Trump Screws the 99%
Mar 19, 2017 15:20:02 #
Floyd Brown wrote:
Add one more to the I have my eyes open Gang.
It will sure take a lot of crap before his backers will get a clue to what is going on.
Some will never get it. After buying the B.S. From the right for so long they have a taste for it.
It will sure take a lot of crap before his backers will get a clue to what is going on.
Some will never get it. After buying the B.S. From the right for so long they have a taste for it.
Yep....that is why the Orange Man can take away healthcare and even food from the poor and elderly, make them have to pay more or go without.....and give the rich breaks where they pay less or none......and these people are okay with that.....despite being borderline or actually poor themselves..amazing....and explains why their own thinking has them frustrated and angry and confused...
Mar 19, 2017 18:14:05 #
straightUp wrote:
Ya just gotta ignore him. AO is kind of like a village drunk. Harmless... rants and insults.
It's his right to be a blow hard. I doubt he has anything better to do but sit in front of a computer or phone and spew.
Mar 19, 2017 18:20:11 #
America Only wrote:
Negglar, you have a lot of part time janitor jobs ... (show quote)
Like they say on the playground. Takes one to know one. Your parents, if you had any were dumb enough to let you live... What a shame! You make the case for abortion.
Mar 20, 2017 04:20:14 #
Trump And GOP Have It In For Their Own
Liberals who want to punish Trump voters need to get in line behind President Trump and the GOP.
The American Health Care Act introduced by House Republicans last week and swiftly endorsed by the White House appears to have been designed to hurt Trump voters — at least the vast majority of them who are older, live in rural areas and take in less than $250,000 a year in investment income.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-gop-voters/?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sd&utm_medium=email
Liberals who want to punish Trump voters need to get in line behind President Trump and the GOP.
The American Health Care Act introduced by House Republicans last week and swiftly endorsed by the White House appears to have been designed to hurt Trump voters — at least the vast majority of them who are older, live in rural areas and take in less than $250,000 a year in investment income.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-gop-voters/?utm_campaign=website&utm_source=sd&utm_medium=email
Mar 20, 2017 08:21:13 #
eagleye13 wrote:
That I did.
Has he straightened up, and walking erect yet?
Has he straightened up, and walking erect yet?
I don't think so. Maybe if you send it to HIM, it might help, but don't COUNT on it!!
Mar 20, 2017 13:00:27 #
Arkansas rethinks an awkward holiday
Confederate general and civil rights icon will no longer be celebrated together.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. was honored with a federal holiday in 1983. Arkansas state workers could initially choose to observe either his birthday or Lee’s. (Stephen F. Somerstein Getty Images)
By Kurtis Lee
For Vivian Flowers, the two men were never on the same historical playing field.
One fought as a general in the Confederate Army. The other, a century later, sought to undo the ramifications of slavery and Jim Crow laws — inequality, poverty, lack of education, to name a few.
So she puzzled over a question when, as a child, she traveled with her family from their Torrance home to visit family in Arkansas for summer and winter vacations: Why did the state honor both Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
In a joint holiday. On the same day.
“It was just wrong, and as I got older — learned more about history — it was even more wrong to me,” says Flowers, now 47 and a Democratic state representative and chairwoman of Arkansas’ Legislative Black Caucus. “This was totally wrong and not right.”
Now, the state is set to sever this awkward link.
This month, state lawmakers passed a measure removing Lee from the January state holiday honoring King, the civil rights leader assassinated in 1968.
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who took the unusual step of testifying on the law’s behalf before the Legislature, says he’ll sign it.
Like many Southern states marred by the legacy of slavery and racial segregation, Arkansas has had to balance preserving history with not offending its residents.
In 1947, after similar efforts in other Southern states, Arkansas passed a law creating a January holiday honoring Lee’s birthday. The vote was, in part, an effort to push back against talk of desegregation and ending Jim Crow laws.
Decades later, in 1983, Congress passed a measure creating a federal holiday for King, also born in January. (Jesse Helms, the archconservative Republican senator from North Carolina, vigorously opposed the holiday and charged that King had collaborated with communists.)
At the time, Arkansas required state employees to choose which of the two days they wanted to take off as a holiday: King’s birthday on Jan. 15 or Lee’s birthday on Jan. 19.
Then in 1985, Arkansas lawmakers combined the holidays, to be observed on the third Monday in January. Alabama and Mississippi still celebrate both men on the same day.
State Sen. Dave Wallace, a Republican whose district is nearly 75% white and spans portions of Jonesboro, sponsored the legislation to end the dual holiday.
“My ancestors fought and died with the Confederacy,” he said Saturday. “And I believe, truly, it’s never been right.... You can see and hear it in the pain and voices of the black community.”
