Hillary was trained to take on Bullies
At the DNC, a story was told how young Hillary was bullied on the way home from school. Her mother blocked the doorway and told her to go confront the bully.
Hillary was trained to take on Bullies. Now bring on the debates. Let’s put that training to the test…
The #1 priority of our schools is to stop bullying… If Trump was in grade school, his behavior would be considered bullying.
Cult of personality.
Hillary certainly not bullied by the FBI who was called off.
The fantasy in Phillie is over, let’s get real.
Voters want candidates to fight 1% bullying — both the Bern’s and the D’ump’s voters. They want somebody to be mad, angry for them — even if they don’t know exactly, precisely who they want them to be mad at and why.
Big demeanor problem for Hill (and O) is their happy, happy faces. What are they so happy about? I asked that here once and Bev explained that Hill had a rep for being icy and was trying to counteract that. Good enough — for then; not anymore.
We the people (sound familiar?) are anything but happy — or hopeful. Hopeful?!
Don’t give us medicines to ease the pain we are felling Hill: higher minimum wage, tuition relief, extended paid health care — assuming you could deliver them. What we need is an angry candidate to go after our skilled and determined oppressors — win or lose. Nothing else would give us real hope, Hill — or give you Bernie’s and the D’ump’s voters — whether you can deliver them to the guillotine or not.
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” The NLRB declined yesterday to review the decision to unionize of workers at Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas. Roughly 500 Trump International Hotel workers voted and narrowly approved joining the Culinary Workers Union last December, but Trump International Hotel did not recognize the election, arguing that the election was ‘anything but free and fair.’ ”
https://onlabor.org/2016/07/29/todays-news-commentary-july-29-2016/
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Making union busting a felony ranks with me with women or non-rich men getting the right to vote — or any other civil right you can think of. Union busting is a federal offense — punished by undoing the harm you did to a particular organizer (gets job back until majority fired for “something else” within a year — having no union protection).
The greater harm — the harm of depriving the the entire workplace of any free market bargaining weight (or political forum power) — goes totally unpunished.
Meanwhile don’t take a chance undermining the free market by taking a movie in the movies. Just read in Dean Baker’s Beat the Press:
” In some cases the TPP is directly protectionist. It would strengthen copyright and patent protections, even requiring that member countries have criminal sanctions for copyright protection. ”
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/greg-mankiw-argues-that-protectionism-is-likely-to-become-increasingly-dominate-as-more-people-take-his-economics-classes
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As long as nobody else talks about re-unionization (as the beginning and the end of re-constituting the American dream) — nobody thinks it is possible to talk about …
… or something.
Easy as pie to make union busting a felony in our most progressive states f(WA, OR, CA, NV, IL, NY, MD) — and then get out of the way as the first 2000 people in the many telephone directories re-define our future.
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A whole lotta stories were told in Philly.
Mikie:
I happen to value his comments and his name is Ed or Edward. Keep the school yard out of this.
There can be only one goal between now and election day: to defeat Trump. He is an absolute menace to the Republic with no respect for anyone or anything but his raging ego. He has the temperament of a two-year old. He has the education level of a 2nd grader and prides himself on learning everything he needs to know from watching the Sunday morning talk shows. A woman who was an advisor to Palin 8 years ago said even Palin made an effort to learn about “the issues” while Trump doesn’t — and it was not an offhand comment.
Every effort needs to be made to keep an authoritarian with a raging ego and a deep well of insecurity from getting anywhere near the Oval office. Were he to be elected, every wise comment made above focusing on one issue or another and every effort to actually accomplish something about them will wither on the vine.
The lesser evil is evil.
Jill Stein!
The lesser evil is very evil.
For me school yard [false] analogy are less important than a history of missteps.
Trump ahead of Clinton at least for question things that his rivals call misdemeanor. That includes NATO and perpetual war run by loser generals.
You have to dump on Trump you cannot sell Clinton!
