Progressive One

whatever in the fk that means....you like the N-word...live with it........

vernon

Oh enlighten us please.Tell us all the good things TRUMP HAS DONE.Then you can tell us all the lies that Obama spread and of course you ate them up like canned dick.

Ricko Loc: Florida

vernon-take solace in the fact that in spite of the childish rants by the likes of Glaucon and PO1, Trump is and will
be our president for the next 8 years. A child whose lollipop is taken from him/her will usually wail,moan and whine
similar to what you see these supposedly intelligent liberals doing. They got their slimy butts kicked hard and
are not able to get over it. lol Their antics confirm that they are indeed weak minded and spineless. Best to ignore as they prefer to see the country go down the tubes rather than Trump be successful. PS. Looks like Jerry Brown is now seeking help from President Trump . Guess he just found out that the democrat run California is a couple of billion in debt and the money tree has been uprooted. Believe that is the same JB who took 100 million from funds intended for education of his citizens and shunted that money to fund illegals. What goes around comes around. America First !!!

Progressive One

famous last words...........

reconreb Loc: America / Inglis Fla.

D.O.A.

Nickolai

Dream on We can tell when Trump is lying when he says believe me folks

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

Wrong, ur thick headed

Big Bass

You don't know what that means? I believe you have only ever graduated from reform school. As for the n-word, it suits you.

Radiance3

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Despite of the warms of democrat venomous bees, President Trump has been rising beyond and above all expectations.
Here are the achievements of President Trump for 50 days in office. He is one of the greatest US presidents that grace the WH.

1. In January, he created 238,000 new jobs. In February, another 235,000 jobs created. Unemployment went down to 4.7%.
2. He lowered national debts. When he came in the national debt was $19,947 trillion. But then President Trump subtracted by $68 billion.
3. Manufacturing is at best since 1984.
4. Small businesses and medium size companies, the real drivers of our economy are CONFIDENT.
5. Stock market keeps hitting record high.
6. Samsung is investing in American production, announced it will move production to the US, adding $300 million in investment.
7. Exxon Mobil is moving jobs to the US.
8. Carrier will keep its Indiana manufacturing plant.
9. Fiat Chrysler is investing $1 billion in its factories in the US.
10.Hasbro announced it will start making Play-Duo in the US again.
11. The Coal Industry has been freed from Onerous regulations.
12. The Transpacific Partnership is dead.
13. Illegal immigration from Mexico is down by 40%.
14. The end of Sanctuary Cities has been mandated.
15. The repeal and replacement of BO Care has begun.
16. Neil Gorsuch has been nominated to the SC.
17. The approval of the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Pipeline will add jobs.
18. The International Abortion of babies called NGO' will lose funding.
19. Transgender Bathroom policy will be moved to individual states.
20. American taxpayers will SAVE on Cost to Air Force One. Thanks to president Trump for effective negotiations with Boeing. The amount he saved will be in hundreds of millions of dollars.

There are many others going on that are not listed here. God bless America and President Trump!

In addition, President Trump really cares about women. Islam practices of beating women, and mutilating or cutting the female sex organs of their female children will be prohibited in the US under President Trump. Islam has been practicing that in the US before, without any intervention from the government. Now, that will be restricted. Muslim women will be treated humanely, and fairly with respect, and must follow the honor rule.

Progressive One

The N-Word does not bother anyone....faggot ass crackas like you just get their asses kick to be taught a lesson In consideration...it bothers no one...it is just the principle of the matter...

Progressive One

Trump cares all right....about dumb ass bimbos who'll let him grab a handful of pussy....go for an audition in that regard........you might find your thrill on blueberry hill..............

