The dems need organization and focus on the young. Need a fifty State strategy and tech rehab. I am in for chairman again.
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) November 10, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
That's A Good Start
Food For Thought In Light of Current Protests
Well shit, ya know what?
The biggest lesson this election was for the Dems not listening to the people. That cost them the Presidency and Senate, and at least one likely Supreme Court appointment. I'll exclude the House as a large power platform for now.
If you would like to discount the anger and frustration you are currently seeing being felt and vocalized by a higher number of Americans than which voted for Donald Trump just a few days ago, you do so at your own risk.
Congrats to the Rs for the win. But you break it, you bought it and while you may have all eyes on us and how we're sloughing off our outrage and frustration, what you should be doing is focusing your eyes on your own party to see what they do next and how it's going to affect that higher proportion of people who are currently angry that you want to poo-poo away.
There is wisdom in that statement, if you choose to see it.
The biggest lesson this election was for the Dems not listening to the people. That cost them the Presidency and Senate, and at least one likely Supreme Court appointment. I'll exclude the House as a large power platform for now.
If you would like to discount the anger and frustration you are currently seeing being felt and vocalized by a higher number of Americans than which voted for Donald Trump just a few days ago, you do so at your own risk.
Congrats to the Rs for the win. But you break it, you bought it and while you may have all eyes on us and how we're sloughing off our outrage and frustration, what you should be doing is focusing your eyes on your own party to see what they do next and how it's going to affect that higher proportion of people who are currently angry that you want to poo-poo away.
There is wisdom in that statement, if you choose to see it.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
What Should We Talk About?
Given this tragic election, there's going to be lots of questions, soul searching, and anger directed in may different avenues. And while I think it's important that we find a channel to release this stress and pressure, we also need to start seriously discussing what the very real impacts of a Donald Trump presidency really spell out.
Let's face it - we were so confident we were going to blow this thing out of the water, we never really gave it much thought, because we didn't give it much chance.
Some of the things I'm certainly interested to cover are repeal of the ACA, gutting of environmental protections, the end of Common Core, trade, economics, etc. I'm not an expert in any of these things; I do IT. However, I can read and understand valuable fact based information put before me.
I think my first real post will be about my opinions on the ACA, the threat of repeal, the lack of any real idea of what to replace it with, the impact especially against conservatives who saw meaningful benefits from the ACA a repeal will mean, and how that falls within the status quo we just saw get it's ass kicked.
Remember we're not the only ones getting the shaft here. There are a lot of Republicans that regardless of whether or not they voted FOR Trump or AGAINST Hillary, you're going to see Republicans affected negatively by the repeal of the ACA.
Who am I?
I'm a liberal Democrat, a father, a husband, an atheist, and a pragmatist. What I'm not is someone who's really interested in the squishy side of things anymore when it comes to politics.
For eight years under Bush, I and those like me were called terrorist loving, arugula eating, Birkenstock wearing liberal commie fascist fucksticks. What did we get for it? 9/11, Iraq, 22 million missing emails, warrantless wiretapping, Valerie Plame, "aluminum tubes", torture, and much more.
Foe eight years under Obama, we got Michelle Obama's "whitey tape", Obama's birth certificate, Obama's gay cocaine fueled sex and murders, "a junior senator with no political experience", the stigma of a community organizer, ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and obstruction the likes of which I've never seen worse in my lifetime.
I don't know about you, but I'm angry. And there's not much we can do, with the trifecta that the Republicans just pulled off.
But I'm not about to roll over. I'm not interested in whatever representation I have left going along to get along only to have Lucy pull that football back each and every time at the last minute.
We have two years until midterms, which are on November 6th, 2018.
Up for grabs are:
33 Senate seats
All 435 seats of the 166th Congress
38 Gubernatorial races.
You want to win? You want change? Mark that date down and start working NOW for it.
Stay tuned for more...
Let's face it - we were so confident we were going to blow this thing out of the water, we never really gave it much thought, because we didn't give it much chance.
Some of the things I'm certainly interested to cover are repeal of the ACA, gutting of environmental protections, the end of Common Core, trade, economics, etc. I'm not an expert in any of these things; I do IT. However, I can read and understand valuable fact based information put before me.
I think my first real post will be about my opinions on the ACA, the threat of repeal, the lack of any real idea of what to replace it with, the impact especially against conservatives who saw meaningful benefits from the ACA a repeal will mean, and how that falls within the status quo we just saw get it's ass kicked.
Remember we're not the only ones getting the shaft here. There are a lot of Republicans that regardless of whether or not they voted FOR Trump or AGAINST Hillary, you're going to see Republicans affected negatively by the repeal of the ACA.
Who am I?
I'm a liberal Democrat, a father, a husband, an atheist, and a pragmatist. What I'm not is someone who's really interested in the squishy side of things anymore when it comes to politics.
For eight years under Bush, I and those like me were called terrorist loving, arugula eating, Birkenstock wearing liberal commie fascist fucksticks. What did we get for it? 9/11, Iraq, 22 million missing emails, warrantless wiretapping, Valerie Plame, "aluminum tubes", torture, and much more.
Foe eight years under Obama, we got Michelle Obama's "whitey tape", Obama's birth certificate, Obama's gay cocaine fueled sex and murders, "a junior senator with no political experience", the stigma of a community organizer, ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and obstruction the likes of which I've never seen worse in my lifetime.
I don't know about you, but I'm angry. And there's not much we can do, with the trifecta that the Republicans just pulled off.
But I'm not about to roll over. I'm not interested in whatever representation I have left going along to get along only to have Lucy pull that football back each and every time at the last minute.
We have two years until midterms, which are on November 6th, 2018.
Up for grabs are:
33 Senate seats
All 435 seats of the 166th Congress
38 Gubernatorial races.
You want to win? You want change? Mark that date down and start working NOW for it.
Stay tuned for more...
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