It's Past Time For All The Dem "Minnows" (Vanity Candidates) To Exit The Debate Stage

"I predicted that either Corey, or Beto or Castro were going to do the John Kasich suicide pact. 'I'm just gonna go for the front runner and try and take him down'.  That's the only way he could bring attention to himself."  - Jason Johnson, on MSNBC Post Debate Analysis last night.

"It was just a stupid thing to do.  Democrats want to be united this time, and don't want their differences exploited by the Republicans.  Everybody's a pundit now and when they watch they're going to be asking 'Are Republicans going to turn this into a talking point?'  If you do go that route you electrocute yourself."  - Jonathan Alter, on MSNBC Post Debate Analysis last night.

"This is why these presidential debates are becoming unwatchable. It just reminds everybody of what they cannot stand  about Washington. Scoring points against each other, poking at each other..."  - Pete Buttigeig last night in the ABC debate.

"I think Secretary Castro who likes to talk about learning from history, clearly didn't learn from the first two debates.  Taking personal, cheap shots at Vice President Biden actually doesn't work out that well particularly for the candidate who takes such shots.  Especially since Castro's claims were factually inaccurate. Many reporters covering the debate have already pointed out that what Castro said simply was not true."-  Anita Dunn, political commentator, on MSNBC last night

It is more than past time for all the Democratic candidate minnows - not serious contenders - to get out of the public eye and especially cease the rhetorical bomb throwing and spilling their bile in the debates.  What stood out last night was Julian Castro's desperate ploy using ageism to try to take down  Joe Biden .    The debate point was whether people who can't afford health care would be automatically enrolled in   Biden's health plan and not have to "buy in".   Biden clearly stated "They do not have to buy in", but Castro tried to portray him as having the classic "senior" moment, e.g.

"Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?  You forgetting already what you said two minutes ago? I can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you're saying they don't have to buy in. You're forgetting that."

In fact, Biden wasn't forgetting a damned thing. He said they did not have to buy in and Castro merely used the opportunity as a "Hey, look at me!" moment.  Basically, to use the parlance of commentator Jason Johnson, resurrecting Repub John Kasich's own suicide pact idiom.  As Jonathan Alter and other commentators have noted it was a patently stupid move, and likely even cost Castro a VP spot.  It was a desperation move to try to get attention like Kamala Harris tried to pull on Biden using the school busing issue two months ago. Now, look what's happened to all the losers who tried to tar Biden, including Eric Swallwell and Kamala Harris.  They are tanking as 1 percent poller Castro now will (well, even more than he is).

Below are a few brutal facts for any political observers out there, or viewers, readers who have a serious interest in the Democratic primary and future candidate:

1) ALL the primary candidates and indeed all who would be the elected president in the 2020 general election are septuagenarians.  That list includes: Biden, Sanders, Warren, and Trump.  Like it or not those will be your choices, so get over the fetishism for some young Turk or stud, or pining  for a "young blood" to save the nation's bacon..  Ain't gonna happen, no more than aliens landing in the middle of the White House lawn.  So you're stuck with oldies. Deal with it. (But don't use that as an excuse not to vote!)

2)  Like Joe Biden or hate him, his consistent 20 plus percent polling is based on very firm African-American support, up to 48 %.  Unless other candidates come close to that command there is no way they will compete with Biden for the primary, and offer any competition to Trump in the general.

3) The outlier candidates (Marianne Williamson, Michael Bennett, Tim Ryan, John Hickenlooper, Julian Castro et al) never really stood a chance against those with top name recognition.. All they did was clutter the debate stage, distort the debate format and distract viewers.  Hence, their belief in the "Trump model" - that an outlier could get the presidency again - was misplaced..

The only three serious Dem candidates (i.e. who have any chance), according to the Real Clear Politics (and other)  polling are Biden, Sanders and Warren. Harris - who took her cheap shot at Biden earlier  - is now barely scratching at 7.2 % while the Dem trio are all at 20 percent plus.   In other words, the other seven candidates are all minnows who stand no more chance of reaching the primary than I have of being elected Pope.  Sorry, that's the reality, the way it is.

