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April 18, 2018

Republican Congressmen are beyond out of bounds....

Republican Congressmen will as we see, loose regard for all the things they claimed of justice and constitutional premise. They have shown the people their lust for enriching the wealthy and their plans to cut public services programs, and we are not as a Democratic Party pushing the Narrative and Pushing Our Congressional People to Get UP, Stand Up and Speak Up; Every Democratic Politician should be dominating the news and pushing the Platform and its Agenda. And Countering the Madness that Trump and Republican are doing. Yet, they sit silent and expect a few media stations to do the work for them, which is the work they should be doing themselves.

This madness of Republicans attack upon Democracy, the Constitution and Our Justice System, and ALL Our Departments and Divisions is an absurdity that is beyond anything that should be tolerated in America. Democratic Politician are sitting silent while we don't have Ambassadors in place for our International Relations, They are silent and the game of Musical Seats with High Appointed Offices is being made into a game show mockery, and yet,... Democratic Politicians can't find the Voice to Push their Narrative. .....

It's highly frustrating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Even in this site, the lack of indulgence to engage talking about this stuff beyond a slap stick comment...is the oddest things ever (!!!!), in the middle of this madness that is being engaged daily by Trump and Republican. Republicans continue to do their madness because they know, as Democrats we are going to crack a joke and push a pun, and be silent when it comes time to talk details of promote a interactive narrative.
We don't promote the narrative so others can ingest and promote the details within and of commentary narrative among each other far and beyond this site. I know people who come here to read, who are not members of the site, but many give them nothing of commentary to work with, as too many take it for granted with assumptions, instead of taking the time to write, that other may have content for commentary to promote narrative in their daily interactions.

If I was new to political things, and came here to see what people promote of the platform and narrative, I'd be lost, because most of the comments are nothing more than "the drama spins" of pun and fun joke style comments.

Yet....
We have a Sitting President messing around in a Criminal Case... because he does not want his criminal history and conduct to be confirmed by the data in Cohen's files !!!!! Among the many insidious things he has done to damage every aspect of our Governance System and the Justice Departments attributes.
Republican are sitting around backing this madness. But the sad part too is, we should be asking the question as to why so many Democratic Congress-people are so quiet!!!! It's time to get backbone and guts and speak up!!! The news should be filled with Democratic Congressional People 24/7 calling this stuff out.

We had better stop being the passive party when it comes to our Democratic Congressional People, and speak up and stand up. They did this same "silence" when the Republicans launched an all out attack upon and against President Obama and the Democratic Party.. Too many Democratic Congressional members remained silent and did not canvas the country and push the Obama Administrations Agenda, many did not canvas the nations to inform and sell and promote the programs and plans that were all designed to help the America people and support the Democratic Agenda. The promotion of the narrative was not even to the level of a whisper; as a result the Republican took over the Congressional Seats.

We have to demand for the Democratic Congressional People to Speak UP, whether they are in a so called Red or Blue State. The blue states can't sit back and 'assume" everyone is on the same page. They have to CONTROL the narrative to ENSURE that everyone is at least in the same chapter and focused within the pages within that Narrative.

This site is proof that people are "not" on the same page, and many times not even on the pages within that chapter.

The whole narrative for the past 9+ years has been pushed by Republican dominating the narrative in the media and among the talking head pundits.

We better figure it out and do so quickly because "November is not that far away", and we can't allow Sander to again, split the vote, as he's already demonstrated his critique of the Democratic Party, yet he wants to ride on their Ticket... but does not know when to get off the stump so the Democratic Nominees and Candidates can gain his followers support.

We only have a few voices out there. I think Tim Kaine should be talking.. if he stand up and get about the nation and talk, it can open up the door for more Democratic voices to speak up. The strongest fighter with voice that is expressive without compromise or pandering to Republican spins, is Elizabeth Warren... If the Democrats speak up, and stop falling for these "name calling games" that Trump pushes... and the more he calls people names, the more Democrats should be speaking up promoting the Platform Agenda and Telling The People, how Democrats support that Platform. Then Explain to the Public... How they support the platform.

Right Now... we should be talking about "How we can improve Health Care For All"; and How we can repeal and replace the Republican Tax Plan and Make it Fair For All, We should be talking about How we can clarify the role of the President so there is no ambiguity about what that role is.
We should be talking about the Independence of the FBI and Our Judicial System... These are things people can Identify with and they can and will bond with is there is voices that take the time and interest to explain "how" they plan to do it, and "tell the people, the benefit it will be to them"... People need INFORMATION... and they need to know what the plan is and explain to them how it will work.

