Congressman Joe Kennedy responded to Trump’s State of the Union speech, speaking from a public high school in Fall River, Massachusetts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rep-joe-kennedy-iii-gives-democratic-response-to-state-of-the-union/
13 minutes.
Worth watching to remember what this country is supposed to be.
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His inspired speech brought tears to my eyes! There is hope! And love the support of public schools.
Completely agree – he certainly channeled his grandfather and his great-uncle.
He represented ‘hope and change’ by supporting respect and justice for all people. My favorite line was something like your generation may build a wall, and my generation will tear it down. His Spanish including his accent were decent, and not an embarrassment. Best of all, he gave his rebuttal from a public school.
Good speech by Sanders that covers all that needs fixing…except for eliminating vouchers and charters and the privatization of public schools.
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Bernie Sanders’ Rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union Address & video of part of speech
Sanders opened his speech by addressing President Trump’s early economic record, criticizing Republicans’ “so-called ‘tax reform bill’,” and arguing that wealthy Americans have “never had it so good” while “millions of American workers are working two or three jobs just to keep their heads above water.”
“In my view, that’s wrong,” Sanders said, adding, “the taxpayers of this country should not be providing corporate welfare to the wealthiest families in this country.” Sanders also took note of issues that Trump’s State of the Union did not address, including climate change, campaign finance, voter suppression, and college debt and argued that many Americans hold “a very different vision for the future of our country” than the one offered by Trump and Congressional Republicans. “But the truth is that there is a lot of good news out there as well,” Sanders said, referring to the Women’s March among other demonstrations that have called for social, economic, and racial justice. “In an unprecedented way, we are witnessing a revitalization of American democracy with more and more people standing up and fighting back,” he said.
Read Sanders’ full speech below:
http://time.com/5126159/bernie-sanders-sotu-response/
Sanders made a good rebuttal as well. He mentioned all the things that Trump didn’t say. For example, Trump did not mention that expanding the military will result in cuts to the social safety nets. It was also a call to action for people to organize, fight back and vote.
retired teacher: I was just talking to a friend of mine. She commented on ‘what a wonderful speech Trump made. He talked about having vocational schools.”
I went into the whole thing about the difficulties teachers and public schools are facing. I avoid talking about political stuff because she thinks Trump is the greatest and I can’t stand to look at him and hear his string of lies. She listens to Fox.
I cannot understand why so many people support him. Listening to him is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. Some people must enjoy his lies. I just don’t get it.
I watched this last night and again this morning from your web link. Thanks for sharing. I may be back to watch it again! .
Joe Kennedy’s largest donors this cycle include Goldman Sachs, Raytheon, and Cardinal Health, the opioid distributor company.
Dienne,
When you find the perfect candidate under the age of 75, let us know.
Here are two examples of Dienne’s perfect candidate — Jesus Christ and maybe Buddha. I wonder if Mother Teresa would qualify.
No, I hear that Mother Teresa took money from Goldman Sachs.
“For them, dignity isn’t something you are born with, but something you measure. By your net worth. Your celebrity. Your headlines. Your crowd size. Not to mention, the gender of your spouse. The country of your birth. The color of your skin. The God of your prayers.”
Then:
“Politicians can be cheered for the promises they make. Our country will be judged by the promises we keep. That, is the measure of our character. That is who we are. Out of many, one. Ladies and gentlemen, have faith. Have faith. The State of our Union is hopeful, resilient, and enduring.”
Does anyone know if Joe Kennedy took a stance on the charter expansion ballot question in MA? A lot of his track record is pretty corporate and centrist, far from progressive but I hope that he will grow and listen to constituents other than big money donors and lobbyists.
He did not. He stated that “education should be affordable.” He did not get more specific than that.
He said education AND child care should be affordable, and both alarmed me.
In a progressive society which watches out for its most vulnerable and needy populations, including low income and middle class citizens, I think education should be free, so that people can be, well, educated, and learn to become civic minded, responsible citizens. I think child care should be free so parents have the option of beginning their children’s education before formal, compulsory schooling, and so that parents can work.
Yet another Kennedy in office. Will he run for President? I hope not. I do not want another Kennedy, Clinton, Bush, Roosevelt or Adams in the White House. I do not want any one family to dominate the White House.