There is Jill Stein, if you really gotta stop the bullies.
Ilsm,
The greater evil is the greatest evil and threatens to ravage the land beyond imagination — the pure and the less pure alike. The greatest evil vanquishes all others. And the most vulnerable anywhere at any time are the pure. It is better to live with the lesser evil than to have the entire tribe of the pure obliterated forever.
Although somewhat true what you say but to many the lesser evil-risk is Trump. The real school yard bully to me is the Wall St. big 6 who HRC is way too cozy with so nothing there will change for the better. Yes Trump needs lessons in sensitivity and humility but he does want to do what is for the betterment for the American middle class. More of the same HRC who is not standing up to the Wall St. bullies ain’t working for us no more. We cannot run our country with lies and deception, dis trust and no respect or integrity for the rule of law, or smoke and mirrors…We cannot favor covert nation building strategies over fighting wars economically with balanced trade agendas that will keep our dollar and economy stronger and continue us as the worlds reserve currency over the China’s yuan… IMHO.
I need someone to tell me what HIllary Clinton has done for Wall Street.
HILLARY HAD BETTER LEARN TO ANGRY-UP — not just offer palliative care for blue collar wounds.
New York Post
Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump
By Kyle Smith July 30, 2016
” There are decaying post-industrial Middletowns all over the map. In 1970, Vance notes, 25 percent of white children lived in neighborhoods with poverty rates above 10 percent. By 2000 the figure had risen to 40 percent, and Vance believes it is higher today. The life expectancy for Vance’s people is declining. ”
” Trump’s promises to stand up to the Chinese are resonating, as is his message that “the system is rigged” against a proud group of Americans, Americans who built the postwar glory but now feel they’re being ignored or outright mocked. ”
” There are decaying post-industrial Middletowns all over the map. In 1970, Vance notes, 25 percent of white children lived in neighborhoods with poverty rates above 10 percent. By 2000 the figure had risen to 40 percent, and Vance believes it is higher today. The life expectancy for Vance’s people is declining.
Trump’s promises to stand up to the Chinese are resonating, as is his message that “the system is rigged” against a proud group of Americans, Americans who built the postwar glory but now feel they’re being ignored or outright mocked. ”
” Trump’s attacks on the media and political correctness make Vance’s people stand up and cheer. From the Democrats, they draw the same sense of condescension that struck Vance when, at Yale, another student said she couldn’t believe he was in the Marines because he was a nice guy. ”
http://nypost.com/2016/07/30/why-white-trash-americans-are-flocking-to-donald-trump/?ref=yfp&contact-form-id=widget-text-4&contact-form-sent=10308175&_wpnonce=726dcf4da4#contact-form-widget-text-4
The are not flocking to Donald Trump because of any thoughts about his economic policies(whatever they are), they are flocking to Donald Trump because they are stone cold racists.
William Ryan,
Can you tell me specifically how Trump intends to better the middle class? What actions and what policies he intends to pursue?
Bullies bully because bullying often works: that is to say, it has predictable, reliable results. Whether those are good results, well…
— No-one argues with you, but no-one advises you.
— No one dominates you, but no-one collaborates with you.
— Those closest to you may say they admire you, but there are fewer and fewer of them. Instead, many people avoid you before you even notice.
— those who do seek you out are either fools or bullies themselves.
— The longer you rule, or the wider your influence, the more your surroundings feature discord, fear, and concealed contempt. You become angry and paranoid.
— and finally your domain breaks down, as people flee, as systems go unfixed, or as the productivity (based on collaboration) slides to its minimum.
In workplaces, a bully can singlehandedly decimate the place as things break down and people remove themselves from a bully’s range of influence. There is a REASON why authoritarian regimes are nearly always poor regimes, and often have armed guards at their borders, facing inwards.
Noni Mausa,
Well done! And to compound all that you rightly said, this bully has a billion dollars in his pocket, a truly warped psyche, an undeveloped intellect and an incurable allergy to honesty. By all means, let’s elect him and give him access to the nuclear codes.