Wallace says that in recent weeks he has received hate mail from a few people labeling him a “traitor.” Two years ago, lawmakers tried to pass similar legislation, but it died in a committee.
“All we did was something that should have been done years ago,” he said. “Four or five years from now a small minority of people will still be talking about it.”
Indeed, some see the bill as an abandonment of the state’s past. Before the vote on the House floor, where the bill passed with a 66-11 vote Friday, a handful of lawmakers voiced their discontent.
“We are not separating Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King,” Republican state Rep. Jana Della Rosa, who opposed the measure, told lawmakers. “We are taking Robert E. Lee and we are putting him in the basement and we’re acting like we’re embarrassed that he ever existed.”
Debate over how states and cities acknowledge their Confederate past has come to the forefront in recent years.
In 2015, following the mass shooting by an avowed white supremacist who killed nine black members of a Charleston, S.C., church, debate renewed over that state flying the Confederate battle flag at its Capitol. Lawmakers voted to remove the flag from the grounds.
In New Orleans that year, after calls from, among others, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and native son and jazz star Wynton Marsalis, the city opted to remove a public statute honoring Lee. The decision had been held up in federal court until this month when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously cleared the way to remove the monument — along with other Civil War relics.
“This win … will allow us to begin to turn a page on our divisive past and chart the course for a more inclusive future,” Landrieu said in a statement earlier this month.
For some, the passage of the Arkansas legislation is a step in the right direction, but it did not go far enough.
While it ended the dual holiday, the bill sets aside the second Saturday in October to honor Lee with a memorial day, not a state holiday, marked by a gubernatorial proclamation. (The measure also mandates additional curriculum in Arkansas public schools be dedicated to the civil rights movement and the Civil War.)
Even the bill’s House sponsor, state Rep. Grant Hodges, a Republican from the northwest corner of the state, agrees it’s not perfect.
“This may not be the perfect solution … [but] it is a solution,” he said.
Flowers, who said Saturday that the bill’s passage was progress for the state, understands why some want to see the holiday remain in place.
“I get that there is a Confederate history here,” she said. But King and Lee, she added, “should not be celebrated together.”
kurtis.lee@latimes.com
Confederate general and civil rights icon will no longer be celebrated together.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. was honored with a federal holiday in 1983. Arkansas state workers could initially choose to observe either his birthday or Lee’s. (Stephen F. Somerstein Getty Images)
By Kurtis Lee
For Vivian Flowers, the two men were never on the same historical playing field.
One fought as a general in the Confederate Army. The other, a century later, sought to undo the ramifications of slavery and Jim Crow laws — inequality, poverty, lack of education, to name a few.
So she puzzled over a question when, as a child, she traveled with her family from their Torrance home to visit family in Arkansas for summer and winter vacations: Why did the state honor both Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
In a joint holiday. On the same day.
“It was just wrong, and as I got older — learned more about history — it was even more wrong to me,” says Flowers, now 47 and a Democratic state representative and chairwoman of Arkansas’ Legislative Black Caucus. “This was totally wrong and not right.”
Now, the state is set to sever this awkward link.
This month, state lawmakers passed a measure removing Lee from the January state holiday honoring King, the civil rights leader assassinated in 1968.
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who took the unusual step of testifying on the law’s behalf before the Legislature, says he’ll sign it.
Like many Southern states marred by the legacy of slavery and racial segregation, Arkansas has had to balance preserving history with not offending its residents.
In 1947, after similar efforts in other Southern states, Arkansas passed a law creating a January holiday honoring Lee’s birthday. The vote was, in part, an effort to push back against talk of desegregation and ending Jim Crow laws.
Decades later, in 1983, Congress passed a measure creating a federal holiday for King, also born in January. (Jesse Helms, the archconservative Republican senator from North Carolina, vigorously opposed the holiday and charged that King had collaborated with communists.)
At the time, Arkansas required state employees to choose which of the two days they wanted to take off as a holiday: King’s birthday on Jan. 15 or Lee’s birthday on Jan. 19.
Then in 1985, Arkansas lawmakers combined the holidays, to be observed on the third Monday in January. Alabama and Mississippi still celebrate both men on the same day.
State Sen. Dave Wallace, a Republican whose district is nearly 75% white and spans portions of Jonesboro, sponsored the legislation to end the dual holiday.
“My ancestors fought and died with the Confederacy,” he said Saturday. “And I believe, truly, it’s never been right.... You can see and hear it in the pain and voices of the black community.”
Wallace says that in recent weeks he has received hate mail from a few people labeling him a “traitor.” Two years ago, lawmakers tried to pass similar legislation, but it died in a committee.
“All we did was something that should have been done years ago,” he said. “Four or five years from now a small minority of people will still be talking about it.”