Most cities are made up of native Americans (I do not mean Indians but all those born here, even with 41 million Americans not born here (naturalized citizens). So, that is just over 10%. It is hardly a majority.
I agreed with him on most Americans not sharing the profits, but they never have. It is not something new or only Trump or even Republicans caused. Most Americans do not invest in the stock market. And I agree that CEOs making 300 times their average worker, is shameful. That was about the last thing I agree with.
Unfortunately, that is how the rich got to be rich, including the Kennedy Family, off the backs of immigrants (Irish) and others. Kennedy cannot possibly know what it is like to be the working poor. Even if he was not a Kennedy, Congressmen make way more than most people in this country.
Immigrants were never treated as equals.
But the system is Washington DC and Kennedy, this one and others in the past, are a part of the problem. The US government is not here to redistribute wealth as the Democrats seem to think.
Washington has not learned form its own past. Reagan gave 3 million illegal aliens citizenship, (can any President just circumvent the law?) and a few years ago we had 21 million illegal aliens. Now we have about 1/2 of that but it is still almost 4 times that of the 1980s. If we give the dreamers citizenship then it will just entice others to enter this country illegally. We should not set this precedent. Reagan should not have set the one he did back in the 1980s.
At the risk of repeating myself here I will explain somethings about immigration and the economy.
In the mid-1960s LBJ declared a War on Poverty. This war is lost. We now have more people in poverty than we did then, even if the percentage is down a wee bit, as our population is about double and the rate is not half so their are more people in poverty and it is about 50 million. This alone is more than the population of most countries, Canada for example. So, we have a poor country within the richest country on Earth. Somewhere around 2/3 of everyone that is working are making less than $30K per year. This is not much to live in this country. Most are what has to be term the working poor. The Middle Class is defined as those making form $40K-120K per yea, this is and has been shrinking over the past 30 years or so.
Immigration is net loss for the economy. Both legal and illegal artificially reduce wages for the poor. So, unrestricted immigration and poverty are two things that the Democrats have that are contradictory. They claim that this country is immigrant dominated (and want more of them) and yet they want to fight poverty, when the former exacerbates the latter.
If you cannot afford to pay for your family (their education, clothes,etc because of no jobs) and the government is telling you that you must take even more in then this is just schizophrenic. They are mentally ill.
We have only about 6 million open jobs for the more than 12 million officially unemployed — those receiving unemployment checks. So we do not have enough open jobs for US citizens. Unofficially we have another 88 million long-term unemployment who have no income from the government at all. Add these two and we have 100 million unemployed. We have approximately 151 million jobs (145 million filled and as I said 6 million open for workforce of 264 million adults (ages 18-64).
So, we have barely 1/2 of the necessary jobs to employ all of those people and yet you want more mouths to feed and provide jobs for? As it stands now, almost 1 million legal immigrants enter this country every year. Again, WHY?
We cannot feed nor educate the people we have here legally and yet you want more. Again, WHY?
This immigration policy is highly unethical
schiltz3: “If we give the dreamers citizenship then it will just entice others to enter this country illegally.” I see this as a narrow minded comment that isn’t well thought out and lacks compassion. The following is my letter-to-the-editor that appeared in The Times of NW Indiana on Sept. 8, 2017.
DACA has 800,000 people who are either actively in the work force or getting schooling. Removing these people will cost $433.4 billion in GDP loss over a decade.
6% of DACA recipients already have businesses that employ American citizens. Almost 55% of DACA recipients have purchased a vehicle and more than one in ten have purchased their home.
They speak English and have acclimated into this culture because they came as children. It would be a crime on humanity to send them back to a place in which they are no longer are familiar.
I am counting on Congress to right this wrong and give these people a path to citizenship. According to two polls 78% of American voters support letting them stay permanently in America.
Everyone in the program has passed an extensive background check, paid a fee, and is a student or service member, or has a job.
Perhaps you need to look over some other numbers of unemployed…Your’s and Trump’s numbers would mean that nearly one out of 3 people of any age you meet would be unemployed in our nation that has more or less 350 million people total. That indicates that all those unemployed should seek or do seek to be employed.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/31/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-us-has-93-milion-people-out-work/
msmcfeeter: Trump says, “We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, they’re considered employed.”
