Juliajms

I'm sorry. I'm still hoping that these idiots won't be able to agree, but it really is unconscionable that people have to worry every few months about their healthcare.

More proof that he has dementia. http://thehill.com/homenews/media/362513-scarborough-trump-allies-told-me-he-has-dementia I honestly thought he was just stupid and bad, but the evidence that it's more is mounting.

Damn good point.

A few of years ago a conservative "friend" said to my husband, "I know you're Jewish, but I'm going to say Merry Christmas anyway". At the time I thought it was slightly obnoxious, but we answered "Merry Christmas". Today I would say "I know you're a Christian, but Happy Hanukkah". Petty? You bet. I agree with you though that being inclusive is the nice way to go, since there are so many holidays this time of year.

I'm sorry. This whole thing has to be so triggering for you and other victims. I hope every single one of these sick men get what's coming to them.

It's ridiculous! Having a colleague expose himself is a courting ritual? Having them send you a sex toy is a courting ritual? Unbelievable.

Well, Harry gets a point back for that one. He'll get another when he produces some cute babies to take more focus off of Trump's daily horrors. Not that I'm forgetting the Nazi uniform incident for a second, but anyone who pisses off Trump can't be all bad. Plus I always want to believe in redemption. I have to at this point in history. I've always voted in state and national elections. I've also always been lucky enough to live in places where it's easy to do. One thing I really hope we can do is make it easy for everyone to vote. If we could just overcome that hurdle Democrats would be doing better I think. Watching Trump's speech, "I told you we'd say Merry Christmas again". When did anyone stop you? I grew up saying it and have always said it back to people who say it to me even now.

I wish Twitter would suspend 45 for those tweets, but they won't. I've also seen people complaining about how hard it is having to actually engage in democracy by calling their Congress people. My response is suck it up buttercups. Some people were doing this all along and the rest of us lazy asses should have been. I refuse to try to make even a sip of lemonade from 45's election, but I will say I'll never take democracy for granted again.

They can be awful, no doubt. My point is only that you start to see something like humanity and kindness emerging early on. There is just nothing of that in Trump, it's bizarre. I think he might be a psychopath. People throw that word around, but the way he seems to take pleasure (and he even smiles sometimes) when he's bullying people is disturbing. Are they really going to get this insane tax bill passed?

Toddlers get a bum rap. When my 2 1/2 year old accidentally hurts me he stops, rubs the spot, asks if I'm ok and then says "I sorry". Trump looks for ways to hurt people, thinks it's fun and refuses to apologize. There is something missing in him.

^ That's good news, I just hope they aren't bribed into compliance.

"Trump's War on African Women" https://longreads.com/2017/10/16/donald-trumps-war-on-african-women/ I remember we talked about this happening and hoped some other country or private charity would help. Still hoping that will happen, but it's sad that so many women and families are suffering under these counter productive policies.

The worst part of that story (for me) was the picture of the kid. Raising a child in this Nazi bullshit should be considered child abuse. Also, the NYT rebuttal to all the criticism they got over this story was weak. I think they know they dropped the ball, but these kinds of stories get them clicks.

I think it's pretty clear I was speaking in terms of sexual ethics. I have no idea if he even used his phone for any of this and it's frankly the last thing I care about when our government is awash with predators.

^ People knew all that when he was elected. To me, that's the most disturbing part. Not enough people cared that he was a sexual predator and a racist. Those things go together quite often it seems. Anyway, that's why I fully expect Moore to be elected. It's sick and disturbing, but I don't know what we can do about it.

As far as I can see this guy did nothing wrong. Well, maybe he exercised bad judgement in letting a partner snap a pic. Still, he didn't rape, assault, grab or harass any woman, man or child, so he doesn't deserve to be lumped in with all these predators we're dealing with right now. My goodness. We have these predatory men in every branch of our government. The President has endorsed a pedophile for the Senate. We are facilitating the starvation of Yemen and turning a blind eye to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. If I still believed in god I would expect judgement day to start any second now.

Yes. I will definitely volunteer to do that in 2018 and 2020. Even if Omaha is hopeless (hard to say due to annexations) I think it's good for people who want to vote to feel that they exercised their power. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/21/germany-political-crisis-uncertainty-europe-macron?CMP=twt_gu Is Merkel going to survive this? I don't keep up with German politics.

I'm really concerned that we are in big trouble here. In some ways, it's almost impossible for me to imagine democratic backslide in such an open society, in 2017. Yet here we are with people ok with a pedophile taking office as long as their agenda moves forward. It's sick. As for Leeann's allegations, I'm not sure what to think now. She was convincing in that Trapper interview. What about the other woman who came forward. Is she credible?

And Hatians have lost their protected status https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/565569368/u-s-cancels-program-for-recent-haitian-immigrants-they-must-leave-by-2019 This is such pointless cruelty.

Yes, I think he was overall a good president when it comes to policy. In retrospect he made mistakes on criminal justice and welfare reform. Still, the me that exists in 2017 would not vote for him in the primary. I'm past giving quarter to any man (or woman for that matter) that is sexually aggressive. Paula Jones is the one I am pretty sure is telling the truth (although sadly I believe them all) and I'm not ok with the person who is at the top of our government being a predator. Now we know that Clinton, Bush and Trump all were/are to varying degrees. Shameful! I'd say that the extreme hatred of the Clintons came from the rise of conservative talk radio and Fox. Plus, unlike the Obama's, the Clinton's always seemed surrounded by dealings that were just a little shady and they were smug about playing the technicalities. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Debating the meaning of the word "is". It gave the conservative talk shows just enough fodder. And let's not forget that Hillary did not fit into their little box of what a First Lady should be. Still, I've never seen anything like the hate for them it in my life time. The sheer obsession is so far out of proportion to anything reasonable. Even now when they will never be in power again they are a lightening rod.

He' been a bit off for quite awhile.

That just makes it more frustrating to me. I hate going down there knowing there isn't a chance in hell I'll be picked.

And can't come back in any case. No one can save us from this administration. I don't even believe Mueller can, although I would love to be proven wrong. I do think he'll find wrong doing, but by the time he gets Trump out the damage will be done. Maybe it already is done when it comes to things like loosening these white nationalists on society. It's going to take a lot to get that cat back into the bag.

Just awful.

I'm concerned about this too, although I'm afraid it will happen even if they don't take away the deduction. This will make it much worse though. What we should be doing is finding away to forgive part of this debt for service. Millennials and those coming after are under so much financial stress, it's insane to make it harder for them. This tax plan actual has a deduction for private planes while taking away deductions for teachers and adoptive parents. I'm so disgusted right now by our so called leaders.