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"Trump can't be bought". That

NCD — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:38:23 +0000

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"Trump can't be bought". That's a laugh!

He owes hundreds of millions and is kept afloat by Chinese and Russian bank loans.

That's why he is the only Presidential candidate in history to keep his tax returns secret.

Leave? Like hell I will! I

Ramona — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 01:07:42 +0000

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Leave? Like hell I will! I'm here for the long fight. You might want to go back and read what I wrote. I didn't say I was ashamed of my country, I said I was offended. But it's hard to take anyone seriously who can find even an itty bitty thing to admire about Donald Trump.

Looking forward to our first female president. Can't wait. Happy it's Hillary, too. But you wouldn't understand.

I'm fine with that.

Wow, so many uninformed

CVille Dem — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 12:47:28 +0000

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Wow, so many uninformed statements, so little time. Trump can be bought with flattery AND/OR money. Why else would he say he was donating to Veterans, but only do it months later when he was called out for keeping the money himself? Why else would he brag about Putin thinking he's so smart?

The $400,000,000 was Iranian money that we had frozen; to suggest that it was our tax-paid dollars shows a profound lack of facts. Even if it were tax money, at least Trump shouldn't mind since he most likely hasn't contributed for several years. I know, I know, I am jumping to conclusions, but he invites this by hiding behind an audit to refuse releasing any taxes ever.

As to Louisiana, our President has a professional in charge of the work there. Did Bush with Katrina? Hint: no. A presidential visit diverts important resources, and is ultimately a photo-op (if he goes) or a lack of concern (if he doesn't go). The adult in the room is once again, Barack Obama. Trump is temperamentally still at around the 6th grade level. Putin would play him like a violin. Fortunately we will not have to deal with that possibility.

when you talk about Hillary's "antics" I assume you mean her policy positions that will help the middle class and many below that on the economic scale. Or her vow to protect Social Security and MEDICARE. Or maybe you mean her plans to broaden the ACA and get control of Big Pharma's power. Or the fact that leaders all over the world respect her, as they scratch their heads wondering how the USA could have a fool like Trump even under consideration for the presidency. The President of France says Trump makes him wretch the French may be snobs, but I don't blame them for not wanting to deal with an uncouth bull-shitter.

Donald has made one speech in which he didn't sound as much like an idiot and the bar for him is so low that the MSM is drooling about it. He is a crude buffoon. When did you ever hear a Presidential candidate continuously curse in speeches? He is base at his core and truly ignorant. But you go ahead Sam, and vote for him.

Don't give it another thought.

Sure, Louisiana is Obama's

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 12:10:53 +0000

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Sure, Louisiana is Obama's Katrina, with a whole $30 million worth of damage.

Donald Trump, the TV reality show carny paid some tens of millions a year to act like an idiot asks CNN for $5 million to appear in a debate can't be bought.

LMAO

This is laughable and tragic

Sam — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 05:58:40 +0000

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This is laughable and tragic at the same time. Donald Trump certainly is a long way from perfect, and yes he is a blowhard and certainly can use fact checkers to slip him a couple of index cards so he doesn't sound like a blathering moron that gets swept up in the moment and spouts indefensible sound bytes that makes him spend the next dozen news cycles to attempt a recovery. He is not a politician.

Your Pollyanna musings of the Honorable Democratic Party makes me want to curl up in the fetal position and cry. Put down the crack pipe, take Debbie Wasserman Schultz's hand and take a real inventory of what they are. They sabotage their own candidates, but lack the guts to do it in the open. They have to be exposed by foreign whistle-blowers. At least the opposition of the GOP has the minerals to overtly and unabashedly state their disdain in the open.

