My new favorite bumper sticker.

Hindsight

Donald Trump sounds like he really misses not being president

Which is a little comfort, at least. Thinking that maybe he hates it as much as the rest of us.

This is NOT what I meant when I spoke about unity in America- but that's on me for not specifying.

We all loved our previous life. We had so many things going.

I am happier now than I have ever been before.

Although you might notice the loop hole in that statement...

And I don't think this is worth it's own post but it has been 100 days. Time for the presidential report card....My grade "D" The country is headed in completely the wrong direction, but thankfully due to incompetence not destroying what they are aiming at, it is not an F. If this had been anybody else but Trump the grade would be below F "F ----" But this is Trump.

The same incompetence that is softening the domestic damage is scaring the hell out of me in international affairs.

Trump created a 100-day contract with voters. We scored how he's done

This is only 100 days we still have 1360 to go...Still think not doing every thing you could to keep this guy out of office was a good idea?

This is only 100 days we still have 1360 to go...Still think not doing every thing you could to keep this guy out of office was a good idea?



Yup. It's the most leftist I've seen Democrats in years.

Your bet is that it will be worth it, in how long, and at what price?
The damage from this has not even began to take effect...The appointment of the justice to SCOTUS in one act proves your strategy foolish...it will take a decade to get back what will be lost.

I will give you this you are the only one I know who owns what they did.

If a single election cycle is capable of destroying so much, then what you had were not solutions, but temporary patches in a failing dyke. America didn't go from Freedom to Fascism Lite overnight. The Overton Window has been shifting right for decades while the Left sold its soul in the name of Lesser Evils and "incrementalism."

No this is not new I have been fighting it all of my life. You can trace almost all of the destruction to one time and one election, 1980. With the election of Reagan the country changed..you can see this in almost any chart you chose, on almost any topic you can see trends change at that time.

Ronald Reagan Republican 489 43,901,812
Jimmy Carter (I) Democratic 49 35,483,820

This landslide ass whipping changed politics as well. It brought on the third way Democrat whose only motivation has been to stay in power. and brought on that "incrementalism." you spoke of. inching ever more towards the ecnomic interest that fueled an ever increasing cost to running for office.

The problem I have is that your wing of the political spectrum act like the Democrats are you enemy. They are not, they are soldiers on your side in the war, admittedly not very good of ones, and some are down right aiding the enemy bought of with money and power. You all seem to ignore that there really is an enemy, an enemy who has been spending time and money to make your vote irrelevant...an enemy who always votes.

Lesser Evils ...not this time. Trump is far worse than that and Clinton at least said she was on your side. You all seem to greatly overestimated the number of votes are on your side. I have been at this a long time and know you need to widen your net if you want to get elected. You don't have to let the 3rd way lead but you do have to accommodate them.

Trump is far worse for this country that Reagan was. The injuries have not even started to bled yet.

Anybody who is selling out the country while telling people they are their only hope is in fact the enemy. And since you did ask, all of this will be worth it to the degree which people are willing to fight for it. But if you think more people on the left were going to come out fighting for what we NEED (because thanks to Climate Change, we are literally talking about survival now) under Clinton than Trump, you oughta pass some of that medicinal MJ over this way.

"And since you did ask, all of this will be worth it to the degree which people are willing to fight for it."

Not at all how this works. If it was important today it was more important last November.

"we are literally talking about survival now"

Well can the environment take another 4 years of this?
So, let’s take a closer look at what he’s done this far, and what it will mean for our health and our world.

A few thousand more votes against Trump would have at least stopped what is now coming.

And the environment is one of the many things that will be under attack. And more people awakened due to the pain and fear they feel may help in 2018 or 2020...but by then the damage will be done.

And about the weed... get your own. I expect that crazy ass AG to come busting through my door any day now I am stockpiling....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N0IjBgyFoE

Woosh!

No Thud. That would be the sound of the people dying. And for what? This all could have been stopped.

Here it is in the words of one of your favorite writers.