Democrats should plan and conduct a Mid-Terms Democratic Conference/Convention and Get ALL Democratic Political people on board, and leave no county untouched by the promotion of the Democratic Ideals. Go into the Red zones and Speak, and hold Town Halls and Rallies and give the people the information where the Public Narrative Can Be Promoted.
April 15, 2018

How Trump Exposed Americas White Identity Crisis

Trump's greatest legacy will be that he forced us to confront racist demons we thought were mostly behind us.

That’s the tragedy and blessing of Trump's rise to the top of the Republican Party. He brought into the mainstream the kind of race hatred that had flourished only in the shadows before he came along. But his presence also removed the scales from the eyes of sane Americans who had held onto the belief that the election of our first black president had ushered in a post-racial society.

Trump’s most enduring legacy, and it is an oddly beneficent one, is that he taught America how bigoted it still is, and that many among us who are not intentionally bigoted are willing to tolerate racism anyway, given the right circumstances and stakes.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/trump-race-white-america-identity-crisis-214178


He kicked off his presidential campaign by heaping hate on Mexicans and Muslims, immediately shooting to nearly the top of most Republican primary polls.

That' tells the real story of Republican System and its Mentality.....

The truth laid out before he became elected By ISSAC J. BAILEY August 22, 2016


Thanks goodness the reality has also EXPOSED the Right Wing White Evangelicals.... their hypocrisy is beyond what society thought it would eventually see.

Republicans thought they could resurrect the early 1900 -1960's.... They even went back and tried the same tactics of the late 1800's; with their continued aims to invade the Rule of Laws and Convert the Justice Systems back to the madness that gave us Plessy v. Ferguson, (case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.)
He and his Republican system and their ignorance of trying to go back and invoke some madness like the Dred Scott v. Sandford, also known as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. ... The decision was only the second time that the Supreme Court had ruled an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional. His appointment of Right Winger on the Supreme Court and trying to fill our Federal State Courts with Right Wingers. Which is a direct act of trying to attack minorities and dire poor whites and immigrants, by using the Justice System. This is the vile of the man and his party and its supporters.


Republican of today will never be like the Party of Lincoln, nor the Party of Teddy Roosevelt....

NOW, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TAKES UP THOSE VALUES....
We need a "DEMOCRATIC Teddy Roosevelt" of this day and age... to bust up the big industry and move ahead with Equality for All.
http://www.blackpast.org/1905-theodore-roosevelt-lincoln-and-race-problem

Teddy Roosevelt said:
Neither I nor any other man can say that any given way of approaching that problem will present in our times even an approximately perfect solution, but we can safely say that there can never be such solution at all unless we approach it with the effort to do fair and equal justice among all men; and to demand from them in return just and fair treatment for others. Our effort should be to secure to each man, whatever his color, equality of opportunity, equality of treatment before the law. As a people striving to shape our actions in accordance with the great law of righteousness we can not afford to take part in or be indifferent to oppression or maltreatment of any man who, against crushing disadvantages, has by his own industry, energy, self-respect, and perseverance struggled upward to a position which would entitle him to the respect of his fellows, if only his skin were of a different hue.

Every generous impulse in us revolts at the thought of thrusting down instead of helping up such a man. To deny any man the fair treatment granted to others no better than he is to commit a wrong upon him - a wrong sure to react in the long run opon those guilty of such denial. The only safe principle upon which Americans can act is thatt of "all men up," not that of "some men down." If in any community the level of intelligence, morality, and thrift among the colored men scan be raised, it is, humanly speaking, sure that the same level among the whites will be raised to an even higher degree; and it is no less sure that the debasement of the blacks will in the end carry with it an attendant debasement of the whites.

The problem is so to adjust the relations between two races of different ethnic type that the rights of neither be abridged nor jeoparded; that the backward race be trained so that it may enter into the possession of true freedom while the forward race is enabled to preserve unharmed the high civilization wrought out by its forefathers. The working out of this problem must necessarily be slow; it is not possible fin offhand fashion to obtain or to confer the priceless boons of freedom, industrial efficiency, political capacity, and domestic morality. Nor is it only necessary to train the colored man; it is quite as necessary to train the white man, for on his shoulders rests a well-nigh unparalleled sociological responsibility. It is a problem demanding the best thought, the utmost patience, the most earnest effort, the broadest charity, of the statesman, the student, the philanthropist; of the leaders of thought in every department of our national life. The Church can be a most important factor fin solving it aright. But above all else we need for its successful solution the sober, kindly, steadfast, unselfish performance of duty by the average plain citizen in his everyday dealings with his fellows.



