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OMG! The world has ended. Trumpka? Supporting?

Well here ya go. 30 years of Clinton, Obama and you get this.

http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/TPP-Withdrawal-Good-Firs...

Today's announcement that the US is withdrawing from TPP and seeking a reopening of NAFTA is an important first step toward a trade policy that works for working people.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Some good

First I feel it is important to note that people fail to consider that this election was a two edged sword
Trump is a disaster, yet I firmly believe Hillary his equal in that regard. I fear neither of them, but rather the common goals all the purchased politicians aspire to achieve as they perform the will of those that purchase them.

Hillary is every bit the neocon that Bush was, Every Bit the financial elite proponent that any trickle down Reaganite ever was. She is a neoliberal that believes in privatizing the commons (from education to everything else), making “sensible cuts” to “entitlement programs”. IS/was corrupt and purchasable as hell, believes in race to the bottom wages and wealth disparity trade agreements but would have had an easier time passing such Republican agendas as a Democrat, just as her husband did.

“Block Traffic and You Die”

The state legislature passed a bill on Wednesday authorizing police officers to stop highway protesting “by any means necessary.”
You might be under the mistaken impression that this was North Dakota. This was Indiana.

The bill then authorizes the responding officers to clear roads “by any means necessary.”

I am now officially "Steven V" per the DNC Survey I Just Received

My name has changed.

Well, at least according to the Democratic National Committee, who did me the great honor of sending me their "OFFICIAL 2017 DEMOCRATIC PARTY SURVEY" for which I am eternally grateful. They actually want my opinion about what their priorities should be. I even have a DNC Membership number. Funny, I don't remember joining the DNC, but it is nice to know they want me so badly.

Moving On.

Democrats should not be fist pumping about the events of yesterday the marches were about something more fundamental than political parties, it was about rights hard won over a century or more. Democrats have helped feed the current system where income inequality has damaged our very democracy and as always women are on the front line to be kicked first and hardest.

Standing Rock and DC: Violence and More Violence from Cops

While mainstream media decried a little property destruction during the inauguration (see #disruptj20 for tweets, images, and videos), they simultaneously ignored the unrelenting aggression directed at the protesters in DC and at the water protectors in Standing Rock. The uniformed thugs acting as agents of the oligarchy continue to deploy teargas, pepper spray, water cannons, percussion grenades, rubber bullets, and other “less-lethal” tools in attempts to shut down the people’s voices and to prop up authoritarianism.

DNC = Democrats Never Change; the sad story of Keith Ellison

It's been raining profusely in my part of the swamp, which is personally pleasing. It also gives DT (delirium tremens) a chance to drain Obama's swamp and restock it with his own. The more things change, etc.

The provocation for today's comment was an email received jointly from Keith Ellison and Social Security Works. I don't know the connection, but I have had my opinion of KE change dramatically with one short debate.

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