Remember, Nixon created the EPA, which repubs now wish to destroy.

Pretty sure he’d balk at the Africa part...

I’m 55, so I’m probably a lot more pedantic than folks are used to in comment areas. :-) I guess, to me at least, there’s a distinction between getting a little worked up and writing something that’s not nice and being utterly vitriolic about it. Say, “you’re really stupid” vs “you should have your fingers sawn off…

Yes it is. I just tell folks that they are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. A disagreement where 1 person is sharing facts & the other is... not, is just fruitless. Likewise conflating myth and science, etc, it’s very upsetting that critical thinking isn’t really a thing anymore. Of course,…

I see a lot of insults thrown around in comments on a lot of sites. I do not think this qualifies as demonization. They’re insults. Using the term “radical Islamic extremists” is demonization, especially when used for all Muslims. It’s the schoolyard bully’s taunt, given from a place of fear and ignorance. After…

I mean no offense, but you’re confused. What constitutes “the left” in America these days is a very large group of people in favor of representative government, as you may know, representative govt was also favored by the nation’s founders. We believe in things like science and education. We do not like unfairness. We…

I think you’ll find that Russian communications with the trump people are not confined to acolytes like Manafort and Flynn. I wouldn’t be surprised if his kids were involved as well.

Especially given where his “brains”are located...

Maybe it’s not either/or? He can be senile and a coked up narcissist!

We all know he’ll side with any business wanting to make a quick buck as cheaply as possible, but I think there’s something else at work here, wrt his careful decision making skills: WWOD?

We need to keep them from doing this, the way they did with baby Bush. Cheetolini is truly the republican id, writ large. He’s into oligarchy, against democracy and actual governance, loves money and power over anything else, doesn’t care one tiny bit about the USA out the world. He’s definitely a repub.

Hope today is better for you. :-)

I’ve been thinking about the Times article, and it’s careful wording “... intercepted communications were not limited to trump campaign officials, and included other associates...” and am wondering if that last bit refers to his kids. Last summer ivanka vacationed in Croatia with Wendi Deng, who may be Putin’s close…

I’d say America’s destabilization is going according to plan.

And then when it was noticed, nobody owned up to it. Telling.

I think journalism is awful in this country because of media deregulation. There used to be rules keeping a large business from owning too many media outlets. And news was kept separate from ratings, believe it or not. Now we have almost all big media outlets owned by a handful of companies, so no one is reporting how…

I think he was involved in the intelligence briefings when trump was still a candidate, so he’s had access to certain info for several months.

The authoritarian streak in both Putin and a lot of repubs probably gave them a belief that they could control their creation. But he’s insane, so, you know, good luck with that.

I think they own his sorry ass. I know I’m a liberal, so I can’t really fathom what those idiots are thinking when they look at him, but honestly, does anyone think of the word “patriotic” re trump? I’ve never gotten the least impression he cares about anything but himself.

I always thought it was Manafort who forced the party platform change, and it remains mind boggling to me that no one in the media made a stink about it. We should have a president Clinton right now, not this horrible cretin.