April 15, 2018

Trump's attack on everything within the Obama Administration - is BACKFIRING

“Oh.”

That word sums up President Trump’s realization that maybe the Trans-Pacific Partnership wasn’t such a bad deal, after all. As a candidate, Trump declared the TPP a “disaster,” and he withdrew the United States from the 12-nation pact during his first week in the White House. But now, Trump has directed his advisers to explore whether there’s a way back in.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/week-trumponomics-trump-becomes-globalist-155003983.html


If Trump knew how to read with focus to comprehend, he may have had opportunity to understood TPP.. before he started flapping his lips!!!!

Trump does not and likely will never grasp the fact "everything Obama did, he did for the American People and for Humanity and Diplomacy. He "thought about his ideals before he proceeded" and he worked with congressional people before he put anything out in Public about plans and policies. That's being a Good President!!!" Something Trump has no concept of, because Trump thinks he's a dictator and thinks the government is there to serve him instead of knowing its to serve the people. He has no idea that Congress has a Constitutional Duty TO Advise and Consent.

President Obama did not "shoot from the hip"... he was not only Constitutional Literate, he taught Constitutional Law.
As a Community Organizer, he got first hand view and first hand interactions with the challenges of everyday people.

Things Trump knows nothing about.

Trump continuing to say "many people say", and "everyone said"... is a worn out baited hook that eventually his base will figure out they are played like "fish" with the use of any kind of lure to snag them. That's who mindless they are and unable to discern reality from fluff and smoke followed by belligerent drama antics.

The more madness Trump engages to create and promote; the more he amplifies the awareness of the high quality and standards of dignity and integrity Obama maintained for 8 yrs.
April 14, 2018

When Truths can't any longer be denied... Only then, does America Change.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210492847#post1

The whole of the political system and its historical indulgences into madness is being exposed in ways it can't hide now, nor can it continue to hide the malice of its history.

Nor can society, continue to walk around as if they are inebriated and wearing sunglasses in nightclub.
April 12, 2018

Former US House speaker to promote legalizing marijuana

Why can't they think these things through when they are in Office, before they make and take positions on things?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-us-house-speaker-promote-legalizing-marijuana-164553769.html

April 11, 2018

We've Accepted A "De-facto Dictator" and think a slap stick pun is enough to deter it.

We can't even enact the Laws in this Country and Our Own Congress has Caved In. When we allow a man to sit in the highest office and denigrate every aspect of the governance, and attack the system of laws and law enforcement... because we allowed him to become De-facto Dictator.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210477330


The news media see's the spins as a commercial advertisement pay day and the commentators there to get a pay check and push the spin, to push drama and seek noteriety, and in the past day, the heavy promotion of "Ideas of Trump Firing Muller" is as Wreck-less as the Media Display that led to Trump becoming President.

There is no more Reporting of "NEWS"... only "Drama Selling Spins"....
April 11, 2018

People hailed Zuckerberg as a Golden Boy, based on Money... and he has shafted 100's of millions

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zuckerberg-hedges-facebook-tracks-214550221.html

People ran to this Facebook like mad, with no thought of the wanton ways that took down MySpace... Facebook may have started out to connect people when it was on University Campus Group Connects. But, it has long since left that model. It ran up the cost of digital data companies into buying and selling for Billions, as it did everything to cut out competition, and it defaulted to be the largest Public Database for Public Information, after the US Census and IRS... Facebook's model was and is "selling people" to any advertiser or group looking to do "data mining".... and the people flocked to it with no thought of the malice of what Money promotes...

Once he was hailed to be of such wealth.. people "stopped questioning"... We see the same thing with the placement of Trump.

American's Obsession of Measuring People by Money... continues to prove to be the downfall of the People and This Nation!!!.


People can't even marry for love anymore, they first have to check the finances of the others, and if it changes, then divorce is imminent. heck, many can't even make friends without a material measurement... so we see vile and killing of every type... people kill their family, when they run our of money or can't get to live like a TV Commercial Imagery.

This nation's people better get back to "Considering Character", and Regaining a Respect for Integrity"... not how much money someone has, or which girl is skinny and wearing a bikini and or exposing herself as much as possible, and thinking men with media popularity is something they are not.
We take facial looks and body shapes as an assumption that people are something they may not be. We better look at the mind, the heart, the dignity and the character and then be for certain to concern ourselves with moral integrity.

