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46843. judithathome - 2/6/2017 12:31:25 AM I get the distinct feeling the Mote has ended...I can't believe NO ONE has posted here in last 5 days.
Seriously....I know hardly anyone likes to see my name as "last poster"....but is there nothing done since Trump was elected that hasn't pissed ANYONE off??? 46844. winstonsmith - 2/6/2017 11:16:26 PM Hi Judith, I am happy to see your name as last posted and I am very pissed off at Trump. I agree with Arky that the DNC needs to get moving on getting the new chair in place. I think this is going to be a long fight an I am trying to figure out where to best expend my time, energy and money. At the moment, I am thinking that preparation for 2018 is the most import thing but that requires the Democrats to help create a coherent plan and marshal all the resources required to win. All the pissed off people will need to row in the same direction to make 2018 turn out the way we want it to. 46845. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 5:35:38 AM Hillary Clinton was going to win the presidency before James Comey, though it was difficult to get her message out because the media just having all Trump all the time. I actually emailed MSNBC and quit watching them about a week before the election because of that. But her loss revealed a much bigger problem, and that is the DNC and Democratic Leadership that has been awol since 2010. And that has to change, or we're not going to get anywhere. Had the Democrats won the Senate like they were supposed to, we would have so much more leverage to prevent a lot of what's Happening with incompetent and unqualified cabinet picks and blocking a stolen Supreme Court seat.
If people don't understand that it's going to take work to get the party and the country back on track, we're going to be in a world of hurt. So my limited time is not really productive railing against trump. In addition, I refused to give him that much control over my life. I've got a lot of things personally I intend to enjoy. Talking about Trump is not enjoyable for me, and it's not useful. Laughing at him and working to oppose his dangerous and anti-Democratic agenda is. Working locally with the DNC, working with Grassroots organizing, finding an indivisible group and getting with it and calling legislators and getting as large a network of friends to do so as possible are the things that work, even in red States. We proved that in Arkansas. It would be nice if that weren't the case. when I was doing the rural organizing several years ago I wore myself out doing that kind of work. But had we not done it, many schools, and especially poor schools, would have closed. I think it was worth the effort to keep them open, and I think it's worth the effort to rebuild the Democratic party just like the Republicans did after '08. Work with the very localest of local neighborhoods and communities and work outward from there. There are A lot more tools to get that sort of thing done than there were when I was doing it. I was the only one that even had a smartphone and it was a BlackBerry.
On that topic, if y'all haven't seen it you really need to check out MsNo's picture in the cafe. It's very cool and very inspirational. 46846. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 5:36:41 AM And Winston, you are exactly right. 46847. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 6:02:52 AM The best app to Monitor and act on legislation and Congressional actions is just called Congress. I use it to go through a lot of bills and to follow my own Senators and rep when they're doing things and you can call their local or national offices with the touch of a button. It's really great. It's been around a number of years, it's not new. You can select what notifications you get on what bills and legislators. it's just very convenient and user-friendly without being intrusive. 46848. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 6:21:00 AM One more thing. It's all well and good to Focus on trump but he already takes up all the oxygen and it never needs to be lost on anyone that the GOP owns this and they own the things they are trying to slide through and let him sign and they own the assault on our balance of powers and our democratic system and anything else that happens as a result of not just this presidency but their control of both houses of Congress. And the people who are going to hurt the most of the ones who voted for them. 46849. wabbit - 2/7/2017 2:02:53 PM I have a theory that the mainstream Republicans already have an impeachment plan, have had since the election. Since the Dems have no real power right now, they are letting Trump be as outrageous as he wants to be. Eventually they'll pull the trigger, install *their* guy Pence, and no matter how far right he is, he'll look like a moderate by comparison.