The irritating D- minnows have merely led their own vanity campaigns, and also - in multiple instances - provided fodder for Trump and the Republicans in attacking the main candidates and sowing divisions. Castro did it last night and in the first debate in Miami. There he pinned everyone down on border crossings - and we saw all those hands go up - and Republicans had wet dreams on how they could use the scene in ads.  Castro is a minnow, and a toxic one at that, who needs to recognize - like the other minnows - that his 15- plus minutes of fame are up.

 That includes the irrepressible Beto O'Rourke who also is a bottom feeder with nothing to lose, so felt emboldened to yelp; "Hell yeah we're comin'  for your AR-15s and AK-47s too!"    Thereby scrambling  a reasoned Democratic message on gun control, as Sen. Chris Coons pointed out in the wake of Beto's bark. Oh, and providing fresh fodder for RNC ads and adding fuel to an already hot fire stoked by the Foxites warning of "blood and civil war" if the Ds try to take their friggin' weapons away.

This is not to say Beto's passionate statement was 100% wrong, but just mis-timed, out of place. You don't belt out a full -throated gun seizure vow on a national  debate stage in front of 14  million viewers when your party's trying to oust Trump. Especially given many of those watching are independents and look askance at any suggestion of government force to seize  their guns.   Suggest voluntary assault weapons' buybacks? Yeah sure! But not outright seizures, unless you want to toss red meat to the GOOps to use next year.

 So we also need Beto  to get out of the picture and leave the stage to the 'big boys' - the actual players polling at least in double digits.

Castro's antics as well as Beto's and Harris' (in the 1st debate)  show why indeed these fulsome media encounters have merely become vanity exercises.  They provide a disproportionate stage for those without a snowball's chance in hell to reach the primary,  to pop off  and toss rhetorical bombs  in desperation.  All to the detriment of the party-  and the eventual Dem nominee.

It's a damned annoyance and I am certain wifey and yours truly aren't the only ones who believe so. We need the DNC to exact higher debate qualification thresholds to finally reduce the debate stage  to the three prime contenders.  This as opposed to being cluttered with the ego-besotted minnow pretenders.  Pretenders whose only recourse is to now become 'bomb throwers' or Kasich suicide pact emulators - to the detriment of the front runners and the party.

Take the cue from John Hickenlooper, pack  up your vanity bags and leave. Hasta la vista, minnows!

That's my 0.02 and I am sticking with it!

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Cody Fenwick

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"Case Closed?" How About Contempt And A Constitutional Crisis? This Battle Is Just Getting Started

What the scene ought to be after Dotard leaves office- given over 800 former prosecutors have now stated he ought to have been indicted on the basis of Mueller's findings.

"People don't read a 448 page report, not all of that. But they will watch the movie. And the movie will make a powerful difference, especially after Trump has made such a big deal out of keeping it all secret.  He said falsely the report exonerated him. Of course, if it did, he would want all of it out and want Mueller to testify.

What we have here is a situation where the Mueller report shows without any doubt that a hostile foreign power attacked the United States in this (2016) election  That Donald Trump welcomed that attack, benefited from it and then - the last couple of years - tried to cover it up every possible way.  That was with ten instances of felonious obstruction of justice. that over seven hundred former prosecutors - Republicans and Democrats alike- say established obstruction.

I trust the American people will understand that which is why I stand with Elizabeth Warren when when she says the time has come for people to stand up for principle. I don't favor voting articles of impeachment tomorrow, we have to have the hearings. But they are clearly impeachment hearings.  Which, among other things, will increase the power of the House of Representatives to get all the evidence that it needs."  Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe, Tuesday night on MSNBC.

"It may seem like there are a hundred different battles going on. In fact, there is just one: Trump versus the Mueller investigation."  Rachel Maddow, Wednesday night

That House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler yesterday announced the Committee had voted to charge Attorney William Barr with contempt should come as no surprise to any alert and aware citizen.  That he also announced we are in a "constitutional crisis" was inevitable given the totality of actions over the past month by perhaps the most lawless administration in U.S.  history.  Indeed, the previous evening the die had been cast when Trump toady Barr fired off a letter in which he wrote in part:

"In the face of the committee's threatened contempt vote the attorney general will be compelled to request that the president invoke executive privilege with respect to the materials subject to the subpoena. I hereby request the committee hold the subpoena in abeyance and delay any vote on whether to recommend a citation of contempt.for non-compliance with the subpoena pending the president's determination of this question."


