Seahawks4Ever wrote:HEAR! HEAR!! Now this speech is the kind of talk that got President Trump elected! This is the kind of talk Americans have been yearning to hear for decades. Now, all he has to do is back it up with ACTION! I don't mind him tweeting, it IS a novel way to communicate directly with the American people, much like FDR's fire side chats, only the American people can tweet back. What he needs to do though is to start LEADING instead of just wanting to sign what ever the GOP led congress decides to put on his desk, even if it goes against every thing he ran on. That is the REAL reason why there is so much resistance to his presidency, he has not LEAD he has so far only FOLLOWED what ever Mc Connell and that other LOSER Ryan want to do.
Seahawks4Ever wrote:Case in point; Senator Patty Murray senior senator for Washington State. She started her political career as "mom" in tennis shoes, first she was elected to the legislature focusing on children's issues. She parlayed that job into knocking off Sen. Slade Gordon and has been in congress ever since. She is now worth 25-30 million dollars, possibly more.
How does such horse hockey happen?? It happens because the U.S. Congress passed a law that said that they can pocket ALL of the money left over from their election/re-election. That was severely UNETHICAL at the very least but no current members of congress are ever going to repeal that law as it benefits both republicans and democrats. You would think that members of congress who are already wealthy would support such a repeal, but nooo they will do no such thing. To me, THAT is the "swamp". But, the swamp needs to be fed and that is where the denizens of K Street come in. I.E. lobbyists.
We are going to have to agree to disagree on just how much or IMHO little the Trump Administration is "fighting" against the "swamp" and how much (or little) they are part of the problem. The corruption is running rampant in the Trump Admin. because President Trump simply picked about the most corrupt or at the very least extremely unethical people not only for his cabinet but also for just about every single federal agency. I mean, if they are not corrupt in many cases they are unqualified.
I am no "leftist" lapdog and I certainly despise HRC but I really think you ought to broaden your research instead of only listening to the Sean Hannity's and Alex Jones of the world and have your eyes opened. There are many many republicans saying this not just sour puss loser democrats.
Both the Democratic and Republican political party's have been rotting from the head right on down to the state and local level.Both have been complete SELL OUTS to highest bidder no matter who that bidder was. We all can agree who have been left out, the middle-class and small to medium businesses.
I have had a saying for years, the Reps and the Dems have been playing "good cop / bad cop" on the American people. Who the good cop and who the bad cop represent is all about PERCEPTION. If a person's political leaning is center/right the good cop are the Republicans and the bad cops are the Democrats. That means that a person whose politics are center/left the good cop are the Dems and the bad cops are the Reps., you get the idea.
Just as Lincoln said though, you can't fool all the people all the time and as many in the populace realized that in reality the Republicans and Democrats were working together it has led to many going way over to the right, some in to radicalism and many going way over to the left again some in to radicalism.
What we need to do is get out in to our communities, real democracy starts locally (all politics is local) and work together with our neighbors, in fact, we need to get to know our neighbors, like it was when our parents and grandparents were growing up. This "demonizing" of the "other side" is very unhealthy for our Republic and that is the reason some were able to manipulate weak minded citizens into believing wild unsubstantiated innuendo meant to disrupt our democratic process. Believe me, they were disparaging the Trump campaign every bit as much as the Clinton campaign, each side believes it was "only" their candidate and if they would open up their eyes and ears they would realize it just wasn't so. But some or should I say many don't want to admit or even accept that this is so.
No foreign entity or foreign interests or even evil domestic players could mess with the integrity of our election process if BOTH the main political party's were not totally corrupt themselves. The quicker mot Americans understand and accept this the quicker WE THE PEOPLE can take action! We do have that RIGHT, the RIGHT to ALTER and/or ABOLISH any government that becomes so corrupt that it no longer works for or answers to the American People. If we are not there yet, we are VERY CLOSE.
Seahawks4Ever wrote:I called attention to this speech because the issues the POTUS brought up, and more importantly, his stated solutions is exactly the issues that Bernie Sanders had campaigned on. I have many friends and family members who originally had supported Bernie and when he was shafted out of the nomination for the Democratic candidate for president they decided to support and vote for Donald J. Trump.
Bernie Sanders claimed that anyone who had supported him couldn't possibly turn around and vote for Trump. How wrong he was. Both Sanders and Trump also campaigned on rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, the difference being in how it would be implemented and more importantly, paid for. That old the devil is in the details conundrum.
For me though, it was a matter of TRUST. I simply did not trust that Trump would follow through and demonstrate the LEADERSHIP that would be needed on both the foreign policy half and the domestic half. I have been proven to be right, President Trump has shown absolutely ZERO leadership, and his caving in to China on the blatant theft of intellectual property for instance, going so far as to totally absolve the Chinese (and any other nation that would engage in such activities) and in fact PRAISED China for these thefts. It is UNACCEPTABLE that a sitting POTUS would take such a stance, especially since he goes around preaching "America First" all the time. America first for what? To totally capitulate to foreign powers???
So, there really WAS a difference between what Bernie campaigned on and what Trump PROMISED to do. Bernie would have fought for American companies and FOR infrastructure rebuilding and Donald J. Trump had NO INTENTION of even trying. In other words, for Trump it was just another campaign promise to be chucked by the wayside at the earliest opportunity. The thing is, like 99.9% of Trump supporters my family and friends who actually believed Trump's B.S. now refuse to admit let alone accept that they were WRONG and that they were LIED to. So, like other Trump supporters they take the EZ way out, they blame phony "boogiemen" like the so-called "deep state" and other such nonsense. They do this because they can't reconcile Trump having his political party completely controlling both houses of congress, the majority of state legislatures and the majority of governorships so it must be something else, something "sinister" to account for most of his agenda to be DOA.
It would be laughable if it were not so DISGUSTING as dedicated public servants, most LIFETIME FAITHFUL MEMBERS of the GOP to be called LIBTARDS and other derogatory labels like "traitors" to their party and other nonsense just because they won't rubber stamp what-ever B.S. the Trump Admin. may be dishing out at any given time.
I do have hope that my friends and family who for various reasons remain in the thrall of Donald J. Trump will eventually wake up to the fact that they were sold a false bill of goods.
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