monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Honestly, I think people really do need to be guarded against the worst excesses of our nature but by the time this is widely realized it will be too late.

I do not understand the liberal aversion to failure and allowing people to fail. You do not get participation trophies in life.

McGentrix wrote:

I do not understand the liberal aversion to failure and allowing people to fail. You do not get participation trophies in life.

It's not a "liberal" but a Christian attitude ...

Society should take care of the poor, etc. But, it shouldn't be the governments responsibility.

Debra Law wrote:

McGentrix wrote:

The irony is just dripping. I may need rubber boots.

McG: I have never accosted any person and demanded to know if he was in my country illegally. Nor have I taken a gun and shot someone dead because I was overcome with irrational hate and xenophobia. Shove your rubber-booted criticism up your own behind.

The contrast between McGentrix' lighthearted irony and Debra's shrill, indignant anger could not be more stark and amusing.

I do not understand the liberal aversion to failure and allowing people to fail.

The Huffington Post tracked the public remarks of Trump and his aides to compile a list of 100 incidents of egregious falsehoods. Still, it is likely the administration has made dozens of other misleading and exaggerated claims.

1. White House press secretary Sean Spicer falsely claimed the crowd on the National Mall was “largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.” (Jan. 21)

2. Trump falsely claimed that the crowd for his swearing-in stretched down the National Mall to the Washington Monument and totaled more than 1 million people. (Jan. 21)

3. As Trump fondly recalled his Inauguration Day, he said it stopped raining “immediately” when he began his speech. A light rain continued to fall throughout the address. (Jan. 21)

4. During his speech at CIA headquarters, Trump claimed the media made up his feud with the agency. In fact, he started it by comparing the intelligence community to “Nazi Germany.” (Jan. 21)

5. During his speech at CIA headquarters, Trump repeated the claim that he “didn’t want to go into Iraq.” He told Howard Stern in 2002 that he supported the Iraq War. (Jan. 21)

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I'm not interested in your announcements of flippant amusement. You spew concocted **** all the time as if it is gospel and never offer a shred of evidentiary proof.

Laugh at that, why don't you. Show us more of your true colors.

Yes, I agree that Trump is not a one issue president.

Here's a sample of Trump lies.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/

People throughout the nation and the world are watching in shock and disgust.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on CNN’s OutFront with Erin Burnett on Thursday night where the two discussed the many Republican town halls happening across the country, and in some cases, GOP representatives’ decision to avoid them.

Burnett asked Sanders if he understood why some representatives are concerned for their safety because “they’ve been told they have a chance of being killed.”

Sanders responded, “No, I don’t. No, I honestly don’t. And I don’t accept it for a minute. If you don’t have the guts to face your constituents, then you shouldn’t be in the United States Congress.”

Sanders continued to explain that it’s fine to have police and security at the meetings if necessary, “but don’t use that as an excuse to run away from your constituents after you support repealing the Affordable Care Act, throwing 20 million people off of health insurance, doing away with pre-existing conditions.”

Burnett later asked Sanders about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s assertion that there are paid protestors and agitators showing up at these town halls. “Can you say, senator, with absolute certainty that what he said is not true?” she asked.

“Look, I hope I do not shock your viewers by telling you that the White House occasionally lies,” Sanders said, “and that’s just another lie.” He went on to explain that the uprising in the United States in this moment is a response to losing health care among other rights. “I think you are seeing people organizing effectively, but unlike the Tea Party, this is not being funded by billionaire class,” said Sanders.

“There are people all over this country now — and by the way it’s not just Democrats, there are Republicans who are looking at Trump and the White House and they’re saying, ‘Hey, you told us, Mr. President, that you were not going to cut Social security, Medicare and Medicaid,'” Sanders continued.

Sanders expanded on some of the concerns of voters, adding, “‘You sent out a million tweets promising us you wouldn’t do it, now you have brought into your administration people whose whole career is based on cutting Social security, Medicare and Medicaid. You told us, Mr. President when you were campaigning, you were going to stand up to Wall Street. You brought half of Wall Street into your administration. What’s going on?'”

The former Democratic presidential nominee said later, “I think the Republicans have not seen anything yet. If they’re worried about the protests they’re seeing, they’re going to see more. This coming Saturday we believe there will be well over 100 protests."

One needs only to consider the fact that within two years economically motivated natural gas & petroleum producers, armed by new directional drilling techniques, and motivated by a search for profits, accomplished far more reduction in carbon emissions than had decades of wasteful, idiotic Federal subsidies in corn-based ethanol and wind farms.

Our bureaucratic state promotes economic sclerosis, dependency and the loss of creativity and prosperity (...)