Sometimes it is a drag being correct

[Benton]

(06-03-2019, 11:07 PM)xxlt Wrote: I am going to call it a decade and a half and change ago when more that once during the Bush years I pointed to our country's fascist leanings. The Obama years were little more than a speed bump in the march rightward. Ironically many who most cheered the march  outcomes loudly denied it was happening. Yet now it has become so embarrassingly obvious civilized leaders of democracies around the world can rattle off a litany of things Our President does and say, no I am not talking about a fascist dictator from the 1930s  but the American President.  ( see linked article for example). I really wish I was the crazy alarmist I was accused of being, but I was correct.

It’s un-British to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/01/donald-trump-state-visit-red-carpet-unbritish?      

With his lackeys cheering his highest approval rating ever (creeping past 40 percent) and him cockier than ever because literally any American but him would be under indictment for his crimes (some.high powered Republican lawyers from Bush's and Reagan's administrations have said so on camera) I am sad over how correct I was. Our *Leader* is above the law (yes, in large part because Pelosi is a ***** - why she strikes fear in Conservative hearts is beyond me) and the only question is how far above. He once boasted he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenu in broad daylight with no repercussions. I believe he could indeed shoot someone dead - not wound but kill -and the Speaker of the House would shrug and say, "Well the Senate won't convict him so why bother." I guess that is my question. Do you agree our current President could commit murder in broad daylight on camera with scores of witnesses and no consequences?

It's just the nature of our partisanship.

Our local senior center is closing it's doors. Why? Because 60 percent of the funding was cut in one year. Why? Because the board was all appointed by the previous Democrat administration. It's the last 'democrat' board in the county. Once the agency ceases to exist, the republican govetnment will (hopefully) start something of their own. U til then? A handful of us middle age guys are trying to figure out how to provide 2500ish meals to seniors caught in the crossfires of all the damn winning.