Indeed, some see the bill as an abandonment of the state’s past. Before the vote on the House floor, where the bill passed with a 66-11 vote Friday, a handful of lawmakers voiced their discontent.
“We are not separating Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King,” Republican state Rep. Jana Della Rosa, who opposed the measure, told lawmakers. “We are taking Robert E. Lee and we are putting him in the basement and we’re acting like we’re embarrassed that he ever existed.”
Debate over how states and cities acknowledge their Confederate past has come to the forefront in recent years.
In 2015, following the mass shooting by an avowed white supremacist who killed nine black members of a Charleston, S.C., church, debate renewed over that state flying the Confederate battle flag at its Capitol. Lawmakers voted to remove the flag from the grounds.
In New Orleans that year, after calls from, among others, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and native son and jazz star Wynton Marsalis, the city opted to remove a public statute honoring Lee. The decision had been held up in federal court until this month when the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously cleared the way to remove the monument — along with other Civil War relics.
“This win … will allow us to begin to turn a page on our divisive past and chart the course for a more inclusive future,” Landrieu said in a statement earlier this month.
For some, the passage of the Arkansas legislation is a step in the right direction, but it did not go far enough.
While it ended the dual holiday, the bill sets aside the second Saturday in October to honor Lee with a memorial day, not a state holiday, marked by a gubernatorial proclamation. (The measure also mandates additional curriculum in Arkansas public schools be dedicated to the civil rights movement and the Civil War.)
Even the bill’s House sponsor, state Rep. Grant Hodges, a Republican from the northwest corner of the state, agrees it’s not perfect.
“This may not be the perfect solution … [but] it is a solution,” he said.
Flowers, who said Saturday that the bill’s passage was progress for the state, understands why some want to see the holiday remain in place.
“I get that there is a Confederate history here,” she said. But King and Lee, she added, “should not be celebrated together.”
kurtis.lee@latimes.com
Mar 20, 2017 13:11:56 #
Black Bird Fly
https://youtu.be/qokMu7BMv_8
America Only
Did some back checking:
PO; “ You lied to everyone on this website. It is what you do. You as a liar, also have a piss poor memory. You always use the age of 26 that you did something spectacular as to impress everyone...but you failed to recall, you posted here in this above thread to DOC that at age 26 you were on your way to work for a space program...or on a ship which you stated you were on for 2 years...but a long time ago when you used your other name here and you claimed you worked on a shuttle for a few years...at age 26.....oh my...you just don't know WHEN to stop your bullshit lies!”
“He (PO) is a total frigging liar, an idiot! When this moron came on this website saying he worked on the Shuttle, his statement was the Shuttle was the exact same one from one to the next...NO difference...but clue in on this fact..IF he worked on any part of the Shuttle in the EE department as he claimed...he not only would have had to sign for published updates on it...he would have KNOWN about what was different...he knew ZERO and denied anything was different at all...but then...I had to shoot him down in flames...how so you ask? EASY! The same people that informed me he did not work and had not been employed by Rockwell sent me reports that if he would have worked for them, he would have had to SIGN for them...and low and behold what do those reports speak of? Hahah ALL of the CHANGES that are NEW for the systems on the Shuttle..check this out!”
“So now..at age 26 you worked at NASA, worked on the Shuttle for Rockwell and then on a ship up in Alaska...and all of those for "about two years" from your own past posts on this website.
Oh let us know when the detectives stop by your place...they will be there fairly soon...count on it”
Oh I get it!!!!!
Propaganda One is the Jack Benny of OPP.
OP will always be 26.
In a time warp, a black hole with a warped brain.
https://youtu.be/qokMu7BMv_8
America Only
Did some back checking:
PO; “ You lied to everyone on this website. It is what you do. You as a liar, also have a piss poor memory. You always use the age of 26 that you did something spectacular as to impress everyone...but you failed to recall, you posted here in this above thread to DOC that at age 26 you were on your way to work for a space program...or on a ship which you stated you were on for 2 years...but a long time ago when you used your other name here and you claimed you worked on a shuttle for a few years...at age 26.....oh my...you just don't know WHEN to stop your bullshit lies!”
“He (PO) is a total frigging liar, an idiot! When this moron came on this website saying he worked on the Shuttle, his statement was the Shuttle was the exact same one from one to the next...NO difference...but clue in on this fact..IF he worked on any part of the Shuttle in the EE department as he claimed...he not only would have had to sign for published updates on it...he would have KNOWN about what was different...he knew ZERO and denied anything was different at all...but then...I had to shoot him down in flames...how so you ask? EASY! The same people that informed me he did not work and had not been employed by Rockwell sent me reports that if he would have worked for them, he would have had to SIGN for them...and low and behold what do those reports speak of? Hahah ALL of the CHANGES that are NEW for the systems on the Shuttle..check this out!”
