1) trump is making plans to visit with his boss Putin soon... and wants to do it alone without any other staffer or observer in the room with him. GODS help us with whatever mischief trump wants to do behind those closed doors.
2) trump keeps making noise about wanting to invade somewhere so he can get his war groove on (the need of a bullying autocrat to prove his manhood through the blood and sacrifice of others). he wants a war with Iran but no other nation will back us on that (other than Saudi Arabia and Israel, and there's no guarantee they'll be of any help). he wanted a war with North Korea but Kim Jong-un played trump like a fiddle, and now trump is deluding himself into thinking his overtures to Korea will earn him a Nobel Peace Prize. So now trump is rumored looking at Venezuela, a bankrupt and starving nation on the brink of civil war itself, as a great place to invade except for the fact that our current standing in South and Central America earns us NO regional allied support and we'd be going into a situation that can quickly devolve into a Vietnam-esque jungle hell.
3) Rumors now abound that trump is looking at shutting down the Mueller investigations in the bluntest way possible,
4) We are as voters facing the likelihood of massive voter suppression efforts by Republicans to ensure they retain control of Congress this Midterms cycle. There is a serious need by Americans who aren't registered to vote to get registered, and there is a serious need by registered voters to get the damn vote out, and there is a serious need by the majority of Americans who HATE trump to vote every goddamn cowardly Republican official out of office. The only way voter suppression fails is when there's too many of us voting to stop us.
So that's where we stand tonight, America.
Get the vote out.
Your vote is your power. Your power is your freedom.
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Comrade Misfit was asking yesterday if we were nearing a tipping point from which a recovery would be difficult or perhaps impossible because of some of Fergus' behavior that seems to be only getting examined in a political sense and not a historical one.
Like his claim of an ability to pardon himself, which would indeed make him into a dictator unconstrained by law or the constitution.
I said that I didn't think we were down for the count just yet, but advised that we did need to start taking this seriously enough to fix it.
I believe we do have the numbers to do so, but are facing a fight the likes of which we haven't seen before, and need to aim far higher than our current strategies would suggest we are aiming.
We must win by more than ten points. We must be prepared to endure hardship to get our votes cast, or better still, exercise voting options that don't entail long lines for inadequate facilities during reduced hours.
I get to vote by mail, and while that's not an option everywhere, it is in more places than most voters probably realize, and comes with the added benefit of being able to sit in front of my laptop for an hour or so while I vote and make sure I get it right.
Comrade Misfit answered a question of mine about why the goddamn Republicans were bending so far over backwards to align themselves with Russia, who is really not their friend with this:
"Doug, because they are no longer the "Grand Old Party" or the "Republican Party". They are the "Trump Party".
Republican voters think that Trump is "draining the swamp" or "standing up for America" or "defending our borders". They close their eyes to his coziness with murderous dictators and his innate racism.
There was a country in the last century where people supported their national leader because they thought that he was making their country strong and standing up for its citizen and culture. Those people closed their minds to the crimes and bigotry of that leader. Afterwards, they pretended that they never really knew.
Nowadays, we call those people "Nazis". If this country survives Trump's attacks on the rule of law and the institutions of a liberal democracy, then, decades from now, a similar appellation will be given to those who, now, support him."
I actually feel that these have been tendencies within the Republican party for a while now, but I did appreciate her answer.
-Doug in Oakland
Damn, I had a spammer on here. Delete DELETE...
Anyway, I need to scratch 3) off the list. PRUITT RESIGNED?! I honestly did not see that coming. Well, he needed to go as the most corrupt bastard in a corrupt administration, but I figured trump RESPECTED Pruitt's corruption. The only thing I think could have forced Pruitt to flee is some incoming scandal that would have truly led to his getting dragged off in handcuffs...
There's an IG report coming soon that might have been worth avoiding, but the way I understand it, Pruitt had to go because he was becoming a liability for the midterms.
Now we get a less scandal plagued and more bureaucratically competent toady who is better positioned to take the air and water back to 1970s levels of contamination.
Still, it feels good to be rid of Pruitt just because of how much of a scumbag he is.
Hopefully this makes it less likely that he gets appointed AG, but you never know with Fergus, who just hired a Fox News exec who participated in the covering up of hundreds of instances of sexual abuse.
-Doug in Oakland
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