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You always show up to support

Richard Day — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 01:33:32 +0000

In reply to Bernie Grasps that Trump is a Fraud

You always show up to support me.

But please, please me and make sure you link (by the link provided) the link.

Link the link!

That is always what I say. hahahahah

Trump is a con man and a non man and a pretend man and a pt barnam man. hahahah

God almighty I hate this guy.

So we spend all our time on

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:08:33 +0000

In reply to Working with Russia to what

So we spend all our time on Mideast, Palestine, Ukraine and Russia, a bit on Mexico and sending trainers to Africa. For 17 or more years I've been waiting for us to work with China and other Asia countries whi can provide mutual benefit. Insread you want more time with some slavic control freak Jackie Chan wannabe motherfucker. Yes, it's a stupid question - why should I want to give Putin the time of day aside from to shut down his finances, APT29 and GRU hacking divisions, and attempt to create a new mutual admiration society of power hungry despots with Syria and Turkey. So what am I missing, I'm yout student, I'm here to learn.

You left out invading Poland,

CVille Dem — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:59:38 +0000

In reply to Working with Russia to what

You left out invading Poland, which Flynn seems to desire also.

PS: I hope you'll inquire as to why your question was stupid. To what end indeed. Reminds me of the fable about the scorpion offering a ride across a lake. It didn't end well, except for the scorpion

Working with Russia to what

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 15:28:08 +0000

In reply to Working with Russia to what

Working with Russia to what end? Christamighty crying in a muthfuckin’minefield! What is a stupid question.

Bernie was one of our two

Flavius — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:16:28 +0000

In reply to Bernie Grasps that Trump is a Fraud

Bernie was one of our two good contenders.

Working with Russia to what

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 06:52:00 +0000

In reply to It's all a crapshoot right

Working with Russia to what end? To hack the Norwegian elections, bomb the shit out of Chechnya, throw more Khodorovsky's in jail to steal their companies, poison citizens abroad and assert greater hegemony over their sphere of interest through energy and military threats? Or do you have something positive in mind? I don't hate Russians, I do business with Russians, but I'm not a fan of Russia's government as a controlling meddling corrupt behemoth. You may see the US as the same, but quality wise a see a lot of differences that matter. Russia doesn't do real alliances, and there is no stable, unsurprising level of more mundamne business-as-usual - it's always a power game, some intrigue, and there is no velvet hand to balance the iron fist.

also curious if you'd be so accommodating to Hillary as Trump if she'd won.

It's all a crapshoot right

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 01:49:31 +0000

In reply to I agree lulu. If Trump comes

It's all a crapshoot right now but I think that Sanders way of speaking to issues 'right now' is probably the best. Being Mitch McConnell's mirror image is not the way to go even if it ultimately turns out that Trump should be opposed to the max on everything he tries. And I agree that the chance to cooperate on good policies is unlikely to occur. The most likely place he could make a big move that I would support would be in the area of cooperation with Russia and I know that would drive a lot of Democrats over the edge. At least a few here.

The Republicans prime

NCD — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 01:30:54 +0000

In reply to Bernie Grasps that Trump is a Fraud

The Republicans prime directive is to make the rich richer. They will do it with tax cuts deficit raising and selling off public infrastructure to private corporations with guaranteed profits, stiffing the middle class and poor. Not to mention what they will do to Medicaid, ACA and what they dream of....vouchers for Medicare.

Working with Trump for real progressive federal programs is unfortunately a very unlikely event. The only move I have seen is the 'US steel for pipelines' issue which I blogged on (if you are going to destroy the environment, do it with American steel).

Trumps Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, is the only cabinet/economy guy who I have read good things about, if anything good comes for the middle class, it may be from him.

I agree lulu. If Trump comes

ocean-kat — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 23:42:00 +0000

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I agree lulu. If Trump comes up with a good infrastructure bill, something democrats have tried to pass for years and were stymied by republicans, democrats should work with him. If Trump agrees to negotiations with drug companies over drug prices, again something democrats wanted and republicans blocked, democrats should work with him. The evidence so far seems pretty clear that it's unlikely Trump will push any of those populist democratic proposals. His infrastructure plan has always been a privatization scheme. After one meeting with the drug companies he's already backed off price negotiations. So I doubt it.

While the "ifs," the doubts, and the willingness to work with trump should all be there there is still the matter of how we discuss them. I think we should highlight the "if" and the doubts and downplay the our willingness to work with Trump when discussing this. Sometimes Sanders has downplayed the if and expressed few if any doubts while highlighting his willingness to work with Trump. I don't think that's the best strategy going forward.

We'll see. So far Trump's

Michael Wolraich — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 23:33:45 +0000

In reply to Presumably the cognitive

We'll see. So far Trump's policies (if they can be called policies) have hewed close to Republican orthodoxy except for TPP. But it's only been two weeks.