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The way I see it, the critical test for our system will come late next year. The billionaire great-maker in the Oval Office has already turned out to be an incompetent buffoon, and his greatest failures are no doubt yet to come. By November 2018, the winds of change will be in full hurricane shriek, and unless the Democratic Party’s incompetence is even more profound than it appears to be, the D’s will sweep to some sort of mid-term triumph.

But when “the resistance” comes into power in Washington, it will face this question: this time around, will Democrats serve the 80% of us that this modern economy has left behind? Will they stand up to the money power? Or will we be invited once again to feast on inspiring speeches while the tasteful gentlemen from JP Morgan foreclose on the world?

The Democrats' Davos ideology won't win back the midwest
Thomas Frank


Even he knows the only way out of this is through the Democratic party. He also said vote for Hillary to avoid Trump. Why won't you understand that the path you and a lot like you have chosen is going to kill innocent people, make it harder for working families, poison the environment, block reforms through the judiciary, and generally make the world a worse place...and to know it all could have been prevented.

Here this might help to separate the good guys from those who only want to hold onto power.

The 22 Dems Supporting Sanders' $15 Minimum Wage Bill... and 24 Who Aren't

This Chart Shows Which Democrats Aren't Supporting Single-Payer Health Care
Who's out, who's in?

Please notice NOT ONE FUCKING REPUBLICAN!!

And you have the nerve to tell people they don't understand how this works? People already were dying, while Democrats condescendingly explained incrementalism to them.

Less people dying due to Obama Multiples will die under Trump.

Climate agreement
Obamacare
Ending of overseas conflicts
I could go on....

I want you to tell me how this is acceptable in 2 years.

Woosh. Seriously, man. One of the "Amigos" just posted about Negative Peace. You and the rest of the Democrats have not been offering solutions, you've been offering short term band aids and telling the people who were still suffering and dying that they had to wait for something better. While the politicians you supported, and made excuses for, continued chasing checks from people profiting from that waiting.

Look at the post. It's all "OMG can you believe what Trump did? Democrats hate him! Click here!". He ignores any productive posts. I saw these links days ago on Facebook, I mean, it's just not worth it. The Democrats should be whooping the republicans but they can't because they are too far out of touch. I mean you remember Pelosi on the Daily Show, right? Problems with America didn't start with Trump and really 100 days in any changes he has made have yet to really take root. But I think it's a lot like having a massive wild fire in a forest. The seeds have been planted and something will grow from the ashes. It will just take some time. But the democrat party is going to have to burn up before anything useful happens- because right now it's choking out any new growth. It will hurt but it will be worth it.

Hillary supporters are still saying the Democratic Party doesn't need to change. Could you imagine if she had actually won?

Oh, I know they are deluded. And you are right change will come to the party quicker. and this does one thing I am happy with the Clintons are gone...glad that is over. The point is a progressive agenda would have been advanced and the country would have been better off in one year and in ten years, if it would have went the other way.

Bernie's takeover of the party had taken root win or lose...this way is faster but at what cost. I would love to be wrong here...Trump could turn out to be what some here have called "Just another Republican" I think the price of even a four year presidency will be devastating. That is why I held my nose and voted for Her....this time the evil was too great to take the chance.

Lol, "they." A progressive agenda would not have advanced because you would've had 8 more years of third way politics undermining actual progress while Democrats blamed it all on obstructionism. Just like the last 8 years. More bandaids easily ripped off, while Hillary's "mandate" would've stopped Bernie from making any real progress in the Democratic Party.

Donald Trump....you still don't get it. I guess we end this here. Have a nice day.

Yeah, I don't get it. Funny how all the people that kept telling you she was likely to lose are the people that don't understand how this works. Totally not you.

Well it is obvious you don't understand at the 100 day mark maybe you will in a year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
I was just going to leave that but I realized that I'm on the internet and someone somewhere has already written out my thoughts for me I just have to Google.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/satyagraha.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/the-prisoners-dilemma-and-third-party-voting/amp/

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups and this theroy does it a lot.

Woosh.

Woosh my ass one of the assumptions this makes is that the third party is a better choice...no evidence of that.