Basically asserting if there can be no delay in the  vote for contempt citation  he would recommend Trump invoke "executive privilege" on everything that the Judiciary committee is subpoenaing.

This elicited a comment Tuesday night by 'Last Word' guest  and political analyst Jason Johnson:

"This is it. The Democrats basically have to decide if they are actually the party of resistance and oversight or if they're simply going to comply with the dictatorial tendencies of this administration."   Adding:

"If the report, the full report, cannot actually be seen by the committee then what was the point of the report to begin with? And the idea that Barr, who has basically worked as a personal attorney for the president, is threatening 'I will take my ball, your ball and five other people's balls home with me if you don't play by my rules' is the clearest sign the Democrats have to stop pussy footing around and start with impeachment proceedings."


Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson's reaction to Barr's threat was even more colorful:

"Barr threw a gauntlet down and the middle finger of that gauntlet is extended.  This is a Watergate level of contempt for congress. This guy makes John Mitchell look like Mother Theresa. He's basically saying to them, I will go the full nuclear option if you do that.  I will blow it all up if you do this.... If I was the committee I would just hold the vote and find him in contempt. This guy has nothing but contempt and should be held in contempt."

And this is exactly why the House Dems need to bring the hammer down, to avoid what Prof. Lawrence Tribe also warned about: allowing caution to become cowardice.  Tribe's warning was timely given that thus far the House Dems appear to be overly tepid and holding back using the full force of what they can do including: demanding emergency court decisions, and dispatching the sergeant - at -arms with an accompanying team of Capitol police backups to arrest the scofflaw SOB Barr.  Also enjoin the sergeant-at-arm Paul Irving to arrest McGahn,  Mnuchin, Don. Jr. and any others who've blow off subpoenas.  I understand there is a special Capitol jail which was last used during the Bush Jr. administration to put a Dem who failed to respond to a House GOP subpoena. So it's not like this is totally new territory as the media would have you believe.

Enough of this BS already!  No more talking Dems, time to fish or cut bait!

The WSJ editorial enablers and protectors of the traitor Trump meanwhile seem to like the idea of the latter as if it will trigger a kind of Mexican standoff favoring Barr. I.e. writing yesterday (''The Pseudo-Impeachment',  p. A14):

"Perhaps Mr. Nadler will send the sergeant -at-arms  to arrest Mr. Barr, which would make for an interesting showdown with the federal marshals who protect the AG."

Except, you deluded lunkheads, the sergeant -at -arms enforces the LEGISLATIVE branch and its subpoenas,  and so has priority over any other law enforcement, including federal marshals. In any case, if that's what it takes to finally bring this smoldering constitutional crisis to a head, I say 'bring it on'.

The WSJ, Rupert Murdoch- backed stooges are also out of it when they write this fulsome codswallop(ibid.):

"The real offense against the Constitution here is by the Democrats. Oversight of the executive branch is an important Congressional power.  But the Supreme Court has said it should be related to congress' legislative function or constitutional duty.  It can't merely be a trawling exercise to see what nasty details they can find to score political points and discredit a president before the 2020 election."

Failing to note that Trump has discredited himself. It is indeed all in the existing version of the 448 page Mueller report which readers can access here:

www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf


You will see Trump's own lawless actions revealed and which amount to a discrediting and full incrimination of himself.  These were summed up well by Lawrence Tribe (see top quote) and in Mueller's 10 cited episodes of obstruction. These  now have seen - at latest tally-  over 800 former prosecutors (Dem and Reep) sign a letter attesting to the fact they meet an indictment standard. In other words, if this sorry turd wasn't president he'd be in an orange jumpsuit already!  Don't take my word, read the relevant section in the report, and while you're at it, the part relating to the attack on our democracy as well. Don't take Barr's words or Trump's either!  Don't be deluded for one second into believing this is "all settled, all over".   No it is not.

Those with the time and temperament - as well as patience - to read the report (from the link given) will also find that it establishes beyond a doubt that a hostile foreign power engaged in a systematic effort to subvert our democracy and Trump egged them on ("If you're listening, Russia....")   Mueller's explosive report shows clearly - when you READ it (and not Barr's crib note) that Trump's only concern was for his own fat, orange skin not for American democracy.

