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It’s infuriating that he calls Native Americans “Indians”. It’s part of the GOP effort to remove their identity, heritage and historical claims to American soil. It’s easier to deny them their due rights if you obscure their indigenous identity and portray them as aliens.

It’s really not as big of a deal. In fact, the spokesman for the Cherokee nation routinely uses the term when referring to them on TV as recently as yesterday. Indian, Native Americans, and Tribal Nation(s) are all interchangeably synonymous.
 


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"Hi, I'm renowned shyster Donald Trump and this is my 753rd autobiography, a fine chunka litterachure titled Get Rich by selling twenty-dollar bullshit books like this one titled Get Rich by selling twenty-dollar bullshit books to Gullible Twats.
So, if you want to get rich like me, just give me twenty dollars for this bullshit book...you gullible twat."

*masses of people buy book*
 
Surprise!:

McConnell Calls to Cut Social Security, Medicare

After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

"It’s disappointing but it’s not a Republican problem," McConnell said of the deficit, which grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018. McConnell explained to Bloomberg that "it’s a bipartisan problem: Unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future." The deficit has increased 77 percent since McConnell became majority leader in 2015.

New Treasury Department analysis on Monday revealed that corporate tax cuts had a significant impact on the deficit this year. Federal revenue rose by 0.04 percent in 2018, a nearly 100 percent decrease last year’s 1.5 percent. In fiscal year 2018, tax receipts on corporate income fell to $205 billion from $297 billion in 2017.

Still, McConnell insisted that the change had nothing to do with a lack of revenue or increased spending and instead was due to entitlement and welfare programs. The debt, he said, was very “disturbing” and driven by “the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid...There’s been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. Hopefully, at some point here, we’ll get serious about this.”

President Donald Trump promised to leave Medicare untouched on the campaign trail.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-security-medicare/ar-BBOtGyE?ocid=spartandhp
 
Surprised McConnell is saying out loud what Republicans have been thinking for decades. Only problem is how that message will be spread pure, without muddying the water or outright lies, so the poorer folks that vote Repub get that message.
Not holding my breath though.
 
Support for Trump is fading among active-duty troops, new poll shows
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...ding-among-active-duty-troops-new-poll-shows/

President Donald Trump’s approval rating among active-duty military personnel has slipped over the last two years, leaving today’s troops evenly split over whether they’re happy with the commander in chief’s job performance, according to the results of a new Military Times poll of active-duty service members.

About 44 percent of troops had a favorable view of Trump’s presidency, the poll showed, compared to 43 percent who disapproved.

The results from the survey, conducted over the course of September and October, suggest a gradual decline in troops’ support of Trump since he was elected in fall 2016, when a similar Military Times poll showed that 46 percent of troops approved of Trump compared to 37 percent who disapproved.
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Trump's views on climate change are straight out of the Charlottesville playbook!

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/17/trump-instinct-climate-change-910004

"You have scientists on both sides of it. My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years, Dr. John Trump," the president said. "And I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture."

"I have a natural instinct for science" :lol::lol::lol::lol: This is how the Americans are now deciding life-or-death matters :confused: I am literally pissing myself here!

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This isn't a fecking joke though. It's not even remotely funny at all.

The President of the United States of America is a fecking moron and he's saying some exceptionally dangerous things. He has also rolled back some extremely important environmental protection laws like not allowing factories to dump waste in streams or rivers, often ones that provide drinking water.

When is someone going to stand up and call him out on this and put him right? When will Merkel, May, Trudeau, The Scientific community, Bill Gates, whoever, when will they stand up and say enough is enough?

"Look mate, you're talking fecking shit, you're a moron. There are no two sides to climate change and it's not going to get worse then go back again and get better. Who told you that? You just made that up and said it because you think it sounds good didn't you? Now you have influence over loads of people and you need to inform them correctly, and you're not. What you are spouting is ignorant, nonsensical and fecking irresponsible and dangerous. This is too serious and far too important to let an imbecile like you jeaoprdise our already uncertain future. So just stop, please stop and sit down and let the adults talk, thank you"

Or something like that.
 
Surprise!:

McConnell Calls to Cut Social Security, Medicare

After instituting a $1.5 trillion tax cut and signing off on a $675 billion budget for the Department of Defense, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

"It’s disappointing but it’s not a Republican problem," McConnell said of the deficit, which grew 17 percent to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018. McConnell explained to Bloomberg that "it’s a bipartisan problem: Unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future." The deficit has increased 77 percent since McConnell became majority leader in 2015.

New Treasury Department analysis on Monday revealed that corporate tax cuts had a significant impact on the deficit this year. Federal revenue rose by 0.04 percent in 2018, a nearly 100 percent decrease last year’s 1.5 percent. In fiscal year 2018, tax receipts on corporate income fell to $205 billion from $297 billion in 2017.

Still, McConnell insisted that the change had nothing to do with a lack of revenue or increased spending and instead was due to entitlement and welfare programs. The debt, he said, was very “disturbing” and driven by “the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid...There’s been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. Hopefully, at some point here, we’ll get serious about this.”

President Donald Trump promised to leave Medicare untouched on the campaign trail.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-security-medicare/ar-BBOtGyE?ocid=spartandhp

Exactly what we said would happen after the tax cuts.

GOP terrorism 101.
 
Bruce Bartlett
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An email I just sent to a friend:

"The day Democrats get control of the House, Republicans and all the mainstream media pundits will suddenly become deficit hawks, assert we have a deficit crisis, demand immediate action. Trump’s veto guarantees that higher taxes are impossible, therefore all deficit cuts must come on the spending side. Defense will also be off the table and domestic programs have already been slashed. That leaves only entitlements. Democrats will reluctantly do what is right, further dispiriting their own followers. Rinse, repeat. Recall the 2011 budget crisis when Obama proposed even bigger cuts to entitlements than Republicans. I predict a two-tier system for SS & Medicare—status quo for those over some age, quasi-privatized system for those younger. This is the inevitable political logic of a system in which the elderly vote in high percentages and the young vote in very low percentages. Knowing this is like knowing the day of your own death, a curse."

The guy writing this is (was?) a Republican, who worked with Reagan and HW Bush.
 
The guy writing this is (was?) a Republican, who worked with Reagan and HW Bush.
Why do the Dems have to slash entitlements tho? Reps don't care about the deficit, public don't seem to care, why should the Dems? Just put the ballooning deficit on Trump, when anyone complains ask them if they want to lose entitlements? No? Ok shut the feck up then... Want higher taxes? No? Shut the feck up then...

Once he's out then they can go about addressing it.
 
You've yet to provide a convincing argument for why they would not. Nixon was being impeached, and he too had great party support beforehand.
This is a different republican party compared to the one in the 70s. How is this not so very obvious? Back then they had not lost all their integrity to the cynical partisanship we observe now.

They will not destroy their own party and chances of reelection .
 
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