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Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 05:29:46 2017

As of this morning, the United States still has no FBI Director, no FEMA Director, no head of NOAA, most of the 46 U.S. Attorneys Trump fired haven't been replaced, and the State Department has multiple leadership vacancies at every level.

Are we tired of "winning" yet?

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:07:23 2017, in response to Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 05:29:46 2017.

The Resistance (aka The Disloyal Opposition) has been effective.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 06:46:31 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:07:23 2017.

"Disloyal opposition"?

Channeling Joe McCarthy, are you?

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:51:22 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 06:46:31 2017.

Channeling the old Liberal meme of attacking any disagreement as McCarthyism, are you?



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 5 08:07:18 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:07:23 2017.

The "resistance" is preventing an incompetent president from making appointments?

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Mon Jun 5 08:48:10 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:51:22 2017.

NO MORE CALLS. WE HAVE A WINNER.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 08:56:39 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 5 08:07:18 2017.

Where is that in the Constitution?

And you put resistance in quotes. They don't. It includes the disappointed opponent, Generalissimo Hillary. Do you think this is the Spanish Civil War?



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:02:01 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:07:23 2017.

AHCA deserves to be resisted. It is disgusting to suggest that resisting AHCA is disloyal to our country.





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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:06:22 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:02:01 2017.

Was I talking about AHCA in particular? You need to attend a rhetoric class.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:06:56 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:51:22 2017.

Your appeal to authoritarianism doesn't change the fact that Trump has had over six months to form a government, and hasn't come close to accomplishing this.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:07:37 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 08:56:39 2017.

Where is that in the Constitution?

Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.

He (the President) ... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

One of the main reasons the Trump Administration hasn't gotten as much done as it might have is that large numbers of offices are vacant because no one has been appointed to them. Can't blame the "resistance" on that.

I put "resistance" in quotes because it's not the word I would use.






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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:10:22 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:06:22 2017.

AHCA is just about the only Republican initiative that the Democrats as a political organization have successfully resisted.

The immigration ban isn't such an item - it's been stymied by law suits by a small number of individual entities.

Where else have the Republicans been stymied by Democrats and not by their own issues?






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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:11:09 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:51:22 2017.

"Disloyal opposition" is a disgraceful term.



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:13:43 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:11:09 2017.

+1,000

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:16:43 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:06:56 2017.

The resistance is rather authoritarian, beginning with the proposition that everything that Trump does is worthy of resistance.

Lose the barricada mentality and the Democrats MIGHT be begin to see some gains.



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:17:32 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:06:22 2017.

By the way, Trump is blaming his own staff for watering down the travel ban.



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:20:33 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:07:37 2017.

What term would you use that you wouldn't have to put in quotes?

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:23:03 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:16:43 2017.

everything that Trump does is worthy of resistance

Opposition to and support of his foreign policy have not been particularly partisan.

Much of the rest is worthy of resistance for the good of our nation:

- AHCA (which faces a hard time in the senate because there don't seem to be 50 Republican votes for it)
- proposed budget (which hasn't been delayed by Democrats)
- scrapping environmental rules indiscriminately (but the Democrats have no power to resist that, even though they wish to)


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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:23:38 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:20:33 2017.

How about "loyal opposition?"



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:24:38 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:10:22 2017.

So you're contending the "resistance" has been ineffective?

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by R30A on Mon Jun 5 09:27:57 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:24:38 2017.

They have not had the chance to be. The GOP has not been competent enough to make much of anything happen to require resistance.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:28:27 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:23:03 2017.

You keep trying to bring this down to specific policies. Every one of Trump's significant nominees so far has been slow walked by the Democrats in the Senate, even those who were affirmed with Democrat support, just as obstruction.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:28:27 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:16:43 2017.

Trump wants to take health coverage away from millions of Americans. That's worth resisting.

Trump wants to impose religious tests as a condition of allowing people to travel to the United States. That's worth resisting.

Trump wants to erect a wall on the border with one of our major trading partners. That's worth resisting.

Trump has publicly declared the free press to be the "enemy of the state ". That's worth resisting.

Trump has publicly called for people who oppose him to be "carried out on a stretcher". That's worth resisting.

Trump has pulled out of the Paris Accords on climate change. That's worth resisting.

Trump publicly fired three high-ranking DOJ officials, all of whom were investigating his campaign's involvement with Russia. That's worth resisting.

Trump himself has played more golf in the first 120 days of his administration, than Obama did in 8 years as President. As Trump repeatedly smeared his predecessor for golfing too much, that's worth resisting, too.

