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For Dems who think that the band can get back together again, after last election's, er, acrimony. From a site run by Clinton supporters, for Clinton supporters, and endorsed by Clinton.
There were some strong feelings on both sides of this divide. But, for fucks sakes. It isn't 2016 anymore. Want to beat Trump? We have to move on from this primary. It's over and done.
Assuming that factoid is true, it doesn't mean that disaffected Sanders voters cost Clinton. There are voters registered as Democrats in closed primary states whose allegiance to the Democratic party is entirely notional–Kim Davis, for example. Polling during the primaries seemed to indicate that such nominal Democrats voted for Sanders (probably because they were anti-Clinton or simply anti-establishment), but they were not general election Democrats.
A very wise observation,OT.
Trump stinks.
Stay upwind, my friends.
Not so fast, Jill Stein.
Go downwind and breathe deeply.
You earned it.
If you have a soul, call your US Senators and Rep today to fight #TrumpsterFire's decision re: DACA today.
One thing is clear: #TrumpsterFire's failures will be echoed by a failed Congress – they're incapable of moving this country forward on a reasonable path. Do you see the one thing that connects the Prez and the majority in Congress? Yes, they are the #GOP – a failed political party.
It was Bernie's fault…..
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-what-happened/index.html
How could she have competed with a guy promising to give everyone free stuff?
Hannity / OReilly talking points to support our Pro-Corporate Anti-Middle Class Democrats who are perfectly happy to co-govern with Racist Rightists.
Quick! Look over there, Zappy!
It's Michael Bennet.
Squirrel! Bennet!
Heh heh
There have many despicable decisions. More than all of us, put together, can tally up in a single sit-down. But, my friends, this may very well go down as the most reprehensible.
From *my* Christian faith and tradition (Catholicism), Trump's and Session's actions mistreating dreamers is morally wrong. The question I have is where are all the Judeo-Christian voices condemning this terrible decision? (See Ezekiel 18:19-20):
There it is, Michael! Why isn't this a Bill of Attainder? We don't punish people for their parent's crimes. I think that's somewhere in one of those fancy parchment documets the Righties set such store by. 😉
Skinny – my Facebook popped up with this post of from today, 2011:
We all know that #ProsperityJesus considers this kind of compassion bullshit! Seriously, we have tax breaks to implement – and can we be far from TwitterDumb calling for an increase in fossil fuel subsidies?
If there is a heaven I hope that I'm sitting at the bar with my cold Guiness when these assholes arrive at the gate.
Yes.
I'm 'judging'.
A very wise observation,OT.
Unfortunately, Cookie, illegal immigration isn't a criminal offense and deportation isn't a criminal punishment. If your parents don't pay their health insurance bill, the kids can lose their benefits. If the kids were born in Mexico of Mexican parents, the 14th amendment's birthright citizenship doesn't apply. If I don'pay my rent and get evicted, my kids are out on the street as well through no fault of their own.
Heartless, yes, but it's the law. With a decent man in the white house, we were managing the problem. With the doofus from hell, those innocent kids are in trouble.
Michael, I could not agree more.
Treating the DACA kids this way is no different than taking a white Anglo-Saxon protestant white kid from the streets of Kearney, Nebraska or Seattle, Washington and suddenly deporting them to Mexico or Thailand or some other country that most if not all have no connection with and are all but culturally devoid of a connection. In essence, Trump is condemning kids who are as American as any millennials born in the United States to a life of misery. Trump may have the law on his side but that is no excuse or justification for inhumanity and cruelty.
I'm going to establish a 'Tuesday Jams Fest' and dedicate this song to our #MoranInChief
This makes me sick. Drumpf talking about all the love and compassion and "heart" he has for DACA recipients, while shoving them back into the shadows or preparing to exile them from the country they grew up in.
They were getting better jobs. They were getting bank accounts, starting families, volunteering. Over the next 6 months, during the cowardly countdown to Congressional action, they're going to be dialing all that back, taking fewer risks, contributing less.
I personally know young people that are close to graduation, or have graduated, that will cancel all those glowing plans -to go to college, get a degree, join the military – that they were promised they could make without danger. Some will just disappear. Not show up one day, and we won't ever know why. All so FakePrez can posture for his racist base.
Thousands of Denver students walked out today to protest rescinding of DACA. Fox had the report:
Well said.
I wonder if a certain former leader of a marauding WWII European country ever said something like #TrumpsterFire said – "I have love, compassion, heart for these people," as he sent them off to their fate.
Tell the military inclined ones to stick with their plans. That's still a traditional route to citizenship. Otherwise, sigh, I'm out of ideas.
Unfortunately, V, enlistment in the military is not an automatic path to citizenship. Enlistees still have to apply and jump through hoops – but nobody tells them that. And many have gotten deported, even after years of honorable service.
See CNN article. I became aware of this because I have a family member working for ACLU with these veterans who have been deported and are trying to come back "home".
No, it' not automatic, but it's a big help. One of my best friends at West point was a frenchman who enlisted in the u.s. Army to ease his path to citizenship.