Displaying 241 To 270 Of 1,008 Comments I didn’t know one could give a negative thumbs down. Of course you know I disagree with your “numbers” Jake, but I would never give you a negative rating my friend. Quite frankly, I think either Mickey or Minnie Mouse would beat Trump in 2020, just a they would have beaten Bush in 2008. I predict Trump will be the first former president to end up in prison. LOCK his arse UP! » Posted By TOCB On June 19, 2019 @ 4:19 am Trump doesn’t give a fat rat about YOU, the USA or anyone else, but Trump. He knowingly and willfully participated in stealing a presidential election with the sought after help of Russia. THAT is treason, because he did it in part by using cyberwar, and “cyberwar” by definition is war. » Posted By TOCB On June 19, 2019 @ 4:14 am Actually, ALL of the top tier Democrats are polling higher than Trump. I think as long as we don’t run a “Trump”, we will beat Trump AND other republicans. » Posted By TOCB On June 19, 2019 @ 4:11 am It may seem to work for awhile, but in the end there is always a severe cost for lying and wrongdoings. Those who would support someone like Trump as a leader, will surely suffer the consequences of their choice, along with the rest of us. It is up to the rest of us to make things right and always be vigilant to prevent things like this to reoccur. Voting is our primary tool, IF our voting system has integrity. But I am sure you realize that. » Posted By TOCB On June 15, 2019 @ 6:05 am I don’t believe Bush ever apologized. In fact many republicans still think invading Iraq was the right thing to do. I keep thinking that what we are experiencing in the Trump era is Karma’s payback for how we treated Hillary. Trump is at least a thousand times worse than the caricature that was created of Hillary Clinton. The past always has to be reconciled in order to move past it into the future. » Posted By TOCB On June 15, 2019 @ 5:59 am I gather that “Lizzeee” is “Lizzy” from Yabberz.com? It was interesting to read your take on age. We seem to have some similarities. Since I was raised by my grandmother and her youngest son being only six years older than me, my uncle and I grew up like brothers, and in our adulthood, we tell everyone that we are brothers. His children, who of course are my first cousins, call me Uncle. I never actually smoke pot though. I did try it, but like Bill Clinton, I did not inhale. I wasn’t a smoker, so I didn’t know I was suppose to inhale. Since it didn’t do anything for me the one time I tried it, I never tried it again. Old age is actually pretty good, IF you are in good health. You are likely to be wiser because of your experiences and you don’t sweat the small stuff. You realize that your physical body has more years behind it than it does ahead of it, so you focus more on your existence outside of your physical existence. Doing that is much better than pot. » Posted By TOCB On June 17, 2019 @ 5:14 am I agree. It appears the media is pushing for Biden more than the people are. I don’t believe he is as strong among African Americans as the polls suggest. » Posted By TOCB On June 13, 2019 @ 1:34 am Well, as I said, I am not against Biden. I just think with all of the other choices, he should be evaluated based on the merit of his case for the job, just like everyone else. Biden has done more good in his career than bad. There are in fact, no perfect people. Also, one does not have to be young, to be able to consider issues that are important and unique to young people. One does not have to be black to consider issues that are important and unique to black people, and so on. Generally, wisdom comes with age and experience, so I am not knocking age and experience. Fortunately, Democrats have a lot of very good choices, including Biden. However, I think it is sexist and insulting for Biden and the press to promote that only a white male can beat Trump. In fact, in a recent poll almost ALL of the top tier Democrats beat Trump. From my perspective, voters win election anyway, and not candidates. As you said, candidates have to inform and motivate voters to make the best choice, which every candidate thinks is him or her. Democrats should appeal to the decency and sanity to every eligible voter. Of course, we will not be the choice of people who have no decency or sanity, i.e., republicans. » Posted By TOCB On June 12, 2019 @ 6:08 am Agree. I will support ANY Democrat over ANY republican. » Posted By TOCB On June 12, 2019 @ 5:45 am Elizabeth Warren is my choice for the top of the ticket. I like Julian Castro for VP. » Posted By TOCB On June 12, 2019 @ 5:44 am Weekend Music Thread – My Hero Hey Retired669. Good to see a familiar face here. Btw, we seem to look