Day 675 Monday November 12, 2018 916 Days to Go
It’s Veterans Day. A day of remembrance.
Donald Trump is in Europe for the big parade. He was supposed to go visit the graves of the American fallen, but he skipped it. He didn’t show up for dinner at the Museum D’Orsay last night. They waited two hours for him. Some have said that the reason he didn’t show u was because it was for world leaders. (Ha ha get it? “He’s no world leader. He’s the president of the United States.”)
So people are wondering why he’s there. As I mentioned earlier, he’s there to meet with Putin. Russian media announced it. The White House didn’t.
Apparently, Jim Jordan and Bob Goodlatte are there too. They are huddling in Trump’s hotel to figure out what to do after the shellacking the Republicans took in the election. Somehow I’m on the email of “Fight4Freedom” and I get all kinds of wacky emails from them. Here’s one just before the election:

Friend:
Republicans in Congress make the job too complicated. I tell my colleagues it’s simple: DO WHAT WE SAID!
• We said we’d repeal Obamacare
• We said we’d secure the border
• We said we’d defund Planned Parenthood
• We said we’d cut spending
• We said we’d reform welfare
Yet none of these things have been accomplished.
We have an obligation to the voters who elected President Trump and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate to DELIVER.
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They have accomplished nothing!
Not the things above and not much of anything else; except putting our country deeper in debt, giving a huge tax break to the super rich who didn’t really ask for it, or need it.
To pay for it they took away the two tax breaks most middle class Americans use and count on: the home mortgage deduction and the deduction for state and local taxes.
Let’s review the things Jordan says they want to accomplish and ask yourself, “Do you want them to do these things?”
– Do you want them to repeal Obamacare? They’ve tried to repeal it 70 times. They’ve done everything they could to make it more expensive and harder to obtain, yet, people like it.
– They said they’d secure the border. What does that mean? God knows. It’s been pointed out time and time again that the problem isn’t the physical barrier at the border. But hey, Trump said Mexico would pay for it. Yeah, cut through those ranches of good red Republicans what the heck.At any rate this remains ill-defined and is only a talking point to stir up hatred.
– They said they’d defund Planned Parenthood, but they didn’t. Why? Apparently, women like to get health care services. It’s cheap and effective. Oh right. It allows women control over their bodies. Can’t have that huh Jim? This comes down to a simple question – abortion. And I ask you Mr. Jordan, “who ya gonna kill?” You’ve decided to play judge and kill the mother.
– They said they cut spending. that means they want to cut the safety net programs the poor and middle class depend on. Why? Their rich donors don’t need it so fuck the everyone else, that’s why.
– They said they’d reform welfare. You mean like stop giving handouts to corporations? Oh no you mean – Their rich donors don’t need it so fuck ‘em.
Gee, why haven’t they accomplished any of these things?
It’s really simple.
People don’t want them to do these things.
Of course Jim Jordan doesn’t care. He was elected from one of the most gerrymandered districts in the country. A tiny strip that runs north and south through the state of Ohio. It’s very red Republican.
This is the land of conspiracy theories and scares.
The odd thin is that these are just the people who need all the things Jordan is trying to eliminate.
916 Days to Go
PS Here’s Jimmy!
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