Face it- Bush left Obama a big steamy pile- no doubt about it. But 8 years to figure it out with overt lies along the way and failure to take responsibility has put this country that you are ashamed of in serious peril. Ask the people in Baton Rouge that basically had to shame him into visiting them- to basically force him to care about them because he didn't need to leave his golf course vacation on the which apparently takes priority over the second worst natural disaster since Katrina with death, destruction and broken dreams.His vacation ends Sunday. But fear not, he is going to fit them in on Tuesday. He has doubled the debt, turned this country that you are ashamed of into a laughing stock and put us all in peril for the sake of his legacy. What has improved in 8 years? Health Care ain't it. We would have been better off giving the uninsured $150K apiece to handle their premiums and would have covered twice as many people. Education? Uhh uhh. Home ownership? Sorry? Social cohesion? Try again. New business start ups? There are more closed than are opening in the first time in almost 100 years. Bi-Partisan unity. Ouch!! Fixing The V.A . ? Not even close. Domestic and global terrorism? Read the papers. Curtailing Illegal drug traffic from Mexico? Nope- actually 125 Americans A DAY- one every 5 hours dies from heroin or Heroin/Fentanyl overdoses. That matches the death rate of the 1995 Aids epidemic before treatment solutions were developed. All lives matter, wouldn't you agree?

I am not even going to go into the antics of Hillary. She can run, but what is the use? Facts are facts. As bad as Trump is, at least he is someone that doesn't need the money and is putting himself out there to at least try to make a change in this broken system the we have devolved to. That goes for all 3 parties. Maybe one of these days the Independents will figure out how to break into the mainstream to offer more than just two candidates that are racing to the bottom and that the voters don't trust or respect.

At least Trump can't be bought. Ramona- that is the only candidate since Ralph Nader that you can say that about. If the forces that control the email bombs that keep invading Camp Clinton keep hailing, and they will more than likely get worse as we draw closer to Election Day, you might see The Donald sworn in next January and the White House will be redecorated in gold leaf with a casino in the West Wing.

But I would guess that your shame would be so over the top by then, that you will have packed your bags, and returned to Lah-Lah Land to join the flock of blind sheep that you call your cohorts, which is where you must be from to actually believe that misguided drivel that you so eloquently laid out in your article.

Good luck with reality. You will need all of the help you can get. If you are truly ashamed of this country, with all of its problems I would say stay if you wish or pack up and go if you wish. It is a free country. But I would bet that if you did leave our borders, that you would not settle in a country where if you were kidnapped by your new government that only sees you as an American National, as of this very day when the Democratic White House and State Department admitted that the $400,000,000 American Taxpayer dollars were in fact tied to the release of the hostages that were taken by Iran.

Great job! Congrats on the legacy that now EVERY "expat", soldier, Americans that works abroad has a great big bulls eye with a huge dollar sign on it. So be careful. ISIS might just only be the JV team, but they are in over 30 countries and trying really hard to be just the Varsity Team. Hey - you could ask the families in your travels broad who have had family members beheaded, drowned, burned or worse to see if they have reached that goal yet.

Don't forget to write!

Hi Lulu, cross-posting is

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:49:00 +0000

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Hi Lulu, posting links to dag is always welcome. Janicket, who splashed right in and made herself at home here, came in through a link to Doc's post on another blog.

Social media is also great. I believe that Danny came in through a Facebook share.

I see. I gave it some thought

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 03:39:11 +0000

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I see. I gave it some thought because I have considered commenting at a few other sites and including a cross-posting at Dag to possibly draw in some new blood. Any thoughts?

DR KEITH ABLOW FOX NEWS ON

NCD — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:49:28 +0000

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DR KEITH ABLOW FOX NEWS ON TRUMP BEING WONDERFUL :

I think we need the next president to display a healthy dose of narcissism and share it with the American people....In this way, Donald Trump is John Wayne. Donald Trump is Babe Ruth. Donald Trump is the Miracle on Ice hockey team that defeated the Soviet team to win Olympic gold in 1980 at Lake Placid. His ego, like theirs, is not untethered from American patriotism. It is inextricably bound to it.

THAT IS BEUTIFUL AND SHOULD MAKE LURKER HAPPY, A NARCISSIST IS JUST WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS.

THE NEW YORK TIMES WOULD NEVER PRINT THIS FACT, WHY NOT...?

DR ABLOW DIAGNOSED JOE BIDEN AS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA WHEN HE DEBATED RYAN IN 2012. ABLOW AND FOX NEWS ARE UNADULTERATED NEWS.

That's because they're not

Ramona — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:05:41 +0000

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That's because they're not keen on more than one cross-posting. I have links to both on my own web page.

Ramona, I notice that at

A Guy Called LULU — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 01:16:20 +0000

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Ramona, I notice that at Crooks and Liars that you show this blog cross-posted at Ramona's Voices but not at Dag.