Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

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(01-18-2020, 07:29 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-18-2020, 05:51 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Republicans - The people's work: Trade deals, national defense,
infrastructure, the economy, low unemployment for everyone, low
unemployment especially for blacks and minorities, reduce regulations,
etc.

Democrats - The people's work: Impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach,
impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach,
impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach,
impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, impeach, etc.

And yet, it is the Republican Senate which is the bottleneck.  It is possible to pass bills for the country and impeach as well, but the Democratic bills for the country end up buried by McConnell.  That seems to be his one trick lately, to obstruct anything the Democrats attempt to do.  As long as he attempts to obstruct anything real, nothing real will be done.

The answer would be to eliminate conservative control of either branch of congress, or at least to reject an obstructionist as a head of a branch of Congress.

As I see it, Senate Republicans have their own agenda possible only with a filibuster-proof Senate, a new GOP majority in the House: privatization of infrastructure to profit-gouging monopolists, destruction of unions, exemptions of the super-rich from taxation, maybe some wars for profit, and subordination of what remains of the public sector to an authoritarian GOP.

Give me that, and I am ready to drink the hemlock, for I will have little left for which to live. Life is responsibility without reward under  a plutocratic tyranny that has consolidated itself for a time longer than any reasonable expectation of my remaining lifespan, a privilege unworthy of the effort to earn and keep.

I do not trust the current GOP even with basic human rights, let alone with any economic decency.