How interesting that Trump believes that many people have given up looking for jobs when Indiana has just received a waiver so that the Medicaid program in my state can institute requirements that recipients need to have jobs to receive healthcare.
Somehow this doesn’t match up. Poor and can’t find a job…too bad. You don’t get healthcare. The GOP is pushing this. It definitely saves money.
“CMS approves Indiana’s short-term Medicaid expansion waiver. The agency granted a one-month extension for the state’s waiver to operate the Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0, which was scheduled to expire on Jan. 31, Indiana Public Media reported.
The move buys some time for state leaders and CMS to hash out further changes to Indiana’s Medicaid program, with Indiana seeking to add work requirements and make other significant changes.”
GOP MOTTO: if you don’t work, die.
And you had better die QUICKLY, because you should never count on anyone else for help to keep you alive!
Few people know that we working poor sometimes take hits from both sides. For example, I am a senior and I was at a charity recently where I was condemned for working by another poor client, who is not a senior (though most clients there are) and who thought I should not have a job and be there or get stuff from their pantry. I was put on the spot and felt I had to defend why I work and why I was there!
I started working 50 years ago and I continue to work because I have to, in order to survive. Otherwise, I would love to retire, since I’m retirement age, and I am also disabled, but I’ve never gotten disability income. My SS checks are just too low to live on. I’d have thought all that counted for something, but to some people, “you can’t win for losing.”
I will not vote for a name or dynasty, but on the content of the candidate’s character. I will vote for someone I can respect and trust. I don’t believe in stereotyping all people with the same last name. The candidate needs to show me what he/she is made of and what he/she represents. New Yorkers know that Andrew Cuomo is no Mario.
Didn’t someone famous once say something about judging people on the content of their character?
And to say “Andrew Cuomo is no Mario” has got to be the understatement of the century, if not millennium.
If they didn’t look so much alike, I’d say it was more likely than not that Mario was actually not Andrew’s father.
Neither nature nor nurture seems to be able to explain the reality in that case.
The only thing Andrew has in common with Mario is the last name.
I like Chris Cuomo.
Immigrants mean MORE jobs for American citizens, not fewer. There is a LOT of research on this. Please don’t continue spreading these lies.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/value-added-immigrants-create-jobs-and-businesses-boost-wages-native-born-workers
Yes and no Bob . In the aggregate you are absolutely correct . Obviously a larger population everything being equal, is going to consume more and have to produce more ,thus employ more.
However if you are one of those in an industry where employers are using immigrants, documented and undocumented to undercut wages. , You do not much care about aggregate employment.
Jeffery Sachs in an article on Brexit talks about the need to stop policy that causes mass migrations. Partly because of the backlash it causes. . So to bring this point home to the US, . NAFTA/Trade may have cost 3-5 million American manufacturing Jobs. But make no mistake it was much harsher on Mexicans. Increasing rural poverty from 20% to 50%. Putting Mexican farmers in competition with US agrocorps , driving the mass migration . US support for coups and ruthless dictators in service to American corporate interests drove much of the immigration from the rest of Central America .
Much of Trumps nativist base may never have met a Mexican ( a little sarcasm)but right now on the West Side of Manhattan one of the largest commercial projects in the history of the City is being done open shop and using substantial numbers of the undocumented to break the hold of the Union construction trades in NYC . This in addition to a residential building boom of “Biblical proportions” being done in the same manner. You would not want to be the one, to try and tell these workers that immigrants are not taking jobs.
Guess who many support , the guy who if he was building today would be using Russian money and undocumented labor , to be one of the largest non union developers in the City. He never was, nobody would lend him money . You would hate to be me an activist or a union leader trying to tell these workers. it is the employer not the immigrant to blame.
So Sachs is correct we have to end the causes of these migrations with policies that lift living standards in less developed countries . But much of the angst in Britain and at home is being driven by labor problems at both ends of the wage scale. Our labor laws have to be strengthened, giving workers the power to organize . But there also has to be severe employer sanctions for hiring the undocumented in the future.
Schumer on behalf of the AFL-CIO proposed a bio metric ID as part of the 2013 immigration bill, to be used as a social security card, coupled with strong employer sanctions for hiring the undocumented in the future . The Bill included a path to citizenship for the undocumented . He was immediately attacked from the right and the left on phony 4th amendment grounds. He was probably right and it should be used for voting, a license and a library card as well .In order to take voter disenfranchisement off the table. Obviously it would have to be made easy to obtain. Then we can discuss what the needs of the country are for immigration . I kind of like “The New Colossus”. taking the people in the most need of “Shelter From a Storm.”
