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Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
It's not that hard. You find a good, highly-successful lawyer and follow his advice. NOT Rudy Giuliani or some shyster representing the WWF!
C'mon, this is the guy that picked Jeff Sessions to be AG. Clearly he has no idea how to find a good lawyer.


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or he hires people who know precisely what he wants

he is king


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without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions



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When Sessions comments on what is going on when the opinion of a Pacific Island judge, one has to wonder what judges everywhere are wondering about him. "WTF is going on when this Nation has to listen to an ignoranus, racist, redneck, hick from the confederate backwater of, WTF they call the most backward state with an extremely low bar exam?" Think Limbo!
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Sometimes something happens that is so momentius, or you realize the scope of something is so vast, your mind simply doesn't have the capacity to contain it: contemplate the immensity of the universe, how you felt on 9/11 - think of Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the black plague, the atom bomb, the Great Depression. It takes a long time to gain perspective, doesn't it? An effort of will to really think about their enormity. Now do them all at once!

Donald Trump is that, right now. His ego is so enormous, his greed so encompassing, his corruption so monstrous it is, literally, breathtaking. We've never had anyone so ill-suited for the Presidency it is hard to express it in human terms. There is no historical precedent. And I know we're all feeling the frisson of existential threat he poses: will he get us in a nuclear war? Will the economy collapse? Will the government fail? All three? Will my life savings be wiped out? What will happen to my children? Is this a nightmare? How will it end?

We are, collectively, in fight-or-flight mode. Constantly. We're being bombarded on a daily basis with worse. Who is the worst cabinet pick? DeVos? No, Sessions? NO, Pruitt?... Then Mick Mulvaney appears on our screens and we scream in panic. How can it get worse? Then it does!

The health care bill dies an ignominious death, to our great relief - then it's resurrected! And it's worse!! How is that possible?! Now we get a "tax reform" plan with every wet-dream a billionaire can imagine wedged into it. CAN THEY BE SERIOUS?! Smiling Steve Mnuchin insists they are while telling bald-faced lies about the President's "transparency". A new day dawns and more disasters await... The mind boggles.


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You missed a boggle... 40+% of Americans still support him.

I saw an article somewhere this morning that his support is holding firm, while Clinton supporters are declining (when asked if they would still vote for her in a contest with Trump).

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I'm kind of looking forward to some of those with expensive illnesses thrown into the nonfunctional high-risk pools heading to Washington with hunting rifles. The NRA has been telling us for years everything would be better if we just had more guns, and the 2nd Amendment crowd has a deep religious belief their guns are there to protect them from an out-of-control gubbmint.

What could be more out-of-control than a government that is trying to kill you or a loved one?

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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
(Philip K.Dick)

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conservatives are not interested in real health care reform or a fix.

what I see is a plan to lower premium costs for healthy folks by not giving them a comprehensive plan i.e. insurance against the flu, while herding everyone else into high risk pools with very high premiums which will be paid for by the people getting low cost nothing insurance. Of course conservatives have claimed that it actually lowers costs but somehow doing the arithmetic just adds up the same. The only difference is the people with low cost insurance don't see the money spent on high risk insurance.

Pretty kewl .... like the pea in the shell game


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Just 100 years past, some may remember,
A quaint little Fall of a cabinet member.
Search dim recollections from history classes
(I assume they were ones for which you got passes)
It was called, "Teapot Dome" and it caused consternation.
Yet that little scandal had participation
Of ONE cabinet member, Albert B. Fall.
That doesn't compare to the current cabal
Of miscreant creatures - the President's cronies
Who are liars supreme, a collection of phonies.
If one were to combine the criminal crew
Of Nixon, and Reagan, and Bush one And two,
Their deeds over YEARS wouldn't come close to compare
With corruption arrayed in Trump's nascent care.
His family makes money from flogging their brand,
While father plays golf on family own land
Paid for by taxpayer - you, me, and all
Yet he blithely resists the most reasonable call
For tax forms, or logs, or even procedures
Of selecting, unvetted, the foulest of creatures.
"Advisors" take money, hand over fist
From Russians and strongmen of the "Most Wanted" list.
He then claims they all had "the smallest of part"
Despite each occupying the top of the chart.
Watergate, Contras, wars fought for lies,
Are naught like election procured by spies.
But THEN we're subjected to thinly-veiled scams
Executive orders, health and tax reform plans
To make paupers of all but the most monied class
And then place the blame on some immigrant's ass.
It's too much to hold in a rational head
Realizing that soon we could all just be dead
From putting the keys to to the national van
In the hands of the most irrational man,
Corrupt, maladjusted, and quite clearly malign
One who will cross the brightest of line
In pursuit of self-dealing, narcissism defined.
Any bright shiny object he considers refined,
But he'll take it and then claim he did it "for you"
And nary a word will he ever say that is true.
Historic corruption is our national estate
For ignoring the risk of this reprobate
Assuming the most powerful post in the land
A consequence in which we all had a hand
In complacency, collusion, or simple neglect
And simply not giving the proper respect
To the care that's required for our institutions
Bequests of forebears who gave life, limb and fortunes.
"Enough!" We proclaim, you must stop and desist
For our values and honor, we must resist
Our heritage's not for you and your clan
It belongs to us all, child, woman and man
Every color, nationality, religion and preference
That make up the fabric of our national essence
We are Americans from the greatest to least
This scapegoating and blaming really must cease
We over centuries learned are stronger together
And when we accept that, things can get better.


A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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