Lol, that's the best you got? People are dying and you're like "Wait, we don't know what's outside the house full of gaslighting murderers!"

Oh we know...How many times has the Green candidate run, how many years has she been running...we know. Garry Johnson couldn't find the White house on a map let alone get elected to it.
That is a asrtive assumption...it has no basis in fact. If there was a better third party candidate they would get votes...take an independent Senator from Vermont.

That is not the only assumption this little theory got wrong. but it is enough to disprove it. In case you ever want to get the real world and stop talking theroy. A little history. This would be a good place to start.


https://youtu.be/zX099yxeOdI?t=1m28s

Woosh.

That is three strikes you are out.

It doesn't matter who. The idea is that Steele and I would both rather have Berne. But he didn't run against HRC. And with good reason. But going forward the DNC needs to understand that people can rationally not vote for "the slightly better" option.

"It doesn't matter who".

Ya it fucking does. maybe that is the difficulty I have been having...TRUMP is different, there has been no one like him in modern politics. The only thing stopping him from destroying the entire New Deal" is his incompetence. That same incompetence is what makes him dangerous in foreign policy.

"the slightly better" option.

Wow...Clinton was not my first choice but you can not put her in the same sentence as Trump.

"But he didn't run against HRC"

Ya he did. Maybe you will understand when Trump actually figures out how to get things done in DC or maybe it will be when the war starts.

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lets say I am completely wrong about the kind of evil SOB thump is.....say he dies tomorrow. What he has done in this first 100 days will set back progressive achievements years already...his rolling back of regulations, putting people in charge of agencies that want to destroy them agencies effect our every day lives will have a cumulative effect for years.

But putting a far right oligarch on the SCUTUS will be thorn in progressives sides for a generation and will block any attempt for reform...hard to overstate the damage this has done.

Then there is the remanding time possibly 2 more justices, the lost of Obama care, tax cuts, and creating a permanent class division...oh and the war he will start.

Trump isn't a Democrat. The democrats need to succeed. Yeah, we all think Trump is a nightmare. And by my count Hillary should have won but... But gerrymandering is a problem. But people make stupid choices. And the Democrats need to give a better option. But they got stuck on Hillary.

Ya, it is look at what Trump did, this is about the 100 day benchmark it has been a way to measure presidents since FDR WTF did you think it would be about.

And ignores any productive posts....well a story about South Africa wasn't a lot of help.Just another theroy about how only the far left can confront the far right...bullshit it usually an army or armed revolt that combats the far right. And I'm pretty sure I am not ignoring shit.

http://sensibleendowment.com/entry.php/9075

http://sensibleendowment.com/entry.php/9045

http://sensibleendowment.com/entry.php/9024

http://sensibleendowment.com/entry.php/9015

And another pro tip, burning the place down is not progressive.

President Donald Trump’s First 100 Days In 360 Seconds


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ci9_Tstm0w

I'm surprised the "Indivisible" google document is not on your radar.

I mean, I'm not surprised at all, but, you should probably be aware of it.

That one.

A slightly better explanation Of the Trump policy on North Korea .


"Beats the fuck out of me," said one expert when asked about the administration’s recent actions.

The past 48 hours in Trump's bizarre, ever-changing North Korea policy, explained

That damn constitution...He blamed the constitutional checks and balances built in to US governance. “It’s a very rough system,” he said. “It’s an archaic system … It’s really a bad thing for the country.”

And if that isn't enough to give you chills.....He reminded the nation that 1 May was Loyalty Day.

The day is a US tradition dating back to the cold war, when it was a bolster to stop May Day becoming a rallying point for socialists and unionised workers, but for an embattled president learning politics on the job it has an added resonance.


Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days


Then instead of the corespondents dinner in DC...Trump holds a political rally to trash the press...and Democrats for good measure.

Donald Trump Lashes Out At ‘Fake News’ Media As Journalists Gather In D.C.

Bernie Sanders reflects on the failures and broken campaign promises of Donald Trump's first 100 days in the oval office.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmR6XYVEKWI