Progressive One

BACK STORY
Democrats’ new mission
Party chief acknowledges failures, and has a message for rural America
“I THINK we should accord Donald Trump the same courtesy that [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell accorded Barack Obama,” Tom Perez said. (Erik S. Lesser European Pressphoto Agency )
By Michael Finnegan
Tom Perez can only hope that the Democratic Party has hit bottom.
He has taken over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee just as the party is struggling to recover from a November rout that left Republicans in charge of the White House, both houses of Congress and most of the nation’s governorships and state legislative chambers. It’s hard to imagine how things could get any worse in 2018 or 2020.
In an interview with The Times, Perez was candid about some of the party’s failures in 2016, most notably its abandonment of vast stretches of rural and small-town America.
But Perez, 55, who was Labor secretary under President Obama, offered little detail on what changes the party would make to win over President Trump’s supporters in those areas.
He also glossed over the internal rancor that lingers from the party’s split between establishment leader Hillary Clinton and insurgent Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race.
What follows are excerpts from Perez’s remarks.
He zeroed in on the party’s loss of more than 900 seats in state legislatures over the last decade.
We need to redefine the mission of the Democratic Party so that we are not only electing the president but we’re electing candidates up and down the ballot, from the school board to the Senate. And the best way to do that is to ensure that we have a robust presence in all the states and territories.
Donald Trump won Wisconsin because we underperformed in Milwaukee, and we got clobbered in rural Wisconsin because we did not have an “every ZIP Code” strategy. In places where we once had a presence, like the northwestern corner of Wisconsin, we have largely abandoned it.
Perez is embarking this month on a “Democratic turnaround tour” of Michigan, Texas, Virginia and New Jersey with the new DNC deputy chair, Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. Perez outlined the party’s core values but signaled no shift in direction with its agenda.
We’re the party that has fought for Medicare. We’re the party that has fought for Social Security. The Republicans have tried to privatize Social Security and voucherize Medicare. We’re the party that’s fought for increased wages, fought for the union movement, fought to make sure that collective bargaining is not eviscerated, it’s strengthened. And when we communicate those messages, we succeed.
Perez fretted over how few Americans realize that millions more jobs were created under Democratic Presidents Clinton and Obama than under Republican Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
What we have to do as Democrats is continue to not only communicate that message but continue to fight for the investments that ensure that middle-class folks, and those who want to get into the middle class, can succeed. We allowed the Republicans to hijack that message.
As for Sanders supporters who still mistrust the party establishment because it favored Clinton over Sanders, Perez insisted both sides have enough in common to overcome their differences.
That’s why you saw Americans come together in force in the aftermath of this ill-advised Muslim ban. That’s why you see the coming together under the Affordable Care Act, the coming together around the revelations of how our national security was compromised by the conduct and interaction between the Trump administration and the Russians.
Perez voiced no hesitation about Democrats obstructing Trump’s agenda with the same ferocity that Republicans in Congress showed in opposing Obama’s.
I think we should accord Donald Trump the same courtesy that [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell [R-Ky.] accorded Barack Obama. Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no interest in doing anything but filling the swamp with a band of billionaires who are simply trying to help the wealthy.
Perez faulted his own party for failing to promote Obamacare effectively.
The Affordable Care Act is a lifesaver, but it was very effectively marketed [by Republicans] in 2010 as a job killer. Now, the majority of Americans support the Affordable Care Act. It cost us votes in 2010 because Republicans ran against it, and they effectively lied about what the Affordable Care Act was going to do for people.
The same thing happened in the aftermath of Social Security and Medicare. If you look at the years that followed, Republicans kept saying, “Oh, Social Security is going to bring our country down.” Ronald Reagan in the ’60s said, “Medicare will lead to socialism in America.” The playbook can bring short-term political advantage, and we didn’t do an effective enough job as Democrats of marketing the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
Looking ahead, Perez said Democrats would do a better job of recruiting candidates and volunteers in parts of America it has long ceded to Republicans, but did not specify how.
We failed to do that effectively enough. We have allowed so many ZIP Codes to be ignored. Our message in rural America is just as powerful as it is in urban America. But because we haven’t been a physical presence there in any sustained way, we have a lot of voters there who no longer believe that the Democratic Party is working for them.
When people understand what we stand for as a party — good jobs, ladders of opportunity to the middle class, retirement security, inclusion and opportunity for everyone, regardless of where you were born, which god you worship, who you love, your first language — people understand and embrace that aspect of the Democratic Party. But we have to be out there everywhere talking about it.
michael.finnegan@latimes.com
Twitter: @finneganLAT