Just this morning:
Trump: “[Clinton is] a very dishonest person. I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. She has a bad temperament. She’s weak. We need a strong temperament. And that’s all it is. I have a strong temperament … I have a temperament where I know how to win. She doesn’t know how to win. Honestly, she lies a lot. And she really– she should tell — the truth. I honestly believe, if she told the truth — ’cause she made some reference to my campaigning, I’ve had a beautiful — I’ve had a flawless campaign. You’ll be writing books about this campaign. And yet, she’s criticizing my campaign. Now, her campaign, she couldn’t beat Bernie, okay?”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Well, she did beat him.”
TRUMP: “Well, barely. And there’s questions even about that, but barely.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Let’s talk about Russia. You made a lotta headlines with Russia this week. What exactly is your relationship with Vladimir Putin?”
TRUMP : “I have no relationship with Putin. I have no relationship with Putin.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “But if you have no relationship with Putin, then why did you say, in 2013, ‘I do have a relationship,’ in 2014, ‘I spoke–‘
TRUMP: “Because he has said nice things about me over the years … [J]ust so you understand, he said very nice things about me. But I have no relationship with him. I don’t– I’ve never met him–”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Yet, you said, for three years, ’13, ’14, and ’15, that you did have a relationship with him–”
TRUMP: “I had– no, I– look. What– what do you call a relationship? I mean, he treats me—“
STEPHANOPOULOS: “I’m asking you.”
TRUMP: “–with great respect. I have no relationship with Putin.” “I don’t think I’ve ever met him. I never met him. I don’t think I’ve ever met him.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “You would know it if you did, wouldn’t you?”
TRUMP: “I think so. Yeah, I think so. So I’ve– I don’t think I’ve ever met him. I mean, if he’s in the same room or something, but I don’t think so.”
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STEPHANOPOULOS: “Yeah, they took away the– part of the platform calling for provision of lethal weapons to Ukraine to defend themselves. Why is that a good idea?”
TRUMP: “It’s– look, you know, I have my own ideas. He’s not going into Ukraine, okay, just so you understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want–”
STEPHANOPOULOS: “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?”
TRUMP: “Okay– well, he’s there in a certain way.”
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Re: Debate schedule.
TRUMP: “I got a letter from the NFL saying, ‘This is ridiculous. Why are the debates against–‘ ’cause the NFL doesn’t wanna go against the debates. Because the debates are gonna be pretty massive, from what I understand, okay? And I don’t think we should be against the NFL.”
“While we’d obviously wish the debate commission could find another night, we did not send a letter to Trump,” NFL spokesman to CNN’s Brian Stelter.
Ms57 I have read many of your posts and know that you are a intelligent person who is bating me about what Trump would do. You already know what Trump said we will do he probably will do all he says I hope.. Not like the politically expedience flavor of the week HRC deceptions. We do need strong, moral, ethical and with integrity outsider leadership in our country today. HRC does not fit or fill this requirement…The Balanced Trade Agenda(jobs and opportunity creation), building the wall(jobs creation), vetting all immigrants properly(security), balancing wage and wealth inequalities(social fairness of opportunity), tax reform(opportunity and jobs creation) and the right to life movement(morality) are what is most important to me. Most all other the other agenda’s and hidden agendas are political distractions or false flag agendas perpetrated by the presstitutes and major news media and government bias….IMHO.
WR,
If you are in possession of a Trump Secret Decoder Ring, you have the responsibility to share it with the American public.
OTOH, the idea you believe that Clinton has a “flavor of the week”, it is clear English is not your first language.
