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And all because a bunch of folks in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin got fed up with the HNIC leading us from behind.

Would you rather I had brought it back to, say, Springfield? (The car, by the way, is America.)

And Adam Chandler...? Rex Tillerson. All I remember is Linda making such a big damn deal about Jangie being the Number One Greatest Black Supercouple of All Time. Right down to the stigmata on their hands.

Yep. But not even Black Agnes could save us from ourselves. Yeah, KAC :: Liza Colby :: Steve Bannon :: Tad Martin. Chew on THAT for awhile.

LMAO.

...until it all ends like this:

Just ask Ah-nold. Trump tweeted how great he'd be as his replacement on "The Celebrity Apprentice." But now that the new season has begun and the ratings have come in, Trump...well, let's just say, he appears to have changed his tune.

Trump doesn't look young and healthy to begin with. I suspect that in four (or eight) years, he'll be bald and weighing over 300 pounds. IOW, he'll look like Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now."

Same. But seriously: right now, it should dawn on the more sober-minded ones the mistake they've made in putting political affiliations over country. Chances are, however, there will always be a faction within the GOP who will be happy no matter what, because, as marceline and others have said, they're just looking to tear down our current government anyway. On the one hand, good for CBS and "CBS This Morning." But, on the OTHER hand, it's too damn little and too damn late. Too many people in the MSM kissed Trump's ass for ratings' sake, and frankly, I don't know whether viewers will ever trust the "Big Three" networks again. Of course, I don't speak for everyone, but I don't worry all that much, because even if there WERE a full-on nuclear attack, it'd be almost a blessing in disguise.

I didn't even know he was on it.

You know, I'm starting to think national health care is something that will remain forever out of our reach. Obamacare was our best shot at it (even if it wasn't perfect) and now, it's about to be history.

Pretty much. I mean, once you reach age 62, I think, you qualify for Medicare. (And of course, there's always Medicaid for low-income and unemployed citizens who meet certain criteria.) Even with Medicare, though, you still have no choice but to pay for supplemental insurance, because Medicare isn't going to cover everything. Earlier today, I asked Mama Khan, "Why is it that just about every other country can figure out how to provide healthcare to its citizens, and we can't?" I'm still waiting for her answer. Ruh. Roh.

You are in my thoughts and prayers as well, dragonflies (and marceline). Oh, and Trump knows nothing. As you were. By the way, what is the latest on the Senate hacking investigations? I would watch them on TV, except I think what John McCain and others are doing is an exercise in futility.

Oh, I agree. I'm sorry if I came across as someone who didn't.

And all because the GOP wanted to stick it to President Darkie. Again, many see them as mere "stepping stones." You're not supposed to make a career out of working at the Gap. It's only there to give teenagers spending money and teach them the values of hard work and self-discipline. Ah, but remember: Trump's "historic" and "landslide" victory gave Republicans on Capitol Hill a "mandate" to do that very thing. Sure, we're all about to suffer, but at least part of me will get a big(ly) kick out of seeing complainers who THOUGHT TrumpCo. and Congress would replace the ACA with "something really fantastic" realize that, in fact, they got nothing. Even the diehards who will stand by their man no matter what will twist themselves into yoga-like positions to justify why their own government has left them stranded like the Pharoah's slaves in the desert.