Progressive One

OxyContin maker wants suit dismissed
Purdue Pharma fights a Washington city’s effort to hold it financially responsible for opioid epidemic.
MAYOR Ray Stephanson of Everett, Wash. The city’s lawsuit alleges that a heroin addiction crisis gripping Everett is “directly attributable” to Purdue Pharma. (Elaine Thompson Associated Press) OXYCONTIN maker Purdue Pharma says Everett has “no basis in law ... to bring such an action.” (Liz O. Baylen Los Angeles Times)
By Harriet Ryan
The manufacturer of the powerful painkiller OxyContin on Tuesday asked a judge to dismiss a novel lawsuit by a city seeking to hold the company financially responsible for a raging opioid epidemic sparked by illicit trafficking.
In a motion filed in federal court in Seattle, attorneys for Purdue Pharma wrote that the suit by Everett, Wash., suffered from “multiple, independent legal failings” — including statute of limitations problems and a failure to demonstrate a close connection between the company’s conduct and the criminal acts of drug dealers and addicts.
“[T]here is no basis in law for a municipality to bring such an action against a pharmaceutical manufacturer,” Purdue’s lawyers wrote.
Everett, a blue-collar city of 100,000 people on Puget Sound, filed the first-of-its-kind lawsuit in January, prompted by a Times investigation of the company’s internal security team.
The newspaper revealed how lawyers, analysts and investigators at Purdue’s Connecticut headquarters had worked to identify corrupt physicians and pharmacies colluding with OxyContin traffickers and addicts but, in many cases, did not share the information with law enforcement or cut off the flow of pills.
One Los Angeles ring tracked by Purdue and highlighted by The Times supplied large quantities of OxyContin to gang members and other criminals who trafficked the drug to a Crips leader in Everett from 2008 to 2010. That dealer sold the highly addictive pills to low-level dealers, who blanketed the entire region.
Many addicts later switched to heroin, a cheaper opioid.
By the time Purdue shared what it knew about the L.A. ring with law enforcement years later, a million pills had spilled onto the black market, and the ringleaders were under indictment.
Everett claimed in its lawsuit that the heroin crisis gripping the city “is directly attributable” to Purdue’s “callous and unconscionable practices.” The city said the company should cover the costs of stepped-up policing, drug treatment, homeless outreach and other services — a figure the mayor estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars.
Purdue was successful last month in moving the case from the state courthouse in Everett to federal court, traditionally seen as a more friendly venue for corporations.
In the dismissal request Tuesday, company attorneys wrote that even if U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez accepted all of Everett’s allegations as true, the case still was legally defective and should be thrown out.
Everett lacked standing to sue, the lawyers wrote, in part because the U.S. Justice Department is responsible for enforcing federal law governing narcotics manufacturers. Allowing other parties to go after drug companies would “create disarray with respect to the federal regulatory framework governing prescription medications,” they wrote.
In addition, Purdue’s lawyers said that Everett should be barred from seeking damages because OxyContin trafficking into the city had occurred outside the four-year statute of limitations for consumer protection violations alleged by the city.
They also contended that the role Everett accused Purdue of playing in criminal trafficking was too removed for the company to pay the city’s costs. A whole range of other parties, from wholesalers to pharmacists to traffickers to street dealers to addicts, also were part of the chain, they noted.
“Simply put, this theory of causation is, as a matter of law, too attenuated and remote to meet the legal requirements of proximate cause,” they wrote.
They also argued that the suit was flawed because law enforcement, aware that black-market OxyContin was a problem, had been investigating the L.A. ring and the Everett Crips leader during some of the years in question.
As The Times reported last year, the company’s security team possessed a trove of highly detailed evidence of illicit OxyContin sales — including prescribing data, pharmacy sales records, field reports and surveillance information — that allowed Purdue to quickly identify problems.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents who helped bring down the L.A. ring and local investigators in Everett who arrested the gang leader there did not have that information and told the paper it would have aided their work.
In a statement, an Everett spokeswoman said officials “look forward to presenting our arguments to the court refuting Purdue’s position.”
harriet.ryan@latimes.com
Twitter: @latimesharriet

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

U ,a college professor,and u don't know what that means???? Really, homo, really?? And u teach our children? Crawl back under your rock,slimy racist.

Progressive One

I teach people getting Masters ad Doctorates with an education already...unlike yourself and we do not discuss ignorant cracka ass shit because it doesn't pay anything....look around you........