EMichael let me decode a bit for you.as it was the Clintons who repealed the Glass- Seagall Act that protected our bank savings (FDIC) money from the gambling hedge funds that are still to this day loaded with derivatives… Was it not the Clinton’s who have taken about $300M of Wall St. and foreign country money. You need to start reading WallStreetonParade.com everyday to get yourself up to speed on what is really happening with the Clintons. Educating and enlightening yourself is your responsibility…
William Ryan,
I honestly am not baiting you. If you’ve read my posts in the past, you’ll remember that I’m not really a charter member in the HRC fan club. I am challenging you though to think a little more about the menace Trump is to the country – civil liberties, foreign policy. If you are sickened by the reality that HRC will be President, I understand. I do not challenge your antipathy towards her. But the absence of her means the presence of him.
The most recent story I read was just this afternoon. I hope you’ll read it. I don’t know if you lived through the Constitutional crisis that Nixon gifted us with, but I did and it was a horrible, horrible thing to have to go through.
If you want to criticize HRC, fine. Just don’t fool yourself about such things as how Trump wants to help the middle class – or anyone else for that matter. Anyway, read below, I hope you’ll take at least a few minutes to contemplate the implications.
Cheers, brother
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-allen-trump_us_579e0d55e4b08a8e8b5e62b0?section=
Wm Ryan,
By the way, you turned me on to PCR and Pam Martens. I signed up a couple of weeks ago. Pam Martens is excellent and I look forward to reading her. PCR is, I think, way over the top, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be unsubscribing. He has been, though, a really good source of primary material — Putin’s speeches for example — so, now that I think of it, I’ll stay. I’m trying to say Thanks for the referrals.
Cheers,,,
MS
On Clinton: Iraq vote is evil killing my soldiers today. That is the worst evil, especially of she says she is so qualified. The security breech is pure Obama sanctioned evil. Neocon connection is another black ball offense for me. Link to neolib also blackball. In my old frat 3 BB and out, HRC gets 4!
Then 5: war over Estonia. Why does a couple of Estonian troops getting killed in Afghanistan in that US formed quagmire a reason for more NATO pushing toward war? Only for children who have no idea about nor ever will bear the weapons.
Yeah, they say Trump ain’t inclusive, inclusive is not worth the other problems. Exclusive is red herring look at the squirrel so you don’t see the real evil.
The lesser evil is no democrat linked to DNC/DLC in any branch.
My absentee ballot will fill in no bubble in the democrat column.
Em,
“Stone cold racists………”
Never underestimate the enemy!
Brother Ilsm,
In this election, I am not urging anyone to vote for HRC but against Trump. I am certain that if Trump were elected we would all look back at criticism of HRC as child’s play. Not voting for any D is your right – I don’t challenge your right to vote for anyone you prefer to; I do challenge you to think more about the threat Trump represents, which is not reducible to a lack of inclusivity.
As a critique or response to the rest of your comments:
But what security breach? The FBI concluded there was none, and that her actions, while careless, were not criminal. Conspiracy theories and unfounded opinions of corruption are the habits of the reactionary mind, devoid of reason. And if you’re worried about security breaches, surely the open plea by Trump to the Russians to hack the DNC and HRC’s campaign and their donor list must leave you outraged. And if you don’t think Putin’s intelligence services intend to subvert the electoral process in our country and support Trump, why have there been no hacks of the Republicans?
I don’t think there’s a serious person in the world who doesn’t see the murderous Iraq invasion as anything other than a war crime – an unprovoked act of aggression. While she stupidly supported it, she did not evilly author it.
The neo-con link is irrefutable, as is a very troubling blind support for Israel, whose policies in Palestine are criminal and immoral. Her and Bill’s support of the neoliberal agenda is also irrefutable. Both of which, though, will be subject to very serious political resistance from the growing, surging power of Progressives. Criticisms of her are endless.
But the menace of granting Trump the power of the Presidency is truly dangerous – an unrestrained, unpredictable, ignorant raging egomaniac.
As to Estonia – what war, brother? The Estonians have a long and brutal history of being ruled by Russians. They have requested protection from their NATO allies. If war does break out it will be due entirely to an invasion by Putin.
