Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Alva Johnson accuses the misogynist Trump of harassment--Believable

Great interview of Alva Johnson by Chris Hayes. I am a Trump loather as most know but before I saw this interview, truthfully, I was skeptical of her accusation about Trump. It was clear from this wonderful interview and I am convinced as I am about most of the women who have accused Trump that he overstepped his boundaries for a change.

He is a brute and a bully but I knew that from day one. Ms. Johnson was simply a wonderful interview and I believe she helped her case immensely. Will she and all the other women who have accused him finally get justice and will he ultimately get taken down as he so richly deserves? I am doubtful but there is hope!

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Change and the Church

Pope Francis Vows no more sex-abuse coverups.

One will never get rid entirely the ugliness of priests sexually abusing children and others because there are no women in the church except nuns and they take a vow of chastity. This is basically, in its hierarchy, a unisex operation wedded to chastity.  The church needs to allow married priests as well as women priests who can get married. There is still room for the sexless chastity variety but, in truth, sexlessness is not a normal state for human beings. One cannot, when one is young, get rid of desire. It is just not possible. Also, one cannot rid oneself of the desire for companionship which includes sex. Thus one has a unisex church where there is no outlet for sexual satisfaction.

Still, pedophiles cannot be, for one second, tolerated no matter which institution or groups of people they inhabit. Religious orthodoxy of all stripes seems to have its fair share.  If the institution allows for more diversity in the composition of the church as well as diversity in its hierarchy and the ability to marry I think pedophilia will go down.  It will probably not, sadly, be eliminated but at least it will go down and by the way if pedophilia is uncovered call the police!  Changes in the composition of the church and the actions of its hierarchy and others must occur.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

What I wrote to Mitch McConnell

Neither the president nor any of his Republican supporters have condemned the most extreme plans of violence, killing of democratic leadership and media progressives by a deranged right wing fascist extremist. This is the most dangerous assassination plot since Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Yet Trump says nothing but does make critical comments about Alexandria Ocasia Cortez and other perceived democratic opposition any chance he gets.

He does come out in outrage when an immigrant kills or an asylum seeker on the border does something illegal even though illegal immigration and crime from it are down on the southern border. He never states that because he only knows lies.  One can only imagine if this white nationalist killing machine threatening this dastardly violent act to essentially overthrow our nation were Muslim. Trump would call out the National Guard and more.


This man Trump is oh so dangerous encouraging a race war by his toxic comments against persons of color, ruining our democratic alliances abroad and encouraging a hot war against his opposition -- the press he calls a Stalinist epithet the "enemy of the people."


What does democracy mean anymore?


Republicans who truly love their country should want this monstrous presidency to end, Mueller's report to be transparent distributed to all and impeachment proceedings begun. With a Republican senate I will not  hold my breath as Republicans now at least those who have not left the Party are lap dogs for the uber corrupt Trump.  Leader McConnell, you could right this sinking ship of  state.  I implore you to do so.  Words matter and the president's toxic comments matter most of all as we see an uptick in violence against Democrats, Jews, Muslims, and many other minorities,   One would think the Holocaust would have put an end to that but Trump has raised these horrific right wing ideologies again and given the KKK as well as Nazis a seat at the political table.  These right wing groups are violent, mean and armed to the teeth.  They mimic the president who gives a green light to them because of his rhetoric.  I am asking you to save this nation, forget Party and look to the collective national good!


Thursday, February 21, 2019

WARNING

WARNING: RACHEL MADDOW HAD A WONDERFUL SEGMENT ON THE VARIOUS BOTS THAT HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME TRIPE THAT STOLE OUR 2016 ELECTION. THEY ARE TRYING TO DIVIDE DEMOCRATS AND OTHER PROGRESSIVES AGAIN. BE VERY VERY SUSPECT OF ALL YOU READ ON PAGES THAT HAVE HAD DEMOCRATIC LEANINGS. THIS IS SIMILAR TO WHAT THESE SWINE DID IN 2016. DO NOT BE TAKEN IN AND DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON A SITE.  BEWARE. IF I FIND ANY SUSPECT DIVISIVE POSTINGS ON MY SITE I WILL ERASE OR HIDE THEM BUT I CANNOT GET THEM ALL. DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVES MUST NOT BE DIVIDED WE MUST BE UNITED. SCRUTINIZE EVERYTHING YOU READ AS TO WHAT IS THE TRUTH AND WHAT IS NOT!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU THINK IS TRUTH.  GET THE FACTS.  THERE ARE BOTS, SOME RUSSIAN AND SOME REPUBLICAN SO CALLED "CONSERVATIVE" POSTS THAT WANT TO SPREAD MALICIOUS LIES AND STIR THE POT OF CONFUSION AMONG DEMOCRATS.  FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF FROM REPUTABLE SOURCES LIKE THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, THE ATLANTIC, THE NEW YORKER, CNN, MSNBC AND OTHERS WHAT THE POSITIONS OF THE CANDIDATES ARE.  GO TO THE CANDIDATES' WEB PAGE AND READ THEIR ARGUMENTS ON EACH ISSUE.  THEN LISTEN TO THE MANY FUTURE DEBATES THAT WILL OCCUR BEFORE YOU MAKE A HURRIED CHOICE. 

