Progressives (Liberals)

Trump Sets Record with Highest Trade Deficit Ever

in late July, the Republican assured Fox News that, thanks to the wisdom of his economic agenda, the U.S. trade deficit would soon be cut in half.

Keep in in mind, just last week, the Republican boasted to reporters in Hanoi, “You saw trade deficits went down last month and everyone’s trying to figure out why. Well, we’re taking a lot of tariff money. And it has reduced the trade deficit.”

So much winning.

House Democrats erupt in protests over indirect sanction of Rep. Omar for alleged anti-Semitism

House Democrats erupted into a full-scale brawl Wednesday, challenging leaders over indirectly sanctioning freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar for alleged anti-Semitic remarks amid an outcry over party inaction to President Trump’s divisive comments on race.

In a closed-door session, Democrats protested plans to vote this week on a resolution condemning religious hatred, a measure prompted by Omar’s comments last week suggesting supporters of Israel have “allegiance to a foreign country.”

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world.

Do you know why Trump via Cohen and others went all thuggish on retrieving Trump's high school and college records?

Palestine and oppression of the Palestinian people.

2 balloon-borne bombs from Gaza explode in Israeli border towns; no injuries

Not like Trump's genes but still, you know, pretty good. Certainly way better than black people.

It is such a taboo subject.

Rallies organized by Likud and other right-wing groups featured depictions of Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform, or in the crosshairs of a gun. Protesters compared the Labor party to the Nazis and Rabin to Adolf Hitler and chanted, "Rabin is a murderer" and "Rabin is a traitor". In July 1995, Netanyahu led a mock funeral procession featuring a coffin and hangman's noose at an anti-Rabin rally where protesters chanted, "Death to Rabin". The chief of internal security, Carmi Gillon, then alerted Netanyahu of a plot on Rabin's life and asked him to moderate the protests' rhetoric, which Netanyahu declined to do. Netanyahu denied any intention to incite violence.

Likud generally advocates free enterprise and nationalism, but it has sometimes compromised these ideals in practice, especially as its constituency has changed. Its support for populist economic programs are at odds with its free enterprise tradition, but are meant to serve its largely nationalistic, lower-income voters in small towns and urban neighborhoods.

It's not a matter of "antisemitism" — it's purely political and cynically manufactured to keep one particular party — and constituency — in power.

This debate might be bad for the party but I think good for the country. Perhaps she was going too far to suggest Israel supporters have allegiance to another country, (I must have missed her saying those words) however, the more this kind of blind loyalty to Israel to the extent where we leave Palestinians out in the cold has not been right for some time.

Funny that he doesn't even mention the public option. That would be one way to transition to a public insurance scheme with broad coverage.

This debate might be bad for the party but I think good for the country.

the more this kind of blind loyalty to Israel to the extent where we leave Palestinians out in the cold has not been right for some time.

On the other hand an honest new look needs to happen with Israel and Palestine and oppression of the Palestinian people.

Also, if they are doing that kind of resolution I hope they include all religious hatred, including Islam/Arabs in all nations as well as anti-Semitism against the Jewish people of all nations and lastly Christians in all nations.

The murderous rightist thug who assassinated Rabin effectively destroyed any hope of detente and guaranteed the hardliners in the Likud political control of Israel.