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he votes for party rather than with his constituents.

Shocked. Shocked, I tell you!

 

This is the classic conservative economics trope: the idea that anything benefiting business creates jobs, the presumption that tycoons always put their profits into benefiting the rank and file. If that's their motivation, why has executive pay grown exponentially while the idea of raising the minimum wage is toxic to the business world?

So if the black president does it, it is rude. If Trump talks tough, it is tough talk and great advocacy for America, right?

 

Two months after the election, I expected that by now I'd have witnessed at least a few fistfights between the haters and supporters. Hasn't happened -- a few shouting matches, yes; brawls, no. And I live in a notoriously hot-tempered area of the country (craziest example: old geezer killing another old geezer during an argument in the ticket line on senior citizens' day at the movie theater).

 

They've got the votes to install their puppet, a foe of traditional, secular, American public education.

 

You've misconstrued BTE's point and views.

He's not anti-Obama, he's just pro-Russia, and I suspect he'd equally object if Trump or any other president's advocacy strongly conflicted with Russia's interests. He just hasn't had to worry about that with the Donald thus far.

 

New Yorkers hold vigil at Bowling Green for 'massacre' victims

 

... according to all my lefty pals.

 

That's close. But I actually have much less of a problem if our advocacy really does help US (hey, I live here, too). But when our advocacy only serves to tear countries apart (Ukraine) and install terrorists in place of legitimate regimes and raise the overall global tension --- all without ANY tangible benefit to American citizens but only to stroke the egos of the State Department and the Pentagon and Congress and the Oval Office --- yeah, I have a problem with it.

 

But who will protect the schools from grizzly bear attacks?

 

A pipe dream, since the interview's already in the can, but ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=1

 

Homeland Security suspends the travel ban after the judge's temporary stoppage. Trump, of course, has a meltdown.

Homeland Security suspends travel ban - CNNPolitics.com

 

Went to a free screening of The Lego Batman Movie this morning. For some reason they had a guy wanding everyone who went in.

A 10-year-old girl smiled and held her hands over her head as she waited in line. Then several of her friends whined when they didn't receive the wand.

The authoritarian state is here to stay.