It is still very early to make a definitive choice but beware, as I have said, there are posts submitted by Republicans and probably some by Russians on Facebook and other social media sites supportive of Trump that want to sow the seeds of Democratic division and elect Trump for a second term (God forbid.)  Donald Trump's own words are sowing the seeds of that division.   Even Putin has weighed into the fray today as he tried to besmirch our national security system as "deep state."  Yes, I said Putin.  Is this possible?  Yes.  Be warned!

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Charisma

I spent two days watching a Netflix Documentary entitled "The Dark Charisma of Adolph Hitler: Leading Millions into the Abyss."  It was a riveting documentary of the emergence of a man directly responsible for ultimately the killing of 50 million human beings and the eradication of much of eastern European Jewry of 6 million men, women and children within a span of just over a decade.  The documentary traced Corporal Hitler's experience in World War I, one of the bloodiest wars ever fought, complete with 2 million German war dead including the use of gas and its direct relationship to his extraordinary rise as Chancellor of Germany in 1933.  From an unknown corporal in WWI he led the world ultimately into the total war of WWII.  I have seen many documentaries of WWII but still I could not account for the Mesmer-like hold through oratory this one man held over millions in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland (the German speaking part of Czechoslovakia.) What was there in this man that he could cast a spell over some of the foremost intellectually sophisticated nations in central Europe to ultimately wage total war decimating Europe and the nation he claimed to love? 

German troops under Hitler's direction and with his generals' apprehension instructed the invasion of Austria and were met with flowers instead of bullets.  It was called Blum Krieg or war of flowers.  In the Sudetenland German troops again were met with flowers.  Hundreds of thousands of arms raised in Nazi salute paid homage to this heretofore unremarkable man.  He could speak and he could act making the German people feel worthy again after the loss of WWI and the reparations they had to pay for it.  Germans were humiliated but Hitler made them feel right again.  Add to the WWI reparations the 1929 Great Depression and a leader was needed to fill the vacuum of leadership and the impotence of German democracy.  Hindenburg hated the Bohemian corporal, as he called him, but Germany was devolving into violence and Hitler was the big Nationalist who told the German people what they wanted to hear that they were better than everyone else.   He told them he would lead them out of the abyss.  He told them he knew better than his generals and overruled their hesitation for war.  In the beginning it worked beyond their wildest dreams even marching into Paris until, against his generals' advice, he set his sights on the eastern front, Russia, and endured the Russian devastating winter with clothing not made for it.  Many German soldiers froze or starved to death.  Hitler told the soldiers it was their duty to die for the fatherland and he ordered his soldiers to march east toward Stalingrad where his fortunes changed.  In 1941 the US attacked by Japan declared war on the Axis powers.  D-Day followed with the allied ground invasion of Europe.  This nation with its allies defeated fascism, the greatest threat to mankind ever known and renewed the face of Europe.

Nationalist -- Hitler was a Nationalist.  Trump by his own admission is a Nationalist who tells his generals he knows more than they.  He lies consistently.  His speeches are short on specifics and long on platitudes rich with lies.  Up is down and down is up, black is white because Trump says it is and his followers believe him even in the face of the truth. He they think and as he tells them can be the only one who can pull the nation up from an abyss and has failed to fill hundreds of positions making him nearly a unitary executive.  Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels said:  “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Trump calls the press the "enemy of the people" especially when it tells the truth about him.

I thought about the commonality of these two Nationalists.  What did/do they have in common?  Charisma is the binding tie.  Charisma as defined means personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm; a special magnetic charm or appeal.  Both took advantage of a sagging national ego -- Germany of WWI and the US, a nation which heretofore never lost a war now has.  It stalemated in Korea, lost in Vietnam, endured a nation of protest of its foreign policy, was devastatingly attacked on 9/11, went to war in Iraq based on lies, invaded Afghanistan which now reaches the number 17 years as the longest war this nation has ever fought with no end in sight.  Trump talked national pride, America First and verbally attacks many of our NATO allies and NATO itself aligning himself with the examples of dictators he would love to become.  He sees enemies where there are none because he plays to his 38% no matter the hate he spews.  Hate was Hitler's unification message and hate is Trump's secrete weapon used for a base that is sick of losing, thinks the "other" makes us lose and wants its national pride back.  Appeal to ignorant racists long a factor in American politics mix in charisma and it has been the recipe for success.  He did succeed beyond even his wildest dreams.