alike. » Posted By TOCB On May 30, 2019 @ 6:16 am I Want The Next President To Be Like Our Best Presidents: 5 Key Lessons The Main Stream Media Is Misrepresenting The Mueller Report Not only has Bill Barr misrepresented The Mueller Report, but so has the main stream media and many politicians on both sides of the isle. In Barr’s non-summary that he says wasn’t a summary, he said that the Mueller Report concluded that there was no “collusion” on the part of Trump or his campaign, so Barr gave the impression that Mueller completely exonerated Trump and his campaign on that. Barr also said that although Mueller did not exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice, he also did not charge him on that, so Barr took the liberty of exonerating Trump on that charge himself. When one actually reads The Mueller Report, it has a completely different tone on “collusion/coordination/conspiracy” as well as on obstruction. It is clear that Mueller thought Trump committed obstruction of justice, as he set out ten cases where he did. However, he also clearly left it up to Congress to act on that, due to the DOJ policy of not indicting a sitting president. In the case of “collusion/coordination/conspiracy”, the report clearly documents evidence of coordination between Russians and Trump’s campaign. In fact, many of this evidence had already been report by news outlets that Trump called “fake news”. It appears Mueller gave Trump and his campaign the benefit of doubt on the conspiracy charge, because he thought they may have been too ignorant to realize what they were doing. I take issue with this assessment by Mueller, as Trump and his team were very arrogant about some of the things they did, and indeed they openly bragged about them. From Trump openly requesting Russia to find Hillary’s emails to Don Jr., Ivanka and Papadopoulos discussing getting dirt on Hillary Clinton with Russians to the controlled release of emails by WikiLeakes to Flynn talking about sanctions with the Russian government to Trump lying about activity around the Moscow Tower, to Manafort giving internal polling data of battleground states to Russian intelligence. That is a lot of ignorance to overlook. However, if you listen to the main stream media, whether it is Fox “News” or MSNBC, they always begin their discussions about the Mueller Report with a statement that Mueller cleared Trump and his campaign of “collusion”. What Barr did related to the Mueller Report is lie about it and commit perjury in an attempt to cover up Trump’s actions from the public. What the main stream media is doing at best is misrepresenting the report relative to “collusion/coordination/conspiracy” » Posted By TOCB On May 1, 2019 @ 6:24 am Seven Reasons Why Democrats Should Impeach Donald Trump ANYONE with an ounce of integrity and prudence and is paying attention, can see that Trump committed treason and that the republican party aided and abetted him in doing so. You are correct that the Senate is unlikely to convict and remove Trump from office. That is a foregone conclusion. Not because there are no justifiable reasons, but because republicans would not convict him if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue, as evidenced by the FACT that in spite of evidence that MBS had Khashoggi killed, Trump and his minions are making excuses for him. The republican Senate knows this, but they don’t care. » Posted By TOCB On June 4, 2019 @ 7:52 am If a large enough number of those who support Democrats don’t vote, because of a lack of motivation or frustration with a weak Democratic leadership, Trump is more likely to win, regardless of what your numbers say. IF (BIG IF) Trump actually won in 2016, it wasn’t because of the so-called white working class (who are not a part of identity politics. lol) who voted for Trump, but because of the majority of the 40% of eligible voters who did not vote at all. THAT is the group Democrats need to go after, and I bet you a fat man, they support impeaching Trump and impeaching Trump is likely to motivate them to vote. » Posted By TOCB On June 4, 2019 @ 7:42 am Jake and I have had this discussion ad nauseam on Yabberz, and his numbers don’t make any sense to me either. Trump and republicans agree with him though, and Pelosi must agree with him as well. I just heard Trump say he has a 94% approval rating among republicans. Of course, the highest in history. It doesn’t matter if Trump has a 100% approval rating with a shrinking base. What Pelosi and Jake are falling for is the unlikely likelihood that an impeached president who was not removed from office by an unprincipled Senate with have a large enough base plus whatever Independents he can get, to re-elect him. Daffy Duck