None of this "resistance" to Trump'sauthoritarian regime is disloyal, nor is it un-American.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:30:53 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:28:27 2017.

Not a peep about deliberate, public Republican obstruction of Obama, especially the Supreme Court seat stolen by them, so Trump could appoint Gorsuch.

Such selective outrage!

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:36:16 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:30:53 2017.

So now you go to the Selective Outrage card.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:38:23 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:28:27 2017.

The decision to "resist" was publicized as soon as Trump became President.

Most of your examples are just attempts to justify the "Resistance's" initial agenda.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:38:52 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:23:38 2017.

Loyal to whom?

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:44:00 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:38:23 2017.

Resistance was clearly necessary right from the start, because Trump was so transparently dangerous. He still is.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by R30A on Mon Jun 5 09:50:28 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:38:52 2017.

The US.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:52:20 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:24:38 2017.

Yes. And it will continue to be ineffective. Only Republicans can stop Republican proposals that would be severely damaging to our country, like AHCA and the budget.




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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:55:10 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:28:27 2017.

You keep trying to bring this down to specific policies.

Duh!

There are specific Republican policy proposals that are terrible for the country.

The slow walking is tit for tat payback in response to similar prior Republican tactics.





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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:56:56 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:38:23 2017.

Are you out of your mind. The "resistance" comes from the fact that Trump proposed these highly damaging things as a candidate. If he hadn't promised to try to ruin the country as a candidate, there wouldn't be this level of opposition to everything he does.





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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:57:13 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by R30A on Mon Jun 5 09:50:28 2017.

Exactly.


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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 10:01:43 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 09:36:16 2017.

Absolutely. You didn't care a whit about McConnell deliberately refusing to allow confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland, or about McConnell's lying with regard to Presidents being unable to appoint SCOTUS judges in the final year of their terms.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 5 10:03:52 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:11:09 2017.

I consider it an honor.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:07:32 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 09:44:00 2017.

"Clearly necessary." A demonstration of the fact that, after 40 years of ruling the House of Representatives after Roosevelt and eight years of Obama's extra-constitutional policies* the Left thinks it's the permanent government and has the right to enforce that by any means necessary.

*like signing a climate accord and negotiating a secret nuclear deal with a sworn enemy and pretending that they're enforceable treaties.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:09:09 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:56:56 2017.

Doesn't anyone else want to chime on this? It's tiresome for this to be a 90% argument between three posters.

Maybe no one else cares.

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Re: Democrats on "losing", Yes we can!

Posted by orange blossom special on Mon Jun 5 10:09:27 2017, in response to Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 05:29:46 2017.

Are the Demonkkkrats tired of winning yet? I doubt it, they're happy as a clam to hold up all of Trumps appointments.
Trump has a record for having the most held-up and incomplete cabinet in his first 100 days of any president.


Thank you for bringing this to our intention.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:13:38 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by R30A on Mon Jun 5 09:50:28 2017.

Begging the question that Progressives think that they are the U.S.


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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Jun 5 10:15:59 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 10:01:43 2017.

iawtp

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 10:22:37 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 5 10:03:52 2017.

It strongly implies (and is generally meant to imply) disloyalty to the United States, not just disloyalty to Donald J. Trump.



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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 5 10:23:35 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:23:38 2017.

I don't like that.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 10:32:16 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:07:32 2017.

The nuclear deal with Iran wasn't "secret", and the Paris Accords were carefully crafted to accommodate the United States. There was nothing "extra-constitutional" about Obama's EO on that document.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by Fred G on Mon Jun 5 10:35:00 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:13:38 2017.

No, just the sensible, patriotic portion.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:35:58 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jun 5 10:32:16 2017.

LOL!

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by Fred G on Mon Jun 5 10:36:27 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 06:07:23 2017.

Not really. Trump needs to nominate/appoint before nominees/appointments can be opposed.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:37:27 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 5 09:52:20 2017.

So you're at odds with JayZee on this? His OP gloats that it IS effective.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by 3-9 on Mon Jun 5 10:47:05 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:09:09 2017.

No, it's just that you 3 are covering all the bases very nicely.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by SLRT on Mon Jun 5 10:50:25 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by 3-9 on Mon Jun 5 10:47:05 2017.

Thanks, I guess. But I have other stuff I have to do and it would be nice if others would say something substantive*, either way.

*Beyond "that's right," "IAWTP" and so on.

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Re: Are we winning yet?

Posted by R2ChinaTown on Mon Jun 5 11:00:20 2017, in response to Re: Are we winning yet?, posted by https://salaamallah.com/ on Mon Jun 5 10:15:59 2017.

Shut the fuck up, idiot.

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