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Post by doordie50 on Mar 6, 2017 13:13:51 GMT
We are a group of like-minded people that gather to discuss a host of topics from weight loss, to current events. Our thread celebrates liberal diversity, welcomes new friends, and respects all opinions. We count everything from calories to points but, we never count our chickens before they've hatched!
*crisis*
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Post by nashville11 on Mar 6, 2017 13:53:22 GMT
Good morning!
Just checking in to wave hello, and hope to be back later this evening to read and post more. I am expecting my dad to be released from the hospital today. Waving ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 15:35:39 GMT
Hi...
62 degrees yesterday, today Winter Blizzard expected. UGH!
I'm so Trump weary, I just have no words!...His Enablers aren't doing this guy any favors. But more importantly, this is so darn dangerous to all of us. Does every Republican Congressperson have their head buried somewhere? Seriously, someone needs to take charge & get this mentally unstable person out of the Oval Office! And a bunch of other people need to be kicked to the curb as well. Oh, how quiet most of Tweety's supporters are now. They are so gullible to conspiracy theories that make no sense what's so ever. As far as I'm concerned, their love for this country is about as fake & dangerous as their President.
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Post by NatureLover on Mar 6, 2017 17:18:21 GMT
Joyce - sending hugs and best wishes to you and your Dad.
I also am Trump weary. They need to rename Facebook Trump Face. That surly, pompous, smirking organge mug is keeping me from spending too much time Facebooking, that's for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 18:13:15 GMT
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Post by janicel4 on Mar 6, 2017 20:56:37 GMT
I know not everyone is crazy about FaceBook, but this from my cousin. Because the weekends events, while scary enough, are also a diversion. The GOP who are not resisting, are busy trying to pass their agenda while we are not looking.
I have tried to restrain from posting politics on facebook, but my cousin posted this, and I think it's worth thinking about no matter what you believe: In case anyone got overly sidetracked by the Russian spy drama, the following bills HAVE been introduced: 1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency 2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education 3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education 4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife 5. HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act 6. HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood 7. HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends unions) 8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill 9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”) 10. HR 808 Sanctions against Iran Please copy/paste and share widely. Call your House Representative and ask them to not only vote "NO"...but to speak up for our rights, health & safety, and our beautiful country. Makes me think a lot about my values.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 21:40:59 GMT
Dan Rather........ At some points words fail, or they are starting to fail me. We have an Administration in freefall. Have we passed through the circle of chaos? Are we at the circle of havoc? The real Donald Trump has stood up, once again. Let no one ever be fooled. Let there be no doubt. The man who sends out a twitter tirade accusing a former President of crimes for which he provides no evidence, the man who doubles down when everyone with any sense pushes back, that man is our Commander in Chief. Every one who normalizes Mr. Trump now, or has in the past, will have to answer to future generations for their acquiescence, silence or sophistry—if, indeed, not outright cowardice. How hollow do all those pundit plaudits (including from many progressives) sound now for an average and disingenuous speech of someone else's words read from a teleprompter to Congress and the nation a week ago? A "presidential" Trump is a punchline to a joke no one wants to have told. Conspiracy theories are corrosive in society at large. When they dictate national policy, they can be lethal. This is a man who challenged the citizenship of President Obama, with lies, innuendo, and no evidence. This is a man who claimed widespread voter fraud with lies, innuendo, and no evidence. This is a man who has taken a rhetorical blowtorch to our Constitutional principles with lies, innuendo, and no evidence. Those who rose in Congress to applaud his turns of phrase bear responsibility. Those who cynically use his presidency to push forward unpopular giveaways to the rich and well connected bear responsibility. Those in the press who meet insults with explanations bear responsibility. Even the most grounded of presidents must fight to keep themselves moored to the real world. The Oval Office can be a bubble. Power attracts sycophants and cynics. But I have never seen anything like this. The sheer level of paranoia that is radiating out of the White House is untenable to the workings of a republic. I have a real question if President Trump actually believes what he is saying. Even Richard Nixon, the most paranoid president to date, ruled for years with a relatively calm hand. This Administration has been an off kilter whirlwind since the inauguration, and news reports suggest that seething anger from Mr. Trump is only getting worse. There is a growing consensus that the President may be "unhinged." It's a serious allegation, but even if it is not the case, Mr. Trump only has himself to blame. To call a drama Shakespearean or operatic is usually an overreach. But I imagine artists of the future, and even the present, will find ample inspiration in our moment in history. Doesn't Steve Bannon strike you as an Iago whispering in the ear of an Othello-like Trump, consumed by jealousy and paranoia? As the questions mount around Russia, as the circles of defense begin to falter, the determination to create diversions will escalate. But if the President hoped he could create a distraction, I think he misjudged the will of the American people. We have woken. We are paying attention. And we love our country too much to let it falter without a fight.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 21:51:23 GMT
Another really really dumb statement by a Trump Cabinet Secretary.....
WASHINGTON ― Ben Carson made his debut as secretary of Housing and Urban Development Monday by telling agency employees about the virtues of the “can-do” American society. Carson said this value system was best exemplified by slaves, whom he characterized as immigrants who came to the United States with very little and worked very hard.
“That’s what America is about,” Carson said. “A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”
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Post by birdgal on Mar 6, 2017 22:37:29 GMT
Janice14, thank you for posting about the Russian distraction.
Linda, thank you for posting Dan Rather's true but terrifying words.
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Post by doordie50 on Mar 7, 2017 0:12:27 GMT
@ika5 wow thank you!
Janice good stuff!!!!
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