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January 2, 2019

Isn't it time to start taking to the streets about the Gov. shutdown to put pressure on Trump?



As long as everything is quiet and low key and there is no pressure Trump is going to think he can keep this going. Can't MoveOn and other organizations signal members to start taking to the streets in mass numbers?
January 2, 2019

MSNBC conservative says Trump can't possibly win wall showdown: 'Dems have no reason to negotiate'

President Donald Trump has boxed himself in with demands to fund his border wall, according to panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

The president forced a government shutdown in an attempt to pressure Democrats into funding the wall, but co-host Mika Brzezinski said the Republican Senate majority shows little interest in approving the bill.

“There is some reporting or some sense that we have that Republicans are really frustrated that they are in this position,” she said. “They’re trying to translate for the president and he keeps doubling down on his stupid wall that nobody wants.”

More: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/msnbc-conservative-says-trump-cant-possibly-win-wall-showdown-democrats-no-reason-negotiate/

January 2, 2019

Baptist minister slams Jerry Falwell Jr for 'disaster' promise to put Trump over Jesus


MARTIN CIZMAR
01 JAN
2019 AT 20:44 ET

ASouthern Baptist minister has spoken up to “vigorously critique” an interview in which evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. said that he would support anything President Donald Trump decides to do as president.

Alan Cross is a Southern Baptist pastor in Montgomery, Alabama.

“Wow,” was his first response to Falwell’s interview with the Washington Post.

He then went on to analyze how Falwell’s position was a “clearly articulated” version of the “approach German Lutherans took as Hitler rose to power.”

More: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/baptist-minister-slams-jerry-falwell-jr-disaster-promise-put-trump-jesus/?utm_source=push_notifications
January 1, 2019

People seriously need to start picketing Jerry Falwell Jr. He is a complete scum bag!

Time to bring as much negative exposure as possible to this heartless pieces of shit! I am DONE with this fucking bullshit! Long past do for good people to rise up and expose this prick!

Jerry Falwell Jr. slams homeless in bonkers interview praising Trump: ‘A poor person never gave anyone a job’

Snip: Falwell explains that rich people are the people doing the most to enact God’s will on Earth because they create jobs..

Snip: Falwell says that evangelicals who don’t support Trump are the real immoral ones.

Snip: Among other things, Falwell claims that he doesn’t care about Trump’s rampant immorality because he was elected to help trim the national debt — even though the deficit has actually exploded under Trump’s watch.


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