Cheers…
I would ask you to say directly whether you are a true Trump supporter — a true believer animated by a belief in what he says?
Accusing Trump of bullying is tepid tea compared to the crimes he has now committed.
Trump looked directly into the camera and said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the thirty thousand e-mails that are missing.”
A violation of the Logan Act, which criminalizes private citizens interfering with U.S. policy, is a felony.
Hacking – accessing a computer system without authorization – in this instance, where Trump invited a foreign power to hack HRC’s email account, is a felony.
Donald Trump has committed two felonies — a felony violation of the Logan Act and a felony violation as a co-conspirator in efforts to hack a computer system by Russian intelligence services.
It is unprecedented in American history. As a private citizen, he is subject to prosecution. If he committed the same actions as President, they would be impeachable offenses.
MS
Call in Heinrich Himmler for those charges.
I am sure Obama’s DoJ can be as over-hard as they are “let her off the hook” lenient.
Trump is pointing out Russia, or Assange should do FBI’s work.
As to violations: Clinton losing 30000 e-mails is a violation of the Federal Records Act, which includes prison and fine.
Then there is the National Security Act to keep the evil doers from figuring out what is coming. She is so experienced she blows past securing damaging information and busts any attempt to record what her cabinet level department does.
Yeah pursue Trump for suggesting the Russias do DoJ’s job.
There was no coffee to spew through my sinuses thank goodness.
MS,
Baltic Treaty Organization! Or in French OTB!
Today you look for reasons to start war without congress.
“As to Estonia – what war, brother? The Estonians have a long and brutal history of being ruled by Russians. They have requested protection from their NATO allies. If war does break out it will be due entirely to an invasion by Putin.”
What defensive interest do you have in keeping Russia out of the country of the poor Estonians?
I have none, unless US puts the Atlantic fleet in Vilnius rather than Norfolk there can be no Pearl Harbor there. Unless US puts an infantry battalion there, it can hold few more, there are no US assets to “defend”.
You look for ways to get the US into a big war without congress.
Going to war without congress is the democrat plan to keep the military industry complex flush.
There is no defensive reason to keep NATO! Your scenario of the Red Army moving in is not the original reason for NATO, the original reason was to prevent the socialists from subverting Germany and asking the Red Army in. NATO was to plug the Fulda gap. Moving the Fulda Gap to Estonia needs a new alliance. Let’s call it the BalticTreaty Organization.
It is really sad, the democrats have descended from the time of JFK when he said “America will start no war………..”
Ilsm,
You didn’t answer the question.
WASHINGTON ― Both Donald Trump and his campaign chairman said Sunday they had nothing to do with altering the Republican Party’s position on Ukraine ― which must have been news to GOP leaders who confirmed last week that Trump’s campaign insisted on exactly that change.
The modified party platform drops its call to provide arms to Ukraine in response to Russia’s occupation of that country’s Crimea province in 2014. It represents a victory for Russian president Vladimir Putin, who soon after annexed the region.
Two Republican National Committee officials acknowledged privately last week that Trump’s campaign pushed for the change, which was made in platform committee meetings in the days prior to the start of the Republican convention in Cleveland two weeks ago…
They said that, apart from the Ukraine change, Trump’s campaign seemed generally uninterested in the platform altogether…
Meanwhile, his top aide, Paul Manafort ― who for a decade was an adviser to the Russian-backed president of Ukraine until he was removed from office in 2014 ― similarly told NBC News that the new wording was not his idea. “It absolutely did not come from the Trump campaign,” he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-ukraine-putin_us_579e5a56e4b0693164c19e09?section=
‘‘Donald Trump appears either unfamiliar with Russia’s annexation of Crimea or directly supportive of the intrusion that began in the winter of 2014, further chilled U.S.-Russian relations and has left thousands dead.”
TRUMP: It’s ― look, you know, I have my own ideas. He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want ―
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?