Also, we learned why former White House Counsel Don McGahn must be a key witness in hearings which hopefully will begin soon. That is, Mueller reveals that Trump directed McGhan to fire Mueller based on the accusation of "conflict of interest" that Trump knew to be groundless.. Worse, Trump instructed McGahn to lie about it.  As one former associate DOJ prosecutor put it last night on 'All In' "That nails it. Obstruction!"

All this, especially with Barr's contempt and the effort to neuter congress, means impeachment proceedings must start sooner than later. The Dems have no choice, especially if the Trumptards continue to refuse to respond to subpoenas. Thus, the only way to obtain the evidence needed is to take the crisis to the next level - of impeachment. The House Dems then become the lawful prosecutors and must be given the evidence, including the unredacted full report and all ancillary evidence.  Could there be political, blowback? Yes, as Lawrence Tribe noted, but at the same time "no one has a crystal ball" to foretell exactly how things will unfold, adding:

"As you note I take a cautioned view of impeachment in my book but there is a point where caution becomes cowardice and cowardice becomes betrayal of the Constitution."

This is an important warning to sound as Trump more and more leaves congressional investigators little choice. It's either impeach the imp or send the signal an impious criminal  WH resident who flouts every subpoena is A-ok,  and send the country to perdition.

 Also as Prof. Tribe noted may well be that failure to act in a courageous manner will cost the Democrats votes - millions of them.

So the WSJ editors can sputter about "pseudo-impeachment" all they want, but the Reeps and the mutt they're protecting are leaving the Democrats with no other choices. By their obstinate and obstructive tactics to try to nullify the Article 1 powers of congress, they have made their traitor boy the target of impeachment.

Will he try to use it to play to his forlorn loser base? Of course! But that can't be used as an excuse to refrain from holding this criminal and his whole embedded enterprise to account. It's either that, or  set a dangerous precedent for any future executive who fancies himself a dictator. 

Now it is true that in a culture in which most people have the attention span of gnats too many voters appear "unmoved by Mueller's conclusions" - according to one TIME magazine take (May 13, p. 33).  However, I would say this is only insofar as they've been exposed to Barr's truncated, skewed, 4 page version of the report. If they could instead bestir their brains (and attention) to read the WHOLE report - as I've provided the link to it above - they would find it not only damning - but agree with the 800 former prosecutors who maintain if it were anyone else he'd be wearing an orange jump suit.

By the same token, the claim of one Trump imbecile (2020 campaign secretary Kayleigh McEnany, ibid.) that "the report creates a massive credibility for the left"  is easily skewered. Again, once one reads the actual report, or just the key sections that give away Trump's actions as manifestly criminal.   Why didn't Mueller then "pin the tail on the Dotard?"  My take and that of many other observers is that he was a victim of overthinking his role, in particular the 'need' to err on the side of caution:  bending over too far backwards so as not to appear unfair. But also to hold to the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel trope that "no president can be indicted". Faced with the OLC opinion, which is what it was, and Trump's refusal to show up to answer questions in person, he reasoned he had no choice other than to punt.  Despite all that, as the 800 plus former prosecutors attest - his report was an indictment in all but name.   Read it and you will agree as well!

Especially when you note that when Mueller said clearly in Vol.II he found evidence to support every element of the offense of obstruction of justice committed by the president and\he found it over and over. As one MSNBC legal specialist put it this morning:   "That is case open not case closed."

Rick Wilson is correct that there is no way a 2/3 majority in the Senate will vote to evict Trump - not with Repukes in control. And yes, it is possible Trump could jump on any positive result as an excuse to brag "Look now I'm really exonerated" and get $250 mil for his campaign.  But Sen. Elizabeth Warren made a larger point for impeachment Tuesday night in her Chris Hayes interview.  This was hours after Bitch McConnell whined earlier that the Dems "were trying to undo the 2016 election" and it's "case closed". You wish, Bitch. But you damned well know that the if tables were turned and your bunch was running the House during a Hillary admin probe there is no way in hell you'd pack it in and run. So STFU, you Guppy -mouthed asshole!

Anyway, Sen. Warren's point was irrespective of the Senate not voting to indict, ALL Senators will still have to go on record - historical record - with their votes.. Twenty years from now when the final history of this abominable administration and its traitorous instincts is written - they will have to then take ownership (including their spawn) for enabling and protecting a criminal and traitor  - as well as attempting to destroy the American Republic.

