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Post by nashville11 on Jul 8, 2017 15:13:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2017 15:36:42 GMT
Huff Post.. Ivanka Trump sparked accusations of nepotism after she stepped into her father Donald Trumpâs shoes for a brief period at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday. In a move that has rankled many of the Trump administrationâs critics, the presidentâs daughter sat between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Chinese President Xi Jinping during her fatherâs temporary absence from a working session of world leaders titled âPartnership with Africa, Migration and Health.â A Russian official tweeted a photograph of Ivanka Trump sitting in between the duo and it immediately went viral. The image has since been deleted, but not before it could be shared and criticized by people online:.......
My goodness, this is wrong on so many levels it's almost laughable if it weren't so serious!...when will someone, somewhere higher up, decides to give a damn & say enough of this foolishness & actually start proceeding to stop this crap! Honestly! I don't understand how those that could put a stop to this just stand by & complain but do nothing! Dem's, Ind or Rep...come on people! Enough already. We already how you can't fix stupid, so what the heck are we waiting for! Boot the whole damn family to the curb, but better yet, LOCK THEM UP! đĄđĄđĄđĄ.....JMHO of course. UGH!
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 8, 2017 16:33:17 GMT
I don't understand why this is allowed to go on. The nepotism has gone virtually unchallenged by anyone other than the press even though neither Ivanka nor Jared have any experience or qualifications whatsoever to back up their prominent roles. It makes absolutely no sense, and makes our whole country look like idiots in the eyes of the world. Jared goes around with so many titles attached that you can't even name them all, and yet in the past six months has anyone heard of one single, solitary actual thing he's done other than take a trip to Iraq and tag along with JA when he went to Israel and the Vatican? Oh yes, he and Ivanka have gone skiing a couple of times.
As for the meeting between JA and Putin, who are you going to believe? JA's account or Putin's? They certainly aren't the same. Probably the truth lies somewhere in the middle. But, how bad is it when you can't believe your own President? And JA's own ego makes him easy for someone like Putin to play like a fiddle. Heck! You don't even have to be a trained KGB operative to manipulate him. All you have to do is give him a little flattery.
As bad as Nixon was, he did understand world diplomacy and knew how the government works. Too bad the Republicans can't resurrect him and put him in JA's place. The whole country would be far better off.
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Post by birdgal on Jul 8, 2017 18:29:57 GMT
He's a tv personality. Not a politician. Certainly not a president. Did anyone honestly, I mean deep down honestly, expect him to be anything other than what he is? He showed us who he was all through the campaign. Even before the campaign.
WW gives me all the tools I need to live a healthy life style and yet I still struggle to make healthy choices. To change my behavior and my habits. Change is difficult. Not impossible but damn difficult. Here's a guy that had a tv show about firing people. A guy born with a gold spoon in his mouth. A guy who thinks he's the greatest thing on earth because of all the money he has. Sometimes I think money truly is our God but I digress. I don't expect him to change. If you expect nothing you're never disappointed.
I also don't expect people from his Party to grow a pair. If they haven't done it by now it's not going to happen. They don't want to be on his bad side. Dictators rule by making sure everyone is afraid of them. Fear works. Fear rules.
He's not going to change. He's not going to listen to anybody. He doesn't have an ounce of humility. To me humility is knowing I don't know it all. Knowing I need others to tell me I might want to correct something in my life or make a few changes.
Humility isn't a weakness it's a strength.
Okay, rant over. Carry on with your day and hope it's a meaningful one. lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2017 22:33:03 GMT
Huff Post... Two weeks after Donald J. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination last year, his eldest son arranged a meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin, according to confidential government records described to The New York Times.
The previously undisclosed meeting was also attended by Mr. Trumpâs campaign chairman at the time, Paul J. Manafort, as well as the presidentâs son-in-law, Jared Kushner, according to interviews and the documents, which were outlined by people familiar with them.
While President Trump has been dogged by revelations of undisclosed meetings between his associates and Russians, this episode at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, is the first confirmed private meeting between a Russian national and members of Mr. Trumpâs inner circle during the campaign. It is also the first time that his son Donald J. Trump Jr. is known to have been involved in such a meeting.
Representatives of Donald J. Trump Jr. and Mr. Kushner confirmed the meeting after The Times approached them with information about it. In a statement, Donald Jr described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program. The statement did not address whether the presidential campaign was discussed..........