Russia though, like Hitler, will be Trump's downfall as the media shines a bright light on Trump's massive corruption and Mueller is about to pull the curtain away.  Is Trump our Manchurian candidate in league with Russia?  We had better find out lest there be no one to pull us out of the abyss this time and democracy may be lost to the ages. 

Chuck Rosenberg -- a sense of calm, class and a giant intellect

My all time favorite of the MSNBC experts MSNBC commentators call on to explain the maze of Trump mess is Chuck Rosenberg.   He is a refreshing bit of calm in the stormy seas of Trump.  He makes my blood pressure go down. 

I particularly liked his explanation today of direct vs. circumstantial evidence when explaining Richard Burr's announcement that there was no "direct" evidence of Russian collusion by Trump.  Yes, the word "direct" is important as Mr. Rosenberg said. A jury can convict on circumstantial evidence and they so all the time.  Convicting on direct evidence is rarer.  I breathed a sigh of relief!

Thank you Mr. Rosenberg for restoring the seas of calm!

Monday, February 11, 2019

Winning is everything

Run Beto Run....changing my mind by the minute: O'Rourke/perhaps Klobuchar ---- Not that I do not love all the other Democratic candidates but this time I think a woman on the VP side of the ticket would be just what the doctor ordered. I think they can win!! Beto is young, charismatic, smart, from Texas and can go toe to toe with Drumpf. Yes, he's white which matters NOT to me but to some. Pragmatically I think it is needed.

Klobuchar is young, a woman, strong yet nice and funny too. Plus it could set a Democratic woman up for the presidency in 2028 (yes we think far ahead.) Democrats want to WIN. Winning is everything and another horrific four years of Drumpf will kill the planet and us!
Please, Democrats, do not add two extra parts to the budget bill which will create another horrific shut down of our government.  It is untenable to attach to that bill a decrease in the amount of beds housing asylum seekers and the advocacy of criminals at the border to be allowed in included in the bill. I implore you to stick to the funding of the wall way below the 5.6 billion asked.  We have MUCH more ability to succeed and win because the American people do not want a wall nor a government shutdown because of it.  They will be turned off and blame Democrats for including two other impossible-to-now-pass demands of decreasing beds and allowing criminals entrance.  Democrats will become the goat.  Keep the strength of our hand by simply limiting the bill to the president's intractability of a 5.6 billion dollar wall he can never get.  
Do NOT please let Republicans have the advantage by not coming to agreement because of these additional requests.  Millions of people in America are counting on you to save this deal and NOT come to a government shutdown hurting millions again just so Trump can score his political points with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh especially if the impossible demands of Democrats will be used by them as a rationale.  NO

RESIST AND DEMOCRATS UNITE AS TO WHAT CAN GET PASSED AND WHAT CANNOT.   WHO WILL BE BLAMED FOR ANOTHER SHUTDOWN?

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Democrats to Howard Schultz don't do it!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-to-howard-schultz-dont-do-it/

"Democrats have been supportive of an independent bid by a Republican — for one, John Kasich said to be weighing an independent run — as it would siphon votes from Mr. Trump. But Schultz is the first Democrat to weigh a bid outside the party. And his personal wealth and resources would allow him to remain in the running for as long as he'd like to stay in the race.

Schultz demurred when asked whether his entrance would be damaging for Democrats. "I want to see the American people win,"

MY COMMENT:   THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND DEMOCRATS WON'T WIN AND TRUMP WILL IF THIS ELECTORAL HIJACKER SCHULTZ HAS HIS WAY. HE WON'T WIN AND NEITHER WILL A DEMOCRAT BUT THE HORROR OF HORROR THE HYPOCRITE DONALD TRUMP WILL FOR A SECOND TERM. IF YOU WANT THAT YOU WANT SUICIDE NOT ONLY TO OUR NATION BUT TO THE PLANET.

SPREAD THE WORD SAY NO NO NO NO TO HOWARD SCHULTZ--RESIST AND BY RESISTING SMASH THE WASHINGTON SATURATION OF THE CORRUPTION OF TRUMP!

PASS THIS ON TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE.

RESIST!

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Bastards pure and simple: The theft of your Social Security



Write your congressmen and women and tell them the jig is up!  A friend sent this to me.  I suggest  you read it.
 