Can they live with that? Probably, because as JFK once said, these "circus elephants" only see as far as the tail of the one in front.  They will truly only see the temporary advantage they hold now, but be unable to parse how it plays out in destroying any positive posterity.  But this is part and parcel of what the author of the book 'Irrationality' has written, that they are an integral part of the :structural irrationality that "allowed Trump to end up where he never should have ended up".

But part of the blame for that also goes to those who helped put him there, who voted for this fraud and con man believing he'd somehow make their lives better, when his tariffs have made them much worse.  In other words, there is the irrationality of individual members of society with which we must also contend, and which is likely to persist even if we finally clean house of Trump next year.

Ultimately, this battle will determine whether the U.S. remains a constitutional Republic, i.e. as Ben Franklin put it "You have a Republic IF you can keep it", or a one party state autocracy.  The choice is ours and it begins with reading the Mueller report and ascertaining just how despicable a leader we have in power and why he merits sanction - and certainly no re-election!  Personally, it is possible the one-sided impeachment "dam" could break if just one Reep House rep found the time to read the actual Mueller report then come forth to side with impeachment of the scum in the White House.

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• Mueller reportedly about to leave DOJ in 'coming days,' derailing efforts to derail his testimony 

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Over 600 Federal Prosecutors Say Trump Should Be Charged With Obstruction

How Long Before We Get Rid Of This Shithole Presidency?

With his outburst about "shithole countries" Trump has proven himself every bit the same vermin racist refuse as Adolf Hitler.

"This afternoon, the man who was elevated to the presidency of the United States, Trump - who was sued by the Nixon administration in the 1970s for refusing to rent apartments to African-Americans, who rose to political prominence by questioning whether the first black president was really an American, who kicked off his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists, and who - as President - said there were good people among the Nazis who marched at Charlottesville and killed a woman by ramming her with their car, that man - Donald Trump - in a meeting in the Oval Office, inside he White House, did the least surprising thing in his presidency to date.  Least surprising but an embarrassment to all Americans."   Joy Reid, lead in comment on 'All In'


A number of those appearing on the air tonight including Charlie Sykes ('How The Right Lost Its Mind'),  Rev. Al Sharpton, Fmr. Sen. Barbara Boxer, Fmr. Watergate attorney Jill Wine-Banks and others have noted how Trump's latest outburst from the Oval Office has defiled us all as a nation. In this latest iteration - proving again all of author Michael Wolff's claims are true, Dotard went on a rampage barking, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” 

This was immediately after being presented with a proposal to restore protections  for immigrants from countries such as El Salvador, Haiti and African nations as part of a bipartisan immigration deal.   This piece of shit pretender president then had the temerity to demand to know why the U.S. would accept immigrants from these nations and not Norway instead. (He had met its prime minister the day before). Given Norway is something like 99% Caucasoid it doesn't take extreme Sherlock Holmes' investigative insights to see this was a blatant racist statement. That it came from the person occupying the highest office in the land is a bloody travesty and further calls for his expeditious removal.

As Barbara Boxer put it: "Donald Trump has insulted every American. He has insulted my home state where we have ethnic harmony and all live together. So he is anti-American.."

Other voices noted how Trump has defiled the office of the presidency itself- which is now regarded by many as no better than a department of shit processing -  but also insults we the People. Never mind some of whom are responsible for putting this degenerate maniac into the nation's highest office.  I won't repeat all the ways Donald Drumpf  has defiled everything we as a People stand for, only again revisit how this latest episode has led us to a new national nadir.  But hopefully not a new national normal to which we become inured.

Most of those who commented on the prime time MSNBC talk shows tonight ('All In', Rachel Maddow, The Last Word),  agree to a person that Trump was playing largely to his revolting base who put him into office, e.g. this lot:

As CBC's Jason Johnson put it:

"It speaks to what we've seen before. There are people in his administration that are saying yes, there are racist White Nationalists in America that are happy to hear this. That Donald Trump wants to create a white nationalist state, to make sure non-white people do not have a role in this country."

Adding that Dotard's statement is also tantamount to a national security threat that indirectly gives aid and comfort to terrorists. So all those dissed black and brown people from the "shithole countries" may now be driven to find succor and support elsewhere.  But not in Trump's KKK dominated Amerikka. (Which is the version he truly wants to "make great")

In other words, we saw Dotard echoing pretty much the same chords that resounded from those who  marched in Charlottesville in August and who Trump referred to as "some very fine people".  We really shouldn't be surprised at his outburst today, however. Recall two days ago he delivered a trained puppet performance in the White House on the DACA and immigration law progress to try and make people believe he was a savvy, serious president. This is as opposed to the derelict loon depicted in Michael Wolff's book, 'Fire And Fury'.