TRUMP: OK― well, he’s there in a certain way. But I’m not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he’s going away. He take ― takes Crimea. He’s sort of, I mean ―
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you said you might recognize that.
TRUMP: I’m gonna take a look at it. But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. And you have to look at that, also. Now, that was under ― just so you understand, that was done under Obama’s administration.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-crimea_us_579dfbfae4b0e2e15eb62c30
Every new president must inherit the mess that the preceding president has left behind. Obama inherited Iraq and the Wall St. mess and now Trump will inherit the Wall St. and the Ukraine mess. This is nothing new for new presidents to inherit other presidents messes. What really worries me is who as the next president will make the best positive changes for our country and leave behind the smallest mess.. A presidents legacy is remembered both ways, good and bad…As one becomes more informed and concerned politics takes on greater importance and significance in ones lives and strives harder for positive outcomes…It seems to me that the new president has a much smaller margin of error that will be built into their leadership role of America’s future. This is why we need a strong leader who has the exceptional ability to make peace, not war…
WR,
Umm, last time looked HRC did not kill Glass-Steagall.
In terms of cash, I would think your concern with Clinton’s income and funding(made easier by the fact she told you about it) should make you have a concern about Trump’s income and funding..
Let me know when you make an effort and figure out that for over a decade, almost all of Trump’s funding has come from Russian banks, as US banks will not trust him as far as they can throw him.
Every comment has made regarding has made regarding Russia – disbanding NATO, refusing to come to the aid of a NATO ally until he checked the books, Crimea, Ukraine; falling all over himself to praise Putin – could have come straight from the mouth of Putin himself. It’s as if Putin were Trump’s favorite child and he is determined to give the favored child everything he asked for Christmas. As Trump is incapable of doing or saying anything that is not in his self-interest, just how is it in his interest to echo Putin’s every word? Is Trump running to represent the US or Russia? Or is he on the hook financially and being blackmailed? The only way to answer those questions is for him to release his tax returns, which has been common practice for Presidential candidates for a long time? What is he hiding?
William, re: inheritance — quite right. It is the nature of a country to act and respond and anticipate across multiple lifetimes. And a good thing too. How could there be relationships among countries if every few years the rules changed and each country asked that their previous promises and actions be forgotten? And this must include historic ills, not just victories (many of which can, in retrospect, be seen as great ills, also.)
As with individuals, countries’ sins and virtues cannot be wiped out of memory. It’s the burden of governance to recognize this and try to lay a new course while remembering the previous one.
If you look at the pattern of US governance, it appears to me there are two swings of the pendulum of inheritance.
When it swings to the left, the left repairs, rebuilds, invests, regulates, fertilizes, and redistributes.
In a generation or so, the people forget (or the ones who remember die off) why things needed repair and regulation, and press against the boring barriers of government. The pendulum swings to the right, and the built up wealth of the commons is harvested, consolidated, liquidated or plain stolen, while the rebuilt infrastructure is sold, overworked, or neglected into decay. That “infrastructure,” of course, includes the common men and women of the country, their progeny and their personal wealth.
As any farmer will know, an overly greedy harvest will take the crop right down to dust. The US is not at this level of concern, but it’s certainly within sight.
The Crimea is complicated. Take this analogy….
We for the Union of North America with Mexico and Canada. Thirty years in, we assign control of Alaska to Canada, because it’s closer.
The union breaks up. Most people Alaska want to be part of the United States, not Canada. Now what?
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Trump looked directly into the camera and said, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the thirty thousand e-mails that are missing.”
A violation of the Logan Act, which criminalizes private citizens interfering with U.S. policy, is a felony.
Hacking – accessing a computer system without authorization – in this instance, where Trump invited a foreign power to hack HRC’s email account, is a felony.
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Uh, no. He cannot have “invited a foreign power to hack HRC’s email account” because that email account, and the server it was on, no longer exist to be hacked.