“I do not want any one family to dominate the White House.”
You forgot to include the inglorious bastards of the Bush family in your list.
“Most cities are made up of native Americans (I do not mean Indians but all those born here”
Personally, I would like to see an “Indian” as President (and I do not mean Indians but those born here)
“If “Indians” ruled”
If “Indians” ruled
We’d all be schooled
In living life in balance
The earth would be
For you and me
A home and not a challenge
Native Americans have been at the forefront of efforts to protect the air, water and land. Recent examples abound, eg in the protests of the Keystone pipeline and tar sands open pit mines in Canada.
Native Americans understand — and have always understood – that we not only should but MUST have a communal relationship with Nature. Certainly not confrontational.
The idea that one of them will ever become President is admittedly far-fetched, but then again, so was the idea of an African American President before Obama.
One thing is certain: if we ever did have an “Indian” as President, the prospect for real change would be in the air, in the water and on the land.
If native Americans ruled this land our lives would be much more peaceful. Chief Joseph is one of our great native Americans. Here are some of his quotes. Compare that with what our current ‘Great Leader’ says.
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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
Chief Joseph
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
Chief Joseph
I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.
Chief Joseph
The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man’s business to divide it.
Chief Joseph
“Reagan gave 3 million illegal aliens citizenship, (can any President just circumvent the law?).” Reagan was not circumventing the law, the IRCA (’86) was congressional legislation. It did not “give 3 million illegal aliens citizenship.” 3 million applied for legal status (not citizenship) – they had to pay a fine & back taxes, have zero criminal record, demonstrate adequate knowledge of Eng lang, US history & govt. 2.7million received legal status, & over the next 15 yrs about 1million of them became naturalized citizens. (Many, mostly Mexicans, did not naturalize because they wanted to return or at least retire there, but would have lost Mexican cit if became US cit).
It’s reductive to attribute the number of illegals here later to enticement by the IRCA amnesty. Maybe the increase was due to millions of Mexican corn farmers put out of work by NAFTA – soon exacerbated by movement of drug cartel violence/ corruption north into Central America (also related to US for pol, again w/o ref to immigration pol) – throughout, none of it could have happened w/o unmonitored, unchecked US hiring of illegals. As you note, later again that number was halved – why? responding to a legal precedent? More likely due to US recession drying up jobs for illegal workers.
DACA will not entice a big increase any more than IRCA did – there is not some glut of wannabe illegals just waiting for the remote promise that maybe someday the kids they bring in will get a reprieve. Unchecked hiring of illegals will do it – combined w/ oblivious US foreign policy south of the border.
A breath of fresh air!
If a single immigrant person of color, somewhere in America, commits a crime, you can count on that becoming the lead story on Breitbart and Fox. This happens even though unauthorized immigrants typically commit very few crimes. In Texas, for example, which has the second highest number of such immigrants in the country, only 1.8 percent of crimes are committed by unauthorized immigrants. The chances are overwhelmingly good that if there’s a crime, it was committed by a citizen. Nonetheless, Breitbart and Fox persist in twisting the news. Tonight’s State of the Disunion Address showed, yet again, that in doing so, these racist news outlets are simply following the lead of their president.
Predictably, Trump’s speech was FILLED with anti-immigrant fear-mongering, which has always been a major tool in the kit of the a certain kind of would-be populist demagogue and rabble-rouser. You know the kind I mean. The racist kind. It was horrifying to see this president deliver, tonight, yet again, his shameful, not-so-subtle call to Make America White Again.
For information about the actual relationship between unauthorized immigration and crime, see the following:
http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/aug/03/antonio-villaraigosa/mostly-true-undocumented-immigrants-less-likely-co/
Rick Santorum was on CNN last night trying to say that there’s a study that shows that undocumented immigrants commit many more crimes than other groups. Van Jones shut him down by saying the “study” had been discredited and was fake news.
The eagerness of these people to accept any slim possible justification for their views reveals a lot about who they are, doesn’t it? Rick Santorum. Another racist, like Trump.
