Cypress (03-26-2017)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
Cypress (03-26-2017)
Working class white Americans are now dying in middle age at faster rates than minority groups
Dividing the country into 1,000-plus regions, the authors find that the rate of “deaths of despair” (deaths by drugs, alcohol, and suicide) in midlife for white non-Hispanics rose in nearly every part of the country and at every*level of urbanization—from deep rural areas to large central cities—hitting men and women similarly.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brook...nority-groups/
Not just minority groups in the US, working class whites in the US are dying faster than people in developed countries all over the world.
Dying 'deaths of despair' ... DAMN
... guess who needs universal healthcare the most.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
No I do not, she would have carried on Obama's policy of putting us at the back of the queue for a trade deal. The EU had been negotiating TTIP for years. The EU trade deal with Canada took seven years to complete!! Trump says he will put us first after Brexit. The Left as I've already said were hugely critical of TTIP because it would allow US corporations to sue countries for not allowing access into their healthcare systems. Good riddance to it I say.
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anatta (03-26-2017)
If you wanna call destroying Libya, screwing up the Russian reset with a worthlessplastic button
and meddling in Syria ( Friends of Syria) a "public service" -that's not my idea of "serving"
Trump was elected as a non-politican. That's how awful DC is. He's obviously sputtering around getting his cabinet in place and finding out DC is s den of vipers.
But his idea for a rapproachment with Putin -after Obama's dithering nothingness and decades of NATO expansion has brought us nothing but cold War 2.0 and Russian expansionism is sound.
Gawd only knows what interventionism we'd be upto with Hilary by now..
cancel2 2022 (03-26-2017)
We will see what he does, I will judge him on his actions. It is seemingly impossible to form any US administration without ex-GS employees, which is why it is termed the Great Vampire Squid. Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation have many questions to answer but I don't see many forthcoming.
I have said it many times but I will say it again, there were only two choices, both pretty shitty, but Trump promised an end to the old ways. Now this may well be total bullshit but he might actually mean what he says, I will wait and see.
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anatta (03-26-2017)
LOL @ "great vampire squid"..he also promised to rollback the regulatory state and return to some semblance of US federalism.
I figured he'd be over his head for awhile,and it was obvious he had no clue about just how dysfunctional partisan politics are.
My 2 main complaint are his idiotic tweets-which lead to his lying, and starting with HC instead of tax reform.
But if we get regulatory reforms, a decent infrastructure package, and an end to PC induced leftist rule..OK.
I give him a "D" so far. But considering the hostile courts, the insane Russiaphobes, and relying on Ryan
that's not unusual.
But he needs to show much improvement -at least his obnoxious tweet have been cut back.
Hillary didn't destroy Libya anymore than reagan brought down communism in Russia. They were brought down by what was happening within... correlation doesn't indicate causation. I suggest nobody can bring down a country that's strong within itself. And I don't care about Hillary and some plastic button, a purely symbolic photo op. But I do care about bush claiming to look into Putin's eyes and getting a sense of his soul. That is flat-out ridiculous. Even bush's own intel told him he should have read intelligence briefs more carefully before opening his mouth. Why does bush get a pass where Hillary doesn't? At least there's honesty in the fact that Hillary and Putin despise each other. I would rather have my president be wary about a guy like Putin instead of putting him on a pedestal higher than Obama.
The same people who elected trump as a non-politician spent eight years calling Obama a community organizer so I have no respect for them. trump hasn't even tried to get a handle on how government works. He thinks he can bully people like he does in business but that's not going to happen. We saw the smackdown he got with his try at repealing Obamacare. Now he's blaming it on Ryan, the Dems, anybody but himself. I believe his idea for a rapproachment with Putin will last as long as Putin doesn't openly criticize him for anything.
Re: NATO, Clinton brought in three nations, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. bush43 brought in seven, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Obama brought in two, Albania and Croatia. So it looks like the biggest expansion was during the bush years, again no reason to blame Obama for anything.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
I blame both Obama and Clinton for having no plan for the aftermath in Libya. If you are going to blame Bush for having no plan for the post invasion then the same applies to the Obama administration. UN blue berets should have been sent in to deal with the various warlords and protect government buildings, airports, oil refineries and sea ports. They also should have acted post haste to establish a national army by inviting the various factions to join up. None of this was done, it seems unbelievable that the lessons from Iraq were not acted upon and the same mistakes were made.
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Last edited by cancel2 2022; 03-26-2017 at 02:09 PM.
Hillary may very well have questions to answer about their foundation but so does trump, about his. In fact trump claimed he's going to shut down his foundation because of all the legal problems regarding self-dealing and how it collected and disbursed funds. He has outright lied about the extent of his philanthropy, and he used foundation money to settle his business lawsuits.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
anatta (03-26-2017)
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