I agree that our focus needs to be on 2018. I hope Elizabeth Warren stays in Congress and doesn't decide to run for the Presidency. 46850. wabbit - 2/7/2017 2:04:13 PM White House unhappy with SNL's Spicer sketch: report
They're unhappy. Shocking. 46851. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 9:48:40 PM I hope you're right (and I know you think pence will be worse, but he just plain scares me less) but Republicans don't even have enough morals and concern about the country to vote against the most incompetent education secretary ever put up for nomination. They really don't have the country or their constituents or America's children as a priority, to say nothing of basic American values. I really don't have much hope that they'll provide any guidance of any sort where Trump is concerned, even to have the guts to go there. They'll talk a good line, but people need to be constantly reminded of what they actually do, which is kowtow. They're scared of the same thing they've always been scared of: getting primaried. They wll pray to Mammon that Trump lasts 4 years without killing us all and/or crashing the economy. 46852. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 9:52:00 PM I think four years from now Democrats and sane Republicans need to get behind one candidate, and my choice is Evan McMullin. Fight like hell to get control of one or both houses of Congress, but work to get a decent president in place no matter what else. 46853. iiibbb - 2/7/2017 10:28:38 PM I still love you guys.... 46854. arkymalarky - 2/7/2017 10:36:29 PM Awwww! 46855. judithathome - 2/8/2017 7:54:22 PM Last night Mitch McConnell handed Democrats their next candidate: Elizabeth Warren.
46856. judithathome - 2/8/2017 7:58:49 PM Good lord...who would think listening to court "testimony" would be so fascinating to listen to on TV...and not even Perry Mason for the defense being a part of it!
And if that is boring to you, flip over to the Congress to listen to the Dems speaking all night long to try to deter Jeff Sessions' bid for a Cabinet position...well, you can listen to every Dem except for Elizabeth Warren....because Mitch McConnell threw her out for "impugning the character of fellow member"...yeah, she was reading a letter from Coretta Scott King about Jeff Sessions which is IN the Congressional Record ...from back in the day when he wasn't fit to be put on the bench...and McConnell made her shut up and sit down. She's PISSED!.
The clownishness of the White House is seeping over into Congress...keep it up, Republicans! 46857. judithathome - 2/8/2017 7:59:55 PM (This last post was written by me last night in my forum...and I copied it to here...) 46858. judithathome - 2/8/2017 10:45:52 PM Okay, this is another post I made about last night's goings-on:
Well, Mitch is kinda in Trump's pocket...his wife is in Trump's Cabinet, after all...head of LABOR. So I'd think ole Mitch is very thankful.
From Wilipedia:
Chao's parents had fled to Taiwan from Shanghai in China after the Chinese Communists took over following the Chinese Civil War in 1949. When she was 8 years old, in 1961, she came to the United States on a freight ship along with her mother and two younger sisters, a long journey that took 37 days. Her father had arrived in New York three years earlier after receiving a scholarship.
So...what sounds hinky about THIS story? She is an IMMIGRANT...as were her parents.
Wonder if she could get into the US today under Trump Rules?
edit: I am not trashing this woman, by any means....but what does this say about Trump's ideas about barring people from coming into this country? That he's a complete and total idiot? Yes...her "journey" and the outcome of it speaks volumes. Too bad Trump can't read. 46859. judithathome - 2/8/2017 10:48:33 PM Sorry...she is Secretary of Transportation...my mistake.
46860. judithathome - 2/8/2017 10:49:29 PM Evidently, I can't read, either! ;-) 46861. wabbit - 2/11/2017 5:42:13 PM President Trump vowed in a pair of tweets Saturday morning to negotiate the costs of constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border “way down,” after a government analysis estimated the price at a whopping $21.6 billion.
So he'll not pay the contractors, is that the plan? It worked for him for years, so why not. It's how the self-inflicted "Trump Tax" got started in the NYC metro area. Let's see if contractors nationwide wake up in time to see it coming their way. 46862. judithathome - 2/11/2017 7:58:23 PM Well, if the wall is to made of bricks, he won't get anyone to work for him except Mexican artisans...they are the BEST at brick work!
And he's stiffed them before in NYC so he'll do the same with this ridiculous wall.
Did anyone hear about ICE last night rounding up "illegals" nationwide and deporting them last night? Hundreds of them..."disappeared".
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