So, what, did Russia & Putin "adopt" the Trump Family!?!?!?.... LOL Good Grief, the stupidly of this family continues on, doesn't it. đ
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 9, 2017 15:30:58 GMT
. . . Did anyone honestly, I mean deep down honestly, expect him to be anything other than what he is? He showed us who he was all through the campaign. Even before the campaign. I think some of his followers really did think he was suddenly going to miraculously become an actual President once he stepped inside of that Oval Office. Those are the delusional ones who are still trying to tell themselves, "maybe this is all just part of some overriding plan he has that he is trying to keep secret for the good of the country, and he does all these other crazy things like the tweets just to throw the media off the trail." Yep, there are still a few delusional followers out there who truly do believe that. As for the rest of the country and the rest of the world, they realize exactly what he is. There are just some stupid people out there, but the people that anger me the most are those in positions of authority who know exactly what he is and how incapable of running the country he is, and yet they continue to enable him in order to keep their own cushy little seats of power.
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 9, 2017 15:39:06 GMT
So, what, did Russia & Putin "adopt" the Trump Family!?!?!?.... LOL Good Grief, the stupidly of this family continues on, doesn't it. đ Maybe that's it, Linda! Maybe Putin did adopt them all. Certainly he seems to have the upper hand for whatever reason. I strongly believe that he has something on Trump and or his family that he is using to hold over Tweety's head. I don't know if it is just damaging information, if there really was actual collusion about the election (we know Russia interfered), or if it is financial in that Russian banks are holding Trump debts, but there is definitely something there, IMHO. Personally, I suspect that when the truth actually does come tumbling out that it is going to be a combination of both collusion and financial. It's all kind of like a sweater really. Very tightly knit and closely held, but once you find that single loose thread and start to pull it's all going to come apart.
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 9, 2017 16:48:34 GMT
Had to LOL when I read that the JA's WH minions are blaming the Obama administration because all the nice hotels were filled already for the G20, and he had to stay in government housing. Of course, the picture of the government housing where he is staying was pretty danged nice. Honestly! They can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 9, 2017 16:57:24 GMT
"Farce may make for a fun night at the theater. But farce in the governance of your country is terrifying.
Yet that is where we are once again this morning. The President of the United States has hit is Twitter account with yet more incoherence and dangerous misunderstandings of reality. He suggests that we form "an impenetrable Cyber Security unit" with Russia? He seems to buy the assurances from Vladimir Putin, a trained KGB agent, that the Russians didn't meddle in the election?
As the former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara tweeted with tongue firmly in cheek, "When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he "vehemently denied it," we just dropped it usually."
In a recent post I referred to Mr. Trump as the "leader of the free world," long a phrase for journalists seeking a synonym for president. Many of you questioned the validity of this convention in the comments section. After the latest G20 Summit, where the world once again took the measure of our President and saw no leadership or sense of understanding of the burdens of freedom, I can see understand the argument for retiring the phrase.
But the reality remains that the United States is still a very important nation on the world stage and the President has tremendous powers. The fact that he is wielding them with such recklessness makes the situation all the more perilous. Once again I ask, what of his many enablers? When will they see what the rest of the world is seeing and say enough is enough?" -- Dan Rather
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I am beginning to think they are never going to say "enough is enough." They're too enslaved to whatever power they can wield, and they're willing to sacrifice the entire country just to try and hang on to it. The only way they're going to stop enabling him, is if they see him start to become a threat to themselves and their own ambitions.
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 9, 2017 17:02:58 GMT
The Top 15 Contenders for the Democratic 2020 nomination per this article: thehill.com/homenews/campaign/311436-top-15-democratic-presidential-candidates-in-2020Frankly, I find this a little discouraging. While there are several people on the list that I like, none of them stand out to me as someone with strong chances to win when we look at what's going on in the country now. What do you think? Do you see any of these people that you think has a strong chance at this point? Of course, a LOT can change by the time we're ready to select a nominee. It's still very early. Also bearing in mind that I thought Trump's campaign was a joke until suddenly it wasn't.
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Post by birdgal on Jul 9, 2017 17:16:46 GMT
" Very tightly knit and closely held, but once you find that single loose thread and start to pull it's all going to come apart."
If that ever does happen that's when you throw a big thick blanket of, "Fake news, it's all Obama's fault, the press is picking on me, just trust me" on top of it and try to smother it. His blind supporters will gladly believe him and our weak, inept and cowardly Congress will smile and approve.
