s election, with nearly a quarter of those aged 18 to 29 doing so during Trump’s first six months in office. "
FB>"It is fair to ask just now whether a child psychologist is needed to help us make sense of the chaos in the White House. Because it strikes many people that we seem to have a petulant and spoiled toddler throwing a temper tantrum, with the Oval Office resembling a romper room.
ReplyDeleteThere is no joy in asking this question.I love the United States of America and its people. I cherish what are on our best days. And to see our economy, society, and national destiny at the whim of a man who strikes so many people—at home and abroad—as not having the temperament for the Presidency. To consider this is to be struck with a great and profound sadness.
From trade deals to gun policy to immigration rights to medical care to every other aspect of our complex and interconnected polity, Mr Trump may be inflicting real damage with what, by any reasonable analysis, is his recklessness.
We need to have a functioning government. The world needs for us to have a functioning government. Was all of this predictable? An argument can be made that the answer is yes if you reread the assessments of bipartisan critics during the campaign.
But that is now for the historians to judge. It is up to everyone in a position of power and everyone with the right to vote who believes that what is happening is dangerous to put a halt to it." Dan the Man Rather
Thrives on raging..."If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-twitter-rages-eu-threat-trade-war-push-back-steel-tariffs/
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/03/nafta-weighs-trumps-tariffs-drive-new-u-s-auto-concerns.html
Delete"In mid-February, MEMA wrote to Trump opposing any action saying it was necessary for auto supply companies to have access to specialty steel and aluminum products so they can keep manufacturing parts in the United States."
{Do you think he read it?} MEma
It probably has more to do with our cars not meeting their strict emissions standards and guzzling too much gas which is quite expensive in Europe. They're not going to buy cars that are dirty and wasteful.
Delete"Trump has a history of legal battles. USA Today documented 3500 suits in federal and state courts during the past three decades. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits."
ReplyDelete"Trump boasts that he “never” settles lawsuits, for fear of encouraging more. Yet the fact is that he and his businesses have settled with plaintiffs in at least 100 cases reviewed by USA TODAY.
Trump’s general counsel, Alan Garten, defended the number of lawsuits. “Our philosophy is that we are a company of principle,” he said. “When we believe we are in the right, we are going to pursue the matter to the end. If that requires that we go to trial and present evidence to a jury, we are prepared to do so. We are not going to cave to pressure.”"Cohen reportedly set up a private LLC shortly before the 2016 presidential en to pay Clifford, following an alleged July 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported in January.
After the initial reports of the payment, Cohen said in a statement that Trump “vehemently denies” any encounter between the two.
Clifford’s manager also said last month that Clifford now believes Cohen voided the non-disclosure by admitting to the payment.
“Everything is off now, and Stormy is going to tell her story,” said Gina Rodriguez, Clifford’s manager."
"the real unlawful conduct was the payoff by Trump’s attorney that was in direct violation of campaign rules."
https://malialitman.com/2018/03/03/stormy-daniels-message-to-trump-karma-will-always-bite-you-in-the-ass/
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/03/03/stormy-daniels-2016-election.html
Delete"Aside from the fact that nobody truly believes that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen forked over more than $100,000 of his own money to protect his boss, the payment itself has sparked legal questions – many of which have been overlooked or lost in the constantly changing news cycle.
As the Post added in its reporting, the payoff could have violated campaign law, according to a pair of FEC complains.
“The timing of the Oct. 27 payment, 13 days after the initial deadline and just 12 days before the election, could be significant,” the report noted. “Two complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission argue that the payment was intended to influence the Nov. 8 election and violated campaign finance law because it was not reported as an in-kind donation.”
Both the legal and the ethical aspects surrounding this episode are jaw-dropping. If former President Barack Obama had an affair with a porn star and paid her to shut up about it just before the election, it would be front-page news until the end of time."
I think he meant "prints and pull."
DeleteIf any of you don't vote in the upcoming mid-term election then you really need to keep your opinions to yourself from now on.
ReplyDeleteBecause you have the chance to make a real difference.
don't bitch
don't whine
don't blame anyone else...
VOTE.
OT (but maybe not so much because of the CORRUPTION INHERENT IN THE FAMILY!)- I posted previously on Ivanka's 'cutting her teeth' on the Panama Trump Ocean Club project, rife with mobster ties, but boy she's come a loooong way, baby:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/blistering-column-destroys-princess-ivanka-ties-mobsters-shady-business-deals/
"“They’re tired of watching us do the same old thing and expect different results,” she said at an event first reported on by Business Insider. “So I’m optimistic about the future. There are some bright young people out there doing some amazing things.”
ReplyDeleteHelping those bright young people would be better than running herself, Obama said.
“This is why I’m not going to run for president”"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/michelle-obama-wont-run-president-ambitious-plan-instead/