So, Trump's minders (like Gen. John Kelly)  got him relatively under control before the meet - including with Democrats like Dianne Feinstein - so he appeared halfway sane. But as he bloviated about getting immigration reform done and even agreeing with Sen. Feinstein at times ("Yes we can work with that") his Right wing media pundit fans at Trump TV were becoming unhinged.  He was going to agree with Dianne Feinstein? What is he thinking? Watch, for example, Ann Coulter's response below, referring to "the lowest day of Trump's presidency":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzUOLOC5eQ


As she put it, "What he did was fulfill every description of him in the Michael Wolff book. He doesn't listen, has no command of the facts, always repeats the last thing he hears. "

Proving again that even a stopped clock is right twice each day.  But the point here is that Trump clearly was enraged that the Right's pundit class were chastising him so decided to go full tilt relive Charlottesville to appease them. Hence, the almost exact opposite response and unhinged, disgusting explosion today about "shithole countries".

When I heard this scatalogical reference actually repeated by Joy Reid, standing in for Chris Hayes on All In, it made me wonder why we can't somehow just terminate this malignant, cancerous  shithole presidency, with a shithead president. How much longer do we have to put up with his bullshit, bigoted rhetoric and actions now poisoning the nation beyond the White House itself? 

Forget the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.  That won't work,  as a former aide to Sen. Birch Bayh (the architect of the amendment) pointed out two nights ago.  Why won't it work? Because even if - by some remote probability Trump's cabinet tries to invoke it (especially after this latest episode), Trump himself could file a "dispute". This would then require a two-thirds vote for removal in BOTH Houses of Congress.

That leaves impeachment (by the House Of Representative) as the only legal option to remove him,  followed by actual indictment by the Senate for "high crimes and misdemeanors".  That, however, would necessitate the Dems taking back both House and Senate in the fall and by margins sufficient to accomplish both.  While I do believe impeachment might get done -  I am doubtful we can get the indictment achieved without a literal Civil War.   Why? Because even by the impeachment phase, Trump's deplorable base of misfits would be talking tripe about the "Left"  trying to forcibly remove their asshole who was "duly elected".   (Recall also these loopy assholes sincerely believe WE are the ones who are "crazy" - merely because we possess a moral compass capable of reacting to the maggot's offenses and lies.)

In other words, they'd accuse us of using impeachment and indictment to achieve what we could not at the ballot box. But of course they miss the point. Recall that many of us after Trump was sworn in believed somehow he'd evolve from the low grade carny barker and become "presidential". That he'd finally put a "book end" to  the campaign and all the racial slurs barked out in the heat of it.  But that never occurred. He's still the half-cocked, dyspeptic, hateful bigot and wrecker of norms and national comity that he was over 2015-2016,

The issue being that he never did morph into a president, though he was given every opportunity. He continued to use the office to increase the level of coarseness and incivility in our dialogue as well as the nation's  divisions. He even brought disrepute on our country with his other stunts, including jousting with Kim Jung In over the size of nuclear buttons and declaring the Nazis marching at Charlottesville "some very fine people". Oh, and even backing a sex offender (Roy Moore) for an Alabama Senate seat - fortunately won by Doug Jones, a Dem.

As for DACA and immigration reform, now coming up to a deadline on Jan. 19th (otherwise a government shutdown), I say the Dems must make NO deal. Not if this piece of shit refuse insists on a border  wall being included as part of it. Nope, let the shutdown occur before accepting that raw turd from this fucking asshole.  Do not blink, do not give this degenerate swine even a partial victory. 

Oh, and one more thing: If Donnie Dotard and his toxic party insist - as they now claim - of making low income people work to get access to Medicaid- tell them to go screw themselves. As for action, make sure unfettered access to Medicaid without any strings is part of any spending deal - now or in the future. 

See also:

• ‘Unkind, divisive, elitist’: international outcry over Trump’s remark

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• Trump brags about poll showing voters give him an 'F,' say he's not fit to serve as president