PROGRESSIVE DISCUSSION - Weekend Edition Fri - Sun

Good morning everyone! I'm back "in pocket!" It was a good trip. I'm always more relaxed there, and we got everything accomplished that we had intended. Today DD and family will come up to celebrate my mom's 87th birthday which will actually be on Monday.

So much going on in the news it's hard to know where to start. On one hand it seems that there are constant breaking news flashes, and on the other hand it seems like nothing changes.

Will the JA or won't he actually meet with Kim Jong Un? Should he or should he not? I'm not smart enough to know the answer to that, but most of the pundits I hear seem to think it is not a good idea, and he seems to be going against all advice. But then, he may back down and say he never said he would. Who knows? Once again he's a spur of the moment erratic time bomb who just blurts out whatever occurs to him in the moment, and whatever he thinks will get him more attention. As if he's not constantly in the news as it is.

And the porn star saga just gets stranger all the time. Well, of course, I would just use money from a home equity loan to pay off a porn star for any of you my good friends without ever expecting to be paid back. Why, wouldn't anyone??? LOL! The thing that is the strangest to me about all this is why was she willing to settle for a paltry $130,000. I mean really, you'd think she would have held out for more money than that. And, why wasn't the lawyer smart enough to know better than to use his Trump email to say nothing of the fact that why would he need a home equity loan for such a small amount in the scheme of things? I would expect $130,000 to be pocket change to these guys. I get it that most really intelligent people try to steer clear of the JA, but even so you'd think his lawyer would be smarter than that. Then there is poor Stormy who thinks that all this attention might not good for her porn movie career. Sure! ROTFLMAO

"If this was anyone else involved in this, they would be kicked to the curb a long time ago. Even his evangelical pastor seems to think this is ok. :-(..."

Agreed! There is hypocrisy everywhere, but the JA's faithful acolytes who claim to be such holier-than-thou, family values, high standards banner carriers are the most hypocritical bunch I think I have ever seen. Personally, I don't care what the JA does in his personal life, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hold him up as a role model as these idiots seem to be doing. Bill Clinton was a good president, IMO, but his personal behavior was reprehensible, and I don't think any of us ever tried to excuse that. At least he wasn't cavorting around with a porn star! LOL! But that doesn't excuse the actions he did take. Yet, these nut jobs seem quite willing to excuse anything the JA does. Of course, if it starts affecting their pocketbook they may sing a different chorus.

You're probably right, Linda, that the JA will step all over this meeting with NK, and it will never take place. Will just give the both of them an opportunity to say, "well, I tried . . ." while garnering the JA a lot of attention, as if he needs anymore. His hope, of course, is that it will draw attention away from Russia.

Excellent clip, Joyce. It makes so much sense when it's laid out like this, yet, the NRA & manufacturers continue to line the pockets of politicians ...Greed & Power & to heck with students & everyone else that is killed with an assault rifle. They honestly could care less.

Linda, I agree it is scary! These people are totally enthralled with him, and it truly scares me. Make America Great Again??? This JA/FM brings out the absolute worst within people and destroys the entire spirit of America. And he mocks "being presidential," and as Linda said denigrates the press, congressmen/women who disagree with him, past presidents, etc. Truly, do those lunatics standing behind him really want that to be what they hold up to their children and grandchildren as a role model? It just makes cold chills go up my spine to see how rabid those people become, and he deliberately provokes them into it because it makes him feel powerful. He is powerful. He has total control over them, and he eats that up.

God help us all if this FM gets a second term! There will be nothing left of the country we've known all our lives. Please, please Mueller come through with something and get him out of office. I don't like Pence, but as bad as Pence would be I can't imagine that anything could possibly be worse than this idiot.