Maybe. I suspect Republicans believe poor people choose to stay poor. (As if poverty were a choice, right?) To them, it's unfathomable for someone who is born impoverished to remain that way so long as he "works hard." After all, isn't the history of this country filled with stories of men (which is to say, men who are Caucasian, heteronormal and God-fearing) who pulled themselves up by their proverbial boot straps, with absolutely no help from anyone but the Good Lord Above? (Actually, for many of those men, God was the LAST thing on their minds as they lied, cheated, stole and even killed in their quest for success. But that's of no importance to anyone still paying attention.) I'm not saying the quintessential rags-to-riches story can't happen anymore. It can...but not for everyone. In fact, it never could. For every man who is born into poverty, works hard and achieves that Gatsby-esque American Dream, there's another man who is born under similiar circumstances, makes the same sacrifices; yet when he dies, he's still poor. It isn't anything they did or didn't do that would explain why they "failed." It's just the hand the life dealt them. Yet, for some damn reason, congressional Republicans, and even many average people, can't (or won't) see that. No, poor people in this country stay poor, because they're lazy, and because the rest of us make their meager existence too comfortable for them. (As if living on stuff like food stamps and Medicaid is the epitome of "leisure class.") Which is how we end up with jackholes like Paul Ryan, who can't understand why many who work in fast food (like he did) don't have the luxury of seeing the job as a stepping stone toward something better (again, like he did); and who believe that the answer to all our problems would be to restrict and/or do away with entitlements and subsidies. And if taking away their social and economic safety nets means they fall even further behind...? Well, then, they just...hafta roll up their sleeves and work a little harder. Because, hard work never killed anyone, right? Except...it has. You can work hard all your life -- sometimes, around the clock -- just to make those ends meet, or at least move closer together; and in the end, all you have to show for it are a nice-looking corpse and a grave your loved ones visit on major holidays.

Actually, I'm with Whoopi Goldberg, who once said (and as always, I am paraphrasing), "If you don't want these women to have abortions, then let's them have those babies and we'll drop them off at YOUR house."

Because, again, that would mean diverting gov't funds away from their pet projects: really big guns.

Well, you make some excellent points, Julia. As do you, Carl. I see BOTH your points.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that it never occurs to most of them that denying low- and no-income women access to abortions potentially means yet another child being raised on the government dole. I'm not saying I'm pro-abortion. But I do believe that whatever goes on in a woman's reproductive system is nobody's business but hers and God's; and that if we are actually concerned more with how this affects our taxes (which I think we are -- IOW, conservatives only employ the moral argument to persuade the public into defunding abortion clinics and organizations such as Planned Parenthood; and if no abortions were funded with federal dollars, then abortion itself wouldn't be an issue at all) then we need to weigh the costs of abortions against supporting another generation of welfare recipients.

Exactly. I will say it once more: I don't understand why people who work in coal and manufacturing are suddenly the ones everyone else has to worry over and give special treatment to when they don't constitute even a tenth of this country's population or labor force. Yes, they are hurting economically; and we need to do more for and better by them. But Come. On. Stop acting as if they are the ONLY ones who live in this country, America, or that they're the only ones who were affected adversely by the Great Recession. Unless you were someone like Donald Trump, no one got away from that crisis unscathed.

Mitch McConnell is like a fly. You shoo him away, and then you get on with your life. Yes.

To be perfect and frank, I am someone who never benefitted one iota from Obamacare. Never received any tax credits, never received any Medicaid (thanks to Mary Fallin, who turned down the extra cash) even though I qualify for it, never got to keep any insurance plan for more than a year, and actually paid MORE in monthly premiums WITH Obamacare than I did without. As a matter of fact, this year, I am without ANY medical insurance for the very first time in my life. But here I am, agreeing with you, Jane. Why? Because, unlike others who were conned by their congressmen into thinking Obamacare needed to be excised with the quickness, I'm actually thinking about more than my own self-interest. I have no insurance, and when I did, I struggled for over a decade to pay for it...but I also know I've been very blessed where others haven't. So, yeah, totally plus-one everything you've said here. (I just felt like sharing a bit of my own situation. Sorry.) I won't even acknowledge the fact Omarosa is now a TrumpCo. employee. There's only so much cray cray the mind can take before it shuts down. I can. Best. Trainwreck. Ever. So, so bigly.

Please save some popcorn for me. I, too, want to see how the Republicans [!@#$%^&*] up health care for this country. No, Obamacare was not perfect and needed repairs. But that's just my point: it needed to be REPAIRED, not repealed. Yep. This. This, too. I will never understand why so many other countries in this world can make gov't.-subsidized health care work but we can't. IMO, no excuses will do.

Are you sure you're not talking about Jill Farren Phelps? (But seriously, you're right.) Has anyone tried reading her new memoir, "Settle for More"? I tried, but I gave up on the smug p.o.s. She's isn't much of a writer OR a(n alleged) journalist. I just hope post-ers elsewhere on this board are wrong in their suspicions that this spells the end for DAYS. As bad as that show is and has been, it doesn't deserve to be killed for that arrogant woman.