would beat Trump in 2020. The only thing the country has to worry about is the integrity of the voting system(s). If ballots can be changed, I expect they will be changed. I am not convinced that Trump legally won even the electoral votes in 2016, but they were not audited to ascertain if he did or did not. Like the sheeple Americans are, we just accepted as fact, what we were told, i.e., there is no evidence that votes were changed. I will let you in on a little secret. Oftentimes, if you don’t look for evidence, you won’t find any. People who support the Democratic Party want the Democratic controlled House of Representatives to impeach Trump, regardless of what the republican controlled Senate does. If that is not “worth it” to Pelosi or any other incumbent Democrat, they should be voted out in the primaries. » Posted By TOCB On June 4, 2019 @ 7:33 am The False Narrative That Progressives are “Far Left” ONE of my pet peeves is the “both sides” excuse. You hardly ever heard that from the left, and the right only use it when they can’t defend their own positions. » Posted By TOCB On May 30, 2019 @ 6:07 am The right has mastered the art of controlling the narrative. One reason for that is that they have a lot of help not only from Fox “News” and right wing talking heads, but the left often legitimizes lies told by the right by not challenging them. One of my pet peeves is the excuse republicans use when they can’t defend something. This is when they say, “Both sides do it”. Although there are some things that both sides do, they are few and far between. Lying, distorting facts, racism, bigotry and misogyny are almost the exclusive arena of republicans. That is not to say Democrats or pure or perfect, but they are almost TOO anal about staying clear of these things. » Posted By TOCB On May 1, 2019 @ 5:49 am Since he couldn’t rip the sign up he might become converted and actually display the sign in his front yard, or maybe his parents front yard. lol » Posted By TOCB On October 2, 2020 @ 8:58 am Karma. » Posted By TOCB On October 2, 2020 @ 8:50 am October surprise! I hope he recovers, so he can go to jail. » Posted By TOCB On October 2, 2020 @ 8:49 am That MIGHT be a catalyst for a delay, but unless something happens to McConnell, I expect the confirmation process to go forward. » Posted By TOCB On October 2, 2020 @ 8:46 am Hopefully, most people will vote early while social distancing, to avoid crowds. That is my intention in Texas, as well as everyone I have talked with. » Posted By TOCB On October 2, 2020 @ 8:44 am When politics explained by comedy makes more sense than politics explained by politicians. » Posted By TOCB On September 28, 2020 @ 7:00 am This looks like a bad taser incident. The lady is outside and there doesn’t seem to be anyone but her family around her. Maybe the officer misapplied the ordinance. » Posted By TOCB On September 28, 2020 @ 6:18 am I agree with you 100% and I hope Senator Feinstein will as well when she reads your pov. If the filibuster is abolished, it will still be possible for 60 senators to vote for anything, but it would not be required. Rules, like locks, are for honest people. Dishonest people don’t care about rules or locks. » Posted By TOCB On September 26, 2020 @ 10:04 am Good talk! » Posted By TOCB On September 16, 2020 @ 8:32 am This is REALLY scary! I have never believed trump actually legally won the electoral college vote in 2016. I always believed actual votes were changed to make it appear he won the electoral college vote. Now I am even more convinced that is true, and the scary part is it will likely happen again. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have confirmed that our foreign adversaries have targeted election networks in all fifty states for cyber attacks. The EAC must take these warning deadly seriously and pass the VVSG with an added ban on wireless modems and Internet connectivity in voting systems. https://www.electiondefense.org/internet-connectivity-in-voting-machines Cybersecurity experts maintain that connecting election systems to the internet, even briefly, exposes these machines to malicious attackers who may be intent on derailing or discrediting an election. It’s not just voting machines that are vulnerable but any piece of the election apparatus, including wireless-enabled printers, digital check-in tablets, tabulators and even the registration database, they said. And yet, some local and state election officials remain committed to wireless-enabled machines, which allow them to quickly provide results to the public and more easily accommodate disabled voters. Heading into the 2020 presidential election, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Georgia and