Vox Populi – 03-02-2018

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Hey PPO! Glad you made it!

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See you then!

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hey guys!

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Sorry, was wrapping up some stuff. Like my investment in Jared’s real estate!

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Selling steel and aluminum and buying heavily into bomb shelters and apple stands.

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I think Trump knows Jared is about to be buried by Mueller and like any loyal father-in-law, he’s saying, “Jared who?”

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Ivanka looks like she was made at a factory.

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It may seem tired to use “the most” so often but this is undoubtedly the most corrupt WH in our history. Everyone is on the take and double-dealing.

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Ivanka looks like a Chinese knock off of a human Barbie doll that just doesn’t look quite real or right.

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PPO – Yep, it’s all coming down from the human corruption at the top.

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They feel so free because the Repub Congress is protecting them from investigations but…hey…Mueller? He’s authorized to pursue any and all criminal acts he comes upon, just needing Rosenstein to give a thumbs up and he’s not going to protect Trump after Trump’s tried to destroy him.

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And it seems so obvious that Trump’s tariff announcement was a desperate, knee-jerk act to exercise power and upset and distract the public as the walls collapse in on him…and it only made more walls collapse on him. It is scary to think he could be just as impulsive about attacking North Korea if Mueller indicts him. Then the 24th Amendment will come into play.

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PPO- Boeing then came out to say, “Oh, Donald is SUCH a great negotiator! He saved American taxpayers a gazillion dollars in this deal! We were so screwed to get only $4 billion for only two planes, well played Donald!”

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PPO – Not to mention Canada! These tariffs smack down Canada hard, they’re the #1 importer and exporter of steel with the US.

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Harleigh – Now Trump’s shitting on the survivors of school shootings and many of them will be voting this Nov and many more by 2020.

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They will be one issue voters and represent millions of new voters. Enough to make the blue wave even bigger and take The Senate back. Heay, Cruz could lose in TX!

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Do you think Trump will either postpone indefinitely or have huge exemptions for the tariff now that everyone around him except for Decrepit Ross is telling him it’s insane?

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The Manafort trial is going to be in September and between now and then, many more indictments. Trump and the Repubs will be radioactive by Nov, no one but that 32% of voters who are Trump’s followers will be voting for them.

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PPO – But that would be such a slap in the face to China that they would retaliate. AND…it is against WTO rules to play favorites in tariffs so doing that would bring sanctions on the US. Unless he backs off completely, he will have sabotaged his short term economic bump that the tax fraud cut was supposed to deliver.

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Hey glenn! Harleigh???

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glenn – You are a true optimist, trying to reason with the unreasonable.

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PPO – I think that if it was passed here, many would turn in their guns for money and gun deaths would plummet. We’d need a principled Dem Congress and President though to do that. And the more I see of the DCCC going around the country trying to sabotage Progressive Dems to clear the way for their corporate Dems, I don’t know that a Dem controlled Congress would necessarily do that.

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The DCCC needs to be beaten in the primaries, they are Repubs-Lite and would prevent any real change from happening or do their best to stop it.

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glenn – As long as you’re looking at it as good exercise, that’s healthy. But expecting to change minds made of cement can be frustrating.

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Hey Murph!

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PPO – I do think it’s possible to have sensible gun control in the US, it’s clearly reaching a turning point. As you say, having this new wave of young voters will bring us closer and closer to that.

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PPO – Because unlike Repubs, Dems aren’t authoritarians or mostly the same ethnicity and gender (GOP = White Males). Dems are more of a coalition of many different types and groups, unfortunately including the corrupt, conservative, corporate minded, bureaucratic types. They want what Repubs want, the wealthy to get what they want and tip them with millions for campaigns, they just have less severe stands on social issues. So Dems need to beat the Corporate Dems who still control a lot of the party.

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glenn – We just have to keep the DCCC and DLC-types from trying to push out Progressives from running in Dem primaries. They will end up disappointing the majority who want change, they want status quo because they have a lot of power now. Changing the status quo threatens their power and that comes first to these greedy, selfish pseudo-Repubs.