“So now..at age 26 you worked at NASA, worked on the Shuttle for Rockwell and then on a ship up in Alaska...and all of those for "about two years" from your own past posts on this website.
Oh let us know when the detectives stop by your place...they will be there fairly soon...count on it”
Oh I get it!!!!!
Propaganda One is the Jack Benny of OPP.
OP will always be 26.
In a time warp, a black hole with a warped brain.
Mar 20, 2017 14:25:54 #
Bevos wrote:
I don't think so. Maybe if you send it to HIM, it might help, but don't COUNT on it!!
You people are really dumb! There it is laid out for you. What the Flim Flam man did to his own supporters. Are you really to stupid to see it for yourself or are you one of those who slavishly hang on Trump's every lie? If so I pity you. You deserve who and what you voted in.
Mar 20, 2017 14:29:11 #
woodssprite 17 wrote:
You people are really dumb! There it is laid out for you. What the Flim Flam man did to his own supporters. Are you really to stupid to see it for yourself or are you one of those who slavishly hang on Trump's every lie? If so I pity you. You deserve who and what you voted in.
Clinton Compilation, lying, Scandals, etc.:
We drained the Swamp of two more swamp rats.
Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight.
http://youtu.be/-dY77j6uBHI
http://youtu.be/PEu_swhnDww
Hillary Clinton: A Lying Compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTNyYTsk5gs
Then there is the Clinton Dead List.
Hillary the Scandals
http://youtu.be/BYKAzJcU-DA
Hillary Clinton Endorsed by The Council of Foreign Relations(CFR)(Here's Why)
https://youtu.be/b2T-5Pd3oYY
The Clintons are a proven known. Lying, self serving scammers to the max.
From the Ozarks to Long Island, and on to DC.
We drained the Swamp of two more swamp rats.
Mar 20, 2017 15:11:42 #
woodssprite 17 wrote:
You people are really dumb! There it is laid out for you. What the Flim Flam man did to his own supporters. Are you really to stupid to see it for yourself or are you one of those who slavishly hang on Trump's every lie? If so I pity you. You deserve who and what you voted in.
Funny yet sad at the same time...........
Mar 21, 2017 09:55:31 #
woodssprite 17 wrote:
You people are really dumb! There it is laid out for you. What the Flim Flam man did to his own supporters. Are you really to stupid to see it for yourself or are you one of those who slavishly hang on Trump's every lie? If so I pity you. You deserve who and what you voted in.
You are RIGHT about ONE thing!! WE DESERVE the REAL MAN that we voted into office this time. SO MUCH MORE than the LOW-LIFE Obama scum that we had for 8 LONG MISERABLE YEARS!!! One of these days you libs are going to take your heads out of your asses and realize that AMERICA "IS" GOING TO BE GREAT AGAIN!!! But THAT is why all of you libs are FIGHTING everything that Trump does, you don't want to be shown for the FOOLS that you are and have been!!!
Mar 21, 2017 10:30:16 #
Bevos wrote:
You are RIGHT about ONE thing!! WE DESERVE the REAL MAN that we voted into office this time. SO MUCH MORE than the LOW-LIFE Obama scum that we had for 8 LONG MISERABLE YEARS!!! One of these days you libs are going to take your heads out of your asses and realize that AMERICA "IS" GOING TO BE GREAT AGAIN!!! But THAT is why all of you libs are FIGHTING everything that Trump does, you don't want to be shown for the FOOLS that you are and have been!!!
Yep, Bevos! The Libs/Left are desperate; and it becomes more obvious as the weeks go by.
Mar 21, 2017 10:46:03 #
woodssprite 17 wrote:
You people are really dumb! There it is laid out for you. What the Flim Flam man did to his own supporters. Are you really to stupid to see it for yourself or are you one of those who slavishly hang on Trump's every lie? If so I pity you. You deserve who and what you voted in.
This has been coming up a lot lately in public discussions. It's pretty clear that Trump is screwing the economic class that voted for him and yet they can't see it. It's tempting to call it stupidity and to some extent I think that's accurate, but some credit needs to go to the amazing propaganda machine being funded by the 1%. That machine actually has people snarling at the very things that would help them and voting for the very people that will make things worse for them. Trump is the Walrus in the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter where he used rhetoric to lead a bed of oysters to their demise.
Mar 21, 2017 10:47:32 #
eagleye13 wrote:
Yep, Bevos! The Libs/Left are desperate; and it becomes more obvious as the weeks go by.
That sounds like some wishful thinking... ;)
Mar 21, 2017 11:02:08 #
straightUp wrote:
That sounds like some wishful thinking... ;)
Sounds MORE like the TRUTH!!! You should TRY IT SOMETIME!!!
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