With the Brexit mess and the Trump govt. shutdown, Putin has created turmoil in two of

his biggest global rivals, and all that it took was to bribe a few useful idiots. No armies. No warheads. No tanks. No nukes. Just Trump, Don Jr., Manafort, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, and a few others. That's it. That's all it took to bring down two super powers.

Unbelievable.

Prediction: Superbowl LIII - N.E. Patriots vs. L.A. Rams

Final score: Pats 27 Rams 14

Bet the house on it.


p.s. No. I'm not a Pats fan. In fact, I hate them, but I have to call it as I see it.

p.p.s. Why is it called "New England"???

Update: The place where Rand Paul is going to get surgery is private.

It's not a part of Canada's national healthcare system.

Los Angeles Rams with "Ram It"

While we spend billions on defense, Russia shows us how to take down an enemy without firing...

a shot or assembling an army. Find a dullard. Run him for the highest office using race and bigotry. Hack a server. And Voila! You now have control of your enemy. Amazing when you think about it.

This is some Tywin Lannister / Red Wedding strategy. End a war by writing a letter.

Why isn't the media putting more pressure on Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans

They have the power to end the shutdown.

The Wall is really about assuaging White fears of changing demographics

There's no practical use for it. There's no emergency. If the entire caravan were allowed in, they could be easily absorbed into America without a problem.

There's only reason for the wall is to communicate to White voters that the government will go to great lengths to protect their numerical racial majority status.

But what's truly twisted about all of this is just how this belief in White privilege actually hurts White people as well. They're given this false sense of political, social, and economic security based on their race.

Let's say we build the wall in its entirety. Our healthcare and education system will still suck. Income inequality will only get worse. Climate change will still happen, and on and on. But this fucking wall will make some White people fear superior and protected.

Could Congress vote to override Trump's veto on the shutdown?

If yes, then the real problem is McConnell not Trump.

--Edited the title.

What if Obama had declared that our healthcare was in a state of emergency?

And installed a single payer healthcare system?

So, AOC should sit and listen to leaders who have voted for tax cuts for the rich, voted for the

Iraq War Resolution, allowed Bush's people to steal the vote in FLA in 2000, allowed Mitch McConnell to deny Obama a SCOTUS seat, didn't fight for the Public Option, and finally, lost elections to W and Trump. That's the leadership that she should sit and listen to?

And before my post gets alerted, I am separating out Congressional Democrats from the rank and file Democrats. Also, not all Congressional Democratic leaders did everything on my list, but some did some of these things.

My point here is that Democratic Congressional leaders are not above criticism or challenge, and no ELECTED member should have to sit and listen to them esp. given their spotty record of leadership.