A woman dies at age 65 before collecting one benefit check. She and her employer paid into the system for almost 50 years and she collected NOTHING. Keep in mind all the working people that die every year who were paying into the system and got nothing.
And these governmental morons mismanaged the money and stole from the system, so that it's now going broke.

BEAUTIFUL! And they have the audacity to call today's seniors "vultures" in an attempt to cover their ineptitude. DISGRACEFUL!

The real reason for renaming our Social Security payments is so the government can claim that all those social security recipients are receiving entitlements thus putting them in the same category as welfare, and food stamp recipients.

THIS IS WORTH THE FEW MINUTES IT TAKES TO READ AND DIGEST!


F.Y.I. By changing the name of SS contributions, it gives them a means to refute this program in the future. It's free money for the government to spend under this guise.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a Federal Benefit Payment? I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you.


Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment."

This is NOT a benefit. It is OUR money , paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too ! It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.(This should be enough for you to forward this message, If not read on.)

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved.

This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it's a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did (or Lyndon Johnson).
They took our money and used it elsewhere. They "forgot"(oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them ... and they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. (Isn't it funny that they NEVER say this about welfare payments?)


But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a benefit, as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. This is stealing!
Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't mean that our investments were for charity!


Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of the 92% of our population who need it.

Then call it what it is:
Our Earned Retirement Income .
90% of people won't forward this.
PLEASE! Will you?

SOTU -- who is he kidding?

I was going to boycott Trump's State of the Union Speech because I cannot listen to his voice, words filled with lies, nor look at his disgusting "blond" sprayed-into-submission hair but I wanted to see how the Democratic opposition of women in their white garb reacted. They along with Speaker Pelosi were inspiring.  

If one is a right wing extremist then I am sure they loved Trump's speech complete with late term pregnancy anti-choice bull-pucky histrionics.  These Republican men love to tell women what to do with their bodies and their base roars in approval. There was, of course, orgasmic praise for a wall to keep those oh so threatening caravans of brown out. The true threat, climate change, is not mentioned not even once.  I wonder if he will be alive when climate changed Miami sinks into the ocean I hope taking Mar-A-Lago with it.

Trump was, naturally, playing to his base as he does on his stump speeches all the time.  He spends more time on the road speaking to his right wing extremist supporters, spends more time golfing, and spends more "Executive" time watching TV.  He cannot write nor spell and he has no patience to read important foreign policy texts from experts.  This is our so called president.  His gut does the policy walking much to the consternation of those who happen not to want the launch of nuclear war.  He says it was he that kept N. Korea from launching a nuclear Armageddon.  Oh the egotism of that ridiculous statement!  Sorry, Mr. Trump, N. Korea is still building nuclear weaponry which he does not, of course, mention.  He bombs treaties and organizations that have kept the world's peace and threatens his perceived enemy, Iran, blasts away Obama agreements that were working and indicts all things Obama, including regulations that kept our drinking water and air safe.  He fires his staff and pays attention to experts if and only if they reflect what he feels otherwise they are fired.  His SOTU was all about all of that.  It was not meant to be inclusive.  It was meant to please his base and lift his base-sagging numbers.  He is addicted to love -- the love of his base -- because few of any other political bent love him. His numbers are falling and he knows it.  Perhaps this speech will temporarily raise those numbers but not for long as his policies wreak havoc on our nation.  Wait for the real biographical tweets soon to come

He has WWII vets and a concentration camp survivor from another era, the era of FDR (the opposite of Trumpian politics) in the audience.   It is all staged to evoke volcanic eruptions of praise from his base. I suspect if he were president in the WWII era since he is a self-proclaimed Nationalist and an observable demagogue he would have allied with the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) who were also Nationalists and supported the authoritarian fascists Hitler and Mussolini!  Who is he kidding.  Not me!

Monday, February 04, 2019

A Superbowl rationale

Pats win 13 to 3 lowest scoring game ever.  Hey, a win is a win. Until the 4th quarter it was like a baseball game. If it stayed 3 to zip it is still a win that is all that matters and it was an amazing defensive superlative.

Such mixed emotions I had throughout the game but in the end I actually cried.  The rationale for the sports enthusiasm for all things Boston is that it has to do, I think, in large part from where one was born or the state with which one identifies. For me my dad transmitted his Red Sox uber love and it transferred to me. 

I am a northeast person and Boston is in my bones. I just love the city, I love the politics of the state and from a child I wore a Red Sox uniform. As an adult I love the Pats as much. It is just plain fun when they win and heart break, for me, when they do not. It's hard to explain my own explanation of my allegiance but it is there and will be always.

