christiefan915 (07-07-2020), ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
I can understand being a hyperpartisan Republican who feels they have no choice but to go in the voting booth and checking the R box to prevent the tentacles of Kenyan Marxism from taking root.
But this goes beyond that. There are Republicans who spend countless precious hours of their lives defending Trump on mesage boards with every fiber of their being.
That kind of dedication and fealty is only given to a beloved politician.
christiefan915 (07-07-2020), ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
Doc Dutch (07-07-2020), ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
Betsy DeVos has become accustomed to hostile audiences. The House of Representatives’ education committee earlier this month was no exception.
“When you approach a public school, you are protested,” the Democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson told the education secretary. “When you enter, you are booed. You are the most unpopular person in our government. Millions will register to vote in 2020. Many will vote to remove you more than to remove the president.”
It was a rare moment of clarity in the constant swirl of drama in Washington – border wall, Russia, partisan warfare, media bashing, tweets, impeachment – that seems to provide cover for Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries to escape scrutiny. Chief among them is DeVos who, critics say, is quietly and insidiously destroying public education in America.
DeVos’s record is proof, they argue, that when the smoke of the Trump presidency finally clears, the substance of his legacy on policy, deregulation and stacking the courts will remain – and take far longer to repair.
“We’ve had plenty of Republican as well as Democratic secretaries of education but none of them, even those who believed in alternatives to public education, actually tried to eviscerate public education,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. “Here is someone who in her first budget tried to eliminate every single summer school programme, every single after-school programme, and who has done everything in her power to try to make it harder for us to strengthen public [sector] schools.”
(Continued)
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
AProudLefty (07-07-2020), ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
It's not just a matter of who is the "President" but the platform behind them. Do you really think every person who voted for Hillary liked her and worshiped the ground she walked upon? Are you denying there were Democrats who hated her but voted for her anyway rather than for Trump or staying home and letting Trump win? Yes, there are diehard nutjobs who support Trump, but not everyone who votes for Trump is voting for him.
This is the #1 hazard of a Two-Party System: when both parties offer up idiots for office.
I've given up on voting for the "Lesser of Two Evils" and will vote Libertarian unless it's Pence on the ticket.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
I am not "beloved" of Trump.
He has a lot of character flaws; but I'm also not STUPID ENOUGH to not vote for his superior policies
The economy was phenomenal- and the fundemenatals were so good it's clear we are not going into a recession
( a possibility that is not happening )
Wwage gains were skewed to lower earners (breaking a long term trend)
He wants us out of AfPak,and he hasn't pulled bonehead wars like Libya/Iraq.
He recognizes China IS rthe existential threat ( espionage/hegemony/malign trade and IP theft
I could go on and on, but that right there is more then enough to put up with his tweets in return for America First
policies
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Biden wants to raise taxes, and is notoriously soft on China
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Doc Dutch (07-07-2020), ThatOwlWoman (07-07-2020)
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