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glenn – Exactly! Will Rogers said that!

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Murph, ya beat me on that!

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Fortunately, the DCCC can only spread themselves so thin to so many candidates and the grass roots is doing more for candidates than those anti-Progressive haters.

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glenn – I am with you on that! As Millenials take more of a presence in elections, Repubs will go down the tubes. From a Salon article: When it comes to Trump, Millennials are disproportionately not happy with the president’s performance compared to older generations. Nearly two-thirds of Millennials (65 percent) disapprove and just 27 percent approve of his time in office.

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glenn – These teens have ALREADY made a difference, look at public opinion swing aggressively, all the corporations taking action and the NRA running around in a panic. And when all these pro-NRA Repubs get crushed in Nov? Things will change even more (especially with Dem control of Congress).

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glenn – Yes, The Dem Party needs the energy and optimism of younger pols even though I have a lot of respect for many older Dems. The time called in 2016 and since, for different and inspired voices. It was surprising that such and older and established man as Bernie could attract so much excitement from Dems but if you have a genuine younger Dem, like a Robert Kennedy, campaigning passionately out there in 2020, Trump would be destroyed.

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I can easily see David Hogg and others running for and winning political offices in FL and on from there.

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Murph – I think the best we can hope for is that those Trump voters disillousioned with him just don’t vote. It still seems a big step from that to voting for a Dem though some will.

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Bernie is the wrong candidate for 2020. I supported him and what he was campaigning for but that was then, when it looked hopeless for any Dem to try and beat Hillary in the primary (and it was). So Bernie, not expecting how competitive he’d become, ran as the only candidate starting out as a genuine Progressive. I was very unhappy at his reaction to the revelations about Russia supporting him though, he didn’t react as someone with principles and condemn it, he blamed Hillary which is what unprincipled Repubs like Trump do.

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glenn – I think it is illegal, a violation of the 1st Amendment for GA Repubs to have attacked Delta over free speech. Delta should sue, they would win.

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PPO – Good question, we’ll see if the SCOTUS will stand up for our democracy in the gerrymandering cases now before them, or pull a Citizens United and kick our struggling democracy further down into the gutter.

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Seeya PPO!

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Murph – “Informed decision making?” So if there’s a quiz in biology about whether humans live to 800 or snakes can talk, they will be well informed?

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glenn – I remember and was pretty upset at Texas Repubs (and elsewhere) insisting on critical thinking being removed from schools (not like they teach that a lot as is) because it was disrespectful and programmed with religious dogma that they would be expected never to question. I forget, how did that work out for ISIS?

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glenn – I understand those sides of the argument but free speech doesn’t extend to government action and since the first statement from Cagle, the legislature has acted officially to make that law. That is not free speech, that is government making a law to restrict free speech. And corporations are people according to the SCOTUS, Delta has the right to give money to candidates as part of its free speech and that can’t be blocked (right now), nor could actual free speech. So many good reasons for such a suit to be pursued, even if at a minimum, the SCOTUS decides corpoations aren’t people.

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Murph – And for the religious extremists, Christ’s thoughts and words are buried beneath the anger of the Old Testament. They don’t want kids growing up following the words of Jesus, Jesus was a Progressive!

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glenn – Yes, PA is beating down gerrymandering and trying to have true democracy there which Repubs are fighting against like vampires seeing sunlight.

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glenn – My point is that ISIS was and is a group of insane, religious people who use absolute adherence to their beliefs as an engine to cause such disgusting acts against innocent human beings. They are always seen as an enemy by the religious Christian extremists in this country who want the same power here.

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Same here Murph!

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Murph – Yes, I posted it a little while back.

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Night glenn! Stay warm this weekend!

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Not that I saw.

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Thanks Murph!

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glenn – Overly religious types aren’t about the religion, they’re about power.

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