And, Van Jones is an admitted Communist. Watch out about Glass Houses.
Lloyd Becker, I didn’t know Van Jones was a Communist. I have heard that Trump is Putin’s puppet. Is he a Communist too?
Wow! I have not heard anyone being accused of being a communist in years. Sort of makes me nostalgic.
I especially hated that he showcased two families whose daughters were murdered by xxx. (refuse to give them a mm of publicity). I wouldn’t mind a separate speech detailing the numbers, spread & atrocities, some history, what actions our law enf agencies are taking etc. But in this venue, without context, it was just another slam painting Latin American immigrants as criminals.
How many lies did Trump spout during his 1st State of the Union Address — the answer is MANY?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jan/30/fact-checking-donald-trumps-2018-state-union-speec/
“Fact-Checking Website Crashes During Trump’s State of the Union Address”
Does that mean people are waking up to this serial liar, fraud, con-man, and failed businessman? Trump is a successful con-man, not a successfully honest businessman.
.@realDonaldTrump has been fact-checked by PolitiFact 498 times (before tonight)
🧐 True → 4 percent
😛 Mostly True → 12 percent
🤔 Half True → 15 percent
😥 Mostly False → 21 percent
🤥 False → 33 percent
🤯 Pants on Fire → 15 percen
According to the website, the statements made in Trump’s Tuesday address checked boxes in every category apart from outright lies.
“Trump’s statements cycled through every Truth-O-Meter rating, except for Pants on Fire. We tallied two False, three Mostly False, one Half True, three Mostly True, and one True statements,” Politifact wrote in an article assessing the truth behind the address.
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-state-union-795898
Amazing, Trump actually said one true statement. That must be a first.
It is shocking that his base can continue to support this liar of questionable character. It is as though they are mesmerized or just delusional.
Fact check: Trump’s claims in State of the Union address examined
Fact check: Trump’s claims in State of the Union address examined
The AP is fact-checking prepared remarks from U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.
The Associated Press
Published Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:02PM EST
Last Updated Wednesday, January 31, 2018 5:32AM EST
WASHINGTON – The AP is fact-checking prepared remarks from U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech. Here’s a look at some of the claims we’ve examined:
http://ctv.news/2tb30NC
This alert just came out on WaPo. It is unbelievable how much destruction this administration is trying to do. We don’t need renewable energy, green jobs, clean air or water. I don’t understand why anyone with any intelligence would support this looney. Fossil fuels, I’m sure, are spending lots on lobbying. Who from the fossil industry just talked with Trump?
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White House seeks 72 percent cut to research on clean energy, underscoring administration’s preference for fossil fuels
The Trump administration is poised to ask Congress for deep cuts to funding in the Energy Department’s renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, slashing them by 72 percent in fiscal 2019, according to draft budget documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The document underscores the administration’s focus on the continued use of fossil fuel resources over newer renewable technologies seen as a central solution to the problem of climate change.
Many of the sharp budget cuts are likely to be restored by Congress, but Trump’s budget, due out in February, offers a statement of intent and policy priorities.
I find all of these wah-wahs funny. You guys are crying over spilt milk. If you really want something to read, jump over to my WordPress page and read something worthwhile. Remember, I had to suffer with the Golfer in Chief. Everyone in Congress and the Senate was hoping he would stay on vacation so they could get some work done.
Obama wasted more money than any of his Democratic counter-parts whoever held the presidency. AF1 and AF2 flew to the same location. Michelle took all her friends to Spain and stated it was her envoys, or whatever she claimed they were. Halloween party for his girls. As Obama invested in terrorism by sending cash money to Iran, he wanted our sovereignity placed under the UN Charter.
Lofthouse and his fact checking, is really funny. Snopes is worse yet. I do alot of fact-checking and not with those clowns enumerated. Source documents are the best. That is why when I say things and Ms. Ravitch knows I said a number of things, source documents are it. I am absolutely sure that those of you who have a Phd, did not get them from snopes, or politifact.
Complain all you want, Trump wants you to stay free and complain all you want. And, me, You complain about our political system, while taking advantage of everything it has to offer. Why do you not find a country that fits into what you really want. Before you find your utopia, ask yourself this question, why are people immigrating to this country, albeit, legal, or illegal. Their country they are coming from is a shithole, according to Dick Durban. They do not support our country as a whole and refuse to honor our flag. And, in return of our good graciousness, they want to turn our country into a shithole.