Florida are among at least 11 states that still allow voting jurisdictions to use wireless-enabled voting equipment. NOTHING is currently being done to ensure votes in the 2020 election are not manipulated remotely by wireless internet connections. » Posted By TOCB On September 16, 2020 @ 8:27 am WAIT A MINUTE!!! Trump and Giuliani are ACTIVELY working with Russian spies to produce a documentary about Joe Biden? AND both trump and Giuliani are walking around FREE??? The man the Treasury Department called “an active Russian agent for over a decade,” met with President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden. Andrii Derkach, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, and three other Russian-linked individuals were designated, Thursday, by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process. Giuliani is not doing ANYTHING without trump’s approval and instruction. PERIOD! I am not sure how the Treasury Department was able to sanction Derkach without the approval of trump and Mnuchin, but I am perplexed as to why everyone involved in these traitorous activities is not in jail. » Posted By TOCB On September 12, 2020 @ 1:13 pm She has done at least some harm to her students, the university acknowledges, due to her deception, not her identifying. Admittedly, I am a little different, but I believe the students are being misled. If someone immerses themselves in ANYTHING, they become that thing. Was she being deceptive, or was she “being” black? Rather than ostracizing her, maybe she should be studied to examine how a person can become something that society doesn’t approve of. Is there a law against becoming something other than what society wants you to be? Did she not receive the training for whatever positions she obtained? Where exactly is the deception? Becoming black? Jessica A. Krug (sometimes posing as Jess La Bombalera[10][18][19]) was an associate professor of history at George Washington University (2012–2020).[20] She is the author of the well-reviewed work of Columbian, Brazilian, and West African histories Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom,[21] which treats the Quiçama people, at home in Angola and within diaspora, especially in Brazil.[5][22] The book was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize[23] and the Harriet Tubman Prize.[24] Krug’s additional studies focus on African American history and Latin America.[5] According to Krug, her principal focus has been in advocacies on behalf of people of color as well as in anti-gentrification activism.[5] She has published essays in Essence and at the race-exploring website RaceBaitR.[25][26][27] Krug has taken financial support from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture that led to her book, Fugitive Modernities.[9] In 2009, she was awarded a $45,000 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.[28] Growing up in the Kansas City metropolitan area Krug graduated from The Barstow School, a co-ed private college prep school in south Kansas City.[2] She later attended the University of Kansas as a white woman,[3][29] within her September 2020 blog post, Krug said she had “been battling some unaddressed mental health demons for my entire life” and, to escape from unspecified emotional “issues” and “severe trauma”, began passing as a light-skinned person of color in her youth.[30] To say that I clearly have been battling some unaddressed mental health demons for my entire life, as both an adult and child, is obvious. Mental health issues likely explain why I assumed a false identity initially, as a youth, and why I continued and developed it for so long; the mental health professionals from whom I have been so belatedly seeking help assure me that this is a common response to some of the severe trauma that marked my early childhood and teen years. But mental health issues can never, will never, neither explain nor justify, neither condone nor excuse, that, in spite of knowing and regularly critiquing any and every non-Black person who appropriates from Black people, my false identity was crafted entirely from the fabric of Black lives. — Jessica A. Krug[7] Again, from my perspective, Ms. Kurg achieved her positions in African American and Latin History. How is it a crime for her to choose to live as a black person? Shouldn’t we be focusing more on WHY there is a difference between a “black experience” and a “white experience”? » Posted By TOCB On September 12, 2020 @ 1:00 pm Wow! 54 days! The nightmare is almost over. The concern is what will trump do between November 3rd and January 20th? » Posted By TOCB On September 11, 2020 @ 6:44 amComments Posted By TOCB
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