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Galactus-36215 writes: Tell us what Trump has done for the “American working man” since he’s been in office? The only thing I can think of is withdrawing from TPP. But beyond that, what else? He’s proposing kicking 23M working men/woman off of healthcare insurance. How does that ‘help’ them? This -- your entire post -- is exactly the kind of Kool-Aid inspired ignorance I'm talking about. First, the presidency is a four year job, and in Trump's case he's working against the comprehensive obstruction of practically everyone in the upper ten percent plus the noisy pc/snowflake zombies, plus the IC spook army of the one percent.   Which has been going on since July of 2016. They've been fighting him for ten months, while he's only been in the big chair, with the -- hobbled -- power of the executive, for four months. And you're giving him a hard time!? Already!? This is going to be a long slog.  First, Trump has to get settled in, then he has to learn the w...

The Washington Post is owned by Bezos, who has a 10 year $650 million contract with the CIA for internet services.  The Democratic party, the deep state, the media, and the intelligence community -- the CIA et al -- have all been working tirelessly from election-day-plus-one to bring down the Trump presidency.  They have placed their bets on the "treasonous cooperation with the Russian enemy" storyline as the centerpiece of the delegitimization/path-to-impeachment effort.  A media defamation storm -- "Russian interference!", "Russian hacking!", "Russian collusion!" -- has been pumped relentlessly across the airwaves and in print since the Obama Admin assigned Comey and the FBI in July 2016 to investigate putatively "suspicious" connections between Russia and the Trump campaign et al. The campaign of delegitimization has continued, and even intensified, despite eight months of investigation without a shred of evidence emerging to suppo...

Something worth saving https://fee.org/articles/nurembergs-last-living-prosecutor-has-an-important-message/ Daganawida's poetic comments to the article:                   ****************************************************  what do you kill for? Ahh you bomb In the name of democracy They kill in the name Of islam Who is the greater fool? Tell the orphan Now he’s free Free to walk without mother Without his dad Without a home He must thank the usa Or does he thank the taliban Tell the homeless You’ve wrecked the place Slaughtered so many And now you will leave Go do the same Down the road Till you globally suppress All those who say no Leave them a bill Like you just did cambodia Turn your back On the struggling refugees You've created Convince yourself The darkness is light Bad is good(for you of course) overseas victims Not even human enough to be your poolboy Scorn the dead you’ve killed ...

In response to an article -- "a splendid little war could end Trump's presidency" --  by Jim Jatras https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/a-splendid-little-war-could-end-trumps-presidency-/ Jatras is a perfect example of the comprehensive cluelessnesss of the political class. Here, on display is the reason US foreign policy has been a flat out disaster for the last thirty years. Generations in the echo chamber of foreign policy "expertise", where the rule is bobble-headed yes-man servility and craven obsequiousness to the interests of the 1%, has lead US foreign policy to a place where an enforced and self-reinforcing notion of "expertise" is in fact zombified incompetence. Trump is in the big chair. That Jatras cannot see him except through the lens of "a shallow, superficial, unqualified Twitter-addicted unstable personality who never should have been allowed into the Oval Office..." clearly indicates that a war for the definition of ...