“Their country they are coming from is a shithole,……………. They do not support our country as a whole and refuse to honor our flag. And, in return of our good graciousness, they want to turn our country into a shithole.”
Who is the “they” ? 2 of them ,100,1000, all 11 million . Who is the “our” certainly not a racist bucket of shit like you .
Lloyd Becker, how do you know that “they” (whoever “they ” are do not support our country as a whole and refuse to honor our flag. And, in return of our good graciousness, they want to turn our country into a shithole.”?
I suspect you are really talking about (without knowing it) the Koch brothers, ALEC, the Walton family, Trump and his crooked family, et al. They are the real “they”.
How do you honor “our” flag? What counts more?
standing and pledging allegiance to the flag – if this is your answer, then all that counts is standing and pledging allegiance even if that person is lying like Trump did the moment he was sworn in as president.
volunteering to join the military and serve your country like John McCain did, a former POW that served in the Vietnam War, who was insulted by Trump when that liar-in-chief, failed businessman, but successful con-man, fraud, bully and racist said, (click the link and hear it from Trump’s mouth so you cannot call it false news).
What did McCain say in response?
And what is Trump done to serve his country — nothing?
“Their country they are coming from is a shithole, according to Dick Durban.”
What a joke. Durbin did not say that. He was quoting Trump, and he was thoroughly disgusted by that characterization of other countries by a siting president.
All the rants coming from this troll are pretzel logic. It’s a complete wast of time to interact with him.
Pretzel logic — I like that one. If you have pretzel logic, you are a deplorable Trump supporter.
Another GREAT comment was just posted from the WH. I didn’t watch so perhaps the catch is “Americans who tuned in to the State of the Union”. There are a lot of people like me who can’t stand to watch him. Yuck. I DON”T feel a bit proud. Ewwwwww! Nothing he is doing will help me personally.
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Viewers approve of Trump’s first State of the Union address – CBS News poll
“Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump’s State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave,” CBS News reported last night.
“Independents who watched the speech – nearly half of whom counted themselves the President’s supporters – tended to approve of the speech, and said it made them feel proud,” Jennifer De Pinto writes. “After hearing his State of the Union address, most viewers think the policies they heard tonight would help them personally.”
31% of Americans identified as Democrat, 24% identified as Republican, and 42% as independent . Gallop
The Poll
42 Republican , 33 independent and 25% Democrat .
Selection bias .
Seth does a good job on the Orange hair monster.
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Trump Gives State of the Union; GOP Tries to Discredit Russia Probe: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Published on Jan 31, 2018
Seth takes a closer look at Trump’s first State of the Union address and the GOP’s attempts to discredit the Russia investigation.
Anyone can read a teleprompter. Trump’s real intentions are displayed in his early morning Tweets. He won’t remember what he read because it didn’t display his true feelings. Anyone who thinks he gave a great speech should thank the speech writer.
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Trump’s Speech vs. Trump’s Tweets
President Trump sprinkled his State of the Union speech with optimistic flourishes about “unity” and “the American family.” But his tweets often tell a darker, more divided story.
Little Donnie is making some progress here, look at how well he read a speach written just for him off of the teleprompter.
Not just Trump. All Presidents since Reagan. And very few actually write their own speeches any more. They have speechwriters for that, naturally.
“The TelePresident” (aka “Tell-the-President”)
When teleprompter speaks
The President repeats
What teleprompter seeks
The President bequeaths
The teleprompters tell
The Presidents to pound
Their fist and even yell
And stomp upon the ground
The teleprompters make
The President’s appeal
A teleprompter fake
With presidential seal
Oh yes, another dynasty. First the Adams Family, then the Bush Gang – failed attempt with Jeb – the Clintons, – almost – now the Kennedys. Joe is articulate, intelligent, attractive, and well connected. Give us a break. Didn’t the Democrats learn anything from the last election? , The family connections reek- for better or worse – of elitism, privilege and the same old same old. There a plenty of young politicians that would do a fine job. Let’s hear more of them and from them.