Sadly, across the world, the blindness by "material measure", "material status" and "physical image" has made a world go blind and act with every type of madness once detested. Now, we let such blindness drive us to "give a pass to anything", as in "anything goes"...

We can't even enact the Laws in this Country and Our Own Congress has Caved In. When we allow a man to sit in the highest office and denigrate every aspect of the governance, and attack the system of laws and law enforcement... because we allowed him to become De-facto Dictator.


Zuckerberg can sit before congress and still act as if he does not know the malice he has created and promoted. He relies on his popularity an wealth to over-ride any act by congress, and no actions by the law enforcement system in this nation.
We created this Madness and Now We ACCEPT IT.

Yet, we have 100's of people who read this stuff and sit silent with absolutely nothing to say....
The complacency is astounding, but it tells the story of our own decline and down fall... when we no longer are driven to think and communicate thoughts about the conditions and situations of our own downfall.

Maybe people are not the nature of Democrats they claim to be... Because if the Platform supports what it claims, and the people support the platform; then "silence is definitely not an option"
April 11, 2018

Trump believes himself to be Dictator Over American, and the Media is Helping Him

http://www.city-data.com/forum/49765995-post61.html

He has no plan to improve America... his only goal is to install himself as a Dictator. It should be evident to all Americans, the way he ignores congress, his deranged mentality and conduct toward anyone whom has addressed the crazed things he has done, he has set out an attack upon and against the people and this nation. The vile of the man, is evident, and its insane that American people have allowed it to go on this long. It's time for our Congress to Act. But it must be done where there is no advance of Pence or anyone even remotely associated with the Republican Ranks. Therefore, it is necessary for the "military" to take over for 6 months and maintain our stability. No suspension of the Constitution, only a "Management by Military" pending "A New Election" !!!

It's a Fact that Trump should be removed from office, and the Military take over, for 6 mos (until we can have a new election).
Roll back back everything Trump has done, For 6 mos. under military guidance, the military cannot make laws and cannot pass any bills within those 6 mos. The only thing that can be done, is roll back the system to before Trump took the office.
Everything rolls back to the Last Day of President Obama's Presidency, Expel Everyone Trump brought in and Hold a New Election. in 6 months, and install a New President


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_regimes_who_were_later_imprisoned
April 10, 2018

We Will NOT Be Deceived!!!

As the Bible Speaks:
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6: 7-9

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Trump's rage yesterday.... showed this man thinks he is "America"... He thinks the systems of our Governance and Justice System is there for his personal pleasure.

A sitting President attacking OUR Justice System On National TV, while surrounded with OUR Nations Top Military Leaders, has to be an example of a man who thinks he's a Dictator Over America.

If this did not open the eyes of OUR Nations Top Military Leaders, then we should be concerned. We know the cowardice that consumes the Republican Party Congressmen.. will try to make a spin and deflect game, and we can be assured FOX News will try and feed their base to think that madness Trump spewed has validity, when fact is: It demonstrated his disrespect for America, It's Governance, Our System of Justice and The America People, whom he thinks to be gullible idiots.


What Trump does not grasp is... "We are not his base and we are not the mass of the UN-educated"...

We are members of society who is both with education and awareness, and certainly with respect of our systems of governance and our premise of Law and Democracy , where "NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW".

April 9, 2018

" You've Been Profiled"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

There is no honest need for any of these systems to store that data and certainly not to share it with anyone. If anything, it should auto delete on the providers server within 3-6-12 or 24 hrs, and there should be no back up system that retains it. But one has no idea how many "back up" to back up the back up's these people have. It should be simply "flow through" to whom ever the recipient is. If its saved it should be saved on one's personal independent unit. Not on some connecting service provider system. But.. that will never happen... it will continue to be saved and shared, regardless of what they tell the general public users.

We should demand that Future App's DO NOT ASK PERMISSION for things that has nothing to do with the app type one is using. Every App should have means to fully customize what it has access to.

When it comes to cloud storage, when it first started, I knew they' eventually become pay based, and at some point one company buys another, and "whamo", the data is transferred in the sale. Removable Media Storage is inexpensive and one has control over what ever they want to save. but, why people save sensitive stuff on someones server is likely because people get suckered in by the use of "words"... such a "cloud".. there is no "Cloud"... its someone's server !!!! Sure there may be functional usages for it... but.. it likely is not so good to put everything there, unless one has a need for such collaboration accessibility.

We are profiled by countless means, from the use of "discount cards" to "ATM swipes" to even going in stores that have camera's to monitor what people look at, even if they don't purchase it...

" You've Been Profiled"
" You're Being Profiled"

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