I hope with all my heart you're correct. The man is evil. Pure evil. Evil is cunning and calculating.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2017 17:28:14 GMT
GOP Says Veterans Should Pay Their Own GI Benefits
Republicans have been thriving on screwing Americans out of their rights for decades now, and taking great pleasure in doing so. They tout themselves as the party of âvaluesâ and âmoralsâ and âfamily,â but we all know thatâs a bunch of malarkey.
Also a bunch of malarkey is how they fall all over themselves with praise as the party that supports the troops, and Republicans in the House of Representatives just proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt with the move that was just taken against veterans.
According to the Military Times, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) has drafted legislation that would charge soldiers $100 a month for access to the GI Bill. The bill would deduct a total of $2,400 from each soldierâs paycheck to make them eligible.
To be clear, this money would not be used to offset spending, because it would only be a fraction of the total cost. Supporters of the proposal (pronounced âas solesâ) say that having soldiers âbuy inâ would make future budget-makers less likely to cut veterans benefits, which is a lie, for two reasons:
1) It is really an attempt to reduce the number of veterans whose educations they have to pay for by forcing already low-paid soldiers to give up $2,400.
2) The âpeople likely to cut soldiersâ benefitsâ are the politicians who are proposing this law!
Democrats and veterans groups believe that the education benefit is earned through service, not by paying money back to the country they serve.
âPushing this GI Bill tax proposal on troops in a time of war is political cowardice,â said Paul Rieckhoff, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. âSome politicians would rather make backroom deals than raise taxes or find other ways to support our troops as bombs continue to fall overseas.â
This is the ethos of the Republican party: âFamily values!â Unless your family looks different than theirs. âPro-Life!â Except for war, the death penalty, poor people, mental illnesses, etc. âSupport the troops!â Well, donât actually support them. Just give it lip service.............
Joyce, it sounds like TN has the same type of politicians as ND...I feel like my vote never really counts in ND, but I shall continue to try to vote these types of politicians out or at least spread the word about the stupid things they say & do. Hoping someday, ND will wake up & be more of a Liberal state than a Conservative one. I doubt I will see it in my lifetime tho.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2017 17:37:48 GMT
Well, if we don't get this Russian interference mess cleaned up, really won't matter who the nominees are. IMHO... I guess if I had to throw a few names out there I like Klobuchar, MN, Hickenlooper, CO & Murphy, Conn. ..I could easily support the rest, but for some I think their time is past because of age, etc. Oprah probably could just be the surprise here, ....politics has changed so much with JA winning, it's anybodys game now.
Oh, & the Party needs to get a clear concise unified message out to voters. Not just that they dislike JA but actually go after those that voted for him & are now disappointed & offer them hope as to what the values & ideas are that a Democratic President could do for their lives in their corner of the world. Find some middle ground that voters will believe & vote for. It's all going to depend on the Leader of the Democratic Party to bring everyone together & I still don't see that yet. JMHO đ
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Post by birdgal on Jul 9, 2017 18:03:44 GMT
OT!!!!
Last night Cyndy Lauper was on Austin City Limits. She's one my favorite people. The woman knows how to connect with an audience. She got right down there in the middle of those people and had some fun. So to speak. lol. At the end of her awesome concert she asked the audience to please be good to each other. In that adorable Queens accent she said, "Bee-caws all we really have is each other, right?" They agreed. They reached out to her as she sang True Colors and she reached right back to hold someone's hand and then another and another.
So, we have entertainers encouraging us to be respectful and decent. To be aware of how fragile our lives really are. Too see each other as important and worthy. To simply care. We also have politicians who took a vow to serve US, encouraging us to harm, hate, and cheat each other.
Can both these ideas be our true colors?
Sorry, this is what happens when I sit up and watch late night TV. lol.
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Post by nashville11 on Jul 9, 2017 18:45:07 GMT
Linda, asking veterans to chip in any amount of money to use their GI bill rights is utterly shameful, and I am ashamed that someone from TN is who is proposing it. As I have said on here before, while I am a fan of low interest student loans and ways to pay off those loans through community service rather than $$ I have never been a fan of free college tuition. However, in the case of veterans it is NOT free tuition when they utilize their GI bill. They've already far more than paid for that tuition in the sacrifices they have made serving our country. To suggest otherwise is a disgrace. Are people ever going to wake up and realize that Republicans do not have and have never had the best interest of ordinary citizens as a part of their platform? They are the party of big business and the ultra wealthy. They always have been, and I expect always will be. Regular Joe or Josephine out on the street is not even on their radar.
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