We didn’t have to wait for a Trump Dynasty (the next generation) because when the Kremlin’s Agent Orange moved into the White House, he brought his dynasty with him and made them advisors with security clearances. He even created a position in the Orange Dynasty for his son-in-law.
The GOP did not get us to this precipice without a lot of help from Democrats, including Ted Kennedy’s support of NCLB. We need genuine, progressive Democrats who will go to bat to save our free public schools, not DINOS who promote “affordable” education. Joe Kennedy III might have meant college, but with Trump and DeVo$ at the helm, as well as the Koch brother$ and their po$$e who see K-12 as “low hanging fruit,” the survival of free public education should be at the forefront of every Democrat’s mind.
The Kochs have been engaged in a “formidable campaign to dismantle government, with public education being among their chief targets” due to “their hatred for all collective endeavors – including schools, Social Security, voting rights, taxation, and government supported healthcare” (Bryant, 2018) –which explains why Koch lackey Paul Ryan said that Medicaid, Medicare & Social Security are next up on their agenda.
See: How Public Schools Became Easy Pickings for the Kochs by Jeff Bryant
https://ourfuture.org/20180202/how-public-schools-became-the-koch-brothers-lowest-hanging-fruit
Voters need to put DINOs on notice that they are going to be held accountable for their role in the state of public education today and the future of our free public schools. If the Democrats want to win more seats in the Senate and House this year, they must take a stand and address this most pressing matter. They should begin by distinguishing their views from those held by Republicans who are out to destroy public education. Much like what our professional associations do in regard to critical issues, I think they should issue a position statement on public education to inform the public.
Is there something mentally wrong with Charles Hurt? [Hold your nose before you read what he wrote.] What exactly is ‘that shining city upon a hill”? If Trump is a strong voice for it, it must be full of swamp creatures and brothels.
This was posted in an email from the WH:
Charles Hurt writes in The Washington Times that “President Trump has officially transformed himself from merely a great American president into a historic world leader keeping lit the torch of freedom for all people around the world.” Hurt argues that “in two speeches this week, Mr. Trump proved himself the greatest champion of freedom since Ronald Reagan. He has become the strongest voice today for ‘that shining city upon a hill.’”
Looks like a brothel in a shining red light district
When you begin with a fictitious premise like characterizing Trump as “merely a great American president,” it’s not a huge leap to falsify everything else about him, too, especially when that’s based on Trump reading teleprompters with speeches that were written by other people. We went through this last year when Trump read his first teleprompter speech and suddenly many in the press characterized him as “presidential.”
The real Trump can always be seen when he goes off script, like Trump’s taunting, repetitive Vanna White arm gestures aimed at the other side of the aisle, as if to say “and here we have the letters d-e-m-o-c-r-a-t-s, meaning ‘the fools who refuse to acknowledge my greatness.’
Anyone who can’t see the emperor with his clothes off does not deserve the title of “journalist,” especially someone so clueless as this biased “Fox News contributor,Breitbart News contributor” and “Drudge Report editor” (as indicated in the Wikipedia entry for Charles Hurt).
Let Trump Be Trump. He would spend 3 days a week taking care of the Trump Organization, three days a week golfing, and hold a rally for his devoted base on the seventh day.
Here is another great quote coming from the WH. I wonder how many of these happy people are thinking about the $1.5 trillion addition to the national debt. Who will be paying off that debt? [Hint: it won’t be wealthy donors.] The GOP is already gloating over the possibility of cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Sorry, but peanuts for some and HUGE returns for the wealthy doesn’t equate to ‘popularity skyrocketing’ once the chickens come home to roost.
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Popularity of Trump tax reform skyrockets as more Americans realize it cut their taxes
– Breitbart
In a new poll from Monmouth University, the popularity of the new tax reform package is skyrocketing as more Americans realize they will keep more of their hard-earned money. The numbers suggest that tax reform could become even more popular in the coming months.
I wish the amount of money and the total number of people killed in Afghanistan had been given. Its one thing to show the length of this war compared to other US wars, but what really counts is the destruction and the cost in lives. The US government has never said how many were killed. Obama gave some numbers but they were judged to be heavily inaccurate as far as local deaths.
How Many U.S. Wars Equal the One in Afghanistan?
By DAVID BOTTI
Afghanistan is America’s longest war — about 6,000 days. That’s longer than WWI, WWII and the Korean War combined.
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