One bit of political caveat of sadness: the fact that Kraft puts his arms around Trump I try to eradicate that from my Patriots euphoric brain!  

Mitch McConnell reportedly linked to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/28/1830431/-Mitch-McConnell-now-tied-to-Putin-Oleg-Deripaska-and-Russian-companies-after-lifting-sanctions?detail=emaildkre

Excerpt:

Monday evening brought a new twist. It was discovered that one of Mitch McConnell’s major donors, Len Blavatnik, who is tied to Vladimir Putin and other Russian oligarchs, benefited when Trump and McConnell lifted Russian sanctions on Sunday.

Blavatnik contributed a total of $3.5 million to a PAC associated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Blavatnik contributed $1.5 million to the GOP Senate Leadership Fund PAC in the name of Access Industries and another $1 million in the name of AI-Altep Holdings during the 2015/2016 election season. And as of September 2017, he had contributed another $1 million this year through AI–Altep.

Blavatnik, whose family emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1970s, is a longtime business associate of Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, both of whom have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Along with McConnell, Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham received hefty sums from Blavatnik as well.

  • Friday, February 01, 2019

    Our Enemy--the Manchurian Candidate

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    Change in our Time Part II

    Taken from Rachel Maddow Show on 1/31/19 -- Blue Wave Democrats bring new Productivity to House Committees

    Here is the Youtube below of the Rachel Maddow show last night.  There is no substitute I could adequately duplicate in an entertaining way that could take the place of how Rachel Maddow explains the change first in Kansas.  I paste it here http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show for your edification and entertainment.  The nefarious ways the Republicans of Kansas helped by Republican corrupt Kris Kobach Secretary of State running for Governor to suppress the Hispanic vote in the town of Dodge City is beyond belief but with Maddow and the ACLU's help the citizens of Dodge won the right to vote in the next election.  Listen to the Youtube and enjoy the rest summarized in part below.

    Also on the Youtube: HR1 Democratic priorities:  on voting rights and anti corruption measures.  House Democrats anti corruption proposal to end partisan gerrymandering in federal elections; make election day a federal holiday so no one has to skip voting because of work; guarantee early voting days and same day voting would make it uniform throughout the nation; creating new national automatic voter registration that asks voters to opt out rather than opt in ensuring more people will be signed up to vote; prohibit voter roll purging; Non partisan gerrymandering;  Create new ethical code for the president and the Supreme Court subject to  same ethics and anti corruption rules making sure all branches of government subject to the new law; force dark money and super PACS to disclose their donors.  Held hearings on it and Republicans were roasted -- There is a new Sheriff in town at least in the House.  McConnell called it a power grab then Democrat Brian Schatz shot back "Voting IS a power grab. By citizens!"; requirement for candidates for president and vice president to turn over tax returns or they could not run.  Republicans heretofore under Ryan pretended not to care.  First tax return hearing.  Democrat John Lewis will head the committee on tax law for Presidential and Vice Presidential tax returns.  Trump first President to fail to disclose his tax returns.  This is proposed Democratic legislation. Hearing will be a week from yesterday at 2:00. and live streamed; Two hearings on Climate Change; and there is more.  Convened hearing on prescription drugs.  Watch the video above.

    Elections matter: Democrats have changed the complexion of the House in extraordinary ethical and just ways; the Senate and the Presidency are next to return our nation finally to an ethical spot among the righteous of democratic nations.

    Change in our Time

    Democrats Announce Hearing on Trump's Tax Returns"


    This is what power brings. Last night Rachel Maddow the Great enumerated a list of all the hearings Democrats will be conducting. I will list them later as Rachel would say "watch this space." It is impressive to say the least. Will some republicans bolt their party to vote with Dems in the Senate? Possibly but, perhaps, improbable or at least not enough to withstand a veto. Still maybe but if nothing else it shows the electorate what Democrats have to offer and what they are about. The Democratic House's list of national repairs is substantial and must be done. Instead of focusing on the damn wall that is NOT an emergency Republicans should focus on a wall against climate change and should focus on implementing the essence of democracy by securing the vote equitably and promoting infrastructure repair so that this nation does not look and act like a third world autocracy.

    SUPPORT PELOSI. RESIST RACIST AGENDAS AND MUCH OF WHAT REPUBLICANS CARE ABOUT. REPUBLICANS ARE NOT ABOUT MOST OF YOU. TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS TRICKLES UP BACK INTO THE COFFERS OF THE 2% WEALTHIEST AMONG US. RESIST THAT!

    Democratic Presidential Convention--On to November

      I watched the Democratic convention last evening until my body's demand for sleep overtook me around midnight.  Having followed thin...